Who was alive at the same time as George VI?

King of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1952

George VI lived 1895–1952. Here are the famous people whose lives overlapped with theirs.

Lived: 1895–1952
Lifespan: about 57 years
Born in, as it was then: Norfolk
On today’s map: United Kingdom

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Did you know?

When George VI was born, Albert Einstein was already about 16 years old.
George VI was about 33 when Che Guevara was born.
George VI and Adolf Hitler (Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945) shared about 50 years on Earth, one born in the United Kingdom and the other in Austria.
Pablo Picasso outlived George VI by about 21 years.

Famous contemporaries of George VI

Rulers and commanders

Adolf Hitler 1889–1945 · 50 yrs shared
Joseph Stalin 1878–1953 · 57 yrs shared
Vladimir Lenin 1870–1924 · 29 yrs shared
Benito Mussolini 1883–1945 · 50 yrs shared
Mao Zedong 1893–1976 · 57 yrs shared
Otto von Bismarck 1815–1898 · 3 yrs shared

Philosophers and scientists

Albert Einstein 1879–1955 · 57 yrs shared
Sigmund Freud 1856–1939 · 44 yrs shared
Friedrich Nietzsche 1844–1900 · 5 yrs shared
Max Weber 1864–1920 · 25 yrs shared
Thomas Edison 1847–1931 · 36 yrs shared
Alfred Nobel 1833–1896 · 1 yrs shared

Writers and artists

Pablo Picasso 1881–1973 · 57 yrs shared
Elvis Presley 1935–1977 · 17 yrs shared
Salvador Dalí 1904–1989 · 48 yrs shared
Oscar Wilde 1854–1900 · 5 yrs shared
Claude Monet 1840–1926 · 31 yrs shared
Giuseppe Verdi 1813–1901 · 6 yrs shared

Explorers and others

Che Guevara 1928–1967 · 24 yrs shared
Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948 · 53 yrs shared
Martin Luther King Jr. 1929–1968 · 23 yrs shared
Walt Disney 1901–1966 · 51 yrs shared
Mother Teresa 1910–1997 · 42 yrs shared

Born within five years of George VI

Mao Zedong (1893) · Charles de Gaulle (1890) · Francisco Franco (1892) · Heinrich Himmler (1900) · Joseph Goebbels (1897) · Bertolt Brecht (1898) · Ernest Hemingway (1899) · Hermann Göring (1893)

About George VI

George VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952. He was also the last Emperor of India from 1936 until the British Raj was dissolved in August 1947, though the title was only formally relinquished in June 1948. Following the London Declaration of 1949, he was the first Head of the Commonwealth.

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