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Events

Russian Revolution 1917-03-08 - 1923-06-16
Russian Civil War 1917-11-07 - 1923-06-16
Occupation of Smyrna 1919-05-15 - 1922-09-09
Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) 1919-05-15 - 1922-10-11
Roaring Twenties 1920 - 1929
Prohibition in the United States 1920-01-17 - 1933-12-05

People

Warren G. Harding age 56
President - United States
George V age 56
King - United Kingdom
Mehmed VI age 61
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Friedrich Ebert age 51
Reich President - Germany
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 52
King - Italy
Emperor Taishō age 42
Emperor - Japan
Albert I of Belgium age 46
King - Belgium
Alexandre Millerand age 63
President - France
Alexander I of Yugoslavia age 33
King - Yugoslavia
Álvaro Obregón age 42
President - Mexico
Ahmad Shah Qajar age 24
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 66
President - Republic of China
Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso age 61
President - Cuba
José María Orellana age 49
President - Guatemala
Vladimir Lenin age 51
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Pierre de Coubertin age 59
President - International Olympic Committee
David Lloyd George age 59
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Józef Piłsudski age 54
Chief of State - Poland
Raymond Poincaré age 61
Prime Minister - France
Joseph Wirth age 42
Chancellor - Germany
Jan Smuts age 51
Prime Minister - South Africa
Ivanoe Bonomi age 48
Prime Minister - Italy
Takahashi Korekiyo age 67
Prime Minister - Japan
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 45
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Antoni Ponikowski age 43
Prime Minister - Poland
William Howard Taft age 64
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Calvin Coolidge age 49
Vice President - United States
Winston Churchill age 47
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
John J. Pershing age 61
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 62
Attorney General - United States
John W. Weeks age 61
Secretary of War - United States
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan age 51
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 53
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Edward Shortt age 59
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Sun Yat-sen age 55
Chairman - Kuomintang
H. H. Asquith age 69
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Stanley Baldwin age 54
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Éamon de Valera age 39
President - Sinn Féin
William R. Day age 72
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
J. R. Clynes age 52
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Austen Chamberlain age 58
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Sefako Makgatho age 61
President - African National Congress
Charles Curtis age 62
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 44
House of Representatives - United States
John Nance Garner age 53
House of Representatives - United States
Adolf Hitler age 32
Führer - Nazi Party
Pius XI age 64
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 51
King - Denmark
Ferdinand I of Romania age 56
King - Kingdom of Romania
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 57
President - Finland
Vajiravudh age 41
King - Thailand
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 71
President - Argentina
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 26
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 22
King - Eswatini
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 73
Prince - Monaco
Ugyen Wangchuck age 59
King - Bhutan
Michael Hainisch age 63
President - Austria
Arturo Alessandri age 53
President - Chile
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 36
President - Lithuania
William, Prince of Albania age 45
King - Albania
Yusef of Morocco age 40
Sultan - Morocco
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 21
Queen - Tonga
Augusto Leguía age 59
President - Peru
Charles D. B. King age 46
President - Liberia
António José de Almeida age 55
President - Portugal
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 36
Sultan - Oman
Eusebio Ayala age 46
President - Paraguay
Sisowath of Cambodia age 81
King - Cambodia
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading age 61
Viceroy - British Raj
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 37
Emir - Kuwait
Baltasar Brum age 38
President - Uruguay
Bautista Saavedra age 51
President - Bolivia
Victorino Márquez Bustillos age 63
Provisional President - Venezuela
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 67
Emir - Qatar
Julio Acosta García age 49
President - Costa Rica
Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave age 58
President - Haiti
Robert Haab age 56
President - Switzerland
Jorge Meléndez Ramírez age 50
President - El Salvador
Rafael López Gutiérrez age 67
President - Honduras
Diego Manuel Chamorro age 60
President - Nicaragua
Isa I of Bahrain age 74
Hakim - Bahrain
Hjalmar Branting age 61
Prime Minister - Sweden
Billy Hughes age 59
Prime Minister - Australia
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 47
Prime Minister - Canada
Aleksandar Stamboliyski age 42
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Christian Rakovsky age 48
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Fevzi Çakmak age 46
Prime Minister - Turkey
Juho Vennola age 49
Prime Minister - Finland
István Bethlen age 47
Prime Minister - Hungary
Ion I. C. Brătianu age 57
Prime Minister - Romania
Johann Schober age 47
Chancellor - Austria
Antonio Maura age 68
Prime Minister - Spain
Georges Theunis age 49
Prime Minister - Belgium
Jón Magnússon age 63
Prime Minister - Iceland
Niels Neergaard age 67
Prime Minister - Denmark
Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics age 35
Prime Minister - Latvia
Dimitrios Gounaris age 56
Prime Minister - Greece
Otto Blehr age 75
Prime Minister - Norway
Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck age 48
Prime Minister - Netherlands
António Maria da Silva age 49
Prime Minister - Portugal
Xhafer Bej Ypi age 42
Prime Minister - Albania
Ernestas Galvanauskas age 39
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Émile Reuter age 47
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
William Massey age 65
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Abd Al-Rahman Al-Gillani age 81
Prime Minister - Iraq
Joseph Howard age 59
Prime Minister - Malta
Dogsomyn Bodoo age 37
Prime Minister - Mongolia
John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe age 62
Governor-General - New Zealand
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 56
Governor-General - Australia
Joseph Stalin age 43
People's Commissar for Nationalities - Soviet Union
Albert Einstein age 42
Ronald Reagan age 11
Nelson Mandela age 3
Mahatma Gandhi age 52
Pablo Picasso age 40
Charlie Chaplin age 32
Thomas Edison age 75
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 41
Sigmund Freud age 65
John F. Kennedy age 4
Marie Curie age 54
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 40
Rabindranath Tagore age 60
Mao Zedong age 28
Charles de Gaulle age 31
Nikola Tesla age 65
Walt Disney age 20
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 32
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 31
Woodrow Wilson age 65
Richard Nixon age 9
Alan Turing age 9
John Maynard Keynes age 38
Simone de Beauvoir age 14
Niels Bohr age 36
Leon Trotsky age 42
Max Planck age 63
Lyndon B. Johnson age 13
Gerald Ford age 8
Indira Gandhi age 4
Enrico Fermi age 20
Nikita Khrushchev age 27
Herbert Hoover age 47
Alexander Graham Bell age 75
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 3
Kwame Nkrumah age 12
Hirohito age 20
Claude Monet age 81
Ho Chi Minh age 31
Konrad Adenauer age 46
Georges Pompidou age 10
Joseph Goebbels age 24
Leonid Brezhnev age 15
Chiang Kai-shek age 34
Golda Meir age 23
John XXIII age 40
Deng Xiaoping age 17
Ferdinand Marcos age 4
François Mitterrand age 5
Alexander Fleming age 40
Francisco Franco age 29
David Ben-Gurion age 35
Milton Friedman age 9
Ruhollah Khomeini age 19
Wilhelm II age 63
Josip Broz Tito age 29
Guglielmo Marconi age 47
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 17
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 4
Rosa Parks age 9
Sukarno age 20
John Paul I age 9
Anwar Sadat age 3
Paul VI age 24
Willy Brandt age 8
Dag Hammarskjöld age 16
Salvador Allende age 13
Pius XII age 45
John von Neumann age 18
George VI age 26
Heinrich Himmler age 21
Neville Chamberlain age 52