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
Herbert Hoover
in 1920
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Herbert Clark Hoover was an American mining engineer, international relief administrator, U.S.…
H. G. Wells
in 1920
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Herbert George Wells was an English novelist, journalist, historian, teacher, and social critic.…
Ho Chi Minh
in 1920
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Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman, born Nguyễn Sinh Cung, who led the Việt Minh, proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945, and…
Igor Stravinsky
in 1920
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Russian-born composer, conductor, and pianist who became a French citizen in 1934 and an American citizen in 1945.…
Igor Tamm
in 1920
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Soviet theoretical physicist and 1958 Nobel laureate in Physics, noted for work on Cherenkov radiation, nuclear physics, and controlled thermonuclear…
Isaac Asimov
in 1920
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American writer and biochemist best known for science fiction, popular-science writing, and the Foundation and Robot series.…
James Joyce
in 1920
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Irish novelist, poet, and critic whose life moved between Dublin, continental Europe, and Switzerland.…
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
in 1920
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Peruvian diplomat and politician who became the fifth Secretary-General of the United Nations (1982–1991).…
Jiddu Krishnamurti
in 1920
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Indian philosopher, speaker, and writer. Raised within the Theosophical Society, he became head of the Order of the Star in the East, dissolved it at…
John Eccles
in 1920
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Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher John Carew Eccles (1903–1997) was a Nobel laureate noted for research on synaptic transmission.…
John F. Kennedy
in 1920
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy was an American naval officer, journalist, congressman, senator, and the 35th president of the United States.…
Jorge Luis Borges
in 1920
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Argentine writer, poet, essayist, translator, lecturer, librarian, and critic. Borges was born in Buenos Aires, lived in Switzerland and Spain during…
J. R. R. Tolkien
in 1920
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English philologist, university professor, and author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.…
Juan Perón
in 1920
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Juan Domingo Perón was an Argentine army officer and politician who served as president of Argentina from 1946 to 1955 and again from 1973 until his…
Kahlil Gibran
in 1920
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Lebanese-American writer, poet, and visual artist, best known for The Prophet. Born in Bsharri, he emigrated to Boston as a child, studied in Beirut…
Katherine Mansfield
in 1920
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Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp, later Murry) was a New Zealand modernist short-story writer, poet, critic and diarist.…
Lars Onsager
in 1920
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Norwegian-American physical chemist and theoretical physicist whose career took him from Norway and Switzerland to major American universities.…
Ludwig Wittgenstein
in 1920
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Austro-British philosopher whose work in logic, language, mathematics, and mind shaped twentieth-century analytic philosophy.…
Lu Xun
in 1920
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Lu Xun (Zhou Shuren; 1881–1936) was a Chinese writer, critic, translator, lecturer, and civil servant whose work was central to modern Chinese…
Mao Zedong
in 1920
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Chinese communist revolutionary and political leader who led the Chinese Communist Party and founded the People’s Republic of China.…
Marlene Dietrich
in 1920
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German-American actress and singer Marlene Dietrich (Marie Magdalene Dietrich) was born in Berlin and achieved international fame through stage,…
Max Planck
in 1920
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German theoretical physicist and originator of quantum theory. Planck’s documented life moved from Kiel to Munich, Berlin, Kiel again, and Berlin,…
Max Weber
in 1920
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German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist whose work on rationalisation, bureaucracy, religion, capitalism, and social action…
Mikhail Frunze
in 1920
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Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze was a Bolshevik revolutionary, Red Army commander, Soviet military theorist, and senior state official.…
Moments
- 1920 Opens the Grand National Assembly Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1920 Night at Sabarmati Ashram Rabindranath Tagore
- 1920 Birth in Benares Ravi Shankar
- 1920 Death at Chetpet Srinivasa Ramanujan
- 1920 Birth in Qingdao Toshiro Mifune
- 1920 Second Fascist congress Benito Mussolini
- 1920 Depressed Classes conference at Nagpur B. R. Ambedkar
- 1920 Birth in Wadowice Pope John Paul II
- 1920 Normalcy speech to the Home Market Club Warren G. Harding
- 1920 Nobel Prize visit to Stockholm Max Planck
- 1920 Death in Munich Max Weber
- 1920 Lectures at Oxford University Rabindranath Tagore
- 1920 Republican convention campaign supervision Warren G. Harding
- 1920 Return to London for study B. R. Ambedkar
- 1920 Vice-presidential nomination notification Calvin Coolidge
- 1920 Hollyhock House site visit Frank Lloyd Wright
- 1920 Spends several days with Milena in Vienna Franz Kafka
- 1920 Arrival and residence in Paris James Joyce
- 1920 Departure from Trieste for Paris James Joyce
- 1920 Armistice negotiations at Sabinas Pancho Villa
- 1920 Retirement at Hacienda de Canutillo Pancho Villa
- 1920 Visits Rammohun Roy's grave Rabindranath Tagore
- 1920 Completes Northeast Passage at Nome Roald Amundsen
- 1920 Spoke at the Second Comintern Congress Vladimir Lenin
- 1920 British delegation to Soviet Russia Bertrand Russell
- 1920 Letter written from London B. R. Ambedkar
- 1920 Meets Milena at Gmünd Franz Kafka
- 1920 Guest of Albert Kahn near Paris Rabindranath Tagore
- 1920 Meeting James Joyce T. S. Eliot
- 1920 Physics department admission Enrico Fermi
- 1920 Chicago editorial work Ernest Hemingway
- 1920 Lectures at Copenhagen University Ernest Rutherford
- 1920 Associate professorship in Stuttgart Erwin Schrödinger
- 1920 Campaigns in Boston Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1920 Campaigns in Clarksburg Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1920 Villa Isola Bella at Menton Katherine Mansfield
- 1920 Legal studies at Caen Pridi Banomyong
- 1920 Attends The Hague congress Sigmund Freud
- 1920 Entered Tokyo Imperial University Yasunari Kawabata
- 1920 Spiritualist lectures in Melbourne Arthur Conan Doyle
- 1920 Arrival at Marseille Deng Xiaoping
- 1920 Campaigns in Cincinnati Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1920 Campaigns in Denver Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1920 Meeting with Lenin at the Kremlin H. G. Wells
- 1920 Congress address in Boston Paramahansa Yogananda
- 1920 Departure from Shanghai for Europe Zhou Enlai
- 1920 Aerial meet at Daugherty Field Amelia Earhart
- 1920 First airplane ride Amelia Earhart
- 1920 Begins treatment in the High Tatras Franz Kafka
- 1920 Congress of Tours delegate Ho Chi Minh