Who was alive at the same time as Franklin D. Roosevelt?

President of the United States from 1933 to 1945

Franklin D. Roosevelt lived 1882–1945. Here are the famous people whose lives overlapped with theirs.

Lived: 1882–1945
Lifespan: about 63 years
Born in, as it was then: Poughkeepsie, NY
On today’s map: United States

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When Franklin D. Roosevelt was born, Albert Einstein was already about 3 years old.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was about 46 when Che Guevara was born.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler (Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945) shared about 56 years on Earth, one born in the United States and the other in Austria.
Pablo Picasso outlived Franklin D. Roosevelt by about 28 years.

Famous contemporaries of Franklin D. Roosevelt

Rulers and commanders

Adolf Hitler 1889–1945 · 56 yrs shared
Joseph Stalin 1878–1953 · 63 yrs shared
Vladimir Lenin 1870–1924 · 42 yrs shared
Benito Mussolini 1883–1945 · 62 yrs shared
Mao Zedong 1893–1976 · 52 yrs shared
Otto von Bismarck 1815–1898 · 16 yrs shared

Philosophers and scientists

Albert Einstein 1879–1955 · 63 yrs shared
Karl Marx 1818–1883 · 1 yrs shared
Sigmund Freud 1856–1939 · 57 yrs shared
Friedrich Nietzsche 1844–1900 · 18 yrs shared
Louis Pasteur 1822–1895 · 13 yrs shared
Max Weber 1864–1920 · 38 yrs shared

Writers and artists

Vincent van Gogh 1853–1890 · 8 yrs shared
Pablo Picasso 1881–1973 · 63 yrs shared
Victor Hugo 1802–1885 · 3 yrs shared
Elvis Presley 1935–1977 · 10 yrs shared
Richard Wagner 1813–1883 · 1 yrs shared
Salvador Dalí 1904–1989 · 41 yrs shared

Explorers and others

Che Guevara 1928–1967 · 17 yrs shared
Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948 · 63 yrs shared
Martin Luther King Jr. 1929–1968 · 16 yrs shared
Walt Disney 1901–1966 · 44 yrs shared
Mother Teresa 1910–1997 · 35 yrs shared

Born within five years of Franklin D. Roosevelt

Albert Einstein (1879) · Pablo Picasso (1881) · Joseph Stalin (1878) · Benito Mussolini (1883) · Le Corbusier (1887) · Hermann Hesse (1877) · Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881) · James Joyce (1882)

About Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving US president and the only one to have served more than two terms. His first two terms centered on combating the Great Depression, while his third and fourth focused on US involvement in World War II. A member of the Democratic Party, Roosevelt served in the New York State Senate from 1911 to 1913 and as the 44th governor of New York from 1929 to 1932.

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