Who Was Alive

Ibn Saud

King of Saudi Arabia from 1932 to 1953

Born 1874–1878 · died 1953

Who was alive at the same time as Ibn Saud?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Charles Darwin
  3. Karl Marx
  4. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  5. Leo Tolstoy
  6. Friedrich Nietzsche
  7. Thomas Edison
  8. Vincent van Gogh
  9. Mahatma Gandhi
  10. Vladimir Lenin
  11. Ibn Saud
  12. Winston Churchill
  13. Joseph Stalin
  14. Albert Einstein
  15. Pablo Picasso
  16. Charlie Chaplin
  17. Adolf Hitler
  18. Ronald Reagan
  19. Nelson Mandela
  20. Elizabeth II
  21. Joe Biden
  22. Donald Trump
  23. George W. Bush
  24. Vladimir Putin
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Ibn Saud died, Donald Trump was 6 or 7, Albert Einstein was 73 or 74, Vladimir Putin was about a year old, Ronald Reagan was 41 or 42 and Nelson Mandela was 34 or 35.

Born during Ibn Saud’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush and Joseph Stalin.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born 8 years after Ibn Saud died, Michael Jackson was born 5 years after Ibn Saud died, Abraham Lincoln died 9 years before Ibn Saud was born and Charles Dickens died 4 years before Ibn Saud was born.

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  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  5. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  6. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  7. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  8. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  9. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  10. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  11. George W. Bush born 1946
  12. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  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. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  21. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  22. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  23. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  24. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  25. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  26. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  27. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  28. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  29. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  30. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  31. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
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  35. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
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  56. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
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  58. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
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  64. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
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  70. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
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  84. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
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  89. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  90. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
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  119. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
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  123. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
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  125. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
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  127. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  128. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
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  132. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
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  134. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  135. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
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  137. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  138. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
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  145. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
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  148. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
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