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
Frida Kahlo
from 1922 to 1939
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Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón) was born in Coyoacán and spent much of her life in Mexico City.…
Fulgencio Batista
from 1921 to 1938
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Cuban army officer and politician who became a central power in Cuba after the 1933 Sergeants’ Revolt, served as president from 1940 to 1944,…
Gabriela Mistral
from 1918 to 1939
33 moments here
Chilean poet, educator, journalist, and diplomat born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga. Mistral taught across Chile, worked on Mexican educational reform,…
Gabriel García Márquez
from 1927 to 1937
5 moments here
Colombian novelist, journalist, screenwriter, and Nobel laureate whose life moved between Colombia, Europe, Cuba, the United States, Mexico, and…
Gamal Abdel Nasser
from 1918 to 1938
11 moments here
Egyptian army officer, leader of the 1952 Egyptian Revolution, and president of Egypt from 1954 until his death.…
George Bernard Shaw
from 1922 to 1934
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Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and political activist. Born in Dublin, Shaw moved to London in 1876, became a leading Fabian and dramatist,…
George H. W. Bush
from 1924 to 1937
3 moments here
George Herbert Walker Bush was an American naval aviator, oil executive, congressman, diplomat, director of central intelligence, vice president, and…
George Orwell
from 1921 to 1938
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George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, an English novelist, essayist, journalist, critic, and democratic socialist.…
Gerald Ford
from 1932 to 1938
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Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr.) was the 38th president of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977 after having served as…
Getúlio Vargas
from 1923 to 1938
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Brazilian lawyer, military officer, and politician who led Brazil from 1930 to 1945 and again from 1951 until his death in 1954.…
Glynis Johns
from 1923 to 1938
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British actress, dancer and singer whose stage and screen career ran from childhood performances in Britain to Broadway and later American work.…
Golda Meir
from 1918 to 1938
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Golda Meir was an Israeli political leader who served as Israel’s prime minister from 1969 to 1974.…
Haile Selassie
from 1924 to 1936
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Haile Selassie I (born Tafari Makonnen) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 until his deposition in 1974.…
Harry S. Truman
from 1918 to 1935
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Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953.…
Hastings Banda
from 1928 to 1937
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Hastings Kamuzu Banda was a Malawian physician and politician who led Nyasaland to independence and served as Malawi's prime minister and first…
Helen Keller
from 1925 to 1939
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Helen Adams Keller was an American deafblind author, lecturer, disability-rights advocate, and political activist.…
Henri Matisse
from 1929 to 1930
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French painter, sculptor, draughtsman, printmaker, and major figure of modern art. Born in Le Cateau-Cambresis, Matisse trained and worked…
Henry Ford
from 1918 to 1936
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American industrialist and founder of Ford Motor Company. Ford grew up in rural Michigan, worked in Detroit engineering and machine shops, developed…
Herbert Hoover
from 1919 to 1933
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Herbert Clark Hoover was an American mining engineer, international relief administrator, U.S.…
Hermann Hesse
from 1919 to 1931
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German-Swiss poet, novelist, essayist, and painter. Hesse’s documented life moved between Württemberg, Switzerland, Italy, and Southeast Asia:…
H. G. Wells
from 1920 to 1937
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Herbert George Wells was an English novelist, journalist, historian, teacher, and social critic.…
Hideki Tojo
from 1918 to 1938
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Japanese Imperial Army officer and politician who served as Japan's prime minister from 1941 to 1944.…
Hideki Yukawa
from 1929 to 1939
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Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate, awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting mesons.…
Hirohito
from 1921 to 1932
16 moments here
Hirohito (posthumously Emperor Shōwa) was Emperor of Japan from 25 December 1926 until his death in 1989.…
Moments
- 1918 Recuperates in Schelesen Franz Kafka
- 1918 Capture in Trentino Ludwig Wittgenstein
- 1918 Returns to occupied Constantinople Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1918 Release and return to Berlin Rosa Luxemburg
- 1918 Armistice-day landing at Bordeaux Sarah Bernhardt
- 1918 Arrival in New York Sergei Rachmaninoff
- 1918 Embarked from Oslo for America Sergei Rachmaninoff
- 1918 Red Cross service in France Walt Disney
- 1918 Birth in Kislovodsk Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- 1918 Birth in Mit Abu El Kom Anwar Sadat
- 1918 Returned to his father's home after captivity Charles de Gaulle
- 1918 Confirmation at the Palace Chapel Olav V
- 1918 First American recital after emigration Sergei Rachmaninoff
- 1918 First Korean Congress Syngman Rhee
- 1918 Return to Oxford after discharge William Faulkner
- 1918 Meetings in Britain Woodrow Wilson
- 1918 Paris stopover Woodrow Wilson
- 1918 Preliminary peace-conference travel Woodrow Wilson
- 1919 Entry into film work at Islington Studios Alfred Hitchcock
- 1919 Convalescence in Northampton Amelia Earhart
- 1919 Séance at Selbit’s Bloomsbury flat Arthur Conan Doyle
- 1919 Meeting with Gabriele D'Annunzio Benito Mussolini
- 1919 Boston Police Strike inspection Calvin Coolidge
- 1919 Graduation from Chongqing School Deng Xiaoping
- 1919 Tank battalion command at Camp Meade Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 1919 Toronto Star work Ernest Hemingway
- 1919 Return to the Cavendish Laboratory Ernest Rutherford
- 1919 Returns to Europe for naval demobilization Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1919 Adviser at the Paris Peace Conference Herbert Hoover
- 1919 Military attaché posting Hideki Tojo
- 1919 Physics teaching in Simferopol Igor Tamm
- 1919 Move to Saratoga Joan Fontaine
- 1919 Paris Peace Conference John Maynard Keynes
- 1919 Studies at Stanford University John Steinbeck
- 1919 Residence in Dagoretti Jomo Kenyatta
- 1919 Lugano residence after Geneva Jorge Luis Borges
- 1919 Residence in Mallorca Jorge Luis Borges
- 1919 Ultraist circle in Seville Jorge Luis Borges
- 1919 Hastings Victory tournament José Raúl Capablanca
- 1919 Kostić match José Raúl Capablanca
- 1919 Langworthy Professor in Manchester Lawrence Bragg
- 1919 Teaching and organizing in Changsha Mao Zedong
- 1919 Returns to her completed Radium Institute laboratory Marie Curie
- 1919 Politics as a Vocation lecture Max Weber
- 1919 Allis-Chalmers work Nikola Tesla
- 1919 Childhood settlement in Saratoga Olivia de Havilland
- 1919 Young barrister in Bangkok Pridi Banomyong
- 1919 Arrest in Wilmersdorf Rosa Luxemburg
- 1919 Interrogation at the Eden Hotel Rosa Luxemburg
- 1919 Murder and disposal in the Landwehr Canal Rosa Luxemburg