Who was alive at the same time as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh?

Consort of Elizabeth II from 1952 to 2021

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh lived 1921–2021. Here are the famous people whose lives overlapped with theirs.

Lived: 1921–2021
Lifespan: about 100 years
Born in, as it was then: Corfu
On today’s map: Greece

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When Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was born, Albert Einstein was already about 42 years old.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was about 7 when Che Guevara was born.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Adolf Hitler (Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945) shared about 24 years on Earth, one born in Greece and the other in Austria.
Pelé outlived Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh by about 1 years.

Famous contemporaries of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Rulers and commanders

Adolf Hitler 1889–1945 · 24 yrs shared
Joseph Stalin 1878–1953 · 32 yrs shared
Vladimir Lenin 1870–1924 · 3 yrs shared
Benito Mussolini 1883–1945 · 24 yrs shared
Mao Zedong 1893–1976 · 55 yrs shared
Winston Churchill 1874–1965 · 44 yrs shared

Philosophers and scientists

Albert Einstein 1879–1955 · 34 yrs shared
Sigmund Freud 1856–1939 · 18 yrs shared
Thomas Edison 1847–1931 · 10 yrs shared
Marie Curie 1867–1934 · 13 yrs shared
John Maynard Keynes 1883–1946 · 25 yrs shared
Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889–1951 · 30 yrs shared

Religion

Pope John Paul II 1920–2005 · 84 yrs shared

Writers and artists

Pablo Picasso 1881–1973 · 52 yrs shared
Elvis Presley 1935–1977 · 42 yrs shared
Salvador Dalí 1904–1989 · 68 yrs shared
Claude Monet 1840–1926 · 5 yrs shared
Marilyn Monroe 1926–1962 · 36 yrs shared
Le Corbusier 1887–1965 · 44 yrs shared

Explorers and others

Che Guevara 1928–1967 · 39 yrs shared
Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948 · 27 yrs shared
Martin Luther King Jr. 1929–1968 · 39 yrs shared
Walt Disney 1901–1966 · 45 yrs shared
Mother Teresa 1910–1997 · 76 yrs shared
Pelé 1940–2022 · 81 yrs shared

Born within five years of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Marilyn Monroe (1926) · John F. Kennedy (1917) · Fidel Castro (1926) · Marlon Brando (1924) · Pope John Paul II (1920) · Elizabeth II (1926) · Ingmar Bergman (1918) · Michel Foucault (1926)

About Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II and served as consort of the British monarch from her accession on 6 February 1952 until his death in 2021, making him the longest-serving royal consort in British history.

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