Historical figures in 1942

The atlas holds 86 people and 116 moments here, in 1942. The most recorded lives are Chiang Kai-shek, John F. Kennedy and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Jurists.

Notable people

  1. Fidel Castro

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    Cuban revolutionary and political leader who led the 26th of July Movement against Fulgencio Batista, became Cuba's prime minister in 1959, and later…

  2. Fulgencio Batista

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    Cuban army officer and politician who became a central power in Cuba after the 1933 Sergeants’ Revolt, served as president from 1940 to 1944,…

  3. George Orwell

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    George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, an English novelist, essayist, journalist, critic, and democratic socialist.…

  4. Gerald Ford

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    Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr.) was the 38th president of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977 after having served as…

  5. Glynis Johns

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    British actress, dancer and singer whose stage and screen career ran from childhood performances in Britain to Broadway and later American work.…

  6. Gough Whitlam

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    Edward Gough Whitlam was an Australian lawyer, Royal Australian Air Force navigator, Labor politician and the 21st prime minister of Australia.…

  7. Grace Kelly

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    American actress Grace Patricia Kelly became an internationally prominent film star in the early 1950s, then Princess of Monaco after her 1956…

  8. Hideki Yukawa

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    Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate, awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting mesons.…

  9. I. M. Pei

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    Ieoh Ming Pei was a Chinese-American architect whose work ranged from U.S. civic and cultural buildings to major projects in China, France, and the…

  10. Indira Gandhi

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    Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was an Indian stateswoman who served as prime minister from 1966 to 1977 and from 1980 until her assassination in 1984.…

  11. Isaac Asimov

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    American writer and biochemist best known for science fiction, popular-science writing, and the Foundation and Robot series.…

  12. Jawaharlal Nehru

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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…

  13. Jimmy Carter

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    James Earl Carter Jr. was an American naval officer, Georgia state senator and governor, the 39th president of the United States, and a…

  14. Joan Fontaine

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    British-American actress Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland, professionally Joan Fontaine, was an Academy Award-winning performer known especially for…

  15. John F. Kennedy

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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy was an American naval officer, journalist, congressman, senator, and the 35th president of the United States.…

  16. John Maynard Keynes

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    English economist, civil servant, Cambridge fellow, and British international negotiator whose work shaped modern macroeconomics.…

  17. Jomo Kenyatta

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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…

  18. Jorge Rafael Videla

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    Argentine Army officer and de facto president of Argentina from 1976 to 1981. His dictatorship, the National Reorganization Process, conducted…

  19. José Eduardo dos Santos

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    Angolan politician and military officer who served as Angola’s president from 1979 to 2017. His documented movements include exile in…

  20. José Raúl Capablanca

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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,…

  21. Kim Il Sung

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    Kim Il Sung (born Kim Song Ju) was a Korean communist guerrilla leader, North Korean political leader, and founder of the Democratic People’s…

  22. Kwame Nkrumah

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    Ghanaian nationalist leader, Pan-Africanist, and political theorist who led the Gold Coast to independence as Ghana in 1957.…

  23. Lars Onsager

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    Norwegian-American physical chemist and theoretical physicist whose career took him from Norway and Switzerland to major American universities.…

  24. Le Corbusier

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    Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, painter, writer, and urban planner.…

Moments

  1. 1942 Academy Award for Suspicion Joan Fontaine
  2. 1942 Ising-model announcement in New York Lars Onsager
  3. 1942 Move to Thomas Mann House Thomas Mann
  4. 1942 Birth in Memphis Aretha Franklin
  5. 1942 Marriage to Feroze Gandhi Indira Gandhi
  6. 1942 Entered the National Military College Jorge Rafael Videla
  7. 1942 Collapse at Manhattan Chess Club José Raúl Capablanca
  8. 1942 Death at Mount Sinai Hospital José Raúl Capablanca
  9. 1942 Lecture tour in Cuba Pablo Neruda
  10. 1942 Kwantung Army apprenticeship Park Chung Hee
  11. 1942 Return to Wuryantoro after Dutch surrender Suharto
  12. 1942 Burma wartime meeting Chiang Kai-shek
  13. 1942 Battle of Bataan captivity Ferdinand Marcos
  14. 1942 Naval instructor training Gerald Ford
  15. 1942 Marriage in Vaucluse Gough Whitlam
  16. 1942 Stationed at Fort Mason Ronald Reagan
  17. 1942 Visit to Burma with Chiang and Stilwell Soong Mei-ling
  18. 1942 Speaking tour photograph in Montréal Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  19. 1942 Mission to London Dwight D. Eisenhower
  20. 1942 Two-meson-theory hike at Todai-ji Hideki Yukawa
  21. 1942 Chinese Theatre handprints Joan Fontaine
  22. 1942 Marriage to Edna Clarke Jomo Kenyatta
  23. 1942 Southwest Front at Kharkov Nikita Khrushchev
  24. 1942 Moved to Beverly Hills Sergei Rachmaninoff
  25. 1942 Death at her Ogikubo home Yosano Akiko
  26. 1942 Residence at Merwedeplein 37-II Anne Frank
  27. 1942 Commanding General of ETOUSA Dwight D. Eisenhower
  28. 1942 Aerial mission over New Guinea Lyndon B. Johnson
  29. 1942 Marriage to Arline Greenbaum Richard Feynman
  30. 1942 Arrives at Führer Headquarters Werwolf Adolf Hitler
  31. 1942 Hiding in the Secret Annex Anne Frank
  32. 1942 Trained at Northwestern John F. Kennedy
  33. 1942 Takes seat in House of Lords John Maynard Keynes
  34. 1942 Final departure from Vichy Le Corbusier
  35. 1942 Assignment to the Shchurovo weapons range Mikhail Kalashnikov
  36. 1942 Performance at the Hollywood Bowl Sergei Rachmaninoff
  37. 1942 Return to Jakarta under Japanese occupation Sukarno
  38. 1942 Writing from Le Panelier Albert Camus
  39. 1942 Marriage to Anthony Forwood Glynis Johns
  40. 1942 Imprisonment at Ahmednagar Fort Jawaharlal Nehru
  41. 1942 Quit India resolution meeting Jawaharlal Nehru
  42. 1942 Birth in Sambizanga José Eduardo dos Santos
  43. 1942 Assignment to the 88th Separate Rifle Brigade Kim Il Sung
  44. 1942 Delivers Quit India speech Mahatma Gandhi
  45. 1942 Stalingrad Front commissar Nikita Khrushchev
  46. 1942 Internment during Quit India Sarojini Naidu
  47. 1942 Detention at Ahmednagar Fort Vallabhbhai Patel
  48. 1942 Quit India speech at Gowalia Tank Vallabhbhai Patel
  49. 1942 Flies to Moscow via Egypt Winston Churchill
  50. 1942 Entered PT-boat training John F. Kennedy

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