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
Sarah Bernhardt
in 1914
2 moments here
French stage and early film actress, born Henriette-Rosine Bernard in Paris. Bernhardt became an international theatrical star through performances…
Sarojini Naidu
in 1914
1 moment here
Indian poet, nationalist, women’s-rights advocate, president of the Indian National Congress, and first governor of the United Provinces.…
Sergei Rachmaninoff
in 1914
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…
Soong Mei-ling
in 1914
1 moment here
Soong Mei-ling, also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek, was a Chinese political figure and wife of Chiang Kai-shek.…
Sri Aurobindo
in 1914
1 moment here
Sri Aurobindo (Aurobindo Ghose) was an Indian nationalist, philosopher, poet, and yogi. His documented movements run from childhood in Bengal and…
Srinivasa Ramanujan
in 1914
4 moments here
Indian mathematician whose documented life moved between Tamil Nadu, southern India, England, and back to India.…
Sun Yat-sen
in 1914
1 moment here
Chinese physician, revolutionary, and political thinker who founded the Republic of China and the Kuomintang.…
Tenzing Norgay
in 1914
1 moment here
Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer, born Namgyal Wangdi, who with Edmund Hillary made the first confirmed ascent of Mount Everest on 29 May 1953.…
Theodore Roosevelt
in 1914
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Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1858–1919) was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909.…
Thomas Edison
in 1914
2 moments here
American inventor and industrialist whose laboratories developed and commercialized technologies in telegraphy, recorded sound, electric lighting and…
Thomas Mann
in 1914
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 1914
3 moments 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 1914
1 moment here
English novelist, essayist, critic and publisher; a central figure in modernist literature and the Bloomsbury Group.…
Vladimir Lenin
in 1914
2 moments here
Russian Marxist revolutionary, Bolshevik leader, political theorist, and founding head of government of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union.…
Winston Churchill
in 1914
1 moment here
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965) was a British soldier, journalist, author and statesman whose career ranged from imperial campaigns in…
Yasunari Kawabata
in 1914
1 moment here
Japanese novelist and short-story writer, Nobel laureate in Literature in 1968. His documented movements include an Osaka and Ibaraki childhood,…
Moments
- 1914 Alliance meeting with Emiliano Zapata Pancho Villa
- 1914 Triumphal entry into Mexico City Pancho Villa
- 1914 Moves to Chicago Ronald Reagan