Adolf Hitler · Jackson Pollock Were Adolf Hitler and Jackson Pollock alive at the same time? Yes. Adolf Hitler and Jackson Pollock were alive at the same time for 33 years, from 1912 to 1945. Adolf Hitler was 22 when Jackson Pollock was born.Jackson Pollock was 33 when Adolf Hitler died, aged 56. Adolf HitlerDictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945Born 20 April 1889 · died 30 April 1945, aged 56Jackson PollockAmerican painterBorn 28 January 1912 · died 11 August 1956, aged 44 Mahatma GandhiVladimir LeninAlbert EinsteinAdolf HitlerRonald ReaganJackson PollockNelson MandelaDonald TrumpVladimir Putin Adolf Hitler and Jackson Pollock 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.