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Events

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 52
President - United States
George V age 59
King - United Kingdom
Friedrich Ebert age 53
Reich President - Germany
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 54
King - Italy
Emperor Taishō age 45
Emperor - Japan
Albert I of Belgium age 49
King - Belgium
Gaston Doumergue age 61
President - France
Alexander I of Yugoslavia age 35
King - Yugoslavia
Álvaro Obregón age 44
President - Mexico
Ahmad Shah Qajar age 26
Shah - Iran
Fuad I of Egypt age 56
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Zewditu age 48
Empress - Ethiopia
Artur Bernardes age 49
President - Brazil
Cao Kun age 61
President - Republic of China
Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso age 63
President - Cuba
José María Orellana age 52
President - Guatemala
Chen Duxiu age 45
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Benito Mussolini age 41
Prime Minister - Italy
Pierre de Coubertin age 61
President - International Olympic Committee
Ramsay MacDonald age 58
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Alexei Rykov age 43
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Wilhelm Marx age 61
Chancellor - Germany
Édouard Herriot age 52
Prime Minister - France
Katō Takaaki age 64
Prime Minister - Japan
Saad Zaghloul age 67
Prime Minister - Egypt
W. T. Cosgrave age 44
Taoiseach - Ireland
Władysław Grabski age 50
Prime Minister - Poland
J. B. M. Hertzog age 58
Prime Minister - South Africa
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 48
Secretary-General - League of Nations
William Howard Taft age 67
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Deng Xiaoping age 20
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 38
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 23
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 28
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 24
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Arthur Henderson age 61
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Hans Luther age 45
Reichsminister - Germany
Charles Evans Hughes age 62
Secretary of State - United States
Andrew Mellon age 69
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Harlan F. Stone age 52
Attorney General - United States
Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford age 56
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden age 60
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
John W. Weeks age 64
Secretary of War - United States
John L. Hines age 56
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
J. Edgar Hoover age 29
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Sun Yat-sen age 57
Chairman - Kuomintang
H. H. Asquith age 72
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Stanley Baldwin age 57
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Éamon de Valera age 42
President - Sinn Féin
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield age 65
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 81
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Clark McReynolds age 62
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Zacharias Richard Mahabane age 43
President - African National Congress
Charles Curtis age 64
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 66
Senate - United States
David Lloyd George age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Eden age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Cordell Hull age 53
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
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James F. Byrnes age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Fred M. Vinson age 34
House of Representatives - United States
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kingsley Wood age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ogden L. Mills age 40
House of Representatives - United States
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 6
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 29
House of Representatives - United States
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Laming Worthington-Evans age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Adamson age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Lansbury age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aylmer Hunter-Weston age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Barber Conable age 1
New York State Senate - United States
Adolf Hitler age 35
Führer - Nazi Party
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 43
President - Turkey
Pius XI age 67
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 38
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 44
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 52
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 66
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 54
King - Denmark
Ferdinand I of Romania age 59
King - Kingdom of Romania
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 59
President - Finland
Vajiravudh age 43
King - Thailand
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 28
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 25
King - Eswatini
Jānis Čakste age 65
President - Latvia
Ugyen Wangchuck age 62
King - Bhutan
Michael Hainisch age 66
President - Austria
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 39
President - Lithuania
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 54
Prince - Monaco
Juan Vicente Gómez age 67
President - Venezuela
William, Prince of Albania age 48
King - Albania
Stanisław Wojciechowski age 55
President - Poland
Yusef of Morocco age 42
Sultan - Morocco
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear age 56
President - Argentina
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 24
Queen - Tonga
Augusto Leguía age 61
President - Peru
Charles D. B. King age 49
President - Liberia
Pavlos Kountouriotis age 70
President - Greece
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 38
Sultan - Oman
Sisowath of Cambodia age 84
King - Cambodia
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading age 64
Viceroy - British Raj
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 39
Emir - Kuwait
Manuel Teixeira Gomes age 64
President - Portugal
Bautista Saavedra age 54
President - Bolivia
Eligio Ayala age 44
President - Paraguay
Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez age 66
President - Colombia
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 69
Emir - Qatar
Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno age 65
President - Costa Rica
Horacio Vásquez age 63
President - Dominican Republic
Ernest Chuard age 67
President - Switzerland
Louis Borno age 59
President - Haiti
Luis Altamirano age 57
President - Chile
Alfonso Quiñónez Molina age 50
President - El Salvador
Rodolfo Chiari age 54
President - Panama
Vicente Tosta age 43
President - Honduras
Bartolomé Martínez age 51
President - Nicaragua
Abd-al Karim age 27
Emir - Afghanistan
Gonzalo Córdova age 61
President - Ecuador
İsmet İnönü age 40
Prime Minister - Turkey
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 49
Prime Minister - Canada
S. M. Bruce age 41
Prime Minister - Australia
Fan S. Noli age 42
Prime Minister - Albania
Thorvald Stauning age 50
Prime Minister - Denmark
Lauri Ingman age 56
Prime Minister - Finland
István Bethlen age 50
Prime Minister - Hungary
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel age 53
Prime Minister - Norway
Ion I. C. Brătianu age 60
Prime Minister - Romania
Ignaz Seipel age 48
Chancellor - Austria
Ernst Trygger age 66
Prime Minister - Sweden
Georges Theunis age 51
Prime Minister - Belgium
Aleksandar Tsankov age 45
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Jón Magnússon age 65
Prime Minister - Iceland
Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck age 50
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Themistoklis Sofoulis age 64
Prime Minister - Greece
Émile Reuter age 50
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Yasin Hashimi age 42
Prime Minister - Iraq
William Massey age 68
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Ugo Pasquale Mifsud age 35
Prime Minister - Malta
Alfredo Rodrigues Gaspar age 58
Prime Minister - Portugal
Voldemārs Zāmuēls age 52
Prime Minister - Latvia
Gustav Schädler age 40
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Anto Gvozdenović age 71
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 36
Prime Minister - Tonga
John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe age 64
Governor-General - New Zealand
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 58
Governor-General - Australia
Marcel Olivier age 44
Governor-General - Madagascar
Harry S. Truman age 40
Judge of Jackson County, Missouri
Albert Einstein age 45
Ronald Reagan age 13
Nelson Mandela age 6
Mahatma Gandhi age 55
Pablo Picasso age 42
Charlie Chaplin age 35
Winston Churchill age 49
Thomas Edison age 77
Sigmund Freud age 68
John F. Kennedy age 7
Marie Curie age 56
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 42
Rabindranath Tagore age 63
Mao Zedong age 30
Charles de Gaulle age 33
Nikola Tesla age 68
Walt Disney age 22
George Orwell age 21
John Paul II age 4
Ernest Hemingway age 25
Henry Ford age 61
Jean-Paul Sartre age 19
Jimmy Carter age 0 months
Mother Teresa age 14
George H. W. Bush age 3 months
Jawaharlal Nehru age 34
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 33
Richard Nixon age 11
Alan Turing age 12
John Maynard Keynes age 41