Historical figures of World War I
The atlas holds 163 people and 513 moments here, from 1914 to 1918. The most recorded lives are Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi and Katherine Mansfield. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Performers.
Notable people
David Hilbert
in 1915
1 moment here
German mathematician and philosopher of mathematics whose career began in Königsberg and was centered at the University of Göttingen from 1895 until…
Dorothy Hodgkin
in 1914
1 moment here
English chemist and X-ray crystallographer Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin determined major biomolecular structures including penicillin, vitamin B12,…
Dwight D. Eisenhower
from 1915 to 1918
5 moments here
Dwight D. Eisenhower was a United States Army officer, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II, and the 34th president of the United…
Édith Piaf
from 1915 to 1918
2 moments here
French singer and lyricist Édith Giovanna Gassion, known as Édith Piaf, rose from street performance in Paris to international prominence in chanson…
Edmund Barton
in 1915
1 moment here
Australian barrister, federation leader, first prime minister of Australia (1901–1903), and founding justice of the High Court of Australia.…
Emiliano Zapata
from 1914 to 1916
4 moments here
Mexican revolutionary and agrarian leader of the Liberation Army of the South during the Mexican Revolution.…
Enrico Fermi
in 1918
1 moment here
Italian and naturalized-American physicist whose documented movements trace a path from Rome and Pisa through European study in Göttingen and Leiden,…
Ernest Hemingway
from 1917 to 1918
6 moments here
American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Hemingway’s documented movements ranged from Illinois and Michigan to Italy in World War I,…
Ernest Rutherford
in 1914
1 moment here
New Zealand-born physicist and chemist whose research on radioactivity, the atomic nucleus, and nuclear transmutation helped establish nuclear…
Errol Flynn
in 1918
1 moment here
Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn was an Australian-born actor who became a major Hollywood star in swashbuckling and adventure films.…
Erwin Schrödinger
from 1915 to 1918
3 moments here
Austrian-Irish theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate whose work on wave mechanics and the Schrödinger equation became foundational to quantum…
Félix Houphouët-Boigny
in 1915
1 moment here
Ivorian physician and politician who became the first president of Côte d’Ivoire, serving from independence in 1960 until his death in 1993.…
Ferdinand Marcos
in 1917
1 moment here
Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as president of the Philippines from 1965 until his overthrow…
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
from 1917 to 1918
3 moments here
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as New York state senator, assistant secretary of the Navy,…
Frank Lloyd Wright
in 1914
1 moment here
American architect, designer, writer, and educator whose career spanned more than seven decades.…
Franz Kafka
from 1914 to 1918
11 moments here
German-language Jewish Czech writer whose fiction transformed modern literature. Born and educated in Prague, Kafka trained as a lawyer and worked…
Gabriela Mistral
in 1918
1 moment here
Chilean poet, educator, journalist, and diplomat born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga. Mistral taught across Chile, worked on Mexican educational reform,…
Gamal Abdel Nasser
in 1918
1 moment here
Egyptian army officer, leader of the 1952 Egyptian Revolution, and president of Egypt from 1954 until his death.…
George Bernard Shaw
in 1917
1 moment here
Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and political activist. Born in Dublin, Shaw moved to London in 1876, became a leading Fabian and dramatist,…
George Orwell
in 1917
2 moments here
George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, an English novelist, essayist, journalist, critic, and democratic socialist.…
Golda Meir
from 1914 to 1918
6 moments here
Golda Meir was an Israeli political leader who served as Israel’s prime minister from 1969 to 1974.…
Gough Whitlam
in 1916
1 moment here
Edward Gough Whitlam was an Australian lawyer, Royal Australian Air Force navigator, Labor politician and the 21st prime minister of Australia.…
Grigori Rasputin
from 1914 to 1916
3 moments here
Russian mystic and faith healer whose rise from a Siberian peasant village to influence at the court of Nicholas II made him one of the most…
Harry S. Truman
from 1917 to 1918
2 moments here
Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953.…
Moments
- 1914 Summer-program visit T. S. Eliot
- 1914 Settled in wartime Bern Vladimir Lenin
- 1914 Frankfurt criminal-court trial Rosa Luxemburg
- 1914 Reached the River of Doubt Theodore Roosevelt
- 1914 Birth in Zhucheng Jiang Qing
- 1914 Exile settlement at Manzurka Mikhail Frunze
- 1914 Birth in Mexico City Octavio Paz
- 1914 Departure for England Srinivasa Ramanujan
- 1914 Moves to Dahlem apartment Albert Einstein
- 1914 Mexican Revolution reporting trip Jack London
- 1914 Birth in Gia Định Marguerite Duras
- 1914 Arrival in London Srinivasa Ramanujan
- 1914 Neville's Cambridge home Srinivasa Ramanujan
- 1914 Trinity College rooms Srinivasa Ramanujan
- 1914 Royal Horse Artillery service at Aldershot Prajadhipok
- 1914 Final major poetry publication in Barcelona Rubén Darío
- 1914 Birth at Tengboche Tenzing Norgay
- 1914 Return to Manaus after expedition Theodore Roosevelt
- 1914 Moved to his uncle's household Yasunari Kawabata
- 1914 Departure from Denver Golda Meir
- 1914 Release from the Colored Waifs' Home Louis Armstrong
- 1914 Capture of Zacatecas Pancho Villa
- 1914 Chinese Revolutionary Party convention Sun Yat-sen
- 1914 Faces the ‘tribunal’ at Askanischer Hof Franz Kafka
- 1914 Meets Ernst Weiß in Lübeck Franz Kafka
- 1914 Recovers at Marielyst Franz Kafka
- 1914 Stabbed outside his home Grigori Rasputin
- 1914 Departs Cape Town for England Mahatma Gandhi
- 1914 Wounded at Dinant Charles de Gaulle
- 1914 Working in Chicago during the Taliesin attack Frank Lloyd Wright
- 1914 Called to London at outbreak of war John Maynard Keynes
- 1914 Baptism at Thogoto Jomo Kenyatta
- 1914 Flight from Vienna to Switzerland Leon Trotsky
- 1914 Meeting with Álvaro Obregón Pancho Villa
- 1914 Summer at Saint-Jean-de-Luz Porfirio Díaz
- 1914 Organising anti-war opposition Rosa Luxemburg
- 1914 Reception for Gandhi Sarojini Naidu
- 1914 Imprisoned at Nowy Targ Vladimir Lenin
- 1914 Wellington Town Hall lecture Ernest Rutherford
- 1914 Roamer cruise on the Sacramento River Jack London
- 1914 First meeting with Ezra Pound T. S. Eliot
- 1914 Red Cross hospital service Agatha Christie
- 1914 Arrival at the Convention of Aguascalientes Emiliano Zapata
- 1914 Work in England Niels Bohr
- 1914 Move to Richmond Green Virginia Woolf
- 1914 At besieged Antwerp Winston Churchill
- 1914 Move to Paris Leon Trotsky
- 1914 Marriage to Archibald Christie Agatha Christie
- 1914 Entry into Mexico City and National Palace appearance Emiliano Zapata
- 1914 Pact of Xochimilco with Pancho Villa Emiliano Zapata