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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
Great Depression 1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
Dust Bowl 1930 - 1936
Encirclement Campaigns 1930-11-01 - 1934-10-10

People

Joseph Stalin age 52
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 83
Reich President - Germany
Reza Shah age 53
Shah - Iran
Getúlio Vargas age 48
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 61
King - Italy
Albert I of Belgium age 55
King - Belgium
Gaston Doumergue age 67
President - France
Alexander I of Yugoslavia age 42
King - Yugoslavia
Fuad I of Egypt age 63
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 54
President - Mexico
Gerardo Machado age 59
President - Cuba
Jorge Ubico age 52
President - Guatemala
Benito Mussolini age 47
Prime Minister - Italy
Chiang Kai-shek age 43
Premier - Republic of China
Vyacheslav Molotov age 41
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Ramsay MacDonald age 64
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Pierre Laval age 47
Prime Minister - France
Heinrich Brüning age 45
Chancellor - Germany
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 55
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 54
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Petar Živković age 52
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Walery Sławek age 51
Prime Minister - Poland
Ismaʿil Sidqi age 55
Prime Minister - Egypt
Charles Evans Hughes age 68
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Charles Curtis age 71
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 26
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 32
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 45
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 29
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 35
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 31
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Douglas MacArthur age 51
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Joseph Wirth age 51
Reichsminister - Germany
Henry L. Stimson age 63
Secretary of State - United States
Andrew Mellon age 76
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 48
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 62
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William D. Mitchell age 56
Attorney General - United States
J. Edgar Hoover age 36
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
David Lloyd George age 68
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Stanley Baldwin age 63
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Harlan F. Stone age 58
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede age 60
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Clark McReynolds age 69
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Graham age 43
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Pixley ka Isaka Seme age 50
President - African National Congress
Brian O'Higgins age 48
President - Sinn Féin
Cordell Hull age 59
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 53
Senate - United States
James F. Byrnes age 48
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 73
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Neville Chamberlain age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Eden age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Nance Garner age 62
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Henderson age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stafford Cripps age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 41
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kingsley Wood age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 13
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Adamson age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Lansbury age 72
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aylmer Hunter-Weston age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 49
Governor of New York - United States
James Rolph age 61
Governor of California - United States
John Garland Pollard age 59
Governor of Virginia - United States
Albert Ritchie age 54
Governor of Maryland - United States
George White (Ohio politician) age 58
Governor of Ohio - United States
Ross S. Sterling age 56
Governor of Texas - United States
Joseph B. Ely age 50
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Harvey Parnell age 51
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Harry G. Leslie age 52
Governor of Indiana - United States
Morgan Foster Larson age 48
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Christian Herter age 35
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 46
New York State Senate - United States
Barber Conable age 8
New York State Senate - United States
Adolf Hitler age 41
Führer - Nazi Party
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 50
President - Turkey
Jawaharlal Nehru age 41
President - Indian National Congress
Pius XI age 73
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 44
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 50
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 58
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 72
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 60
King - Denmark
Zog I of Albania age 35
King - Albania
Rafael Trujillo age 39
President - Dominican Republic
Prajadhipok age 37
King - Thailand
Mohammed V of Morocco age 21
Sultan - Morocco
Antanas Smetona age 56
President - Lithuania
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 69
President - Finland
Carol II of Romania age 37
King - Kingdom of Romania
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 35
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 31
King - Eswatini
Ignacy Mościcki age 63
President - Poland
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 49
Viceroy - British Raj
Óscar Carmona age 61
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 60
Prince - Monaco
Jigme Wangchuck age 26
King - Bhutan
Alexandros Zaimis age 75
President - Greece
José Félix Uriburu age 62
President - Argentina
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 53
President - Chile
Alberts Kviesis age 49
President - Latvia
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 31
Queen - Tonga
Sisowath Monivong age 55
King - Cambodia
Edwin Barclay age 49
President - Liberia
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 45
Sultan - Oman
Daniel Salamanca Urey age 61
President - Bolivia
Juan Bautista Pérez age 61
President - Venezuela
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 46
Emir - Kuwait
José Patricio Guggiari age 47
President - Paraguay
Isidro Ayora age 51
President - Ecuador
José María Moncada age 60
President - Nicaragua
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 76
Emir - Qatar
David Samanez Ocampo age 64
President - Peru
Enrique Olaya Herrera age 50
President - Colombia
Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro Jované age 48
President - Panama
Stenio Vincent age 57
President - Haiti
Charles Debbas age 46
President - Lebanon
Cleto González Víquez age 72
President - Costa Rica
Arturo Araujo age 53
President - El Salvador
Vicente Mejía Colindres age 52
President - Honduras
Losolyn Laagan age 44
President - Mongolia
İsmet İnönü age 46
Prime Minister - Turkey
Eleftherios Venizelos age 66
Prime Minister - Greece
Richard Bedford Bennett age 60
Prime Minister - Canada
James Scullin age 54
Prime Minister - Australia
Thorvald Stauning age 57
Prime Minister - Denmark
Carl Gustaf Ekman age 58
Prime Minister - Sweden
István Bethlen age 56
Prime Minister - Hungary
Nuri as-Said age 43
Prime Minister - Iraq
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel age 60
Prime Minister - Norway
Joseph Bech age 44
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod age 59
Prime Minister - Romania
Andrey Lyapchev age 64
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Otto Ender age 55
Chancellor - Austria
Tryggvi Þórhallsson age 42
Prime Minister - Iceland
Juan Bautista Aznar-Cabañas age 70
Prime Minister - Spain
Henri Jaspar age 60
Prime Minister - Belgium
Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck age 57
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Pandeli Evangjeli age 72
Prime Minister - Albania
Hugo Celmiņš age 53
Prime Minister - Latvia
George Forbes age 62
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Domingos Oliveira age 57
Prime Minister - Portugal
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 46
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland age 69
Prime Minister - Malta
Josef Hoop age 35
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 43
Prime Minister - Tonga
Isaac Isaacs age 75
Governor-General - Australia
Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe age 63
Governor-General - New Zealand
Léon Cayla age 49
Governor-General - Madagascar
Harry S. Truman age 46
Presiding Judge of Jackson County, Missouri
Albert Einstein age 52
Ronald Reagan age 20
Nelson Mandela age 12
Mahatma Gandhi age 61
Pablo Picasso age 49
Charlie Chaplin age 41
Elizabeth II age 4
Thomas Edison age 84
Sigmund Freud age 74
John F. Kennedy age 13
Martin Luther King Jr. age 2
Marie Curie age 63
Rabindranath Tagore age 69
Mao Zedong age 37
Che Guevara age 2
Charles de Gaulle age 40
Nikola Tesla age 74
Neil Armstrong age 7 months