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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

Sylvestre Nsanzimana age 3
Paul Southwell age 25
Lee Moore age 3 months
Pretaap Radhakishun age 4
Husni al-Barazi age 44
Hassan al-Hakim age 53
Bashir al-Azma age 28
Wang Yun-wu age 50
Roland Theodore Symonette age 40
Paul Adderley age 10
Henry Milton Taylor age 35
Tekin Arıburun age 33
Muhammad Said al-Attar age 12
Faraj Said Bin Ghanem age 1
Nalumino Mundia age 11
Daniel Chanis Pinzón age 46
Tore Lokoloko age 8
Jure Pelivan age 10
José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma age 54
Armando Villanueva age 23
Manuel Cisneros Sánchez age 34
Manuel Ulloa Elias age 16
Pedro Richter Prada age 18
Sandro Mariátegui age 17
Aurelius Marie age 34
Frank G. Wisner age 10 months
George Decker age 37
Carl E. Vuono age 4
Harold Keith Johnson age 27
John William Vessey Jr. age 16
Said Ali Kemal age 1
José Bordas Valdés age 64
Abdel Fattah Yahya Ibrahim Pasha age 63
Kamal el-Din Hussein age 18
Imru Haile Selassie age 46
Assaat age 34
Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi age 53
Naji al-Suwaidi age 57
Abdul-Wahab Mirjan age 30
Herbert Duffus age 30
Hussein ibn Nasser age 36
Angidi Chettiar age 11
Ba Swe age 23
Carlos Alberto Brenes age 54
Sebastián Uriza age 78
Orlando Montenegro Medrano age 19
George Charles age 22
Miha Marinko age 38
Julius Caesar de Miranda age 33
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi age 7
Wang Zhengting age 57
John Warburton Paul age 23
İbrahim Şevki Atasagun age 40
Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani age 4
Elijah Mudenda age 11
Božidar Matić age 1
Ermenegildo Gasperoni age 32
Fernando Schwalb López Aldana age 22
Óscar Vargas Prieto age 21
Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín age 19
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 41
Michel Roquejeoffre age 5
Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham age 70
David D. Newsom age 21
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 62
Michael Armacost age 2
Albin Nyamoya age 14
Léopold Biha age 20
Joseph Cimpaye age 7
Bernard Ayandho age 8
Emilio Núñez Portuondo age 40
Jorge Toriello Garrido age 31
Salvador Aguirre age 76
Mustafa Mahmud al-Umari age 45
Raouf Bundhun age 2
Losolyn Laagan age 52
Nyamyn Jagvaral age 20
Tsagaanlamyn Dügersüren age 25
Radivoje Brajović age 4
Marko Orlandić age 8
Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe age 71
Benjamín Lacayo Sacasa age 45
Rosendo Chamorro age 77
Yeoh Ghim Seng age 20
Štefan Sádovský age 10
Wim Udenhout age 1
Nur al-Din Kahala age 29
Sami al-Jundi age 17
Solomone Ula Ata age 56
Dennis Young age 3
Mariano Holguín age 79
Carlos Moreyra y Paz Soldán age 40
Rodolfo Llopis age 44
Arleigh Winston Scott age 39
George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe age 21
Frank Soskice age 36
Jim Griffiths age 48
John L. Hines age 71
Livingston T. Merchant age 35
Jo Ann Robinson age 27
Carlos Lemos Simmonds age 5
Salim Ben Ali age 21
Francisco Bueso age 79
Ahmad Salim uld Sidi age 4 months
Hugh Watt age 27
Jacques Opangault age 31
Archibald Currie age 51
Severinus Desiré Emanuels age 29
Hsu Ching-chung age 31
Luigi Lonfernini age 8 months
Giuseppe Amici age 4 months
Luis Pércovich Roca age 7
Raúl Ferrero Rebagliati age 27
Luis Gallo Porras age 44
Frederick M. Franks Jr. age 2
Gary E. Luck age 1
Francis Butler Loomis age 77
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 36
Richard N. Cooper age 4
Walter J. Stoessel Jr. age 19
James Chuter Ede age 56
Miloš Trifunović age 67
Horacio Liendo age 14
Said Ibrahim Ben Ali age 28
Branislav Šoškić age 16
Filip Bajković age 29
Žarko Bulajić age 16
Đorđije Pajković age 21
Mohammed bin Jassim Al Thani age 58
Augustin Poignet age 11
Jan Buiskool age 39
Paek Nak-chun age 44
Ubaldo Biordi age 1
Gian Luigi Berti age 9
Ernesto Montagne Sánchez age 22
Jorge Fernández-Maldonado age 16
Edgardo Seoane age 36
Guillermo Larco Cox age 7
Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow age 49
H. Freeman Matthews age 40
Vincent de Paul Ahanda age 20
Abraham Schrameck age 71
Milo Matanović age 69
Momčilo Cemović age 11
Jacques Drielsma age 52
Adriaan Alberga age 52
Gwak Sanghun age 42
Peter Gatkuoth age 1
Giuseppe Maiani age 14
Guillermo Arbulú Galliani age 18
Julio Óscar Trelles Montes age 34
Luis A. Flores age 39
Walter E. Boomer age 8 months
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 35
Vuko Vukadinović age 1
Arthur May age 35
Joseph James Tombura age 9
Carlo Franciosi age 4
Roque A. Saldías age 47
Óscar de la Puente Raygada age 7 months
Punch Coomaraswamy age 14
Umberto Barulli age 18
Grigory Semyonov age 48
Kim Il-sung age 27
Lee Yuan-tsu age 15
Sandra Day O'Connor age 9
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 35
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 13
Fernando de la Rúa age 1
Kazi Zafar Ahmed age 4 months
Waldo Bernal Pereira age 8
Óscar Pammo Rodríguez age 5
José Joaquín Trejos Fernández age 23
Hailu Yimenu age 4
Mekonnen Endalkachew age 10
Constantino Teixeira age 5
Morarji Desai age 43
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 14
Lal Bahadur Shastri age 34
H. D. Deve Gowda age 6
Auguste Brunet age 61
Léon Cayla age 57
Marcel Olivier age 59
Robert Boudry age 46
Hugues Jean Berthier age 70
Miguel de la Madrid age 4
Mirko M. Mijušković age 63
Mijuško Šibalić age 24
Fatmi Benslimane age 41
Julián Irías Sandres age 59
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa age 27
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 24
Manuel Maria Coelho age 82
Augusto de Vasconcelos age 71
France Popit age 17
Maamun al-Kuzbari age 25
Muhammad Ali al-Halabi age 2
Pote Sarasin age 34
Nihat Erim age 27
Saulo Musoke age 19