1882 births

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 were 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.

Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)

English modernist writer (1882–1941)

Russian composer (1882–1971)

German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)

Norwegian writer (1882–1949)

Belarusian writer (1882–1942)

German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935)

German physicist (1882–1964)

French painter and sculptor (1882-1963)

American physicist

President of Brazil (1930–1945; 1951–1954)

American physicist

British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh (1882–1956)

Belarusian writer (1882–1956)

British astrophysicist (1882-1944)

Irish statesman (1882–1975)

German field marshal (1882–1946)

Bulgarian politician (1882-1949)

Ruler of Transjordan and Jordan from 1921 to 1951

prime minister of Romania during World War II, executed for war crimes (1882–1946)

Mohammad Mosaddegh was an Iranian politician, author and lawyer who served as the prime minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953, elected by the 16th Majlis. He was elected to the Iranian parliament in 1923 and served through a contentious 1952 election into the 17th Iranian Majlis, until his government was overthrown in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état aided by the intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom (MI6) and the United States (CIA), led by Kermit Roosevelt Jr. As prime minister, he implemented policies that came to be known as Mosaddeghism.

Hungarian-American actor (1882–1956)

King of Sweden (1950–1973); anthropologist, art historian, collector and archaeologist

German chancellor (1882-1934)

French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright (1882–1944)

Russian children's poet (1882–1969)

17th President of the French Republic (1882–1962)

German physicist (1882–1945)

American realist painter and printmaker (1882-1967)

british Austrian born psychoanalyst (1882–1960)

German philosopher (1882-1936)

American actor (1882–1942)

Italian painter and sculptor (1882-1916)

Polish-American film producer (1882–1974)

French philosopher (1882–1973)

Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue (1882–1967)

123rd President of Catalonia (1934–1940)

Danish painter and transgender woman (1882–1931)

Marshal of the Soviet Union (1882-1945)

Greek prince; father of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1882-1944)

German general (1882-1944)

Prussian Crown Prince (1882-1951)

Italian general (1882-1955)

Austrian economist, philosopher and sociologist (1882–1945)

Swedish painter and illustrator (1882-1918)

Polish composer (1882–1937)

12th Prime Minister of Canada (1882-1973)

English film actor and film director (1882–1974)

American politician (1882–1972)

British-born American conductor (1882–1977)

American politician; 99th Mayor of New York City (1934–45)

Hungarian-born composer of operettas (1882–1953)

Australian geologist and explorer of the Antarctic (1882-1958)

English feminist and socialist (1882–1960)

French pilot and the first woman in the world to receive an aeroplane pilot's licence

French author and psychoanalyst (1882-1962)

Grand Duchess of Russia (1882–1960)

founder of the Sufi Order in the West in 1914 and teacher of Universal Sufism

Ukrainian and French painter and designer (1882–1949)