Historical figures in 1916

The atlas holds 50 people and 76 moments here, in 1916. The most recorded lives are Rabindranath Tagore, J. R. R. Tolkien and Pancho Villa. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Performers.

Notable people

1. Adolf Hitler

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   Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who led the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP), became German…

2. Agatha Christie

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   English novelist, playwright, and memoirist, internationally known for detective fiction featuring Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.…

3. Alexander Prokhorov

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   Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov was an Australian-born Soviet and Russian physicist whose work in quantum electronics helped lead to the maser and…

4. Alfred Deakin

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   Australian barrister, journalist, federation advocate and Australia’s second prime minister.…

5. B. R. Ambedkar

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   Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer, politician, principal architect of India’s Constitution, and a leading…

6. Charles de Gaulle

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   French army officer, leader of Free France during the Second World War, head of France's Provisional Government, and president of the French Fifth…

7. Charlie Chaplin

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   English actor, comedian, director, writer, producer and composer whose screen persona, the Tramp, became an international icon.…

8. C. V. Raman

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   Indian physicist Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888–1970), known for research on light scattering and for the Raman effect.…

9. Dwight D. Eisenhower

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   Dwight D. Eisenhower was a United States Army officer, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II, and the 34th president of the United…

10. Emiliano Zapata

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    Mexican revolutionary and agrarian leader of the Liberation Army of the South during the Mexican Revolution.…

11. Franz Kafka

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    German-language Jewish Czech writer whose fiction transformed modern literature. Born and educated in Prague, Kafka trained as a lawyer and worked…

12. Golda Meir

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    Golda Meir was an Israeli political leader who served as Israel’s prime minister from 1969 to 1974.…

13. Gough Whitlam

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    Edward Gough Whitlam was an Australian lawyer, Royal Australian Air Force navigator, Labor politician and the 21st prime minister of Australia.…

14. Grigori Rasputin

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    Russian mystic and faith healer whose rise from a Siberian peasant village to influence at the court of Nicholas II made him one of the most…

15. Helen Keller

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    Helen Adams Keller was an American deafblind author, lecturer, disability-rights advocate, and political activist.…

16. Henry Ford

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    American industrialist and founder of Ford Motor Company. Ford grew up in rural Michigan, worked in Detroit engineering and machine shops, developed…

17. Hermann Hesse

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    German-Swiss poet, novelist, essayist, and painter. Hesse’s documented life moved between Württemberg, Switzerland, Italy, and Southeast Asia:…

18. Jack London

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    2 moments here

    American novelist, journalist, sailor, war correspondent, and socialist activist. Born John Griffith Chaney in San Francisco, he grew up around the…

19. James Joyce

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    Irish novelist, poet, and critic whose life moved between Dublin, continental Europe, and Switzerland.…

20. J. R. R. Tolkien

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    John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English philologist, university professor, and author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.…

21. Katherine Mansfield

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    Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp, later Murry) was a New Zealand modernist short-story writer, poet, critic and diarist.…

22. Ludwig Wittgenstein

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    Austro-British philosopher whose work in logic, language, mathematics, and mind shaped twentieth-century analytic philosophy.…

23. Marie Curie

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    Polish-born, naturalized-French physicist and chemist who pioneered research on radioactivity. With Pierre Curie she discovered polonium and radium.…

24. Maurice Wilkins

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    New Zealand-born British physicist and biophysicist whose career ran from solid-state physics and wartime atomic research to X-ray diffraction…

Moments

1. 1916 Wrote first detective novel Agatha Christie
2. 1916 Medical journey to London Alfred Deakin
3. 1916 Medical journey to the United States Alfred Deakin
4. 1916 Teaching and study in Milwaukee Golda Meir
5. 1916 Lecture at Mabel Tainter Memorial Building Helen Keller
6. 1916 Peace speech in New York Helen Keller
7. 1916 Return from the Peace Ship mission Henry Ford
8. 1916 Psychoanalysis in Lucerne Hermann Hesse
9. 1916 Garsington visits Katherine Mansfield
10. 1916 Trains radiology assistants in Paris Marie Curie
11. 1916 Medical studies in Cape Town Max Theiler
12. 1916 Move to Moscow Mikhail Frunze
13. 1916 Serves in Edirne after Gallipoli Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
14. 1916 Takes command in Diyarbakır Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
15. 1916 Schooling in Los Angeles Octavio Paz
16. 1916 Joins Bihar and Odisha High Court Rajendra Prasad
17. 1916 Legal practice at Bhagalpur Rajendra Prasad
18. 1916 Lucknow Congress session meeting with Gandhi Rajendra Prasad
19. 1916 Alexanderplatz interrogation cells Rosa Luxemburg
20. 1916 Confinement at Wronki fortress Rosa Luxemburg
21. 1916 French legation service in Beijing Saint-John Perse
22. 1916 Return to Iquique Salvador Allende
23. 1916 Research scholar at Calcutta University Satyendra Nath Bose
24. 1916 Family move to Allahabad Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
25. 1916 Secondary schooling in Surabaya Sukarno
26. 1916 Commands troops at Ploegsteert Winston Churchill
27. 1916 Lectures at Banaras Hindu University C. V. Raman
28. 1916 Death in León Rubén Darío
29. 1916 Relocated to Zurich Vladimir Lenin
30. 1916 Captured at Douaumont Charles de Gaulle
31. 1916 Works at his Mutual studio Charlie Chaplin
32. 1916 Marriage to Edith Bratt J. R. R. Tolkien
33. 1916 Front-line Russian-front posting Ludwig Wittgenstein
34. 1916 Battle of Guerrero Pancho Villa
35. 1916 Raid on Columbus Pancho Villa
36. 1916 Seefeldstrasse residence James Joyce
37. 1916 Higher Tregerthen, Cornwall Katherine Mansfield
38. 1916 Birth at Ellawala Walawwa Sirimavo Bandaranaike
39. 1916 Return to Shanghai Sun Yat-sen
40. 1916 Kiental anti-war conference Vladimir Lenin
41. 1916 Seminar paper at Columbia B. R. Ambedkar
42. 1916 Lands in Kobe for Japanese lecture tour Rabindranath Tagore
43. 1916 Received in Rangoon Rabindranath Tagore
44. 1916 Return to Shanghai with Sun Soong Ching-ling
45. 1916 Arrival in London for legal and economic study B. R. Ambedkar
46. 1916 Headquarters established at Tlaltizapán Emiliano Zapata
47. 1916 British Expeditionary Force depot at Étaples J. R. R. Tolkien
48. 1916 Joins battalion at Rubempré J. R. R. Tolkien
49. 1916 Mylor residence Katherine Mansfield
50. 1916 Birth in the Atherton Tableland Alexander Prokhorov

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