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Events

Russian Revolution 1917-03-08 - 1923-06-16
Russian Civil War 1917-11-07 - 1923-06-16
Irish War of Independence 1919-01-21 - 1921-07-11
Polish–Soviet War 1919-02-14 - 1921-03-18
Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) 1919-05-15 - 1922-10-11
Occupation of Smyrna 1919-05-15 - 1922-09-09
Turkish War of Independence 1919-05-15 - 1922-10-11
Roaring Twenties 1920 - 1929
Prohibition in the United States 1920-01-17 - 1933-12-05
Non-cooperation movement 1920-09-04 - 1922-02-12
Kronstadt rebellion 1921-03-01 - 1921-03-18

People

Warren G. Harding age 55
President - United States
George V age 55
King - United Kingdom
Mehmed VI age 60
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Friedrich Ebert age 50
Reich President - Germany
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 51
King - Italy
Emperor Taishō age 41
Emperor - Japan
Albert I of Belgium age 45
King - Belgium
Alexandre Millerand age 62
President - France
Álvaro Obregón age 41
President - Mexico
Peter I of Serbia age 76
King - Yugoslavia
Ahmad Shah Qajar age 23
Shah - Iran
Fuad I of Egypt age 53
Sultan - Sultanate of Egypt
Zewditu age 44
Empress - Ethiopia
Epitácio Pessoa age 55
President - Brazil
Hsu Shih-chang age 65
President - Republic of China
Mario García Menocal age 54
President - Cuba
Carlos Herrera y Luna age 64
President - Guatemala
Vladimir Lenin age 50
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Pierre de Coubertin age 58
President - International Olympic Committee
David Lloyd George age 58
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Józef Piłsudski age 53
Chief of State - Poland
Constantin Fehrenbach age 69
Chancellor - Germany
Giovanni Giolitti age 78
Prime Minister - Italy
Jan Smuts age 50
Prime Minister - South Africa
Hara Takashi age 65
Prime Minister - Japan
Nikola Pašić age 75
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Wincenty Witos age 47
Prime Minister - Poland
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 44
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Adli Yakan age 57
Prime Minister - Egypt
Edward Douglass White age 75
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Calvin Coolidge age 48
Vice President - United States
Ahmet Tevfik Pasha age 76
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Deng Xiaoping age 16
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 22
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 35
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 25
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 21
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Winston Churchill age 46
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 57
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Joseph Wirth age 41
Reichsminister - Germany
Charles Evans Hughes age 58
Secretary of State - United States
Andrew Mellon age 66
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Harry M. Daugherty age 61
Attorney General - United States
John W. Weeks age 60
Secretary of War - United States
Peyton C. March age 56
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Laming Worthington-Evans age 52
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham age 52
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Edward Shortt age 59
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Sun Yat-sen age 54
Chairman - Kuomintang
H. H. Asquith age 68
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Éamon de Valera age 38
President - Sinn Féin
Andrew Bonar Law age 62
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 59
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
J. R. Clynes age 52
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan age 50
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford age 49
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Sefako Makgatho age 60
President - African National Congress
Andrew Weir, 1st Baron Inverforth age 55
Minister of Munitions - United Kingdom
William L. Frierson age 52
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. age 33
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
Charles Curtis age 61
Senate - United States
Frank B. Kellogg age 64
Senate - United States
Philander C. Knox age 67
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 63
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 43
House of Representatives - United States
John Nance Garner age 52
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
Arthur Griffith age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
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 31
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Carson age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Adamson age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kingsley Wood age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ogden L. Mills age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Townshend age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Eric Geddes age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 3
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Barnes age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman age 56
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
Aylmer Hunter-Weston age 56
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
Brian O'Higgins age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John J. O'Kelly age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Stephens age 61
Governor of California - United States
Albert Ritchie age 44
Governor of Maryland - United States
Thomas C. McRae age 69
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Edward I. Edwards age 57
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Channing H. Cox age 41
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Westmoreland Davis age 61
Governor of Virginia - United States
Pat Morris Neff age 49
Governor of Texas - United States
Harry L. Davis age 43
Governor of Ohio - United States
Nathan L. Miller age 52
Governor of New York - United States
Alfred A. Taylor age 72
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Warren T. McCray age 56
Governor of Indiana - United States
Hugh Dorsey age 49
Governor of Georgia - United States
Benedict XV age 66
Pope - Vatican City
Tomáš Masaryk age 71
President - Czechoslovakia
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 50
King - Denmark
Ferdinand I of Romania age 55
King - Kingdom of Romania
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 56
President - Finland
Vajiravudh age 40
King - Thailand
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 70
President - Argentina
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 25
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 21
King - Eswatini
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 72
Prince - Monaco
Ugyen Wangchuck age 58
King - Bhutan
Michael Hainisch age 62
President - Austria
Arturo Alessandri age 52
President - Chile
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 36
President - Lithuania
William, Prince of Albania age 45
King - Albania
Yusef of Morocco age 39
Sultan - Morocco
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 21
Queen - Tonga
Augusto Leguía age 58
President - Peru
Charles D. B. King age 46
President - Liberia
António José de Almeida age 54
President - Portugal
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 35
Sultan - Oman
Sisowath of Cambodia age 80
King - Cambodia
Baltasar Brum age 37
President - Uruguay
Bautista Saavedra age 50
President - Bolivia
Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford age 52
Viceroy - British Raj
Manuel Gondra age 49
President - Paraguay
Victorino Márquez Bustillos age 62
Provisional President - Venezuela
Marco Fidel Suárez age 65
President - Colombia
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 66
Emir - Qatar
Julio Acosta García age 48
President - Costa Rica
Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave age 57
President - Haiti
Khalifa bin Harub age 41
Sultan of Zanzibar - Sultanate of Zanzibar
Jan Černý age 47
Prime Minister - Czechoslovakia
Jorge Meléndez Ramírez age 49
President - El Salvador
Rafael López Gutiérrez age 66
President - Honduras
Diego Manuel Chamorro age 59
President - Nicaragua
Isa I of Bahrain age 73
Hakim - Bahrain
Kārlis Ulmanis age 43
Prime Minister - Latvia
Billy Hughes age 58
Prime Minister - Australia
Arthur Meighen age 46
Prime Minister - Canada
Pál Teleki age 41
Prime Minister - Hungary
Kazys Grinius age 54
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Aleksandar Stamboliyski age 42
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Alexandru Averescu age 62
Prime Minister - Romania
Bernardino Machado age 70
Prime Minister - Portugal
Christian Rakovsky age 47
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Fevzi Çakmak age 45
Prime Minister - Turkey
Noe Zhordania age 53
Prime Minister - Georgia
Oscar von Sydow age 47
Prime Minister - Sweden
Michael Mayr age 56
Chancellor - Austria
Rafael Erich age 41
Prime Minister - Finland
Jón Magnússon age 62
Prime Minister - Iceland
Niels Neergaard age 66
Prime Minister - Denmark
Henri Carton de Wiart age 52
Prime Minister - Belgium
Otto Bahr Halvorsen age 48
Prime Minister - Norway
Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos age 69
Prime Minister - Greece
Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck age 47
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Manuel Allendesalazar y Muñoz de Salazar age 64
Prime Minister - Spain
Émile Reuter age 46
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
William Massey age 65
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Abd Al-Rahman Al-Gillani age 80
Prime Minister - Iraq
Iliaz Vrioni age 39
Prime Minister - Albania
Dambyn Chagdarjav age 41
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Jovan Plamenac age 48
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Chandra Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 57
Prime Minister - Nepal
Tevita Tuʻivakano age 51
Prime Minister - Tonga
John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe age 61
Governor-General - New Zealand
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 55
Governor-General - Australia
Joseph Stalin age 42
People's Commissar for Nationalities - Soviet Union
Adolf Hitler age 31
Albert Einstein age 42
Ronald Reagan age 10
Nelson Mandela age 2
Mahatma Gandhi age 51
Pablo Picasso age 39
Charlie Chaplin age 31
Thomas Edison age 74
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 40
Sigmund Freud age 64
John F. Kennedy age 3
Marie Curie age 53
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 39
Rabindranath Tagore age 59
Mao Zedong age 27
Charles de Gaulle age 30