Who Was Alive

Were Leon Trotsky and Adolf Hitler alive at the same time?

Yes. Leon Trotsky and Adolf Hitler were alive at the same time for 51 years, from 1889 to 1940.

Leon Trotsky was 9 when Adolf Hitler was born.

Adolf Hitler was 51 when Leon Trotsky died, aged 60.

Leon Trotsky

Russian Marxist revolutionary

Born 26 October 1879 (Julian calendar) · died 21 August 1940, aged 60

Adolf Hitler

Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945

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

  1. Karl Marx
  2. Mahatma Gandhi
  3. Vladimir Lenin
  4. Albert Einstein
  5. Leon Trotsky
  6. Adolf Hitler
  7. Ronald Reagan
  8. Nelson Mandela
Leon Trotsky 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.