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Events

Mexican Revolution 1910-11-20 - 1920-12-01
Russian Revolution 1917-03-08 - 1923-06-16
Russian Civil War 1917-11-07 - 1923-06-16
Biennio Rosso 1919 - 1920
Irish War of Independence 1919-01-21 - 1921-07-11
Polish–Soviet War 1919-02-14 - 1921-03-18
Polish–Lithuanian War 1919-05-03 - 1920-11-29
Occupation of Smyrna 1919-05-15 - 1922-09-09
Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) 1919-05-15 - 1922-10-11
Roaring Twenties 1920 - 1929
Prohibition in the United States 1920-01-17 - 1933-12-05

People

Woodrow Wilson age 63
President - United States
George V age 55
King - United Kingdom
Mehmed VI age 59
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Friedrich Ebert age 49
Reich President - Germany
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 50
King - Italy
Emperor Taishō age 41
Emperor - Japan
Albert I of Belgium age 45
King - Belgium
Paul Deschanel age 65
President - France
Peter I of Serbia age 76
King - Yugoslavia
Ahmad Shah Qajar age 22
Shah - Iran
Fuad I of Egypt age 52
Sultan - Sultanate of Egypt
Zewditu age 44
Empress - Ethiopia
Epitácio Pessoa age 55
President - Brazil
Adolfo de la Huerta age 39
President - Mexico
Hsu Shih-chang age 64
President - Republic of China
Mario García Menocal age 53
President - Cuba
Carlos Herrera y Luna age 63
President - Guatemala
Vladimir Lenin age 50
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Pierre de Coubertin age 57
President - International Olympic Committee
David Lloyd George age 57
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Józef Piłsudski age 52
Chief of State - Poland
Constantin Fehrenbach age 68
Chancellor - Germany
Giovanni Giolitti age 77
Prime Minister - Italy
Jan Smuts age 50
Prime Minister - South Africa
Hara Takashi age 64
Prime Minister - Japan
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 44
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Muhammad Tawfiq Nasim Pasha age 46
Prime Minister - Egypt
Wincenty Witos age 46
Prime Minister - Poland
Edward Douglass White age 74
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Thomas R. Marshall age 66
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 16
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 21
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 34
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 19
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 24
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 20
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Winston Churchill age 45
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Joseph Wirth age 41
Reichsminister - Germany
Bainbridge Colby age 50
Secretary of State - United States
Newton D. Baker age 48
Secretary of War - United States
David F. Houston age 54
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 66
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
A. Mitchell Palmer age 48
Attorney General - United States
Peyton C. March age 55
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Edward Shortt age 58
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 56
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Sun Yat-sen age 53
Chairman - Kuomintang
H. H. Asquith age 68
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Éamon de Valera age 37
President - Sinn Féin
Andrew Bonar Law age 61
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
William R. Day age 71
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Joseph McKenna age 77
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Clark McReynolds age 58
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan age 49
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford age 48
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
William Adamson age 57
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Sefako Makgatho age 59
President - African National Congress
Warren G. Harding age 54
Senate - United States
Charles Curtis age 60
Senate - United States
Frank B. Kellogg age 63
Senate - United States
Philander C. Knox age 67
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 62
Senate - United States
Arthur Balfour age 72
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stanley Baldwin age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alben W. Barkley age 42
House of Representatives - United States
John Nance Garner age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Henderson age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James F. Byrnes age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Seán T. O'Kelly age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
W. T. Cosgrave age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 30
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Carson age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kingsley Wood age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Eric Geddes age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 2
House of Representatives - United States
J. R. Clynes age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 25
House of Representatives - United States
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Laming Worthington-Evans age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Barnes age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Griffith age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John J. O'Kelly age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brian O'Higgins age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aylmer Hunter-Weston age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Calvin Coolidge age 48
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Al Smith age 46
Governor of New York - United States
James M. Cox age 50
Governor of Ohio - United States
William Stephens age 60
Governor of California - United States
Charles Hillman Brough age 44
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Albert Ritchie age 44
Governor of Maryland - United States
William P. Hobby age 42
Governor of Texas - United States
Edward I. Edwards age 56
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Westmoreland Davis age 61
Governor of Virginia - United States
James P. Goodrich age 56
Governor of Indiana - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 36
New York State Senate - United States
Benedict XV age 65
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 34
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 40
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 48
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 62
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 49
King - Denmark
Ferdinand I of Romania age 55
King - Kingdom of Romania
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 55
President - Finland
Vajiravudh age 39
King - Thailand
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 70
President - Argentina
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 24
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 21
King - Eswatini
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 71
Prince - Monaco
Ugyen Wangchuck age 58
King - Bhutan
Karl Seitz age 51
President - Austria
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 35
President - Lithuania
William, Prince of Albania age 44
King - Albania
Yusef of Morocco age 38
Sultan - Morocco
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 20
Queen - Tonga
Augusto Leguía age 57
President - Peru
Charles D. B. King age 45
President - Liberia
António José de Almeida age 54
President - Portugal
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 34
Sultan - Oman
Giuseppe Motta age 48
President - Switzerland
Sisowath of Cambodia age 80
King - Cambodia
Juan Luis Sanfuentes age 61
President - Chile
Baltasar Brum age 37
President - Uruguay
Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford age 52
Viceroy - British Raj
Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno age 60
President - Ecuador
Manuel Gondra age 48
President - Paraguay
Victorino Márquez Bustillos age 61
Provisional President - Venezuela
Marco Fidel Suárez age 65
President - Colombia
Emiliano Chamorro Vargas age 49
President - Nicaragua
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 65
Emir - Qatar
Julio Acosta García age 48
President - Costa Rica
Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave age 57
President - Haiti
Jorge Meléndez Ramírez age 49
President - El Salvador
Rafael López Gutiérrez age 65
President - Honduras
Isa I of Bahrain age 72
Hakim - Bahrain
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 39
Prime Minister - Turkey
Eleftherios Venizelos age 56
Prime Minister - Greece
Hjalmar Branting age 59
Prime Minister - Sweden
Kārlis Ulmanis age 43
Prime Minister - Latvia
Billy Hughes age 57
Prime Minister - Australia
Arthur Meighen age 46
Prime Minister - Canada
Pál Teleki age 40
Prime Minister - Hungary
Kazys Grinius age 53
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Aleksandar Stamboliyski age 41
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Jaan Tõnisson age 51
Prime Minister - Estonia
Alexandru Averescu age 61
Prime Minister - Romania
Christian Rakovsky age 47
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Eduardo Dato age 64
Prime Minister - Spain
Noe Zhordania age 52
Prime Minister - Georgia
Michael Mayr age 56
Chancellor - Austria
Rafael Erich age 41
Prime Minister - Finland
Léon Delacroix age 52
Prime Minister - Belgium
Jón Magnússon age 61
Prime Minister - Iceland
Niels Neergaard age 66
Prime Minister - Denmark
Otto Bahr Halvorsen age 48
Prime Minister - Norway
Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck age 46
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Émile Reuter age 46
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Sulejman Delvina age 35
Prime Minister - Albania
William Massey age 64
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Hamo Ohanjanyan age 47
Prime Minister - Armenia
António Granjo age 38
Prime Minister - Portugal
Jovan Plamenac age 47
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 60
Governor-General - Australia
Joseph Stalin age 41
People's Commissar for Nationalities - Soviet Union
Adolf Hitler age 31
Albert Einstein age 41
Ronald Reagan age 9
Nelson Mandela age 2
Mahatma Gandhi age 50
Pablo Picasso age 38
Charlie Chaplin age 31
Thomas Edison age 73
Sigmund Freud age 64
John F. Kennedy age 3
Marie Curie age 52
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 38
Rabindranath Tagore age 59
Mao Zedong age 26
Charles de Gaulle age 29
Nikola Tesla age 64
Walt Disney age 18
George Orwell age 17
John Paul II age 3 months
Ernest Hemingway age 21
Henry Ford age 57
Benito Mussolini age 37
Jean-Paul Sartre age 15
Mother Teresa age 10
Harry S. Truman age 36
Jawaharlal Nehru age 30
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 29
Richard Nixon age 7
Alan Turing age 8