Who was alive at the same time as Elizabeth Taylor?

British-American actress

Elizabeth Taylor lived 1932–2011. Here are the famous people whose lives overlapped with theirs.

Lived: 1932–2011
Lifespan: about 79 years
Born in, as it was then: Hampstead
On today’s map: United Kingdom

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When Elizabeth Taylor was born, Adolf Hitler was already about 43 years old.
Elizabeth Taylor was about 5 when Saddam Hussein was born.
Elizabeth Taylor and Albert Einstein (German-born theoretical physicist) shared about 23 years on Earth, one born in the United Kingdom and the other in Germany.
Fidel Castro outlived Elizabeth Taylor by about 5 years.

Famous contemporaries of Elizabeth Taylor

Rulers and commanders

Adolf Hitler 1889–1945 · 13 yrs shared
Joseph Stalin 1878–1953 · 21 yrs shared
Benito Mussolini 1883–1945 · 13 yrs shared
Mao Zedong 1893–1976 · 44 yrs shared
Winston Churchill 1874–1965 · 33 yrs shared
Charles de Gaulle 1890–1970 · 38 yrs shared

Philosophers and scientists

Albert Einstein 1879–1955 · 23 yrs shared
Sigmund Freud 1856–1939 · 7 yrs shared
Marie Curie 1867–1934 · 2 yrs shared
John Maynard Keynes 1883–1946 · 14 yrs shared
Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889–1951 · 19 yrs shared
Bertrand Russell 1872–1970 · 38 yrs shared

Religion

Pope John Paul II 1920–2005 · 73 yrs shared

Writers and artists

Pablo Picasso 1881–1973 · 41 yrs shared
Elvis Presley 1935–1977 · 42 yrs shared
Salvador Dalí 1904–1989 · 57 yrs shared
Marilyn Monroe 1926–1962 · 30 yrs shared
Le Corbusier 1887–1965 · 33 yrs shared
Jean-Paul Sartre 1905–1980 · 48 yrs shared

Explorers and others

Che Guevara 1928–1967 · 35 yrs shared
Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948 · 16 yrs shared
Martin Luther King Jr. 1929–1968 · 36 yrs shared
Walt Disney 1901–1966 · 34 yrs shared
Mother Teresa 1910–1997 · 65 yrs shared
Pelé 1940–2022 · 71 yrs shared

Born within five years of Elizabeth Taylor

Che Guevara (1928) · Martin Luther King Jr. (1929) · Elvis Presley (1935) · Andy Warhol (1928) · Saddam Hussein (1937) · Stanley Kubrick (1928) · Gabriel García Márquez (1927) · Mikhail Gorbachev (1931)

About Elizabeth Taylor

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was a British and American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She then became the world's highest-paid movie star in the 1960s, remaining a well-known public figure for the rest of her life. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her seventh on its list of the greatest female screen legends.

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