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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
Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07

People

Joseph Stalin age 48
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Calvin Coolidge age 55
President - United States
Hirohito age 26
Emperor - Japan
George V age 62
King - United Kingdom
Paul von Hindenburg age 79
Reich President - Germany
Reza Shah age 49
Shah - Iran
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 57
King - Italy
Albert I of Belgium age 52
King - Belgium
Gaston Doumergue age 64
President - France
Alexander I of Yugoslavia age 38
King - Yugoslavia
Plutarco Elías Calles age 49
President - Mexico
Fuad I of Egypt age 59
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Zewditu age 51
Empress - Ethiopia
Washington Luís age 57
President - Brazil
Zhang Zuolin age 52
President - Republic of China
Gerardo Machado age 55
President - Cuba
Lázaro Chacón González age 54
President - Guatemala
Benito Mussolini age 44
Prime Minister - Italy
Józef Piłsudski age 59
Prime Minister - Poland
Raymond Poincaré age 67
Prime Minister - France
Stanley Baldwin age 60
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Alexei Rykov age 46
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Wilhelm Marx age 64
Chancellor - Germany
Tanaka Giichi age 63
Prime Minister - Japan
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 51
President - International Olympic Committee
W. T. Cosgrave age 47
Taoiseach - Ireland
J. B. M. Hertzog age 61
Prime Minister - South Africa
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 51
Secretary-General - League of Nations
ʿAbd al-Khaliq Tharwat age 54
Prime Minister - Egypt
William Howard Taft age 69
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Charles G. Dawes age 62
Vice President - United States
Winston Churchill age 52
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Frank B. Kellogg age 70
Secretary of State - United States
Dwight F. Davis age 48
Secretary of War - United States
Andrew Mellon age 72
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Leo Amery age 53
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
John G. Sargent age 66
Attorney General - United States
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman age 62
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Charles Pelot Summerall age 60
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Laming Worthington-Evans age 59
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford age 62
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 32
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
David Lloyd George age 64
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Ramsay MacDonald age 60
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Harlan F. Stone age 54
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Josiah Tshangana Gumede age 59
President - African National Congress
John J. O'Kelly age 55
President - Sinn Féin
Alben W. Barkley age 49
Senate - United States
Charles Curtis age 67
Senate - United States
John Nance Garner age 58
House of Representatives - United States
Adolf Hitler age 38
Führer - Nazi Party
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 46
President - Turkey
Pius XI age 70
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 41
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 47
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 55
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 69
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 56
King - Denmark
Michael I of Romania age 5
King - Kingdom of Romania
Zog I of Albania age 31
President - Albania
Prajadhipok age 33
King - Thailand
Antanas Smetona age 53
President - Lithuania
Lauri Kristian Relander age 44
President - Finland
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 31
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 28
King - Eswatini
Ignacy Mościcki age 59
President - Poland
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 46
Viceroy - British Raj
Michael Hainisch age 69
President - Austria
Óscar Carmona age 57
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 57
Prince - Monaco
Juan Vicente Gómez age 70
President - Venezuela
Jigme Wangchuck age 22
King - Bhutan
Yusef of Morocco age 45
Sultan - Morocco
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear age 58
President - Argentina
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 49
President - Chile
Gustavs Zemgals age 56
President - Latvia
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 27
Queen - Tonga
Sisowath Monivong age 51
King - Cambodia
Augusto Leguía age 64
President - Peru
Charles D. B. King age 52
President - Liberia
Pavlos Kountouriotis age 73
President - Greece
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 41
Sultan - Oman
Giuseppe Motta age 55
President - Switzerland
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 42
Emir - Kuwait
Hernando Siles Reyes age 45
President - Bolivia
Isidro Ayora age 48
President - Ecuador
Adolfo Díaz age 52
President - Nicaragua
Eligio Ayala age 47
President - Paraguay
Miguel Abadía Méndez age 60
President - Colombia
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 72
Emir - Qatar
Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno age 68
President - Costa Rica
Horacio Vásquez age 66
President - Dominican Republic
Louis Borno age 61
President - Haiti
Charles Debbas age 43
President - Lebanon
Pío Romero Bosque age 67
President - El Salvador
Miguel Paz Barahona age 64
President - Honduras
Rodolfo Chiari age 57
President - Panama
İsmet İnönü age 42
Prime Minister - Turkey
Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella age 57
Prime Minister - Spain
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 52
Prime Minister - Canada
S. M. Bruce age 44
Prime Minister - Australia
Väinö Tanner age 46
Prime Minister - Finland
Alexandros Zaimis age 71
Prime Minister - Greece
Carl Gustaf Ekman age 54
Prime Minister - Sweden
István Bethlen age 52
Prime Minister - Hungary
Bechara El Khoury age 37
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Augustinas Voldemaras age 44
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Ion I. C. Brătianu age 63
Prime Minister - Romania
Joseph Bech age 40
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Ignaz Seipel age 51
Chancellor - Austria
Dirk Jan de Geer age 56
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Andrey Lyapchev age 60
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Jón Þorláksson age 50
Prime Minister - Iceland
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal age 50
Prime Minister - Denmark
Henri Jaspar age 57
Prime Minister - Belgium
Ivar Lykke age 55
Prime Minister - Norway
Jafar al-Askari age 41
Prime Minister - Iraq
Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland age 66
Prime Minister - Malta
Gordon Coates age 49
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Marģers Skujenieks age 41
Prime Minister - Latvia
Gustav Schädler age 43
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Anto Gvozdenović age 74
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Sargis Hаmbardzumyan age 57
Prime Minister - Armenia
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 39
Prime Minister - Tonga
John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven age 53
Governor-General - Australia
Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet age 62
Governor-General - New Zealand
Marcel Olivier age 47
Governor-General - Madagascar
Harry S. Truman age 43
Presiding Judge of Jackson County, Missouri
Albert Einstein age 48
Ronald Reagan age 16
Nelson Mandela age 9
Mahatma Gandhi age 57
Pablo Picasso age 45
Charlie Chaplin age 38
Elizabeth II age 1
Thomas Edison age 80
Sigmund Freud age 71
John F. Kennedy age 10
Marie Curie age 59
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 45
Rabindranath Tagore age 66
Mao Zedong age 33
Charles de Gaulle age 36
Nikola Tesla age 71
Walt Disney age 25
George Orwell age 24
John Paul II age 7
Margaret Thatcher age 1
Ernest Hemingway age 28
Gabriel García Márquez age 5 months
Fidel Castro age 1
Henry Ford age 64
Jean-Paul Sartre age 22
Jimmy Carter age 2
Benedict XVI age 4 months
Mother Teresa age 17
George H. W. Bush age 3
Jawaharlal Nehru age 37
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 36
Richard Nixon age 14
Alan Turing age 15
John Maynard Keynes age 44
Simone de Beauvoir age 19
Niels Bohr age 41
Leon Trotsky age 47
Max Planck age 69
Lyndon B. Johnson age 19
Gerald Ford age 14
Indira Gandhi age 9
Enrico Fermi age 25
Nikita Khrushchev age 33
Herbert Hoover age 53
Mahathir Mohamad age 2
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 8
Kwame Nkrumah age 17
Ho Chi Minh age 37
Konrad Adenauer age 51
Henry Kissinger age 4
Georges Pompidou age 16
Joseph Goebbels age 29
Leonid Brezhnev age 20
Robert Mugabe age 3
Chiang Kai-shek age 39
Golda Meir age 29
John XXIII age 45
Deng Xiaoping age 23
Ferdinand Marcos age 9
Malcolm X age 2
François Mitterrand age 10
Alexander Fleming age 46
Francisco Franco age 34
David Ben-Gurion age 40
Milton Friedman age 15
Ruhollah Khomeini age 24
Pol Pot age 2
Wilhelm II age 68
Josip Broz Tito age 35
Guglielmo Marconi age 53
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 23
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 9