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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
Great Depression 1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
Dust Bowl 1930 - 1936
Encirclement Campaigns 1930-11-01 - 1934-10-10
Soviet–Japanese border conflicts 1932-03-01 - 1939-09-16
Chaco War 1932-09-09 - 1935-06-12
New Deal 1933-03-09 - 1939

People

Joseph Stalin age 54
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 51
President - United States
Hirohito age 32
Emperor - Japan
Haile Selassie age 41
Emperor - Ethiopia
George V age 68
King - United Kingdom
Paul von Hindenburg age 86
Reich President - Germany
Reza Shah age 55
Shah - Iran
Getúlio Vargas age 51
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 63
King - Italy
Albert I of Belgium age 58
King - Belgium
Albert Lebrun age 62
President - France
Alexander I of Yugoslavia age 44
King - Yugoslavia
Fuad I of Egypt age 65
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Abelardo L. Rodríguez age 44
President - Mexico
Jorge Ubico age 54
President - Guatemala
Adolf Hitler age 44
Chancellor - Germany
Benito Mussolini age 50
Prime Minister - Italy
Vyacheslav Molotov age 43
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Ramsay MacDonald age 66
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Éamon de Valera age 50
Taoiseach - Ireland
Wang Jingwei age 50
Premier - Republic of China
Saitō Makoto age 74
Prime Minister - Japan
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 57
President - International Olympic Committee
J. B. M. Hertzog age 67
Prime Minister - South Africa
Joseph Avenol age 54
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Janusz Jędrzejewicz age 48
Prime Minister - Poland
Ismaʿil Sidqi age 58
Prime Minister - Egypt
Milan Srškić age 53
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Haqqi al-Azm age 68
Prime Minister - Syria
Charles Evans Hughes age 71
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John Nance Garner age 64
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 29
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 34
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 47
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 32
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 37
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 33
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Neville Chamberlain age 64
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Douglas MacArthur age 53
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Cordell Hull age 61
Secretary of State - United States
Wilhelm Frick age 56
Reichsminister - Germany
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 46
Reichsminister - Germany
George Dern age 61
Secretary of War - United States
Homer Stille Cummings age 63
Attorney General - United States
William H. Woodin age 65
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry age 55
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham age 61
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton age 49
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 38
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Heinrich Himmler age 32
Reichsleiter - Nazi Party
Rudolf Hess age 39
Reichsleiter - Nazi Party
Stanley Baldwin age 66
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 62
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Harlan F. Stone age 60
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
George Lansbury age 74
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Pixley ka Isaka Seme age 52
President - African National Congress
James Clark McReynolds age 71
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Michael O'Flanagan age 57
President - Sinn Féin
J. C. C. Davidson age 44
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Henry L. Roosevelt age 53
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 55
Senate - United States
James F. Byrnes age 51
Senate - United States
William Gibbs McAdoo age 69
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 75
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Lloyd George age 70
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Eden age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Henderson age 70
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stafford Cripps age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duff Cooper age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kingsley Wood age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 15
House of Representatives - United States
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aylmer Hunter-Weston age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Miriam A. Ferguson age 58
Governor of Texas - United States
Herbert H. Lehman age 55
Governor of New York - United States
James Rolph age 64
Governor of California - United States
John Garland Pollard age 62
Governor of Virginia - United States
Albert Ritchie age 57
Governor of Maryland - United States
George White (Ohio politician) age 61
Governor of Ohio - United States
Junius Marion Futrell age 63
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Joseph B. Ely age 52
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Paul V. McNutt age 42
Governor of Indiana - United States
Hill McAlister age 58
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Eugene Talmadge age 49
Governor of Georgia - United States
Christian Herter age 38
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 49
New York State Senate - United States
Barber Conable age 10
New York State Senate - United States
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 52
President - Turkey
Pius XI age 76
Pope - Vatican City
Hermann Göring age 40
President of the Reichstag - Germany
Tomáš Masaryk age 83
President - Czechoslovakia
Ibn Saud age 57
King - Saudi Arabia
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 53
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 61
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 75
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 63
King - Denmark
Zog I of Albania age 37
King - Albania
Rafael Trujillo age 41
President - Dominican Republic
Prajadhipok age 39
King - Thailand
Mohammed V of Morocco age 24
Sultan - Morocco
Antanas Smetona age 59
President - Lithuania
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 71
President - Finland
Carol II of Romania age 39
King - Kingdom of Romania
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 37
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 34
King - Eswatini
Ignacy Mościcki age 65
President - Poland
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora age 56
President - Second Spanish Republic
Óscar Carmona age 63
President - Portugal
Arturo Alessandri age 64
President - Chile
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 63
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 23
Sultan - Oman
Juan Vicente Gómez age 76
President - Venezuela
Jigme Wangchuck age 28
King - Bhutan
Alexandros Zaimis age 77
President - Greece
Agustín Pedro Justo age 57
President - Argentina
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 50
President - El Salvador
Alberts Kviesis age 51
President - Latvia
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 33
Queen - Tonga
Sisowath Monivong age 57
King - Cambodia
Gabriel Terra age 60
President - Uruguay
Tiburcio Carías age 57
President - Honduras
Edwin Barclay age 51
President - Liberia
Óscar R. Benavides age 57
President - Peru
Eusebio Ayala age 58
President - Paraguay
Daniel Salamanca Urey age 64
President - Bolivia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 48
Emir - Kuwait
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon age 67
Viceroy - British Raj
Juan Bautista Sacasa age 58
President - Nicaragua
Mwambutsa IV of Burundi age 21
Mwami - Kingdom of Burundi
Hermann Rauschning age 46
President of the Senate - Free City of Danzig
Edmund Schulthess age 65
President - Switzerland
Harmodio Arias Madrid age 47
President - Panama
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 78
Emir - Qatar
Khalifa bin Harub age 54
Sultan of Zanzibar - Sultanate of Zanzibar
Mutara III Rudahigwa age 22
Mwami - Kingdom of Rwanda
Enrique Olaya Herrera age 52
President - Colombia
Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno age 74
President - Costa Rica
Jan Malypetr age 59
Prime Minister - Czechoslovakia
Stenio Vincent age 59
President - Haiti
Charles Debbas age 49
President - Lebanon
Hamad I of Bahrain age 61
Hakim - Bahrain
Mir Osman Ali Khan age 47
Nizam of Hyderabad - Hyderabad State
António de Oliveira Salazar age 44
Prime Minister - Portugal
İsmet İnönü age 49
Prime Minister - Turkey
Engelbert Dollfuss age 40
Chancellor - Austria
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 39
Prime Minister - Iceland
Per Albin Hansson age 47
Prime Minister - Sweden
Richard Bedford Bennett age 63
Prime Minister - Canada
Joseph Lyons age 54
Prime Minister - Australia
Thorvald Stauning age 59
Prime Minister - Denmark
Gyula Gömbös age 46
Prime Minister - Hungary
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 41
Prime Minister - Iraq
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 47
Prime Minister - Finland
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel age 62
Prime Minister - Norway
Joseph Bech age 46
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Alejandro Lerroux age 69
Prime Minister - Spain
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod age 61
Prime Minister - Romania
Hendrikus Colijn age 64
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Phraya Phahonphonphayuhasena age 46
Prime Minister - Thailand
Peljidiin Genden age 41
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Charles de Broqueville age 72
Prime Minister - Belgium
Panagis Tsaldaris age 65
Prime Minister - Greece
Constantin Angelescu age 64
Prime Minister - Romania
Pandeli Evangjeli age 74
Prime Minister - Albania
Nikola Mushanov age 61
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
George Forbes age 64
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 48
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Adolph Bowler age 44
Prime Minister - Latvia
Josef Hoop age 37
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Ugo Pasquale Mifsud age 44
Prime Minister - Malta
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 45
Prime Minister - Tonga
Jorge Prado Ugarteche age 46
Prime Minister - Peru
Juddha Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 58
Prime Minister - Nepal
Isaac Isaacs age 78
Governor-General - Australia
Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe age 66
Governor-General - New Zealand
Léon Cayla age 51
Governor-General - Madagascar
Harry S. Truman age 49
Presiding Judge of Jackson County, Missouri
Albert Einstein age 54
Ronald Reagan age 22
Nelson Mandela age 15