Over Exposes, shaky, blurry hazy in contrast and imagery Naval Sailors (In memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt April 12 - 1945). President Roosevelt is dead. The unexpected death of the 31nd president of the United States in his clapboard cottage in Warm Springs, Georgia, stunned the nation and the world. An attending doctor said the 63-year-old president died of a cerebral hemorrhage. Eleanor Roosevelt dedicates a plaque in honor of her dead husband, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the United States Navy pays homage to their late commander and chief.