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
Premchand
in 1921
2 moments here
Dhanpat Rai Srivastava (1880–1936), known by the pen name Premchand, was an Indian Hindi and Urdu writer.…
Rabindranath Tagore
in 1921
1 moment here
Bengali poet, novelist, dramatist, composer, painter, philosopher, social reformer, and educationist.…
Roald Amundsen
in 1921
1 moment here
Norwegian polar explorer Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (1872–1928) led the first successful transit of the Northwest Passage, reached the South…
Ruhollah Khomeini
in 1921
1 moment here
Iranian Shia cleric, revolutionary leader, and first Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran.…
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
in 1921
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Japanese short-story writer of the Taishō period, born Ryūnosuke Niihara in Tokyo and adopted into the Akutagawa family.…
Saint-John Perse
in 1921
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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,…
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
in 1921
1 moment here
Indian philosopher, academic, diplomat, and statesman. Radhakrishnan taught at leading Indian and British universities, served as vice-chancellor of…
Satyajit Ray
in 1921
1 moment here
Indian film director, screenwriter, author, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer. Ray was born and died in Calcutta (now Kolkata), made his career…
Satyendra Nath Bose
in 1921
1 moment here
Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician whose 1924 work founded Bose-Einstein statistics.…
Selma Lagerlöf
in 1921
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 1921
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…
Suharto
in 1921
1 moment here
Indonesian army officer and politician who served as acting president from 1967 and president of Indonesia from 1968 until his resignation in 1998.…
Sukarno
in 1921
1 moment here
Sukarno (1901–1970) was an Indonesian nationalist, revolutionary, engineer, and the first president of Indonesia.…
Sun Yat-sen
in 1921
1 moment here
Chinese physician, revolutionary, and political thinker who founded the Republic of China and the Kuomintang.…
T. S. Eliot
in 1921
2 moments here
Thomas Stearns Eliot was a St. Louis-born poet, critic, editor, and playwright who studied in Massachusetts, Paris, Germany, and Oxford before making…
Vladimir Lenin
in 1921
1 moment here
Russian Marxist revolutionary, Bolshevik leader, political theorist, and founding head of government of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union.…
Walt Disney
in 1921
1 moment here
Walter Elias Disney was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur. His documented movements include childhood residences in…
Warren G. Harding
in 1921
17 moments here
Warren G. Harding was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923.…
William Howard Taft
in 1921
1 moment here
William Howard Taft was an American lawyer, judge, colonial administrator, secretary of war, 27th president of the United States, and 10th chief…
Winston Churchill
in 1921
3 moments here
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965) was a British soldier, journalist, author and statesman whose career ranged from imperial campaigns in…
Woodrow Wilson
in 1921
1 moment here
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American academic, governor of New Jersey, and the 28th president of the United States.…
Yasunari Kawabata
in 1921
1 moment here
Japanese novelist and short-story writer, Nobel laureate in Literature in 1968. His documented movements include an Osaka and Ibaraki childhood,…
Yosano Akiko
in 1921
1 moment here
Japanese poet, author, educator, feminist, and social reformer. Born Hō Shō in Sakai, she became known as Yosano Akiko after her marriage to poet…
Zhou Enlai
in 1921
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
- 1921 Visited Nanjing Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- 1921 Visited Suzhou Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- 1921 Birth in Calcutta Satyajit Ray
- 1921 Laugh-O-Gram Studio work Walt Disney
- 1921 Speech at Pohick Church Warren G. Harding
- 1921 Lectures in Manchester Albert Einstein
- 1921 Chalet des Sapins, Montana Katherine Mansfield
- 1921 Receives Columbia honorary doctorate Marie Curie
- 1921 Receives University of Chicago honorary degree Marie Curie
- 1921 Sees Niagara Falls Marie Curie
- 1921 Visits the Grand Canyon Marie Curie
- 1921 Visits Yale University Marie Curie
- 1921 Birth at Kemusuk Suharto
- 1921 Lincoln University address Warren G. Harding
- 1921 Returns to Mexico City Diego Rivera
- 1921 First CCP Congress Mao Zedong
- 1921 First CCP Congress relocation Mao Zedong
- 1921 Visits Western Front headquarters at Karacahisar Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1921 Family summer at Fontainebleau Pablo Picasso
- 1921 Took leave at Gorki Vladimir Lenin
- 1921 Sworn in as chief justice William Howard Taft
- 1921 Campobello family vacation Eleanor Roosevelt
- 1921 Arrives at Campobello before illness Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1921 CCP secretary in Changsha Mao Zedong
- 1921 Student delegation to Mexico Miguel Ángel Asturias
- 1921 Army hospital visit at Gorham Warren G. Harding
- 1921 Baltimore hospital visit Warren G. Harding
- 1921 Guest of Secretary Weeks Warren G. Harding
- 1921 Plymouth tercentenary ceremony Warren G. Harding
- 1921 Vacation visit to Portland Warren G. Harding
- 1921 Returns to London in triumph Charlie Chaplin
- 1921 Stays at the Ritz Charlie Chaplin
- 1921 Visits the Weekly Dispatch office Charlie Chaplin
- 1921 Arrival at Bombay Harbour C. V. Raman
- 1921 Mediterranean voyage observation C. V. Raman
- 1921 Admitted to Presbyterian Hospital Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1921 Adopts loincloth in Madurai Mahatma Gandhi
- 1921 Departure to Berlin Maxim Gorky
- 1921 Observes the Battle of Sakarya from Duatepe Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1921 Leisure day in Norfolk Warren G. Harding
- 1921 Visit to Philadelphia Warren G. Harding
- 1921 West Point speech Warren G. Harding
- 1921 Returns to East 65th Street home Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1921 Stayed at Nakaniya in Yugawara Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- 1921 Recovery at Margate T. S. Eliot
- 1921 Civil-rights speech in Birmingham Warren G. Harding
- 1921 Honorary degree at William and Mary Warren G. Harding
- 1921 Southern-tour stop in Atlanta Warren G. Harding
- 1921 Liberty Memorial groundbreaking Calvin Coolidge
- 1921 Dedication of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Warren G. Harding