Historical figures in 1934
The atlas holds 81 people and 104 moments here, in 1934. The most recorded lives are Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Adolf Hitler and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Performers.
Notable people
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
in 1934
1 moment here
Indian-American astrophysicist whose work established the Chandrasekhar limit and ranged across stellar structure, stellar dynamics, radiative…
Sukarno
in 1934
1 moment here
Sukarno (1901–1970) was an Indonesian nationalist, revolutionary, engineer, and the first president of Indonesia.…
Syngman Rhee
in 1934
1 moment here
Syngman Rhee was a Korean independence activist and the first president of the Republic of Korea, serving from 1948 until his resignation in 1960.…
Thomas Mann
in 1934
1 moment here
German novelist, essayist, public intellectual, and 1929 Nobel laureate. Born in Lübeck, he lived principally in Munich before exile from Nazi…
Toshiro Mifune
in 1934
1 moment here
Japanese actor, producer, and director whose career spanned 1947–1995. Born in Qingdao, he grew up in Dalian, served in the Imperial Japanese Army…
Tunku Abdul Rahman
in 1934
1 moment here
Malaysian statesman, UMNO leader, chief minister of the Federation of Malaya, and first prime minister of Malaya and Malaysia.…
Vallabhbhai Patel
in 1934
1 moment here
Indian lawyer, Indian National Congress leader, independence activist, and statesman. Known as Sardar Patel, he organized major civil-disobedience…
Walter Brattain
in 1934
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,…
Yuri Gagarin
in 1934
1 moment here
Soviet pilot and cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first human to travel into outer space and to orbit Earth on Vostok 1 on 12 April…