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Selim III
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Selim III

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Born 24 December 1761 · died 29 July 1808, aged 46

Who was alive at the same time as Selim III?

  1. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  2. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  3. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  4. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  6. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  7. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  8. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  9. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  10. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  11. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  12. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  13. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  14. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  15. Selim III, 1761 – 1808
  16. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  17. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  18. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  19. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  20. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  21. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  22. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  23. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  24. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875

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When Selim III was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 12, George Washington was 29, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 5, Voltaire was 67 and Immanuel Kant was 37.

When Selim III died, Napoleon was 38, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 58, Victor Hugo was 6, Alexander Pushkin was 9 and Hans Christian Andersen was 3.

Born during Selim III’s lifetime: Napoleon, Ludwig van Beethoven, Victor Hugo, Alexander Pushkin, Hans Christian Andersen, Lord Byron, Jane Austen and Carl Friedrich Gauss.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx was born about 10 years after Selim III died, Abraham Lincoln was born about a year after Selim III died, Charles Darwin was born about a year after Selim III died and Johann Sebastian Bach died about 11 years before Selim III was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

393 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Selim III. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1785.

  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. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  8. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  9. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  10. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  11. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  12. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  13. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  14. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  15. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  16. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  17. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  18. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  19. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  20. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  21. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  22. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  23. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  24. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  25. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  26. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  27. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  28. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  29. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  30. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  31. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  32. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  33. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  34. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  35. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  36. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  37. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  38. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  39. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  40. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  41. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  42. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  43. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  44. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  45. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  46. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  47. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  48. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  49. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  50. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  51. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  52. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  53. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  54. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  55. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  56. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  57. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  58. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  59. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  60. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  61. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  62. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  63. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  64. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  65. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  66. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  67. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  68. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  69. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  70. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  71. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  72. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  73. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  74. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  75. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  76. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  77. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  78. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  79. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  80. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  81. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  82. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  83. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  84. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  85. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  86. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  87. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  88. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  89. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  90. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  91. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  92. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  93. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  94. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  95. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  96. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  97. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  98. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  99. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  100. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  101. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  102. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  103. George III 1738 – 1820
  104. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  105. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  106. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  107. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  108. Joseph Smith 1805 – 1844
  109. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  110. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  111. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  112. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  113. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  114. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  115. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  116. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  117. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  118. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  119. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  120. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  121. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  122. Georg Ohm 1789 – 1854
  123. Robert E. Lee 1807 – 1870
  124. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  125. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  126. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  127. Shaka c. 1787 – 1828
  128. Nikolai Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  129. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  130. Giuseppe Mazzini 1805 – 1872
  131. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  132. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  133. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  134. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  135. Samuel Morse 1791 – 1872
  136. Niels Henrik Abel 1802 – 1829
  137. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  138. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  139. William IV 1765 – 1837
  140. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  141. Prosper Mérimée 1803 – 1870
  142. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  143. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  144. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  145. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  146. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  147. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  148. George IV 1762 – 1830
  149. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  150. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804