Adolf Hitler · Joseph Brodsky Were Adolf Hitler and Joseph Brodsky alive at the same time? Yes. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Brodsky were alive at the same time for 4 years, from 1940 to 1945. Adolf Hitler was 51 when Joseph Brodsky was born.Joseph Brodsky was 4 when Adolf Hitler died, aged 56. Adolf HitlerDictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945Born 20 April 1889 · died 30 April 1945, aged 56Joseph BrodskyRussian-American poetBorn 24 May 1940 · died 28 January 1996, aged 55 Mahatma GandhiVladimir LeninAlbert EinsteinAdolf HitlerRonald ReaganNelson MandelaJoseph BrodskyDonald TrumpMichael JacksonBarack Obama Adolf Hitler and Joseph Brodsky 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.