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
Simone de Beauvoir
from 1925 to 1939
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French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Born and died in Paris, Beauvoir studied philosophy in Paris,…
Soong Ching-ling
from 1923 to 1938
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Chinese politician and activist, wife of Sun Yat-sen, leading figure of the Kuomintang’s left wing, and later a senior officeholder of the People’s…
Soong Mei-ling
from 1927 to 1936
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Soong Mei-ling, also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek, was a Chinese political figure and wife of Chiang Kai-shek.…
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
from 1918 to 1936
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Indian-American astrophysicist whose work established the Chandrasekhar limit and ranged across stellar structure, stellar dynamics, radiative…
Suharto
from 1921 to 1938
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Indonesian army officer and politician who served as acting president from 1967 and president of Indonesia from 1968 until his resignation in 1998.…
Sukarno
from 1921 to 1938
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Sukarno (1901–1970) was an Indonesian nationalist, revolutionary, engineer, and the first president of Indonesia.…
Sun Yat-sen
from 1918 to 1925
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Chinese physician, revolutionary, and political thinker who founded the Republic of China and the Kuomintang.…
Syngman Rhee
from 1918 to 1939
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Syngman Rhee was a Korean independence activist and the first president of the Republic of Korea, serving from 1948 until his resignation in 1960.…
Tenzing Norgay
from 1935 to 1938
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Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer, born Namgyal Wangdi, who with Edmund Hillary made the first confirmed ascent of Mount Everest on 29 May 1953.…
Thomas Edison
from 1918 to 1931
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American inventor and industrialist whose laboratories developed and commercialized technologies in telegraphy, recorded sound, electric lighting and…
Thomas Mann
from 1929 to 1938
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German novelist, essayist, public intellectual, and 1929 Nobel laureate. Born in Lübeck, he lived principally in Munich before exile from Nazi…
T. S. Eliot
from 1920 to 1936
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Thomas Stearns Eliot was a St. Louis-born poet, critic, editor, and playwright who studied in Massachusetts, Paris, Germany, and Oxford before making…
Tunku Abdul Rahman
from 1920 to 1939
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Malaysian statesman, UMNO leader, chief minister of the Federation of Malaya, and first prime minister of Malaya and Malaysia.…
Umm Kulthum
from 1923 to 1932
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Egyptian singer and actress, born Fatima Ibrahim es-Sayyid el-Beltagi. Raised in rural Dakahlia, she moved permanently to Cairo in 1923 and became…
Vallabhbhai Patel
from 1918 to 1934
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Indian lawyer, Indian National Congress leader, independence activist, and statesman. Known as Sardar Patel, he organized major civil-disobedience…
Virginia Woolf
from 1919 to 1928
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English novelist, essayist, critic and publisher; a central figure in modernist literature and the Bloomsbury Group.…
Vivien Leigh
from 1931 to 1939
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British actress Vivien Leigh (born Vivian Mary Hartley) was acclaimed for stage work and for Academy Award-winning performances as Scarlett O'Hara in…
Vladimir Lenin
from 1918 to 1924
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Russian Marxist revolutionary, Bolshevik leader, political theorist, and founding head of government of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union.…
Võ Nguyên Giáp
from 1924 to 1938
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Vietnamese general, communist revolutionary, and politician. Giáp was a leading commander of the Việt Minh and the People’s Army of Vietnam, served…
Walt Disney
from 1918 to 1939
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Walter Elias Disney was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur. His documented movements include childhood residences in…
Walter Brattain
from 1924 to 1934
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American experimental physicist and co-inventor of the point-contact transistor. Brattain’s documented life moved from his birth in Amoy, China,…
Warren G. Harding
from 1920 to 1923
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Warren G. Harding was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923.…
William Faulkner
from 1918 to 1932
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American novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and Nobel laureate whose work was closely associated with Oxford and north Mississippi.…
William Howard Taft
from 1918 to 1930
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William Howard Taft was an American lawyer, judge, colonial administrator, secretary of war, 27th president of the United States, and 10th chief…
Moments
- 1921 Transit through Naples Golda Meir
- 1921 Vagabonds camping trip at Hagerstown Henry Ford
- 1921 Lecture at the University of Cambridge Hirohito
- 1921 Official visit to Italy Hirohito
- 1921 Tour of Oxford University Hirohito
- 1921 Residence on Compoint Lane Ho Chi Minh
- 1921 Clinical assistant at Broken Hill Hospital Howard Florey
- 1921 Pleyel studio on Rue Rochechouart Igor Stravinsky
- 1921 First visit to Castle Eerde Jiddu Krishnamurti
- 1921 Algerian holiday John Maynard Keynes
- 1921 Tunisian holiday John Maynard Keynes
- 1921 Return to Buenos Aires Jorge Luis Borges
- 1921 Interrogatory meeting at St. Mark's Church Kahlil Gibran
- 1921 Holds first Odisha meeting at Kathajodi Mahatma Gandhi
- 1921 Attends Paris Opera benefit Marie Curie
- 1921 Residence in Kharkiv Mikhail Frunze
- 1921 Civil-service posting in Thừa Thiên Ngô Đình Diệm
- 1921 Labor-brigade commissar in the Donbas Nikita Khrushchev
- 1921 Maud repaired at Seattle Roald Amundsen
- 1921 Residence at Dar al-Shafa school Ruhollah Khomeini
- 1921 Washington arms-control conference Saint-John Perse
- 1921 King George V Chair at Calcutta Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- 1921 Joined Dhaka University Satyendra Nath Bose
- 1921 Year-round residence at Mårbacka Selma Lagerlöf
- 1921 Residence at 33 Riverside Drive Sergei Rachmaninoff
- 1921 Engineering studies in Bandung Sukarno
- 1921 Recuperation and writing in Lausanne T. S. Eliot
- 1921 Retirement in Kalorama Woodrow Wilson
- 1921 Relationship in Hongo Yasunari Kawabata
- 1921 Founding Bunka Gakuin Yosano Akiko
- 1921 Miners' strike reporting in London Zhou Enlai
- 1921 Visit to Edinburgh University Zhou Enlai
- 1921 Birth in Bobangui Jean-Bédel Bokassa
- 1921 Gandhi meeting in Gorakhpur Premchand
- 1921 World Championship match begins José Raúl Capablanca
- 1921 Easter visit to Greenwich Village Katharine Hepburn
- 1921 Tenth Communist Party Congress Mikhail Frunze
- 1921 Institute opening and residence Niels Bohr
- 1921 Move to Santiago for university Pablo Neruda
- 1921 Departure for Banaras Premchand
- 1921 Arrived in Shanghai Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- 1921 Departed Tokyo for China Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- 1921 Reached Moji before embarkation Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- 1921 Stopped in Osaka en route to China Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- 1921 Presidential inauguration Warren G. Harding
- 1921 Visit to Walter Reed Hospital Warren G. Harding
- 1921 Arrives in Gaza Winston Churchill
- 1921 Convenes Middle East conference in Cairo Winston Churchill
- 1921 Meets delegations in Jerusalem Winston Churchill
- 1921 Arrives in New York Albert Einstein