Historical figures in Stockholm
The atlas holds 65 people and 89 moments here, from 1649 to 2015. The most recorded lives are Ingmar Bergman, Selma Lagerlöf and René Descartes. Among them Writers, Scientists and Performers, across the Space Age and the Cold War.
Notable people
Saint-John Perse
in 1960
1 moment here
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,…
Selma Lagerlöf
from 1873 to 1919
5 moments here
Swedish writer, teacher, Nobel laureate, and women’s-suffrage speaker. Lagerlöf was born at Mårbacka in Värmland, trained in Stockholm, taught in…
Sergei Rachmaninoff
in 1917
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…
Stephen Hawking
in 2015
1 moment here
English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author whose work on singularities, black-hole thermodynamics, and Hawking radiation reshaped modern…
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
in 1983
1 moment here
Indian-American astrophysicist whose work established the Chandrasekhar limit and ranged across stellar structure, stellar dynamics, radiative…
Sydney Brenner
in 1987
1 moment here
South African-born molecular biologist whose career moved from Johannesburg and Oxford to Cambridge, California, Singapore and other scientific…
Thomas Mann
in 1929
1 moment here
German novelist, essayist, public intellectual, and 1929 Nobel laureate. Born in Lübeck, he lived principally in Munich before exile from Nazi…
T. S. Eliot
in 1948
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 1957 to 2007
2 moments here
Chinese-American theoretical physicist and 1957 Nobel laureate, known for work on parity violation, particle physics, statistical mechanics, and…
Vladimir Lenin
from 1906 to 1910
2 moments here
Russian Marxist revolutionary, Bolshevik leader, political theorist, and founding head of government of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union.…
V. S. Naipaul
in 2001
1 moment here
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was a Trinidad-born British novelist, essayist, and travel writer.…
Wangarĩ Maathai
in 1984
1 moment here
Kenyan environmentalist, democracy activist, academic, founder of the Green Belt Movement, parliamentarian, and the first African woman awarded the…
Willem Einthoven
in 1925
1 moment here
Dutch physician and physiologist whose work on the string galvanometer made clinical electrocardiography practical.…
William Faulkner
in 1950
1 moment here
American novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and Nobel laureate whose work was closely associated with Oxford and north Mississippi.…
Willy Brandt
from 1940 to 1971
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…
Yang Chen-Ning
in 1957
1 moment here
Chinese-American theoretical physicist whose work in statistical mechanics, particle physics, gauge theory, and condensed-matter physics included the…
Yasunari Kawabata
in 1968
1 moment here
Japanese novelist and short-story writer, Nobel laureate in Literature in 1968. His documented movements include an Osaka and Ibaraki childhood,…