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
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
in 1920
1 moment here
Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a barrister and political leader who led the All-India Muslim League and became Pakistan’s first governor-general after…
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
in 1920
2 moments here
Ottoman officer, Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, founder of the Republic of Turkey, and its first president.…
Pablo Picasso
in 1920
1 moment here
Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and co-founder of Cubism. Born in Málaga, Picasso trained in A Coruña, Barcelona, and Madrid…
Pancho Villa
in 1920
2 moments here
Francisco “Pancho” Villa (José Doroteo Arango Arámbula) was a Mexican revolutionary, guerrilla leader, military commander, and provisional governor…
Paramahansa Yogananda
in 1920
3 moments here
Indian and American Hindu monk, yogi, teacher, and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship and Yogoda Satsanga Society of India.…
Pearl S. Buck
in 1920
1 moment here
American writer, humanitarian, and activist whose life was divided between the United States and China before she became an internationally prominent…
Pope John Paul II
in 1920
1 moment here
Karol Józef Wojtyła (1920–2005), Pope John Paul II from 1978, was a Polish Catholic priest, bishop, cardinal, and pope.…
Pran
in 1920
1 moment here
Pran Krishan Sikand, known mononymously as Pran, was an Indian actor whose screen career extended from pre-Partition Lahore to Hindi cinema in…
Pridi Banomyong
in 1920
1 moment here
Thai lawyer, political leader, regent, prime minister, and founder of Thammasat University. A civilian leader of the 1932 Siamese Revolution, he…
Rabindranath Tagore
in 1920
4 moments here
Bengali poet, novelist, dramatist, composer, painter, philosopher, social reformer, and educationist.…
Ravi Shankar
in 1920
1 moment here
Indian sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar (1920–2012) was a leading exponent of Hindustani classical music whose performances, teaching, recordings,…
Roald Amundsen
in 1920
1 moment here
Norwegian polar explorer Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (1872–1928) led the first successful transit of the Northwest Passage, reached the South…
Ronald Reagan
in 1920
1 moment here
American broadcaster, actor, labor leader, governor of California, and 40th president of the United States.…
Ruhollah Khomeini
in 1920
1 moment here
Iranian Shia cleric, revolutionary leader, and first Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran.…
Saint-John Perse
in 1920
1 moment here
Saint-John Perse was the pen name of Alexis Léger, a French poet and diplomat. Born in Guadeloupe, he spent formative years in Pau and Bordeaux,…
Sergei Rachmaninoff
in 1920
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…
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
in 1920
1 moment here
Bangladeshi political leader, founding president of Bangladesh, and prime minister. His documented life moved from childhood and schooling in Bengal…
Sigmund Freud
in 1920
1 moment here
Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis. This chronology traces documented locations from his Moravian birthplace and Viennese education…
Srinivasa Ramanujan
in 1920
2 moments here
Indian mathematician whose documented life moved between Tamil Nadu, southern India, England, and back to India.…
Sun Yat-sen
in 1920
1 moment here
Chinese physician, revolutionary, and political thinker who founded the Republic of China and the Kuomintang.…
Syngman Rhee
in 1920
1 moment here
Syngman Rhee was a Korean independence activist and the first president of the Republic of Korea, serving from 1948 until his resignation in 1960.…
Toshiro Mifune
in 1920
1 moment here
Japanese actor, producer, and director whose career spanned 1947–1995. Born in Qingdao, he grew up in Dalian, served in the Imperial Japanese Army…
T. S. Eliot
in 1920
1 moment here
Thomas Stearns Eliot was a St. Louis-born poet, critic, editor, and playwright who studied in Massachusetts, Paris, Germany, and Oxford before making…
Tunku Abdul Rahman
in 1920
1 moment here
Malaysian statesman, UMNO leader, chief minister of the Federation of Malaya, and first prime minister of Malaya and Malaysia.…
Moments
- 1920 Meets the Istanbul delegation at Bilecik Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1920 Settles in Dixon Ronald Reagan
- 1920 Return to Guangzhou military government Sun Yat-sen
- 1920 Acting presidency in Shanghai Syngman Rhee
- 1920 Confers with Harding at Marion William Howard Taft
- 1920 Arrival at Marseille Zhou Enlai