Who was alive at the same time as Elvis Presley?

American singer and actor

Elvis Presley lived 1935–1977. Here are the famous people whose lives overlapped with theirs.

Lived: 1935–1977
Lifespan: about 42 years
Born in, as it was then: Tupelo, MS
On today’s map: United States

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When Elvis Presley was born, Adolf Hitler was already about 46 years old.
Elvis Presley was about 2 when Saddam Hussein was born.
Elvis Presley and Albert Einstein (German-born theoretical physicist) shared about 20 years on Earth, one born in the United States and the other in Germany.
Salvador Dalí outlived Elvis Presley by about 12 years.

Famous contemporaries of Elvis Presley

Rulers and commanders

Adolf Hitler 1889–1945 · 10 yrs shared
Joseph Stalin 1878–1953 · 18 yrs shared
Benito Mussolini 1883–1945 · 10 yrs shared
Mao Zedong 1893–1976 · 41 yrs shared
Winston Churchill 1874–1965 · 30 yrs shared
Charles de Gaulle 1890–1970 · 35 yrs shared

Philosophers and scientists

Albert Einstein 1879–1955 · 20 yrs shared
Sigmund Freud 1856–1939 · 4 yrs shared
John Maynard Keynes 1883–1946 · 11 yrs shared
Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889–1951 · 16 yrs shared
Bertrand Russell 1872–1970 · 35 yrs shared
Henry Ford 1863–1947 · 12 yrs shared

Religion

Pope John Paul II 1920–2005 · 42 yrs shared

Writers and artists

Pablo Picasso 1881–1973 · 38 yrs shared
Salvador Dalí 1904–1989 · 42 yrs shared
Marilyn Monroe 1926–1962 · 27 yrs shared
Le Corbusier 1887–1965 · 30 yrs shared
Jean-Paul Sartre 1905–1980 · 42 yrs shared
Jimi Hendrix 1942–1970 · 28 yrs shared

Explorers and others

Che Guevara 1928–1967 · 32 yrs shared
Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948 · 13 yrs shared
Martin Luther King Jr. 1929–1968 · 33 yrs shared
Walt Disney 1901–1966 · 31 yrs shared
Mother Teresa 1910–1997 · 42 yrs shared
Pelé 1940–2022 · 37 yrs shared

Born within five years of Elvis Presley

Bruce Lee (1940) · Saddam Hussein (1937) · John Lennon (1940) · Pelé (1940) · Mikhail Gorbachev (1931) · Johnny Cash (1932) · Al Pacino (1940) · Woody Allen (1935)

About Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley was an American singer and actor. Referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll", he is widely regarded as one of the most culturally significant figures of the 20th century. Presley's energetic and sexually provocative performance style, combined with a mixture of influences across color lines during a transformative era in race relations, brought both great success and initial controversy.

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