Who Was Alive

Were Adolf Hitler and Dennis M. Ritchie alive at the same time?

Yes. Adolf Hitler and Dennis M. Ritchie were alive at the same time for 3 years, from 1941 to 1945.

Adolf Hitler was 52 when Dennis M. Ritchie was born.

Dennis M. Ritchie was 3 when Adolf Hitler died, aged 56.

Adolf Hitler

Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945

Born 20 April 1889 · died 30 April 1945, aged 56

Dennis M. Ritchie

American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language

Born 9 September 1941 · died 12 October 2011, aged 70

  1. Mahatma Gandhi
  2. Vladimir Lenin
  3. Albert Einstein
  4. Adolf Hitler
  5. Ronald Reagan
  6. Nelson Mandela
  7. Dennis M. Ritchie
  8. Donald Trump
  9. Michael Jackson
  10. Barack Obama
Adolf Hitler and Dennis M. Ritchie in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.