Full Name: Adolf Hitler Profession: Politician, Dictator, Military Leader, Author Nationality: Austrian-born German Born: April 20, 1889 Birthplace: Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary (present-day Austria) Generation: Lost Generation Chinese Zodiac: Ox Zodiac Sign: Taurus Age in 2026: Would have been 137 years old Marital Status: Married (wed Eva Braun on April 29, 1945, just one day before his death). Children: No confirmed biological children; historians generally agree he fathered no children with Eva Braun, though unverified claims exist regarding a possible illegitimate son, Jean-Marie Loret, born to a French woman in 1917. Cause of Death: Suicide by self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head combined with cyanide poisoning, on April 30, 1945, in the Führerbunker, Berlin, Germany, at age 56. Description: Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born politician and military leader who rose to become the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his death in 1945, widely regarded as one of the most destructive and infamous figures in all of human history; born as the fourth of six children to Alois Hitler, a Habsburg customs official, and his third wife Klara Pölzl in the small border town of Braunau am Inn in Austria-Hungary, Hitler spent much of his youth in Linz, Austria, where he developed early ambitions to become a professional artist; after the death of his father in 1903 and his beloved mother from breast cancer in 1907, he moved to Vienna and applied twice to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, being rejected both times, an experience that deeply embittered him and during which he was exposed to the virulent antisemitism and pan-German nationalism that would define his ideology; he moved to Munich in 1913, enlisted in the Bavarian Army at the outbreak of World War I in 1914, served as a dispatch runner on the Western Front, was twice decorated with the Iron Cross, and survived the war deeply radicalized by Germany's defeat; in 1919 he joined the German Workers' Party, which he renamed the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP or Nazi Party), and rapidly rose to dominance within it through his extraordinary oratorical skills and political cunning; following his failed Beer Hall Putsch of 1923 in Munich, for which he was imprisoned, he dictated his autobiographical manifesto Mein Kampf (My Struggle) in Landsberg Prison, in which he laid out his ideology of racial supremacy, extreme antisemitism, and the concept of Lebensraum (living space) for the German people in Eastern Europe; after his release he rebuilt the Nazi Party, and exploiting the catastrophic economic conditions of the Great Depression, he was appointed Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933, by President Paul von Hindenburg; following Hindenburg's death in 1934, Hitler merged the offices of chancellor and president, assuming the title of Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Reich Chancellor) and establishing a totalitarian one-party state; he oversaw massive rearmament and remilitarization in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles, the annexation of Austria (Anschluss) in 1938, the occupation of Czechoslovakia, and ultimately ordered the invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, triggering World War II; his military campaigns initially conquered much of Europe, North Africa, and pushed deep into the Soviet Union, but the tide turned decisively after the Battle of Stalingrad (1942–1943); most horrifically, Hitler ordered and oversaw the systematic genocide of six million Jews and millions of others — including Roma, disabled persons, political opponents, and Soviet civilians — in what became known as the Holocaust, the largest and most meticulously organized genocide in history; As Allied forces closed in on Berlin from both east and west in April 1945, Hitler retreated to his underground Führerbunker, where, in his final hours, he married his longtime companion Eva Braun on April 29, 1945; dictated his final political testament blaming the Jews for the war; and, on the following afternoon of April 30, 1945, committed suicide by simultaneously biting into a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head, with Eva Braun also dying of cyanide poisoning at his side. His remains were burned in the Reich Chancellery garden per his instructions; his legacy is one of unparalleled evil, with his name forever synonymous with totalitarianism, genocide, war, and the catastrophic consequences of racial hatred and unchecked political extremism, making him arguably the most infamous human being in recorded history.