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
P. L. Travers
in 1925
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Pamela Lyndon Travers, born Helen Lyndon Goff, was an Australian-British writer, actress, journalist, and creator of the Mary Poppins books.…
Pol Pot
in 1925
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Cambodian communist revolutionary and dictator, born Saloth Sâr. As leader of the Communist Party of Kampuchea and Democratic Kampuchea, he oversaw a…
Puyi
in 1925
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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 1925
1 moment here
Bengali poet, novelist, dramatist, composer, painter, philosopher, social reformer, and educationist.…
Roald Amundsen
in 1925
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Norwegian polar explorer Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (1872–1928) led the first successful transit of the Northwest Passage, reached the South…
Salvador Allende
in 1925
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Chilean physician and socialist politician who served as president of Chile from 3 November 1970 until his death during the 11 September 1973 coup.…
Sarojini Naidu
in 1925
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Indian poet, nationalist, women’s-rights advocate, president of the Indian National Congress, and first governor of the United Provinces.…
Satyendra Nath Bose
in 1925
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Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician whose 1924 work founded Bose-Einstein statistics.…
Simone de Beauvoir
in 1925
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French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Born and died in Paris, Beauvoir studied philosophy in Paris,…
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
in 1925
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Indian-American astrophysicist whose work established the Chandrasekhar limit and ranged across stellar structure, stellar dynamics, radiative…
Sun Yat-sen
in 1925
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Chinese physician, revolutionary, and political thinker who founded the Republic of China and the Kuomintang.…
Tony Curtis
in 1925
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American actor Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz) worked in film, television, theatre, and painting over a career spanning six decades.…
Toshiro Mifune
in 1925
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Japanese actor, producer, and director whose career spanned 1947–1995. Born in Qingdao, he grew up in Dalian, served in the Imperial Japanese Army…
T. S. Eliot
in 1925
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Thomas Stearns Eliot was a St. Louis-born poet, critic, editor, and playwright who studied in Massachusetts, Paris, Germany, and Oxford before making…
Tunku Abdul Rahman
in 1925
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Malaysian statesman, UMNO leader, chief minister of the Federation of Malaya, and first prime minister of Malaya and Malaysia.…
Virginia Woolf
in 1925
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English novelist, essayist, critic and publisher; a central figure in modernist literature and the Bloomsbury Group.…
Walt Disney
in 1925
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Walter Elias Disney was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur. His documented movements include childhood residences in…
Willem Einthoven
in 1925
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Dutch physician and physiologist whose work on the string galvanometer made clinical electrocardiography practical.…
William Faulkner
in 1925
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American novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and Nobel laureate whose work was closely associated with Oxford and north Mississippi.…
Yasunari Kawabata
in 1925
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Japanese novelist and short-story writer, Nobel laureate in Literature in 1968. His documented movements include an Osaka and Ibaraki childhood,…
Yukio Mishima
in 1925
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Yukio Mishima, born Kimitake Hiraoka, was a Japanese novelist, playwright, actor, and political activist.…
Zhou Enlai
in 1925
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Chinese revolutionary, statesman, and diplomat who served as the first premier of the People’s Republic of China from 1949 until his death.…