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Events

Roaring Twenties 1920 - 1929
Prohibition in the United States 1920-01-17 - 1933-12-05
Northern Expedition 1926-07-09 - 1928-12-29

People

Joseph Stalin age 47
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Calvin Coolidge age 54
President - United States
George V age 61
King - United Kingdom
Paul von Hindenburg age 78
Reich President - Germany
Reza Shah age 48
Shah - Iran
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 56
King - Italy
Emperor Taishō age 47
Emperor - Japan
Albert I of Belgium age 51
King - Belgium
Gaston Doumergue age 63
President - France
Alexander I of Yugoslavia age 37
King - Yugoslavia
Plutarco Elías Calles age 48
President - Mexico
Fuad I of Egypt age 58
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Zewditu age 50
Empress - Ethiopia
Artur Bernardes age 51
President - Brazil
Gerardo Machado age 54
President - Cuba
José María Orellana age 54
President - Guatemala
Du Xigui age 50
Acting President - Republic of China
Chen Duxiu age 46
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Benito Mussolini age 43
Prime Minister - Italy
Raymond Poincaré age 66
Prime Minister - France
Stanley Baldwin age 59
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Alexei Rykov age 45
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Wilhelm Marx age 63
Chancellor - Germany
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 50
President - International Olympic Committee
Wakatsuki Reijirō age 60
Prime Minister - Japan
W. T. Cosgrave age 46
Taoiseach - Ireland
J. B. M. Hertzog age 60
Prime Minister - South Africa
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 50
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Kazimierz Bartel age 44
Prime Minister - Poland
Adli Yakan age 62
Prime Minister - Egypt
Nikola Uzunović age 53
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
William Howard Taft age 69
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Charles G. Dawes age 61
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 22
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 27
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 40
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 25
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 30
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 26
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Winston Churchill age 51
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Frank B. Kellogg age 69
Secretary of State - United States
Dwight F. Davis age 47
Secretary of War - United States
Andrew Mellon age 71
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Leo Amery age 52
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
John G. Sargent age 65
Attorney General - United States
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman age 61
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Laming Worthington-Evans age 58
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford age 61
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John L. Hines age 58
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
J. Edgar Hoover age 31
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
H. H. Asquith age 74
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Ramsay MacDonald age 59
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood age 62
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Harlan F. Stone age 53
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Clark McReynolds age 64
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Zacharias Richard Mahabane age 45
President - African National Congress
John J. O'Kelly age 54
President - Sinn Féin
William D. Mitchell age 52
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Charles Curtis age 66
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 68
Senate - United States
David Lloyd George age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Eden age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Cordell Hull age 54
House of Representatives - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 48
House of Representatives - United States
John Nance Garner age 57
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Henderson age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 36
House of Representatives - United States
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duff Cooper age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 83
House of Representatives - United States
Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kingsley Wood age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ogden L. Mills age 42
House of Representatives - United States
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 8
House of Representatives - United States
J. R. Clynes age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Adamson age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Lansbury age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aylmer Hunter-Weston age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Al Smith age 52
Governor of New York - United States
Miriam A. Ferguson age 51
Governor of Texas - United States
Harry F. Byrd age 39
Governor of Virginia - United States
Friend Richardson age 60
Governor of California - United States
Albert Ritchie age 50
Governor of Maryland - United States
Alvan T. Fuller age 48
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
A. Harry Moore age 49
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Vic Donahey age 53
Governor of Ohio - United States
Tom Terral age 43
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Edward L. Jackson age 52
Governor of Indiana - United States
Barber Conable age 3
New York State Senate - United States
Adolf Hitler age 37
Führer - Nazi Party
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 45
President - Turkey
Pius XI age 69
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 40
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 46
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 54
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 68
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 55
King - Denmark
Zog I of Albania age 30
President - Albania
Ferdinand I of Romania age 61
King - Kingdom of Romania
Prajadhipok age 32
King - Thailand
Lauri Kristian Relander age 43
President - Finland
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 30
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 27
King - Eswatini
Ignacy Mościcki age 58
President - Poland
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 45
Viceroy - British Raj
Jānis Čakste age 67
President - Latvia
Michael Hainisch age 68
President - Austria
Kazys Grinius age 59
President - Lithuania
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 56
Prince - Monaco
Juan Vicente Gómez age 69
President - Venezuela
Jigme Wangchuck age 21
King - Bhutan
Yusef of Morocco age 44
Sultan - Morocco
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear age 57
President - Argentina
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 26
Queen - Tonga
Augusto Leguía age 63
President - Peru
Charles D. B. King age 51
President - Liberia
Pavlos Kountouriotis age 72
President - Greece
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 40
Sultan - Oman
Sisowath of Cambodia age 86
King - Cambodia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 41
Emir - Kuwait
Emiliano Figueroa age 60
President - Chile
Hernando Siles Reyes age 44
President - Bolivia
Isidro Ayora age 47
President - Ecuador
Eligio Ayala age 46
President - Paraguay
Miguel Abadía Méndez age 59
President - Colombia
Emiliano Chamorro Vargas age 55
President - Nicaragua
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 71
Emir - Qatar
Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno age 67
President - Costa Rica
Horacio Vásquez age 65
President - Dominican Republic
Louis Borno age 60
President - Haiti
Alfonso Quiñónez Molina age 52
President - El Salvador
Miguel Paz Barahona age 63
President - Honduras
Rodolfo Chiari age 56
President - Panama
İsmet İnönü age 41
Prime Minister - Turkey
Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella age 56
Prime Minister - Spain
Kyösti Kallio age 53
Prime Minister - Finland
Arthur Meighen age 52
Prime Minister - Canada
S. M. Bruce age 43
Prime Minister - Australia
Óscar Carmona age 56
Prime Minister - Portugal
Thorvald Stauning age 52
Prime Minister - Denmark
Alexandru Averescu age 67
Prime Minister - Romania
Carl Gustaf Ekman age 53
Prime Minister - Sweden
István Bethlen age 51
Prime Minister - Hungary
Joseph Bech age 39
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Georgios Kondylis age 47
Prime Minister - Greece
Dirk Jan de Geer age 55
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Rudolf Ramek age 45
Chancellor - Austria
Andrey Lyapchev age 59
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Jón Þorláksson age 49
Prime Minister - Iceland
Henri Jaspar age 56
Prime Minister - Belgium
Ivar Lykke age 54
Prime Minister - Norway
Abd al-Muhsin as-Sa'dun age 47
Prime Minister - Iraq
Gordon Coates age 48
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Arturs Alberings age 49
Prime Minister - Latvia
Ugo Pasquale Mifsud age 36
Prime Minister - Malta
Gustav Schädler age 42
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Anto Gvozdenović age 73
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Sargis Hаmbardzumyan age 56
Prime Minister - Armenia
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 38
Prime Minister - Tonga
John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven age 52
Governor-General - Australia
Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet age 61
Governor-General - New Zealand
Marcel Olivier age 46
Governor-General - Madagascar
Albert Einstein age 47
Ronald Reagan age 15
Nelson Mandela age 8
Mahatma Gandhi age 56
Pablo Picasso age 44
Charlie Chaplin age 37
Elizabeth II age 4 months
Thomas Edison age 79
Sigmund Freud age 70
John F. Kennedy age 9
Marie Curie age 58
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 44
Rabindranath Tagore age 65
Mao Zedong age 32
Charles de Gaulle age 35
Nikola Tesla age 70
Walt Disney age 24
George Orwell age 23
John Paul II age 6
Margaret Thatcher age 10 months
Ernest Hemingway age 27
Fidel Castro age 0 months
Henry Ford age 63
Jean-Paul Sartre age 21