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Events

Roaring Twenties 1920-01-01 - 1929-12-31
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
Great Depression 1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01

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 82
Reich President - Germany
Reza Shah age 51
Shah - Iran
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 60
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 60
President - Brazil
Emilio Portes Gil age 39
President - Mexico
Gerardo Machado age 58
President - Cuba
Lázaro Chacón González age 56
President - Guatemala
Benito Mussolini age 46
Prime Minister - Italy
Ramsay MacDonald age 63
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 53
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Petar Živković age 50
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Kazimierz Świtalski age 43
Prime Minister - Poland
Adli Yakan age 65
Prime Minister - Egypt
Tan Yankai age 49
Premier - Republic of China
William Howard Taft age 72
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Charles Curtis age 69
Vice President - United States
Henry L. Stimson age 62
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 55
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)
Harlan F. Stone age 57
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Josiah Tshangana Gumede age 62
President - African National Congress
John J. O'Kelly age 57
President - Sinn Féin
Alben W. Barkley age 52
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 55
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
Neville Chamberlain age 60
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Nance Garner age 61
House of Representatives - United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 47
Governor of New York - 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 49
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 57
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 71
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 59
King - Denmark
Michael I of Romania age 8
King - Kingdom of Romania
Zog I of Albania age 34
King - Albania
Prajadhipok age 36
King - Thailand
Mohammed V of Morocco age 20
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 62
President - Poland
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 48
Viceroy - British Raj
Óscar Carmona age 60
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 59
Prince - Monaco
Jigme Wangchuck age 24
King - Bhutan
Alexandros Zaimis age 74
President - Greece
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 52
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 50
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 69
President - Dominican Republic
Robert Haab age 64
President - Switzerland
Louis Borno age 64
President - Haiti
Charles Debbas age 45
President - Lebanon
Cleto González Víquez age 71
President - Costa Rica
Vicente Mejía Colindres age 51
President - Honduras
Pío Romero Bosque age 69
President - El Salvador
Ezio Balducci age 25
Captain Regent - San Marino
İsmet İnönü age 45
Prime Minister - Turkey
Eleftherios Venizelos age 65
Prime Minister - Greece
Kyösti Kallio age 56
Prime Minister - Finland
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 54
Prime Minister - Canada
James Scullin age 53
Prime Minister - Australia
Thorvald Stauning age 56
Prime Minister - Denmark
Arvid Lindman age 67
Prime Minister - Sweden
István Bethlen age 55
Prime Minister - Hungary
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel age 59
Prime Minister - Norway
Joseph Bech age 42
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Johann Schober age 55
Chancellor - Austria
Iuliu Maniu age 56
Prime Minister - Romania
Andrey Lyapchev age 62
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Tryggvi Þórhallsson age 40
Prime Minister - Iceland
Henri Jaspar age 59
Prime Minister - Belgium
Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck age 56
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Émile Eddé age 46
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Hugo Celmiņš age 52
Prime Minister - Latvia
Joseph Ward age 73
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 44
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland age 68
Prime Minister - Malta
Artur Ivens Ferraz age 59
Prime Minister - Portugal
Kostaq Kota age 40
Prime Minister - Albania
Josef Hoop age 33
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 42
Prime Minister - Tonga
Naji al-Suwaidi age 47
Prime Minister - Iraq
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 60
Pablo Picasso age 48
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 10 months
Marie Curie age 62
Rabindranath Tagore age 68
Mao Zedong age 35
Che Guevara age 1
Charles de Gaulle age 39
Nikola Tesla age 73
Walt Disney age 27
George Orwell age 26
John Paul II age 9
Margaret Thatcher age 4
Ernest Hemingway age 30
Gabriel García Márquez age 2
Fidel Castro age 3
Henry Ford age 66
Jean-Paul Sartre age 24
Jimmy Carter age 5
Benedict XVI age 2
Mother Teresa age 19
George H. W. Bush age 5
Jawaharlal Nehru age 40
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 39
Richard Nixon age 16
Alan Turing age 17
John Maynard Keynes age 46
Simone de Beauvoir age 21
Niels Bohr age 44
Leon Trotsky age 50
Max Planck age 71
Lyndon B. Johnson age 21
Gerald Ford age 16
Indira Gandhi age 12
Enrico Fermi age 28
Nikita Khrushchev age 35
Mahathir Mohamad age 4
Calvin Coolidge age 57
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 10
Kwame Nkrumah age 20
Yasser Arafat age 2 months
Ho Chi Minh age 39
Konrad Adenauer age 53
Henry Kissinger age 6
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 1
Georges Pompidou age 18
Joseph Goebbels age 32
Leonid Brezhnev age 22
Robert Mugabe age 5
Chiang Kai-shek age 42
Hosni Mubarak age 1
Golda Meir age 31
John XXIII age 48
Deng Xiaoping age 25
Ferdinand Marcos age 12
Malcolm X age 4
François Mitterrand age 13
Alexander Fleming age 48
Francisco Franco age 36
David Ben-Gurion age 43
Milton Friedman age 17
Ruhollah Khomeini age 27
Pol Pot age 4
Wilhelm II age 70
Josip Broz Tito age 37