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Events

Roaring Twenties 1920-01-01 - 1929-12-31
Northern Expedition 1926-07-09 - 1928-12-29
Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07

People

Joseph Stalin age 49
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Calvin Coolidge age 55
President - United States
Hirohito age 27
Emperor - Japan
George V age 62
King - United Kingdom
Paul von Hindenburg age 80
Reich President - Germany
Reza Shah age 50
Shah - Iran
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 58
King - Italy
Albert I of Belgium age 53
Monarch - Belgium
Gaston Doumergue age 64
President - France
Alexander I of Yugoslavia age 39
King - Yugoslavia
Plutarco Elías Calles age 50
President - Mexico
Fuad I of Egypt age 60
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Zewditu age 52
Emperor - Ethiopia
Washington Luís age 58
President - Brazil
Zhang Zuolin age 53
President - Republic of China
Gerardo Machado age 56
President - Cuba
Lázaro Chacón González age 54
President - Guatemala
Benito Mussolini age 44
Prime Minister - Italy
Józef Piłsudski age 60
Prime Minister - Poland
Raymond Poincaré age 67
Prime Minister - France
Stanley Baldwin age 60
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Alexei Rykov age 47
Chairman - Soviet Union
Wilhelm Marx age 65
Chancellor - Germany
Tanaka Giichi age 63
Prime Minister - Japan
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 52
President - International Olympic Committee
W. T. Cosgrave age 47
Taoiseach - Ireland
J. B. M. Hertzog age 62
Prime Minister - South Africa
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 51
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 48
Prime Minister - Egypt
William Howard Taft age 70
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Charles G. Dawes age 62
Vice President - United States
Winston Churchill age 53
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Frank B. Kellogg age 71
Secretary Of State - United States
Dwight F. Davis age 48
Secretary of War - United States
Andrew Mellon age 73
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Leo Amery age 54
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
John G. Sargent age 67
Attorney General - United States
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman age 63
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Charles Pelot Summerall age 61
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 33
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
David Lloyd George age 65
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Ramsay MacDonald age 61
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Harlan F. Stone age 55
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Josiah Tshangana Gumede age 60
President - African National Congress
John J. O'Kelly age 55
President - Sinn Féin
Alben W. Barkley age 50
Senate - United States
Charles Curtis age 68
Senate - United States
John Nance Garner age 59
House of Representatives - United States
Adolf Hitler age 39
Führer - Nazi Party
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 47
President - Turkey
Pius XI age 70
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 42
Monarch - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 47
King - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 55
Monarch - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 69
Monarch - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 57
Monarch - Denmark
Michael I of Romania age 6
King - Kingdom of Romania
Zog I of Albania age 32
President - Albania
Prajadhipok age 34
King - Thailand
Mohammed V of Morocco age 18
Sultan - Morocco
Antanas Smetona age 53
President - Lithuania
Lauri Kristian Relander age 44
President - Finland
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 32
Monarch - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 28
King - Eswatini
Ignacy Mościcki age 60
President - Poland
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 47
Viceroy - British Raj
Michael Hainisch age 69
President - Austria
Óscar Carmona age 58
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 57
Prince - Monaco
Juan Vicente Gómez age 70
President - Venezuela
Jigme Wangchuck age 23
King - Bhutan
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear age 59
President - Argentina
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 50
President - Chile
Gustavs Zemgals age 56
President - Latvia
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 28
Monarch - Tonga
Sisowath Monivong age 52
King - Cambodia
Augusto Leguía age 65
President - Peru
Charles D. B. King age 53
President - Liberia
Pavlos Kountouriotis age 74
President - Greece
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 42
Sultan - Oman
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 43
Emir - Kuwait
Hernando Siles Reyes age 45
President - Bolivia
Isidro Ayora age 48
President - Ecuador
Adolfo Díaz age 52
President - Nicaragua
Eligio Ayala age 48
President - Paraguay
Edmund Schulthess age 60
President - Switzerland
Miguel Abadía Méndez age 60
President - Colombia
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 73
Emir - Qatar
Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno age 69
President - Costa Rica
Horacio Vásquez age 67
President - Dominican Republic
Louis Borno age 62
President - Haiti
Charles Debbas age 44
President - Lebanon
Cleto González Víquez age 69
President - Costa Rica
Pío Romero Bosque age 68
President - El Salvador
Miguel Paz Barahona age 64
President - Honduras
Rodolfo Chiari age 58
President - Panama
Jamtsangiin Damdinsüren age 30
President - Mongolia
İsmet İnönü age 43
Prime Minister - Turkey
Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella age 58
Prime Minister - Spain
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 53
Prime Minister - Canada
S. M. Bruce age 45
Prime Minister - Australia
Alexandros Zaimis age 72
Prime Minister - Greece
Carl Gustaf Ekman age 55
Prime Minister - Sweden
István Bethlen age 53
Prime Minister - Hungary
Bechara El Khoury age 37
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Augustinas Voldemaras age 45
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel age 57
Prime Minister - Norway
Juho Sunila age 52
Prime Minister - Finland
Joseph Bech age 41
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Ignaz Seipel age 51
Chancellor - Austria
Dirk Jan de Geer age 57
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Andrey Lyapchev age 61
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Tryggvi Þórhallsson age 39
Prime Minister - Iceland
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal age 51
Prime Minister - Denmark
Henri Jaspar age 57
Prime Minister - Belgium
Vintilă Brătianu age 60
Prime Minister - Romania
Abd al-Muhsin as-Sa'dun age 49
Prime Minister - Iraq
Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland age 67
Prime Minister - Malta
Gordon Coates age 50
Prime Minister - New Zealand
José Vicente de Freitas age 59
Prime Minister - Portugal
Pēteris Juraševskis age 56
Prime Minister - Latvia
Gustav Schädler age 44
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Anto Gvozdenović age 75
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 40
Prime Minister - Tonga
Sardar Shir Ahmad age 43
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven age 54
Governor-General - Australia
Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet age 63
Governor-General - New Zealand
Marcel Olivier age 48
Governor-General - Madagascar
Harry S. Truman age 44
Presiding Judge of Jackson County, Missouri
Albert Einstein age 49
Ronald Reagan age 17
Nelson Mandela age 9
Mahatma Gandhi age 58
Pablo Picasso age 46
Charlie Chaplin age 39
Elizabeth II age 2
Thomas Edison age 81
Sigmund Freud age 72
John F. Kennedy age 10
Marie Curie age 60
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 46
Rabindranath Tagore age 67
Mao Zedong age 34
Charles de Gaulle age 37
Nikola Tesla age 71
Walt Disney age 26
George Orwell age 24
John Paul II age 7
Margaret Thatcher age 2
Ernest Hemingway age 28
Gabriel García Márquez age 1
Fidel Castro age 1
Henry Ford age 64
Jean-Paul Sartre age 22
Jimmy Carter age 3
Benedict XVI age 1
Mother Teresa age 17
George H. W. Bush age 3
Jawaharlal Nehru age 38
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 37
Richard Nixon age 15
Alan Turing age 15
John Maynard Keynes age 44
Simone de Beauvoir age 20
Niels Bohr age 42
Leon Trotsky age 48
Max Planck age 70
Lyndon B. Johnson age 19
Gerald Ford age 14
Indira Gandhi age 10
Enrico Fermi age 26
Nikita Khrushchev age 34
Herbert Hoover age 53
Mahathir Mohamad age 2
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 9
Kwame Nkrumah age 18
Ho Chi Minh age 37
Konrad Adenauer age 52
Henry Kissinger age 4
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 5 months
Georges Pompidou age 16
Joseph Goebbels age 30
Leonid Brezhnev age 21
Robert Mugabe age 4
Chiang Kai-shek age 40
Hosni Mubarak age 0 months
Golda Meir age 30
John XXIII age 46
Deng Xiaoping age 23
Ferdinand Marcos age 10
Malcolm X age 2
François Mitterrand age 11
Alexander Fleming age 46
Francisco Franco age 35
David Ben-Gurion age 41
Milton Friedman age 15
Ruhollah Khomeini age 25
Pol Pot age 2