Who Was Alive

Were Adolf Hitler and Kurt Gödel alive at the same time?

Yes. Adolf Hitler and Kurt Gödel were alive at the same time for 39 years, from 1906 to 1945.

Adolf Hitler was 17 when Kurt Gödel was born.

Kurt Gödel was 39 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

Kurt Gödel

Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics

Born 28 April 1906 · died 14 January 1978, aged 71

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Adolf Hitler and Kurt Gödel 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.