Historical figures in 1915
The atlas holds 51 people and 86 moments here, in 1915. The most recorded lives are Mahatma Gandhi, Henry Ford and Sarah Bernhardt. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Performers.
Notable people
Lavr Kornilov
in 1915
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Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov was an Imperial Russian Army officer, military intelligence officer, explorer, and general.…
Lawrence Bragg
in 1915
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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…
Le Corbusier
in 1915
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Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, painter, writer, and urban planner.…
Leon Trotsky
in 1915
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Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet political leader, Marxist theorist, and organizer of the Red Army.…
Lyndon B. Johnson
in 1915
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Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973) was a Texas-born teacher, congressman, senator, vice president, and the 36th president of the United States.…
Mahatma Gandhi
in 1915
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, political ethicist, and leader of mass nonviolent resistance.…
Mikhail Frunze
in 1915
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Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze was a Bolshevik revolutionary, Red Army commander, Soviet military theorist, and senior state official.…
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
in 1915
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Ottoman officer, Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, founder of the Republic of Turkey, and its first president.…
Pancho Villa
in 1915
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Francisco “Pancho” Villa (José Doroteo Arango Arámbula) was a Mexican revolutionary, guerrilla leader, military commander, and provisional governor…
Paramahansa Yogananda
in 1915
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Indian and American Hindu monk, yogi, teacher, and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship and Yogoda Satsanga Society of India.…
Porfirio Díaz
in 1915
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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 1915
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Indian lawyer, independence leader, journalist and statesman who became the first President of India, serving from 1950 to 1962.…
Ronald Reagan
in 1915
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American broadcaster, actor, labor leader, governor of California, and 40th president of the United States.…
Rosa Luxemburg
in 1915
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Polish-born, naturalised-German Marxist theorist, socialist organiser, anti-war activist, and revolutionary.…
Sarah Bernhardt
in 1915
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French stage and early film actress, born Henriette-Rosine Bernard in Paris. Bernhardt became an international theatrical star through performances…
Satyendra Nath Bose
in 1915
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Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician whose 1924 work founded Bose-Einstein statistics.…
Sergei Rachmaninoff
in 1915
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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 1915
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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…
Sun Yat-sen
in 1915
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Chinese physician, revolutionary, and political thinker who founded the Republic of China and the Kuomintang.…
Thomas Edison
in 1915
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American inventor and industrialist whose laboratories developed and commercialized technologies in telegraphy, recorded sound, electric lighting and…
T. S. Eliot
in 1915
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Thomas Stearns Eliot was a St. Louis-born poet, critic, editor, and playwright who studied in Massachusetts, Paris, Germany, and Oxford before making…
Tunku Abdul Rahman
in 1915
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Malaysian statesman, UMNO leader, chief minister of the Federation of Malaya, and first prime minister of Malaya and Malaysia.…
Virginia Woolf
in 1915
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English novelist, essayist, critic and publisher; a central figure in modernist literature and the Bloomsbury Group.…
Vladimir Lenin
in 1915
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Russian Marxist revolutionary, Bolshevik leader, political theorist, and founding head of government of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union.…
Moments
- 1915 Commands the 19th Division at Gallipoli Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1915 Battle of Celaya Pancho Villa
- 1915 Opens Kochrab Ashram residence Mahatma Gandhi
- 1915 Received at Mayavaram Mahatma Gandhi
- 1915 Received by Bangalore citizens Mahatma Gandhi
- 1915 Starts Kochrab Ashram Mahatma Gandhi
- 1915 Privy Council service in Britain Edmund Barton
- 1915 Departure from wartime Trieste James Joyce
- 1915 Marriage to Vivienne Haigh-Wood T. S. Eliot
- 1915 Artillery transfer to Gorizia Erwin Schrödinger
- 1915 Stays at the Rumburk sanatorium Franz Kafka
- 1915 Death in Paris Porfirio Díaz
- 1915 Escape and underground work in Chita Mikhail Frunze
- 1915 Commands near the firing line at Chunuk Bair Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1915 Service on the Isonzo front Benito Mussolini
- 1915 Final T.C.B.S. meeting J. R. R. Tolkien
- 1915 Zimmerwald Conference Leon Trotsky
- 1915 Zimmerwald anti-war conference Vladimir Lenin
- 1915 Return to Paris after amputation Sarah Bernhardt
- 1915 Marriage to Sun Yat-sen Soong Ching-ling
- 1915 Marriage to Soong Ching-ling Sun Yat-sen
- 1915 Birth in Valparaíso Augusto Pinochet
- 1915 Peace Ship press conference Henry Ford
- 1915 Move to Bandol after Leslie's death Katherine Mansfield
- 1915 Retreat to Naco Pancho Villa
- 1915 Second Battle of Agua Prieta Pancho Villa
- 1915 Marriage to Rachele Guidi Benito Mussolini
- 1915 Birth at Hôpital Tenon Édith Piaf
- 1915 Departure from Bergen Henry Ford
- 1915 Departure on the Peace Ship Henry Ford
- 1915 Peace Ship arrival in Oslo Henry Ford
- 1915 Departure for Hilo Jack London
- 1915 Regiment posting in Santa Fe Juan Perón
- 1915 Villa Pauline stay Katherine Mansfield
- 1915 Lives in Galesburg Ronald Reagan
- 1915 Marriage to Edith Bolling Galt Woodrow Wilson