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Events

Treaty of Bardo 1881-05-12 - 1956-03-20
Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1922-12-29 - 1991-12-12
Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Lateran Treaty 1929-02-11 - 1985-06-03
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Battle of Petsamo 1939 - 1940-03-12
Air raids on Japan 1939-08-15 - 1945-08-15
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 Hel 1939-09-09 - 1939-10-02

People

Adolf Hitler age 50
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 60
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 57
President - United States
Hirohito age 38
Emperor - Japan
George VI age 43
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 47
Emperor - Ethiopia
Reza Shah age 61
Shah - Iran
Getúlio Vargas age 57
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 69
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 37
King - Belgium
Albert Lebrun age 68
President - France
Farouk of Egypt age 19
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Lázaro Cárdenas age 44
President - Mexico
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 16
King - Yugoslavia
Jorge Ubico age 60
President - Guatemala
Zhang Wentian age 39
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Bahij al-Khatib age 44
President - Syria
Benito Mussolini age 56
Prime Minister - Italy
Neville Chamberlain age 70
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Vyacheslav Molotov age 49
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Éamon de Valera age 56
Taoiseach - Ireland
Édouard Daladier age 55
Prime Minister - France
Władysław Sikorski age 58
Prime Minister - Poland
Jan Smuts age 69
Prime Minister - South Africa
Nobuyuki Abe age 63
Prime Minister - Japan
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 63
President - International Olympic Committee
Dragiša Cvetković age 46
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
H. H. Kung age 58
Premier - Republic of China
Joseph Avenol age 60
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Aly Maher Pasha age 57
Prime Minister - Egypt
Charles Evans Hughes age 77
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John Nance Garner age 70
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 35
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 40
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 53
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 38
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 43
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 39
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Winston Churchill age 64
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Hermann Göring age 46
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
George C. Marshall age 58
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Rudolf Hess age 45
Reichsminister - Germany
Cordell Hull age 68
Secretary of State - United States
Wilhelm Frick age 62
Reichsminister - Germany
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 52
Reichsminister - Germany
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 48
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 66
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Frank Murphy age 49
Attorney General - United States
Harry Hines Woodring age 52
Secretary of War - United States
Kingsley Wood age 58
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 46
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Malcolm MacDonald age 38
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Heinrich Himmler age 39
Chief of German Police - Germany
J. Edgar Hoover age 44
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Chiang Kai-shek age 51
Chairman - Kuomintang
Clement Attlee age 56
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Harlan F. Stone age 67
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Clark McReynolds age 77
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 46
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 48
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Zacharias Richard Mahabane age 58
President - African National Congress
Margaret Buckley age 60
President - Sinn Féin
Robert H. Jackson age 47
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Charles Edison age 49
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
J. Howard McGrath age 35
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Harry S. Truman age 55
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 61
Senate - United States
James F. Byrnes age 57
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 81
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 31
House of Representatives - United States
David Lloyd George age 76
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Eden age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stafford Cripps age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 49
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Lansbury age 80
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duff Cooper age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 21
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 70
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 44
House of Representatives - United States
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert H. Lehman age 61
Governor of New York - United States
John W. Bricker age 46
Governor of Ohio - United States
W. Lee O'Daniel age 49
Governor of Texas - United States
Culbert Olson age 62
Governor of California - United States
Leverett Saltonstall age 47
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Carl E. Bailey age 45
Governor of Arkansas - United States
James Hubert Price age 61
Governor of Virginia - United States
Herbert O'Conor age 42
Governor of Maryland - United States
A. Harry Moore age 62
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Prentice Cooper age 44
Governor of Tennessee - United States
M. Clifford Townsend age 55
Governor of Indiana - United States
Ed Rivers age 43
Governor of Georgia - United States
Christian Herter age 44
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Barber Conable age 16
New York State Senate - United States
Francisco Franco age 46
Caudillo - Spain
Pius XII age 63
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 63
King - Saudi Arabia
İsmet İnönü age 55
President - Turkey
Puyi age 33
Emperor - Manchukuo
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 59
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 67
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 81
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 69
King - Denmark
Ananda Mahidol age 14
King - Thailand
Konstantin Päts age 65
President - Estonia
Mohammed V of Morocco age 30
Sultan - Morocco
Manuel L. Quezon age 61
President - Philippines
Antanas Smetona age 65
President - Lithuania
Douglas Hyde age 79
President - Ireland
Kārlis Ulmanis age 62
President - Latvia
Kyösti Kallio age 66
President - Finland
Carol II of Romania age 45
King - Kingdom of Romania
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 43
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 40
King - Eswatini
Ignacy Mościcki age 71
President - Poland
Anastasio Somoza García age 43
President - Nicaragua
Óscar Carmona age 69
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 69
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 29
Sultan - Oman
Władysław Raczkiewicz age 54
President - Poland
Jigme Wangchuck age 34
King - Bhutan
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 56
President - El Salvador
Pedro Aguirre Cerda age 60
President - Chile
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 39
Queen - Tonga
Sisowath Monivong age 63
King - Cambodia
Roberto Marcelino Ortiz age 53
President - Argentina
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 52
Viceroy - British Raj
Tiburcio Carías age 63
President - Honduras
Edwin Barclay age 57
President - Liberia
José Félix Estigarribia age 51
President - Paraguay
Óscar R. Benavides age 63
President - Peru
Eleazar López Contreras age 56
President - Venezuela
Eduardo Santos age 51
President - Colombia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 54
Emir - Kuwait
Mwambutsa IV of Burundi age 27
Mwami - Kingdom of Burundi
Philipp Etter age 47
President - Switzerland
Alfredo Baldomir age 55
President - Uruguay
Émile Eddé age 56
President - Lebanon
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 84
Emir - Qatar
Carlos Quintanilla age 51
President - Bolivia
Khalifa bin Harub age 60
Sultan of Zanzibar - Sultanate of Zanzibar
Mutara III Rudahigwa age 28
Mwami - Kingdom of Rwanda
León Cortés Castro age 56
President - Costa Rica
Stenio Vincent age 65
President - Haiti
Hamad I of Bahrain age 67
Hakim - Bahrain
Seeiso of Basutoland age 34
King - Lesotho
Mir Osman Ali Khan age 53
Nizam of Hyderabad - Hyderabad State
António de Oliveira Salazar age 50
Prime Minister - Portugal
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 42
Prime Minister - Thailand
Ioannis Metaxas age 68
Prime Minister - Greece
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 64
Prime Minister - Canada
Robert Menzies age 44
Prime Minister - Australia
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 44
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Pál Teleki age 59
Prime Minister - Hungary
Per Albin Hansson age 53
Prime Minister - Sweden
Aimo Cajander age 60
Prime Minister - Finland
Thorvald Stauning age 65
Prime Minister - Denmark
Johan Nygaardsvold age 60
Prime Minister - Norway
Nuri as-Said age 51
Prime Minister - Iraq
Kaarel Eenpalu age 51
Prime Minister - Estonia
Hubert Pierlot age 55
Prime Minister - Belgium
Dirk Jan de Geer age 68
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Hermann Jónasson age 42
Prime Minister - Iceland
Shefqet Vërlaci age 61
Prime Minister - Albania
Michael Joseph Savage age 67
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Pierre Dupong age 54
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Georgi Kʹoseivanov age 55
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Constantin Argetoianu age 68
Prime Minister - Romania
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 47
Prime Minister - Jordan
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 54
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Josef Hoop age 43
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 51
Prime Minister - Tonga
Manuel Ugarteche age 67
Prime Minister - Peru
Juddha Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 64
Prime Minister - Nepal
Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie age 67
Governor-General - Australia
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 58
Governor-General - Madagascar