Historical figures in 1924

The atlas holds 72 people and 121 moments here, in 1924. The most recorded lives are Haile Selassie, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and Franz Kafka. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Military Leaders.

Notable people

  1. George H. W. Bush

    in 1924

    1 moment here

    George Herbert Walker Bush was an American naval aviator, oil executive, congressman, diplomat, director of central intelligence, vice president, and…

  2. George Orwell

    in 1924

    3 moments here

    George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, an English novelist, essayist, journalist, critic, and democratic socialist.…

  3. Golda Meir

    in 1924

    2 moments here

    Golda Meir was an Israeli political leader who served as Israel’s prime minister from 1969 to 1974.…

  4. Haile Selassie

    in 1924

    11 moments here

    Haile Selassie I (born Tafari Makonnen) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 until his deposition in 1974.…

  5. H. G. Wells

    in 1924

    1 moment here

    Herbert George Wells was an English novelist, journalist, historian, teacher, and social critic.…

  6. Ho Chi Minh

    in 1924

    3 moments here

    Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman, born Nguyễn Sinh Cung, who led the Việt Minh, proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945, and…

  7. Igor Stravinsky

    in 1924

    1 moment here

    Russian-born composer, conductor, and pianist who became a French citizen in 1934 and an American citizen in 1945.…

  8. Jean-Paul Sartre

    in 1924

    1 moment here

    French philosopher, writer, and political activist associated with existentialism. His documented movements include education and teaching across…

  9. Jiddu Krishnamurti

    in 1924

    3 moments 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…

  10. Jimmy Carter

    in 1924

    2 moments here

    James Earl Carter Jr. was an American naval officer, Georgia state senator and governor, the 39th president of the United States, and a…

  11. John Maynard Keynes

    in 1924

    1 moment here

    English economist, civil servant, Cambridge fellow, and British international negotiator whose work shaped modern macroeconomics.…

  12. Jorge Luis Borges

    in 1924

    1 moment here

    Argentine writer, poet, essayist, translator, lecturer, librarian, and critic. Borges was born in Buenos Aires, lived in Switzerland and Spain during…

  13. Joseph Stalin

    in 1924

    1 moment here

    Soviet revolutionary and political leader, born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili in Gori, Georgia.…

  14. José Raúl Capablanca

    in 1924

    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,…

  15. Katharine Hepburn

    in 1924

    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…

  16. Kenneth Kaunda

    in 1924

    1 moment here

    Zambian teacher, nationalist leader, and first president of independent Zambia, serving from 1964 to 1991.…

  17. Kim Dae-jung

    in 1924

    1 moment here

    South Korean politician, democracy activist, and eighth president of South Korea (1998–2003).…

  18. Le Corbusier

    in 1924

    1 moment here

    Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, painter, writer, and urban planner.…

  19. Lev Landau

    in 1924

    1 moment here

    Soviet theoretical physicist Lev Davidovich Landau was born in Baku, educated in Baku and Leningrad, and undertook formative research travel in…

  20. Louis Armstrong

    in 1924

    1 moment here

    American jazz trumpeter, vocalist, bandleader, and entertainer whose career transformed jazz solo performance and made him an international cultural…

  21. Ludwig Wittgenstein

    in 1924

    1 moment here

    Austro-British philosopher whose work in logic, language, mathematics, and mind shaped twentieth-century analytic philosophy.…

  22. Lyndon B. Johnson

    in 1924

    1 moment here

    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973) was a Texas-born teacher, congressman, senator, vice president, and the 36th president of the United States.…

  23. Mao Zedong

    in 1924

    2 moments here

    Chinese communist revolutionary and political leader who led the Chinese Communist Party and founded the People’s Republic of China.…

  24. Marguerite Duras

    in 1924

    1 moment here

    French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker, born Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu.…

Moments

  1. 1924 Family move to Abbaseya Naguib Mahfouz
  2. 1924 Master's study at Cornell Pearl S. Buck
  3. 1924 Settlement in London P. L. Travers
  4. 1924 Enrollment at Montgomery Industrial School for Girls Rosa Parks
  5. 1924 Imprisoned in Girona Salvador Dalí
  6. 1924 Developed quantum-statistics paper at Dhaka Satyendra Nath Bose
  7. 1924 Peace-negotiation journey to Beijing Soong Ching-ling
  8. 1924 First KMT National Party Congress Sun Yat-sen
  9. 1924 Return to Tavistock Square Virginia Woolf
  10. 1924 Died at Gorki Vladimir Lenin
  11. 1924 Student at Quốc Học Võ Nguyên Giáp
  12. 1924 Whitman College degree Walter Brattain
  13. 1924 Moves into Chartwell Winston Churchill
  14. 1924 Whampoa Military Academy appointment Zhou Enlai
  15. 1924 Birth in Johannesburg Allan MacLeod Cormack
  16. 1924 First White House radio broadcast Calvin Coolidge
  17. 1924 Moves to Berlin-Zehlendorf Franz Kafka
  18. 1924 Birth at Kutama Mission Robert Mugabe
  19. 1924 Death in Washington Woodrow Wilson
  20. 1924 Returns to his parents in Prague Franz Kafka
  21. 1924 Enters the Wienerwald sanatorium Franz Kafka
  22. 1924 Makes his last outing Franz Kafka
  23. 1924 Moves to Hoffmann’s sanatorium Franz Kafka
  24. 1924 Transferred to Vienna’s laryngology clinic Franz Kafka
  25. 1924 Birth at Lubwa Mission Kenneth Kaunda
  26. 1924 Birth in Omaha Marlon Brando
  27. 1924 Received in Shanghai Rabindranath Tagore
  28. 1924 Eightieth-birthday tribute at the Trocadéro Anatole France
  29. 1924 Meets Lakoba at the Thirteenth Party Congress Joseph Stalin
  30. 1924 Birthday at Peking Normal University Rabindranath Tagore
  31. 1924 Military examination in Ibaraki Yasunari Kawabata
  32. 1924 Dies at Kierling Franz Kafka
  33. 1924 Birth in Milton George H. W. Bush
  34. 1924 Fifth Comintern Congress Ho Chi Minh
  35. 1924 Move to Phnom Penh Marguerite Duras
  36. 1924 Lectures at Tokyo Imperial University Rabindranath Tagore
  37. 1924 Returns publicly at Democratic convention Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  38. 1924 Birth in Riyadh Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  39. 1924 Phonofilm recording on White House lawn Calvin Coolidge
  40. 1924 British Association meeting in Toronto C. V. Raman
  41. 1924 Lays the Dumlupınar memorial foundation Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  42. 1924 Birth at Kurieng'wo village Daniel arap Moi
  43. 1924 Study with Paul Ehrenfest Enrico Fermi
  44. 1924 Family residence in Nice Igor Stravinsky
  45. 1924 35 rue de Sèvres studio Le Corbusier
  46. 1924 Teaching at Otterthal Ludwig Wittgenstein
  47. 1924 Arrives in Trabzon aboard Hamidiye Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  48. 1924 Calls at Giresun and Ordu Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  49. 1924 Reaches Erzurum Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  50. 1924 Returns to Amasya on the eastern tour Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

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