Wittgenstein and Hitler were born six days apart and went to the same school.
Both were born in April 1889 and around 1904 attended the Realschule in Linz, though in different years.
More amazing facts
- 1889 The Eiffel Tower opened in spring 1889, and in June van Gogh painted The Starry Night at the Saint-Rémy asylum.
- 1889 Nintendo is as old as the Eiffel Tower: it was founded in Kyoto on 23 September 1889 to make hanafuda playing cards, the same year the tower opened.
- 1889 · 1893 The Ferris wheel was America's answer to the Eiffel Tower.
- 1889 · 1890 Reporter Nellie Bly went round the world in 72 days, beating Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg.
- 1889 · 1900 The matryoshka is younger than the Eiffel Tower.
- 1889 For 130 years the kilogram was not a formula but an object.