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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Great Depression 1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
Encirclement Campaigns 1930-11-01 - 1934-10-10

People

Joseph Stalin age 52
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Herbert Hoover age 57
President - United States
Hirohito age 30
Emperor - Japan
Haile Selassie age 39
Emperor - Ethiopia
George V age 66
King - United Kingdom
Paul von Hindenburg age 83
Reich President - Germany
Reza Shah age 53
Shah - Iran
Getúlio Vargas age 49
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 61
King - Italy
Albert I of Belgium age 56
Monarch - Belgium
Paul Doumer age 74
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 48
Prime Minister - Italy
Chiang Kai-shek age 43
Premier - Republic of China
Vyacheslav Molotov age 41
Chairman - Soviet Union
Ramsay MacDonald age 64
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Pierre Laval age 48
Prime Minister - France
Heinrich Brüning age 45
Chancellor - Germany
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 55
President - International Olympic Committee
Wakatsuki Reijirō age 65
Prime Minister - Japan
W. T. Cosgrave age 51
Taoiseach - Ireland
J. B. M. Hertzog age 65
Prime Minister - South Africa
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 55
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Petar Živković age 52
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Aleksander Prystor age 57
Prime Minister - Poland
Ismaʿil Sidqi age 56
Prime Minister - Egypt
Charles Evans Hughes age 69
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Charles Curtis age 71
Vice President - United States
Douglas MacArthur age 51
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
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 72
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden age 67
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 46
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
Stanley Baldwin age 64
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Harlan F. Stone age 58
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Alben W. Barkley age 53
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 56
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
Neville Chamberlain age 62
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Lloyd George age 68
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Nance Garner age 62
House of Representatives - United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 49
Governor of New York - United States
Adolf Hitler age 42
Führer - Nazi Party
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 50
President - Turkey
Pius XI age 74
Pope - Vatican City
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 55
President - Indian National Congress
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 51
King - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 59
Monarch - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 73
Monarch - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 60
Monarch - 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 22
Sultan - Morocco
Antanas Smetona age 57
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
Monarch - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 32
King - Eswatini
Ignacy Mościcki age 63
President - Poland
Óscar Carmona age 61
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 61
Prince - Monaco
Juan Vicente Gómez age 74
President - Venezuela
Jigme Wangchuck age 26
King - Bhutan
Alexandros Zaimis age 75
President - Greece
José Félix Uriburu age 63
President - Argentina
Alberts Kviesis age 49
President - Latvia
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 31
Monarch - 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 62
President - Bolivia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 46
Emir - Kuwait
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon age 64
Viceroy - British Raj
José Patricio Guggiari age 47
President - Paraguay
Isidro Ayora age 52
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 49
President - Panama
Stenio Vincent age 57
President - Haiti
Charles Debbas age 47
President - Lebanon
Cleto González Víquez age 72
President - Costa Rica
Arturo Araujo age 53
President - El Salvador
Vicente Mejía Colindres age 53
President - Honduras
Losolyn Laagan age 44
President - Mongolia
İsmet İnönü age 46
Prime Minister - Turkey
Eleftherios Venizelos age 67
Prime Minister - Greece
Kārlis Ulmanis age 54
Prime Minister - Latvia
Nicolae Iorga age 60
Prime Minister - Romania
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora age 54
Prime Minister - Spain
Richard Bedford Bennett age 61
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
Juho Sunila age 56
Prime Minister - Finland
Joseph Bech age 44
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Peder Kolstad age 52
Prime Minister - Norway
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod age 59
Prime Minister - Romania
Gyula Károlyi age 60
Prime Minister - Hungary
Jules Renkin age 68
Prime Minister - Belgium
Tryggvi Þórhallsson age 42
Prime Minister - Iceland
Aleksandar Malinov age 64
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck age 57
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Pandeli Evangjeli age 72
Prime Minister - Albania
George Forbes age 62
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Domingos Oliveira age 58
Prime Minister - Portugal
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 46
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland age 70
Prime Minister - Malta
Josef Hoop age 35
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 43
Prime Minister - Tonga
Karl Buresch age 52
Chancellor - Austria
Isaac Isaacs age 76
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 47
Presiding Judge of Jackson County, Missouri
Albert Einstein age 52
Ronald Reagan age 20
Nelson Mandela age 13
Mahatma Gandhi age 61
Pablo Picasso age 49
Charlie Chaplin age 42
Elizabeth II age 5
Thomas Edison age 84
Sigmund Freud age 75
John F. Kennedy age 14
Martin Luther King Jr. age 2
Marie Curie age 63
Rabindranath Tagore age 70
Mao Zedong age 37
Che Guevara age 3
Charles de Gaulle age 40
Nikola Tesla age 75
Neil Armstrong age 1
Walt Disney age 29
George Orwell age 28
John Paul II age 11
Margaret Thatcher age 5
Ernest Hemingway age 32
Gabriel García Márquez age 4
Fidel Castro age 5
Mikhail Gorbachev age 5 months
Henry Ford age 68
Jean-Paul Sartre age 26
Jimmy Carter age 6
Benedict XVI age 4
Mother Teresa age 21
George H. W. Bush age 7
Jawaharlal Nehru age 41
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 40
Richard Nixon age 18
Alan Turing age 19
John Maynard Keynes age 48
Simone de Beauvoir age 23
Niels Bohr age 45
Leon Trotsky age 51
Max Planck age 73
Lyndon B. Johnson age 23
Gerald Ford age 18
Indira Gandhi age 13
Enrico Fermi age 29
Nikita Khrushchev age 37
Mahathir Mohamad age 6
Calvin Coolidge age 59
Boris Yeltsin age 6 months
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 12
Kwame Nkrumah age 21
Yasser Arafat age 2
Ho Chi Minh age 41
Konrad Adenauer age 55
Henry Kissinger age 8
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 3
Georges Pompidou age 20
Joseph Goebbels age 33
Leonid Brezhnev age 24
Robert Mugabe age 7
Hosni Mubarak age 3
Golda Meir age 33
John XXIII age 49
Deng Xiaoping age 27
Ferdinand Marcos age 13
Malcolm X age 6
François Mitterrand age 14
Alexander Fleming age 50
Francisco Franco age 38
David Ben-Gurion age 44
Milton Friedman age 19
Ruhollah Khomeini age 28
Pol Pot age 6