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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
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

Archduchess Hedwig of Austria age 42
Princess Anna of Saxony (1903–1976) age 36
Infante Alfonso, Duke of Galliera age 52
Princess Marie Alexandra of Baden age 36
Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood age 56
Carol Lambrino age 19
Magda Lupescu age 43
Hartley Shawcross age 37
Hugh Carey age 20
Preston Smith age 27
David Pryor age 4
Herman Talmadge age 25
Otis Bowen age 21
Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian age 57
Hursid Pasha
İbrahim Hakkı Pasha
Heitarō Kimura age 50
Hubert Gough age 68
Sun Yun-suan age 25
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 31
Archibald Cox age 27
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 35
Qasdi Mirbah age 1
Sayyid Ahmed Ghazali age 2
Zelman Cowen age 19
Richard Casey, Baron Casey age 48
Carlos Blanco Galindo age 57
Ivan Bagryanov age 47
Joseph Conombo age 22
Pié Masumbuko age 7
Sisowath Monireth age 29
Alfredo González Flores age 61
Ahmed Dini Ahmed age 9
Patrick John age 1
Federico Páez age 62
Aly Maher Pasha age 57
Jorge Meléndez Ramírez age 68
Jona Senilagakali age 9
Stilianos Mavromichalis age 40
Antonio Thrasybule Kébreau age 29
Franck Lavaud age 36
Franck Sylvain age 29
Smarck Michel age 2
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro age 8
Sjafruddin Prawiranegara age 28
Burhanuddin Harahap age 22
Naji Talib age 21
Husayn al-Khalidi age 44
Habib Pacha Es-Saad age 72
David D. Kpormakpor age 3
Mohieddin Fikini age 14
Walter Kieber age 8
Pierre Prüm age 52
Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland age 78
Veselin Đuranović age 14
Ahmed Balafrej age 31
Maung Maung age 14
Win Maung age 23
Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie age 45
Gordon Coates age 61
René Schick age 29
Domingos Leite Pereira age 56
Duarte Leite age 74
Henri Lopès age 1
Kennedy Simmonds age 3
Thomas Holenstein age 43
Faris al-Khoury age 61
Ata al-Ayyubi age 62
Rida al-Rikabi age 75
İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil age 31
Fiatau Penitala Teo age 27
Ionatana Ionatana age 6 months
Antoni Ponikowski age 61
Janusz Jędrzejewicz age 53
Pedro Peña age 74
Cesar Virata age 8
Wijeyananda Dahanayake age 36
Du Yuming age 34
Su Yu age 31
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby age 74
William E. Simon age 11
Nathan F. Twining age 41
Richard Kleindienst age 15
Liu Huaqing age 23
Tikka Khan age 23
Jorge Anaya age 12
Zvonimir Červenko age 12
Života Panić age 5
Lucian Truscott age 44
Toshizō Nishio age 57
Ahmad Ismail Ali age 21
Moshe Carmel age 28
Sandy Woodward age 7
Halvard Lange age 36
Tokugawa Iesato age 75
Prince Dmitri Alexandrovich of Russia age 37
Natalia Brasova age 58
Naime Sultan age 62
Şadiye Sultan age 52
Ulviye Sultan age 46
Şehzade Mehmed Abdulaziz age 37
Hanzade Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk) age 15
Shigeru Honjō age 63
Ronald Scobie age 45
Prince Karl Franz of Prussia age 22
Duke Robert of Württemberg age 66
Archduke Albrecht Franz, Duke of Teschen age 41
Franz Joseph, 9th Prince of Thurn and Taxis age 45
Karl August, 10th Prince of Thurn and Taxis age 40
Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria age 44
Princess Marie Melita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 40
Lady May Abel Smith age 33
Archduke Anton of Austria age 38
Leonida Bagration of Mukhrani age 24
Peter, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein age 17
Erling Lorentzen age 16
Guillermo Tell Villegas Pulido age 84
Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield age 22
Thomas Kean age 4
Goodwin Knight age 42
C. C. Young age 70
Claude A. Swanson age 77
Price Daniel age 28
Don Sundquist age 3
Charles Edison age 48
George Busbee age 11
James E. Ferguson age 67
Orval Faubus age 29
Brendan Byrne age 15
Jagjit Singh Aurora age 23
Mütercim Mehmed Rüşdi Pasha
Tunuslu Hayreddin Pasha
Avlonyalı Mehmed Ferid Pasha
Abe Fortas age 28
Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal age 18
Maliq Bushati age 59
Hamo Ohanjanyan age 66
Paul Hasluck age 34
Shah Azizur Rahman age 13
Chan Sy age 7
In Tam age 16
Sisowath Monipong age 26
Bartolomé Blanche age 59
Abdallah Mohamed Kamil age 3
Hussein Sirri Pasha age 47
Arturo Araujo age 61
Alfonso Quiñónez Molina age 65
Jean-Hilaire Aubame age 26
Alexandros Svolos age 47
Herbert Blaize age 21
Diarra Traoré age 4
Edward Luckhoo age 27
Émile Jonassaint age 26
Vicente Mejía Colindres age 61
Adnan Pachachi age 16
Abd ar-Razzaq an-Naif age 6
Jamil al-Midfai age 49
Tawfiq al-Suwaidi age 47
Abdelraouf al-Rawabdeh age 3 months
Apas Jumagulov age 4
Marģers Skujenieks age 52
Petro Trad age 63
Wilton G. S. Sankawulo age 1
Wanis al-Qaddafi age 14
Hussein Maziq age 20
Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi age 4 months
Alfred Hilbe age 10
Hubert Loutsch age 60
Ibrahim Muhammad Didi age 38
Dumaagiin Sodnom age 5
Mohan Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 53
Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae age 28
Yon Hyong-muk age 7
José Vicente de Freitas age 70
João Tamagnini Barbosa age 55
Allan Louisy age 22
Jules Sedney age 16
Bahij al-Khatib age 44
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm age 7
Yusuf Zuayyin age 7
Sabri al-Asali age 36
Taj al-Din al-Hasani age 54
Edward Sokoine age 9 months
John Malecela age 5
Orville Turnquest age 9
Clifford Darling age 17
Kléber Dadjo age 24
Tupua Leupena age 16
Koloa Talake age 4
Luis Giannattasio age 44
Frederick Karlomuana Timakata age 3
Artur Śliwiński age 61
Ricardo Arias Espinosa age 27
Muhammad Ali Samatar age 8
Giuliano Gozi age 44
Patrick J. Hurley age 56
Kenneth Claiborne Royall age 44
Hu Zongnan age 43
George M. Humphrey age 49
Homer Stille Cummings age 69