Who Was Alive
Faisal I
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Faisal I

King of Iraq

Born 20 May 1885 · died 8 September 1933, aged 48
Also known as Faisal I of Iraq, Faisal bin Husain, Faisal bun Hussein

Who was alive at the same time as Faisal I?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  3. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  4. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  5. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  6. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  7. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  8. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  9. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  10. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  11. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  12. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  13. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  14. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  15. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  16. Faisal I, 1885 – 1933
  17. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  18. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  19. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  20. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  21. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  22. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  23. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  24. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968

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When Faisal I was born, Albert Einstein was 6, Vladimir Lenin was 15, Mahatma Gandhi was 15, Leo Tolstoy was 56 and Joseph Stalin was 6.

When Faisal I died, Adolf Hitler was 44, Albert Einstein was 54, Ronald Reagan was 22, Nelson Mandela was 15 and Mahatma Gandhi was 63.

Born during Faisal I’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Charlie Chaplin, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Salvador Dalí.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about 13 years after Faisal I died, Karl Marx died about 2 years before Faisal I was born, George W. Bush was born about 13 years after Faisal I died and Charles Darwin died about 3 years before Faisal I was born.

What happened in Faisal I’s lifetime

Where Faisal I’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,122 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Faisal I. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1909.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  11. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  12. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  13. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  15. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  16. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  17. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  21. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  22. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  23. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  24. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  25. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  26. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  27. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  28. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  29. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  30. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  31. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  32. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  33. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  34. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  35. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  36. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  37. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  38. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  39. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  40. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  41. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  42. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  43. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  44. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  45. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  46. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  47. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  48. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  49. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  50. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  51. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  52. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  53. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  54. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  55. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  56. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  57. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  58. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  59. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  60. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  61. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  62. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  63. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  64. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  65. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  66. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  67. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  68. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  69. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  70. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  71. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  72. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  73. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  74. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  75. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  76. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  77. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  78. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  79. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  80. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  81. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  82. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  83. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  84. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  85. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  86. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  87. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  88. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  89. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  90. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  91. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  92. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  93. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  94. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  95. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  96. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  97. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  98. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  99. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  100. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  101. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  102. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  103. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  104. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  105. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  106. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  107. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  108. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  109. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  110. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  111. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  112. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  113. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  114. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  115. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  116. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  117. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  118. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  119. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  120. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  121. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  122. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  123. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  124. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  125. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  126. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  127. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  128. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  129. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  130. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  131. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  132. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  133. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  134. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  135. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  136. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  137. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  138. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  139. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  140. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  141. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  142. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  143. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  144. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  145. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  146. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  147. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  148. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  149. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  150. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969