Who was alive at the same time as Adolf Hitler?

Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945

Adolf Hitler lived 1889–1945. Here are the famous people whose lives overlapped with theirs.

Lived: 1889–1945
Lifespan: about 56 years
Born in, as it was then: Braunau am Inn
On today’s map: Austria

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When Adolf Hitler was born, Albert Einstein was already about 10 years old.
Adolf Hitler was about 39 when Che Guevara was born.
Adolf Hitler and Sigmund Freud (Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis) shared about 50 years on Earth, one born in Austria and the other in the Czech Republic.
Pablo Picasso outlived Adolf Hitler by about 28 years.

Famous contemporaries of Adolf Hitler

Rulers and commanders

Joseph Stalin 1878–1953 · 56 yrs shared
Vladimir Lenin 1870–1924 · 35 yrs shared
Benito Mussolini 1883–1945 · 56 yrs shared
Mao Zedong 1893–1976 · 52 yrs shared
Otto von Bismarck 1815–1898 · 9 yrs shared
Winston Churchill 1874–1965 · 56 yrs shared

Philosophers and scientists

Albert Einstein 1879–1955 · 56 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 · 56 yrs shared
Elvis Presley 1935–1977 · 10 yrs shared
Salvador Dalí 1904–1989 · 41 yrs shared
Oscar Wilde 1854–1900 · 11 yrs shared
Claude Monet 1840–1926 · 37 yrs shared

Explorers and others

Che Guevara 1928–1967 · 17 yrs shared
Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948 · 56 yrs shared
Martin Luther King Jr. 1929–1968 · 16 yrs shared
Walt Disney 1901–1966 · 44 yrs shared
Mother Teresa 1910–1997 · 35 yrs shared

Born within five years of Adolf Hitler

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

About Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Germany in the Nazi era from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor of Germany in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 under his leadership marked the outbreak of the Second World War. Throughout the ensuing conflict, Hitler was closely involved in the direction of German military operations and was central to the perpetration of the genocide of about six million Jews in the Holocaust as well as the deaths of millions of other victims.

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