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Events

Roaring Twenties 1920 - 1929
Prohibition in the United States 1920-01-17 - 1933-12-05
Northern Expedition 1926-07-09 - 1928-12-29

People

Joseph Stalin age 47
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Calvin Coolidge age 54
President - United States
George V age 61
King - United Kingdom
Paul von Hindenburg age 79
Reich President - Germany
Reza Shah age 48
Shah - Iran
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 56
King - Italy
Emperor Taishō age 47
Emperor - Japan
Albert I of Belgium age 51
King - Belgium
Gaston Doumergue age 63
President - France
Alexander I of Yugoslavia age 37
King - Yugoslavia
Plutarco Elías Calles age 49
President - Mexico
Fuad I of Egypt age 58
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Zewditu age 50
Empress - Ethiopia
Chen Duxiu age 47
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Artur Bernardes age 51
President - Brazil
Gerardo Machado age 55
President - Cuba
Lázaro Chacón González age 53
President - Guatemala
Benito Mussolini age 43
Prime Minister - Italy
Józef Piłsudski age 58
Prime Minister - Poland
Raymond Poincaré age 66
Prime Minister - France
Stanley Baldwin age 59
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Alexei Rykov age 45
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Wilhelm Marx age 63
Chancellor - Germany
Wellington Koo age 38
Premier - Republic of China
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 50
President - International Olympic Committee
Wakatsuki Reijirō age 60
Prime Minister - Japan
W. T. Cosgrave age 46
Taoiseach - Ireland
J. B. M. Hertzog age 60
Prime Minister - South Africa
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 50
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Adli Yakan age 62
Prime Minister - Egypt
Nikola Uzunović age 53
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
William Howard Taft age 69
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Charles G. Dawes age 61
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 22
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 28
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 40
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 25
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 30
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
Dwight F. Davis age 47
Secretary of War - United States
Andrew Mellon age 71
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Leo Amery age 52
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 46
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
John G. Sargent age 66
Attorney General - United States
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman age 61
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Laming Worthington-Evans age 58
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford age 61
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John L. Hines age 58
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
J. Edgar Hoover age 31
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
David Lloyd George age 63
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Ramsay MacDonald age 60
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood age 62
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Harlan F. Stone age 54
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Clark McReynolds age 64
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John J. O'Kelly age 54
President - Sinn Féin
Zacharias Richard Mahabane age 45
President - African National Congress
William D. Mitchell age 52
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Theodore Douglas Robinson age 43
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
Charles Curtis age 66
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 68
Senate - United States
Anthony Eden age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Cordell Hull age 55
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 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 36
House of Representatives - United States
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Lansbury age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duff Cooper age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 83
House of Representatives - United States
William Adamson age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kingsley Wood age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ogden L. Mills age 42
House of Representatives - United States
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 8
House of Representatives - United States
J. R. Clynes age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aylmer Hunter-Weston age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Al Smith age 52
Governor of New York - United States
Miriam A. Ferguson age 51
Governor of Texas - United States
Harry F. Byrd age 39
Governor of Virginia - United States
Friend Richardson age 60
Governor of California - United States
Albert Ritchie age 50
Governor of Maryland - United States
Alvan T. Fuller age 48
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
A. Harry Moore age 49
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Vic Donahey age 53
Governor of Ohio - United States
Tom Terral age 43
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Edward L. Jackson age 52
Governor of Indiana - United States
Clifford Walker age 49
Governor of Georgia - United States
Barber Conable age 3
New York State Senate - United States
Adolf Hitler age 37
Führer - Nazi Party
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 45
President - Turkey
Pius XI age 69
Pope - Vatican City
Tomáš Masaryk age 76
President - Czechoslovakia
Alfonso XIII age 40
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 46
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 54
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 68
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 56
King - Denmark
Zog I of Albania age 31
President - Albania
Ferdinand I of Romania age 61
King - Kingdom of Romania
Prajadhipok age 32
King - Thailand
Lauri Kristian Relander age 43
President - Finland
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 30
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 27
King - Eswatini
Ignacy Mościcki age 58
President - Poland
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 45
Viceroy - British Raj
Jānis Čakste age 67
President - Latvia
Michael Hainisch age 68
President - Austria
Kazys Grinius age 59
President - Lithuania
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 56
Prince - Monaco
Juan Vicente Gómez age 69
President - Venezuela
Jigme Wangchuck age 21
King - Bhutan
Yusef of Morocco age 44
Sultan - Morocco
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear age 58
President - Argentina
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 26
Queen - Tonga
Augusto Leguía age 63
President - Peru
Charles D. B. King age 51
President - Liberia
Pavlos Kountouriotis age 72
President - Greece
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 40
Sultan - Oman
Sisowath of Cambodia age 86
King - Cambodia
Antonín Švehla age 53
Prime Minister - Czechoslovakia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 41
Emir - Kuwait
Emiliano Figueroa age 60
President - Chile
José Serrato age 58
President - Uruguay
Hernando Siles Reyes age 44
President - Bolivia
Isidro Ayora age 47
President - Ecuador
Eligio Ayala age 46
President - Paraguay
Miguel Abadía Méndez age 59
President - Colombia
Emiliano Chamorro Vargas age 55
President - Nicaragua
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 71
Emir - Qatar
Khalifa bin Harub age 47
Sultan of Zanzibar - Sultanate of Zanzibar
Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno age 67
President - Costa Rica
Horacio Vásquez age 66
President - Dominican Republic
Louis Borno age 61
President - Haiti
Charles Debbas age 42
President - Lebanon
Alfonso Quiñónez Molina age 52
President - El Salvador
Giuliano Gozi age 32
Captain Regent - San Marino
Miguel Paz Barahona age 63
President - Honduras
Rodolfo Chiari age 56
President - Panama
İsmet İnönü age 42
Prime Minister - Turkey
Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella age 56
Prime Minister - Spain
Kyösti Kallio age 53
Prime Minister - Finland
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 51
Prime Minister - Canada
S. M. Bruce age 43
Prime Minister - Australia
Óscar Carmona age 56
Prime Minister - Portugal
Thorvald Stauning age 53
Prime Minister - Denmark
Alexandru Averescu age 67
Prime Minister - Romania
Carl Gustaf Ekman age 54
Prime Minister - Sweden
István Bethlen age 52
Prime Minister - Hungary
Joseph Bech age 39
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Ignaz Seipel age 50
Chancellor - Austria
Georgios Kondylis age 47
Prime Minister - Greece
Dirk Jan de Geer age 55
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Andrey Lyapchev age 59
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Jón Þorláksson age 49
Prime Minister - Iceland
Henri Jaspar age 56
Prime Minister - Belgium
Ivar Lykke age 54
Prime Minister - Norway
Abd al-Muhsin as-Sa'dun age 47
Prime Minister - Iraq
Gordon Coates age 48
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Arturs Alberings age 49
Prime Minister - Latvia
Ugo Pasquale Mifsud age 37
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 39
Prime Minister - Tonga
Chandra Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 63
Prime Minister - Nepal
John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven age 52
Governor-General - Australia
Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet age 61
Governor-General - New Zealand
Marcel Olivier age 46
Governor-General - Madagascar
Albert Einstein age 47
Ronald Reagan age 15
Nelson Mandela age 8
Mahatma Gandhi age 57
Pablo Picasso age 45
Charlie Chaplin age 37
Elizabeth II age 6 months
Thomas Edison age 79
Sigmund Freud age 70
John F. Kennedy age 9
Marie Curie age 59
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 44
Rabindranath Tagore age 65
Mao Zedong age 32
Charles de Gaulle age 35
Nikola Tesla age 70