Historical figures in 1925
The atlas holds 70 people and 98 moments here, in 1925. The most recorded lives are Albert Einstein, Roald Amundsen and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Educators.
Notable people
John Maynard Keynes
in 1925
1 moment here
English economist, civil servant, Cambridge fellow, and British international negotiator whose work shaped modern macroeconomics.…
John Steinbeck
in 1925
1 moment here
American novelist, journalist, and war correspondent whose life and work ranged from California’s Salinas Valley and Monterey Peninsula to wartime…
Jorge Amado
in 1925
1 moment here
Brazilian modernist writer, journalist, and Communist politician whose life moved between Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, South America, Europe,…
Jorge Rafael Videla
in 1925
1 moment here
Argentine Army officer and de facto president of Argentina from 1976 to 1981. His dictatorship, the National Reorganization Process, conducted…
José Raúl Capablanca
in 1925
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,…
J. R. R. Tolkien
in 1925
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English philologist, university professor, and author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.…
Kwame Nkrumah
in 1925
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Ghanaian nationalist leader, Pan-Africanist, and political theorist who led the Gold Coast to independence as Ghana in 1957.…
Lars Onsager
in 1925
1 moment here
Norwegian-American physical chemist and theoretical physicist whose career took him from Norway and Switzerland to major American universities.…
Louis Armstrong
in 1925
1 moment here
American jazz trumpeter, vocalist, bandleader, and entertainer whose career transformed jazz solo performance and made him an international cultural…
Macfarlane Burnet
in 1925
2 moments here
Australian virologist and immunologist Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, known as Macfarlane Burnet, shared the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…
Mao Zedong
in 1925
1 moment here
Chinese communist revolutionary and political leader who led the Chinese Communist Party and founded the People’s Republic of China.…
Margaret Thatcher
in 1925
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British stateswoman Margaret Hilda Thatcher (née Roberts) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, the first woman to hold the…
Marie Curie
in 1925
1 moment here
Polish-born, naturalized-French physicist and chemist who pioneered research on radioactivity. With Pierre Curie she discovered polonium and radium.…
Miguel Ángel Asturias
in 1925
1 moment here
Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright, journalist, and 1967 Nobel laureate. Asturias’s documented life moved between Guatemala, Europe,…
Mikhail Frunze
in 1925
1 moment here
Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze was a Bolshevik revolutionary, Red Army commander, Soviet military theorist, and senior state official.…
Milton Obote
in 1925
1 moment here
Apollo Milton Obote was a Ugandan politician who served as prime minister from 1962 to 1966 and as president from 1966 to 1971 and from 1980 to 1985.…
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
in 1925
3 moments here
Ottoman officer, Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, founder of the Republic of Turkey, and its first president.…
Nelson Mandela
in 1925
1 moment here
South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, lawyer and statesman. Mandela helped lead the African National Congress, co-founded its armed wing,…
Niels Bohr
in 1925
3 moments here
Danish theoretical physicist whose work on atomic structure and quantum theory earned the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics.…
Nikita Khrushchev
in 1925
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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 1925
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 1925
1 moment here
Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and co-founder of Cubism. Born in Málaga, Picasso trained in A Coruña, Barcelona, and Madrid…
Paramahansa Yogananda
in 1925
1 moment here
Indian and American Hindu monk, yogi, teacher, and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship and Yogoda Satsanga Society of India.…
Patrice Lumumba
in 1925
1 moment here
Congolese independence leader and first prime minister of the Republic of the Congo. Lumumba worked in Stanleyville, led the Mouvement National…
Moments
- 1925 Death in Beijing Sun Yat-sen
- 1925 French Quarter residence William Faulkner
- 1925 Arrives in Montevideo Albert Einstein
- 1925 First Montevideo relativity lecture Albert Einstein
- 1925 Meets Uruguay's president Albert Einstein
- 1925 Stays on Avenida 18 de Julio Albert Einstein
- 1925 Visits Córdoba university Albert Einstein
- 1925 Visits La Plata university Albert Einstein
- 1925 Visits Montevideo engineering faculty Albert Einstein
- 1925 Schooling at Collège Stanislas Claude Simon
- 1925 Returns to Rio de Janeiro Albert Einstein
- 1925 Visits National Observatory Albert Einstein
- 1925 Birth at Prek Sbauv Pol Pot
- 1925 Forced landing at 87°43′ North Roald Amundsen
- 1925 N-24 and N-25 depart King's Bay Roald Amundsen
- 1925 Lecture on the infinite David Hilbert
- 1925 Departure for English laboratory training Macfarlane Burnet
- 1925 Escapes Arctic drift ice Roald Amundsen
- 1925 Birth at Fifth Avenue Hospital Tony Curtis
- 1925 Birth in Onalua Patrice Lumumba
- 1925 Returns to Oslo after N-25 expedition Roald Amundsen
- 1925 Marriage to Lillian Bounds Walt Disney
- 1925 Arrival in Hollywood Dolores del Río
- 1925 Honeymoon journey to Russia John Maynard Keynes
- 1925 Birth in Mercedes Jorge Rafael Videla
- 1925 Begins the Hat Reform tour in Kastamonu Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1925 Stays in İnebolu Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1925 Plans Norge expedition with Nobile Roald Amundsen
- 1925 Collapse at Charleston Virginia Woolf
- 1925 Marriage in Guangzhou Zhou Enlai
- 1925 Bus and streetcar collision Frida Kahlo
- 1925 Posting at Insein George Orwell
- 1925 Birth in Santos Suárez Celia Cruz
- 1925 Visit to former school at Havelock Ernest Rutherford
- 1925 Medical-aide post in Abidjan Félix Houphouët-Boigny
- 1925 Arrival for Oxford study John Eccles
- 1925 Returns to Oxford as professor J. R. R. Tolkien
- 1925 Birth in Grantham Margaret Thatcher
- 1925 Death during surgery Mikhail Frunze
- 1925 Stay in Ancud Pablo Neruda
- 1925 Mount Washington headquarters inauguration Paramahansa Yogananda
- 1925 Scientific work in Berlin Satyendra Nath Bose
- 1925 Arrival in Christchurch Ernest Rutherford
- 1925 Birth at Akokoro Milton Obote
- 1925 Hamburg stopover Niels Bohr
- 1925 Lorentz jubilee visit Niels Bohr
- 1925 Return meeting at Göttingen Niels Bohr
- 1925 Nobel Banquet speech Willem Einthoven