Who Was Alive

Were Leo Tolstoy and Adolf Hitler alive at the same time?

Yes. Leo Tolstoy and Adolf Hitler were alive at the same time for 21 years, from 1889 to 1910.

Leo Tolstoy was 60 when Adolf Hitler was born.

Adolf Hitler was 21 when Leo Tolstoy died, aged 82.

Leo Tolstoy

Russian author

Born 28 August 1828 (Julian calendar) · died 7 November 1910 (Julian calendar), aged 82

Adolf Hitler

Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945

Born 20 April 1889 · died 30 April 1945, aged 56

  1. Abraham Lincoln
  2. Karl Marx
  3. Leo Tolstoy
  4. Mahatma Gandhi
  5. Vladimir Lenin
  6. Albert Einstein
  7. Adolf Hitler
  8. Ronald Reagan
  9. Nelson Mandela
Leo Tolstoy and Adolf Hitler 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.