Who was alive at the same time as Edward VIII?

King of the United Kingdom in 1936

Edward VIII lived 1894–1972. Here are the famous people whose lives overlapped with theirs.

Lived: 1894–1972
Lifespan: about 78 years
Born in, as it was then: Surrey
On today’s map: United Kingdom

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Did you know?

When Edward VIII was born, Albert Einstein was already about 15 years old.
Edward VIII was about 34 when Che Guevara was born.
Edward VIII and Adolf Hitler (Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945) shared about 51 years on Earth, one born in the United Kingdom and the other in Austria.
Pablo Picasso outlived Edward VIII by about 1 years.

Famous contemporaries of Edward VIII

Rulers and commanders

Adolf Hitler 1889–1945 · 51 yrs shared
Joseph Stalin 1878–1953 · 59 yrs shared
Vladimir Lenin 1870–1924 · 30 yrs shared
Benito Mussolini 1883–1945 · 51 yrs shared
Mao Zedong 1893–1976 · 78 yrs shared
Otto von Bismarck 1815–1898 · 4 yrs shared

Philosophers and scientists

Albert Einstein 1879–1955 · 61 yrs shared
Sigmund Freud 1856–1939 · 45 yrs shared
Friedrich Nietzsche 1844–1900 · 6 yrs shared
Louis Pasteur 1822–1895 · 1 yrs shared
Max Weber 1864–1920 · 26 yrs shared
Thomas Edison 1847–1931 · 37 yrs shared

Writers and artists

Pablo Picasso 1881–1973 · 78 yrs shared
Elvis Presley 1935–1977 · 37 yrs shared
Salvador Dalí 1904–1989 · 68 yrs shared
Oscar Wilde 1854–1900 · 6 yrs shared
Claude Monet 1840–1926 · 32 yrs shared
Giuseppe Verdi 1813–1901 · 7 yrs shared

Explorers and others

Che Guevara 1928–1967 · 39 yrs shared
Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948 · 54 yrs shared
Martin Luther King Jr. 1929–1968 · 39 yrs shared
Walt Disney 1901–1966 · 65 yrs shared
Mother Teresa 1910–1997 · 62 yrs shared

Born within five years of Edward VIII

Adolf Hitler (1889) · Mao Zedong (1893) · Charles de Gaulle (1890) · Francisco Franco (1892) · Charlie Chaplin (1889) · Joseph Goebbels (1897) · Bertolt Brecht (1898) · Ernest Hemingway (1899)

About Edward VIII

Edward VIII, later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 until his abdication in December of the same year.

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