Who was alive at the same time as Mohammad Reza Pahlavi?

Shah of Iran from 1941 to 1979

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi lived 1919–1980. Here are the famous people whose lives overlapped with theirs.

Lived: 1919–1980
Lifespan: about 61 years
Born in, as it was then: Tehran
On today’s map: Iran

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When Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was born, Albert Einstein was already about 40 years old.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was about 9 when Che Guevara was born.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Adolf Hitler (Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945) shared about 26 years on Earth, one born in Iran and the other in Austria.
Salvador Dalí outlived Mohammad Reza Pahlavi by about 9 years.

Famous contemporaries of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Rulers and commanders

Adolf Hitler 1889–1945 · 26 yrs shared
Joseph Stalin 1878–1953 · 34 yrs shared
Vladimir Lenin 1870–1924 · 5 yrs shared
Benito Mussolini 1883–1945 · 26 yrs shared
Mao Zedong 1893–1976 · 57 yrs shared
Winston Churchill 1874–1965 · 46 yrs shared

Philosophers and scientists

Albert Einstein 1879–1955 · 36 yrs shared
Sigmund Freud 1856–1939 · 20 yrs shared
Max Weber 1864–1920 · 1 yrs shared
Thomas Edison 1847–1931 · 12 yrs shared
Marie Curie 1867–1934 · 15 yrs shared
John Maynard Keynes 1883–1946 · 27 yrs shared

Religion

Pope John Paul II 1920–2005 · 60 yrs shared

Writers and artists

Pablo Picasso 1881–1973 · 54 yrs shared
Elvis Presley 1935–1977 · 42 yrs shared
Salvador Dalí 1904–1989 · 61 yrs shared
Claude Monet 1840–1926 · 7 yrs shared
Marilyn Monroe 1926–1962 · 36 yrs shared
Le Corbusier 1887–1965 · 46 yrs shared

Explorers and others

Che Guevara 1928–1967 · 39 yrs shared
Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948 · 29 yrs shared
Martin Luther King Jr. 1929–1968 · 39 yrs shared
Walt Disney 1901–1966 · 47 yrs shared
Mother Teresa 1910–1997 · 61 yrs shared
Pelé 1940–2022 · 40 yrs shared

Born within five years of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

John F. Kennedy (1917) · Marlon Brando (1924) · Pope John Paul II (1920) · Édith Piaf (1915) · Ingmar Bergman (1918) · Isaac Asimov (1920) · Frank Sinatra (1915) · Nelson Mandela (1918)

About Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was the last Shah of Iran, reigning from 1941 to 1979 as the second monarch of the Pahlavi dynasty. He succeeded his father, Reza Shah, and ruled the Imperial State of Iran until his overthrow in the Islamic Revolution, which abolished the nearly 2,500-year-old Iranian monarchy. During his reign, he assumed the title Shahanshah, and held several other titles, including Aryamehr and Bozorg Arteshtaran.

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