Who Was Alive

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

President of the United States from 1933 to 1945

Born 30 January 1882 · died 12 April 1945, aged 63

Who was alive at the same time as Franklin Delano Roosevelt?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Charles Darwin
  3. Karl Marx
  4. Leo Tolstoy
  5. Mark Twain
  6. Friedrich Nietzsche
  7. Thomas Edison
  8. Vincent van Gogh
  9. Sigmund Freud
  10. Mahatma Gandhi
  11. Vladimir Lenin
  12. Winston Churchill
  13. Joseph Stalin
  14. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  15. Albert Einstein
  16. Pablo Picasso
  17. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  18. Charlie Chaplin
  19. Adolf Hitler
  20. Ronald Reagan
  21. John F. Kennedy
  22. Nelson Mandela
  23. Elizabeth II
  24. Joe Biden
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When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born, Albert Einstein was 2, Karl Marx was 63, Vladimir Lenin was 11, Mahatma Gandhi was 12 and Leo Tolstoy was 53.

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt died, Adolf Hitler was 55, Albert Einstein was 66, Ronald Reagan was 34, Nelson Mandela was 26 and Mahatma Gandhi was 75.

Born during Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Joe Biden, Charlie Chaplin, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr..

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about a year after Franklin Delano Roosevelt died, Michael Jackson was born 13 years after Franklin Delano Roosevelt died, Vladimir Putin was born 7 years after Franklin Delano Roosevelt died and George W. Bush was born about a year after Franklin Delano Roosevelt died.

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  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Joe Biden born 1942
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  21. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  22. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  23. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  30. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  31. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  32. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  33. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  34. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  35. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  36. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  37. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  38. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  39. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  40. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  41. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  42. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  43. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  44. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  45. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  46. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  47. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  48. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  49. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  50. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  51. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  52. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  53. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  54. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  55. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  56. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  57. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  58. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  59. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  60. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  61. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  62. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  63. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  64. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  65. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  66. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  67. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  68. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  69. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  70. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  71. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  72. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  73. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  74. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  75. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  76. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  77. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  78. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  79. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  80. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  81. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  82. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  83. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  84. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  85. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  86. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  87. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  88. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  89. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  90. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  91. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  92. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  93. Bob Dylan born 1941
  94. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  95. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  96. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  97. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  98. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  99. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  100. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  101. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  102. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  103. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  104. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  105. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  106. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  107. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  108. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  109. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  110. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  111. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  112. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  113. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  114. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  115. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  116. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  117. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  118. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  119. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  120. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  121. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  122. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  123. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  124. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  125. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  126. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  127. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  128. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  129. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  130. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  131. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  132. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  133. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  134. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  135. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  136. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  137. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  138. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  139. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  140. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  141. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  142. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  143. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  144. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  145. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  146. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  147. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  148. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  149. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  150. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008

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