Historical figures in 1913
The atlas holds 52 people and 90 moments here, in 1913. The most recorded lives are Anatole France, José Raúl Capablanca and Ronald Ross. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Educators.
Notable people
Marie Curie
in 1913
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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 Weber
in 1913
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German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist whose work on rationalisation, bureaucracy, religion, capitalism, and social action…
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
in 1913
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a barrister and political leader who led the All-India Muslim League and became Pakistan’s first governor-general after…
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
in 1913
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Ottoman officer, Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, founder of the Republic of Turkey, and its first president.…
Pablo Picasso
in 1913
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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 1913
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Francisco “Pancho” Villa (José Doroteo Arango Arámbula) was a Mexican revolutionary, guerrilla leader, military commander, and provisional governor…
Porfirio Díaz
in 1913
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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.…
Richard Nixon
in 1913
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Richard Milhous Nixon was an American lawyer, naval officer, congressman, senator, vice president, and the 37th president of the United States.…
Ronald Ross
in 1913
5 moments here
British physician, malariologist, mathematician, writer, and 1902 Nobel laureate. Ross established the mosquito’s role in malaria transmission…
Rosa Luxemburg
in 1913
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Polish-born, naturalised-German Marxist theorist, socialist organiser, anti-war activist, and revolutionary.…
Rosa Parks
in 1913
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American civil-rights activist whose lifelong work against racial segregation included local NAACP organizing in Montgomery, the 1955 bus protest and…
Rubén Darío
in 1913
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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.…
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
in 1913
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Japanese short-story writer of the Taishō period, born Ryūnosuke Niihara in Tokyo and adopted into the Akutagawa family.…
Sergei Rachmaninoff
in 1913
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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…
Simone de Beauvoir
in 1913
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French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Born and died in Paris, Beauvoir studied philosophy in Paris,…
Soong Ching-ling
in 1913
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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…
Srinivasa Ramanujan
in 1913
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Indian mathematician whose documented life moved between Tamil Nadu, southern India, England, and back to India.…
Sun Yat-sen
in 1913
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Chinese physician, revolutionary, and political thinker who founded the Republic of China and the Kuomintang.…
Syngman Rhee
in 1913
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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
in 1913
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Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1858–1919) was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909.…
Vallabhbhai Patel
in 1913
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Indian lawyer, Indian National Congress leader, independence activist, and statesman. Known as Sardar Patel, he organized major civil-disobedience…
Virginia Woolf
in 1913
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English novelist, essayist, critic and publisher; a central figure in modernist literature and the Bloomsbury Group.…
Vivien Leigh
in 1913
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British actress Vivien Leigh (born Vivian Mary Hartley) was acclaimed for stage work and for Academy Award-winning performances as Scarlett O'Hara in…
Vladimir Lenin
in 1913
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Russian Marxist revolutionary, Bolshevik leader, political theorist, and founding head of government of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union.…
Moments
- 1913 Return to Copais Ronald Ross
- 1913 Transit through Egypt Ronald Ross
- 1913 Arrives at Yale after presidency William Howard Taft
- 1913 Address to Congress on domestic legislation Woodrow Wilson
- 1913 Research scholarship and Triplicane residence Srinivasa Ramanujan
- 1913 Attends a bullfight in Figueres Pablo Picasso
- 1913 Engineering and navigation classes Alfred Hitchcock
- 1913 Postcard sent from Berlin Anatole France
- 1913 Postcard sent from Moscow Anatole France
- 1913 Arrival for study at Columbia B. R. Ambedkar
- 1913 Birth in Omaha Gerald Ford
- 1913 Visit to the Hermitage Museum Anatole France
- 1913 Residence at Livingston Hall B. R. Ambedkar
- 1913 Atmospheric-electricity experiments at Seeham Erwin Schrödinger
- 1913 Exile in Tokyo Sun Yat-sen
- 1913 Attends Vienna’s Zionist congress Franz Kafka
- 1913 Returns to Riva for treatment Franz Kafka
- 1913 Stops overnight in Trieste Franz Kafka
- 1913 Logic retreat at Øystese Ludwig Wittgenstein
- 1913 Receives Birmingham honorary degree Marie Curie
- 1913 Arrival at Santander Porfirio Díaz
- 1913 Anti-war meeting in Bockenheim Rosa Luxemburg
- 1913 Convalescence at Dalingridge Hall Virginia Woolf
- 1913 Birth at Doan-Trang-Vien Palace Bảo Đại
- 1913 Birth in Tananarive Claude Simon
- 1913 Begins teaching at Revoltella James Joyce
- 1913 Begins military-attaché service in Sofia Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1913 Birth in Mondovi Albert Camus
- 1913 Capture of Ciudad Juárez by train Pancho Villa
- 1913 Return to Asham House Virginia Woolf
- 1913 Birth in Darjeeling Vivien Leigh
- 1913 Banquet in his honour at the Savoy Anatole France
- 1913 Fabian Society peace speech Anatole France
- 1913 Maison du Peuple peace speech Anatole France
- 1913 Arrives in Los Angeles for Keystone Charlie Chaplin
- 1913 Assigned to Regiment 12 Juan Perón
- 1913 Assumes Chihuahua governorship Pancho Villa
- 1913 Lodging in Barcelona Rubén Darío
- 1913 Roosevelt-Rondon expedition begins at Cáceres Theodore Roosevelt
- 1913 Birth in Lübeck Willy Brandt