Who Was Alive
Abdülmecid I
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Abdülmecid I

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Born 25 April 1823 · died 25 June 1861, aged 38
Also known as Abd-ul-Mejid I, Sultan of the Turks Abdülmecit I, Sultan of the Turks Abdülmecid I

Who was alive at the same time as Abdülmecid I?

  1. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  4. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  5. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  6. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  7. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  8. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  9. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  10. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  11. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  12. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  13. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  14. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  15. Abdülmecid I, 1823 – 1861
  16. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  17. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  19. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  20. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  21. Oscar Wilde, 1854 – 1900
  22. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  23. Anton Chekhov, 1860 – 1904
  24. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941

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When Abdülmecid I was born, Karl Marx was 4, Abraham Lincoln was 14, Charles Darwin was 14, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 73 and Victor Hugo was 21.

When Abdülmecid I died, Karl Marx was 43, Abraham Lincoln was 52, Leo Tolstoy was 32, Charles Darwin was 52 and Victor Hugo was 59.

Born during Abdülmecid I’s lifetime: Leo Tolstoy, Vincent van Gogh, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Edison, Sigmund Freud, Mark Twain, Rabindranath Tagore and Anton Chekhov.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin was born about 9 years after Abdülmecid I died, Napoleon died about 2 years before Abdülmecid I was born, Mahatma Gandhi was born about 8 years after Abdülmecid I died and Winston Churchill was born about 13 years after Abdülmecid I died.

What happened in Abdülmecid I’s lifetime

Where Abdülmecid I’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

710 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Abdülmecid I. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1842.

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  4. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  7. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  8. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  9. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  11. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  12. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  13. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  14. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  15. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  16. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  17. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  18. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  19. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  20. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  21. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  22. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  23. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  24. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  25. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  26. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  27. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  28. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  29. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  30. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  31. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  32. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  33. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  34. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  35. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  36. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  37. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  38. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  39. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  40. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  41. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  42. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  43. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  44. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  45. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  46. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  47. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  48. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  49. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  50. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  51. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  52. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  53. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  54. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  55. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  56. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  57. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  58. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  59. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  60. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  61. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  62. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  63. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  64. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  65. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  66. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  67. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  68. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  69. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  70. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  71. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  72. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  73. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  74. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  75. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  76. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  77. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  78. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  79. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  80. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  81. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  82. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  83. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  84. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  85. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  86. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  87. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  88. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  89. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  90. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  91. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  92. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  93. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  94. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  95. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  96. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  97. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  98. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  99. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  100. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  101. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  102. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  103. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  104. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  105. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  106. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  107. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  108. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  109. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  110. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  111. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  112. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  113. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  114. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  115. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  116. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  117. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  118. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  119. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  120. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  121. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  122. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  123. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  124. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  125. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  126. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  127. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  128. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  129. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  130. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  131. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  132. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  133. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
  134. Pierre Curie 1859 – 1906
  135. Wilhelm II 1859 – 1941
  136. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  137. Joseph Conrad 1857 – 1924
  138. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  139. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  140. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  141. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  142. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  143. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  144. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  145. Émile Durkheim 1858 – 1917
  146. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  147. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  148. William James 1842 – 1910
  149. Ivan Pavlov 1849 – 1936
  150. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834