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

People

Joseph Stalin age 46
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 55
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 36
King - Yugoslavia
Plutarco Elías Calles age 47
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
Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso age 63
President - Cuba
José María Orellana age 52
President - Guatemala
Chen Duxiu age 45
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Benito Mussolini age 41
Prime Minister - Italy
Pierre de Coubertin age 62
President - International Olympic Committee
Stanley Baldwin age 57
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Alexei Rykov age 43
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Wilhelm Marx age 62
Chancellor - Germany
Édouard Herriot age 52
Prime Minister - France
Nikola Pašić age 79
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Katō Takaaki age 65
Prime Minister - Japan
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 48
President - International Olympic Committee
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
Ahmad Ziwar age 61
Prime Minister - Egypt
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 26
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 25
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Winston Churchill age 50
Chancellor of the Exchequer - 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
Leo Amery age 51
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
John W. Weeks age 64
Secretary of War - United States
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman age 60
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Laming Worthington-Evans age 56
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford age 59
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John L. Hines age 56
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
J. Edgar Hoover age 30
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Sun Yat-sen age 58
Chairman - Kuomintang
H. H. Asquith age 72
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Ramsay MacDonald age 58
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Éamon de Valera age 42
President - Sinn Féin
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood age 60
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
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 65
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 67
Senate - United States
David Lloyd George age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Eden age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Cordell Hull age 53
House of Representatives - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 47
House of Representatives - United States
John Nance Garner age 56
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Henderson age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James F. Byrnes age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 34
House of Representatives - United States
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duff Cooper age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 81
House of Representatives - United States
Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland age 63
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
J. R. Clynes age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham age 52
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
John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 47
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
Al Smith age 51
Governor of New York - United States
Friend Richardson age 59
Governor of California - United States
Albert Ritchie age 48
Governor of Maryland - United States
Thomas C. McRae age 73
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Alvan T. Fuller age 46
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Vic Donahey age 51
Governor of Ohio - United States
E. Lee Trinkle age 48
Governor of Virginia - United States
Pat Morris Neff age 53
Governor of Texas - United States
Emmett Forest Branch age 50
Governor of Indiana - United States
George Sebastian Silzer age 54
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Barber Conable age 2
New York State Senate - United States
Adolf Hitler age 35
Führer - Nazi Party
Mahatma Gandhi age 55
President - Indian National Congress
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 44
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 44
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
Stanisław Wojciechowski age 55
President - Poland
Yusef of Morocco age 43
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 71
President - Greece
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 39
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 40
Emir - Kuwait
Manuel Teixeira Gomes age 64
President - Portugal
Bautista Saavedra age 54
President - Bolivia
Eligio Ayala age 45
President - Paraguay
Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez age 66
President - Colombia
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 70
Emir - Qatar
Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno age 65
President - Costa Rica
Horacio Vásquez age 64
President - Dominican Republic
Louis Borno age 59
President - Haiti
Carlos José Solórzano age 65
President - Nicaragua
Jean-Marie Musy age 48
President - Switzerland
Luis Altamirano age 57
President - Chile
Alfonso Quiñónez Molina age 51
President - El Salvador
Rodolfo Chiari age 55
President - Panama
Vicente Tosta age 43
President - Honduras
Abd-al Karim age 28
Emir - Afghanistan
Gonzalo Córdova age 61
President - Ecuador
Hjalmar Branting age 64
Prime Minister - Sweden
Zog I of Albania age 29
Prime Minister - Albania
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 50
Prime Minister - Canada
S. M. Bruce age 41
Prime Minister - Australia
Thorvald Stauning age 51
Prime Minister - Denmark
Ali Fethi Okyar age 44
Prime Minister - Turkey
Lauri Ingman age 56
Prime Minister - Finland
István Bethlen age 50
Prime Minister - Hungary
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel age 54
Prime Minister - Norway
Ion I. C. Brătianu age 60
Prime Minister - Romania
Georges Theunis age 51
Prime Minister - Belgium
Aleksandar Tsankov age 45
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Rudolf Ramek age 43
Chancellor - Austria
Jón Magnússon age 66
Prime Minister - Iceland
Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck age 51
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Andreas Michalakopoulos age 49
Prime Minister - Greece
Émile Reuter age 50
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Yasin Hashimi age 43
Prime Minister - Iraq
Hugo Celmiņš age 47
Prime Minister - Latvia
William Massey age 68
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Ugo Pasquale Mifsud age 35
Prime Minister - Malta
Gustav Schädler age 41
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
José Domingues dos Santos age 37
Prime Minister - Portugal
Anto Gvozdenović age 72
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 37
Prime Minister - Tonga
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 58
Governor-General - Australia
Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet age 60
Governor-General - New Zealand
Marcel Olivier age 45
Governor-General - Madagascar
Albert Einstein age 45
Ronald Reagan age 13
Nelson Mandela age 6
Pablo Picasso age 43
Charlie Chaplin age 35
Thomas Edison age 77
Sigmund Freud age 68
John F. Kennedy age 7
Marie Curie age 57
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 42
Rabindranath Tagore age 63
Mao Zedong age 31
Charles de Gaulle age 34
Nikola Tesla age 68
Walt Disney age 23
George Orwell age 21
John Paul II age 4
Ernest Hemingway age 25
Henry Ford age 61
Jean-Paul Sartre age 19