Historical figures in 1928
The atlas holds 74 people and 112 moments here, in 1928. The most recorded lives are Amelia Earhart, Maxim Gorky and Herbert Hoover. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Performers.
Notable people
Golda Meir
in 1928
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Golda Meir was an Israeli political leader who served as Israel’s prime minister from 1969 to 1974.…
Hastings Banda
in 1928
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Hastings Kamuzu Banda was a Malawian physician and politician who led Nyasaland to independence and served as Malawi's prime minister and first…
Herbert Hoover
in 1928
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Herbert Clark Hoover was an American mining engineer, international relief administrator, U.S.…
Hirohito
in 1928
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Hirohito (posthumously Emperor Shōwa) was Emperor of Japan from 25 December 1926 until his death in 1989.…
Ho Chi Minh
in 1928
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Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman, born Nguyễn Sinh Cung, who led the Việt Minh, proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945, and…
Hosni Mubarak
in 1928
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Egyptian military officer and politician who served as president of Egypt from 1981 until his resignation in 2011.…
Idi Amin
in 1928
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Ugandan army officer and dictator who was president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. This chronology records documented physical presences from his birth…
Igor Tamm
in 1928
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Soviet theoretical physicist and 1958 Nobel laureate in Physics, noted for work on Cherenkov radiation, nuclear physics, and controlled thermonuclear…
Jawaharlal Nehru
in 1928
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Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and statesman who became independent India’s first prime minister, serving from 15 August 1947 until his…
Jiang Qing
in 1928
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Jiang Qing (1914–1991), also known as Madame Mao, was a Chinese actress, revolutionary, and political figure.…
Jiddu Krishnamurti
in 1928
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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…
John Steinbeck
in 1928
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American novelist, journalist, and war correspondent whose life and work ranged from California’s Salinas Valley and Monterey Peninsula to wartime…
Jomo Kenyatta
in 1928
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Jomo Kenyatta (c. 1897–1978) was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who became Kenya’s first prime minister in 1963 and first president…
Joseph Stalin
in 1928
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Soviet revolutionary and political leader, born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili in Gori, Georgia.…
José Raúl Capablanca
in 1928
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Cuban chess player and diplomat, world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. This chronology records documented physical presence at places of birth,…
Katharine Hepburn
in 1928
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American stage, film, and television actress whose career ran from 1928 to 1995. Hepburn was born in Hartford, Connecticut, educated at Bryn Mawr…
Lars Onsager
in 1928
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Norwegian-American physical chemist and theoretical physicist whose career took him from Norway and Switzerland to major American universities.…
Le Corbusier
in 1928
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Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, painter, writer, and urban planner.…
Leon Trotsky
in 1928
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Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet political leader, Marxist theorist, and organizer of the Red Army.…
Léopold Sédar Senghor
in 1928
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Senegalese poet, theorist of Négritude, and statesman who became Senegal’s first president in 1960.…
Lyndon B. Johnson
in 1928
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Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973) was a Texas-born teacher, congressman, senator, vice president, and the 36th president of the United States.…
Macfarlane Burnet
in 1928
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Australian virologist and immunologist Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, known as Macfarlane Burnet, shared the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…
Mao Zedong
in 1928
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Chinese communist revolutionary and political leader who led the Chinese Communist Party and founded the People’s Republic of China.…
Marguerite Duras
in 1928
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French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker, born Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu.…
Moments
- 1928 Meets Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry Rabindranath Tagore
- 1928 Meeting with Stalin at the Kremlin Soong Ching-ling
- 1928 Family home in the Bronx Stanley Kubrick
- 1928 Returned to teach at Pantanaw National High School U Thant
- 1928 National Bureau of Standards research Walter Brattain
- 1928 Family move to Xiamen Yang Chen-Ning
- 1928 Workers' Children school enrollment Yitzhak Rabin
- 1928 Sixth CCP Congress in Moscow Zhou Enlai
- 1928 Birth at Ratodero Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
- 1928 Childhood in Worli Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
- 1928 Birth in Kfar Malal Ariel Sharon
- 1928 Raman-effect discovery at IACS C. V. Raman
- 1928 Hilton Young Commission evidence Jomo Kenyatta
- 1928 Travel in China Pablo Neruda
- 1928 Oswald negotiation trip Walt Disney
- 1928 Dodge Brothers Hour appearance Dolores del Río
- 1928 Birth in Lingayen Fidel V. Ramos
- 1928 Birth in St. Louis Maya Angelou
- 1928 Bardoli Satyagraha Vallabhbhai Patel
- 1928 Birth in Rosario Che Guevara
- 1928 Birth in Kafr El-Meselha Hosni Mubarak
- 1928 Birth at Shimoni Police Barracks Idi Amin
- 1928 Arrival at Belorussky-Baltiysky station Maxim Gorky
- 1928 Arrival in Berlin Soong Ching-ling
- 1928 Manchuria and Mongolia tour Yosano Akiko
- 1928 Arrival at Southampton Amelia Earhart
- 1928 Arrival at Trepassey Amelia Earhart
- 1928 Atlantic departure from Trepassey Amelia Earhart
- 1928 Friendship departure from East Boston Amelia Earhart
- 1928 Transatlantic landing at Burry Port Amelia Earhart
- 1928 Unexpected landing at Halifax Amelia Earhart
- 1928 Son's birth in Kansas City Ernest Hemingway
- 1928 Nominates Smith in Houston Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1928 First professional theatre work in Baltimore Katharine Hepburn
- 1928 First CIAM congress Le Corbusier
- 1928 Departs Tromsø on Italia rescue mission Roald Amundsen
- 1928 Disappears over the Barents Sea Roald Amundsen
- 1928 Ticker-tape parade Amelia Earhart
- 1928 Arrival in Bangkok Ho Chi Minh
- 1928 Birth at Lying-In Hospital Stanley Kubrick
- 1928 Birth in Pittsburgh Andy Warhol
- 1928 Resumes work at the Secretariat of Public Education Diego Rivera
- 1928 Accepted Republican nomination Herbert Hoover
- 1928 Prayer at the Black Madonna shrine Mother Teresa
- 1928 Visits Tekirdağ during alphabet reform Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1928 International Congress address David Hilbert
- 1928 Arrival for study in Paris Léopold Sédar Senghor
- 1928 Calls at Sinop Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1928 Revisits Gallipoli battlefields Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1928 Transfer to Whittier High School Richard Nixon