Who Was Alive

Heinrich Himmler

German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS & main architect of the Holocaust

Born 7 October 1900 · died 23 May 1945, aged 44

Who was alive at the same time as Heinrich Himmler?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Thomas Edison
  4. Sigmund Freud
  5. Rabindranath Tagore
  6. Marie Curie
  7. Mahatma Gandhi
  8. Vladimir Lenin
  9. Winston Churchill
  10. Joseph Stalin
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  12. Albert Einstein
  13. Pablo Picasso
  14. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  15. Charlie Chaplin
  16. Adolf Hitler
  17. Heinrich Himmler
  18. Salvador Dalí
  19. Ronald Reagan
  20. John F. Kennedy
  21. Nelson Mandela
  22. Elizabeth II
  23. Martin Luther King Jr.
  24. Joe Biden
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Heinrich Himmler was born, Adolf Hitler was 11, Albert Einstein was 21, Vladimir Lenin was 30, Mahatma Gandhi was 31 and Leo Tolstoy was 72.

When Heinrich Himmler died, Albert Einstein was 66, Ronald Reagan was 34, Nelson Mandela was 26, Mahatma Gandhi was 75 and Joseph Stalin was 66.

Born during Heinrich Himmler’s lifetime: Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Salvador Dalí and Marilyn Monroe.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about a year after Heinrich Himmler died, Michael Jackson was born 13 years after Heinrich Himmler died, Vladimir Putin was born 7 years after Heinrich Himmler died and George W. Bush was born about a year after Heinrich Himmler died.

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  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Joe Biden born 1942
  10. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  11. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  12. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  13. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  14. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  15. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  18. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  19. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  20. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  21. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  22. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  23. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  24. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  25. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  26. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  27. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  28. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  29. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  30. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  31. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  32. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  33. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  34. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  35. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
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  37. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  38. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
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