Who Was Alive

Were Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff and Adolf Hitler alive at the same time?

Yes. Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff and Adolf Hitler were alive at the same time for 21 years, from 1889 to 1911.

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff was 36 when Adolf Hitler was born.

Adolf Hitler was 21 when Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff died, aged 58.

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

Dutch physical and organic chemist

Born 30 August 1852 · died 1 March 1911, aged 58

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. Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
  4. Mahatma Gandhi
  5. Vladimir Lenin
  6. Albert Einstein
  7. Adolf Hitler
  8. Ronald Reagan
  9. Nelson Mandela
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff 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.