Who Was Alive
Mehmed VI
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Mehmed VI

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Born 14 January 1861 · died 16 May 1926, aged 65
Also known as Mehmed VI Vahideddin, Mehmet VI, Mehmet Vahdettin

Who was alive at the same time as Mehmed VI?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  3. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  4. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  5. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  6. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  7. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  9. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  10. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  11. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  12. Mehmed VI, 1861 – 1926
  13. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  14. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  15. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  16. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  18. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  19. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  20. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  21. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  22. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  23. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  24. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022

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When Mehmed VI was born, Karl Marx was 42, Abraham Lincoln was 51, Leo Tolstoy was 32, Charles Darwin was 51 and Victor Hugo was 58.

When Mehmed VI died, Adolf Hitler was 37, Albert Einstein was 47, Ronald Reagan was 15, Nelson Mandela was 7 and Mahatma Gandhi was 56.

Born during Mehmed VI’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Martin Luther King Jr. was born about 3 years after Mehmed VI died, Marilyn Monroe was born months after Mehmed VI died, Pope Francis was born about 10 years after Mehmed VI died and Che Guevara was born about 2 years after Mehmed VI died.

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Where Mehmed VI’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,954 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Mehmed VI. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1894.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  23. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  24. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  25. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  26. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  27. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  28. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  29. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  30. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  31. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  32. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  33. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  34. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  35. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  36. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  37. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  38. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  39. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  40. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  41. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  42. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  43. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  44. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  45. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  46. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  47. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  48. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  49. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  50. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  51. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  52. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  53. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  54. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  55. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  56. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  57. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  58. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  59. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  60. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  61. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  62. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  63. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  64. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  65. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  66. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  67. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  68. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  69. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  70. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  71. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  72. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  73. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  74. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  75. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  76. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  77. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  78. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  79. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  80. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  81. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  82. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  83. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  84. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  85. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  86. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  87. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  88. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  89. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  90. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  91. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  92. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  93. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  94. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  95. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  96. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  97. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  98. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  99. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  100. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  101. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  102. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  103. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  104. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  105. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  106. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  107. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  108. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  109. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  110. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  111. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  112. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  113. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  114. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  115. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  116. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  117. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  118. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  119. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  120. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  121. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  122. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  123. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  124. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  125. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  126. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  127. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  128. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  129. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  130. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  131. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  132. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  133. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  134. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  135. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  136. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  137. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  138. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  139. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  140. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  141. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  142. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  143. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  144. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  145. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  146. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  147. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  148. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  149. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  150. Judy Garland 1922 – 1969