Historical figures in 1920

The atlas holds 77 people and 106 moments here, in 1920. The most recorded lives are Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Rabindranath Tagore and Franz Kafka. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Educators.

Notable people

  1. Adolf Hitler

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    1 moment here

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

  2. Albert Luthuli

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    1 moment here

    Albert John Luthuli was a South African teacher, traditional leader, anti-apartheid activist, and President-General of the African National Congress.…

  3. Amelia Earhart

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    American aviator and author. Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas, became a leading aviation pioneer, crossed the Atlantic as a passenger in 1928,…

  4. Anatole France

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    1 moment here

    French poet, journalist, novelist, public intellectual, Académie française member, and 1921 Nobel laureate in Literature.…

  5. Arthur Conan Doyle

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

  6. Benito Mussolini

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    Italian journalist, Fascist leader, and dictator of Italy from 1922 until his removal in 1943.…

  7. Bertrand Russell

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    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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    4 moments here

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

  9. Calvin Coolidge

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    John Calvin Coolidge Jr. (1872–1933) was an American lawyer and Republican politician who served as governor of Massachusetts, vice president of the…

  10. Charles de Gaulle

    in 1920

    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…

  11. Deng Xiaoping

    in 1920

    1 moment here

    Chinese revolutionary, statesman, and paramount leader of the People’s Republic of China from 1978 to 1989.…

  12. Diego Rivera

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    1 moment here

    Mexican painter and muralist Diego Rivera was a central figure in Mexican muralism. His documented movements include study in Mexico and Europe, work…

  13. Dwight D. Eisenhower

    in 1920

    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…

  14. Edmund Barton

    in 1920

    1 moment here

    Australian barrister, federation leader, first prime minister of Australia (1901–1903), and founding justice of the High Court of Australia.…

  15. Edmund Hillary

    in 1920

    1 moment here

    New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, diplomat, and philanthropist. Hillary became internationally known after reaching Mount Everest’s summit with…

  16. Enrico Fermi

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    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,…

  17. Ernest Hemingway

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    1 moment here

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

  18. Ernest Rutherford

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    1 moment here

    New Zealand-born physicist and chemist whose research on radioactivity, the atomic nucleus, and nuclear transmutation helped establish nuclear…

  19. Erwin Schrödinger

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

  20. Federico Fellini

    in 1920

    1 moment here

    Italian film director and screenwriter whose career developed from caricature and comic writing in Rimini and Rome into internationally influential…

  21. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    in 1920

    4 moments here

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

  22. Frank Lloyd Wright

    in 1920

    1 moment here

    American architect, designer, writer, and educator whose career spanned more than seven decades.…

  23. Franz Kafka

    in 1920

    4 moments here

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

  24. Gabriela Mistral

    in 1920

    1 moment here

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

Moments

  1. 1920 Higher Teacher's Diploma study Albert Luthuli
  2. 1920 Marriage to Emma Laprévotte Anatole France
  3. 1920 Public spiritualism debate at Queen’s Hall Arthur Conan Doyle
  4. 1920 French Military Mission to Poland Charles de Gaulle
  5. 1920 Italian fresco-study journey Diego Rivera
  6. 1920 Service in the Panama Canal Zone Dwight D. Eisenhower
  7. 1920 Death at the Hydro Majestic Hotel Edmund Barton
  8. 1920 Family move to Tuakau Edmund Hillary
  9. 1920 Assistantship at the University of Jena Erwin Schrödinger
  10. 1920 Birth in Rimini Federico Fellini
  11. 1920 Spanish teacher at Temuco Gabriela Mistral
  12. 1920 Moved into Palo Alto home Herbert Hoover
  13. 1920 Postwar move to Carantec Igor Stravinsky
  14. 1920 Move to Odessa for academic work Igor Tamm
  15. 1920 Birth in Petrovichi Isaac Asimov
  16. 1920 Meeting Ezra Pound at Sirmione James Joyce
  17. 1920 Birth in Lima Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
  18. 1920 Study visit to Paris Jiddu Krishnamurti
  19. 1920 Medical student in Melbourne John Eccles
  20. 1920 Moved to Naples Road John F. Kennedy
  21. 1920 Arrival in Madrid Jorge Luis Borges
  22. 1920 Reader at the University of Leeds J. R. R. Tolkien
  23. 1920 Sargento Cabral Military School Juan Perón
  24. 1920 Re-creation of the New York Pen League Kahlil Gibran
  25. 1920 L'Hermitage clinic at Menton Katherine Mansfield
  26. 1920 Chemical-engineering student at NTH Lars Onsager
  27. 1920 First village teaching post Ludwig Wittgenstein
  28. 1920 Lecturer at Beijing colleges Lu Xun
  29. 1920 Travel through Tianjin, Jinan, and Qufu Mao Zedong
  30. 1920 Work and political contacts in Shanghai Mao Zedong
  31. 1920 Boarding school and violin study Marlene Dietrich
  32. 1920 Munich town-hall debate on The Decline of the West Max Weber
  33. 1920 Residence at Makurin House Mikhail Frunze
  34. 1920 Congress session at Nagpur Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  35. 1920 First stay at Juan-les-Pins Pablo Picasso
  36. 1920 Boston residence and teaching Paramahansa Yogananda
  37. 1920 Departure from Ranchi for Calcutta Paramahansa Yogananda
  38. 1920 Teaching residence at the University of Nanking Pearl S. Buck
  39. 1920 Seminary studies in Arak Ruhollah Khomeini
  40. 1920 Journey in Outer Mongolia and the Gobi Saint-John Perse
  41. 1920 Holiday in Goshen Sergei Rachmaninoff
  42. 1920 Final treatment in Chetpet Srinivasa Ramanujan
  43. 1920 Departure for higher education in Britain Tunku Abdul Rahman
  44. 1920 Front-porch presidential campaign Warren G. Harding
  45. 1920 Presents the NSDAP 25-point program Adolf Hitler
  46. 1920 Villa Flora at Menton Katherine Mansfield
  47. 1920 Birth in Lahore Pran
  48. 1920 Depressed Classes conference at Mangaon B. R. Ambedkar
  49. 1920 Birth at Tungipara Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
  50. 1920 Takes a cure in Merano Franz Kafka

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