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
Roald Amundsen
in 1918
2 moments here
Norwegian polar explorer Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (1872–1928) led the first successful transit of the Northwest Passage, reached the South…
Ronald Reagan
from 1914 to 1917
3 moments here
American broadcaster, actor, labor leader, governor of California, and 40th president of the United States.…
Rosa Luxemburg
from 1914 to 1918
7 moments here
Polish-born, naturalised-German Marxist theorist, socialist organiser, anti-war activist, and revolutionary.…
Rubén Darío
from 1914 to 1916
3 moments here
Nicaraguan poet, journalist, and diplomat Félix Rubén García Sarmiento, known as Rubén Darío, was a central initiator of Spanish-language Modernismo.…
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
in 1916
1 moment here
Japanese short-story writer of the Taishō period, born Ryūnosuke Niihara in Tokyo and adopted into the Akutagawa family.…
Saint-John Perse
in 1916
1 moment here
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 1916 to 1918
2 moments here
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
in 1917
1 moment here
Spanish painter, sculptor, writer, designer, filmmaker, and leading exponent of Surrealism. Born in Figueres, Dalí trained in Madrid, joined the…
Sarah Bernhardt
from 1914 to 1918
8 moments here
French stage and early film actress, born Henriette-Rosine Bernard in Paris. Bernhardt became an international theatrical star through performances…
Sarojini Naidu
from 1914 to 1918
3 moments here
Indian poet, nationalist, women’s-rights advocate, president of the Indian National Congress, and first governor of the United Provinces.…
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
in 1918
1 moment here
Indian philosopher, academic, diplomat, and statesman. Radhakrishnan taught at leading Indian and British universities, served as vice-chancellor of…
Satyendra Nath Bose
from 1915 to 1916
2 moments here
Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician whose 1924 work founded Bose-Einstein statistics.…
Selma Lagerlöf
in 1917
1 moment here
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 1914 to 1918
12 moments here
Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Born in the Novgorod Governorate of the Russian Empire, he studied and worked chiefly in Saint…
Sigmund Freud
in 1918
1 moment here
Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis. This chronology traces documented locations from his Moravian birthplace and Viennese education…
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
in 1916
1 moment here
Sri Lankan stateswoman and three-time prime minister of Ceylon/Sri Lanka. Born Sirima Ratwatte in Ratnapura, she became the world’s first woman…
Soong Ching-ling
from 1915 to 1916
2 moments here
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 1914 to 1917
2 moments here
Soong Mei-ling, also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek, was a Chinese political figure and wife of Chiang Kai-shek.…
Sri Aurobindo
in 1914
1 moment here
Sri Aurobindo (Aurobindo Ghose) was an Indian nationalist, philosopher, poet, and yogi. His documented movements run from childhood in Bengal and…
Srinivasa Ramanujan
from 1914 to 1917
8 moments here
Indian mathematician whose documented life moved between Tamil Nadu, southern India, England, and back to India.…
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
from 1916 to 1918
2 moments here
Indian-American astrophysicist whose work established the Chandrasekhar limit and ranged across stellar structure, stellar dynamics, radiative…
Sukarno
in 1916
1 moment here
Sukarno (1901–1970) was an Indonesian nationalist, revolutionary, engineer, and the first president of Indonesia.…
Sun Yat-sen
from 1914 to 1918
5 moments here
Chinese physician, revolutionary, and political thinker who founded the Republic of China and the Kuomintang.…
Syngman Rhee
in 1918
1 moment here
Syngman Rhee was a Korean independence activist and the first president of the Republic of Korea, serving from 1948 until his resignation in 1960.…
Moments
- 1916 Temporary capture of Chihuahua City Pancho Villa
- 1916 Arrives in Seattle Rabindranath Tagore
- 1916 Study at Gray's Inn and LSE B. R. Ambedkar
- 1916 Battle at Regina Trench J. R. R. Tolkien
- 1916 Meditates among Santa Barbara orange groves Rabindranath Tagore
- 1916 San Francisco lecture stay Rabindranath Tagore
- 1916 Reconciles briefly with Roosevelt William Howard Taft
- 1916 Reads In the Penal Colony in Munich Franz Kafka
- 1916 Writes in Golden Lane Franz Kafka
- 1916 Death at Beauty Ranch Jack London
- 1916 Murder at the Moika Palace Grigori Rasputin
- 1916 Birth in Pongaroa Maurice Wilkins
- 1916 Lucknow Pact joint session Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- 1916 Third capture of Torreón Pancho Villa
- 1916 Began teaching at the Naval Engineering School Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- 1917 Principalship at Blaauwbosch school Albert Luthuli
- 1917 Teaching qualification at Edendale Albert Luthuli
- 1917 Return and confinement at home Alfred Deakin
- 1917 Royal Engineers exercise in Hyde Park Alfred Hitchcock
- 1917 Toronto nursing service Amelia Earhart
- 1917 Military Secretary appointment in Baroda B. R. Ambedkar
- 1917 Training command at Fort Oglethorpe Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 1917 Reporter at The Kansas City Star Ernest Hemingway
- 1917 Inspects Haiti Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1917 Inspects Santo Domingo Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1917 Western Front battlefield visit George Bernard Shaw
- 1917 Spring term at Wellington College George Orwell
- 1917 Poale Zion travel in Chicago Golda Meir
- 1917 Artillery training at Camp Doniphan Harry S. Truman
- 1917 Mine work in Johannesburg Hastings Banda
- 1917 Move to Forest Hills Helen Keller
- 1917 Relocation to Cimiez Henri Matisse
- 1917 Travel to Nice and settlement on the Riviera Henri Matisse
- 1917 Moved into Washington home Herbert Hoover
- 1917 Delegate to the First Congress of Soviets Igor Tamm
- 1917 Sojourns in Locarno James Joyce
- 1917 Livestock transport work at Narok Jomo Kenyatta
- 1917 Store work in Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta
- 1917 Humber Garrison outpost at Roos J. R. R. Tolkien
- 1917 Recovery at Little Haywood J. R. R. Tolkien
- 1917 Residence in the Bronx Leon Trotsky
- 1917 Okhrana headquarters visit after the February Revolution Maxim Gorky
- 1917 Lauenstein Conferences Max Weber
- 1917 Science as a Vocation lecture Max Weber
- 1917 Visits the German Western Front Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1917 Visits Pompeii Pablo Picasso
- 1917 Champaran Satyagraha Rajendra Prasad
- 1917 Lives in Monmouth Ronald Reagan
- 1917 Exhibits at his Figueres home Salvador Dalí
- 1917 Recuperation in Long Beach Sarah Bernhardt