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
Marlon Brando
from 1924 to 1938
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American actor and activist whose stage and screen career ranged from Broadway in the 1940s to major films through the early 2000s.…
Maurice Wilkins
from 1923 to 1938
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New Zealand-born British physicist and biophysicist whose career ran from solid-state physics and wartime atomic research to X-ray diffraction…
Maxim Gorky
from 1921 to 1936
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Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov, known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, journalist, publisher, and political activist.…
Max Planck
from 1920 to 1931
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German theoretical physicist and originator of quantum theory. Planck’s documented life moved from Kiel to Munich, Berlin, Kiel again, and Berlin,…
Max Theiler
from 1922 to 1936
4 moments here
South African-American virologist and physician whose work at Harvard, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Yale contributed to the development of the 17D…
Max Weber
from 1918 to 1920
5 moments here
German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist whose work on rationalisation, bureaucracy, religion, capitalism, and social action…
Maya Angelou
from 1928 to 1936
4 moments here
American memoirist, poet, performer, educator, and civil-rights activist. Her documented life moved from Missouri and Arkansas to California and New…
Miguel Ángel Asturias
from 1921 to 1933
11 moments here
Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright, journalist, and 1967 Nobel laureate. Asturias’s documented life moved between Guatemala, Europe,…
Mikhail Frunze
from 1918 to 1925
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Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze was a Bolshevik revolutionary, Red Army commander, Soviet military theorist, and senior state official.…
Mikhail Kalashnikov
from 1919 to 1936
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Soviet and Russian small-arms designer, military engineer, and lieutenant general, best known for the AK-47 and later Kalashnikov weapon systems.…
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
from 1919 to 1939
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Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980) was the last shah of Iran, reigning from 1941 until the Iranian Revolution of 1979.…
Mother Teresa
from 1928 to 1937
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Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, known as Mother Teresa or Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun.…
Muhammad Iqbal
from 1930 to 1938
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Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938) was a South Asian philosopher, poet, lawyer, and political figure.…
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
from 1918 to 1938
75 moments here
Ottoman officer, Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, founder of the Republic of Turkey, and its first president.…
Naguib Mahfouz
from 1924 to 1938
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Egyptian novelist, screenwriter, and playwright whose fiction made Cairo a central setting of modern Arabic literature.…
Nelson Mandela
from 1918 to 1939
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South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, lawyer and statesman. Mandela helped lead the African National Congress, co-founded its armed wing,…
Ngô Đình Diệm
from 1918 to 1933
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Ngô Đình Diệm was a Vietnamese civil servant, nationalist politician, prime minister of the State of Vietnam, and first president of the Republic of…
Niels Bohr
from 1921 to 1939
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Danish theoretical physicist whose work on atomic structure and quantum theory earned the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics.…
Nikita Khrushchev
from 1918 to 1939
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Soviet Communist Party leader and chairman of the Council of Ministers. Khrushchev rose from industrial work in the Donbas through party posts in…
Nikola Tesla
from 1919 to 1937
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Serbian-American engineer and inventor best known for foundational work on alternating-current power systems, the induction motor, high-frequency…
Octavio Paz
from 1929 to 1937
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Mexican poet, essayist, editor, and diplomat whose international postings and teaching appointments connected Mexico City, the United States, Europe,…
Olivia de Havilland
from 1919 to 1939
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Olivia de Havilland was a British-American-French actress whose career ranged from California community theatre and Warner Bros.…
Pablo Neruda
from 1921 to 1937
20 moments here
Chilean poet, diplomat, senator, Communist political figure, and 1971 Nobel laureate. Born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, he lived and…
Pablo Picasso
from 1918 to 1939
15 moments here
Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and co-founder of Cubism. Born in Málaga, Picasso trained in A Coruña, Barcelona, and Madrid…
Moments
- 1920 Boarding school and violin study Marlene Dietrich
- 1920 Munich town-hall debate on The Decline of the West Max Weber
- 1920 Residence at Makurin House Mikhail Frunze
- 1920 Congress session at Nagpur Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- 1920 First stay at Juan-les-Pins Pablo Picasso
- 1920 Boston residence and teaching Paramahansa Yogananda
- 1920 Departure from Ranchi for Calcutta Paramahansa Yogananda
- 1920 Teaching residence at the University of Nanking Pearl S. Buck
- 1920 Seminary studies in Arak Ruhollah Khomeini
- 1920 Journey in Outer Mongolia and the Gobi Saint-John Perse
- 1920 Holiday in Goshen Sergei Rachmaninoff
- 1920 Final treatment in Chetpet Srinivasa Ramanujan
- 1920 Departure for higher education in Britain Tunku Abdul Rahman
- 1920 Front-porch presidential campaign Warren G. Harding
- 1920 Presents the NSDAP 25-point program Adolf Hitler
- 1920 Villa Flora at Menton Katherine Mansfield
- 1920 Birth in Lahore Pran
- 1920 Depressed Classes conference at Mangaon B. R. Ambedkar
- 1920 Birth at Tungipara Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
- 1920 Takes a cure in Merano Franz Kafka
- 1920 Opens the Grand National Assembly Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1920 Night at Sabarmati Ashram Rabindranath Tagore
- 1920 Birth in Benares Ravi Shankar
- 1920 Death at Chetpet Srinivasa Ramanujan
- 1920 Birth in Qingdao Toshiro Mifune
- 1920 Second Fascist congress Benito Mussolini
- 1920 Depressed Classes conference at Nagpur B. R. Ambedkar
- 1920 Birth in Wadowice Pope John Paul II
- 1920 Normalcy speech to the Home Market Club Warren G. Harding
- 1920 Nobel Prize visit to Stockholm Max Planck
- 1920 Death in Munich Max Weber
- 1920 Lectures at Oxford University Rabindranath Tagore
- 1920 Republican convention campaign supervision Warren G. Harding
- 1920 Return to London for study B. R. Ambedkar
- 1920 Vice-presidential nomination notification Calvin Coolidge
- 1920 Hollyhock House site visit Frank Lloyd Wright
- 1920 Spends several days with Milena in Vienna Franz Kafka
- 1920 Arrival and residence in Paris James Joyce
- 1920 Departure from Trieste for Paris James Joyce
- 1920 Armistice negotiations at Sabinas Pancho Villa
- 1920 Retirement at Hacienda de Canutillo Pancho Villa
- 1920 Visits Rammohun Roy's grave Rabindranath Tagore
- 1920 Completes Northeast Passage at Nome Roald Amundsen
- 1920 Spoke at the Second Comintern Congress Vladimir Lenin
- 1920 British delegation to Soviet Russia Bertrand Russell
- 1920 Letter written from London B. R. Ambedkar
- 1920 Meets Milena at Gmünd Franz Kafka
- 1920 Guest of Albert Kahn near Paris Rabindranath Tagore
- 1920 Meeting James Joyce T. S. Eliot
- 1920 Physics department admission Enrico Fermi