Who Was Alive

Were Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein alive at the same time?

Yes. Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein were alive at the same time for 8 years, from 1937 to 1945.

Adolf Hitler was 48 when Saddam Hussein was born.

Saddam Hussein was 8 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

Saddam Hussein

Iraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003

Born 28 April 1937 · died 30 December 2006, aged 69

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