Who Was Alive

Were Wassily Kandinsky and Adolf Hitler alive at the same time?

Yes. Wassily Kandinsky and Adolf Hitler were alive at the same time for 55 years, from 1889 to 1944.

Wassily Kandinsky was 22 when Adolf Hitler was born.

Adolf Hitler was 55 when Wassily Kandinsky died, aged 78.

Wassily Kandinsky

Avant-garde painter of Russian origin

Born 22 November 1866 (Julian calendar) · died 13 December 1944, aged 78

Adolf Hitler

Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945

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

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