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Khalid of Saudi Arabia
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Khalid of Saudi Arabia

King of Saudi Arabia

Born 1911–1912 · died 13 June 1982
Also known as Khalid bin Abdul Aziz, Khalid bin Abdulaziz, Khalid II

Who was alive at the same time as Khalid of Saudi Arabia?

  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. Khalid of Saudi Arabia, c. 1912 – 1982
  15. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  16. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  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

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When Khalid of Saudi Arabia was born, Ronald Reagan was about a year old, Thomas Edison was 64 or 65, Franklin D. Roosevelt was 29 or 30, James Joyce was 29 or 30 and J. R. R. Tolkien was 19 or 20.

When Khalid of Saudi Arabia died, Barack Obama was 20, Donald Trump was 35, Michael Jackson was 23, Vladimir Putin was 29 and Ronald Reagan was 71.

Born during Khalid of Saudi Arabia’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden and Elizabeth II.

Not quite contemporaries: Leo Tolstoy died about a year before Khalid of Saudi Arabia was born, Friedrich Nietzsche died about 11 years before Khalid of Saudi Arabia was born, Mark Twain died about a year before Khalid of Saudi Arabia was born and Anton Chekhov died about 7 years before Khalid of Saudi Arabia was born.

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Where Khalid of Saudi Arabia’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,040 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Khalid of Saudi Arabia. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1947.

  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. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  31. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  32. Shakira born 1977
  33. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  34. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  35. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  36. Bill Clinton born 1946
  37. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  38. Angela Merkel born 1954
  39. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  40. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  41. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  42. François Hollande born 1954
  43. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  44. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  45. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  46. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  47. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  48. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  49. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  50. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  51. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  52. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  53. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  54. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  55. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  56. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  57. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  58. Elon Musk born 1971
  59. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  60. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  61. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  62. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  63. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  64. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  65. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  66. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  67. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  68. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  69. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  70. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  71. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  72. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  73. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  74. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  75. Madonna born 1958
  76. Kamala Harris born 1964
  77. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  78. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  79. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  80. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  81. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  82. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  83. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  84. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  85. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  86. Xi Jinping born 1953
  87. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  88. Naruhito born 1960
  89. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  90. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  91. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  92. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  93. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  94. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  95. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  96. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  97. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  98. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  99. Bob Dylan born 1941
  100. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  101. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  102. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  103. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  104. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  105. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  106. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  107. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  108. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  109. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  110. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  111. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  112. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  113. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  114. Charles III born 1948
  115. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  116. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  117. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  118. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  119. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  120. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  121. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  122. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  123. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  124. Eminem born 1972
  125. Beyoncé born 1981
  126. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  127. Narendra Modi born 1950
  128. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  129. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  130. Rafael Correa born 1963
  131. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  132. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  133. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  134. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  135. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  136. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  137. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  138. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  139. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  140. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  141. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  142. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  143. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  144. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  145. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  146. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  147. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  148. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  149. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  150. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992