Bob Hope & Hedy Lamarr

Did Bob Hope and Hedy Lamarr live at the same time?

Yes. Bob Hope and Hedy Lamarr lived at the same time for 86 years, from 1914 to 2000.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Bob Hope · Hedy Lamarr · Born in 1903 · Born in 1914

Bob Hope

Film & Entertainment

Comedian and entertainer for nearly 80 years

Hedy Lamarr

Science & Invention

Hollywood star who co-invented frequency hopping

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Bob Hope

Hedy Lamarr

Bob Hope

Film & Entertainment

Died in Toluca Lake

Hedy Lamarr

Science & Invention

Born in Vienna

Died in Casselberry

World Events During Their Overlap

1914 World War I begins

1917 Russian Revolution

1918 World War I ends; Spanish flu pandemic begins

1919 Treaty of Versailles signed

1920 League of Nations established

1928 Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

1929 Wall Street Crash; Great Depression begins

1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

1936 Spanish Civil War begins

1939 World War II begins

1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor; US enters WWII

1944 D-Day: Allied invasion of Normandy

1945 Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; WWII ends

1945 United Nations founded

1947 India and Pakistan gain independence

1948 State of Israel established

1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted

1949 People's Republic of China proclaimed

1950 Korean War begins

1953 Watson and Crick discover DNA structure

1955 Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

1957 Sputnik launched; Space Age begins

1959 Cuban Revolution; Castro takes power

1961 Berlin Wall constructed

1962 Cuban Missile Crisis

1963 Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

1964 Civil Rights Act signed in the United States

1969 Apollo 11: first humans walk on the Moon

1971 Bangladesh Liberation War and independence

1973 1973 oil crisis

1975 Fall of Saigon; Vietnam War ends

1979 Iranian Revolution

1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster

1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall

1989 Tiananmen Square protests

1990 Nelson Mandela released from prison

1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union

1994 Rwandan genocide

1994 End of apartheid; South Africa holds first free elections

1997 Dolly the Sheep cloned

1998 Good Friday Agreement signed in Northern Ireland

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Sources

Bob Hope — Wikipedia
Bob Hope (Q94081) — Wikidata
Hedy Lamarr — Wikipedia
Hedy Lamarr (Q49034) — Wikidata