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Events

Prohibition in the United States 1920-01-17 - 1933-12-05
Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
First five-year plan (Soviet Union) 1928-10-01 - 1932-12-31
Great Depression 1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
Dust Bowl 1930 - 1936
Encirclement Campaigns 1930-11-01 - 1934-10-10

People

Joseph Stalin age 52
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Herbert Hoover age 56
President - United States
Hirohito age 30
Emperor - Japan
Haile Selassie age 38
Emperor - Ethiopia
George V age 65
King - United Kingdom
Paul von Hindenburg age 83
Reich President - Germany
Reza Shah age 53
Shah - Iran
Getúlio Vargas age 49
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 61
King - Italy
Albert I of Belgium age 56
King - Belgium
Gaston Doumergue age 67
President - France
Alexander I of Yugoslavia age 42
King - Yugoslavia
Fuad I of Egypt age 63
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 54
President - Mexico
Gerardo Machado age 59
President - Cuba
Jorge Ubico age 52
President - Guatemala
Benito Mussolini age 47
Prime Minister - Italy
Chiang Kai-shek age 43
Premier - Republic of China
Vyacheslav Molotov age 41
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Ramsay MacDonald age 64
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Pierre Laval age 47
Prime Minister - France
Heinrich Brüning age 45
Chancellor - Germany
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 55
President - International Olympic Committee
Wakatsuki Reijirō age 65
Prime Minister - Japan
W. T. Cosgrave age 50
Taoiseach - Ireland
J. B. M. Hertzog age 65
Prime Minister - South Africa
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 54
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Petar Živković age 52
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Walery Sławek age 51
Prime Minister - Poland
Ismaʿil Sidqi age 55
Prime Minister - Egypt
Charles Evans Hughes age 69
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Charles Curtis age 71
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 26
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 32
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 45
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 29
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 35
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 31
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Douglas MacArthur age 51
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Joseph Wirth age 51
Reichsminister - Germany
Henry L. Stimson age 63
Secretary of State - United States
Andrew Mellon age 76
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield age 71
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden age 66
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Patrick J. Hurley age 48
Secretary of War - United States
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 46
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 62
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William D. Mitchell age 56
Attorney General - United States
William Mackenzie, 1st Baron Amulree age 70
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 36
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
David Lloyd George age 68
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Stanley Baldwin age 63
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Harlan F. Stone age 58
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede age 60
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Pixley ka Isaka Seme age 50
President - African National Congress
James Clark McReynolds age 69
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Graham age 43
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Brian O'Higgins age 48
President - Sinn Féin
Ernest L. Jahncke age 54
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
Cordell Hull age 59
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 53
Senate - United States
James F. Byrnes age 49
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 73
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Neville Chamberlain age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Eden age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Nance Garner age 62
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Henderson age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stafford Cripps age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 41
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Lansbury age 72
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duff Cooper age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Adamson age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kingsley Wood age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 13
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aylmer Hunter-Weston age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 49
Governor of New York - United States
James Rolph age 61
Governor of California - United States
John Garland Pollard age 59
Governor of Virginia - United States
Albert Ritchie age 54
Governor of Maryland - United States
George White (Ohio politician) age 58
Governor of Ohio - United States
Ross S. Sterling age 56
Governor of Texas - United States
Joseph B. Ely age 50
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Harvey Parnell age 51
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Harry G. Leslie age 53
Governor of Indiana - United States
Morgan Foster Larson age 48
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Lamartine Griffin Hardman age 75
Governor of Georgia - United States
Christian Herter age 36
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 46
New York State Senate - United States
Barber Conable age 8
New York State Senate - United States
Adolf Hitler age 42
Führer - Nazi Party
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 50
President - Turkey
Pius XI age 73
Pope - Vatican City
Tomáš Masaryk age 81
President - Czechoslovakia
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 55
President - Indian National Congress
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 50
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 58
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 72
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 60
King - Denmark
Zog I of Albania age 35
King - Albania
Rafael Trujillo age 39
President - Dominican Republic
Prajadhipok age 37
King - Thailand
Mohammed V of Morocco age 21
Sultan - Morocco
Antanas Smetona age 56
President - Lithuania
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 69
President - Finland
Carol II of Romania age 37
King - Kingdom of Romania
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 35
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 31
King - Eswatini
Ignacy Mościcki age 63
President - Poland
Óscar Carmona age 61
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 60
Prince - Monaco
Jigme Wangchuck age 26
King - Bhutan
Alexandros Zaimis age 75
President - Greece
José Félix Uriburu age 62
President - Argentina
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 53
President - Chile
Alberts Kviesis age 49
President - Latvia
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 31
Queen - Tonga
Sisowath Monivong age 55
King - Cambodia
Gabriel Terra age 57
President - Uruguay
Edwin Barclay age 49
President - Liberia
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 45
Sultan - Oman
Daniel Salamanca Urey age 61
President - Bolivia
Juan Bautista Pérez age 61
President - Venezuela
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 46
Emir - Kuwait
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon age 64
Viceroy - British Raj
José Patricio Guggiari age 47
President - Paraguay
Mwambutsa IV of Burundi age 18
Mwami - Kingdom of Burundi
Isidro Ayora age 51
President - Ecuador
José María Moncada age 60
President - Nicaragua
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 76
Emir - Qatar
David Samanez Ocampo age 64
President - Peru
Khalifa bin Harub age 51
Sultan of Zanzibar - Sultanate of Zanzibar
Enrique Olaya Herrera age 50
President - Colombia
Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro Jované age 48
President - Panama
František Udržal age 65
Prime Minister - Czechoslovakia
Stenio Vincent age 57
President - Haiti
Charles Debbas age 47
President - Lebanon
Cleto González Víquez age 72
President - Costa Rica
Arturo Araujo age 53
President - El Salvador
Vicente Mejía Colindres age 53
President - Honduras
Yuhi V Musinga age 48
Mwami - Kingdom of Rwanda
Losolyn Laagan age 44
President - Mongolia
Ernst Ziehm age 64
President of the Senate - Free City of Danzig
Mir Osman Ali Khan age 45
Nizam of Hyderabad - Hyderabad State
İsmet İnönü age 46
Prime Minister - Turkey
Eleftherios Venizelos age 66
Prime Minister - Greece
Kārlis Ulmanis age 53
Prime Minister - Latvia
Nicolae Iorga age 59
Prime Minister - Romania
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora age 53
Prime Minister - Spain
Richard Bedford Bennett age 60
Prime Minister - Canada
James Scullin age 54
Prime Minister - Australia
Thorvald Stauning age 57
Prime Minister - Denmark
Carl Gustaf Ekman age 58
Prime Minister - Sweden
István Bethlen age 56
Prime Minister - Hungary
Nuri as-Said age 43
Prime Minister - Iraq
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel age 60
Prime Minister - Norway
Juho Sunila age 55
Prime Minister - Finland
Joseph Bech age 44
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod age 59
Prime Minister - Romania
Andrey Lyapchev age 64
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Otto Ender age 55
Chancellor - Austria
Tryggvi Þórhallsson age 42
Prime Minister - Iceland
Henri Jaspar age 60
Prime Minister - Belgium
Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck age 57
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Pandeli Evangjeli age 72
Prime Minister - Albania
George Forbes age 62
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Domingos Oliveira age 57
Prime Minister - Portugal
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 46
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland age 69
Prime Minister - Malta
Josef Hoop age 35
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 43
Prime Minister - Tonga
Bhim Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 66
Prime Minister - Nepal
Isaac Isaacs age 75
Governor-General - Australia
Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe age 63
Governor-General - New Zealand
Léon Cayla age 49
Governor-General - Madagascar
Harry S. Truman age 46
Presiding Judge of Jackson County, Missouri
Albert Einstein age 52
Ronald Reagan age 20
Nelson Mandela age 12
Mahatma Gandhi age 61