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Roaring Twenties 1920 - 1929
Prohibition in the United States 1920-01-17 - 1933-12-05
Northern Expedition 1926-07-09 - 1928-12-29
Shanghai massacre 1927-04-12 - 1927-04-12
Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Nanchang Uprising 1927-08-01 - 1927-08-05
Autumn Harvest Uprising 1927-09-07
Kellogg–Briand Pact 1928-08-27
Discovery of penicillin 1928-09-28
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
Wall Street Crash of 1929 1929-10-24 - 1929-10-29
Black Tuesday 1929-10-29
Dust Bowl 1930 - 1936
Salt March 1930-03-12 - 1930-04-06
1930 FIFA World Cup 1930-07-13 - 1930-07-30
Encirclement Campaigns 1930-11-01 - 1934-10-10
1931 China floods 1931-06 - 1931-08
Japanese invasion of Manchuria 1931-09-18 - 1932-02-27
Mukden Incident 1931-09-18 - 1931-09-18
Statute of Westminster 1931 1931-12-11
Holodomor 1932 - 1933
Proclamation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 1932-09-23 - 1932-09-23
Nazi seizure of power 1933-01-30
Reichstag fire 1933-02-27
Reichstag Fire Decree 1933-02-28
New Deal 1933-03-09 - 1939
Enabling Act of 1933 1933-03-23
Night of the Long Knives 1934-06-30 - 1934-07-02
Long March 1934-10-16 - 1935-10-19
Zunyi Conference 1935-01-15 - 1935-01-17
Government of India Act 1935 1935-08-02
Nuremberg Laws enacted 1935-09-15 - 1935-11-14
Second Italo-Ethiopian War 1935-10-03 - 1937-02-19
Remilitarization of the Rhineland 1936-03-07
1936–1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine 1936-04-19 - 1939-08-26
Spanish Civil War 1936-07-17 - 1939-04-01
Siege of the Alcázar 1936-07-21 - 1936-09-27
Campaign of Gipuzkoa 1936-07-25 - 1936-09-13
1936 Summer Olympics 1936-08-01 - 1936-08-16
Battle of Badajoz (1936) 1936-08-12 - 1936-08-14
Great Purge 1936-08-19 - 1938-11-17
Siege of Madrid 1936-11-08 - 1939-03-28
Abdication of Edward VIII 1936-11-16 - 1936-12-11
Xi'an Incident 1936-12-12 - 1936-12-25
Battle of Málaga (1937) 1937-02-03 - 1937-02-08
Battle of Jarama 1937-02-06 - 1937-02-27
Battle of Guadalajara 1937-03-08 - 1937-03-23
War in the North 1937-03-31 - 1937-10-21
Bombing of Guernica 1937-04-26 - 1937-04-26
Hindenburg disaster 1937-05-06
Battle of Brunete 1937-07-06 - 1937-07-25
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Marco Polo Bridge Incident 1937-07-07 - 1937-07-09
Battle of Shanghai 1937-08-13 - 1937-11-26
Battle of Belchite (1937) 1937-08-24 - 1937-09-07
Battle of Xuzhou 1937-12-01 - 1938-05-19
Battle of Nanking 1937-12-01 - 1937-12-13
Nanjing Massacre 1937-12-13 - 1938-02-07
Battle of Teruel 1937-12-15 - 1938-02-22
Battle of Cape Palos (1938) 1938-03-05 - 1938-03-06
Aragon Offensive 1938-03-07 - 1938-04-19
Anschluss 1938-03-12 - 1938-04-10
Levante Offensive 1938-04-23 - 1938-07-24
Battle of Wuhan 1938-06-11 - 1938-10-27
Battle of the Ebro 1938-07-25 - 1938-11-16
Munich Agreement 1938-09-30
Kristallnacht 1938-11-09 - 1938-11-10
Catalonia Offensive 1938-12-23 - 1939-02-10
Final offensive of the Spanish Civil War 1939-03-26 - 1939-03-31
Battles of Khalkhin Gol 1939-05-11 - 1939-09-16
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact 1939-08-23
Invasion of Poland 1939-09-01 - 1939-10-06
World War II 1939-09-01 - 1945-09-02
Battle of the Atlantic 1939-09-03 - 1945-05-08
Battle of South Guangxi 1939-11-15 - 1940-11-30
Winter War 1939-11-30 - 1940-03-13
Operation Weserübung 1940-04-09 - 1940-06-10
Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang 1940-05-01 - 1940-06-24
Battle of France 1940-05-10 - 1940-06-25
Battle of Dunkirk 1940-05-26 - 1940-06-04
Western Desert campaign 1940-06-11 - 1943-02-04
Battle of Britain 1940-07-10 - 1940-10-31
Operation Compass 1940-12-09 - 1941-02-09
The Holocaust 1941 - 1945
Invasion of Yugoslavia 1941-04-06 - 1941-04-18
Siege of Tobruk 1941-04-10 - 1941-11-27
Battle of Crete 1941-05-20 - 1941-06-01
Operation Barbarossa 1941-06-22 - 1942-01-07
Second Soviet-Finnish War 1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Siege of Leningrad 1941-09-08 - 1944-01-27
Babi Yar massacre 1941-09-29 - 1941-09-30
Battle of Moscow 1941-10-02 - 1942-01-07
Attack on Pearl Harbor 1941-12-07
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Malayan campaign 1941-12-08 - 1942-01-31
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01 - 1945-08-21
Battle of Bataan 1942-01-07 - 1942-04-09
Wannsee Conference 1942-01-20
Battle of Singapore 1942-02-08 - 1942-02-15
Bataan Death March 1942-04-09 - 1942-04-17
Battle of the Coral Sea 1942-05-04 - 1942-05-08
Battle of Midway 1942-06-04 - 1942-06-07
Lidice massacre 1942-06-10
Battle of Stalingrad 1942-07-17 - 1943-02-02
Kokoda Track campaign 1942-07-21 - 1942-11-16
Guadalcanal campaign 1942-08-07 - 1943-02-09
Quit India Movement 1942-08-08 - 1944-09-01
Manhattan Project 1942-08-13 - 1947-01-01
Battle of the Eastern Solomons 1942-08-24 - 1942-08-25
Second Battle of El Alamein 1942-10-23 - 1942-11-11
Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands 1942-10-25 - 1942-10-27
Operation Torch 1942-11-08 - 1942-11-16
Tunisian campaign 1942-11-17 - 1943-05-13
Bengal famine of 1943 1943 - 1944
Battle of Kursk 1943-07-05 - 1943-08-23
Italian campaign 1943-07-09 - 1945-05-02
Allied invasion of Sicily 1943-07-09 - 1943-08-17
Allied invasion of Italy 1943-09-03 - 1943-09-16
Battle of Tarawa 1943-11-20 - 1943-11-23
Tehran Conference 1943-11-28 - 1943-12-01
Battle of Monte Cassino 1944-01-17 - 1944-05-18
Battle of Anzio 1944-01-22 - 1944-06-04
Operation Hailstone 1944-02-17 - 1944-02-18
Battle of Imphal 1944-03-08 - 1944-07-03
Battle of Kohima 1944-04-04 - 1944-06-22
Operation Ichi-Go 1944-04-17 - 1944-12-10
Operation Overlord 1944-06-06 - 1944-08-30
Battle of Saipan 1944-06-15 - 1944-07-09
Battle of the Philippine Sea 1944-06-19 - 1944-06-20
Operation Bagration 1944-06-22 - 1944-08-19
Bretton Woods Conference 1944-07-01 - 1944-07-22
Lvov–Sandomierz offensive 1944-07-13 - 1944-08-29
20 July plot 1944-07-20
Warsaw Uprising 1944-08-01 - 1944-10-02
Operation Dragoon 1944-08-15 - 1944-09-14
Second Jassy–Kishinev offensive 1944-08-20 - 1944-08-29
Operation Olive 1944-08-25 - 1944-12-31
Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine 1944-08-25 - 1945-03-07
Battle of Peleliu 1944-09-15 - 1944-11-27
Operation Market Garden 1944-09-17 - 1944-09-25
Battle of Metz 1944-09-27 - 1944-12-13
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Battle of Aachen 1944-10-02 - 1944-10-21
Battle of Debrecen 1944-10-06 - 1944-10-29
Battle of Leyte 1944-10-17 - 1944-12-31
Battle of Leyte Gulf 1944-10-23 - 1944-10-26
Rescue of the Lost Battalion 1944-10-26 - 1944-10-30
Battle of the Bulge 1944-12-16 - 1945-01-25
Siege of Budapest 1944-12-26 - 1945-02-13
Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay 1945-01-01 - 1945-03-29
Battle of Luzon 1945-01-09 - 1945-08-15
Vistula–Oder offensive 1945-01-12 - 1945-02-02
East Prussian offensive 1945-01-13 - 1945-04-25
Manila massacre 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Battle of Manila (1945) 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Yalta Conference 1945-02-04 - 1945-02-11
Battle of Iwo Jima 1945-02-19 - 1945-03-26
East Pomeranian offensive 1945-02-24 - 1945-04-04
Western Allied invasion of Germany 1945-03-22 - 1945-05-08
Battle of Okinawa 1945-04-01 - 1945-06-22
Vienna offensive 1945-04-02 - 1945-04-13
Spring 1945 offensive in Italy 1945-04-06 - 1945-05-02
Operation Ten-Go 1945-04-07 - 1945-04-07
Battle of Berlin 1945-04-16 - 1945-05-02
Prague offensive 1945-05-06 - 1945-05-11
Charter of the United Nations 1945-06-26
Trinity nuclear test 1945-07-16
Potsdam Conference 1945-07-17 - 1945-08-02
Chinese Communist Revolution 1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945-08-06 - 1945-08-09
Soviet–Japanese War 1945-08-09 - 1945-09-03
Indonesian National Revolution 1945-08-17 - 1949-12-27
Surrender of Japan 1945-09-02 - 1945-09-02
Shangdang Campaign 1945-09-10 - 1945-10-12
Iran crisis of 1946 1945-11-01 - 1946-12-15
Nuremberg trials 1945-11-20 - 1946-10-01
Second Battle of Siping 1946-04-17 - 1946-05-19
International Military Tribunal for the Far East 1946-04-29 - 1948-11-12
Direct Action Day 1946-08-16
Linjiang Campaign 1946-12-17 - 1947-04-01
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Battle of Yan'an 1947-03-13 - 1947-03-19
Malagasy Uprising 1947-03-29 - 1949-02
Menglianggu Campaign 1947-05-13 - 1947-05-16
Indian Independence Act 1947-07-18
Partition of India 1947-08-15
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-1948 1947-10-22 - 1949-01-01
Battle of Badgam 1947-11-03 - 1947-11-03
Battle of Shalateng 1947-11-07 - 1947-11-07
UN Partition Plan for Palestine 1947-11-29 - 1947-11-29
Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi 1948-01-30
Siege of Skardu 1948-02-11 - 1948-08-14
Marshall Plan 1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel 1948-05-14
1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Battle of Jerusalem (1948) 1948-05-15 - 1948-07-18
Battles of the Kinarot Valley 1948-05-15 - 1948-05-21
Siege of Changchun 1948-05-23 - 1948-10-19
Battles of Latrun 1948-05-24 - 1948-07-18
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Operation Pleshet 1948-05-29 - 1948-06-03
Berlin Blockade 1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12
Liaoshen Campaign 1948-09-12 - 1948-11-02
Taiyuan Campaign 1948-10-05 - 1949-04-24
Operation Yoav 1948-10-15 - 1948-10-22
Operation Hiram 1948-10-29 - 1948-10-31
Huaihai Campaign 1948-11-06 - 1949-01-10
Pingjin Campaign 1948-11-29 - 1949-01-31
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948-12-10
Operation Horev 1948-12-22 - 1949-01-07
Operation Uvda 1949-03-05 - 1949-03-10
1949 Syrian coup d'état 1949-03-29
North Atlantic Treaty 1949-04-04 - 1949-04-04
Yangtze River Crossing campaign 1949-04-20 - 1949-06-02
Shanghai Campaign 1949-05-12 - 1949-06-02
Proclamation of the People's Republic of China 1949-10-01 - 1949-10-01
Battle of Guningtou 1949-10-25 - 1949-10-27
Battle of Dengbu Island 1949-11-03 - 1949-11-05
Chengdu Campaign 1949-12-11 - 1949-12-27
Landing Operation on Hainan Island 1950-03-05 - 1950-05-01
Korean War 1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27
Battle of the Pusan Perimeter 1950-08-04 - 1950-09-18
Battle of Inchon 1950-09-10 - 1950-09-19
Battle of Route Coloniale 4 1950-09-16 - 1950-10-18
Second Battle of Seoul 1950-09-22 - 1950-09-28
Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River 1950-11-25 - 1950-12-02
Battle of Chosin Reservoir 1950-11-27 - 1950-12-13
Treaty of Paris (1951) 1951-04-18
Battle of Hòa Bình 1951-11-10 - 1952-02-25
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin 1953-03-05 - 1953-03-09
Discovery of the structure of DNA 1953-04-25
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
Korean Armistice Agreement 1953-07-27
1953 Iranian coup d'état 1953-08-15 - 1953-08-19
1954 Syrian coup d'état 1954-02-01
Battle of Dien Bien Phu 1954-03-13 - 1954-05-07
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
Brown v. Board of Education 1954-05-17
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état 1954-06-18 - 1954-06-27
First Taiwan Strait Crisis 1954-09-03 - 1955-05-01
Toussaint Rouge 1954-11-01 - 1954-11-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Salk polio vaccine 1955-04-12
Bandung Conference 1955-04-18 - 1955-04-24
Austrian State Treaty 1955-05-15
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Philippeville massacre 1955-08-20 - 1955-08-25
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Khrushchev's Secret Speech 1956-02-25
Hungarian Revolution of 1956 1956-10-23 - 1956-11-10
Suez Crisis 1956-10-29 - 1956-11-07
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08
Treaty of Rome 1957-03-25
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Sputnik 1 1957-10-04
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis 1958-08-23 - 1958-12-02
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Sharpeville massacre 1960-03-21
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Assassination of Patrice Lumumba 1961-01-17
Vostok 1 1961-04-12
Bay of Pigs Invasion 1961-04-17 - 1961-04-20
Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10

People

Ferruccio Parri age 35
Prime Minister - Italy
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 49
President - International Olympic Committee
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 14
Prime Minister - Poland
Wakatsuki Reijirō age 59
Prime Minister - Japan
Hamaguchi Osachi age 55
Prime Minister - Japan
Adone Zoli age 37
Prime Minister - Italy
T. V. Soong age 34
Premier - Republic of China
J. G. Strijdom age 32
Prime Minister - South Africa
W. T. Cosgrave age 45
Taoiseach - Ireland
Chen Cheng age 28
Premier - Republic of China
John A. Costello age 34
Taoiseach - Ireland
J. B. M. Hertzog age 59
Prime Minister - South Africa
Dušan Simović age 43
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Anton Korošec age 53
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Dragiša Cvetković age 32
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
H. H. Kung age 44
Premier - Republic of China
Yen Hsi-shan age 42
Premier - Republic of China
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 24
Prime Minister - Poland
Dirk Stikker age 28
Secretary General - NATO
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 49
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Seán Lemass age 26
Taoiseach - Ireland
Kazimierz Bartel age 43
Prime Minister - Poland
Joseph Avenol age 46
Secretary-General - League of Nations
He Yingqin age 35
Premier - Republic of China
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 46
Prime Minister - Egypt
Aleksander Skrzyński age 43
Prime Minister - Poland
Brock Chisholm age 29
Director-General - World Health Organization
Boun Oum age 13
Prime Minister - Laos
Subhi Bey Barakat age 36
Prime Minister - Syria
Zhang Qun age 36
Premier - Republic of China
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski age 40
Prime Minister - Poland
John J. McCloy age 30
President - World Bank
Petar Živković age 46
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Anselmo Alliegro y Milá age 26
Prime Minister - Cuba
Walery Sławek age 46
Prime Minister - Poland
Seán Lester age 37
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Jamil Mardam Bey age 32
Prime Minister - Syria
Sun Fo age 34
Premier - Republic of China
Eugene Meyer age 50
President - World Bank
Mahmud Fahmi al-Nuqrashi age 37
Prime Minister - Egypt
Khalid al-Azm age 30
Prime Minister - Syria
Aleksander Prystor age 51
Prime Minister - Poland
Abdul Hamid al-Sarraj age 3 months
Prime Minister - Syria
Kazimierz Świtalski age 39
Prime Minister - Poland
Marian Zyndram-Kościałkowski age 33
Prime Minister - Poland
Aly Maher Pasha age 44
Prime Minister - Egypt
Adli Yakan age 61
Prime Minister - Egypt
Faris al-Khoury age 48
Prime Minister - Syria
Ata al-Ayyubi age 48
Prime Minister - Syria
Janusz Jędrzejewicz age 40
Prime Minister - Poland
Hussein Sirri Pasha age 33
Prime Minister - Egypt
Sabri al-Asali age 22
Prime Minister - Syria
Taj al-Din al-Hasani age 40
Prime Minister - Syria
Tan Yankai age 45
Premier - Republic of China
Ismaʿil Sidqi age 50
Prime Minister - Egypt
Muhsin al-Barazi age 21
Prime Minister - Syria
Saadallah al-Jabiri age 33
Prime Minister - Syria
ʿAbd al-Khaliq Tharwat age 52
Prime Minister - Egypt
Jamil al-Elshi age 42
Prime Minister - Syria
Stanisław Mackiewicz age 28
Prime Minister - Poland
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 14
Director-General - World Health Organization
Gonzalo Güell age 30
Prime Minister - Cuba
Félix Lancís Sánchez age 25
Prime Minister - Cuba
Ibrahim Abdel Hadi Pasha age 29
Prime Minister - Egypt
Huynh Thuc Khang age 49
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Carlos Saladrigas Zayas age 25
Prime Minister - Cuba
Ramón Zaydín age 30
Prime Minister - Cuba
Hassan Sabry Pasha age 50
Prime Minister - Egypt
Ahmad Najib al-Hilali age 34
Prime Minister - Egypt
Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha age 48
Prime Minister - Egypt
Haqqi al-Azm age 60
Prime Minister - Syria
Nasuhi al-Bukhari age 44
Prime Minister - Syria
Lutfi al-Haffar age 37
Prime Minister - Syria
Weng Wenhao age 36
Premier - Republic of China
Yu Hung-chun age 27
Premier - Republic of China
Manuel Antonio de Varona age 17
Prime Minister - Cuba
Jorge García Montes age 29
Prime Minister - Cuba
Raúl López del Castillo age 32
Prime Minister - Cuba
Muhammad Tawfiq Nasim Pasha age 51
Prime Minister - Egypt
Ahmad Ziwar age 61
Prime Minister - Egypt
Husni al-Barazi age 30
Prime Minister - Syria
Hassan al-Hakim age 39
Prime Minister - Syria
Abdel Fattah Yahya Ibrahim Pasha age 49
Prime Minister - Egypt
Kamal el-Din Hussein age 4
Prime Minister - Egypt
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 27
President - World Bank
Emilio Núñez Portuondo age 27
Prime Minister - Cuba
Nur al-Din Kahala age 15
Prime Minister - Syria
Miloš Trifunović age 54
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Kim Il-sung age 13
Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Wincenty Witos age 51
Prime Minister - Poland
D. F. Malan age 51
Prime Minister - South Africa
Nikola Uzunović age 52
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Velimir Vukićević age 54
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Vojislav Marinković age 49
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Milan Srškić age 45
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Milan Stojadinović age 37
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Slobodan Jovanović age 56
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Božidar Purić age 34
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Ivan Šubašić age 33
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
William Howard Taft age 68
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Charles Evans Hughes age 63
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Earl Warren age 34
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Fred M. Vinson age 35
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Harlan F. Stone age 53
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Richard Nixon age 12
Vice President - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 17
Vice President - United States
Charles G. Dawes age 60
Vice President - United States
Henry A. Wallace age 37
Vice President - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 48
Vice President - United States
John Nance Garner age 57
Vice President - United States
Soong Ching-ling age 32
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Charles Curtis age 65
Vice President - United States
Zhu De age 39
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 39
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Deng Xiaoping age 21
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Omar Bradley age 32
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Lin Biao age 18
Vice Chairman - Communist Party of China
Li Xiannian age 16
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 27
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 24
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
William D. Leahy age 50
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
He Long age 29
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 25
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Lyman Lemnitzer age 26
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Nathan F. Twining age 28
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Arthur W. Radford age 29
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Heinrich Himmler age 25
Reichsminister - Germany
Douglas MacArthur age 45
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Hermann Göring age 32
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
George C. Marshall age 44
Secretary of Defense - United States
Robert F. Kennedy age 0 months
Attorney General - United States
Rudolf Hess age 31
Reichsminister - Germany
Cordell Hull age 54
Secretary of State - United States
Robert McNamara age 9
Secretary of Defense - United States
Frank B. Kellogg age 69
Secretary of State - United States
Wilhelm Frick age 48
Reichsminister - Germany
John Foster Dulles age 37
Secretary of State - United States
Dean Acheson age 32
Secretary of State - United States
Joseph Wirth age 46
Reichsminister - Germany
Henry L. Stimson age 58
Secretary of State - United States
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 44
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
James F. Byrnes age 43
Secretary of State - United States
Dean Rusk age 16
Secretary of State - United States
Robert H. Jackson age 33
Attorney General - United States
Dwight F. Davis age 46
Secretary of War - United States
Stafford Cripps age 36
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 34
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 6
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Andrew Mellon age 70
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Christian Herter age 30
Secretary of State - United States
William P. Rogers age 12
Attorney General - United States
Wilhelm Groener age 58
Reichsminister - Germany
Edward Stettinius Jr. age 25
Secretary of State - United States
Maxwell D. Taylor age 24
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield age 66
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
James Forrestal age 33
Secretary of Defense - United States
John Profumo age 10
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Matthew Ridgway age 30
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
J. Lawton Collins age 29
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Rab Butler age 23
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Hugh Gaitskell age 19
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Francis Biddle age 39
Attorney General - United States
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 52
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 52
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Frank Murphy age 35
Attorney General - United States
Joseph Grew age 45
Secretary of State - United States
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 45
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 37
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Robert A. Lovett age 30
Secretary of Defense - United States
C. Douglas Dillon age 16
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Louis A. Johnson age 34
Secretary of Defense - United States
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 19
Secretary of Defense - United States
George Dern age 53
Secretary of War - United States
Charles Erwin Wilson age 35
Secretary of Defense - United States
Duff Cooper age 35
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Iain Macleod age 12
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden age 61
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Robert B. Anderson age 15
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Tom C. Clark age 26
Attorney General - United States
Harry Hines Woodring age 38
Secretary of War - United States
Robert P. Patterson age 34
Secretary of War - United States
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 18
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 21
Attorney General - United States
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 25
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Kingsley Wood age 44
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
Ogden L. Mills age 41
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
J. Howard McGrath age 22
Attorney General - United States
Patrick J. Hurley age 42
Secretary of War - United States
Kenneth Claiborne Royall age 31
Secretary of War - United States
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 40
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
George M. Humphrey age 35
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Homer Stille Cummings age 55
Attorney General - United States
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 43
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 32
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
William H. Woodin age 57
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Neil H. McElroy age 21
Secretary of Defense - United States
Manny Shinwell age 41
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
John Strachey (politician) age 24
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford age 20
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom