Who Was Alive

Were Adolf Hitler and Gabriel García Márquez alive at the same time?

Yes. Adolf Hitler and Gabriel García Márquez were alive at the same time for 18 years, from 1927 to 1945.

Adolf Hitler was 37 when Gabriel García Márquez was born.

Gabriel García Márquez was 18 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

Gabriel García Márquez

Colombian writer and Nobel laureate

Born 6 March 1927 · died 17 April 2014, aged 87

  1. Mahatma Gandhi
  2. Vladimir Lenin
  3. Albert Einstein
  4. Adolf Hitler
  5. Ronald Reagan
  6. Nelson Mandela
  7. Gabriel García Márquez
  8. Donald Trump
  9. Michael Jackson
  10. Barack Obama
Adolf Hitler and Gabriel García Márquez 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.