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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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.
James Joyce
Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer (1882–1971)
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)
Sigrid Undset
Norwegian writer (1882–1949)
Yanka Kupala
Belarusian writer (1882–1942)
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935)
James Franck
German physicist (1882–1964)
Georges Braque
French painter and sculptor (1882-1963)
Robert H. Goddard
American physicist
Getúlio Vargas
President of Brazil (1930–1945; 1951–1954)
Percy Williams Bridgman
American physicist
A. A. Milne
British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh (1882–1956)
Yakub Kolas
Belarusian writer (1882–1956)
Arthur Eddington
British astrophysicist (1882-1944)
Éamon de Valera
Irish statesman (1882–1975)
Wilhelm Keitel
German field marshal (1882–1946)
Georgi Dimitrov
Bulgarian politician (1882-1949)
Abdullah I of Jordan
Ruler of Transjordan and Jordan from 1921 to 1951
Ion Antonescu
prime minister of Romania during World War II, executed for war crimes (1882–1946)
Mohammad Mosaddegh
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.
Bela Lugosi
Hungarian-American actor (1882–1956)
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden
King of Sweden (1950–1973); anthropologist, art historian, collector and archaeologist
Kurt von Schleicher
German chancellor (1882-1934)
Jean Giraudoux
French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright (1882–1944)
Korney Chukovsky
Russian children's poet (1882–1969)
René Coty
17th President of the French Republic (1882–1962)
Hans Geiger
German physicist (1882–1945)
Edward Hopper
American realist painter and printmaker (1882-1967)
Melanie Klein
british Austrian born psychoanalyst (1882–1960)
Moritz Schlick
German philosopher (1882-1936)
John Barrymore
American actor (1882–1942)
Umberto Boccioni
Italian painter and sculptor (1882-1916)
Samuel Goldwyn
Polish-American film producer (1882–1974)
Jacques Maritain
French philosopher (1882–1973)
Zoltán Kodály
Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue (1882–1967)
Lluís Companys
123rd President of Catalonia (1934–1940)
Lili Elbe
Danish painter and transgender woman (1882–1931)
Boris Shaposhnikov
Marshal of the Soviet Union (1882-1945)
Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark
Greek prince; father of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1882-1944)
Günther von Kluge
German general (1882-1944)
Wilhelm, German Crown Prince
Prussian Crown Prince (1882-1951)
Rodolfo Graziani
Italian general (1882-1955)
Otto Neurath
Austrian economist, philosopher and sociologist (1882–1945)
John Bauer
Swedish painter and illustrator (1882-1918)
Karol Szymanowski
Polish composer (1882–1937)
Louis St. Laurent
12th Prime Minister of Canada (1882-1973)
Donald Crisp
English film actor and film director (1882–1974)
James F. Byrnes
American politician (1882–1972)
Leopold Stokowski
British-born American conductor (1882–1977)
Fiorello H. La Guardia
American politician; 99th Mayor of New York City (1934–45)
Emmerich Kálmán
Hungarian-born composer of operettas (1882–1953)
Douglas Mawson
Australian geologist and explorer of the Antarctic (1882-1958)
Sylvia Pankhurst
English feminist and socialist (1882–1960)
Raymonde de Laroche
French pilot and the first woman in the world to receive an aeroplane pilot's licence
Marie Bonaparte
French author and psychoanalyst (1882-1962)
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia
Grand Duchess of Russia (1882–1960)
Inayat Khan
founder of the Sufi Order in the West in 1914 and teacher of Universal Sufism
Aleksandra Ekster
Ukrainian and French painter and designer (1882–1949)