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Events

Russian Revolution 1917-03-08 - 1923-06-16
Russian Civil War 1917-11-07 - 1923-06-16
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
Battle of the Sakarya 1921-08-23 - 1921-09-13

People

Warren G. Harding age 55
President - United States
George V age 56
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 42
Emperor - Japan
Albert I of Belgium age 46
King - Belgium
Alexandre Millerand age 62
President - France
Alexander I of Yugoslavia age 32
King - Yugoslavia
Álvaro Obregón age 41
President - Mexico
Ahmad Shah Qajar age 23
Shah - Iran
Fuad I of Egypt age 53
Sultan - Sultanate of Egypt
Zewditu age 45
Empress - Ethiopia
Epitácio Pessoa age 56
President - Brazil
Hsu Shih-chang age 65
President - Republic of China
Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso age 60
President - Cuba
Carlos Herrera y Luna age 64
President - Guatemala
Chen Duxiu age 41
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Vladimir Lenin age 51
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
Joseph Wirth age 41
Chancellor - Germany
Jan Smuts age 51
Prime Minister - South Africa
Ivanoe Bonomi age 47
Prime Minister - Italy
Hara Takashi age 65
Prime Minister - Japan
Nikola Pašić age 75
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 45
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Adli Yakan age 57
Prime Minister - Egypt
Wincenty Witos age 47
Prime Minister - Poland
William Howard Taft age 63
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Calvin Coolidge age 49
Vice President - United States
Ahmet Tevfik Pasha age 76
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Deng Xiaoping age 17
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 20
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
John J. Pershing age 60
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Charles Evans Hughes age 59
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 61
Secretary of War - United States
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan age 50
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Laming Worthington-Evans age 53
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)
Stanley Baldwin age 54
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Éamon de Valera age 38
President - Sinn Féin
William R. Day age 72
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Joseph McKenna age 78
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)
William Peel, 1st Earl Peel age 54
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 57
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
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 68
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 63
Senate - United States
Arthur Balfour age 73
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Andrew Bonar Law age 62
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 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James F. Byrnes age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Seán T. O'Kelly age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
W. T. Cosgrave age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Leo Amery age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kingsley Wood age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ogden L. Mills age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Eric Geddes age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 3
House of Representatives - United States
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 26
House of Representatives - United States
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Barnes age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Adamson age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Griffith age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John J. O'Kelly age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brian O'Higgins age 39
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 45
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 62
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 73
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Warren T. McCray age 56
Governor of Indiana - United States
Adolf Hitler age 32
Führer - Nazi Party
Benedict XV age 66
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 35
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 41
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 49
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 63
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 50
King - Denmark
Ferdinand I of Romania age 56
King - Kingdom of Romania
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 56
President - Finland
Vajiravudh age 40
King - Thailand
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 71
President - Argentina
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 25
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 22
King - Eswatini
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 72
Prince - Monaco
Ugyen Wangchuck age 59
King - Bhutan
Michael Hainisch age 63
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 55
President - Portugal
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 35
Sultan - Oman
Sisowath of Cambodia age 81
King - Cambodia
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading age 60
Viceroy - British Raj
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 36
Emir - Kuwait
Baltasar Brum age 38
President - Uruguay
Bautista Saavedra age 51
President - Bolivia
Manuel Gondra age 49
President - Paraguay
Victorino Márquez Bustillos age 62
Provisional President - Venezuela
Marco Fidel Suárez age 66
President - Colombia
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 66
Emir - Qatar
Julio Acosta García age 49
President - Costa Rica
Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave age 58
President - Haiti
Jorge Meléndez Ramírez age 50
President - El Salvador
Rafael López Gutiérrez age 66
President - Honduras
Diego Manuel Chamorro age 60
President - Nicaragua
Isa I of Bahrain age 73
Hakim - Bahrain
Billy Hughes age 58
Prime Minister - Australia
Arthur Meighen age 47
Prime Minister - Canada
Kazys Grinius age 54
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Aleksandar Stamboliyski age 42
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Alexandru Averescu age 62
Prime Minister - Romania
Christian Rakovsky age 48
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Fevzi Çakmak age 45
Prime Minister - Turkey
Juho Vennola age 49
Prime Minister - Finland
István Bethlen age 46
Prime Minister - Hungary
Johann Schober age 46
Chancellor - Austria
Oscar von Sydow age 48
Prime Minister - Sweden
Antonio Maura age 68
Prime Minister - Spain
Jón Magnússon age 62
Prime Minister - Iceland
Niels Neergaard age 67
Prime Minister - Denmark
Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics age 34
Prime Minister - Latvia
Henri Carton de Wiart age 52
Prime Minister - Belgium
Dimitrios Gounaris age 55
Prime Minister - Greece
Otto Blehr age 74
Prime Minister - Norway
Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck age 47
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Émile Reuter age 47
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
Tomé de Barros Queirós age 49
Prime Minister - Portugal
Dogsomyn Bodoo age 36
Prime Minister - Mongolia
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
Albert Einstein age 42
Ronald Reagan age 10
Nelson Mandela age 3
Mahatma Gandhi age 51
Pablo Picasso age 39
Charlie Chaplin age 32
Thomas Edison age 74
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 40
Sigmund Freud age 65
John F. Kennedy age 4
Marie Curie age 53
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 39
Rabindranath Tagore age 60
Mao Zedong age 27
Charles de Gaulle age 30
Nikola Tesla age 65
Walt Disney age 19
George Orwell age 18
John Paul II age 1
Ernest Hemingway age 22
Henry Ford age 58
Benito Mussolini age 38
Jean-Paul Sartre age 16
Mother Teresa age 11
Harry S. Truman age 37
Jawaharlal Nehru age 31