Richard Feynman & Salvador Dalí

Did Richard Feynman and Salvador Dalí live at the same time?

Yes. Richard Feynman and Salvador Dalí lived at the same time for 70 years, from 1918 to 1988.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Richard Feynman · Salvador Dalí · Born in 1918 · Born in 1904

Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman

Science & Invention

Quantum electrodynamics, bongo-playing physicist

Salvador Dalí

The Persistence of Memory, surrealist

19041989

Richard Feynman

Salvador Dalí

Richard Feynman

Science & Invention

Born in Queens

Died in Los Angeles

Salvador Dalí

Art

Born in Figueres

Died in Figueres

World Events During Their Overlap

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

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Sources

Richard Feynman — Wikipedia
Richard Feynman (Q39246) — Wikidata
Salvador Dalí — Wikipedia
Salvador Dalí (Q5577) — Wikidata