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Mahmud I
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Mahmud I

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Born 2 August 1696 · died 13 December 1754, aged 58
Also known as Mahmut I, Sultan Mahmud I

Who was alive at the same time as Mahmud I?

  1. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  2. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  3. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  4. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  5. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  6. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  7. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  8. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  9. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  10. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  11. Mahmud I, 1696 – 1754
  12. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  13. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  14. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  15. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  16. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  17. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  18. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  19. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  20. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  21. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  22. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  23. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  24. James Madison, 1751 – 1836

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When Mahmud I was born, Isaac Newton was 53, Johann Sebastian Bach was 11, Voltaire was 1, John Locke was 63 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 50.

When Mahmud I died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 5, George Washington was 22, Voltaire was 60, Immanuel Kant was 30 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 42.

Born during Mahmud I’s lifetime: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and Carl Linnaeus.

Not quite contemporaries: Napoleon was born about 15 years after Mahmud I died, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born about 2 years after Mahmud I died, Ludwig van Beethoven was born about 14 years after Mahmud I died and Matsuo Bashō died about 2 years before Mahmud I was born.

Where Mahmud I’s contemporaries were born

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Compare Mahmud I

The 150 best-known contemporaries

217 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Mahmud I. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1725.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  3. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  4. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  5. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  6. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  8. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  9. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  10. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  11. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  12. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  13. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  14. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  15. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  16. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  17. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  18. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  19. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  20. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  21. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  22. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  23. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  24. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  25. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  26. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  27. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  28. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  29. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  30. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  31. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  32. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  33. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  34. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  35. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  36. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  37. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  38. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  39. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  40. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  41. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  42. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  43. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  44. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  45. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  46. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  47. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  48. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  49. George III 1738 – 1820
  50. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  51. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  52. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  53. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  54. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  55. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  56. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  57. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  58. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  59. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  60. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  61. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  62. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  63. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  64. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  65. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  66. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  67. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  68. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  69. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  70. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  71. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  72. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  73. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  74. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  75. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  76. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  77. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  78. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  79. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  80. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  81. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  82. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  83. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  84. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  85. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  86. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  87. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  88. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  89. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  90. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  91. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  92. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  93. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  94. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  95. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  96. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  97. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  98. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  99. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  100. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  101. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  102. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  103. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  104. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  105. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  106. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  107. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  108. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  109. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  110. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  111. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  112. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  113. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  114. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  115. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  116. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  117. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  118. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  119. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  120. Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1742 – 1786
  121. Olympe de Gouges 1748 – 1793
  122. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  123. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  124. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  125. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  126. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  127. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  128. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  129. Charles Messier 1730 – 1817
  130. Giuseppe Piazzi 1746 – 1826
  131. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  132. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  133. Peter II of Russia 1715 – 1730
  134. Charles III of Spain 1716 – 1788
  135. Ahmad Shah Durrani c. 1722 – 1772
  136. Mikhail Kutuzov 1747 – 1813
  137. Antonio Salieri 1750 – 1825
  138. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  139. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  140. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  141. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714 – 1788
  142. Martha Washington 1731 – 1802
  143. Gavrila Derzhavin 1743 – 1816
  144. Tadeusz Kościuszko 1746 – 1817
  145. Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau 1749 – 1791
  146. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  147. Abdul Hamid I 1725 – 1789
  148. Thomas Gainsborough 1727 – 1788
  149. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  150. Canaletto 1697 – 1768