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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
Japanese invasion of Manchuria 1931-09-18 - 1932-02-27
Holodomor 1932 - 1933

People

Joseph Stalin age 53
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Herbert Hoover age 57
President - United States
Hirohito age 30
Emperor - Japan
Haile Selassie age 39
Emperor - Ethiopia
George V age 66
King - United Kingdom
Paul von Hindenburg age 84
Reich President - Germany
Reza Shah age 53
Shah - Iran
Getúlio Vargas age 49
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 62
King - Italy
Albert I of Belgium age 56
King - Belgium
Paul Doumer age 74
President - France
Alexander I of Yugoslavia age 43
King - Yugoslavia
Fuad I of Egypt age 63
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 55
President - Mexico
Gerardo Machado age 60
President - Cuba
Jorge Ubico age 53
President - Guatemala
Benito Mussolini age 48
Prime Minister - Italy
Vyacheslav Molotov age 41
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Ramsay MacDonald age 65
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Heinrich Brüning age 46
Chancellor - Germany
Wang Jingwei age 48
Premier - Republic of China
Inukai Tsuyoshi age 76
Prime Minister - Japan
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 56
President - International Olympic Committee
W. T. Cosgrave age 51
Taoiseach - Ireland
J. B. M. Hertzog age 65
Prime Minister - South Africa
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 55
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Petar Živković age 53
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Aleksander Prystor age 58
Prime Minister - Poland
Ismaʿil Sidqi age 56
Prime Minister - Egypt
Charles Evans Hughes age 69
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Charles Curtis age 72
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 27
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 33
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 46
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 30
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 32
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Neville Chamberlain age 62
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Douglas MacArthur age 52
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Henry L. Stimson age 64
Secretary of State - United States
Wilhelm Groener age 64
Reichsminister - Germany
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 61
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Ogden L. Mills age 47
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Patrick J. Hurley age 49
Secretary of War - United States
Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham age 60
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
William D. Mitchell age 57
Attorney General - United States
J. Edgar Hoover age 37
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Stanley Baldwin age 64
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Arthur Henderson age 68
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Harlan F. Stone age 59
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Clark McReynolds age 70
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
J. C. C. Davidson age 43
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Pixley ka Isaka Seme age 51
President - African National Congress
Brian O'Higgins age 49
President - Sinn Féin
Cordell Hull age 60
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 54
Senate - United States
James F. Byrnes age 49
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 74
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Lloyd George age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Eden age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Nance Garner age 63
House of Representatives - United States
Stafford Cripps age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duff Cooper age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kingsley Wood age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 14
House of Representatives - United States
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Lansbury age 73
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aylmer Hunter-Weston age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 50
Governor of New York - United States
Richard Russell Jr. age 34
Governor of Georgia - United States
James Rolph age 62
Governor of California - United States
John Garland Pollard age 60
Governor of Virginia - United States
Albert Ritchie age 55
Governor of Maryland - United States
George White (Ohio politician) age 59
Governor of Ohio - United States
Ross S. Sterling age 57
Governor of Texas - United States
Joseph B. Ely age 51
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Harvey Parnell age 52
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Harry G. Leslie age 53
Governor of Indiana - United States
Christian Herter age 36
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Barber Conable age 9
New York State Senate - United States
Adolf Hitler age 42
Führer - Nazi Party
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 51
President - Turkey
Pius XI age 74
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 56
King - Saudi Arabia
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 51
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 59
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 73
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 61
King - Denmark
Zog I of Albania age 36
King - Albania
Rafael Trujillo age 40
President - Dominican Republic
Prajadhipok age 38
King - Thailand
Mohammed V of Morocco age 22
Sultan - Morocco
Antanas Smetona age 57
President - Lithuania
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 70
President - Finland
Carol II of Romania age 38
King - Kingdom of Romania
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 36
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 32
King - Eswatini
Ignacy Mościcki age 64
President - Poland
Óscar Carmona age 62
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 61
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 21
Sultan - Oman
Juan Vicente Gómez age 74
President - Venezuela
Jigme Wangchuck age 27
King - Bhutan
Alexandros Zaimis age 76
President - Greece
Agustín Pedro Justo age 56
President - Argentina
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 49
President - El Salvador
Alberts Kviesis age 50
President - Latvia
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 31
Queen - Tonga
Sisowath Monivong age 56
King - Cambodia
Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro age 42
President - Peru
Edwin Barclay age 50
President - Liberia
Giuseppe Motta age 60
President - Switzerland
Daniel Salamanca Urey age 62
President - Bolivia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 47
Emir - Kuwait
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon age 65
Viceroy - British Raj
José Patricio Guggiari age 47
President - Paraguay
José María Moncada age 61
President - Nicaragua
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 77
Emir - Qatar
Juan Esteban Montero age 53
President - Chile
Enrique Olaya Herrera age 51
President - Colombia
Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro Jované age 49
President - Panama
Stenio Vincent age 58
President - Haiti
Charles Debbas age 47
President - Lebanon
Cleto González Víquez age 73
President - Costa Rica
Vicente Mejía Colindres age 53
President - Honduras
Losolyn Laagan age 45
President - Mongolia
İsmet İnönü age 47
Prime Minister - Turkey
Eleftherios Venizelos age 67
Prime Minister - Greece
Manuel Azaña age 52
Prime Minister - Spain
Nicolae Iorga age 60
Prime Minister - Romania
Richard Bedford Bennett age 61
Prime Minister - Canada
Joseph Lyons age 52
Prime Minister - Australia
Thorvald Stauning age 58
Prime Minister - Denmark
Carl Gustaf Ekman age 59
Prime Minister - Sweden
Nuri as-Said age 44
Prime Minister - Iraq
Juho Sunila age 56
Prime Minister - Finland
Joseph Bech age 45
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Gyula Károlyi age 60
Prime Minister - Hungary
Jules Renkin age 69
Prime Minister - Belgium
Tryggvi Þórhallsson age 43
Prime Minister - Iceland
Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck age 58
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Pandeli Evangjeli age 73
Prime Minister - Albania
Nikola Mushanov age 59
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
George Forbes age 63
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Domingos Oliveira age 58
Prime Minister - Portugal
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 47
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland age 70
Prime Minister - Malta
Marģers Skujenieks age 45
Prime Minister - Latvia
Josef Hoop age 36
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 44
Prime Minister - Tonga
Karl Buresch age 53
Chancellor - Austria
Isaac Isaacs age 76
Governor-General - Australia
Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe age 64
Governor-General - New Zealand
Léon Cayla age 50
Governor-General - Madagascar
Harry S. Truman age 47
Presiding Judge of Jackson County, Missouri
Albert Einstein age 52
Ronald Reagan age 21
Nelson Mandela age 13
Mahatma Gandhi age 62
Pablo Picasso age 50
Charlie Chaplin age 42
Elizabeth II age 5
Sigmund Freud age 75
John F. Kennedy age 14
Martin Luther King Jr. age 3
Marie Curie age 64
Rabindranath Tagore age 70
Mao Zedong age 38
Che Guevara age 3
Charles de Gaulle age 41
Nikola Tesla age 75
Neil Armstrong age 1
Walt Disney age 30
George Orwell age 28
John Paul II age 11
Margaret Thatcher age 6
Ernest Hemingway age 32
Gabriel García Márquez age 4
Fidel Castro age 5
Mikhail Gorbachev age 12 months