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
Max Theiler
in 1916
1 moment here
South African-American virologist and physician whose work at Harvard, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Yale contributed to the development of the 17D…
Mikhail Frunze
in 1916
1 moment here
Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze was a Bolshevik revolutionary, Red Army commander, Soviet military theorist, and senior state official.…
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
in 1916
1 moment here
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 1916
2 moments here
Ottoman officer, Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, founder of the Republic of Turkey, and its first president.…
Octavio Paz
in 1916
1 moment here
Mexican poet, essayist, editor, and diplomat whose international postings and teaching appointments connected Mexico City, the United States, Europe,…
Olivia de Havilland
in 1916
1 moment here
Olivia de Havilland was a British-American-French actress whose career ranged from California community theatre and Warner Bros.…
Pablo Picasso
in 1916
1 moment here
Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and co-founder of Cubism. Born in Málaga, Picasso trained in A Coruña, Barcelona, and Madrid…
Pancho Villa
in 1916
4 moments here
Francisco “Pancho” Villa (José Doroteo Arango Arámbula) was a Mexican revolutionary, guerrilla leader, military commander, and provisional governor…
Premchand
in 1916
1 moment here
Dhanpat Rai Srivastava (1880–1936), known by the pen name Premchand, was an Indian Hindi and Urdu writer.…
Rabindranath Tagore
in 1916
5 moments here
Bengali poet, novelist, dramatist, composer, painter, philosopher, social reformer, and educationist.…
Rajendra Prasad
in 1916
3 moments here
Indian lawyer, independence leader, journalist and statesman who became the first President of India, serving from 1950 to 1962.…
Rosa Luxemburg
in 1916
2 moments here
Polish-born, naturalised-German Marxist theorist, socialist organiser, anti-war activist, and revolutionary.…
Rubén Darío
in 1916
1 moment here
Nicaraguan poet, journalist, and diplomat Félix Rubén García Sarmiento, known as Rubén Darío, was a central initiator of Spanish-language Modernismo.…
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
in 1916
1 moment here
Japanese short-story writer of the Taishō period, born Ryūnosuke Niihara in Tokyo and adopted into the Akutagawa family.…
Saint-John Perse
in 1916
1 moment here
Saint-John Perse was the pen name of Alexis Léger, a French poet and diplomat. Born in Guadeloupe, he spent formative years in Pau and Bordeaux,…
Salvador Allende
in 1916
1 moment here
Chilean physician and socialist politician who served as president of Chile from 3 November 1970 until his death during the 11 September 1973 coup.…
Satyendra Nath Bose
in 1916
1 moment here
Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician whose 1924 work founded Bose-Einstein statistics.…
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
in 1916
1 moment here
Sri Lankan stateswoman and three-time prime minister of Ceylon/Sri Lanka. Born Sirima Ratwatte in Ratnapura, she became the world’s first woman…
Soong Ching-ling
in 1916
1 moment here
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…
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
in 1916
1 moment here
Indian-American astrophysicist whose work established the Chandrasekhar limit and ranged across stellar structure, stellar dynamics, radiative…
Sukarno
in 1916
1 moment here
Sukarno (1901–1970) was an Indonesian nationalist, revolutionary, engineer, and the first president of Indonesia.…
Sun Yat-sen
in 1916
1 moment here
Chinese physician, revolutionary, and political thinker who founded the Republic of China and the Kuomintang.…
Thomas Edison
in 1916
1 moment here
American inventor and industrialist whose laboratories developed and commercialized technologies in telegraphy, recorded sound, electric lighting and…
Vladimir Lenin
in 1916
2 moments here
Russian Marxist revolutionary, Bolshevik leader, political theorist, and founding head of government of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union.…
Moments
- 1916 Marriage to Mamie Doud Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 1916 Holidays with Felice in Marienbad Franz Kafka
- 1916 Birth at Ngara Gough Whitlam
- 1916 Return to San Francisco on Matsonia Jack London
- 1916 Somme service from Bouzincourt J. R. R. Tolkien
- 1916 Birth in Tokyo Olivia de Havilland
- 1916 Moves to Montrouge studio Pablo Picasso
- 1916 Assistant Master at Normal High School Premchand
- 1916 Tours Adirondacks and Vermont Thomas Edison
- 1916 Deployed to Somme near Bapaume Adolf Hitler
- 1916 Residence at 3 Gower Street Katherine Mansfield
- 1916 Temporary capture of Chihuahua City Pancho Villa
- 1916 Arrives in Seattle Rabindranath Tagore
- 1916 Study at Gray's Inn and LSE B. R. Ambedkar
- 1916 Battle at Regina Trench J. R. R. Tolkien
- 1916 Meditates among Santa Barbara orange groves Rabindranath Tagore
- 1916 San Francisco lecture stay Rabindranath Tagore
- 1916 Reconciles briefly with Roosevelt William Howard Taft
- 1916 Reads In the Penal Colony in Munich Franz Kafka
- 1916 Writes in Golden Lane Franz Kafka
- 1916 Death at Beauty Ranch Jack London
- 1916 Murder at the Moika Palace Grigori Rasputin
- 1916 Birth in Pongaroa Maurice Wilkins
- 1916 Lucknow Pact joint session Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- 1916 Third capture of Torreón Pancho Villa
- 1916 Began teaching at the Naval Engineering School Ryūnosuke Akutagawa