Adolf Hitler · Saul Bellow Were Adolf Hitler and Saul Bellow alive at the same time? Yes. Adolf Hitler and Saul Bellow were alive at the same time for 29 years, from 1915 to 1945. Adolf Hitler was 26 when Saul Bellow was born.Saul Bellow was 29 when Adolf Hitler died, aged 56. Adolf HitlerDictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945Born 20 April 1889 · died 30 April 1945, aged 56Saul BellowCanadian-American writerBorn 10 June 1915 · died 5 April 2005, aged 89 Mahatma GandhiVladimir LeninAlbert EinsteinAdolf HitlerRonald ReaganSaul BellowNelson MandelaDonald TrumpMichael JacksonBarack Obama Adolf Hitler and Saul Bellow 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.