Historical figures in 1912
The atlas holds 54 people and 91 moments here, in 1912. The most recorded lives are Yosano Akiko, Franz Kafka and Pancho Villa. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Educators.
Notable people
Louis Armstrong
in 1912
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American jazz trumpeter, vocalist, bandleader, and entertainer whose career transformed jazz solo performance and made him an international cultural…
Ludwig Wittgenstein
in 1912
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Austro-British philosopher whose work in logic, language, mathematics, and mind shaped twentieth-century analytic philosophy.…
Lu Xun
in 1912
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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 1912
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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 1912
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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 Theiler
in 1912
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South African-American virologist and physician whose work at Harvard, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Yale contributed to the development of the 17D…
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
in 1912
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Ottoman officer, Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, founder of the Republic of Turkey, and its first president.…
Niels Bohr
in 1912
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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 1912
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Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and co-founder of Cubism. Born in Málaga, Picasso trained in A Coruña, Barcelona, and Madrid…
Pancho Villa
in 1912
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Francisco “Pancho” Villa (José Doroteo Arango Arámbula) was a Mexican revolutionary, guerrilla leader, military commander, and provisional governor…
P. L. Travers
in 1912
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Pamela Lyndon Travers, born Helen Lyndon Goff, was an Australian-British writer, actress, journalist, and creator of the Mary Poppins books.…
Porfirio Díaz
in 1912
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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.…
Puyi
in 1912
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Puyi (1906–1967), the Xuantong Emperor, was the last emperor of Qing China and later the Kangde Emperor of Japanese-controlled Manchukuo.…
Rabindranath Tagore
in 1912
3 moments here
Bengali poet, novelist, dramatist, composer, painter, philosopher, social reformer, and educationist.…
Roald Amundsen
in 1912
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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…
Rubén Darío
in 1912
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Nicaraguan poet, journalist, and diplomat Félix Rubén García Sarmiento, known as Rubén Darío, was a central initiator of Spanish-language Modernismo.…
Sergei Rachmaninoff
in 1912
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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…
Soong Ching-ling
in 1912
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Chinese politician and activist, wife of Sun Yat-sen, leading figure of the Kuomintang’s left wing, and later a senior officeholder of the People’s…
Soong Mei-ling
in 1912
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Soong Mei-ling, also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek, was a Chinese political figure and wife of Chiang Kai-shek.…
Srinivasa Ramanujan
in 1912
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Indian mathematician whose documented life moved between Tamil Nadu, southern India, England, and back to India.…
Sukarno
in 1912
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Sukarno (1901–1970) was an Indonesian nationalist, revolutionary, engineer, and the first president of Indonesia.…
Sun Yat-sen
in 1912
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Chinese physician, revolutionary, and political thinker who founded the Republic of China and the Kuomintang.…
Theodore Roosevelt
in 1912
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Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1858–1919) was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909.…
Thomas Mann
in 1912
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German novelist, essayist, public intellectual, and 1929 Nobel laureate. Born in Lübeck, he lived principally in Munich before exile from Nazi…
Moments
- 1912 Arrival in Paris Yosano Akiko
- 1912 Departure via Tsuruga Port Yosano Akiko
- 1912 Trans-Siberian transit through Moscow Yosano Akiko
- 1912 Birth in Maida Vale Alan Turing
- 1912 Makes a literary pilgrimage to Weimar Franz Kafka
- 1912 Imprisonment in Mexico City Pancho Villa
- 1912 Brings Gitanjali translations to London Rabindranath Tagore
- 1912 Returns to ETH Zurich as professor Albert Einstein
- 1912 Death at Meiji Palace Emperor Meiji
- 1912 Takes the Jungborn nature cure Franz Kafka
- 1912 Arrival in Seattle aboard Dirigo Jack London
- 1912 Apprentice carpenter at Thogoto Mission Jomo Kenyatta
- 1912 Recuperates in England Marie Curie
- 1912 Meets Felice Bauer at Brod’s home Franz Kafka
- 1912 Return to Allahabad legal practice Jawaharlal Nehru
- 1912 Birth on the Ferradas farm Jorge Amado
- 1912 August Bloc conference Leon Trotsky
- 1912 Marriage at Slagelse Town Hall Niels Bohr
- 1912 Rural retreat at Butterton Rabindranath Tagore
- 1912 Visit to Beijing Sun Yat-sen
- 1912 Marriage to Leonard Woolf Virginia Woolf
- 1912 Moved to Ostermundigen near Bern Hermann Hesse
- 1912 Via Bramante residence James Joyce
- 1912 Journey to Iceland Ludwig Wittgenstein
- 1912 Embarkation at Marseille Yosano Akiko
- 1912 Visit to Munich Yosano Akiko
- 1912 Met Archibald Christie at Ugbrooke Agatha Christie
- 1912 Second Tangier visit Henri Matisse
- 1912 Returns to Constantinople Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1912 Chinese General Railway Corporation Sun Yat-sen
- 1912 Attempted assassination during campaign Theodore Roosevelt
- 1912 Residence at Clifford's Inn Virginia Woolf
- 1912 Cambridge Philosophical Society presentation Lawrence Bragg
- 1912 Transfer to Santiago Tlatelolco Prison Pancho Villa
- 1912 Speaks at a Unitarian church in Urbana Rabindranath Tagore
- 1912 President-elect vacation Woodrow Wilson
- 1912 Reads The Judgment publicly Franz Kafka
- 1912 New York City letter Ho Chi Minh
- 1912 Arrest after New Year's Eve gunfire Louis Armstrong
- 1912 Christmas visit to Barcelona Pablo Picasso
- 1912 Escape from Santiago Tlatelolco Pancho Villa