Who Was Alive

Were Adolf Hitler and Seamus Heaney alive at the same time?

Yes. Adolf Hitler and Seamus Heaney were alive at the same time for 6 years, from 1939 to 1945.

Adolf Hitler was 49 when Seamus Heaney was born.

Seamus Heaney was 6 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

Seamus Heaney

Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer

Born 13 April 1939 · died 30 August 2013, aged 74

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