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Roaring Twenties 1920-01-01 - 1929-12-31

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 54
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 27
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 64
President - Cuba
José María Orellana age 52
President - Guatemala
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 44
Chairman - Soviet Union
Hans Luther age 45
Chancellor - Germany
Édouard Herriot age 52
Prime Minister - France
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
Subhi Bey Barakat age 36
Prime Minister - Syria
Ahmad Ziwar age 61
Prime Minister - Egypt
William Howard Taft age 67
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Winston Churchill age 50
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
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
Zacharias Richard Mahabane age 43
President - African National Congress
Charles Curtis age 65
Senate - United States
David Lloyd George age 62
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alben W. Barkley age 47
House of Representatives - United States
John Nance Garner age 56
House of Representatives - 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
Zog I of Albania age 29
President - Albania
Ferdinand I of Romania age 59
King - Kingdom of Romania
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 60
President - Finland
Vajiravudh age 44
King - Thailand
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 29
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 62
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 66
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
Alfonso Quiñónez Molina age 51
President - El Salvador
Miguel Paz Barahona age 61
President - Honduras
Rodolfo Chiari age 55
President - Panama
Emilio Bello Codesido age 56
President - Chile
Gonzalo Córdova age 61
President - Ecuador
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
Rickard Sandler age 41
Prime Minister - Sweden
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 52
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
Vitorino Guimarães age 48
Prime Minister - Portugal
Anto Gvozdenović age 72
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Sargis Hаmbardzumyan age 55
Prime Minister - Armenia
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 37
Prime Minister - Tonga
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 59
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 14
Nelson Mandela age 6
Pablo Picasso age 43
Charlie Chaplin age 35
Thomas Edison age 78
Sigmund Freud age 68
John F. Kennedy age 7
Marie Curie age 57
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 43
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
Jimmy Carter age 4 months
Mother Teresa age 14
Harry S. Truman age 40
George H. W. Bush age 8 months
Jawaharlal Nehru age 35
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 34
Richard Nixon age 12
Alan Turing age 12
John Maynard Keynes age 41
Simone de Beauvoir age 17
Niels Bohr age 39
Leon Trotsky age 45
Max Planck age 66
Lyndon B. Johnson age 16
Gerald Ford age 11
Indira Gandhi age 7
Enrico Fermi age 23
Nikita Khrushchev age 30
Herbert Hoover age 50
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 6
Kwame Nkrumah age 15
Hirohito age 23
Claude Monet age 84
Ho Chi Minh age 34
Konrad Adenauer age 49
Henry Kissinger age 1
Georges Pompidou age 13
Joseph Goebbels age 27
Leonid Brezhnev age 18
Robert Mugabe age 12 months
Chiang Kai-shek age 37
Golda Meir age 26
John XXIII age 43
Deng Xiaoping age 20
Ferdinand Marcos age 7
François Mitterrand age 8
Alexander Fleming age 43
Francisco Franco age 32
David Ben-Gurion age 38
Milton Friedman age 12
Ruhollah Khomeini age 22
Wilhelm II age 66
Josip Broz Tito age 32
Guglielmo Marconi age 50
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 20
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 7
Rosa Parks age 12
Shimon Peres age 1
Sukarno age 23
John Paul I age 12
Anwar Sadat age 6
Paul VI age 27
Willy Brandt age 11
Dag Hammarskjöld age 19