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Events

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
Dust Bowl 1930 - 1936

People

Joseph Stalin age 51
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Herbert Hoover age 56
President - United States
Hirohito age 29
Emperor - Japan
Haile Selassie age 38
Emperor - Ethiopia
George V age 65
King - United Kingdom
Paul von Hindenburg age 82
Reich President - Germany
Reza Shah age 52
Shah - Iran
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 60
King - Italy
Albert I of Belgium age 55
King - Belgium
Gaston Doumergue age 67
President - France
Alexander I of Yugoslavia age 41
King - Yugoslavia
Fuad I of Egypt age 62
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Washington Luís age 60
President - Brazil
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 53
President - Mexico
Gerardo Machado age 58
President - Cuba
Lázaro Chacón González age 57
President - Guatemala
Benito Mussolini age 47
Prime Minister - Italy
Ramsay MacDonald age 63
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Alexei Rykov age 49
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Heinrich Brüning age 44
Chancellor - Germany
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 54
President - International Olympic Committee
Hamaguchi Osachi age 60
Prime Minister - Japan
W. T. Cosgrave age 50
Taoiseach - Ireland
J. B. M. Hertzog age 64
Prime Minister - South Africa
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 53
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Petar Živković age 51
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Walery Sławek age 50
Prime Minister - Poland
Tan Yankai age 50
Premier - Republic of China
Ismaʿil Sidqi age 55
Prime Minister - Egypt
Charles Evans Hughes age 68
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Charles Curtis age 70
Vice President - United States
Henry L. Stimson age 62
Secretary of State - United States
Andrew Mellon age 75
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield age 71
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden age 66
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Patrick J. Hurley age 47
Secretary of War - United States
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 45
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 61
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William D. Mitchell age 55
Attorney General - United States
Charles Pelot Summerall age 63
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
J. Edgar Hoover age 35
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
David Lloyd George age 67
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Clement Attlee age 47
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Stanley Baldwin age 63
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Harlan F. Stone age 57
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Pixley ka Isaka Seme age 49
President - African National Congress
John J. O'Kelly age 58
President - Sinn Féin
Alben W. Barkley age 52
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Neville Chamberlain age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Nance Garner age 61
House of Representatives - United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 48
Governor of New York - United States
Adolf Hitler age 41
Führer - Nazi Party
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 49
President - Turkey
Jawaharlal Nehru age 40
President - Indian National Congress
Pius XI age 73
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 44
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 49
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 58
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 72
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 59
King - Denmark
Zog I of Albania age 34
King - Albania
Prajadhipok age 36
King - Thailand
Mohammed V of Morocco age 20
Sultan - Morocco
Antanas Smetona age 56
President - Lithuania
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 80
President - Argentina
Carol II of Romania age 36
King - Kingdom of Romania
Lauri Kristian Relander age 47
President - Finland
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 34
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 31
King - Eswatini
Ignacy Mościcki age 62
President - Poland
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 49
Viceroy - British Raj
Óscar Carmona age 60
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 60
Prince - Monaco
Jigme Wangchuck age 25
King - Bhutan
Alexandros Zaimis age 74
President - Greece
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 52
President - Chile
Gustavs Zemgals age 59
President - Latvia
Alberts Kviesis age 48
President - Latvia
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 30
Queen - Tonga
Sisowath Monivong age 54
King - Cambodia
Augusto Leguía age 67
President - Peru
Charles D. B. King age 55
President - Liberia
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 44
Sultan - Oman
Juan Bautista Pérez age 60
President - Venezuela
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 45
Emir - Kuwait
José Patricio Guggiari age 46
President - Paraguay
Isidro Ayora age 50
President - Ecuador
Miguel Abadía Méndez age 63
President - Colombia
José María Moncada age 59
President - Nicaragua
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 75
Emir - Qatar
Louis Eugene Roy age 69
President - Haiti
Charles Debbas age 46
President - Lebanon
Jean-Marie Musy age 54
President - Switzerland
Carlos Blanco Galindo age 48
President - Bolivia
Cleto González Víquez age 71
President - Costa Rica
Vicente Mejía Colindres age 52
President - Honduras
Pío Romero Bosque age 70
President - El Salvador
Losolyn Laagan age 43
President - Mongolia
İsmet İnönü age 45
Prime Minister - Turkey
Eleftherios Venizelos age 65
Prime Minister - Greece
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 68
Prime Minister - Finland
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 55
Prime Minister - Canada
James Scullin age 53
Prime Minister - Australia
Thorvald Stauning age 56
Prime Minister - Denmark
Carl Gustaf Ekman age 57
Prime Minister - Sweden
István Bethlen age 55
Prime Minister - Hungary
Nuri as-Said age 42
Prime Minister - Iraq
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel age 59
Prime Minister - Norway
Joseph Bech age 43
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Johann Schober age 55
Chancellor - Austria
Iuliu Maniu age 57
Prime Minister - Romania
Andrey Lyapchev age 63
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Tryggvi Þórhallsson age 41
Prime Minister - Iceland
Dámaso Berenguer, 1st Count of Xauen age 57
Prime Minister - Spain
Henri Jaspar age 60
Prime Minister - Belgium
Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck age 56
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Pandeli Evangjeli age 71
Prime Minister - Albania
Hugo Celmiņš age 52
Prime Minister - Latvia
George Forbes age 61
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Gheorghe Mironescu age 56
Prime Minister - Romania
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 45
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland age 69
Prime Minister - Malta
Josef Hoop age 34
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 42
Prime Minister - Tonga
John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven age 56
Governor-General - Australia
Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe age 62
Governor-General - New Zealand
Léon Cayla age 48
Governor-General - Madagascar
Harry S. Truman age 46
Presiding Judge of Jackson County, Missouri
Albert Einstein age 51
Ronald Reagan age 19
Nelson Mandela age 12
Mahatma Gandhi age 60
Pablo Picasso age 48
Charlie Chaplin age 41
Elizabeth II age 4
Thomas Edison age 83
Sigmund Freud age 74
John F. Kennedy age 13
Martin Luther King Jr. age 1
Marie Curie age 62
Rabindranath Tagore age 69
Mao Zedong age 36
Che Guevara age 2
Charles de Gaulle age 39
Nikola Tesla age 74
Walt Disney age 28
George Orwell age 27
John Paul II age 10
Margaret Thatcher age 4
Ernest Hemingway age 31
Gabriel García Márquez age 3
Fidel Castro age 3
Henry Ford age 67
Jean-Paul Sartre age 25
Jimmy Carter age 5
Benedict XVI age 3
Mother Teresa age 19
George H. W. Bush age 6
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 39
Richard Nixon age 17
Alan Turing age 18
John Maynard Keynes age 47
Simone de Beauvoir age 22
Niels Bohr age 44
Leon Trotsky age 50
Max Planck age 72
Lyndon B. Johnson age 21
Gerald Ford age 17
Indira Gandhi age 12
Enrico Fermi age 28
Nikita Khrushchev age 36
Mahathir Mohamad age 5
Calvin Coolidge age 58
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 11
Kwame Nkrumah age 20
Yasser Arafat age 11 months
Ho Chi Minh age 40
Konrad Adenauer age 54
Henry Kissinger age 7
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 2
Georges Pompidou age 19
Joseph Goebbels age 32
Leonid Brezhnev age 23
Robert Mugabe age 6
Chiang Kai-shek age 42
Hosni Mubarak age 2
Golda Meir age 32
John XXIII age 48
Deng Xiaoping age 25
Ferdinand Marcos age 12
Malcolm X age 5
François Mitterrand age 13
Alexander Fleming age 49
Francisco Franco age 37
David Ben-Gurion age 43
Milton Friedman age 18
Ruhollah Khomeini age 27
Pol Pot age 5
Wilhelm II age 71