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Celâl Bayar
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Celâl Bayar

Politician who served as President of Turkey

Born 16 May 1883 · died 22 August 1986, aged 103
Also known as Celal Bayar, Mahmut Celâl Bayar, Mahmut Celal Bayar

Who was alive at the same time as Celâl Bayar?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  4. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  5. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  6. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  7. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  8. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  9. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  10. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  11. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  12. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  13. Celâl Bayar, 1883 – 1986
  14. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  15. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  16. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  17. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  18. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  19. Joe Biden, born 1942
  20. Donald Trump, born 1946
  21. George W. Bush, born 1946
  22. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  23. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  24. Barack Obama, born 1961

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When Celâl Bayar was born, Albert Einstein was 4, Vladimir Lenin was 13, Mahatma Gandhi was 13, Leo Tolstoy was 54 and Joseph Stalin was 4.

When Celâl Bayar died, Barack Obama was 25, Donald Trump was 40, Michael Jackson was 27, Vladimir Putin was 33 and Ronald Reagan was 75.

Born during Celâl Bayar’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela and George W. Bush.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx died months before Celâl Bayar was born, Charles Darwin died about a year before Celâl Bayar was born, Fyodor Dostoevsky died about 2 years before Celâl Bayar was born and Charles Dickens died about 13 years before Celâl Bayar was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,427 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Celâl Bayar. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1935.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  5. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  7. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  8. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  9. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  10. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  11. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  12. George W. Bush born 1946
  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  14. Joe Biden born 1942
  15. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  16. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  17. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  18. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  19. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  20. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  21. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  22. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  23. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  24. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  25. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  26. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  27. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  28. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  29. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  30. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  31. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  32. Bill Gates born 1955
  33. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  34. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  35. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  36. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  37. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  38. Shakira born 1977
  39. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  40. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  41. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  42. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  43. Bill Clinton born 1946
  44. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  45. Basshunter born 1984
  46. Angela Merkel born 1954
  47. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  48. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  49. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  50. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  51. François Hollande born 1954
  52. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  53. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  54. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  55. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  56. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  57. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  58. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  59. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  60. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  61. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  62. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  63. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  64. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  65. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  66. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  67. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  68. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  69. Elon Musk born 1971
  70. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  71. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  72. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  73. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  74. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  75. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  76. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  77. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  78. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  79. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  80. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  81. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  82. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  83. Lady Gaga born 1986
  84. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  85. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  86. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  87. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  88. Madonna born 1958
  89. Kamala Harris born 1964
  90. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  91. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  92. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  93. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  94. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  95. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  96. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  97. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  98. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  99. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  100. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  101. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  102. Xi Jinping born 1953
  103. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  104. Naruhito born 1960
  105. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  106. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  107. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  108. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  109. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  110. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  111. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  112. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  113. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  114. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  115. Bob Dylan born 1941
  116. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  117. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  118. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  119. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  120. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  121. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  122. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  123. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  124. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  125. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  126. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  127. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  128. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  129. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  130. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  131. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  132. Charles III born 1948
  133. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  134. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  135. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  136. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  137. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  138. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  139. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  140. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  141. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  142. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  143. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  144. Eminem born 1972
  145. Beyoncé born 1981
  146. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  147. Narendra Modi born 1950
  148. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  149. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  150. Rafael Correa born 1963