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Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab
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Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab

Ulema

Born 1703 · died 2–22 June 1792, aged 88 or 89
Also known as Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab, Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab

Who was alive at the same time as Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab?

  1. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  2. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  3. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  4. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  5. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  6. Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, 1703 – 1792
  7. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  8. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  9. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  11. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  12. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  13. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  14. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  15. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  16. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  17. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  18. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  19. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  20. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  21. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  22. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  23. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  24. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824

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When Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab was born, Isaac Newton was 59 or 60, Johann Sebastian Bach was 17 or 18, Voltaire was 8 or 9, John Locke was 70 or 71 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 56 or 57.

When Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab died, Napoleon was 22, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 42, George Washington was 60, Immanuel Kant was 68 and Thomas Jefferson was 49.

Born during Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith.

Not quite contemporaries: Victor Hugo was born about 10 years after Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab died, Alexander Pushkin was born about 7 years after Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab died, Hans Christian Andersen was born about 13 years after Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab died and Matsuo Bashō died about 9 years before Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab was born.

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Where Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

376 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1748.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  4. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  7. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  8. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  9. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  11. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  12. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  13. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  14. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  15. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  16. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  17. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  18. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  19. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  20. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  21. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  22. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  23. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  24. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  25. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  26. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  27. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  28. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  29. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  30. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  31. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  32. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  33. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  34. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  35. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  36. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  37. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  38. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  39. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  40. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  41. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  42. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  43. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  44. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  45. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  46. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  47. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  48. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  49. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  50. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  51. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  52. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  53. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  54. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  55. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  56. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  57. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  58. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  59. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  60. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  61. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  62. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  63. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  64. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  65. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  66. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  67. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  68. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  69. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  70. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  71. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  72. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  73. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  74. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  75. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  76. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  77. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  78. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  79. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  80. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  81. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  82. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  83. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  84. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  85. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  86. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  87. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  88. George III 1738 – 1820
  89. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  90. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  91. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  92. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  93. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  94. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  95. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  96. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  97. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  98. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  99. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  100. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  101. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  102. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  103. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  104. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  105. Georg Ohm 1789 – 1854
  106. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  107. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  108. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  109. Shaka c. 1787 – 1828
  110. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  111. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  112. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  113. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  114. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  115. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  116. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  117. Samuel Morse 1791 – 1872
  118. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  119. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  120. William IV 1765 – 1837
  121. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  122. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  123. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  124. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  125. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  126. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  127. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  128. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  129. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  130. George IV 1762 – 1830
  131. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  132. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  133. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  134. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  135. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  136. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  137. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  138. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  139. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  140. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  141. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  142. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  143. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  144. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  145. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  146. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  147. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  148. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  149. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  150. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760