Who Was Alive

Were Adolf Hitler and J. M. Coetzee alive at the same time?

Yes. Adolf Hitler and J. M. Coetzee were alive at the same time for 5 years, from 1940 to 1945.

Adolf Hitler was 50 when J. M. Coetzee was born.

J. M. Coetzee was 5 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

J. M. Coetzee

South African and Australian writer and scholar

Born 9 February 1940 · living, 86 as of September 2026

  1. Mahatma Gandhi
  2. Vladimir Lenin
  3. Albert Einstein
  4. Adolf Hitler
  5. Ronald Reagan
  6. Nelson Mandela
  7. J. M. Coetzee
  8. Donald Trump
  9. Michael Jackson
  10. Barack Obama
Adolf Hitler and J. M. Coetzee 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.