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Farouk of Egypt
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Farouk of Egypt

King of Egypt

Born 1920 · died 1965, aged 44 or 45
Also known as Farouk I of Egypt, King Farouk I of Egypt

Who was alive at the same time as Farouk of Egypt?

  1. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  2. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  3. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  4. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  5. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  6. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  7. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  8. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  9. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  10. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  11. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  12. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  13. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  14. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  15. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  16. Farouk of Egypt, 1920 – 1965
  17. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  18. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  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

Drag across the timeline, or use the arrow keys, to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Dashed lines mark world events. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Farouk of Egypt was born, Adolf Hitler was 30 or 31, Albert Einstein was 40 or 41, Ronald Reagan was 8 or 9, Vladimir Lenin was 49 or 50 and Nelson Mandela was 1 or 2.

When Farouk of Egypt died, Barack Obama was 3 or 4, Donald Trump was 18 or 19, Michael Jackson was 6 or 7, Vladimir Putin was 12 or 13 and Ronald Reagan was 53 or 54.

Born during Farouk of Egypt’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II and Martin Luther King Jr..

Not quite contemporaries: Leo Tolstoy died about 10 years before Farouk of Egypt was born, Mark Twain died about 10 years before Farouk of Egypt was born, Jimmy Wales was born about a year after Farouk of Egypt died and Shakira was born about 12 years after Farouk of Egypt died.

What happened in Farouk of Egypt’s lifetime

Where Farouk of Egypt’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,224 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Farouk of Egypt. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1943.

  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. George W. Bush born 1946
  12. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  13. Joe Biden born 1942
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  21. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  24. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Bill Gates born 1955
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  30. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  31. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  32. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  33. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  34. Bill Clinton born 1946
  35. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  36. Angela Merkel born 1954
  37. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  38. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  39. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  40. François Hollande born 1954
  41. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  42. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  43. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  44. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  45. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  46. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  47. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  48. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  49. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  50. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  51. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  52. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  53. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  54. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  55. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  56. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  57. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  58. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  59. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  60. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  61. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  62. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  63. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  64. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  65. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  66. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  67. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  68. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  69. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  70. Madonna born 1958
  71. Kamala Harris born 1964
  72. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  73. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  74. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  75. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  76. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  77. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  78. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  79. Xi Jinping born 1953
  80. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  81. Naruhito born 1960
  82. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  83. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  84. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  85. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  86. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  87. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  88. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  89. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  90. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  91. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  92. Bob Dylan born 1941
  93. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  94. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  95. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  96. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  97. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  98. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  99. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  100. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  101. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  102. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  103. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  104. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  105. Charles III born 1948
  106. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  107. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  108. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  109. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  110. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  111. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  112. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  113. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  114. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  115. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  116. Narendra Modi born 1950
  117. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  118. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  119. Rafael Correa born 1963
  120. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  121. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  122. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  123. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  124. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  125. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  126. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  127. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  128. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  129. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  130. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  131. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  132. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  133. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  134. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  135. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  136. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  137. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  138. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  139. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  140. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  141. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  142. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  143. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  144. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  145. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  146. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  147. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  148. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  149. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  150. Jackie Chan born 1954