Who was alive at the same time as Charlie Chaplin?

English actor and filmmaker

Charlie Chaplin lived 1889–1977. Here are the famous people whose lives overlapped with theirs.

Lived: 1889–1977
Lifespan: about 88 years
Born in, as it was then: Walworth
On today’s map: United Kingdom

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When Charlie Chaplin was born, Albert Einstein was already about 10 years old.
Charlie Chaplin was about 39 when Che Guevara was born.
Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler (Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945) shared about 56 years on Earth, one born in the United Kingdom and the other in Austria.
Salvador Dalí outlived Charlie Chaplin by about 12 years.

Famous contemporaries of Charlie Chaplin

Rulers and commanders

Adolf Hitler 1889–1945 · 56 yrs shared
Joseph Stalin 1878–1953 · 64 yrs shared
Vladimir Lenin 1870–1924 · 35 yrs shared
Benito Mussolini 1883–1945 · 56 yrs shared
Mao Zedong 1893–1976 · 83 yrs shared
Otto von Bismarck 1815–1898 · 9 yrs shared

Philosophers and scientists

Albert Einstein 1879–1955 · 66 yrs shared
Sigmund Freud 1856–1939 · 50 yrs shared
Friedrich Nietzsche 1844–1900 · 11 yrs shared
Louis Pasteur 1822–1895 · 6 yrs shared
Max Weber 1864–1920 · 31 yrs shared
Thomas Edison 1847–1931 · 42 yrs shared

Writers and artists

Vincent van Gogh 1853–1890 · 1 yrs shared
Pablo Picasso 1881–1973 · 84 yrs shared
Elvis Presley 1935–1977 · 42 yrs shared
Salvador Dalí 1904–1989 · 73 yrs shared
Oscar Wilde 1854–1900 · 11 yrs shared
Claude Monet 1840–1926 · 37 yrs shared

Explorers and others

Che Guevara 1928–1967 · 39 yrs shared
Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948 · 59 yrs shared
Martin Luther King Jr. 1929–1968 · 39 yrs shared
Walt Disney 1901–1966 · 65 yrs shared
Mother Teresa 1910–1997 · 67 yrs shared

Born within five years of Charlie Chaplin

Adolf Hitler (1889) · Mao Zedong (1893) · Le Corbusier (1887) · Charles de Gaulle (1890) · Francisco Franco (1892) · Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889) · Hermann Göring (1893) · Josip Broz Tito (1892)

About Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. was an English comic actor, filmmaker, singer, film editor and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is considered one of the film industry's most important figures. His career spanned more than 75 years, from his childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977.

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