Who Was Alive

Were Oscar Wilde and Adolf Hitler alive at the same time?

Yes. Oscar Wilde and Adolf Hitler were alive at the same time for 11 years, from 1889 to 1900.

Oscar Wilde was 34 when Adolf Hitler was born.

Adolf Hitler was 11 when Oscar Wilde died, aged 46.

Oscar Wilde

Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete

Born 16 October 1854 · died 30 November 1900, aged 46

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. Oscar Wilde
  4. Mahatma Gandhi
  5. Vladimir Lenin
  6. Albert Einstein
  7. Adolf Hitler
  8. Ronald Reagan
  9. Nelson Mandela
Oscar Wilde 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.