Who Was Alive

Were Guy de Maupassant and Adolf Hitler alive at the same time?

Yes. Guy de Maupassant and Adolf Hitler were alive at the same time for 4 years, from 1889 to 1893.

Guy de Maupassant was 38 when Adolf Hitler was born.

Adolf Hitler was 4 when Guy de Maupassant died, aged 42.

Guy de Maupassant

French writer

Born 5 August 1850 · died 6 July 1893, aged 42

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. Guy de Maupassant
  4. Mahatma Gandhi
  5. Vladimir Lenin
  6. Albert Einstein
  7. Adolf Hitler
  8. Ronald Reagan
  9. Nelson Mandela
Guy de Maupassant 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.