Historical figures in 1914
The atlas holds 64 people and 103 moments here, in 1914. The most recorded lives are Pancho Villa, Srinivasa Ramanujan and José Raúl Capablanca. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Scientists.
Notable people
Jorge Luis Borges
in 1914
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Argentine writer, poet, essayist, translator, lecturer, librarian, and critic. Borges was born in Buenos Aires, lived in Switzerland and Spain during…
Joseph Stalin
in 1914
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Soviet revolutionary and political leader, born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili in Gori, Georgia.…
José Raúl Capablanca
in 1914
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Cuban chess player and diplomat, world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. This chronology records documented physical presence at places of birth,…
Katherine Mansfield
in 1914
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Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp, later Murry) was a New Zealand modernist short-story writer, poet, critic and diarist.…
Lavr Kornilov
in 1914
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Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov was an Imperial Russian Army officer, military intelligence officer, explorer, and general.…
Lawrence Bragg
in 1914
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Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer. Bragg shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics with his father, William Henry Bragg, for…
Leon Trotsky
in 1914
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Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet political leader, Marxist theorist, and organizer of the Red Army.…
Léopold Sédar Senghor
in 1914
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Senegalese poet, theorist of Négritude, and statesman who became Senegal’s first president in 1960.…
Louis Armstrong
in 1914
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American jazz trumpeter, vocalist, bandleader, and entertainer whose career transformed jazz solo performance and made him an international cultural…
Mahatma Gandhi
in 1914
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, political ethicist, and leader of mass nonviolent resistance.…
Marguerite Duras
in 1914
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French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker, born Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu.…
Marie Curie
in 1914
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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 1914
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German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist whose work on rationalisation, bureaucracy, religion, capitalism, and social action…
Mikhail Frunze
in 1914
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Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze was a Bolshevik revolutionary, Red Army commander, Soviet military theorist, and senior state official.…
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
in 1914
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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…
Niels Bohr
in 1914
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Danish theoretical physicist whose work on atomic structure and quantum theory earned the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics.…
Octavio Paz
in 1914
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Mexican poet, essayist, editor, and diplomat whose international postings and teaching appointments connected Mexico City, the United States, Europe,…
Pablo Picasso
in 1914
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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 1914
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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 1914
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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.…
Prajadhipok
in 1914
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Prajadhipok (Rama VII) was King of Siam from 1925 until his abdication in 1935. Educated in England and trained in the military, he travelled…
Ronald Reagan
in 1914
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American broadcaster, actor, labor leader, governor of California, and 40th president of the United States.…
Rosa Luxemburg
in 1914
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Polish-born, naturalised-German Marxist theorist, socialist organiser, anti-war activist, and revolutionary.…
Rubén Darío
in 1914
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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.…
Moments
- 1914 Summer-program visit T. S. Eliot
- 1914 Settled in wartime Bern Vladimir Lenin
- 1914 Frankfurt criminal-court trial Rosa Luxemburg
- 1914 Reached the River of Doubt Theodore Roosevelt
- 1914 Birth in Zhucheng Jiang Qing
- 1914 Exile settlement at Manzurka Mikhail Frunze
- 1914 Birth in Mexico City Octavio Paz
- 1914 Departure for England Srinivasa Ramanujan
- 1914 Moves to Dahlem apartment Albert Einstein
- 1914 Mexican Revolution reporting trip Jack London
- 1914 Birth in Gia Định Marguerite Duras
- 1914 Arrival in London Srinivasa Ramanujan
- 1914 Neville's Cambridge home Srinivasa Ramanujan
- 1914 Trinity College rooms Srinivasa Ramanujan
- 1914 Royal Horse Artillery service at Aldershot Prajadhipok
- 1914 Final major poetry publication in Barcelona Rubén Darío
- 1914 Birth at Tengboche Tenzing Norgay
- 1914 Return to Manaus after expedition Theodore Roosevelt
- 1914 Moved to his uncle's household Yasunari Kawabata
- 1914 Departure from Denver Golda Meir
- 1914 Release from the Colored Waifs' Home Louis Armstrong
- 1914 Capture of Zacatecas Pancho Villa
- 1914 Chinese Revolutionary Party convention Sun Yat-sen
- 1914 Faces the ‘tribunal’ at Askanischer Hof Franz Kafka
- 1914 Meets Ernst Weiß in Lübeck Franz Kafka
- 1914 Recovers at Marielyst Franz Kafka
- 1914 Stabbed outside his home Grigori Rasputin
- 1914 Departs Cape Town for England Mahatma Gandhi
- 1914 Wounded at Dinant Charles de Gaulle
- 1914 Working in Chicago during the Taliesin attack Frank Lloyd Wright
- 1914 Called to London at outbreak of war John Maynard Keynes
- 1914 Baptism at Thogoto Jomo Kenyatta
- 1914 Flight from Vienna to Switzerland Leon Trotsky
- 1914 Meeting with Álvaro Obregón Pancho Villa
- 1914 Summer at Saint-Jean-de-Luz Porfirio Díaz
- 1914 Organising anti-war opposition Rosa Luxemburg
- 1914 Reception for Gandhi Sarojini Naidu
- 1914 Imprisoned at Nowy Targ Vladimir Lenin
- 1914 Wellington Town Hall lecture Ernest Rutherford
- 1914 Roamer cruise on the Sacramento River Jack London
- 1914 First meeting with Ezra Pound T. S. Eliot
- 1914 Red Cross hospital service Agatha Christie
- 1914 Arrival at the Convention of Aguascalientes Emiliano Zapata
- 1914 Work in England Niels Bohr
- 1914 Move to Richmond Green Virginia Woolf
- 1914 At besieged Antwerp Winston Churchill
- 1914 Move to Paris Leon Trotsky
- 1914 Marriage to Archibald Christie Agatha Christie
- 1914 Entry into Mexico City and National Palace appearance Emiliano Zapata
- 1914 Pact of Xochimilco with Pancho Villa Emiliano Zapata