London in the Space Age

The atlas holds 104 people and 242 moments here, from 1957 to 2025. The most recorded lives are Freddie Mercury, George Michael and Margaret Thatcher.

Notable people

Lata Mangeshkar
in 1974
1 moment here
Indian playback singer and occasional composer whose career spanned eight decades. Born in Indore, she moved to Mumbai in 1945 and became a central…
Lawrence Bragg
in 1961
1 moment here
Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer. Bragg shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics with his father, William Henry Bragg, for…
Lee Kuan Yew
from 1957 to 1968
2 moments here
Singaporean barrister and statesman who co-founded the People’s Action Party and served as Singapore’s first prime minister from 1959 to 1990.…
Li Keqiang
in 2014
1 moment here
Chinese politician and economist who rose from rural labour in Anhui through the Communist Youth League, led Henan and Liaoning, served as vice…
Luísa Diogo
from 1992 to 2010
2 moments here
Mozambican economist and FRELIMO politician who served as Minister of Planning and Finance and as Mozambique’s first female prime minister, from 2004…
Macfarlane Burnet
from 1959 to 1966
2 moments here
Australian virologist and immunologist Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, known as Macfarlane Burnet, shared the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…
Margaret Thatcher
from 1959 to 2013
11 moments here
British stateswoman Margaret Hilda Thatcher (née Roberts) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, the first woman to hold the…
Mario Vargas Llosa
in 1969
1 moment here
Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and political figure. Vargas Llosa lived and worked across Peru, Bolivia, Spain, France, the United Kingdom,…
Marlene Dietrich
from 1964 to 1972
2 moments here
German-American actress and singer Marlene Dietrich (Marie Magdalene Dietrich) was born in Berlin and achieved international fame through stage,…
Maurice Wilkins
from 1970 to 2004
3 moments here
New Zealand-born British physicist and biophysicist whose career ran from solid-state physics and wartime atomic research to X-ray diffraction…
Maya Angelou
in 1988
1 moment here
American memoirist, poet, performer, educator, and civil-rights activist. Her documented life moved from Missouri and Arkansas to California and New…
Michael Jackson
in 2009
1 moment here
American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist whose career began with the Jackson 5 and developed into global solo stardom.…
Mikhail Gorbachev
from 1984 to 1991
2 moments here
Soviet and Russian politician who led the Soviet Union from 1985 until its dissolution in 1991.…
Milton Obote
in 1961
1 moment here
Apollo Milton Obote was a Ugandan politician who served as prime minister from 1962 to 1966 and as president from 1966 to 1971 and from 1980 to 1985.…
Miriam Makeba
in 1988
1 moment here
South African singer, songwriter, actor, and anti-apartheid activist known as “Mama Africa.” Makeba’s career took her from Johannesburg and Pretoria…
Morgan Tsvangirai
from 2009 to 2014
2 moments here
Zimbabwean trade unionist and opposition politician who led the Movement for Democratic Change and served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 2009 to…
Muhammad Ali
from 1966 to 2012
2 moments here
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.) was an American boxer, activist, humanitarian, and global cultural figure.…
Muhammadu Buhari
from 2016 to 2025
6 moments here
Nigerian army officer, military head of state from 1983 to 1985, and elected president of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023.…
Mwai Kibaki
from 1957 to 2012
3 moments here
Kenyan economist and politician who served as Kenya’s third president from 2002 to 2013. This chronology records documented physical presence from…
Naguib Mahfouz
in 1991
1 moment here
Egyptian novelist, screenwriter, and playwright whose fiction made Cairo a central setting of modern Arabic literature.…
Nawal El Saadawi
in 2016
1 moment here
Egyptian physician, psychiatrist, feminist writer, and activist whose life and work challenged patriarchal authority, gender-based violence,…
Nelson Mandela
from 1962 to 2000
3 moments here
South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, lawyer and statesman. Mandela helped lead the African National Congress, co-founded its armed wing,…
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
from 1964 to 1985
2 moments here
Kenyan novelist, playwright, essayist, language advocate, and academic. Ngũgĩ’s life moved from colonial Kenya through education in Uganda and…
Olav V
in 1988
1 moment here
Olav V of Norway (born Prince Alexander of Denmark) was King of Norway from 1957 until his death in 1991.…

London in the Space Age

Notable people

Lata Mangeshkar

Lawrence Bragg

Lee Kuan Yew

Li Keqiang

Luísa Diogo

Macfarlane Burnet

Margaret Thatcher

Mario Vargas Llosa

Marlene Dietrich

Maurice Wilkins

Maya Angelou

Michael Jackson

Mikhail Gorbachev

Milton Obote

Miriam Makeba

Morgan Tsvangirai

Muhammad Ali

Muhammadu Buhari

Mwai Kibaki

Naguib Mahfouz

Nawal El Saadawi

Nelson Mandela

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Olav V

Moments

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