Who Was Alive

Elizabeth II

Queen of the United Kingdom from 1952 to 2022

Born 21 April 1926 · died 8 September 2022, aged 96

Who was alive at the same time as Elizabeth II?

  1. Thomas Edison
  2. Sigmund Freud
  3. Rabindranath Tagore
  4. Marie Curie
  5. Mahatma Gandhi
  6. Winston Churchill
  7. Joseph Stalin
  8. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  9. Albert Einstein
  10. Pablo Picasso
  11. Charlie Chaplin
  12. Adolf Hitler
  13. Salvador Dalí
  14. Ronald Reagan
  15. John F. Kennedy
  16. Nelson Mandela
  17. Elizabeth II
  18. Martin Luther King Jr.
  19. Joe Biden
  20. Donald Trump
  21. George W. Bush
  22. Vladimir Putin
  23. Michael Jackson
  24. Barack Obama
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When Elizabeth II was born, Adolf Hitler was 37, Albert Einstein was 47, Ronald Reagan was 15, Nelson Mandela was 7 and Mahatma Gandhi was 56.

When Elizabeth II died, Barack Obama was 61, Donald Trump was 76, Vladimir Putin was 69, George W. Bush was 76 and Joe Biden was 79.

Born during Elizabeth II’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Martin Luther King Jr. and Bill Gates.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin died 2 years before Elizabeth II was born, Franz Kafka died 2 years before Elizabeth II was born, Sarah Bernhardt died 3 years before Elizabeth II was born and Theodore Roosevelt died 7 years before Elizabeth II was born.

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All 1,286 contemporaries we track

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  5. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  7. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  8. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  9. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  10. George W. Bush born 1946
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Joe Biden born 1942
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  20. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  21. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  22. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Bill Gates born 1955
  26. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  27. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  28. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  29. Shakira born 1977
  30. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  31. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  32. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  33. Lionel Messi born 1987
  34. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  35. Bill Clinton born 1946
  36. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  37. Basshunter born 1984
  38. Angela Merkel born 1954
  39. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  40. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  41. François Hollande born 1954
  42. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  43. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  44. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  45. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  46. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  47. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  48. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  49. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  50. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  51. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  52. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  53. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  54. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  55. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  56. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  57. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  58. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  59. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  60. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  61. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  62. Elon Musk born 1971
  63. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  64. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  65. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  66. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  67. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  68. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  69. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  70. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  71. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  72. Lady Gaga born 1986
  73. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  74. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  75. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  76. Madonna born 1958
  77. Kamala Harris born 1964
  78. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  79. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  80. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  81. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  82. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  83. Xi Jinping born 1953
  84. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  85. Naruhito born 1960
  86. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  87. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  88. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  89. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  90. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  91. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  92. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  93. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  94. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  95. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  96. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  97. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  98. Bob Dylan born 1941
  99. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  100. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  101. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  102. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  103. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  104. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  105. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  106. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  107. Justin Bieber born 1994
  108. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  109. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  110. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  111. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  112. Taylor Swift born 1989
  113. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  114. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  115. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  116. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  117. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  118. Charles III born 1948
  119. Kim Jong-un born 1984
  120. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  121. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  122. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  123. Eminem born 1972
  124. Beyoncé born 1981
  125. Selena Gomez born 1992
  126. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  127. Leo XIV born 1955
  128. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  129. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  130. Narendra Modi born 1950
  131. Rafael Correa born 1963
  132. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  133. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  134. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  135. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  136. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  137. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  138. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  139. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  140. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  141. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  142. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  143. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  144. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  145. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  146. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  147. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  148. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  149. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  150. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973

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