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

1. Tenzing Norgay

   in 1914

   1 moment here

   Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer, born Namgyal Wangdi, who with Edmund Hillary made the first confirmed ascent of Mount Everest on 29 May 1953.…

2. Theodore Roosevelt

   in 1914

   2 moments here

   Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1858–1919) was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909.…

3. Thomas Edison

   from 1914 to 1918

   8 moments here

   American inventor and industrialist whose laboratories developed and commercialized technologies in telegraphy, recorded sound, electric lighting and…

4. Thomas Mann

   in 1914

   1 moment here

   German novelist, essayist, public intellectual, and 1929 Nobel laureate. Born in Lübeck, he lived principally in Munich before exile from Nazi…

5. T. S. Eliot

   from 1914 to 1917

   6 moments here

   Thomas Stearns Eliot was a St. Louis-born poet, critic, editor, and playwright who studied in Massachusetts, Paris, Germany, and Oxford before making…

6. Tunku Abdul Rahman

   in 1915

   1 moment here

   Malaysian statesman, UMNO leader, chief minister of the Federation of Malaya, and first prime minister of Malaya and Malaysia.…

7. Vallabhbhai Patel

   from 1917 to 1918

   3 moments here

   Indian lawyer, Indian National Congress leader, independence activist, and statesman. Known as Sardar Patel, he organized major civil-disobedience…

8. Virginia Woolf

   from 1914 to 1915

   2 moments here

   English novelist, essayist, critic and publisher; a central figure in modernist literature and the Bloomsbury Group.…

9. Vivien Leigh

   in 1917

   1 moment here

   British actress Vivien Leigh (born Vivian Mary Hartley) was acclaimed for stage work and for Academy Award-winning performances as Scarlett O'Hara in…

10. Vladimir Lenin

    from 1914 to 1918

    32 moments here

    Russian Marxist revolutionary, Bolshevik leader, political theorist, and founding head of government of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union.…

11. Walt Disney

    from 1917 to 1918

    2 moments here

    Walter Elias Disney was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur. His documented movements include childhood residences in…

12. Warren G. Harding

    in 1915

    1 moment here

    Warren G. Harding was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923.…

13. William Faulkner

    in 1918

    4 moments here

    American novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and Nobel laureate whose work was closely associated with Oxford and north Mississippi.…

14. William Howard Taft

    from 1916 to 1918

    3 moments here

    William Howard Taft was an American lawyer, judge, colonial administrator, secretary of war, 27th president of the United States, and 10th chief…

15. Winston Churchill

    from 1914 to 1916

    2 moments here

    Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965) was a British soldier, journalist, author and statesman whose career ranged from imperial campaigns in…

16. Woodrow Wilson

    from 1915 to 1918

    6 moments here

    Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American academic, governor of New Jersey, and the 28th president of the United States.…

17. Yasunari Kawabata

    from 1914 to 1918

    3 moments here

    Japanese novelist and short-story writer, Nobel laureate in Literature in 1968. His documented movements include an Osaka and Ibaraki childhood,…

18. Yosano Akiko

    in 1915

    1 moment here

    Japanese poet, author, educator, feminist, and social reformer. Born Hō Shō in Sakai, she became known as Yosano Akiko after her marriage to poet…

19. Zhou Enlai

    in 1917

    1 moment here

    Chinese revolutionary, statesman, and diplomat who served as the first premier of the People’s Republic of China from 1949 until his death.…

Moments

1. 1917 Suffrage advocacy before the Joint Select Committee Sarojini Naidu
2. 1917 Final departure from Ivanovka Sergei Rachmaninoff
3. 1917 War-benefit recital in Moscow Sergei Rachmaninoff
4. 1917 Cambridge nursing home Srinivasa Ramanujan
5. 1917 Sanatorium treatment in London Srinivasa Ramanujan
6. 1917 Sanatorium treatment in Matlock Srinivasa Ramanujan
7. 1917 Sanatorium treatment in Wells Srinivasa Ramanujan
8. 1917 Conducts experiments on Long Island Sound Thomas Edison
9. 1917 Lloyds Bank employment T. S. Eliot
10. 1917 Childhood stay at Ootacamund Vivien Leigh
11. 1917 Return to Chicago for high school Walt Disney
12. 1917 Chelsea studio Katherine Mansfield
13. 1917 Permanent move to Paris Le Corbusier
14. 1917 Death at rue Beaujon Octave Mirbeau
15. 1917 Designs Parade in Rome Pablo Picasso
16. 1917 Rents rooms in Schönborn Palace Franz Kafka
17. 1917 University of Adelaide student Howard Florey
18. 1917 Returns to revolutionary Petrograd Joseph Stalin
19. 1917 House arrest of the imperial family Lavr Kornilov
20. 1917 Departure from New York Leon Trotsky
21. 1917 Chief of Minsk militia Mikhail Frunze
22. 1917 Capture of Parral Pancho Villa
23. 1917 Founding school at Dihika Paramahansa Yogananda
24. 1917 Joins Connecticut State Guard William Howard Taft
25. 1917 Meeting Picasso in Rome Igor Stravinsky
26. 1917 Visit to Naples with Picasso Igor Stravinsky
27. 1917 Birth in Guangzhou I. M. Pei
28. 1917 Detention at Amherst Internment Camp Leon Trotsky
29. 1917 Raises American flag at Washington Place Liliʻuokalani
30. 1917 Appears in Motihari court Mahatma Gandhi
31. 1917 Arrives for Champaran inquiry Mahatma Gandhi
32. 1917 Defies expulsion order near Motihari Mahatma Gandhi
33. 1917 Stays overnight at Laukaria Mahatma Gandhi
34. 1917 Crossed Germany through Singen Vladimir Lenin
35. 1917 Crossed to Tornio by sleigh Vladimir Lenin
36. 1917 Departed Zurich for Russia Vladimir Lenin
37. 1917 Landed at Trelleborg Vladimir Lenin
38. 1917 Passed through Berlin Vladimir Lenin
39. 1917 Passed through Helsinki Vladimir Lenin
40. 1917 Presented the April Theses Vladimir Lenin
41. 1917 Reached Haparanda Vladimir Lenin
42. 1917 Reached Sassnitz Vladimir Lenin
43. 1917 Returned at Finland Station Vladimir Lenin
44. 1917 Stopped overnight in Frankfurt Vladimir Lenin
45. 1917 Visited family graves at Volkovo Vladimir Lenin
46. 1917 Welcomed in Malmö Vladimir Lenin
47. 1917 War message to Congress Woodrow Wilson
48. 1917 King's Scholar at Eton George Orwell
49. 1917 Born at 83 Beals Street John F. Kennedy
50. 1917 Return to Petrograd Leon Trotsky

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