Martin Luther King Jr. and Anne Frank were born the same year.

The story behind the answer

True. Martin Luther King Jr. (born January 15, 1929) and Anne Frank (born June 12, 1929) shared the same birth year. Though they lived on different continents and faced different forms of oppression, both became powerful symbols of the 20th century—Anne through her diary revealing the human cost of the Holocaust, and King through his leadership of the U.S. civil rights movement.

A helpful memory hook: 1929 was the year of the stock market crash—the start of the Great Depression—and also the birth year of two enduring voices for dignity and justice. Remembering this overlap helps connect global timelines: the horrors of World War II and the later struggle for civil rights were not far apart in time, shaping a single, turbulent century.