Who Was Alive
Mahmud II
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Mahmud II

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Born 20 July 1785 · died 1 July 1839, aged 53

Who was alive at the same time as Mahmud II?

  1. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  2. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  3. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  4. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  5. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  10. Mahmud II, 1785 – 1839
  11. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  12. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  13. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  14. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  15. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  16. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  17. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  18. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  19. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  20. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  21. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  22. Louis Pasteur, 1822 – 1895
  23. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  24. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910

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When Mahmud II was born, Napoleon was 15, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 35, George Washington was 53, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 29 and Immanuel Kant was 61.

When Mahmud II died, Karl Marx was 21, Abraham Lincoln was 30, Leo Tolstoy was 10, Charles Darwin was 30 and Victor Hugo was 37.

Born during Mahmud II’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mark Twain and Charles Dickens.

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh was born about 14 years after Mahmud II died, Voltaire died about 7 years before Mahmud II was born, Friedrich Nietzsche was born about 5 years after Mahmud II died and Thomas Edison was born about 8 years after Mahmud II died.

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Where Mahmud II’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

587 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Mahmud II. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1812.

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  4. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  5. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  7. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  12. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  13. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  14. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  15. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  16. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  17. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  18. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  19. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  20. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  21. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  22. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  23. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  24. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  25. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  26. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  27. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  28. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  29. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  30. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  31. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  32. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  33. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  34. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  35. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  36. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  37. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  38. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  39. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  40. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  41. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  42. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  43. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  44. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  45. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  46. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  47. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  48. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  49. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  50. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  51. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  52. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  53. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  54. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  55. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  56. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  57. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  58. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  59. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  60. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  61. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  62. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  63. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  64. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  65. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  66. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  67. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  68. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  69. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  70. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  71. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  72. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  73. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  74. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  75. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  76. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  77. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  78. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  79. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  80. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  81. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  82. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  83. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  84. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  85. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  86. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  87. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  88. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  89. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  90. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  91. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  92. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  93. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  94. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  95. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  96. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  97. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  98. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  99. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  100. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  101. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  102. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  103. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  104. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  105. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  106. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  107. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  108. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  109. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  110. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  111. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  112. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  113. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  114. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  115. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  116. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  117. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  118. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  119. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  120. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  121. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  122. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  123. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  124. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  125. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  126. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  127. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  128. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
  129. Sully Prudhomme 1839 – 1907
  130. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  131. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  132. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  133. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  134. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  135. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  136. Pope Pius X 1835 – 1914
  137. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  138. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  139. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  140. Edgar Degas 1834 – 1917
  141. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  142. Édouard Manet 1832 – 1883
  143. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  144. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  145. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  146. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  147. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  148. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  149. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  150. John Dalton 1766 – 1844