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.
Notable people
Hideki Tojo
from 1941 to 1945
7 moments here
Japanese Imperial Army officer and politician who served as Japan's prime minister from 1941 to 1944.…
Hideki Yukawa
from 1939 to 1944
10 moments here
Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate, awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting mesons.…
Hirohito
from 1943 to 1945
3 moments here
Hirohito (posthumously Emperor Shōwa) was Emperor of Japan from 25 December 1926 until his death in 1989.…
Ho Chi Minh
from 1940 to 1945
5 moments here
Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman, born Nguyễn Sinh Cung, who led the Việt Minh, proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945, and…
Howard Florey
from 1941 to 1944
5 moments here
Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who led the Oxford team that developed penicillin into a practical therapeutic drug.…
Huang Xianfan
from 1943 to 1945
2 moments here
Huang Xianfan was a Zhuang Chinese historian, ethnologist, educator, and pioneer of field research on minority peoples in Guangxi and neighboring…
Idi Amin
from 1940 to 1945
4 moments here
Ugandan army officer and dictator who was president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. This chronology records documented physical presences from his birth…
Igor Stravinsky
from 1939 to 1941
4 moments here
Russian-born composer, conductor, and pianist who became a French citizen in 1934 and an American citizen in 1945.…
I. M. Pei
from 1942 to 1945
2 moments here
Ieoh Ming Pei was a Chinese-American architect whose work ranged from U.S. civic and cultural buildings to major projects in China, France, and the…
Indira Gandhi
from 1940 to 1942
4 moments here
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was an Indian stateswoman who served as prime minister from 1966 to 1977 and from 1980 until her assassination in 1984.…
Ingmar Bergman
in 1940
1 moment here
Swedish filmmaker, screenwriter, theatre director, theatre manager and author. Bergman’s career moved between Stockholm’s student and professional…
Isaac Asimov
from 1939 to 1942
4 moments here
American writer and biochemist best known for science fiction, popular-science writing, and the Foundation and Robot series.…
Italo Calvino
from 1940 to 1945
5 moments here
Italian novelist, short-story writer, editor, journalist, and member of Oulipo. Born in Cuba, raised chiefly in Sanremo, and active across Italy,…
James Joyce
from 1940 to 1941
2 moments here
Irish novelist, poet, and critic whose life moved between Dublin, continental Europe, and Switzerland.…
Jawaharlal Nehru
from 1939 to 1945
7 moments here
Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and statesman who became independent India’s first prime minister, serving from 15 August 1947 until his…
Jean-Paul Sartre
from 1940 to 1945
8 moments here
French philosopher, writer, and political activist associated with existentialism. His documented movements include education and teaching across…
Jiddu Krishnamurti
from 1941 to 1945
2 moments here
Indian philosopher, speaker, and writer. Raised within the Theosophical Society, he became head of the Order of the Star in the East, dissolved it at…
Jimmy Carter
from 1941 to 1942
2 moments here
James Earl Carter Jr. was an American naval officer, Georgia state senator and governor, the 39th president of the United States, and a…
Joan Fontaine
from 1939 to 1942
3 moments here
British-American actress Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland, professionally Joan Fontaine, was an Academy Award-winning performer known especially for…
John Cornforth
in 1939
2 moments here
Australian-British organic chemist and 1975 Nobel Prize laureate, noted for elucidating the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions.…
John Eccles
from 1940 to 1944
2 moments here
Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher John Carew Eccles (1903–1997) was a Nobel laureate noted for research on synaptic transmission.…
John F. Kennedy
from 1939 to 1945
22 moments here
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was an American naval officer, journalist, congressman, senator, and the 35th president of the United States.…
John Lennon
in 1940
1 moment here
English musician, songwriter, artist and peace activist; co-founder of the Beatles. This chronology records documented physical presence at…
John Maynard Keynes
from 1940 to 1945
8 moments here
English economist, civil servant, Cambridge fellow, and British international negotiator whose work shaped modern macroeconomics.…
Moments
- 1940 Sea of Cortez collecting expedition John Steinbeck
- 1940 Gran Premio del Norte at Lima Juan Manuel Fangio
- 1940 Algiers wartime planning efforts Le Corbusier
- 1940 Los Angeles portrait Marlene Dietrich
- 1940 PhD awarded at Birmingham Maurice Wilkins
- 1940 Started school in Lira Milton Obote
- 1940 Wartime exile in the United Kingdom Olav V
- 1940 Childhood in Bauru Pelé
- 1940 Wartime residence in New York P. L. Travers
- 1940 Stay at Lake Vyrnwy Hotel Prajadhipok
- 1940 Wartime move to Devon Prajadhipok
- 1940 First film role in Lahore Pran
- 1940 Exile route through London Saint-John Perse
- 1940 Fine-art study at Visva-Bharati Satyajit Ray
- 1940 Rest at Orchard's Point Sergei Rachmaninoff
- 1940 Residence at Wendtworth Sirimavo Bandaranaike
- 1940 Wartime move to Chongqing Soong Ching-ling
- 1940 KNIL reserve-battalion posting Suharto
- 1940 Seventh Flying Squad posting Toshiro Mifune
- 1940 All India Congress Committee meeting Vallabhbhai Patel
- 1940 Permanent residence at Monk's House Virginia Woolf
- 1940 Talk to Rodmell Women's Institute Virginia Woolf
- 1940 Lived at Royal Lodge Elizabeth II
- 1940 Meets Panama's president during vacation Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1940 Writing Trotsky's Testament Leon Trotsky
- 1940 Birth in Salvador Astrud Gilberto
- 1940 Indian National Congress assembly Aung San
- 1940 Marriage to Vera in Bedford Igor Stravinsky
- 1940 Lahore Resolution session Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- 1940 Death at Mårbacka Selma Lagerlöf
- 1940 Birth in Ihithe Wangarĩ Maathai
- 1940 Memorial service at Mount Kurama Yosano Akiko
- 1940 Attack at Abbeville Charles de Gaulle
- 1940 Counterattack at Montcornet Charles de Gaulle
- 1940 Advance into Belgium Claude Simon
- 1940 Capture and imprisonment at Stalag IV-B Claude Simon
- 1940 Crossing of the Meuse Claude Simon
- 1940 Relocated to Windsor Castle Elizabeth II
- 1940 Flat at Dorset Chambers George Orwell
- 1940 Burning Foreign Office records Saint-John Perse
- 1940 Departure from Hanoi for China Võ Nguyên Giáp
- 1940 Exile in China Võ Nguyên Giáp
- 1940 Return to Chongqing Zhou Enlai
- 1940 At Compiègne armistice ceremony Adolf Hitler
- 1940 Tours Paris Adolf Hitler
- 1940 Visits old regiment area near Fromelles Adolf Hitler
- 1940 Visits Strasbourg Cathedral Adolf Hitler
- 1940 Reconnaissance mission over Arras Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- 1940 War declaration against Britain and France Benito Mussolini
- 1940 Anglo-French conference at Tours Charles de Gaulle