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Events

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

People

Joseph Stalin age 47
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Calvin Coolidge age 53
President - United States
George V age 60
King - United Kingdom
Paul von Hindenburg age 78
Reich President - Germany
Reza Shah age 47
Shah - Iran
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 56
King - Italy
Emperor Taishō age 46
Emperor - Japan
Albert I of Belgium age 50
King - Belgium
Gaston Doumergue age 62
President - France
Alexander I of Yugoslavia age 37
King - Yugoslavia
Plutarco Elías Calles age 48
President - Mexico
Fuad I of Egypt age 57
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Zewditu age 49
Empress - Ethiopia
Artur Bernardes age 50
President - Brazil
Gerardo Machado age 54
President - Cuba
José María Orellana age 53
President - Guatemala
Chen Duxiu age 46
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Benito Mussolini age 42
Prime Minister - Italy
Stanley Baldwin age 58
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Alexei Rykov age 44
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Hans Luther age 46
Chancellor - Germany
Nikola Pašić age 80
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 49
President - International Olympic Committee
Wakatsuki Reijirō age 59
Prime Minister - Japan
W. T. Cosgrave age 45
Taoiseach - Ireland
J. B. M. Hertzog age 59
Prime Minister - South Africa
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 49
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Aleksander Skrzyński age 43
Prime Minister - Poland
Ahmad Ziwar age 62
Prime Minister - Egypt
William Howard Taft age 68
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Charles G. Dawes age 60
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 21
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 27
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 39
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 24
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 29
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 26
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Winston Churchill age 51
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Frank B. Kellogg age 69
Secretary of State - United States
Wilhelm Marx age 63
Reichsminister - Germany
Dwight F. Davis age 46
Secretary of War - United States
Andrew Mellon age 70
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Leo Amery age 52
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
John G. Sargent age 65
Attorney General - United States
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman age 61
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Laming Worthington-Evans age 57
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford age 60
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John L. Hines age 57
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
J. Edgar Hoover age 31
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
H. H. Asquith age 73
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Ramsay MacDonald age 59
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Éamon de Valera age 43
President - Sinn Féin
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood age 61
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Harlan F. Stone age 53
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Clark McReynolds age 64
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Zacharias Richard Mahabane age 44
President - African National Congress
John J. O'Kelly age 53
President - Sinn Féin
William D. Mitchell age 51
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Charles Curtis age 66
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 68
Senate - United States
David Lloyd George age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Eden age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Cordell Hull age 54
House of Representatives - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 48
House of Representatives - United States
John Nance Garner age 57
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Henderson age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 36
House of Representatives - United States
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duff Cooper age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 82
House of Representatives - United States
Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kingsley Wood age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ogden L. Mills age 41
House of Representatives - United States
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 8
House of Representatives - United States
J. R. Clynes age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 30
House of Representatives - United States
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Adamson age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Lansbury age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aylmer Hunter-Weston age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Al Smith age 52
Governor of New York - United States
Miriam A. Ferguson age 50
Governor of Texas - United States
Harry F. Byrd age 38
Governor of Virginia - United States
Friend Richardson age 60
Governor of California - United States
Albert Ritchie age 49
Governor of Maryland - United States
Alvan T. Fuller age 47
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
A. Harry Moore age 49
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Vic Donahey age 52
Governor of Ohio - United States
E. Lee Trinkle age 49
Governor of Virginia - United States
Tom Terral age 43
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Edward L. Jackson age 52
Governor of Indiana - United States
Barber Conable age 3
New York State Senate - United States
Adolf Hitler age 36
Führer - Nazi Party
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 45
President - Turkey
Pius XI age 68
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 39
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 45
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 53
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 67
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 55
King - Denmark
Zog I of Albania age 30
President - Albania
Ferdinand I of Romania age 60
King - Kingdom of Romania
Prajadhipok age 32
King - Thailand
Lauri Kristian Relander age 42
President - Finland
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 30
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 26
King - Eswatini
Jānis Čakste age 66
President - Latvia
Ugyen Wangchuck age 63
King - Bhutan
Michael Hainisch age 67
President - Austria
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 40
President - Lithuania
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 55
Prince - Monaco
Juan Vicente Gómez age 68
President - Venezuela
Stanisław Wojciechowski age 56
President - Poland
Bernardino Machado age 74
President - Portugal
Yusef of Morocco age 44
Sultan - Morocco
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear age 57
President - Argentina
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 25
Queen - Tonga
Augusto Leguía age 62
President - Peru
Charles D. B. King age 50
President - Liberia
Pavlos Kountouriotis age 72
President - Greece
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 40
Sultan - Oman
Sisowath of Cambodia age 85
King - Cambodia
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading age 65
Viceroy - British Raj
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 41
Emir - Kuwait
Emiliano Figueroa age 59
President - Chile
Hernando Siles Reyes age 43
President - Bolivia
Eligio Ayala age 46
President - Paraguay
Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez age 67
President - Colombia
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 71
Emir - Qatar
Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno age 67
President - Costa Rica
Horacio Vásquez age 65
President - Dominican Republic
Louis Borno age 60
President - Haiti
Carlos José Solórzano age 66
President - Nicaragua
Alfonso Quiñónez Molina age 52
President - El Salvador
Miguel Paz Barahona age 62
President - Honduras
Rodolfo Chiari age 56
President - Panama
İsmet İnönü age 41
Prime Minister - Turkey
Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella age 56
Prime Minister - Spain
Kārlis Ulmanis age 48
Prime Minister - Latvia
Kyösti Kallio age 52
Prime Minister - Finland
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 51
Prime Minister - Canada
S. M. Bruce age 42
Prime Minister - Australia
Thorvald Stauning age 52
Prime Minister - Denmark
Rickard Sandler age 42
Prime Minister - Sweden
István Bethlen age 51
Prime Minister - Hungary
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel age 55
Prime Minister - Norway
Ion I. C. Brătianu age 61
Prime Minister - Romania
Theodoros Pangalos age 48
Prime Minister - Greece
Rudolf Ramek age 44
Chancellor - Austria
Andrey Lyapchev age 59
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Hendrikus Colijn age 56
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Jón Magnússon age 67
Prime Minister - Iceland
António Maria da Silva age 53
Prime Minister - Portugal
Prosper Poullet age 57
Prime Minister - Belgium
Abd al-Muhsin as-Sa'dun age 47
Prime Minister - Iraq
Pierre Prüm age 39
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Gordon Coates age 48
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Ugo Pasquale Mifsud age 36
Prime Minister - Malta
Gustav Schädler age 42
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Anto Gvozdenović age 73
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Sargis Hаmbardzumyan age 56
Prime Minister - Armenia
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 38
Prime Minister - Tonga
John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven age 51
Governor-General - Australia
Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet age 61
Governor-General - New Zealand
Marcel Olivier age 46
Governor-General - Madagascar
Albert Einstein age 46
Ronald Reagan age 14
Nelson Mandela age 7
Mahatma Gandhi age 56
Pablo Picasso age 44
Charlie Chaplin age 36
Thomas Edison age 79
Sigmund Freud age 69
John F. Kennedy age 8
Marie Curie age 58
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 44
Rabindranath Tagore age 64
Mao Zedong age 32
Charles de Gaulle age 35
Nikola Tesla age 69
Walt Disney age 24
George Orwell age 22
John Paul II age 5
Margaret Thatcher age 3 months
Ernest Hemingway age 26
Henry Ford age 62
Jean-Paul Sartre age 20
Jimmy Carter age 1