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
Ho Chi Minh
from 1919 to 1938
20 moments here
Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman, born Nguyễn Sinh Cung, who led the Việt Minh, proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945, and…
Howard Florey
from 1921 to 1935
9 moments here
Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who led the Oxford team that developed penicillin into a practical therapeutic drug.…
Igor Stravinsky
from 1920 to 1939
6 moments here
Russian-born composer, conductor, and pianist who became a French citizen in 1934 and an American citizen in 1945.…
Igor Tamm
from 1919 to 1934
6 moments here
Soviet theoretical physicist and 1958 Nobel laureate in Physics, noted for work on Cherenkov radiation, nuclear physics, and controlled thermonuclear…
I. M. Pei
from 1918 to 1938
5 moments here
Ieoh Ming Pei was a Chinese-American architect whose work ranged from U.S. civic and cultural buildings to major projects in China, France, and the…
Ingmar Bergman
from 1918 to 1937
3 moments here
Swedish filmmaker, screenwriter, theatre director, theatre manager and author. Bergman’s career moved between Stockholm’s student and professional…
Isaac Asimov
from 1920 to 1939
7 moments here
American writer and biochemist best known for science fiction, popular-science writing, and the Foundation and Robot series.…
James Joyce
from 1919 to 1931
7 moments here
Irish novelist, poet, and critic whose life moved between Dublin, continental Europe, and Switzerland.…
Jawaharlal Nehru
from 1923 to 1939
18 moments here
Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and statesman who became independent India’s first prime minister, serving from 15 August 1947 until his…
Jean-Paul Sartre
from 1924 to 1937
6 moments here
French philosopher, writer, and political activist associated with existentialism. His documented movements include education and teaching across…
Jiang Qing
from 1926 to 1938
12 moments here
Jiang Qing (1914–1991), also known as Madame Mao, was a Chinese actress, revolutionary, and political figure.…
Jiddu Krishnamurti
from 1920 to 1936
19 moments here
Indian philosopher, speaker, and writer. Raised within the Theosophical Society, he became head of the Order of the Star in the East, dissolved it at…
Jimmy Carter
from 1924 to 1930
3 moments here
James Earl Carter Jr. was an American naval officer, Georgia state senator and governor, the 39th president of the United States, and a…
John Cornforth
from 1933 to 1939
4 moments here
Australian-British organic chemist and 1975 Nobel Prize laureate, noted for elucidating the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions.…
John F. Kennedy
from 1920 to 1939
11 moments here
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was an American naval officer, journalist, congressman, senator, and the 35th president of the United States.…
John Maynard Keynes
from 1919 to 1937
10 moments here
English economist, civil servant, Cambridge fellow, and British international negotiator whose work shaped modern macroeconomics.…
John McCain
in 1936
3 moments here
John Sidney McCain III was an American naval aviator, Vietnam War prisoner of war, U.S. representative, U.S.…
John Steinbeck
from 1919 to 1936
7 moments here
American novelist, journalist, and war correspondent whose life and work ranged from California’s Salinas Valley and Monterey Peninsula to wartime…
Jomo Kenyatta
from 1919 to 1939
18 moments here
Jomo Kenyatta (c. 1897–1978) was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who became Kenya’s first prime minister in 1963 and first president…
Jorge Luis Borges
from 1919 to 1937
8 moments here
Argentine writer, poet, essayist, translator, lecturer, librarian, and critic. Borges was born in Buenos Aires, lived in Switzerland and Spain during…
Joseph Stalin
from 1918 to 1934
5 moments here
Soviet revolutionary and political leader, born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili in Gori, Georgia.…
José Raúl Capablanca
from 1918 to 1939
27 moments here
Cuban chess player and diplomat, world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. This chronology records documented physical presence at places of birth,…
J. R. R. Tolkien
from 1918 to 1939
8 moments here
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English philologist, university professor, and author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.…
Juan Perón
from 1918 to 1939
6 moments here
Juan Domingo Perón was an Argentine army officer and politician who served as president of Argentina from 1946 to 1955 and again from 1973 until his…
Moments
- 1919 Schooling in Valdivia Salvador Allende
- 1919 Women's franchise plea to Parliament Sarojini Naidu
- 1919 Return to Kumbakonam Srinivasa Ramanujan
- 1919 Death at Sagamore Hill Theodore Roosevelt
- 1919 Visit and purchase decision at Monk's House Virginia Woolf
- 1919 Robbed en route to Sokolniki Vladimir Lenin
- 1919 University of Mississippi student William Faulkner
- 1919 Audience with Pope Benedict XV Woodrow Wilson
- 1919 Italian diplomatic visit Woodrow Wilson
- 1919 Paris Peace Conference, first session Woodrow Wilson
- 1919 Visit to Arashiyama Zhou Enlai
- 1919 Family arrival in San Francisco Olivia de Havilland
- 1919 Founding the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento Benito Mussolini
- 1919 At the Tochimilco front Emiliano Zapata
- 1919 VIIIth Party Congress Leon Trotsky
- 1919 Addressed the First Comintern Congress Vladimir Lenin
- 1919 Recorded speeches at Tsentropechat Vladimir Lenin
- 1919 Paris Peace Conference, second session Woodrow Wilson
- 1919 Assassination at Hacienda de San Juan Emiliano Zapata
- 1919 Lived in Sorengo Hermann Hesse
- 1919 Returned to the Tabata home Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- 1919 Family break in San Francisco Sergei Rachmaninoff
- 1919 Return to Tianjin Zhou Enlai
- 1919 Birth in Los Toldos Eva Perón
- 1919 Moved into Casa Camuzzi Hermann Hesse
- 1919 Family relocation to Badaogou Kim Il Sung
- 1919 Departs Istanbul aboard Bandırma Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1919 Lands at Samsun Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1919 Moves from Samsun to Havza Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1919 Lives at the Savoy while designing Le Tricorne Pablo Picasso
- 1919 First visit to Nagasaki Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- 1919 Citizenship celebration speech Selma Lagerlöf
- 1919 Marriage to Bess Wallace Harry S. Truman
- 1919 Arrival in Paris Ho Chi Minh
- 1919 Arrives in Amasya Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1919 Third Battle of Ciudad Juárez Pancho Villa
- 1919 Belgian postwar visit Woodrow Wilson
- 1919 Paris Peace Conference, final session Woodrow Wilson
- 1919 Birth in Auckland Edmund Hillary
- 1919 Taken off active service at Fovant J. R. R. Tolkien
- 1919 Southern Front assignment Leon Trotsky
- 1919 Chairs the Erzurum Congress Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1919 Resigns from the Ottoman Army in Erzurum Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1919 Return through New York Harbor Woodrow Wilson
- 1919 Birth of daughter Rosalind Agatha Christie
- 1919 Postwar visit to Belgium Herbert Hoover
- 1919 Return from captivity Ludwig Wittgenstein
- 1919 Returns to Tampico Ronald Reagan
- 1919 Departs Green Island on Vagabonds trip Thomas Edison
- 1919 Upper Peninsula fishing and camping trip Ernest Hemingway