Plot the most impactful historical events from Wikipedia

[ybogdanov]

Plot the most impactful historical events from here, so you can refer the events to the people lived at that time.

[arionkudasz]

Love this project! it could be improved a lot with some simple design elements.
a vertically "striped" background layer of key events in history could be turned on/off to better place and compare figures. (how does the lifespan of ernest hemingway and robert capa relate to ww2 and ww1)