Who Was Alive

Were Adolf Hitler and Claude Lévi-Strauss alive at the same time?

Yes. Adolf Hitler and Claude Lévi-Strauss were alive at the same time for 36 years, from 1908 to 1945.

Adolf Hitler was 19 when Claude Lévi-Strauss was born.

Claude Lévi-Strauss was 36 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

Claude Lévi-Strauss

French anthropologist and ethnologist

Born 28 November 1908 · died 30 October 2009, aged 100

  1. Mahatma Gandhi
  2. Vladimir Lenin
  3. Albert Einstein
  4. Adolf Hitler
  5. Claude Lévi-Strauss
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  7. Nelson Mandela
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Adolf Hitler and Claude Lévi-Strauss 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.