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Roaring Twenties 1920 - 1929
Prohibition in the United States 1920-01-17 - 1933-12-05

People

Joseph Stalin age 45
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Calvin Coolidge age 51
President - United States
George V age 58
King - United Kingdom
Friedrich Ebert age 52
Reich President - Germany
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 54
King - Italy
Emperor Taishō age 44
Emperor - Japan
Albert I of Belgium age 48
King - Belgium
Alexandre Millerand age 64
President - France
Alexander I of Yugoslavia age 35
King - Yugoslavia
Álvaro Obregón age 43
President - Mexico
Ahmad Shah Qajar age 25
Shah - Iran
Fuad I of Egypt age 55
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Zewditu age 47
Empress - Ethiopia
Chen Duxiu age 44
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Artur Bernardes age 48
President - Brazil
Cao Kun age 61
President - Republic of China
Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso age 62
President - Cuba
José María Orellana age 51
President - Guatemala
Vladimir Lenin age 53
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Benito Mussolini age 40
Prime Minister - Italy
Pierre de Coubertin age 60
President - International Olympic Committee
Raymond Poincaré age 63
Prime Minister - France
Stanley Baldwin age 56
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Wilhelm Marx age 60
Chancellor - Germany
Jan Smuts age 53
Prime Minister - South Africa
Nikola Pašić age 78
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 71
Prime Minister - Japan
W. T. Cosgrave age 43
Taoiseach - Ireland
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 47
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Yahya Ibrahim Pasha age 62
Prime Minister - Egypt
William Howard Taft age 66
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Deng Xiaoping age 19
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 25
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 37
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 22
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 27
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 23
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Neville Chamberlain age 54
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
John J. Pershing age 63
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Hans Luther age 44
Reichsminister - Germany
Charles Evans Hughes age 61
Secretary of State - United States
Andrew Mellon age 68
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Leo Amery age 50
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 43
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
Harry M. Daugherty age 63
Attorney General - United States
John W. Weeks age 63
Secretary of War - United States
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby age 58
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman age 58
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire age 55
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Sun Yat-sen age 57
Chairman - Kuomintang
H. H. Asquith age 71
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Ramsay MacDonald age 57
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Éamon de Valera age 41
President - Sinn Féin
Joseph McKenna age 80
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Clark McReynolds age 61
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Sefako Makgatho age 62
President - African National Congress
J. C. C. Davidson age 34
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James M. Beck age 62
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. age 36
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
Charles Curtis age 63
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 65
Senate - United States
David Lloyd George age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Eden age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Cordell Hull age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 46
House of Representatives - United States
John Nance Garner age 55
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Henderson age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James F. Byrnes age 41
House of Representatives - United States
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 33
House of Representatives - United States
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Lansbury age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Adamson age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kingsley Wood age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ogden L. Mills age 39
House of Representatives - United States
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 5
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 28
House of Representatives - United States
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aylmer Hunter-Weston age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Laming Worthington-Evans age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Al Smith age 49
Governor of New York - United States
Friend Richardson age 58
Governor of California - United States
Albert Ritchie age 47
Governor of Maryland - United States
Thomas C. McRae age 72
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Channing H. Cox age 44
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Vic Donahey age 50
Governor of Ohio - United States
E. Lee Trinkle age 47
Governor of Virginia - United States
Pat Morris Neff age 52
Governor of Texas - United States
George Sebastian Silzer age 53
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Warren T. McCray age 58
Governor of Indiana - United States
Clifford Walker age 46
Governor of Georgia - United States
Barber Conable age 1
New York State Senate - United States
Adolf Hitler age 34
Führer - Nazi Party
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 42
President - Turkey
Pius XI age 66
Pope - Vatican City
Tomáš Masaryk age 73
President - Czechoslovakia
Alfonso XIII age 37
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 43
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 51
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 65
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 53
King - Denmark
Ferdinand I of Romania age 58
King - Kingdom of Romania
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 58
President - Finland
Vajiravudh age 42
King - Thailand
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 27
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 24
King - Eswatini
Jānis Čakste age 64
President - Latvia
Ugyen Wangchuck age 61
King - Bhutan
Michael Hainisch age 65
President - Austria
Arturo Alessandri age 55
President - Chile
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 38
President - Lithuania
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 53
Prince - Monaco
Juan Vicente Gómez age 66
President - Venezuela
William, Prince of Albania age 47
King - Albania
Stanisław Wojciechowski age 54
President - Poland
Yusef of Morocco age 41
Sultan - Morocco
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear age 55
President - Argentina
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 23
Queen - Tonga
Augusto Leguía age 60
President - Peru
Charles D. B. King age 48
President - Liberia
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 37
Sultan - Oman
Sisowath of Cambodia age 83
King - Cambodia
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading age 63
Viceroy - British Raj
Antonín Švehla age 50
Prime Minister - Czechoslovakia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 38
Emir - Kuwait
Manuel Teixeira Gomes age 63
President - Portugal
José Serrato age 55
President - Uruguay
Bautista Saavedra age 53
President - Bolivia
Eligio Ayala age 44
President - Paraguay
Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez age 65
President - Colombia
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 69
Emir - Qatar
Julio Acosta García age 51
President - Costa Rica
Khalifa bin Harub age 44
Sultan of Zanzibar - Sultanate of Zanzibar
Karl Scheurer age 51
President - Switzerland
Louis Borno age 58
President - Haiti
Rafael López Gutiérrez age 68
President - Honduras
Alfonso Quiñónez Molina age 49
President - El Salvador
Bartolomé Martínez age 50
President - Nicaragua
İsmet İnönü age 39
Prime Minister - Turkey
Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella age 53
Prime Minister - Spain
Zog I of Albania age 28
Prime Minister - Albania
Kyösti Kallio age 50
Prime Minister - Finland
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 49
Prime Minister - Canada
S. M. Bruce age 40
Prime Minister - Australia
István Bethlen age 49
Prime Minister - Hungary
Ion I. C. Brătianu age 59
Prime Minister - Romania
Ignaz Seipel age 47
Chancellor - Austria
Ernst Trygger age 66
Prime Minister - Sweden
Georges Theunis age 50
Prime Minister - Belgium
Aleksandar Tsankov age 44
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Niels Neergaard age 69
Prime Minister - Denmark
Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics age 36
Prime Minister - Latvia
Stylianos Gonatas age 47
Prime Minister - Greece
Sigurður Eggerz age 48
Prime Minister - Iceland
Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck age 50
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Abraham Berge age 72
Prime Minister - Norway
Jafar al-Askari age 38
Prime Minister - Iraq
Ernestas Galvanauskas age 41
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Émile Reuter age 49
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
William Massey age 67
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Francesco Buhagiar age 47
Prime Minister - Malta
Gustav Schädler age 40
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
António Ginestal Machado age 49
Prime Minister - Portugal
Anto Gvozdenović age 70
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 36
Prime Minister - Tonga
Chandra Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 60
Prime Minister - Nepal
John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe age 64
Governor-General - New Zealand
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 57
Governor-General - Australia
Auguste Brunet age 45
Governor-General - Madagascar
Harry S. Truman age 39
Judge of Jackson County, Missouri
Albert Einstein age 44
Ronald Reagan age 12
Nelson Mandela age 5
Mahatma Gandhi age 54
Pablo Picasso age 42
Charlie Chaplin age 34
Winston Churchill age 49
Thomas Edison age 76
Sigmund Freud age 67
John F. Kennedy age 6
Marie Curie age 56
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 41
Rabindranath Tagore age 62