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
Claude Simon
from 1925 to 1939
14 moments here
French novelist, painter, photographer, viticulturist, Resistance participant, and 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.…
C. V. Raman
from 1921 to 1933
9 moments here
Indian physicist Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888–1970), known for research on light scattering and for the Raman effect.…
David Hilbert
from 1921 to 1930
7 moments here
German mathematician and philosopher of mathematics whose career began in Königsberg and was centered at the University of Göttingen from 1895 until…
Deng Xiaoping
from 1919 to 1937
11 moments here
Chinese revolutionary, statesman, and paramount leader of the People’s Republic of China from 1978 to 1989.…
Diego Rivera
from 1920 to 1934
24 moments here
Mexican painter and muralist Diego Rivera was a central figure in Mexican muralism. His documented movements include study in Mexico and Europe, work…
Dolores del Río
from 1924 to 1938
5 moments here
Mexican actress Dolores del Río (María de los Dolores Asúnsolo y López Negrete) was a major star of silent-era Hollywood and the Golden Age of…
Doris Lessing
from 1919 to 1937
3 moments here
British novelist Doris May Lessing was born in Kermanshah, Iran, grew up in Southern Rhodesia, and moved to London in 1949.…
Dorothy Hodgkin
from 1921 to 1934
6 moments here
English chemist and X-ray crystallographer Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin determined major biomolecular structures including penicillin, vitamin B12,…
Dwight D. Eisenhower
from 1918 to 1935
10 moments here
Dwight D. Eisenhower was a United States Army officer, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II, and the 34th president of the United…
Édith Piaf
from 1918 to 1938
8 moments here
French singer and lyricist Édith Giovanna Gassion, known as Édith Piaf, rose from street performance in Paris to international prominence in chanson…
Edmund Hillary
from 1919 to 1939
5 moments here
New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, diplomat, and philanthropist. Hillary became internationally known after reaching Mount Everest’s summit with…
Eisaku Satō
from 1924 to 1939
4 moments here
Japanese politician and prime minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972. A former railway bureaucrat, Satō led Japan during rapid economic growth, pursued…
Eleanor Roosevelt
from 1921 to 1937
6 moments here
American political figure, diplomat, activist, and First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945.…
Elizabeth II
from 1926 to 1939
5 moments here
Elizabeth II was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death.…
Enrico Fermi
from 1918 to 1939
11 moments here
Italian and naturalized-American physicist whose documented movements trace a path from Rome and Pisa through European study in Göttingen and Leiden,…
Ernest Hemingway
from 1918 to 1939
30 moments here
American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Hemingway’s documented movements ranged from Illinois and Michigan to Italy in World War I,…
Ernest Rutherford
from 1919 to 1937
9 moments here
New Zealand-born physicist and chemist whose research on radioactivity, the atomic nucleus, and nuclear transmutation helped establish nuclear…
Errol Flynn
from 1918 to 1937
14 moments here
Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn was an Australian-born actor who became a major Hollywood star in swashbuckling and adventure films.…
Erwin Schrödinger
from 1918 to 1939
12 moments here
Austrian-Irish theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate whose work on wave mechanics and the Schrödinger equation became foundational to quantum…
Federico Fellini
from 1920 to 1939
6 moments here
Italian film director and screenwriter whose career developed from caricature and comic writing in Rimini and Rome into internationally influential…
Félix Houphouët-Boigny
from 1925 to 1936
6 moments here
Ivorian physician and politician who became the first president of Côte d’Ivoire, serving from independence in 1960 until his death in 1993.…
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
from 1918 to 1939
50 moments here
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as New York state senator, assistant secretary of the Navy,…
Frank Lloyd Wright
from 1919 to 1938
10 moments here
American architect, designer, writer, and educator whose career spanned more than seven decades.…
Franz Kafka
from 1918 to 1924
20 moments here
German-language Jewish Czech writer whose fiction transformed modern literature. Born and educated in Prague, Kafka trained as a lawyer and worked…
Moments
- 1918 Departure on the Ice March Lavr Kornilov
- 1918 Ice March at Rostov Lavr Kornilov
- 1918 Withdrawal from Brest-Litovsk talks Leon Trotsky
- 1918 Addresses Ahmedabad mill workers Mahatma Gandhi
- 1918 Investigates Kheda conditions at Kathlal Mahatma Gandhi
- 1918 Reconciles with Roosevelt at Palmer House William Howard Taft
- 1918 Paris during German bombardment Katherine Mansfield
- 1918 Meets Kheda collector at Nadiad Mahatma Gandhi
- 1918 Flight to Kalinovka Nikita Khrushchev
- 1918 Lodged at Hotel National Vladimir Lenin
- 1918 Travelled to Moscow by night train Vladimir Lenin
- 1918 Return to London with Ida Baker Katherine Mansfield
- 1918 Attack on Yekaterinodar Lavr Kornilov
- 1918 Burial at Gnadau Lavr Kornilov
- 1918 Death at farmhouse headquarters near Yekaterinodar Lavr Kornilov
- 1918 Attends Delhi War Conference Mahatma Gandhi
- 1918 Arrival in Paris during World War I Ernest Hemingway
- 1918 Takes command assignment at Tsaritsyn Joseph Stalin
- 1918 Marriage to John Middleton Murry Katherine Mansfield
- 1918 Receives treatment in Karlsbad Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1918 Birth in Queens Richard Feynman
- 1918 Departure for Shanghai Sun Yat-sen
- 1918 Attended the Khodynka Field parade Vladimir Lenin
- 1918 Meets Maud at Tromsø Roald Amundsen
- 1918 Wounded at the Italian front Ernest Hemingway
- 1918 Tours European naval bases Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1918 Birth in Uppsala Ingmar Bergman
- 1918 Born at Mvezo Nelson Mandela
- 1918 Marries Olga in Paris Pablo Picasso
- 1918 Royal Air Force enlistment William Faulkner
- 1918 Vagabonds camping trip at Narrows Henry Ford
- 1918 Move to Hampstead Katherine Mansfield
- 1918 Completion of the Tractatus Ludwig Wittgenstein
- 1918 Military commissar during the Yaroslavl uprising Mikhail Frunze
- 1918 Arrives in Aleppo for the Palestine command Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1918 Establishes headquarters at Nablus Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1918 Honeymoon and working summer in Biarritz Pablo Picasso
- 1918 Marriage at Sukhothai Palace Prajadhipok
- 1918 Adds Olonkin to Maud expedition Roald Amundsen
- 1918 Camps near Bolar Springs Thomas Edison
- 1918 Shot outside the Michelson Plant Vladimir Lenin
- 1918 Moved to St John's Wood Agatha Christie
- 1918 Meuse–Argonne observation post Harry S. Truman
- 1918 Return to Moscow from eastern front Leon Trotsky
- 1918 Participates in the Budapest congress Sigmund Freud
- 1918 Convalesced at Gorki Vladimir Lenin
- 1918 Sent to Pasewalk military hospital Adolf Hitler
- 1918 Returned to Moscow after recovery Vladimir Lenin
- 1918 First journey to Izu Yasunari Kawabata
- 1918 Returns to Munich after hospitalization Adolf Hitler