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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Great Depression 1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
Soviet–Japanese border conflicts 1932-03-01 - 1939-09-16
New Deal 1933-03-09 - 1939
1936–1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine 1936-04-19 - 1939-08-26
Spanish Civil War 1936-07-17 - 1939-04-01
Great Purge 1936-08-19 - 1938-11-17
Siege of Madrid 1936-11-08 - 1939-03-28
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Battle of Xuzhou 1937-12-01 - 1938-05-19
Levante Offensive 1938-04-23 - 1938-07-24

People

Mario Roatta age 51
Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia age 42
Mitsuru Ushijima age 50
Princess Deokhye age 25
Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884–1948) age 53
Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (born 1914) age 24
Princess Clémentine of Belgium age 65
Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 54
Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife age 47
Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia age 29
Hiram Johnson age 71
Zell Miller age 6
Miriam A. Ferguson age 62
Pete Wilson age 4
Mitja Ribičič age 18
Abeid Karume age 32
Doihara Kenji age 54
Lien Chan age 1
William H. Webster age 14
Omer Nishani age 51
Rabah Bitat age 12
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 11
William Deane age 7
Rudolf Ramek age 57
Clifford Husbands age 11
Gualberto Villarroel age 29
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 27
Atef Ebeid age 6
Johannes Vares age 48
Antti Tulenheimo age 58
Reino Kuuskoski age 31
Reino Ragnar Lehto age 40
Rafael Erich age 58
Ralf Törngren age 39
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 35
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 14
Károly Huszár age 55
Gyula Károlyi age 67
Béla Imrédy age 46
Gyula Kállai age 27
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 13
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 27
Alexander Bustamante age 54
Jan Eduard de Quay age 36
Rashid Karami age 16
Riad Al Solh age 45
Richard Ratsimandrava age 7
Abdellatif Filali age 10
Jens Hundseid age 55
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 52
Ilie Verdeț age 13
Vladimir Kokovtsov age 85
Giuseppe Motta age 66
Pote Sarasin age 33
Lynden Pindling age 8
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 5 months
Mohamed Mzali age 12
Yukhym Zvyahilskyi age 5
Carlos Delgado Chalbaud age 29
Eusebio Ayala age 62
Santiago Casares Quiroga age 54
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda age 22
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 4
José Giral age 58
Seán Lemass age 38
Hugh Gaitskell age 32
Bayard Rustin age 26
Lucius D. Clay age 41
Hisaichi Terauchi age 58
Vittorio Ambrosio age 58
Arthur Percival age 50
Mostafa Chamran age 5
Gonzalo Queipo de Llano age 63
Şehzade Ahmed Nihad age 54
Otto Ruge age 56
Eberhard von Mackensen age 48
Alphonse Juin age 49
Seiichi Itō age 47
Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia age 54
Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse age 41
Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia age 29
Regina von Habsburg age 13
Infanta Beatriz of Spain age 28
Lady Mountbatten age 36
James M. Cox age 68
Petar Stambolić age 25
Yoshijirō Umezu age 56
Francis Biddle age 52
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 11
Edmond Leburton age 23
Jean Van Houtte age 31
Théo Lefèvre age 24
Son Sann age 26
Eduardo Santos age 49
Said Mohamed Djohar age 19
Otilio Ulate Blanco age 46
Luis Alberto Monge age 12
Vlatko Pavletić age 7
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 34
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 20
Tafari Benti age 16
Leo Falcam age 2
Oskari Mantere age 63
Georgios Tsolakoglou age 52
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 42
José Azcona del Hoyo age 11
György Lázár age 13
Ferenc Nagy age 34
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 25
Carl Theodor Zahle age 72
Wim Schermerhorn age 43
Suleiman Frangieh age 27
Paul Xuereb age 14
Keith Holyoake age 34
Pak Song-chol age 24
Nurul Amin age 44
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani age 18
John Compton age 13
Henck Arron age 2
Nazim al-Kudsi age 32
Cornelius A. Smith age 1
Bülent Ulusu age 15
Yusuf Lule age 26
Juan Bautista Pérez age 68
Kazimierz Bartel age 56
Kazimierz Sabbat age 25
Nicolás Lindley López age 29
José Pardo y Barreda age 74
Richard O'Connor age 48
Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma age 46
Douglas Hurd age 8
John Shalikashvili age 1
Zaifeng, Prince Chun age 55
Otto Braun age 37
Georg-Hans Reinhardt age 51
Friedrich Hoßbach age 43
Trafford Leigh-Mallory age 45
Ian Hamilton age 85
Valentin Varennikov age 14
Wilhelm Stuckart age 35
Natalia Pavlovna Paley age 32
Thomas Blamey age 54
Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria age 59
Elias, Duke of Parma age 57
Prince Alois of Liechtenstein (1869–1955) age 68
Princess Sophie of Hohenberg age 36
Kim Song-ae age 13
Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein age 65
Sigvard Bernadotte age 30
Carl Johan Bernadotte age 21
Berthold, Margrave of Baden age 32
Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg age 3
George Deukmejian age 9
Ivan Šubašić age 46
François Georges-Picot age 67
He Yingqin age 48
Otto Rasch age 46
Shefqet Vërlaci age 60
Abderrahmane Farès age 27
John Kerr age 23
Otto Ender age 62
Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad age 20
Henri Carton de Wiart age 69
Wálter Guevara age 26
David Padilla age 10
Enrique Peñaranda age 44
Enrique Hertzog age 40
Guido Vildoso age 1
Juan Antonio Rios age 49
José Joaquín Trejos Fernández age 22
Josip Manolić age 18
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 58
Aman Andom age 13
Tengiz Sigua age 3
Adamantios Androutsopoulos age 18
Sofoklis Venizelos age 43
Konstantinos Tsaldaris age 54
Martial Célestin age 24
Ramón Villeda Morales age 28
Carlos Roberto Reina age 12
Gyula Peidl age 65
Móric Esterházy age 57
Mohammad Natsir age 29
Abdelsalam al-Majali age 13
Knud Kristensen age 57
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal age 61
Jo Cals age 23
Elias Sarkis age 13
Jonas Staugaitis age 70
Eulalio Gutiérrez age 57
Tulsi Giri age 11
Catherine Tizard age 7
Kim Il age 28
Manuel Teixeira Gomes age 77
Alfredo Nobre da Costa age 14
Henk Chin A Sen age 4
Luai al-Atassi age 12
Chawalit Yongchaiyut age 5
Basdeo Panday age 4
Recep Peker age 49