Who Was Alive

Were Empress Dowager Cixi and Adolf Hitler alive at the same time?

Yes. Empress Dowager Cixi and Adolf Hitler were alive at the same time for 19 years, from 1889 to 1908.

Empress Dowager Cixi was 53 when Adolf Hitler was born.

Adolf Hitler was 19 when Empress Dowager Cixi died, aged 72.

Empress Dowager Cixi

Chinese empress

Born 29 November 1835 · died 15 November 1908, aged 72

Adolf Hitler

Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945

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

  1. Abraham Lincoln
  2. Karl Marx
  3. Empress Dowager Cixi
  4. Mahatma Gandhi
  5. Vladimir Lenin
  6. Albert Einstein
  7. Adolf Hitler
  8. Ronald Reagan
  9. Nelson Mandela
Empress Dowager Cixi and Adolf Hitler 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.