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Franklin D. Roosevelt & Mahatma Gandhi

Did Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mahatma Gandhi live at the same time?

Yes. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mahatma Gandhi lived at the same time for 63 years, from 1882 to 1945.[1][2][3][4]

Franklin D. Roosevelt · Mahatma Gandhi · Born in 1882 · Born in 1869

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882–1945
Politics & Leadership
32nd US President, New Deal, WWII leader
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
1869–1948
Politics & Leadership
Nonviolent independence leader of India
18691948
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mahatma Gandhi
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Politics & Leadership
Born in Hyde Park
Died in Warm Springs
Mahatma Gandhi
Politics & Leadership
Born in Porbandar
Died in Gandhi Smriti

World Events During Their Overlap

1884 Berlin Conference partitions Africa
1893 New Zealand becomes first country to grant women's suffrage
1896 First modern Olympic Games in Athens
1898 Spanish-American War
1903 Wright brothers achieve powered flight
1905 Einstein publishes theory of special relativity
1912 Sinking of the Titanic
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

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Sources

  1. Franklin D. Roosevelt — Wikipedia
  2. Franklin D. Roosevelt (Q8007) — Wikidata
  3. Mahatma Gandhi — Wikipedia
  4. Mahatma Gandhi (Q1001) — Wikidata