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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Great Depression 1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
1936–1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine 1936-04-19 - 1939-08-26
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Battles of Khalkhin Gol 1939-05-11 - 1939-09-16

People

Shafik Wazzan age 14
Takieddin el-Solh age 31
Seeiso of Basutoland age 34
Gustav Schädler age 55
Léon Kauffman age 69
Abdoulaye Sékou Sow age 8
Yoro Diakité age 6
Mitar Martinović age 68
David Beattie age 15
Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes age 66
Juan José Estrada Morales age 67
Vitorino Guimarães age 62
Winston Cenac age 13
Monica Dacon age 4
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 14
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 17
Janez Stanovnik age 16
Jamil al-Elshi age 56
Mahmoud Zuabi age 4
Abdul Rahman Khleifawi age 12
Gerald Cash age 21
Milo Butler age 32
Tulaga Manuella age 2
Stanisław Mackiewicz age 42
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 51
Domingo Díaz Arosemena age 63
Vincent Eri age 2
Hyun Soong-jong age 20
Eugene Koffi Adoboli age 4
Shlomo Shamir age 23
Edward Almond age 46
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 27
Barber Conable age 16
Lewis Thompson Preston age 12
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford age 33
Christopher Soames age 18
Gordon R. Sullivan age 1
George Scratchley Brown age 20
John Wesley Snyder age 43
J. R. Clynes age 70
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 79
Robert Carr age 22
Peyton C. March age 74
Naoki Hoshino age 47
José Domingo Molina Gómez age 42
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 30
Fazlul Haque age 10 months
Ieu Koeus age 34
Huy Kanthoul age 30
Leng Ngeth age 39
Gonzalo Güell age 44
Félix Lancís Sánchez age 38
Pedro Bartolomé Benoit age 18
Ibrahim Abdel Hadi Pasha age 43
Muhammad Sedki Sulayman age 20
Silvestre Siale Bileka age 4 months
Maphevu Dlamini age 17
Óscar Mendoza Azurdia age 21
Guillermo Flores Avendaño age 44
Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum age 12
Muzahim Pachachi age 48
Sayyid Salih Jabr age 43
Mohsen Abdel Hamid age 2
Kenneth Blackburne age 31
Abdelmunim al-Rifai age 22
Ahmad Toukan age 35
Ahmad Lawzi age 14
Alexander Frick age 29
Mamadou Dembelé age 5
Puntsagiin Jasrai age 5
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 43
Andrija Radović age 67
Radoje Kontić age 1
José Domingues dos Santos age 52
António Ginestal Machado age 65
Charles David Ganao age 11
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 22
Charles Antrobus age 6
Peter Colotka age 14
Raul Bragança Neto age 0 months
Yu Kuo-hwa age 25
Carlos Fischer age 36
Martín Echegoyen age 48
Daniel Fernández Crespo age 38
Eduardo Víctor Haedo age 37
Huynh Thuc Khang age 63
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini age 6
Daniel Lisulo age 8
Muhammad Hawadle Madar age 4 months
Ro Jai-bong age 3
Pak Choong-hoon age 20
Javier Valle Riestra age 7
Alden W. Clausen age 16
Peter de la Billière age 5
Edward H. Levi age 27
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 39
Gwilym Lloyd George age 44
Bruce Palmer Jr. age 26
Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham age 67
Brendan Bracken age 38
Anthony Barber age 18
Bernard W. Rogers age 17
David C. Jones age 17
Peter Thorneycroft age 29
William D. Mitchell age 64
William J. Crowe age 14
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan age 68
James P. McGranery age 43
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 71
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 4
Merlyn Rees age 18
Clarence M. Kelley age 27
Prince Shah Mahmud Khan of Afghanistan age 51
Mohammad Yusuf age 22
Fazal khaliq age 5
John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven age 65
John Montague Stow age 27
Lhendup Dorji age 3
André Muhirwa age 19
Joseph Bamina age 14
Khim Tit age 42
Ek Yi Oun age 29
Chan Nak age 47
Sak Sutsakhan age 11
Édouard Frank age 5
Timothée Malendoma age 4
Pedro Dartnell age 65
Carlos Saladrigas Zayas age 38
Ramón Zaydín age 44
Hassan Sabry Pasha age 64
Ahmad Najib al-Hilali age 47
Makonnen Endelkachew age 49
Manuel María Orellana Contreras age 68
Naji Shawkat age 46
Edward Zacca age 7
Kassim al-Rimawi age 21
Mohammad Daoud al-Abbasi age 26
Nazem Akkari age 37
Nathaniel Griffith Lerotholi age 66
Guy Razanamasy age 10
Ahmed Ould Bouceif age 5
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 57
Jovan Plamenac age 66
Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet age 74
Leonardo Argüello Barreto age 63
Ksente Bogoev age 19
Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan age 50
Liberato Pinto age 58
Tupua Tamasese Lealofi IV age 17
Johan Adolf Pengel age 23
Izzat al-Nuss age 27
Haqqi al-Azm age 74
Lutfi al-Haffar age 51
Weng Wenhao age 49
Yu Hung-chun age 41
Arturo Lezama age 40
Faustino Harrison age 39
Mainza Chona age 9
John Guise age 24
Kingsford Dibela age 7
Glauco Sansovini age 1
Efraín Goldenberg age 9
Pedro Beltrán age 42
Wei Lihuang age 42
George David Woods age 37
Frank Polk age 67
Charles Pelot Summerall age 72
Edward C. Meyer age 10
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 57
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk age 33
Earle Wheeler age 31
David E. Jeremiah age 5
Hardan al-Tikriti age 14
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet age 63
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 10
Kenneth Rush age 29
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial age 59
Sargis Hаmbardzumyan age 69
Pho Proeung age 35
Sam Yun age 34
Salomon Tandeng Muna age 27
Charles Assalé age 27
Emilio Bello Codesido age 70
Manuel Antonio de Varona age 30
Jorge García Montes age 42
Raúl López del Castillo age 46
Edward Oliver LeBlanc age 15
Ahmad Ziwar age 75
Abd El Aziz Muhammad Hegazi age 16
Sishayi Nxumalo age 3
Mikael Imru age 9
Charles Arden-Clarke age 40
Susanto Tirtoprodjo age 39
Mohammed al-Sadr age 57
Nureddin Mahmud age 40
Arshad al-Umari age 51
Gabasheane Masupha age 35
Vidoje Žarković age 11
Blažo Jovanović age 32
José Ramos Preto age 68