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
Pridi Banomyong
in 1919
1 moment here
Thai lawyer, political leader, regent, prime minister, and founder of Thammasat University. A civilian leader of the 1932 Siamese Revolution, he…
Ronald Reagan
in 1919
1 moment here
American broadcaster, actor, labor leader, governor of California, and 40th president of the United States.…
Rosa Luxemburg
in 1919
3 moments here
Polish-born, naturalised-German Marxist theorist, socialist organiser, anti-war activist, and revolutionary.…
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
in 1919
2 moments here
Japanese short-story writer of the Taishō period, born Ryūnosuke Niihara in Tokyo and adopted into the Akutagawa family.…
Salvador Allende
in 1919
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.…
Sarojini Naidu
in 1919
1 moment here
Indian poet, nationalist, women’s-rights advocate, president of the Indian National Congress, and first governor of the United Provinces.…
Selma Lagerlöf
in 1919
1 moment here
Swedish writer, teacher, Nobel laureate, and women’s-suffrage speaker. Lagerlöf was born at Mårbacka in Värmland, trained in Stockholm, taught in…
Sergei Rachmaninoff
in 1919
1 moment here
Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Born in the Novgorod Governorate of the Russian Empire, he studied and worked chiefly in Saint…
Siad Barre
in 1919
1 moment here
Mohammed Siad Barre was a Somali military officer and president of Somalia from 1969 to 1991.…
Srinivasa Ramanujan
in 1919
1 moment here
Indian mathematician whose documented life moved between Tamil Nadu, southern India, England, and back to India.…
Theodore Roosevelt
in 1919
1 moment here
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1858–1919) was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909.…
Thomas Edison
in 1919
1 moment here
American inventor and industrialist whose laboratories developed and commercialized technologies in telegraphy, recorded sound, electric lighting and…
Virginia Woolf
in 1919
1 moment here
English novelist, essayist, critic and publisher; a central figure in modernist literature and the Bloomsbury Group.…
Vladimir Lenin
in 1919
3 moments here
Russian Marxist revolutionary, Bolshevik leader, political theorist, and founding head of government of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union.…
Walt Disney
in 1919
1 moment here
Walter Elias Disney was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur. His documented movements include childhood residences in…
William Faulkner
in 1919
1 moment here
American novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and Nobel laureate whose work was closely associated with Oxford and north Mississippi.…
Woodrow Wilson
in 1919
9 moments here
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American academic, governor of New Jersey, and the 28th president of the United States.…
Zhou Enlai
in 1919
2 moments here
Chinese revolutionary, statesman, and diplomat who served as the first premier of the People’s Republic of China from 1949 until his death.…
Moments
- 1919 Return to Beijing Mao Zedong
- 1919 Establishes the nationalist center in Ankara Mustafa Kemal Atatürk