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
Joseph Stalin
from 1914 to 1918
3 moments here
Soviet revolutionary and political leader, born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili in Gori, Georgia.…
José Raúl Capablanca
from 1914 to 1918
5 moments here
Cuban chess player and diplomat, world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. This chronology records documented physical presence at places of birth,…
J. R. R. Tolkien
from 1915 to 1918
10 moments here
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English philologist, university professor, and author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.…
Juan Perón
from 1915 to 1918
2 moments here
Juan Domingo Perón was an Argentine army officer and politician who served as president of Argentina from 1946 to 1955 and again from 1973 until his…
Katherine Mansfield
from 1914 to 1918
16 moments here
Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp, later Murry) was a New Zealand modernist short-story writer, poet, critic and diarist.…
Lavr Kornilov
from 1914 to 1918
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Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov was an Imperial Russian Army officer, military intelligence officer, explorer, and general.…
Lawrence Bragg
from 1914 to 1915
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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 1915 to 1917
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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 1914 to 1918
15 moments here
Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet political leader, Marxist theorist, and organizer of the Red Army.…
Léopold Sédar Senghor
in 1914
1 moment here
Senegalese poet, theorist of Négritude, and statesman who became Senegal’s first president in 1960.…
Liliʻuokalani
in 1917
2 moments here
Liliʻuokalani was the last sovereign monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom, reigning from January 29, 1891, until the overthrow of the monarchy on January…
Louis Armstrong
in 1914
1 moment here
American jazz trumpeter, vocalist, bandleader, and entertainer whose career transformed jazz solo performance and made him an international cultural…
Ludwig Wittgenstein
from 1916 to 1918
3 moments here
Austro-British philosopher whose work in logic, language, mathematics, and mind shaped twentieth-century analytic philosophy.…
Lyndon B. Johnson
in 1915
1 moment here
Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973) was a Texas-born teacher, congressman, senator, vice president, and the 36th president of the United States.…
Macfarlane Burnet
in 1918
1 moment 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 1914 to 1918
22 moments here
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, political ethicist, and leader of mass nonviolent resistance.…
Marcel Proust
in 1917
1 moment here
French novelist, essayist, and critic, best known for À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time).…
Marguerite Duras
in 1914
1 moment here
French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker, born Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu.…
Marie Curie
from 1914 to 1916
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Polish-born, naturalized-French physicist and chemist who pioneered research on radioactivity. With Pierre Curie she discovered polonium and radium.…
Marlene Dietrich
in 1918
1 moment here
German-American actress and singer Marlene Dietrich (Marie Magdalene Dietrich) was born in Berlin and achieved international fame through stage,…
Maurice Wilkins
in 1916
1 moment here
New Zealand-born British physicist and biophysicist whose career ran from solid-state physics and wartime atomic research to X-ray diffraction…
Maxim Gorky
in 1917
1 moment here
Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov, known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, journalist, publisher, and political activist.…
Max Theiler
in 1916
1 moment 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 1914 to 1918
6 moments here
German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist whose work on rationalisation, bureaucracy, religion, capitalism, and social action…
Moments
- 1915 Addresses Madras law dinner Mahatma Gandhi
- 1915 Visits Rishikesh and Lakshman Jhula Mahatma Gandhi
- 1915 Volunteers at Haridwar Kumbh Mela Mahatma Gandhi
- 1915 Commands the 19th Division at Gallipoli Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1915 Battle of Celaya Pancho Villa
- 1915 Opens Kochrab Ashram residence Mahatma Gandhi
- 1915 Received at Mayavaram Mahatma Gandhi
- 1915 Received by Bangalore citizens Mahatma Gandhi
- 1915 Starts Kochrab Ashram Mahatma Gandhi
- 1915 Privy Council service in Britain Edmund Barton
- 1915 Departure from wartime Trieste James Joyce
- 1915 Marriage to Vivienne Haigh-Wood T. S. Eliot
- 1915 Artillery transfer to Gorizia Erwin Schrödinger
- 1915 Stays at the Rumburk sanatorium Franz Kafka
- 1915 Death in Paris Porfirio Díaz
- 1915 Escape and underground work in Chita Mikhail Frunze
- 1915 Commands near the firing line at Chunuk Bair Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1915 Service on the Isonzo front Benito Mussolini
- 1915 Final T.C.B.S. meeting J. R. R. Tolkien
- 1915 Zimmerwald Conference Leon Trotsky
- 1915 Zimmerwald anti-war conference Vladimir Lenin
- 1915 Return to Paris after amputation Sarah Bernhardt
- 1915 Marriage to Sun Yat-sen Soong Ching-ling
- 1915 Marriage to Soong Ching-ling Sun Yat-sen
- 1915 Birth in Valparaíso Augusto Pinochet
- 1915 Peace Ship press conference Henry Ford
- 1915 Move to Bandol after Leslie's death Katherine Mansfield
- 1915 Retreat to Naco Pancho Villa
- 1915 Second Battle of Agua Prieta Pancho Villa
- 1915 Marriage to Rachele Guidi Benito Mussolini
- 1915 Birth at Hôpital Tenon Édith Piaf
- 1915 Departure from Bergen Henry Ford
- 1915 Departure on the Peace Ship Henry Ford
- 1915 Peace Ship arrival in Oslo Henry Ford
- 1915 Departure for Hilo Jack London
- 1915 Regiment posting in Santa Fe Juan Perón
- 1915 Villa Pauline stay Katherine Mansfield
- 1915 Lives in Galesburg Ronald Reagan
- 1915 Marriage to Edith Bolling Galt Woodrow Wilson
- 1916 Wrote first detective novel Agatha Christie
- 1916 Medical journey to London Alfred Deakin
- 1916 Medical journey to the United States Alfred Deakin
- 1916 Teaching and study in Milwaukee Golda Meir
- 1916 Lecture at Mabel Tainter Memorial Building Helen Keller
- 1916 Peace speech in New York Helen Keller
- 1916 Return from the Peace Ship mission Henry Ford
- 1916 Psychoanalysis in Lucerne Hermann Hesse
- 1916 Garsington visits Katherine Mansfield
- 1916 Trains radiology assistants in Paris Marie Curie
- 1916 Medical studies in Cape Town Max Theiler