Historical figures of World War II

The atlas holds 269 people and 950 moments here, from 1939 to 1945. The most recorded lives are Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler and John F. Kennedy. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Performers.

Moments

  1. 1942 Final departure from Vichy Le Corbusier
  2. 1942 Assignment to the Shchurovo weapons range Mikhail Kalashnikov
  3. 1942 Performance at the Hollywood Bowl Sergei Rachmaninoff
  4. 1942 Return to Jakarta under Japanese occupation Sukarno
  5. 1942 Writing from Le Panelier Albert Camus
  6. 1942 Marriage to Anthony Forwood Glynis Johns
  7. 1942 Imprisonment at Ahmednagar Fort Jawaharlal Nehru
  8. 1942 Quit India resolution meeting Jawaharlal Nehru
  9. 1942 Birth in Sambizanga José Eduardo dos Santos
  10. 1942 Assignment to the 88th Separate Rifle Brigade Kim Il Sung
  11. 1942 Delivers Quit India speech Mahatma Gandhi
  12. 1942 Stalingrad Front commissar Nikita Khrushchev
  13. 1942 Internment during Quit India Sarojini Naidu
  14. 1942 Detention at Ahmednagar Fort Vallabhbhai Patel
  15. 1942 Quit India speech at Gowalia Tank Vallabhbhai Patel
  16. 1942 Flies to Moscow via Egypt Winston Churchill
  17. 1942 Entered PT-boat training John F. Kennedy
  18. 1942 ABC wartime engagement Édith Piaf
  19. 1942 Meeting King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Eleanor Roosevelt
  20. 1942 Wartime tour of England Eleanor Roosevelt
  21. 1942 Residence at 5 rue Saint-Benoît Marguerite Duras
  22. 1942 Underground seminary in occupied Kraków Pope John Paul II
  23. 1942 Naval Air Station Ottumwa assignment Richard Nixon
  24. 1942 Computing Machine Laboratory visit Alan Turing
  25. 1942 Washington naval-cryptanalysis visit Alan Turing
  26. 1942 North African command headquarters Dwight D. Eisenhower
  27. 1942 Residence on rue Villejust Édith Piaf
  28. 1942 Screenplay assignment in Libya Federico Fellini
  29. 1942 Directing Sanshiro Sugata on location Akira Kurosawa
  30. 1942 Chicago Pile-1 chain reaction Enrico Fermi
  31. 1942 Wartime visit to Washington Fulgencio Batista
  32. 1942 Harvard Graduate School of Design enrollment I. M. Pei
  33. 1942 Birth in Daura Muhammadu Buhari
  34. 1943 Studies and laboratory work at Victoria University Alan MacDiarmid
  35. 1943 Return to Paris and Resistance work Albert Camus
  36. 1943 Extended wartime visit to the United Kingdom Alfred Hitchcock
  37. 1943 Family returns to Buenos Aires Alfredo Di Stéfano
  38. 1943 First film-song recording at Mohan Studio Asha Bhosle
  39. 1943 Faculty appointment at Princeton Chien-Shiung Wu
  40. 1943 Village Soviet work Chinghiz Aitmatov
  41. 1943 Confinement at Seewald mental hospital Edgar de Wahl
  42. 1943 Wartime address in Canberra Eleanor Roosevelt
  43. 1943 Argonne Woods reactor work Enrico Fermi
  44. 1943 Marriage to Nora Eddington Errol Flynn
  45. 1943 What Is Life? lectures at Trinity College Dublin Erwin Schrödinger
  46. 1943 Attends Casablanca Conference Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  47. 1943 Meets President Barclay in Monrovia Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  48. 1943 Meets Vargas at Natal Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  49. 1943 Visits Bathurst before Casablanca Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  50. 1943 Arrival for school in Bogotá Gabriel García Márquez

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