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
Judy Garland
from 1922 to 1939
6 moments here
American actress, singer, and vaudevillian, born Frances Ethel Gumm. Garland rose from childhood vaudeville and MGM musical films to become a major…
Kahlil Gibran
from 1920 to 1931
5 moments here
Lebanese-American writer, poet, and visual artist, best known for The Prophet. Born in Bsharri, he emigrated to Boston as a child, studied in Beirut…
Katharine Hepburn
from 1921 to 1939
10 moments here
American stage, film, and television actress whose career ran from 1928 to 1995. Hepburn was born in Hartford, Connecticut, educated at Bryn Mawr…
Katherine Mansfield
from 1918 to 1923
20 moments here
Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp, later Murry) was a New Zealand modernist short-story writer, poet, critic and diarist.…
Kim Il Sung
from 1919 to 1937
4 moments here
Kim Il Sung (born Kim Song Ju) was a Korean communist guerrilla leader, North Korean political leader, and founder of the Democratic People’s…
Konstantin Chernenko
from 1929 to 1939
4 moments here
Soviet Communist Party official and General Secretary of the CPSU from 13 February 1984 until his death.…
Kwame Nkrumah
from 1925 to 1939
8 moments here
Ghanaian nationalist leader, Pan-Africanist, and political theorist who led the Gold Coast to independence as Ghana in 1957.…
Lars Onsager
from 1920 to 1934
8 moments here
Norwegian-American physical chemist and theoretical physicist whose career took him from Norway and Switzerland to major American universities.…
Lavr Kornilov
in 1918
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Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov was an Imperial Russian Army officer, military intelligence officer, explorer, and general.…
Lawrence Bragg
from 1919 to 1938
7 moments here
Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer. Bragg shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics with his father, William Henry Bragg, for…
Le Corbusier
from 1922 to 1936
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Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, painter, writer, and urban planner.…
Leon Trotsky
from 1918 to 1939
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Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet political leader, Marxist theorist, and organizer of the Red Army.…
Léopold Sédar Senghor
from 1922 to 1938
7 moments here
Senegalese poet, theorist of Négritude, and statesman who became Senegal’s first president in 1960.…
Lev Landau
from 1922 to 1938
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Soviet theoretical physicist Lev Davidovich Landau was born in Baku, educated in Baku and Leningrad, and undertook formative research travel in…
Louis Armstrong
from 1922 to 1931
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American jazz trumpeter, vocalist, bandleader, and entertainer whose career transformed jazz solo performance and made him an international cultural…
Ludwig Wittgenstein
from 1918 to 1938
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Austro-British philosopher whose work in logic, language, mathematics, and mind shaped twentieth-century analytic philosophy.…
Lu Xun
from 1920 to 1936
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Lu Xun (Zhou Shuren; 1881–1936) was a Chinese writer, critic, translator, lecturer, and civil servant whose work was central to modern Chinese…
Lyndon B. Johnson
from 1924 to 1934
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Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973) was a Texas-born teacher, congressman, senator, vice president, and the 36th president of the United States.…
Macfarlane Burnet
from 1918 to 1934
7 moments here
Australian virologist and immunologist Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, known as Macfarlane Burnet, shared the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…
Mahatma Gandhi
from 1918 to 1932
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, political ethicist, and leader of mass nonviolent resistance.…
Mao Zedong
from 1919 to 1937
23 moments here
Chinese communist revolutionary and political leader who led the Chinese Communist Party and founded the People’s Republic of China.…
Marguerite Duras
from 1922 to 1933
7 moments here
French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker, born Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu.…
Marie Curie
from 1919 to 1934
19 moments here
Polish-born, naturalized-French physicist and chemist who pioneered research on radioactivity. With Pierre Curie she discovered polonium and radium.…
Marlene Dietrich
from 1918 to 1934
7 moments here
German-American actress and singer Marlene Dietrich (Marie Magdalene Dietrich) was born in Berlin and achieved international fame through stage,…
Moments
- 1919 Journey to San Remo Katherine Mansfield
- 1919 Move to Ospedaletti Katherine Mansfield
- 1919 Teacher training Ludwig Wittgenstein
- 1919 Arrives in Sivas Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1919 League of Nations speech in Denver Woodrow Wilson
- 1919 League of Nations speech in Pueblo Woodrow Wilson
- 1919 Gives first DAP public speech Adolf Hitler
- 1919 Death at South Yarra home Alfred Deakin
- 1919 Birth in Kermanshah Doris Lessing
- 1919 Return to Trieste after the war James Joyce
- 1919 Birth in Tehran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
- 1919 Returns to Amasya for negotiations Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1919 Reported birth at Shilabo Siad Barre
- 1919 Return to Kansas City Walt Disney
- 1919 Returns to Želízy and writes Letter to His Father Franz Kafka
- 1919 Truman and Jacobson Haberdashery Harry S. Truman
- 1919 Birth in Kurya Mikhail Kalashnikov
- 1919 Return to Japan for Imperial Hotel construction Frank Lloyd Wright
- 1919 Return to Beijing Mao Zedong
- 1919 Establishes the nationalist center in Ankara Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1920 Higher Teacher's Diploma study Albert Luthuli
- 1920 Marriage to Emma Laprévotte Anatole France
- 1920 Public spiritualism debate at Queen’s Hall Arthur Conan Doyle
- 1920 French Military Mission to Poland Charles de Gaulle
- 1920 Italian fresco-study journey Diego Rivera
- 1920 Service in the Panama Canal Zone Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 1920 Death at the Hydro Majestic Hotel Edmund Barton
- 1920 Family move to Tuakau Edmund Hillary
- 1920 Assistantship at the University of Jena Erwin Schrödinger
- 1920 Birth in Rimini Federico Fellini
- 1920 Spanish teacher at Temuco Gabriela Mistral
- 1920 Moved into Palo Alto home Herbert Hoover
- 1920 Postwar move to Carantec Igor Stravinsky
- 1920 Move to Odessa for academic work Igor Tamm
- 1920 Birth in Petrovichi Isaac Asimov
- 1920 Meeting Ezra Pound at Sirmione James Joyce
- 1920 Birth in Lima Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
- 1920 Study visit to Paris Jiddu Krishnamurti
- 1920 Medical student in Melbourne John Eccles
- 1920 Moved to Naples Road John F. Kennedy
- 1920 Arrival in Madrid Jorge Luis Borges
- 1920 Reader at the University of Leeds J. R. R. Tolkien
- 1920 Sargento Cabral Military School Juan Perón
- 1920 Re-creation of the New York Pen League Kahlil Gibran
- 1920 L'Hermitage clinic at Menton Katherine Mansfield
- 1920 Chemical-engineering student at NTH Lars Onsager
- 1920 First village teaching post Ludwig Wittgenstein
- 1920 Lecturer at Beijing colleges Lu Xun
- 1920 Travel through Tianjin, Jinan, and Qufu Mao Zedong
- 1920 Work and political contacts in Shanghai Mao Zedong