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Muhammad Ali of Egypt
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Muhammad Ali of Egypt

Ottoman governor

Born 4 March 1769 · died 2 August 1849, aged 80
Also known as Muhammad Ali, Mohammed ali, Mohamed ali

Who was alive at the same time as Muhammad Ali of Egypt?

  1. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  3. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  4. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  5. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  6. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  7. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Muhammad Ali of Egypt, 1769 – 1849
  11. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  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. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  20. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  21. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  22. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  23. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  24. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931

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When Muhammad Ali of Egypt was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 19, George Washington was 37, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 13, Voltaire was 74 and Immanuel Kant was 44.

When Muhammad Ali of Egypt died, Karl Marx was 31, Abraham Lincoln was 40, Leo Tolstoy was 20, Charles Darwin was 40 and Victor Hugo was 47.

Born during Muhammad Ali of Egypt’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh was born about 4 years after Muhammad Ali of Egypt died, Sigmund Freud was born about 7 years after Muhammad Ali of Egypt died, Rabindranath Tagore was born about 12 years after Muhammad Ali of Egypt died and Anton Chekhov was born about 11 years after Muhammad Ali of Egypt died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

706 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Muhammad Ali of Egypt. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1809.

  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. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  12. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  18. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  19. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  20. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  21. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  22. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  23. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  24. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  25. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  26. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  27. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  28. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  29. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  30. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  31. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  32. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  33. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  34. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  35. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  36. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  37. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  38. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  39. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  40. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  41. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  42. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  43. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  44. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  45. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  46. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  47. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  48. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  49. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  50. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  51. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  52. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  53. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  54. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  55. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  56. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  57. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  58. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  59. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  60. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  61. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  62. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  63. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  64. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  65. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  66. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  67. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  68. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  69. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  70. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  71. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  72. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  73. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  74. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  75. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  76. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  77. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  78. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  79. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  80. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  81. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  82. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  83. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  84. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  85. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  86. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  87. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  88. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  89. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  90. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  91. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  92. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  93. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  94. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  95. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  96. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  97. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  98. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  99. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  100. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  101. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  102. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  103. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  104. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  105. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  106. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  107. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  108. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  109. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  110. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  111. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  112. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  113. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  114. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  115. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  116. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  117. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  118. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  119. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  120. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  121. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  122. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  123. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  124. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  125. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  126. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  127. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  128. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  129. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  130. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  131. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  132. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  133. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  134. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  135. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  136. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  137. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  138. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  139. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  140. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  141. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  142. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  143. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  144. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  145. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  146. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  147. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  148. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  149. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  150. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914