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
Satyendra Nath Bose
from 1944 to 1945
2 moments here
Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician whose 1924 work founded Bose-Einstein statistics.…
Sergei Rachmaninoff
from 1939 to 1943
11 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 1939
1 moment here
Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis. This chronology traces documented locations from his Moravian birthplace and Viennese education…
Simone de Beauvoir
in 1939
2 moments here
French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Born and died in Paris, Beauvoir studied philosophy in Paris,…
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
from 1940 to 1942
3 moments 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 1940 to 1945
3 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 1942 to 1943
10 moments here
Soong Mei-ling, also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek, was a Chinese political figure and wife of Chiang Kai-shek.…
Stanley Kubrick
from 1941 to 1945
2 moments here
American filmmaker and photographer whose career began in New York photojournalism, expanded through Hollywood productions and European location…
Stephen Hawking
in 1942
1 moment here
English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author whose work on singularities, black-hole thermodynamics, and Hawking radiation reshaped modern…
Suharto
from 1940 to 1945
11 moments here
Indonesian army officer and politician who served as acting president from 1967 and president of Indonesia from 1968 until his resignation in 1998.…
Sukarno
from 1942 to 1945
9 moments here
Sukarno (1901–1970) was an Indonesian nationalist, revolutionary, engineer, and the first president of Indonesia.…
Syngman Rhee
from 1939 to 1945
3 moments 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.…
Thomas Mann
from 1941 to 1945
3 moments here
German novelist, essayist, public intellectual, and 1929 Nobel laureate. Born in Lübeck, he lived principally in Munich before exile from Nazi…
Toshiro Mifune
from 1940 to 1945
3 moments here
Japanese actor, producer, and director whose career spanned 1947–1995. Born in Qingdao, he grew up in Dalian, served in the Imperial Japanese Army…
T. S. Eliot
in 1945
1 moment here
Thomas Stearns Eliot was a St. Louis-born poet, critic, editor, and playwright who studied in Massachusetts, Paris, Germany, and Oxford before making…
Tsung-Dao Lee
from 1943 to 1945
2 moments here
Chinese-American theoretical physicist and 1957 Nobel laureate, known for work on parity violation, particle physics, statistical mechanics, and…
Tunku Abdul Rahman
from 1939 to 1945
7 moments here
Malaysian statesman, UMNO leader, chief minister of the Federation of Malaya, and first prime minister of Malaya and Malaysia.…
Vallabhbhai Patel
from 1940 to 1942
3 moments here
Indian lawyer, Indian National Congress leader, independence activist, and statesman. Known as Sardar Patel, he organized major civil-disobedience…
Vasily Shukshin
from 1943 to 1945
2 moments here
Soviet Russian writer, actor, screenwriter, and film director associated with Village Prose.…
Virginia Woolf
from 1940 to 1941
3 moments here
English novelist, essayist, critic and publisher; a central figure in modernist literature and the Bloomsbury Group.…
Vivien Leigh
from 1939 to 1943
6 moments 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…
Võ Nguyên Giáp
from 1940 to 1945
7 moments here
Vietnamese general, communist revolutionary, and politician. Giáp was a leading commander of the Việt Minh and the People’s Army of Vietnam, served…
Walt Disney
from 1939 to 1941
6 moments here
Walter Elias Disney was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur. His documented movements include childhood residences in…
Willy Brandt
in 1940
2 moments here
German Social Democratic politician, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm in Lübeck. He lived in exile in Norway and Sweden during the Nazi era, became…
Moments
- 1941 Meets Roosevelt at Placentia Bay Winston Churchill
- 1941 Dispensary work at Guy's Hospital Ludwig Wittgenstein
- 1941 Accession oath as Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
- 1941 Heisenberg meeting during occupation Niels Bohr
- 1941 Bond selling in Jongno Yun Ch'iho
- 1941 Student at the Jewish Lyceum Anne Frank
- 1941 Imperial Palace summons Hideki Tojo
- 1941 Teaching at Lycée Condorcet Jean-Paul Sartre
- 1941 Joined Naval Intelligence in Washington John F. Kennedy
- 1941 Journey to Beijing from Manchuria Yasunari Kawabata
- 1941 Speaks in Munich Löwenbräukeller Adolf Hitler
- 1941 Return via Dalian Yasunari Kawabata
- 1941 Addresses Reichstag after declaring war on US Adolf Hitler
- 1941 Burma Independence Army inauguration Aung San
- 1941 War Plans Division service Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 1941 Japanese invasion alert at Kulim Tunku Abdul Rahman
- 1941 Lecture at Gyeongseong Bumingwan Yun Ch'iho
- 1942 Student at Government College Abdus Salam
- 1942 Saboteur location-scouting tour Alfred Hitchcock
- 1942 Stay in Quebec City Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- 1942 Writing The Little Prince at Asharoken Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- 1942 Wartime residence in Velp Audrey Hepburn
- 1942 Residence in Hampstead Charles de Gaulle
- 1942 Northwestern China tour: Gansu Chiang Kai-shek
- 1942 Northwestern China tour: Ningxia Chiang Kai-shek
- 1942 Northwestern China tour: Qinghai Chiang Kai-shek
- 1942 Northwestern China tour: Shaanxi Chiang Kai-shek
- 1942 Northwestern China tour: Xinjiang Chiang Kai-shek
- 1942 Teaching at Smith College Chien-Shiung Wu
- 1942 Schooling at Nekede Chinua Achebe
- 1942 Return to Mexico Dolores del Río
- 1942 Meeting Marcel Blistène in Marseille Édith Piaf
- 1942 Meeting General Masami Maeda Emilio Aguinaldo
- 1942 Birth in Mafalala Eusébio
- 1942 Recoleta apartment Eva Perón
- 1942 Escape flight to Sicily Federico Fellini
- 1942 Belén school transfer Fidel Castro
- 1942 Flat at Mortimer Crescent George Orwell
- 1942 Navy Preflight School instructor Gerald Ford
- 1942 East Falls childhood performance Grace Kelly
- 1942 Civilian chemist at the Philadelphia Navy Yard Isaac Asimov
- 1942 Transfer to Georgia Tech Jimmy Carter
- 1942 Assigned to Charleston John F. Kennedy
- 1942 Theology degree at Lincoln Kwame Nkrumah
- 1942 Return to teaching in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés Léopold Sédar Senghor
- 1942 Confined at Aga Khan Palace Mahatma Gandhi
- 1942 Schooling in Peshawar Manmohan Singh
- 1942 Move to Oakland Maya Angelou
- 1942 Birth near Sirte Muammar Gaddafi
- 1942 Birth in Louisville Muhammad Ali