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Events

Roaring Twenties 1920 - 1929
Prohibition in the United States 1920-01-17 - 1933-12-05
Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
First five-year plan (Soviet Union) 1928-10-01 - 1932-12-31

People

Joseph Stalin age 50
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Calvin Coolidge age 56
President - United States
Hirohito age 27
Emperor - Japan
George V age 63
King - United Kingdom
Paul von Hindenburg age 81
Reich President - Germany
Reza Shah age 50
Shah - Iran
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 59
King - Italy
Albert I of Belgium age 53
King - Belgium
Gaston Doumergue age 65
President - France
Alexander I of Yugoslavia age 40
King - Yugoslavia
Fuad I of Egypt age 60
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Zewditu age 52
Empress - Ethiopia
Washington Luís age 59
President - Brazil
Emilio Portes Gil age 38
President - Mexico
Gerardo Machado age 57
President - Cuba
Lázaro Chacón González age 55
President - Guatemala
Benito Mussolini age 45
Prime Minister - Italy
Raymond Poincaré age 68
Prime Minister - France
Stanley Baldwin age 61
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Alexei Rykov age 47
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Hermann Müller (politician, born 1876) age 52
Chancellor - Germany
Tanaka Giichi age 64
Prime Minister - Japan
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 52
President - International Olympic Committee
W. T. Cosgrave age 48
Taoiseach - Ireland
J. B. M. Hertzog age 62
Prime Minister - South Africa
Anton Korošec age 56
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 52
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Kazimierz Bartel age 46
Prime Minister - Poland
Tan Yankai age 48
Premier - Republic of China
Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha age 52
Prime Minister - Egypt
William Howard Taft age 71
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Charles G. Dawes age 63
Vice President - United States
Winston Churchill age 54
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Frank B. Kellogg age 72
Secretary of State - United States
Dwight F. Davis age 49
Secretary of War - United States
Andrew Mellon age 73
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Leo Amery age 55
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
John G. Sargent age 68
Attorney General - United States
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman age 64
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Charles Pelot Summerall age 61
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Laming Worthington-Evans age 60
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford age 63
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 34
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
David Lloyd George age 66
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Ramsay MacDonald age 62
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Harlan F. Stone age 56
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Josiah Tshangana Gumede age 61
President - African National Congress
John J. O'Kelly age 56
President - Sinn Féin
Alben W. Barkley age 51
Senate - United States
Charles Curtis age 68
Senate - United States
John Nance Garner age 60
House of Representatives - United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 46
Governor of New York - United States
Adolf Hitler age 39
Führer - Nazi Party
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 48
President - Turkey
Pius XI age 71
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 42
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 48
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 56
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 70
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 58
King - Denmark
Michael I of Romania age 7
King - Kingdom of Romania
Zog I of Albania age 33
King - Albania
Prajadhipok age 35
King - Thailand
Mohammed V of Morocco age 19
Sultan - Morocco
Antanas Smetona age 54
President - Lithuania
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 78
President - Argentina
Lauri Kristian Relander age 45
President - Finland
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 32
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 29
King - Eswatini
Ignacy Mościcki age 61
President - Poland
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 47
Viceroy - British Raj
Óscar Carmona age 59
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 58
Prince - Monaco
Juan Vicente Gómez age 71
President - Venezuela
Jigme Wangchuck age 24
King - Bhutan
Alexandros Zaimis age 73
President - Greece
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 51
President - Chile
Gustavs Zemgals age 57
President - Latvia
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 28
Queen - Tonga
Sisowath Monivong age 53
King - Cambodia
Augusto Leguía age 65
President - Peru
Charles D. B. King age 53
President - Liberia
Pavlos Kountouriotis age 75
President - Greece
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 43
Sultan - Oman
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 44
Emir - Kuwait
José Patricio Guggiari age 44
President - Paraguay
Hernando Siles Reyes age 46
President - Bolivia
Isidro Ayora age 49
President - Ecuador
Miguel Abadía Méndez age 61
President - Colombia
José María Moncada age 58
President - Nicaragua
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 74
Emir - Qatar
Horacio Vásquez age 68
President - Dominican Republic
Robert Haab age 63
President - Switzerland
Louis Borno age 63
President - Haiti
Charles Debbas age 44
President - Lebanon
Cleto González Víquez age 70
President - Costa Rica
Pío Romero Bosque age 69
President - El Salvador
Miguel Paz Barahona age 65
President - Honduras
Jamtsangiin Damdinsüren age 31
President - Mongolia
İsmet İnönü age 44
Prime Minister - Turkey
Eleftherios Venizelos age 64
Prime Minister - Greece
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 54
Prime Minister - Canada
S. M. Bruce age 45
Prime Minister - Australia
Arvid Lindman age 66
Prime Minister - Sweden
István Bethlen age 54
Prime Minister - Hungary
Augustinas Voldemaras age 45
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel age 58
Prime Minister - Norway
Joseph Bech age 41
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Ignaz Seipel age 52
Chancellor - Austria
Dirk Jan de Geer age 58
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Iuliu Maniu age 56
Prime Minister - Romania
Andrey Lyapchev age 62
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Oskari Mantere age 54
Prime Minister - Finland
Tryggvi Þórhallsson age 39
Prime Minister - Iceland
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal age 52
Prime Minister - Denmark
Henri Jaspar age 58
Prime Minister - Belgium
Abd al-Muhsin as-Sa'dun age 50
Prime Minister - Iraq
Hugo Celmiņš age 51
Prime Minister - Latvia
Joseph Ward age 72
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Habib Pacha Es-Saad age 62
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland age 67
Prime Minister - Malta
José Vicente de Freitas age 59
Prime Minister - Portugal
Kostaq Kota age 40
Prime Minister - Albania
Josef Hoop age 33
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Anto Gvozdenović age 75
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 41
Prime Minister - Tonga
John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven age 54
Governor-General - Australia
Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet age 64
Governor-General - New Zealand
Marcel Olivier age 49
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 10
Mahatma Gandhi age 59
Pablo Picasso age 47
Charlie Chaplin age 39
Elizabeth II age 2
Thomas Edison age 81
Sigmund Freud age 72
John F. Kennedy age 11
Marie Curie age 61
Rabindranath Tagore age 67
Mao Zedong age 35
Che Guevara age 7 months
Charles de Gaulle age 38
Nikola Tesla age 72
Walt Disney age 27
George Orwell age 25
John Paul II age 8
Margaret Thatcher age 3
Ernest Hemingway age 29
Gabriel García Márquez age 1
Fidel Castro age 2
Henry Ford age 65
Jean-Paul Sartre age 23
Jimmy Carter age 4
Benedict XVI age 1
Mother Teresa age 18
George H. W. Bush age 4
Jawaharlal Nehru age 39
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 38
Richard Nixon age 16
Alan Turing age 16
John Maynard Keynes age 45
Simone de Beauvoir age 21
Niels Bohr age 43
Leon Trotsky age 49
Max Planck age 70
Lyndon B. Johnson age 20
Gerald Ford age 15
Indira Gandhi age 11
Enrico Fermi age 27
Nikita Khrushchev age 34
Herbert Hoover age 54
Mahathir Mohamad age 3
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 10
Kwame Nkrumah age 19
Ho Chi Minh age 38
Konrad Adenauer age 53
Henry Kissinger age 5
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 1
Georges Pompidou age 17
Joseph Goebbels age 31
Leonid Brezhnev age 22
Robert Mugabe age 4
Chiang Kai-shek age 41
Hosni Mubarak age 8 months
Golda Meir age 30
John XXIII age 47
Deng Xiaoping age 24
Ferdinand Marcos age 11
Malcolm X age 3
François Mitterrand age 12
Alexander Fleming age 47
Francisco Franco age 36
David Ben-Gurion age 42
Milton Friedman age 16
Ruhollah Khomeini age 26
Pol Pot age 3
Wilhelm II age 69