Historical figures in 1918

The atlas holds 69 people and 118 moments here, in 1918. The most recorded lives are Vladimir Lenin, Katherine Mansfield and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Performers.

Notable people

1. Adolf Hitler

   in 1918

   2 moments here

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

2. Agatha Christie

   in 1918

   1 moment here

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

3. Alan Turing

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   1 moment here

   English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computing pioneer. Turing studied at Cambridge and Princeton, worked at Bletchley Park during the…

4. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

   in 1918

   1 moment here

   Soviet and Russian novelist, essayist, historian, dissident, and Nobel laureate whose writings on Soviet political repression and the Gulag made him…

5. Anwar Sadat

   in 1918

   1 moment here

   Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat was an Egyptian army officer, Free Officer, politician, and president of Egypt from 1970 until his assassination in 1981.…

6. Arthur Conan Doyle

   in 1918

   1 moment here

   Scottish-born British physician and writer best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh,…

7. Bertrand Russell

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   1 moment here

   Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, was an English philosopher, mathematician, logician, writer, and public campaigner.…

8. B. R. Ambedkar

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   1 moment here

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

9. Charles de Gaulle

   in 1918

   1 moment here

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

10. Charlie Chaplin

    in 1918

    2 moments here

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

11. Chiang Kai-shek

    in 1918

    1 moment here

    Chinese military commander, revolutionary, and statesman. Chiang Kai-shek led the Nationalist government of China through the Northern Expedition,…

12. Dwight D. Eisenhower

    in 1918

    1 moment here

    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…

13. Édith Piaf

    in 1918

    1 moment here

    French singer and lyricist Édith Giovanna Gassion, known as Édith Piaf, rose from street performance in Paris to international prominence in chanson…

14. Enrico Fermi

    in 1918

    1 moment here

    Italian and naturalized-American physicist whose documented movements trace a path from Rome and Pisa through European study in Göttingen and Leiden,…

15. Ernest Hemingway

    in 1918

    5 moments here

    American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Hemingway’s documented movements ranged from Illinois and Michigan to Italy in World War I,…

16. Errol Flynn

    in 1918

    1 moment here

    Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn was an Australian-born actor who became a major Hollywood star in swashbuckling and adventure films.…

17. Erwin Schrödinger

    in 1918

    1 moment here

    Austrian-Irish theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate whose work on wave mechanics and the Schrödinger equation became foundational to quantum…

18. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    in 1918

    1 moment here

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as New York state senator, assistant secretary of the Navy,…

19. Franz Kafka

    in 1918

    1 moment here

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

20. Gabriela Mistral

    in 1918

    1 moment here

    Chilean poet, educator, journalist, and diplomat born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga. Mistral taught across Chile, worked on Mexican educational reform,…

21. Gamal Abdel Nasser

    in 1918

    1 moment here

    Egyptian army officer, leader of the 1952 Egyptian Revolution, and president of Egypt from 1954 until his death.…

22. Golda Meir

    in 1918

    1 moment here

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

23. Harry S. Truman

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    1 moment here

    Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953.…

24. Henry Ford

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    1 moment here

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

Moments

1. 1918 St Michael's primary school Alan Turing
2. 1918 Visit to Australian troops in France Arthur Conan Doyle
3. 1918 Imprisonment in Brixton Prison Bertrand Russell
4. 1918 Professor at Sydenham College B. R. Ambedkar
5. 1918 Campaigns for Liberty Bonds in New York Charlie Chaplin
6. 1918 Occupies the completed Chaplin Studios Charlie Chaplin
7. 1918 Joined Sun Yat-sen in Guangzhou Chiang Kai-shek
8. 1918 Assignment at Fort Leavenworth Dwight D. Eisenhower
9. 1918 Childhood care in Bernay Édith Piaf
10. 1918 Student residence at Scuola Normale Enrico Fermi
11. 1918 Milan munitions-factory rescue scene Ernest Hemingway
12. 1918 Recuperation in Milan Ernest Hemingway
13. 1918 Stationed at Fossalta di Piave Ernest Hemingway
14. 1918 Queen carnival appearance Errol Flynn
15. 1918 End of wartime service in Vienna Erwin Schrödinger
16. 1918 Director of the Punta Arenas girls’ lycée Gabriela Mistral
17. 1918 Birth in Bakos Gamal Abdel Nasser
18. 1918 American Jewish Congress convention Golda Meir
19. 1918 Siberian Intervention service Hideki Tojo
20. 1918 Family relocation to Hong Kong I. M. Pei
21. 1918 New York wartime tournament sequence José Raúl Capablanca
22. 1918 Returns to Oxford for dictionary work J. R. R. Tolkien
23. 1918 Esteban de Luca Unit assignment Juan Perón
24. 1918 Bandol treatment stay Katherine Mansfield
25. 1918 Recovery period at Looe Katherine Mansfield
26. 1918 Winter villa stay at Sanremo Katherine Mansfield
27. 1918 Address to deserters in Ryazan Leon Trotsky
28. 1918 Return to Petrograd from negotiations Leon Trotsky
29. 1918 Visit near Kazan Leon Trotsky
30. 1918 University and Ormond College residence Macfarlane Burnet
31. 1918 Class photograph at Viktoria-Luisen-Schule Marlene Dietrich
32. 1918 Debate with Joseph Schumpeter at Café Landtmann Max Weber
33. 1918 Political-economy teaching in Vienna Max Weber
34. 1918 Continues medical treatment in Vienna Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
35. 1918 Public-administration studies Ngô Đình Diệm
36. 1918 School relocated to Ranchi Paramahansa Yogananda
37. 1918 Residence on Pembroke Street P. L. Travers
38. 1918 Writing in Breslau prison Rosa Luxemburg
39. 1918 National Institute studies Salvador Allende
40. 1918 Women's-franchise resolution Sarojini Naidu
41. 1918 Professor at Maharaja's College Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
42. 1918 Relocation to Copenhagen Sergei Rachmaninoff
43. 1918 Settlement in Madras Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
44. 1918 Researches at Key West Naval Station Thomas Edison
45. 1918 Kheda tax-resistance campaign Vallabhbhai Patel
46. 1918 Moved into the Moscow Kremlin Vladimir Lenin
47. 1918 Survived Petrograd shooting Vladimir Lenin
48. 1918 Living at Yale with Phil Stone William Faulkner
49. 1918 Royal Air Force recruit-depot training William Faulkner
50. 1918 Fourteen Points address Woodrow Wilson

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