Who Was Alive

Were Rabindranath Tagore and Adolf Hitler alive at the same time?

Yes. Rabindranath Tagore and Adolf Hitler were alive at the same time for 52 years, from 1889 to 1941.

Rabindranath Tagore was 27 when Adolf Hitler was born.

Adolf Hitler was 52 when Rabindranath Tagore died, aged 80.

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath

Born 7 May 1861 · died 7 August 1941, aged 80

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