Historical figures in 1921
The atlas holds 72 people and 156 moments here, in 1921. The most recorded lives are Warren G. Harding, Marie Curie and Hirohito. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Educators.
Notable people
Hirohito
in 1921
9 moments here
Hirohito (posthumously Emperor Shōwa) was Emperor of Japan from 25 December 1926 until his death in 1989.…
Ho Chi Minh
in 1921
1 moment here
Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman, born Nguyễn Sinh Cung, who led the Việt Minh, proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945, and…
Howard Florey
in 1921
2 moments here
Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who led the Oxford team that developed penicillin into a practical therapeutic drug.…
Igor Stravinsky
in 1921
2 moments here
Russian-born composer, conductor, and pianist who became a French citizen in 1934 and an American citizen in 1945.…
Jean-Bédel Bokassa
in 1921
1 moment here
Central African military officer and politician who seized power in the Central African Republic in 1966, served as president, and proclaimed himself…
Jiddu Krishnamurti
in 1921
1 moment here
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 Maynard Keynes
in 1921
2 moments here
English economist, civil servant, Cambridge fellow, and British international negotiator whose work shaped modern macroeconomics.…
Jorge Luis Borges
in 1921
1 moment here
Argentine writer, poet, essayist, translator, lecturer, librarian, and critic. Borges was born in Buenos Aires, lived in Switzerland and Spain during…
José Raúl Capablanca
in 1921
1 moment here
Cuban chess player and diplomat, world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. This chronology records documented physical presence at places of birth,…
Kahlil Gibran
in 1921
1 moment here
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…
Katharine Hepburn
in 1921
1 moment here
American stage, film, and television actress whose career ran from 1928 to 1995. Hepburn was born in Hartford, Connecticut, educated at Bryn Mawr…
Katherine Mansfield
in 1921
2 moments here
Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp, later Murry) was a New Zealand modernist short-story writer, poet, critic and diarist.…
Mahatma Gandhi
in 1921
2 moments here
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, political ethicist, and leader of mass nonviolent resistance.…
Mao Zedong
in 1921
3 moments here
Chinese communist revolutionary and political leader who led the Chinese Communist Party and founded the People’s Republic of China.…
Marie Curie
in 1921
15 moments here
Polish-born, naturalized-French physicist and chemist who pioneered research on radioactivity. With Pierre Curie she discovered polonium and radium.…
Maxim Gorky
in 1921
2 moments here
Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov, known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, journalist, publisher, and political activist.…
Miguel Ángel Asturias
in 1921
1 moment here
Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright, journalist, and 1967 Nobel laureate. Asturias’s documented life moved between Guatemala, Europe,…
Mikhail Frunze
in 1921
3 moments here
Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze was a Bolshevik revolutionary, Red Army commander, Soviet military theorist, and senior state official.…
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
in 1921
2 moments here
Ottoman officer, Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, founder of the Republic of Turkey, and its first president.…
Ngô Đình Diệm
in 1921
1 moment here
Ngô Đình Diệm was a Vietnamese civil servant, nationalist politician, prime minister of the State of Vietnam, and first president of the Republic of…
Niels Bohr
in 1921
1 moment here
Danish theoretical physicist whose work on atomic structure and quantum theory earned the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics.…
Nikita Khrushchev
in 1921
1 moment here
Soviet Communist Party leader and chairman of the Council of Ministers. Khrushchev rose from industrial work in the Donbas through party posts in…
Pablo Neruda
in 1921
1 moment here
Chilean poet, diplomat, senator, Communist political figure, and 1971 Nobel laureate. Born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, he lived and…
Pablo Picasso
in 1921
1 moment here
Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and co-founder of Cubism. Born in Málaga, Picasso trained in A Coruña, Barcelona, and Madrid…
Moments
- 1921 Recuperation and writing in Lausanne T. S. Eliot
- 1921 Retirement in Kalorama Woodrow Wilson
- 1921 Relationship in Hongo Yasunari Kawabata
- 1921 Founding Bunka Gakuin Yosano Akiko
- 1921 Miners' strike reporting in London Zhou Enlai
- 1921 Visit to Edinburgh University Zhou Enlai
- 1921 Birth in Bobangui Jean-Bédel Bokassa
- 1921 Gandhi meeting in Gorakhpur Premchand
- 1921 World Championship match begins José Raúl Capablanca
- 1921 Easter visit to Greenwich Village Katharine Hepburn
- 1921 Tenth Communist Party Congress Mikhail Frunze
- 1921 Institute opening and residence Niels Bohr
- 1921 Move to Santiago for university Pablo Neruda
- 1921 Departure for Banaras Premchand
- 1921 Arrived in Shanghai Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- 1921 Departed Tokyo for China Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- 1921 Reached Moji before embarkation Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- 1921 Stopped in Osaka en route to China Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- 1921 Presidential inauguration Warren G. Harding
- 1921 Visit to Walter Reed Hospital Warren G. Harding
- 1921 Arrives in Gaza Winston Churchill
- 1921 Convenes Middle East conference in Cairo Winston Churchill
- 1921 Meets delegations in Jerusalem Winston Churchill
- 1921 Arrives in New York Albert Einstein
- 1921 Gives first American lecture at Columbia Albert Einstein
- 1921 Marriage in Calais Charles de Gaulle
- 1921 Study and factory work in La Garenne-Colombes Deng Xiaoping
- 1921 Writes from Matliary Franz Kafka
- 1921 Opens Maltese Parliament Hirohito
- 1921 Bolívar statue dedication Warren G. Harding
- 1921 Lectures at Princeton Albert Einstein
- 1921 First director of Liceo de Niñas Nº 6 Gabriela Mistral
- 1921 Arrival at Portsmouth Hirohito
- 1921 Arrival in London Hirohito
- 1921 Banquet at Buckingham Palace Hirohito
- 1921 Meeting at Windsor Castle Hirohito
- 1921 Visit to Edinburgh Hirohito
- 1921 Move to Biarritz Igor Stravinsky
- 1921 Swiss tuberculosis-treatment journey Katherine Mansfield
- 1921 Arrives in New York Harbor Marie Curie
- 1921 Boards Olympic at Cherbourg Marie Curie
- 1921 Honored at the American Museum of Natural History Marie Curie
- 1921 Inspects the Canonsburg radium plant Marie Curie
- 1921 Lectures at Vassar College Marie Curie
- 1921 Receives radium at the White House Marie Curie
- 1921 Visits Pittsburgh Marie Curie
- 1921 Visits the College of Physicians of Philadelphia Marie Curie
- 1921 Welcomed at Carnegie Hall Marie Curie
- 1921 Addresses the Swedish Academy Rabindranath Tagore
- 1921 Visited Hangzhou Ryūnosuke Akutagawa