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
Pancho Villa
from 1919 to 1923
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Francisco “Pancho” Villa (José Doroteo Arango Arámbula) was a Mexican revolutionary, guerrilla leader, military commander, and provisional governor…
Paramahansa Yogananda
from 1918 to 1939
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Indian and American Hindu monk, yogi, teacher, and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship and Yogoda Satsanga Society of India.…
Pearl S. Buck
from 1920 to 1938
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American writer, humanitarian, and activist whose life was divided between the United States and China before she became an internationally prominent…
P. L. Travers
from 1918 to 1939
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Pamela Lyndon Travers, born Helen Lyndon Goff, was an Australian-British writer, actress, journalist, and creator of the Mary Poppins books.…
Prajadhipok
from 1918 to 1938
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Prajadhipok (Rama VII) was King of Siam from 1925 until his abdication in 1935. Educated in England and trained in the military, he travelled…
Premchand
from 1921 to 1936
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Dhanpat Rai Srivastava (1880–1936), known by the pen name Premchand, was an Indian Hindi and Urdu writer.…
Pridi Banomyong
from 1919 to 1936
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Thai lawyer, political leader, regent, prime minister, and founder of Thammasat University. A civilian leader of the 1932 Siamese Revolution, he…
Puyi
from 1924 to 1938
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Puyi (1906–1967), the Xuantong Emperor, was the last emperor of Qing China and later the Kangde Emperor of Japanese-controlled Manchukuo.…
Rabindranath Tagore
from 1920 to 1939
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Bengali poet, novelist, dramatist, composer, painter, philosopher, social reformer, and educationist.…
Ravi Shankar
from 1920 to 1938
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Indian sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar (1920–2012) was a leading exponent of Hindustani classical music whose performances, teaching, recordings,…
Richard Nixon
from 1922 to 1938
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Richard Milhous Nixon was an American lawyer, naval officer, congressman, senator, vice president, and the 37th president of the United States.…
Roald Amundsen
from 1918 to 1928
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Norwegian polar explorer Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (1872–1928) led the first successful transit of the Northwest Passage, reached the South…
Ronald Reagan
from 1919 to 1937
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American broadcaster, actor, labor leader, governor of California, and 40th president of the United States.…
Rosa Luxemburg
from 1918 to 1919
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Polish-born, naturalised-German Marxist theorist, socialist organiser, anti-war activist, and revolutionary.…
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
from 1919 to 1927
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Japanese short-story writer of the Taishō period, born Ryūnosuke Niihara in Tokyo and adopted into the Akutagawa family.…
Saint-John Perse
from 1920 to 1939
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Saint-John Perse was the pen name of Alexis Léger, a French poet and diplomat. Born in Guadeloupe, he spent formative years in Pau and Bordeaux,…
Salvador Allende
from 1918 to 1936
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Chilean physician and socialist politician who served as president of Chile from 3 November 1970 until his death during the 11 September 1973 coup.…
Salvador Dalí
from 1922 to 1938
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Spanish painter, sculptor, writer, designer, filmmaker, and leading exponent of Surrealism. Born in Figueres, Dalí trained in Madrid, joined the…
Sarojini Naidu
from 1918 to 1932
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Indian poet, nationalist, women’s-rights advocate, president of the Indian National Congress, and first governor of the United Provinces.…
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
from 1918 to 1939
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Indian philosopher, academic, diplomat, and statesman. Radhakrishnan taught at leading Indian and British universities, served as vice-chancellor of…
Satyendra Nath Bose
from 1921 to 1929
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Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician whose 1924 work founded Bose-Einstein statistics.…
Selma Lagerlöf
from 1919 to 1933
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Swedish writer, teacher, Nobel laureate, and women’s-suffrage speaker. Lagerlöf was born at Mårbacka in Värmland, trained in Stockholm, taught in…
Sergei Rachmaninoff
from 1918 to 1939
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Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Born in the Novgorod Governorate of the Russian Empire, he studied and worked chiefly in Saint…
Sigmund Freud
from 1918 to 1939
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Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis. This chronology traces documented locations from his Moravian birthplace and Viennese education…
Moments
- 1920 Chicago editorial work Ernest Hemingway
- 1920 Lectures at Copenhagen University Ernest Rutherford
- 1920 Associate professorship in Stuttgart Erwin Schrödinger
- 1920 Campaigns in Boston Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1920 Campaigns in Clarksburg Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1920 Villa Isola Bella at Menton Katherine Mansfield
- 1920 Legal studies at Caen Pridi Banomyong
- 1920 Attends The Hague congress Sigmund Freud
- 1920 Entered Tokyo Imperial University Yasunari Kawabata
- 1920 Spiritualist lectures in Melbourne Arthur Conan Doyle
- 1920 Arrival at Marseille Deng Xiaoping
- 1920 Campaigns in Cincinnati Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1920 Campaigns in Denver Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1920 Meeting with Lenin at the Kremlin H. G. Wells
- 1920 Congress address in Boston Paramahansa Yogananda
- 1920 Departure from Shanghai for Europe Zhou Enlai
- 1920 Aerial meet at Daugherty Field Amelia Earhart
- 1920 First airplane ride Amelia Earhart
- 1920 Begins treatment in the High Tatras Franz Kafka
- 1920 Congress of Tours delegate Ho Chi Minh
- 1920 Meets the Istanbul delegation at Bilecik Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1920 Settles in Dixon Ronald Reagan
- 1920 Return to Guangzhou military government Sun Yat-sen
- 1920 Acting presidency in Shanghai Syngman Rhee
- 1920 Confers with Harding at Marion William Howard Taft
- 1920 Arrival at Marseille Zhou Enlai
- 1921 Lectures at King's College London Albert Einstein
- 1921 Visits the White House Albert Einstein
- 1921 First flying lesson Amelia Earhart
- 1921 Military service at Neuhof Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- 1921 Lecturing visit to Peking Bertrand Russell
- 1921 Return journey through Japan Bertrand Russell
- 1921 Appears amid a London crowd Charlie Chaplin
- 1921 Attends Garrick Club dinner Charlie Chaplin
- 1921 Visits Berlin on European tour Charlie Chaplin
- 1921 Visits Paris during European homecoming Charlie Chaplin
- 1921 Visits Sing Sing Prison Charlie Chaplin
- 1921 Acoustics study at St Paul's Cathedral C. V. Raman
- 1921 Lecture visit to Oxford C. V. Raman
- 1921 Return to Calcutta after Europe C. V. Raman
- 1921 Foundational talks in Hamburg David Hilbert
- 1921 Begins school at Sir John Leman Grammar School Dorothy Hodgkin
- 1921 Move to Paris Ernest Hemingway
- 1921 Residence on rue du Cardinal Lemoine Ernest Hemingway
- 1921 Full professorship at Breslau Erwin Schrödinger
- 1921 Move to the University of Zurich Erwin Schrödinger
- 1921 Travel to Havana and army enlistment Fulgencio Batista
- 1921 Family move to Asyut Gamal Abdel Nasser
- 1921 Arrival in Tel Aviv Golda Meir
- 1921 Departure for Palestine Golda Meir