Who Was Alive

Were Adolf Hitler and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn alive at the same time?

Yes. Adolf Hitler and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn were alive at the same time for 26 years, from 1918 to 1945.

Adolf Hitler was 29 when Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was 26 when Adolf Hitler died, aged 56.

Adolf Hitler

Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945

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

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Russian writer, publicist, poet and politician

Born 11 December 1918 · died 3 August 2008, aged 89

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  2. Vladimir Lenin
  3. Albert Einstein
  4. Adolf Hitler
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Adolf Hitler and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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.