Who Was Alive

George VI

King of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1952

Born 14 December 1895 · died 6 February 1952, aged 56

Who was alive at the same time as George VI?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche
  4. Thomas Edison
  5. Sigmund Freud
  6. Marie Curie
  7. Mahatma Gandhi
  8. Vladimir Lenin
  9. Winston Churchill
  10. Joseph Stalin
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  12. Albert Einstein
  13. Pablo Picasso
  14. Charlie Chaplin
  15. Adolf Hitler
  16. George VI
  17. Ronald Reagan
  18. John F. Kennedy
  19. Nelson Mandela
  20. Elizabeth II
  21. Martin Luther King Jr.
  22. Joe Biden
  23. Donald Trump
  24. George W. Bush
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When George VI was born, Adolf Hitler was 6, Albert Einstein was 16, Vladimir Lenin was 25, Mahatma Gandhi was 26 and Leo Tolstoy was 67.

When George VI died, Donald Trump was 5, Albert Einstein was 72, Ronald Reagan was 41, Nelson Mandela was 33 and George W. Bush was 5.

Born during George VI’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr..

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born 9 years after George VI died, Michael Jackson was born 6 years after George VI died, Vladimir Putin was born months after George VI died and Karl Marx died 12 years before George VI was born.

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All 953 contemporaries we track

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. George W. Bush born 1946
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Joe Biden born 1942
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  16. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  24. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  28. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  29. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  30. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  31. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  32. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  33. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  34. Bill Clinton born 1946
  35. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  36. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  37. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  38. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  39. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  40. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  41. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  42. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  43. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  44. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  45. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  46. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  47. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  48. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  49. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  50. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  51. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  52. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  53. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  54. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  55. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  56. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  57. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  58. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  59. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  60. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  61. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  62. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  63. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  64. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  65. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  66. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  67. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  68. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  69. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  70. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  71. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  72. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  73. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  74. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  75. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  76. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  77. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  78. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  79. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  80. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  81. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  82. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  83. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  84. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  85. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  86. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  87. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  88. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  89. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  90. Bob Dylan born 1941
  91. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  92. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  93. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  94. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  95. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  96. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  97. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  98. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  99. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  100. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  101. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  102. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  103. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  104. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  105. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  106. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  107. Charles III born 1948
  108. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  109. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  110. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  111. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  112. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  113. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  114. Narendra Modi born 1950
  115. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  116. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  117. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  118. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  119. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  120. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  121. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  122. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  123. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  124. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  125. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  126. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  127. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  128. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  129. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  130. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  131. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  132. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  133. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  134. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  135. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  136. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  137. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  138. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  139. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  140. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  141. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  142. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  143. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  144. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  145. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  146. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  147. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  148. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  149. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  150. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007

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