Historical figures of the Interwar Period
The atlas holds 359 people and 2,474 moments here, from 1918 to 1939. The most recorded lives are Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Albert Einstein and Warren G. Harding. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Performers.
Notable people
Adolf Hitler
from 1918 to 1939
50 moments here
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who led the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP), became German…
Agatha Christie
from 1918 to 1938
19 moments here
English novelist, playwright, and memoirist, internationally known for detective fiction featuring Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.…
Alan Turing
from 1918 to 1939
10 moments here
English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computing pioneer. Turing studied at Cambridge and Princeton, worked at Bletchley Park during the…
Albert Camus
from 1924 to 1933
3 moments here
French writer, philosopher, journalist, and political activist, born in French Algeria. Camus studied and worked in Algiers, moved between Algeria…
Albert Einstein
from 1921 to 1939
65 moments here
German-born theoretical physicist who transformed modern physics through special and general relativity, foundational work on quantum theory, and…
Albert Luthuli
from 1920 to 1938
4 moments here
Albert John Luthuli was a South African teacher, traditional leader, anti-apartheid activist, and President-General of the African National Congress.…
Alfred Hitchcock
from 1919 to 1939
9 moments here
English filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980), known as the “Master of Suspense,” worked in British cinema before relocating to Hollywood in 1939.…
Amelia Earhart
from 1919 to 1937
58 moments here
American aviator and author. Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas, became a leading aviation pioneer, crossed the Atlantic as a passenger in 1928,…
Anatole France
from 1920 to 1924
4 moments here
French poet, journalist, novelist, public intellectual, Académie française member, and 1921 Nobel laureate in Literature.…
Anne Frank
from 1929 to 1935
7 moments here
Anne Frank was a German-born Jewish diarist whose writing from hiding in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam became The Diary of a Young Girl.…
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
from 1921 to 1939
9 moments here
French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) pioneered airmail flying in Europe, Africa, and South America, wrote works including…
Arthur Conan Doyle
from 1918 to 1930
8 moments here
Scottish-born British physician and writer best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh,…
Audrey Hepburn
from 1929 to 1939
5 moments here
British actress and humanitarian Audrey Hepburn (Audrey Kathleen Ruston) was born in Brussels, raised across Belgium, England and the Netherlands,…
Augusto Pinochet
from 1931 to 1939
4 moments here
Augusto Pinochet Ugarte was a Chilean army officer who led the 11 September 1973 coup and ruled Chile as head of the military junta and then…
Bảo Đại
from 1922 to 1934
12 moments here
Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thụy, known as Bảo Đại, was the final emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty and later chief of state of the State of Vietnam.…
Benito Mussolini
from 1919 to 1938
12 moments here
Italian journalist, Fascist leader, and dictator of Italy from 1922 until his removal in 1943.…
Bertrand Russell
from 1918 to 1939
9 moments here
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, was an English philosopher, mathematician, logician, writer, and public campaigner.…
Bhumibol Adulyadej
from 1927 to 1938
4 moments here
Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) was King of Thailand from 1946 to 2016. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he grew up partly in Thailand and Switzerland,…
B. R. Ambedkar
from 1918 to 1939
21 moments here
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer, politician, principal architect of India’s Constitution, and a leading…
Calvin Coolidge
from 1919 to 1933
18 moments here
John Calvin Coolidge Jr. (1872–1933) was an American lawyer and Republican politician who served as governor of Massachusetts, vice president of the…
Charles de Gaulle
from 1918 to 1939
9 moments here
French army officer, leader of Free France during the Second World War, head of France's Provisional Government, and president of the French Fifth…
Charlie Chaplin
from 1918 to 1936
38 moments here
English actor, comedian, director, writer, producer and composer whose screen persona, the Tramp, became an international icon.…
Chiang Kai-shek
from 1918 to 1936
8 moments here
Chinese military commander, revolutionary, and statesman. Chiang Kai-shek led the Nationalist government of China through the Northern Expedition,…
Chien-Shiung Wu
from 1923 to 1936
6 moments here
Chinese-American experimental physicist whose career moved from Jiangsu and eastern China to California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York,…
Moments
- 1918 St Michael's primary school Alan Turing
- 1918 Visit to Australian troops in France Arthur Conan Doyle
- 1918 Imprisonment in Brixton Prison Bertrand Russell
- 1918 Professor at Sydenham College B. R. Ambedkar
- 1918 Campaigns for Liberty Bonds in New York Charlie Chaplin
- 1918 Occupies the completed Chaplin Studios Charlie Chaplin
- 1918 Joined Sun Yat-sen in Guangzhou Chiang Kai-shek
- 1918 Assignment at Fort Leavenworth Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 1918 Childhood care in Bernay Édith Piaf
- 1918 Student residence at Scuola Normale Enrico Fermi
- 1918 Milan munitions-factory rescue scene Ernest Hemingway
- 1918 Recuperation in Milan Ernest Hemingway
- 1918 Stationed at Fossalta di Piave Ernest Hemingway
- 1918 Queen carnival appearance Errol Flynn
- 1918 End of wartime service in Vienna Erwin Schrödinger
- 1918 Director of the Punta Arenas girls’ lycée Gabriela Mistral
- 1918 Birth in Bakos Gamal Abdel Nasser
- 1918 American Jewish Congress convention Golda Meir
- 1918 Siberian Intervention service Hideki Tojo
- 1918 Family relocation to Hong Kong I. M. Pei
- 1918 New York wartime tournament sequence José Raúl Capablanca
- 1918 Returns to Oxford for dictionary work J. R. R. Tolkien
- 1918 Esteban de Luca Unit assignment Juan Perón
- 1918 Bandol treatment stay Katherine Mansfield
- 1918 Recovery period at Looe Katherine Mansfield
- 1918 Winter villa stay at Sanremo Katherine Mansfield
- 1918 Address to deserters in Ryazan Leon Trotsky
- 1918 Return to Petrograd from negotiations Leon Trotsky
- 1918 Visit near Kazan Leon Trotsky
- 1918 University and Ormond College residence Macfarlane Burnet
- 1918 Class photograph at Viktoria-Luisen-Schule Marlene Dietrich
- 1918 Debate with Joseph Schumpeter at Café Landtmann Max Weber
- 1918 Political-economy teaching in Vienna Max Weber
- 1918 Continues medical treatment in Vienna Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1918 Public-administration studies Ngô Đình Diệm
- 1918 School relocated to Ranchi Paramahansa Yogananda
- 1918 Residence on Pembroke Street P. L. Travers
- 1918 Writing in Breslau prison Rosa Luxemburg
- 1918 National Institute studies Salvador Allende
- 1918 Women's-franchise resolution Sarojini Naidu
- 1918 Professor at Maharaja's College Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- 1918 Relocation to Copenhagen Sergei Rachmaninoff
- 1918 Settlement in Madras Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- 1918 Researches at Key West Naval Station Thomas Edison
- 1918 Kheda tax-resistance campaign Vallabhbhai Patel
- 1918 Moved into the Moscow Kremlin Vladimir Lenin
- 1918 Survived Petrograd shooting Vladimir Lenin
- 1918 Living at Yale with Phil Stone William Faulkner
- 1918 Royal Air Force recruit-depot training William Faulkner
- 1918 Fourteen Points address Woodrow Wilson