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
Maxim Gorky
in 1928
5 moments here
Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov, known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, journalist, publisher, and political activist.…
Maya Angelou
in 1928
1 moment here
American memoirist, poet, performer, educator, and civil-rights activist. Her documented life moved from Missouri and Arkansas to California and New…
Miguel Ángel Asturias
in 1928
2 moments here
Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright, journalist, and 1967 Nobel laureate. Asturias’s documented life moved between Guatemala, Europe,…
Mother Teresa
in 1928
2 moments here
Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, known as Mother Teresa or Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun.…
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
in 1928
3 moments here
Ottoman officer, Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, founder of the Republic of Turkey, and its first president.…
Nikita Khrushchev
in 1928
1 moment here
Soviet Communist Party leader and chairman of the Council of Ministers. Khrushchev rose from industrial work in the Donbas through party posts in…
Olav V
in 1928
1 moment here
Olav V of Norway (born Prince Alexander of Denmark) was King of Norway from 1957 until his death in 1991.…
Pablo Neruda
in 1928
3 moments here
Chilean poet, diplomat, senator, Communist political figure, and 1971 Nobel laureate. Born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, he lived and…
Paramahansa Yogananda
in 1928
1 moment here
Indian and American Hindu monk, yogi, teacher, and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship and Yogoda Satsanga Society of India.…
Rabindranath Tagore
in 1928
2 moments here
Bengali poet, novelist, dramatist, composer, painter, philosopher, social reformer, and educationist.…
Richard Nixon
in 1928
1 moment here
Richard Milhous Nixon was an American lawyer, naval officer, congressman, senator, vice president, and the 37th president of the United States.…
Roald Amundsen
in 1928
2 moments here
Norwegian polar explorer Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (1872–1928) led the first successful transit of the Northwest Passage, reached the South…
Ronald Reagan
in 1928
1 moment here
American broadcaster, actor, labor leader, governor of California, and 40th president of the United States.…
Sarojini Naidu
in 1928
1 moment here
Indian poet, nationalist, women’s-rights advocate, president of the Indian National Congress, and first governor of the United Provinces.…
Soong Ching-ling
in 1928
2 moments 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…
Stanley Kubrick
in 1928
2 moments here
American filmmaker and photographer whose career began in New York photojournalism, expanded through Hollywood productions and European location…
U Thant
in 1928
1 moment here
Burmese diplomat and third Secretary-General of the United Nations (1961–1971). Born in Pantanaw, he taught and served in Burma’s government before…
Vallabhbhai Patel
in 1928
1 moment here
Indian lawyer, Indian National Congress leader, independence activist, and statesman. Known as Sardar Patel, he organized major civil-disobedience…
Virginia Woolf
in 1928
2 moments here
English novelist, essayist, critic and publisher; a central figure in modernist literature and the Bloomsbury Group.…
Walt Disney
in 1928
1 moment here
Walter Elias Disney was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur. His documented movements include childhood residences in…
Walter Brattain
in 1928
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,…
Yang Chen-Ning
in 1928
1 moment here
Chinese-American theoretical physicist whose work in statistical mechanics, particle physics, gauge theory, and condensed-matter physics included the…
Yitzhak Rabin
in 1928
1 moment here
Israeli military officer, statesman, prime minister, ambassador, and 1994 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.…
Yosano Akiko
in 1928
1 moment here
Japanese poet, author, educator, feminist, and social reformer. Born Hō Shō in Sakai, she became known as Yosano Akiko after her marriage to poet…
Moments
- 1928 Attends Eureka College Ronald Reagan
- 1928 Women and Fiction lecture at Girton Virginia Woolf
- 1928 Women and Fiction lecture at Newnham Virginia Woolf
- 1928 Birth in Panama City Carlos Fuentes
- 1928 Enthronement at Kyoto Imperial Palace Hirohito
- 1928 Simon Commission boycott Jawaharlal Nehru
- 1928 Broadway debut in These Days Katharine Hepburn
- 1928 American speaking tour letter Sarojini Naidu
- 1928 Birth in Sheker Chinghiz Aitmatov
- 1928 Return to Key West Ernest Hemingway
- 1928 Address before Brazilian Congress Herbert Hoover
- 1928 Goodwill-tour address in Buenos Aires Herbert Hoover