Historical figures in 1952
The atlas holds 80 people and 119 moments here, in 1952. The most recorded lives are Yukio Mishima, Eva Perón and Eleanor Roosevelt. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Musicians and Composers.
Notable people
Marilyn Monroe
in 1952
1 moment here
American actress and model born Norma Jeane Mortenson. This chronology maps verified places where Monroe lived, worked, traveled, performed, filmed,…
Maurice Wilkins
in 1952
2 moments here
New Zealand-born British physicist and biophysicist whose career ran from solid-state physics and wartime atomic research to X-ray diffraction…
Miguel Ángel Asturias
in 1952
2 moments here
Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright, journalist, and 1967 Nobel laureate. Asturias’s documented life moved between Guatemala, Europe,…
Morgan Tsvangirai
in 1952
1 moment here
Zimbabwean trade unionist and opposition politician who led the Movement for Democratic Change and served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 2009 to…
Mother Teresa
in 1952
1 moment here
Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, known as Mother Teresa or Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun.…
Nelson Mandela
in 1952
1 moment here
South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, lawyer and statesman. Mandela helped lead the African National Congress, co-founded its armed wing,…
Octavio Paz
in 1952
2 moments here
Mexican poet, essayist, editor, and diplomat whose international postings and teaching appointments connected Mexico City, the United States, Europe,…
Olivia de Havilland
in 1952
1 moment here
Olivia de Havilland was a British-American-French actress whose career ranged from California community theatre and Warner Bros.…
Pablo Neruda
in 1952
1 moment here
Chilean poet, diplomat, senator, Communist political figure, and 1971 Nobel laureate. Born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, he lived and…
Paramahansa Yogananda
in 1952
1 moment here
Indian and American Hindu monk, yogi, teacher, and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship and Yogoda Satsanga Society of India.…
Ram Narayan
in 1952
1 moment here
Indian sarangi player who established the sarangi as a solo concert instrument in Hindustani classical music.…
Richard Feynman
in 1952
1 moment here
American theoretical physicist known for foundational work in quantum electrodynamics, the path-integral formulation of quantum mechanics, and…
Richard Nixon
in 1952
1 moment here
Richard Milhous Nixon was an American lawyer, naval officer, congressman, senator, vice president, and the 37th president of the United States.…
Robert Mugabe
in 1952
1 moment here
Zimbabwean nationalist leader, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and President from 1987 to 2017.…
Ronald Reagan
in 1952
2 moments here
American broadcaster, actor, labor leader, governor of California, and 40th president of the United States.…
Satyajit Ray
in 1952
1 moment here
Indian film director, screenwriter, author, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer. Ray was born and died in Calcutta (now Kolkata), made his career…
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
in 1952
1 moment here
Bangladeshi political leader, founding president of Bangladesh, and prime minister. His documented life moved from childhood and schooling in Bengal…
Siad Barre
in 1952
1 moment here
Mohammed Siad Barre was a Somali military officer and president of Somalia from 1969 to 1991.…
Simone de Beauvoir
in 1952
1 moment here
French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Born and died in Paris, Beauvoir studied philosophy in Paris,…
Stephen Hawking
in 1952
1 moment here
English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author whose work on singularities, black-hole thermodynamics, and Hawking radiation reshaped modern…
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
in 1952
1 moment here
Indian-American astrophysicist whose work established the Chandrasekhar limit and ranged across stellar structure, stellar dynamics, radiative…
Sukarno
in 1952
1 moment here
Sukarno (1901–1970) was an Indonesian nationalist, revolutionary, engineer, and the first president of Indonesia.…
Sushma Swaraj
in 1952
1 moment here
Indian lawyer, politician and diplomat. Swaraj served in the Haryana government, represented constituencies in Parliament, was Chief Minister of…
Sydney Brenner
in 1952
1 moment here
South African-born molecular biologist whose career moved from Johannesburg and Oxford to Cambridge, California, Singapore and other scientific…
Moments
- 1952 Builds Pacific Palisades home Ronald Reagan
- 1952 Anti-Mau Mau mass meeting Jomo Kenyatta
- 1952 Boards Queen Elizabeth in New York Charlie Chaplin
- 1952 Marriage to Jacques Pills in New York Édith Piaf
- 1952 MGM audition Grace Kelly
- 1952 Move to Canberra John Eccles
- 1952 Begins at St Albans School Stephen Hawking
- 1952 Arrest and transfer through Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta
- 1952 Detention at Lokitaung Jomo Kenyatta
- 1952 Return to Dar es Salaam Julius Nyerere
- 1952 The Millionairess opens on Broadway Katharine Hepburn
- 1952 Visit invited by Víctor Paz Estenssoro Miguel Ángel Asturias
- 1952 Beijing Peace Conference speech Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
- 1952 Arrival for Mogambo production Grace Kelly
- 1952 Seven Samurai screenplay retreat Akira Kurosawa
- 1952 President-elect visit to Korea Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 1952 Third Rochester Conference Hideki Yukawa
- 1952 Permanent return to the Zürich area Thomas Mann
- 1952 Return to Srostki after naval discharge Vasily Shukshin