Who was alive at the same time as Marilyn Monroe?

American actress and model

Marilyn Monroe lived 1926–1962. Here are the famous people whose lives overlapped with theirs.

Lived: 1926–1962
Lifespan: about 36 years
Born in, as it was then: Los Angeles, CA
On today’s map: United States

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When Marilyn Monroe was born, Adolf Hitler was already about 37 years old.
Marilyn Monroe was about 2 when Che Guevara was born.
Marilyn Monroe and Albert Einstein (German-born theoretical physicist) shared about 29 years on Earth, one born in the United States and the other in Germany.
Pablo Picasso outlived Marilyn Monroe by about 11 years.

Famous contemporaries of Marilyn Monroe

Rulers and commanders

Adolf Hitler 1889–1945 · 19 yrs shared
Joseph Stalin 1878–1953 · 27 yrs shared
Benito Mussolini 1883–1945 · 19 yrs shared
Mao Zedong 1893–1976 · 36 yrs shared
Winston Churchill 1874–1965 · 36 yrs shared
Charles de Gaulle 1890–1970 · 36 yrs shared

Philosophers and scientists

Albert Einstein 1879–1955 · 29 yrs shared
Sigmund Freud 1856–1939 · 13 yrs shared
Thomas Edison 1847–1931 · 5 yrs shared
Marie Curie 1867–1934 · 8 yrs shared
John Maynard Keynes 1883–1946 · 20 yrs shared
Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889–1951 · 25 yrs shared

Religion

Pope John Paul II 1920–2005 · 36 yrs shared

Writers and artists

Pablo Picasso 1881–1973 · 36 yrs shared
Elvis Presley 1935–1977 · 27 yrs shared
Salvador Dalí 1904–1989 · 36 yrs shared
Le Corbusier 1887–1965 · 36 yrs shared
Jean-Paul Sartre 1905–1980 · 36 yrs shared
Jimi Hendrix 1942–1970 · 20 yrs shared

Explorers and others

Che Guevara 1928–1967 · 34 yrs shared
Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948 · 22 yrs shared
Martin Luther King Jr. 1929–1968 · 33 yrs shared
Walt Disney 1901–1966 · 36 yrs shared
Mother Teresa 1910–1997 · 36 yrs shared
Pelé 1940–2022 · 22 yrs shared

Born within five years of Marilyn Monroe

Che Guevara (1928) · Martin Luther King Jr. (1929) · Andy Warhol (1928) · Fidel Castro (1926) · Stanley Kubrick (1928) · Gabriel García Márquez (1927) · Marlon Brando (1924) · Mikhail Gorbachev (1931)

About Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe was an American actress and model. Known for playing comic "Blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an emblem of the era's sexual revolution. She was a top-billed actress for a decade, and her films grossed $200 million by her death in 1962.

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Adolf Hitler · Albert Einstein · Che Guevara · Mahatma Gandhi · Joseph Stalin · Martin Luther King Jr. · Elvis Presley · Benito Mussolini