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
Olav V
from 1940 to 1945
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Olav V of Norway (born Prince Alexander of Denmark) was King of Norway from 1957 until his death in 1991.…
Olivia de Havilland
from 1939 to 1944
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Olivia de Havilland was a British-American-French actress whose career ranged from California community theatre and Warner Bros.…
Pablo Neruda
from 1940 to 1943
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Chilean poet, diplomat, senator, Communist political figure, and 1971 Nobel laureate. Born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, he lived and…
Pablo Picasso
from 1939 to 1945
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Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and co-founder of Cubism. Born in Málaga, Picasso trained in A Coruña, Barcelona, and Madrid…
Park Chung Hee
from 1939 to 1945
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Park Chung-hee was a South Korean army officer and politician who led the May 16 coup in 1961 and served as president from 1963 until his…
Pelé
in 1940
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Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known as Pelé, was a Brazilian footballer who starred for Santos, Brazil and the New York Cosmos.…
P. L. Travers
from 1939 to 1945
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Pamela Lyndon Travers, born Helen Lyndon Goff, was an Australian-British writer, actress, journalist, and creator of the Mary Poppins books.…
Pope Benedict XVI
from 1939 to 1945
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Joseph Alois Ratzinger (1927–2022), Pope Benedict XVI, was a German Catholic theologian, archbishop, cardinal, prefect of the Congregation for the…
Pope John Paul II
from 1942 to 1945
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Karol Józef Wojtyła (1920–2005), Pope John Paul II from 1978, was a Polish Catholic priest, bishop, cardinal, and pope.…
Prajadhipok
from 1940 to 1941
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Prajadhipok (Rama VII) was King of Siam from 1925 until his abdication in 1935. Educated in England and trained in the military, he travelled…
Pran
from 1940 to 1945
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Pran Krishan Sikand, known mononymously as Pran, was an Indian actor whose screen career extended from pre-Partition Lahore to Hindi cinema in…
Puyi
in 1945
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Puyi (1906–1967), the Xuantong Emperor, was the last emperor of Qing China and later the Kangde Emperor of Japanese-controlled Manchukuo.…
Rabindranath Tagore
from 1939 to 1941
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Bengali poet, novelist, dramatist, composer, painter, philosopher, social reformer, and educationist.…
Rajendra Prasad
in 1942
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Indian lawyer, independence leader, journalist and statesman who became the first President of India, serving from 1950 to 1962.…
Ram Narayan
from 1943 to 1944
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Indian sarangi player who established the sarangi as a solo concert instrument in Hindustani classical music.…
Richard Feynman
from 1941 to 1945
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American theoretical physicist known for foundational work in quantum electrodynamics, the path-integral formulation of quantum mechanics, and…
Richard Nixon
from 1942 to 1945
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Richard Milhous Nixon was an American lawyer, naval officer, congressman, senator, vice president, and the 37th president of the United States.…
Robert Mugabe
from 1941 to 1945
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Zimbabwean nationalist leader, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and President from 1987 to 2017.…
Ronald Reagan
from 1941 to 1945
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American broadcaster, actor, labor leader, governor of California, and 40th president of the United States.…
Rosa Parks
from 1941 to 1943
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American civil-rights activist whose lifelong work against racial segregation included local NAACP organizing in Montgomery, the 1955 bus protest and…
Sadako Sasaki
from 1943 to 1945
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Japanese schoolgirl and Hiroshima atomic-bomb survivor. Aged two when the bomb detonated over Hiroshima, she later developed leukemia, was…
Saint-John Perse
from 1939 to 1945
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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 Dalí
in 1940
1 moment here
Spanish painter, sculptor, writer, designer, filmmaker, and leading exponent of Surrealism. Born in Figueres, Dalí trained in Madrid, joined the…
Satyajit Ray
from 1940 to 1943
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Indian film director, screenwriter, author, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer. Ray was born and died in Calcutta (now Kolkata), made his career…
Moments
- 1941 Lives in Alexandra Nelson Mandela
- 1941 Ballistics work at Frankford Arsenal Richard Feynman
- 1941 Teacher training at Kutama College Robert Mugabe
- 1941 Lives on Cordell Drive Ronald Reagan
- 1941 Work at Maxwell Air Force Base Rosa Parks
- 1941 Residence in Georgetown Saint-John Perse
- 1941 Writing Exile on Long Beach Island Saint-John Perse
- 1941 Recording at the Philadelphia Academy of Music Sergei Rachmaninoff
- 1941 William Howard Taft High School student Stanley Kubrick
- 1941 Stationing at Yokaichi Toshiro Mifune
- 1941 Return to London during wartime Vivien Leigh
- 1941 The Doctor's Dilemma at the Haymarket Vivien Leigh
- 1941 Visit to Buenos Aires Walt Disney
- 1941 Palmach recruitment at Ramat Yohanan Yitzhak Rabin
- 1941 Palmach sabotage mission in Lebanon Yitzhak Rabin
- 1941 German occupation of family home Yuri Gagarin
- 1941 Covert landing at Bassein Aung San
- 1941 Return through Bangkok Aung San
- 1941 Director's office at Merrion Square Erwin Schrödinger
- 1941 Flight with C. Alfred Anderson Eleanor Roosevelt
- 1941 Flat at Langford Court George Orwell
- 1941 Death in the River Ouse Virginia Woolf
- 1941 Visits Maribor Adolf Hitler
- 1941 Thirty Comrades training on Hainan Aung San
- 1941 Return to Hong Kong in infancy Bruce Lee
- 1941 Arrives in Johannesburg Nelson Mandela
- 1941 Move to Pacific Palisades Thomas Mann
- 1941 First Manchurian journey Yasunari Kawabata
- 1941 Inspects Bismarck at Gdańsk Adolf Hitler
- 1941 Grand Rapids law practice Gerald Ford
- 1941 Restoration in Addis Ababa Haile Selassie
- 1941 Lend-Lease visit to America John Maynard Keynes
- 1941 Moves to Boulevard home Martin Luther King Jr.
- 1941 Death at Compton House Prajadhipok
- 1941 Third Army chief of staff Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 1941 Departure from Lisbon for penicillin mission Howard Florey
- 1941 Tank-regiment posting at Stryi Mikhail Kalashnikov
- 1941 Travel to Guatemala Pablo Neruda
- 1941 Visits Malnava command post Adolf Hitler
- 1941 Quiet Weekend at Wyndham's Theatre Glynis Johns
- 1941 Inspects troops near Uman Adolf Hitler
- 1941 Visits Barysaw airfield Adolf Hitler
- 1941 Birth in Mindelo Cesária Évora
- 1941 Return to Finca Vigía from China trip Ernest Hemingway
- 1941 Meets Churchill at Argentia Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1941 Resistance-support journey to the French Riviera Jean-Paul Sartre
- 1941 Dies at Jorasanko mansion Rabindranath Tagore
- 1941 Arrival for South American goodwill tour Walt Disney
- 1941 Goodwill-tour stop in Belem Walt Disney
- 1941 Stay at Copacabana Palace Walt Disney