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
Marlon Brando
in 1924
1 moment here
American actor and activist whose stage and screen career ranged from Broadway in the 1940s to major films through the early 2000s.…
Maxim Gorky
in 1924
1 moment here
Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov, known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, journalist, publisher, and political activist.…
Mikhail Frunze
in 1924
1 moment here
Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze was a Bolshevik revolutionary, Red Army commander, Soviet military theorist, and senior state official.…
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
in 1924
7 moments here
Ottoman officer, Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, founder of the Republic of Turkey, and its first president.…
Naguib Mahfouz
in 1924
1 moment here
Egyptian novelist, screenwriter, and playwright whose fiction made Cairo a central setting of modern Arabic literature.…
Pearl S. Buck
in 1924
1 moment here
American writer, humanitarian, and activist whose life was divided between the United States and China before she became an internationally prominent…
P. L. Travers
in 1924
1 moment here
Pamela Lyndon Travers, born Helen Lyndon Goff, was an Australian-British writer, actress, journalist, and creator of the Mary Poppins books.…
Puyi
in 1924
2 moments here
Puyi (1906–1967), the Xuantong Emperor, was the last emperor of Qing China and later the Kangde Emperor of Japanese-controlled Manchukuo.…
Rabindranath Tagore
in 1924
5 moments here
Bengali poet, novelist, dramatist, composer, painter, philosopher, social reformer, and educationist.…
Robert Mugabe
in 1924
1 moment here
Zimbabwean nationalist leader, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and President from 1987 to 2017.…
Rosa Parks
in 1924
1 moment here
American civil-rights activist whose lifelong work against racial segregation included local NAACP organizing in Montgomery, the 1955 bus protest and…
Salvador Dalí
in 1924
1 moment here
Spanish painter, sculptor, writer, designer, filmmaker, and leading exponent of Surrealism. Born in Figueres, Dalí trained in Madrid, joined the…
Satyendra Nath Bose
in 1924
3 moments here
Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician whose 1924 work founded Bose-Einstein statistics.…
Soong Ching-ling
in 1924
1 moment here
Chinese politician and activist, wife of Sun Yat-sen, leading figure of the Kuomintang’s left wing, and later a senior officeholder of the People’s…
Sun Yat-sen
in 1924
5 moments here
Chinese physician, revolutionary, and political thinker who founded the Republic of China and the Kuomintang.…
Virginia Woolf
in 1924
1 moment here
English novelist, essayist, critic and publisher; a central figure in modernist literature and the Bloomsbury Group.…
Vladimir Lenin
in 1924
1 moment here
Russian Marxist revolutionary, Bolshevik leader, political theorist, and founding head of government of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union.…
Võ Nguyên Giáp
in 1924
1 moment here
Vietnamese general, communist revolutionary, and politician. Giáp was a leading commander of the Việt Minh and the People’s Army of Vietnam, served…
Walter Brattain
in 1924
1 moment here
American experimental physicist and co-inventor of the point-contact transistor. Brattain’s documented life moved from his birth in Amoy, China,…
Willem Einthoven
in 1924
1 moment here
Dutch physician and physiologist whose work on the string galvanometer made clinical electrocardiography practical.…
Winston Churchill
in 1924
1 moment 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 1924
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 1924
1 moment here
Japanese novelist and short-story writer, Nobel laureate in Literature in 1968. His documented movements include an Osaka and Ibaraki childhood,…
Zhou Enlai
in 1924
1 moment 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
- 1924 Visits Rize Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1924 Departed Bombay for Europe Satyendra Nath Bose
- 1924 Military review at Shaoguan Sun Yat-sen
- 1924 Death at La Béchellerie Anatole France
- 1924 First visits Warm Springs Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1924 Birth at Wise Sanitarium Jimmy Carter
- 1924 New York engagement with Fletcher Henderson Louis Armstrong
- 1924 Visits Kars Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1924 Lodging in Paris Satyendra Nath Bose
- 1924 American lecture tour Willem Einthoven
- 1924 Marries Lita Grey in Mexico Charlie Chaplin
- 1924 October Revolution anniversary parade Mikhail Frunze
- 1924 Refuge at Prince Chun's house Puyi
- 1924 Refuge in the Japanese embassy Puyi
- 1924 Arrives in Buenos Aires Rabindranath Tagore
- 1924 Recuperates at Villa Miralrío Rabindranath Tagore
- 1924 Pan-Asianism speech in Kobe Sun Yat-sen
- 1924 Released from Landsberg prison Adolf Hitler
- 1924 Birth in Gwalior Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- 1924 Arrival in Beijing Sun Yat-sen
- 1924 Arrival in Tianjin Sun Yat-sen