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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
Central Plains War 1929-03-01 - 1930-11-01

People

Joseph Stalin age 50
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Herbert Hoover age 55
President - United States
Hirohito age 28
Emperor - Japan
George V age 64
King - United Kingdom
Paul von Hindenburg age 81
Reich President - Germany
Reza Shah age 51
Shah - Iran
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 59
King - Italy
Albert I of Belgium age 54
King - Belgium
Gaston Doumergue age 66
President - France
Alexander I of Yugoslavia age 40
King - Yugoslavia
Fuad I of Egypt age 61
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Zewditu age 53
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 56
President - Guatemala
Benito Mussolini age 46
Prime Minister - Italy
Ramsay MacDonald age 62
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Alexei Rykov age 48
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Hermann Müller (politician, born 1876) age 53
Chancellor - Germany
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 53
President - International Olympic Committee
Hamaguchi Osachi age 59
Prime Minister - Japan
W. T. Cosgrave age 49
Taoiseach - Ireland
J. B. M. Hertzog age 63
Prime Minister - South Africa
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 52
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Petar Živković age 50
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Kazimierz Świtalski age 43
Prime Minister - Poland
Tan Yankai age 49
Premier - Republic of China
Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha age 52
Prime Minister - Egypt
William Howard Taft age 71
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Charles Curtis age 69
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 24
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 30
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 43
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 27
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 33
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 29
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Henry L. Stimson age 61
Secretary of State - United States
Andrew Mellon age 74
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield age 70
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden age 65
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 44
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 60
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William D. Mitchell age 54
Attorney General - United States
Charles Pelot Summerall age 62
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
J. Edgar Hoover age 34
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
David Lloyd George age 66
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Stanley Baldwin age 62
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Oswald Mosley age 32
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Harlan F. Stone age 56
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Clark McReynolds age 67
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Graham age 42
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Josiah Tshangana Gumede age 61
President - African National Congress
John J. O'Kelly age 57
President - Sinn Féin
Alben W. Barkley age 51
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 71
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Neville Chamberlain age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Eden age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Cordell Hull age 57
House of Representatives - United States
John Nance Garner age 60
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Henderson age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kingsley Wood age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 11
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Laming Worthington-Evans age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Adamson age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Lansbury age 70
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aylmer Hunter-Weston age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 47
Governor of New York - United States
Harry F. Byrd age 42
Governor of Virginia - United States
C. C. Young age 60
Governor of California - United States
Albert Ritchie age 52
Governor of Maryland - United States
Dan Moody age 36
Governor of Texas - United States
Frank G. Allen age 54
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Harvey Parnell age 49
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Myers Y. Cooper age 55
Governor of Ohio - United States
Harry G. Leslie age 51
Governor of Indiana - United States
Morgan Foster Larson age 47
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 44
New York State Senate - United States
Barber Conable age 6
New York State Senate - United States
Adolf Hitler age 40
Führer - Nazi Party
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 48
President - Turkey
Pius XI age 72
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 43
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 48
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 57
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 71
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 55
President - Lithuania
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 79
President - Argentina
Lauri Kristian Relander age 46
President - Finland
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 33
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 30
King - Eswatini
Ignacy Mościcki age 61
President - Poland
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 48
Viceroy - British Raj
Óscar Carmona age 59
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 59
Prince - Monaco
Jigme Wangchuck age 24
King - Bhutan
Alexandros Zaimis age 73
President - Greece
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 51
President - Chile
Gustavs Zemgals age 58
President - Latvia
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 29
Queen - Tonga
Sisowath Monivong age 53
King - Cambodia
Augusto Leguía age 66
President - Peru
Charles D. B. King age 54
President - Liberia
Pavlos Kountouriotis age 75
President - Greece
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 43
Sultan - Oman
Juan Bautista Pérez age 59
President - Venezuela
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 44
Emir - Kuwait
José Patricio Guggiari age 45
President - Paraguay
Hernando Siles Reyes age 47
President - Bolivia
Isidro Ayora age 49
President - Ecuador
Miguel Abadía Méndez age 62
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 64
President - Switzerland
Louis Borno age 63
President - Haiti
Charles Debbas age 45
President - Lebanon
Cleto González Víquez age 70
President - Costa Rica
Vicente Mejía Colindres age 51
President - Honduras
Pío Romero Bosque age 69
President - El Salvador
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 46
Prime Minister - Australia
Thorvald Stauning age 55
Prime Minister - Denmark
Arvid Lindman age 66
Prime Minister - Sweden
István Bethlen age 54
Prime Minister - Hungary
Bechara El Khoury age 38
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Augustinas Voldemaras age 46
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel age 58
Prime Minister - Norway
Joseph Bech age 42
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
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 40
Prime Minister - Iceland
Henri Jaspar age 59
Prime Minister - Belgium
Hugo Celmiņš age 51
Prime Minister - Latvia
Joseph Ward age 73
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland age 68
Prime Minister - Malta
Tawfiq al-Suwaidi age 37
Prime Minister - Iraq
Artur Ivens Ferraz age 58
Prime Minister - Portugal
Kostaq Kota age 40
Prime Minister - Albania
Josef Hoop age 33
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 41
Prime Minister - Tonga
John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven age 55
Governor-General - Australia
Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet age 64
Governor-General - New Zealand
Hugues Jean Berthier age 60
Governor-General - Madagascar
Harry S. Truman age 45
Presiding Judge of Jackson County, Missouri
Albert Einstein age 50
Ronald Reagan age 18
Nelson Mandela age 11
Mahatma Gandhi age 59
Pablo Picasso age 47
Charlie Chaplin age 40
Elizabeth II age 3
Thomas Edison age 82
Sigmund Freud age 73
John F. Kennedy age 12
Martin Luther King Jr. age 6 months
Marie Curie age 61
Rabindranath Tagore age 68
Mao Zedong age 35
Che Guevara age 1
Charles de Gaulle age 38
Nikola Tesla age 73
Walt Disney age 27
George Orwell age 26
John Paul II age 9
Margaret Thatcher age 3
Ernest Hemingway age 30
Gabriel García Márquez age 2
Fidel Castro age 2