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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
Siege of Madrid 1936-11-08 - 1939-03-28
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02

People

Kálmán Darányi age 52
Geir Hallgrímsson age 12
Erik Scavenius age 61
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 43
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 24
Salim al-Huss age 8
Antanas Merkys age 51
Anton Buttigieg age 26
Luis Somoza Debayle age 16
Iuliu Maniu age 65
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod age 66
Cuthbert Sebastian age 17
Husni al-Za'im age 41
Yen Hsi-shan age 55
Sanya Dharmasakti age 31
Phraya Manopakorn Nitithada age 54
Kriangsak Chamanan age 21
Chatchai Chunhawan age 18
Arthur Foulkes age 10
Marguerite Pindling age 6
Eric Williams age 27
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 15
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 31
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 37
José Félix Estigarribia age 50
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 22
Don Stephen Senanayake age 54
Diego Martínez Barrio age 55
Edem Kodjo age 6 months
Miles Dempsey age 42
Masayoshi Ito age 25
Jim Fouché age 40
Nicolaas Diederichs age 35
Dirk Stikker age 41
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 62
James Wolfensohn age 5
Frank Carlucci age 8
Les Aspin age 4 months
Jafar Sharif-Emami age 28
Takeo Kurita age 49
Takeichi Nishi age 36
Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia age 47
Archduke Eugen of Austria age 75
Halil Kut age 56
Hal Moore age 16
Mario Roatta age 51
Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia age 43
Mitsuru Ushijima age 51
Princess Deokhye age 26
Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884–1948) age 54
Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (born 1914) age 24
Princess Clémentine of Belgium age 66
Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 54
Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife age 47
Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia age 30
Hiram Johnson age 72
Zell Miller age 6
Miriam A. Ferguson age 63
Pete Wilson age 5
Mitja Ribičič age 19
Abeid Karume age 33
Jozef Lenárt age 15
Doihara Kenji age 55
Lien Chan age 2
William H. Webster age 14
Omer Nishani age 51
Rabah Bitat age 12
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 12
William Deane age 7
Rudolf Ramek age 57
Clifford Husbands age 12
Gualberto Villarroel age 30
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 27
Atef Ebeid age 6
Johannes Vares age 48
Antti Tulenheimo age 59
Reino Kuuskoski age 31
Reino Ragnar Lehto age 40
Rafael Erich age 59
Ralf Törngren age 39
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 35
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 14
Károly Huszár age 56
Gyula Károlyi age 67
Gyula Kállai age 28
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 14
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 27
Alexander Bustamante age 54
Jan Eduard de Quay age 37
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 1
Mohamed Mzali age 12
Yukhym Zvyahilskyi age 5
Carlos Delgado Chalbaud age 29
Eusebio Ayala age 63
Santiago Casares Quiroga age 54
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda age 23
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 4
José Giral age 59
Seán Lemass age 39
Hugh Gaitskell age 32
Robert Rubin age 3 months
Bayard Rustin age 26
Lucius D. Clay age 41
Hisaichi Terauchi age 59
Vittorio Ambrosio age 59
Arthur Percival age 50
Mostafa Chamran age 6
Gonzalo Queipo de Llano age 63
Şehzade Ahmed Nihad age 55
Otto Ruge age 56
Eberhard von Mackensen age 49
Alphonse Juin age 50
Seiichi Itō age 48
Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia age 55
Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse age 42
Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia age 29
Regina von Habsburg age 13
Infanta Beatriz of Spain age 29
Lady Mountbatten age 37
James M. Cox age 68
Petar Stambolić age 26
Jan Syrový age 50
Yoshijirō Umezu age 56
Francis Biddle age 52
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 12
Edmond Leburton age 23
Jean Van Houtte age 31
Théo Lefèvre age 24
Andrey Lukanov age 2 months
Son Sann age 27
Said Mohamed Djohar age 20
Otilio Ulate Blanco age 47
Luis Alberto Monge age 12
Vlatko Pavletić age 8
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 35
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 21
Tafari Benti age 17
Leo Falcam age 3
Oskari Mantere age 64
Georgios Tsolakoglou age 52
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 43
José Azcona del Hoyo age 11
György Lázár age 14
Ferenc Nagy age 35
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 25
Carl Theodor Zahle age 72
Wim Schermerhorn age 44
Suleiman Frangieh age 28
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 0 months
Paul Xuereb age 15
Keith Holyoake age 34
Pak Song-chol age 25
Nurul Amin age 45
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 69
Kazimierz Bartel age 56
Kazimierz Sabbat age 25
Nicolás Lindley López age 30
José Pardo y Barreda age 74
Richard O'Connor age 49
Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma age 47
Douglas Hurd age 8
William Gibbs McAdoo age 75
John Shalikashvili age 2
Zaifeng, Prince Chun age 55
Otto Braun age 38
Georg-Hans Reinhardt age 51
Friedrich Hoßbach age 44
Trafford Leigh-Mallory age 46
Ian Hamilton age 85
Valentin Varennikov age 15
Wilhelm Stuckart age 36
Natalia Pavlovna Paley age 33
Thomas Blamey age 54
Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria age 60
Elias, Duke of Parma age 58
Prince Alois of Liechtenstein (1869–1955) age 69
Princess Sophie of Hohenberg age 37
Kim Song-ae age 13
Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein age 66
Sigvard Bernadotte age 31
Carl Johan Bernadotte age 22
Berthold, Margrave of Baden age 32