Historical figures in 1911
The atlas holds 53 people and 95 moments here, in 1911. The most recorded lives are Hermann Hesse, Porfirio Díaz and Franz Kafka. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Educators.
Notable people
Lavr Kornilov
in 1911
1 moment here
Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov was an Imperial Russian Army officer, military intelligence officer, explorer, and general.…
Le Corbusier
in 1911
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Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, painter, writer, and urban planner.…
Lê Đức Thọ
in 1911
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Vietnamese revolutionary, Communist Party leader, and diplomat. Born Phan Đình Khải, he was imprisoned by French colonial authorities, worked in…
Ludwig Wittgenstein
in 1911
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Austro-British philosopher whose work in logic, language, mathematics, and mind shaped twentieth-century analytic philosophy.…
Lu Xun
in 1911
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Lu Xun (Zhou Shuren; 1881–1936) was a Chinese writer, critic, translator, lecturer, and civil servant whose work was central to modern Chinese…
Mao Zedong
in 1911
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Chinese communist revolutionary and political leader who led the Chinese Communist Party and founded the People’s Republic of China.…
Marie Curie
in 1911
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Polish-born, naturalized-French physicist and chemist who pioneered research on radioactivity. With Pierre Curie she discovered polonium and radium.…
Max Planck
in 1911
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German theoretical physicist and originator of quantum theory. Planck’s documented life moved from Kiel to Munich, Berlin, Kiel again, and Berlin,…
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
in 1911
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Ottoman officer, Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, founder of the Republic of Turkey, and its first president.…
Naguib Mahfouz
in 1911
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Egyptian novelist, screenwriter, and playwright whose fiction made Cairo a central setting of modern Arabic literature.…
Niels Bohr
in 1911
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Danish theoretical physicist whose work on atomic structure and quantum theory earned the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics.…
Pablo Picasso
in 1911
1 moment here
Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and co-founder of Cubism. Born in Málaga, Picasso trained in A Coruña, Barcelona, and Madrid…
Pancho Villa
in 1911
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Francisco “Pancho” Villa (José Doroteo Arango Arámbula) was a Mexican revolutionary, guerrilla leader, military commander, and provisional governor…
Pearl S. Buck
in 1911
1 moment here
American writer, humanitarian, and activist whose life was divided between the United States and China before she became an internationally prominent…
Porfirio Díaz
in 1911
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José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori was a Mexican general and politician who led Mexico from 1876 to 1880 and from 1884 until his overthrow in 1911.…
Rajendra Prasad
in 1911
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Indian lawyer, independence leader, journalist and statesman who became the first President of India, serving from 1950 to 1962.…
Roald Amundsen
in 1911
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Norwegian polar explorer Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (1872–1928) led the first successful transit of the Northwest Passage, reached the South…
Ronald Reagan
in 1911
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American broadcaster, actor, labor leader, governor of California, and 40th president of the United States.…
Selma Lagerlöf
in 1911
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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 1911
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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 1911
1 moment here
Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis. This chronology traces documented locations from his Moravian birthplace and Viennese education…
Sun Yat-sen
in 1911
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Chinese physician, revolutionary, and political thinker who founded the Republic of China and the Kuomintang.…
T. S. Eliot
in 1911
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…
Virginia Woolf
in 1911
1 moment here
English novelist, essayist, critic and publisher; a central figure in modernist literature and the Bloomsbury Group.…
Moments
- 1911 Doctoral defence Niels Bohr
- 1911 First Battle of Ciudad Juárez Pancho Villa
- 1911 Honeymoon visit to Mexico City Pancho Villa
- 1911 Marriage to María Luz Corral Pancho Villa
- 1911 Departure from Mexico City after resignation Porfirio Díaz
- 1911 Exile departure from Veracruz Porfirio Díaz
- 1911 Lives on Glassburn Street Ronald Reagan
- 1911 Lectured at Longjumeau Vladimir Lenin
- 1911 Dedicates New York Public Library William Howard Taft
- 1911 Arrives in Sacramento Charlie Chaplin
- 1911 Departure from Saigon aboard Amiral de Latouche-Tréville Ho Chi Minh
- 1911 Birth in Balcarce Juan Manuel Fangio
- 1911 Prague arrival on Voyage d'Orient Le Corbusier
- 1911 Arrival at Le Havre Porfirio Díaz
- 1911 Arrival in Paris exile Porfirio Díaz
- 1911 Departure from Havana during exile voyage Porfirio Díaz
- 1911 Suffrage address at the Royal Opera Selma Lagerlöf
- 1911 Arrival at Marseille Ho Chi Minh
- 1911 Visit to Napoleon's tomb Porfirio Díaz
- 1911 Meeting Francisco I. Madero in Cuautla Emiliano Zapata
- 1911 Reaches Lugano with Max Brod Franz Kafka
- 1911 Birth in Lệ Thủy Võ Nguyên Giáp
- 1911 Continues the 1911 journey to Paris Franz Kafka
- 1911 Explores Milan Franz Kafka
- 1911 Stays at Erlenbach sanatorium Franz Kafka
- 1911 Boarder at St Cyprian's School George Orwell
- 1911 Embarked from Genoa for Asia Hermann Hesse
- 1911 Tour of Ireland with Liberal politicians John Maynard Keynes
- 1911 Birth at Bolshaya Tes Konstantin Chernenko
- 1911 Cambridge research visit Niels Bohr
- 1911 Attends the Weimar congress Sigmund Freud
- 1911 Attends first Solvay Conference Albert Einstein
- 1911 Departure from Nagasaki Chiang Kai-shek
- 1911 First Solvay Conference Ernest Rutherford
- 1911 Begins at Exeter College J. R. R. Tolkien
- 1911 Birth in Nam Trực Lê Đức Thọ
- 1911 Arrival at Trinity College Ludwig Wittgenstein
- 1911 Departs Framheim for the pole Roald Amundsen
- 1911 News of Wuchang Uprising Sun Yat-sen
- 1911 Republic celebration meeting Sun Yat-sen
- 1911 Residence at Brunswick Square Virginia Woolf
- 1911 Defends Tobruk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1911 Birth in Old Cairo Naguib Mahfouz
- 1911 Reaches the South Pole Roald Amundsen
- 1911 Return to Shanghai Sun Yat-sen