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

  1. Winston Churchill

    from 1939 to 1945

    15 moments here

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

  2. Yang Chen-Ning

    in 1945

    2 moments here

    Chinese-American theoretical physicist whose work in statistical mechanics, particle physics, gauge theory, and condensed-matter physics included the…

  3. Yasunari Kawabata

    from 1941 to 1945

    6 moments here

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

  4. Yitzhak Rabin

    from 1939 to 1943

    4 moments here

    Israeli military officer, statesman, prime minister, ambassador, and 1994 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.…

  5. Yosano Akiko

    from 1940 to 1942

    2 moments 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…

  6. Yun Ch'iho

    from 1941 to 1945

    3 moments here

    Korean politician, reformer, educator, Christian leader, diarist, and later Japanese colonial collaborator.…

  7. Yuri Gagarin

    in 1941

    1 moment here

    Soviet pilot and cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first human to travel into outer space and to orbit Earth on Vostok 1 on 12 April…

  8. Zhou Enlai

    from 1939 to 1945

    5 moments 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. 1942 Boarding school in Kampong Cham Pol Pot
  2. 1942 Built the Free Thai network Pridi Banomyong
  3. 1942 Arrest at Sadaqat Ashram Rajendra Prasad
  4. 1942 Imprisonment at Bankipur Central Jail Rajendra Prasad
  5. 1942 Move to Northern Virginia Richard Nixon
  6. 1942 Assigned to Culver City film unit Ronald Reagan
  7. 1942 Schooling at Zonguene Samora Machel
  8. 1942 Visit after Angoda hospital bombing Sirimavo Bandaranaike
  9. 1942 Birth in Oxford Stephen Hawking
  10. 1942 Forced transfer to Padang Sukarno
  11. 1942 Enrolment at the University of the Witwatersrand Sydney Brenner
  12. 1942 Novice monk at Từ Hiếu Thích Nhất Hạnh
  13. 1942 Viet Minh base near Vũ Nhai Võ Nguyên Giáp
  14. 1942 Queen's Royal College schooling V. S. Naipaul
  15. 1942 Wartime submarine-detection research Walter Brattain
  16. 1942 Recuperates at Pompano Beach Winston Churchill
  17. 1942 Visit to Takatsuki over adoption Yasunari Kawabata
  18. 1942 Academy Award for Suspicion Joan Fontaine
  19. 1942 Ising-model announcement in New York Lars Onsager
  20. 1942 Move to Thomas Mann House Thomas Mann
  21. 1942 Birth in Memphis Aretha Franklin
  22. 1942 Marriage to Feroze Gandhi Indira Gandhi
  23. 1942 Entered the National Military College Jorge Rafael Videla
  24. 1942 Collapse at Manhattan Chess Club José Raúl Capablanca
  25. 1942 Death at Mount Sinai Hospital José Raúl Capablanca
  26. 1942 Lecture tour in Cuba Pablo Neruda
  27. 1942 Kwantung Army apprenticeship Park Chung Hee
  28. 1942 Return to Wuryantoro after Dutch surrender Suharto
  29. 1942 Burma wartime meeting Chiang Kai-shek
  30. 1942 Battle of Bataan captivity Ferdinand Marcos
  31. 1942 Naval instructor training Gerald Ford
  32. 1942 Marriage in Vaucluse Gough Whitlam
  33. 1942 Stationed at Fort Mason Ronald Reagan
  34. 1942 Visit to Burma with Chiang and Stilwell Soong Mei-ling
  35. 1942 Speaking tour photograph in Montréal Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  36. 1942 Mission to London Dwight D. Eisenhower
  37. 1942 Two-meson-theory hike at Todai-ji Hideki Yukawa
  38. 1942 Chinese Theatre handprints Joan Fontaine
  39. 1942 Marriage to Edna Clarke Jomo Kenyatta
  40. 1942 Southwest Front at Kharkov Nikita Khrushchev
  41. 1942 Moved to Beverly Hills Sergei Rachmaninoff
  42. 1942 Death at her Ogikubo home Yosano Akiko
  43. 1942 Residence at Merwedeplein 37-II Anne Frank
  44. 1942 Commanding General of ETOUSA Dwight D. Eisenhower
  45. 1942 Aerial mission over New Guinea Lyndon B. Johnson
  46. 1942 Marriage to Arline Greenbaum Richard Feynman
  47. 1942 Arrives at Führer Headquarters Werwolf Adolf Hitler
  48. 1942 Hiding in the Secret Annex Anne Frank
  49. 1942 Trained at Northwestern John F. Kennedy
  50. 1942 Takes seat in House of Lords John Maynard Keynes

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