Who Was Alive

Were Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and Adolf Hitler alive at the same time?

Yes. Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and Adolf Hitler were alive at the same time for 36 years, from 1889 to 1926.

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was 35 when Adolf Hitler was born.

Adolf Hitler was 36 when Heike Kamerlingh Onnes died, aged 72.

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

Dutch physicist, Nobel prize winner

Born 21 September 1853 · died 21 February 1926, aged 72

Adolf Hitler

Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945

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

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  2. Karl Marx
  3. Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
  4. Mahatma Gandhi
  5. Vladimir Lenin
  6. Albert Einstein
  7. Adolf Hitler
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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes 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.