Historical figures in Chicago
The atlas holds 67 people and 94 moments here, from 1858 to 2011. The most recorded lives are Enrico Fermi, John F. Kennedy and Frank Lloyd Wright. Among them Writers, Performers and Political Leaders, across the Cold War and the Space Age.
Notable people
Selena
in 1995
1 moment here
Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, known mononymously as Selena, was an American Tejano singer, songwriter, fashion designer, and business owner.…
Sergei Rachmaninoff
in 1943
1 moment here
Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Born in the Novgorod Governorate of the Russian Empire, he studied and worked chiefly in Saint…
Simone de Beauvoir
in 1947
1 moment here
French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Born and died in Paris, Beauvoir studied philosophy in Paris,…
Soong Mei-ling
in 1943
1 moment here
Soong Mei-ling, also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek, was a Chinese political figure and wife of Chiang Kai-shek.…
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
from 1952 to 1995
3 moments here
Indian-American astrophysicist whose work established the Chandrasekhar limit and ranged across stellar structure, stellar dynamics, radiative…
Sun Yat-sen
in 1911
1 moment here
Chinese physician, revolutionary, and political thinker who founded the Republic of China and the Kuomintang.…
Swami Vivekananda
in 1893
2 moments here
Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, teacher, and chief disciple of Ramakrishna. Born Narendranath Datta in Calcutta, he travelled widely through India…
Syngman Rhee
in 1954
1 moment 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.…
Theodore Roosevelt
from 1884 to 1912
2 moments here
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1858–1919) was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909.…
Thích Nhất Hạnh
in 1966
1 moment here
Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk, teacher, author, and peace activist. Thích Nhất Hạnh helped develop engaged Buddhism, founded the Plum Village…
Thomas Edison
in 1893
1 moment here
American inventor and industrialist whose laboratories developed and commercialized technologies in telegraphy, recorded sound, electric lighting and…
Tsung-Dao Lee
in 1946
1 moment here
Chinese-American theoretical physicist and 1957 Nobel laureate, known for work on parity violation, particle physics, statistical mechanics, and…
Ulysses S. Grant
from 1868 to 1880
2 moments here
Ulysses S. Grant was an American army officer, Union commander during the Civil War, and the 18th president of the United States.…
Walt Disney
from 1901 to 1917
2 moments here
Walter Elias Disney was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur. His documented movements include childhood residences in…
Warren G. Harding
from 1884 to 1920
3 moments here
Warren G. Harding was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923.…
William Howard Taft
from 1908 to 1918
2 moments here
William Howard Taft was an American lawyer, judge, colonial administrator, secretary of war, 27th president of the United States, and 10th chief…
William McKinley
from 1884 to 1888
2 moments here
William McKinley Jr. (1843–1901) was an American lawyer, Civil War veteran, Republican politician, governor of Ohio, and the 25th president of the…
Willy Brandt
in 1973
1 moment 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…
Yang Chen-Ning
in 1945
1 moment here
Chinese-American theoretical physicist whose work in statistical mechanics, particle physics, gauge theory, and condensed-matter physics included the…