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Mustafa IV
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Mustafa IV

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Born 8 September 1779 · died 17 November 1808, aged 29

Who was alive at the same time as Mustafa IV?

  1. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  2. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  3. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  4. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  5. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  6. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  7. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  8. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  10. James Madison, 1751 – 1836
  11. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  12. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  13. Hokusai, 1760 – 1849
  14. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  15. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  16. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  17. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  18. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  19. Mustafa IV, 1779 – 1808
  20. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  21. Michael Faraday, 1791 – 1867
  22. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  23. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  24. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875

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When Mustafa IV was born, Napoleon was 10, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 30, George Washington was 47, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 23 and Immanuel Kant was 55.

When Mustafa IV died, Napoleon was 39, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 59, Victor Hugo was 6, Alexander Pushkin was 9 and Hans Christian Andersen was 3.

Born during Mustafa IV’s lifetime: Victor Hugo, Alexander Pushkin, Hans Christian Andersen, Lord Byron, Michael Faraday, Honoré de Balzac, Simón Bolívar and Arthur Schopenhauer.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx was born about 10 years after Mustafa IV died, Abraham Lincoln was born about a year after Mustafa IV died, Charles Darwin was born about a year after Mustafa IV died and Voltaire died about a year before Mustafa IV was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

361 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Mustafa IV. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1794.

  1. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  3. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  6. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  7. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  8. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  9. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  10. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  11. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  12. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  13. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  14. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  15. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  16. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  17. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  18. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  19. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  20. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  21. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  22. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  23. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  24. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  25. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  26. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  27. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  28. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  29. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  30. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  31. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  32. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  33. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  34. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  35. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  36. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  37. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  38. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  39. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  40. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  41. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  42. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  43. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  44. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  45. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  46. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  47. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  48. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  49. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  50. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  51. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  52. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  53. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  54. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  55. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  56. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  57. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  58. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  59. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  60. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  61. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  62. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  63. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  64. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  65. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  66. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  67. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  68. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  69. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  70. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  71. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  72. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  73. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  74. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  75. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  76. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  77. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  78. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  79. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  80. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  81. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  82. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  83. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  84. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  85. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  86. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  87. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  88. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  89. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  90. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  91. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  92. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  93. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  94. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  95. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  96. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  97. George III 1738 – 1820
  98. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  99. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  100. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  101. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  102. Joseph Smith 1805 – 1844
  103. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  104. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  105. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  106. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  107. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  108. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  109. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  110. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  111. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  112. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  113. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  114. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  115. Georg Ohm 1789 – 1854
  116. Robert E. Lee 1807 – 1870
  117. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  118. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  119. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  120. Shaka c. 1787 – 1828
  121. Nikolai Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  122. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  123. Giuseppe Mazzini 1805 – 1872
  124. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  125. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  126. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  127. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  128. Samuel Morse 1791 – 1872
  129. Niels Henrik Abel 1802 – 1829
  130. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  131. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  132. William IV 1765 – 1837
  133. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  134. Prosper Mérimée 1803 – 1870
  135. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  136. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  137. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  138. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  139. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  140. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  141. George IV 1762 – 1830
  142. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  143. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  144. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  145. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  146. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  147. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  148. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  149. Wilhelm I 1797 – 1888
  150. Max Stirner 1806 – 1856