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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
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
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 44
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Adli Yakan age 57
Prime Minister - Egypt
Wincenty Witos age 47
Prime Minister - Poland
Edward Douglass White age 75
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Calvin Coolidge age 48
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 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
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
Austen Chamberlain age 57
Chancellor of the Exchequer - 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
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
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
Kingsley Wood age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ogden L. Mills age 36
House of Representatives - United States
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
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
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 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Adamson age 57
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
Charles Townshend age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aylmer Hunter-Weston age 56
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
Benedict XV age 66
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 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
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
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
Nikola Tesla age 64
Walt Disney age 19
George Orwell age 17
John Paul II age 10 months
Ernest Hemingway age 21
Henry Ford age 57
Benito Mussolini age 37
Jean-Paul Sartre age 15
Mother Teresa age 10