Historical figures in 1919

The atlas holds 66 people and 102 moments here, in 1919. The most recorded lives are Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Woodrow Wilson and Vladimir Lenin. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Scientists.

Notable people

  1. Igor Tamm

    in 1919

    1 moment here

    Soviet theoretical physicist and 1958 Nobel laureate in Physics, noted for work on Cherenkov radiation, nuclear physics, and controlled thermonuclear…

  2. James Joyce

    in 1919

    1 moment here

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

  3. Joan Fontaine

    in 1919

    1 moment here

    British-American actress Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland, professionally Joan Fontaine, was an Academy Award-winning performer known especially for…

  4. John Maynard Keynes

    in 1919

    1 moment here

    English economist, civil servant, Cambridge fellow, and British international negotiator whose work shaped modern macroeconomics.…

  5. John Steinbeck

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    American novelist, journalist, and war correspondent whose life and work ranged from California’s Salinas Valley and Monterey Peninsula to wartime…

  6. Jomo Kenyatta

    in 1919

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    Jomo Kenyatta (c. 1897–1978) was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who became Kenya’s first prime minister in 1963 and first president…

  7. Jorge Luis Borges

    in 1919

    3 moments here

    Argentine writer, poet, essayist, translator, lecturer, librarian, and critic. Borges was born in Buenos Aires, lived in Switzerland and Spain during…

  8. José Raúl Capablanca

    in 1919

    2 moments here

    Cuban chess player and diplomat, world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. This chronology records documented physical presence at places of birth,…

  9. J. R. R. Tolkien

    in 1919

    1 moment here

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

  10. Katherine Mansfield

    in 1919

    2 moments here

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

  11. Kim Il Sung

    in 1919

    1 moment here

    Kim Il Sung (born Kim Song Ju) was a Korean communist guerrilla leader, North Korean political leader, and founder of the Democratic People’s…

  12. Lawrence Bragg

    in 1919

    1 moment here

    Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer. Bragg shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics with his father, William Henry Bragg, for…

  13. Leon Trotsky

    in 1919

    2 moments here

    Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet political leader, Marxist theorist, and organizer of the Red Army.…

  14. Ludwig Wittgenstein

    in 1919

    2 moments here

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

  15. Mao Zedong

    in 1919

    2 moments here

    Chinese communist revolutionary and political leader who led the Chinese Communist Party and founded the People’s Republic of China.…

  16. Marie Curie

    in 1919

    1 moment here

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

  17. Max Weber

    in 1919

    1 moment here

    German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist whose work on rationalisation, bureaucracy, religion, capitalism, and social action…

  18. Mikhail Kalashnikov

    in 1919

    1 moment here

    Soviet and Russian small-arms designer, military engineer, and lieutenant general, best known for the AK-47 and later Kalashnikov weapon systems.…

  19. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

    in 1919

    1 moment here

    Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980) was the last shah of Iran, reigning from 1941 until the Iranian Revolution of 1979.…

  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

    in 1919

    9 moments here

    Ottoman officer, Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, founder of the Republic of Turkey, and its first president.…

  21. Nikola Tesla

    in 1919

    1 moment here

    Serbian-American engineer and inventor best known for foundational work on alternating-current power systems, the induction motor, high-frequency…

  22. Olivia de Havilland

    in 1919

    2 moments here

    Olivia de Havilland was a British-American-French actress whose career ranged from California community theatre and Warner Bros.…

  23. Pablo Picasso

    in 1919

    1 moment here

    Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and co-founder of Cubism. Born in Málaga, Picasso trained in A Coruña, Barcelona, and Madrid…

  24. Pancho Villa

    in 1919

    1 moment here

    Francisco “Pancho” Villa (José Doroteo Arango Arámbula) was a Mexican revolutionary, guerrilla leader, military commander, and provisional governor…

Moments

  1. 1919 Assassination at Hacienda de San Juan Emiliano Zapata
  2. 1919 Lived in Sorengo Hermann Hesse
  3. 1919 Returned to the Tabata home Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
  4. 1919 Family break in San Francisco Sergei Rachmaninoff
  5. 1919 Return to Tianjin Zhou Enlai
  6. 1919 Birth in Los Toldos Eva Perón
  7. 1919 Moved into Casa Camuzzi Hermann Hesse
  8. 1919 Family relocation to Badaogou Kim Il Sung
  9. 1919 Departs Istanbul aboard Bandırma Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  10. 1919 Lands at Samsun Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  11. 1919 Moves from Samsun to Havza Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  12. 1919 Lives at the Savoy while designing Le Tricorne Pablo Picasso
  13. 1919 First visit to Nagasaki Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
  14. 1919 Citizenship celebration speech Selma Lagerlöf
  15. 1919 Marriage to Bess Wallace Harry S. Truman
  16. 1919 Arrival in Paris Ho Chi Minh
  17. 1919 Arrives in Amasya Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  18. 1919 Third Battle of Ciudad Juárez Pancho Villa
  19. 1919 Belgian postwar visit Woodrow Wilson
  20. 1919 Paris Peace Conference, final session Woodrow Wilson
  21. 1919 Birth in Auckland Edmund Hillary
  22. 1919 Taken off active service at Fovant J. R. R. Tolkien
  23. 1919 Southern Front assignment Leon Trotsky
  24. 1919 Chairs the Erzurum Congress Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  25. 1919 Resigns from the Ottoman Army in Erzurum Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  26. 1919 Return through New York Harbor Woodrow Wilson
  27. 1919 Birth of daughter Rosalind Agatha Christie
  28. 1919 Postwar visit to Belgium Herbert Hoover
  29. 1919 Return from captivity Ludwig Wittgenstein
  30. 1919 Returns to Tampico Ronald Reagan
  31. 1919 Departs Green Island on Vagabonds trip Thomas Edison
  32. 1919 Upper Peninsula fishing and camping trip Ernest Hemingway
  33. 1919 Journey to San Remo Katherine Mansfield
  34. 1919 Move to Ospedaletti Katherine Mansfield
  35. 1919 Teacher training Ludwig Wittgenstein
  36. 1919 Arrives in Sivas Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  37. 1919 League of Nations speech in Denver Woodrow Wilson
  38. 1919 League of Nations speech in Pueblo Woodrow Wilson
  39. 1919 Gives first DAP public speech Adolf Hitler
  40. 1919 Death at South Yarra home Alfred Deakin
  41. 1919 Birth in Kermanshah Doris Lessing
  42. 1919 Return to Trieste after the war James Joyce
  43. 1919 Birth in Tehran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
  44. 1919 Returns to Amasya for negotiations Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  45. 1919 Reported birth at Shilabo Siad Barre
  46. 1919 Return to Kansas City Walt Disney
  47. 1919 Returns to Želízy and writes Letter to His Father Franz Kafka
  48. 1919 Truman and Jacobson Haberdashery Harry S. Truman
  49. 1919 Birth in Kurya Mikhail Kalashnikov
  50. 1919 Return to Japan for Imperial Hotel construction Frank Lloyd Wright

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