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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

Henry H. Fowler age 30
William French Smith age 21
Thomas Hinman Moorer age 27
Pixley ka Isaka Seme age 58
Ramiro Valdés Menéndez age 7
Masakazu Kawabe age 52
Robert L. Ghormley age 55
Chang Fa-kwei age 43
Heisuke Yanagawa age 59
Clarence R. Huebner age 50
Franciszek Latinik age 74
Yury Drozdov age 13
Petar Stipetić age 1
Antonio Aranda age 50
Mehmet Esat Bülkat age 76
Paul Aussaresses age 20
Irina Paley age 35
Saliha Sultan (daughter of Abdulaziz) age 76
Nazime Sultan age 73
Peyveste Hanım age 66
Müveddet Kadın age 45
Nevvare Hanım age 38
Mehisti Hanım age 47
Muhammad Abdel Moneim age 40
Dov Joseph age 40
Kōsaku Aruga age 41
Yi Bangja age 37
Yi Hae-won age 20
Yi Ku age 7
Filipp Goloshchyokin age 63
Prince Frederick of Prussia (1911–1966) age 27
Princess Elisabeth Helene of Thurn and Taxis age 35
Edward J. King age 14
John A. Volpe age 30
Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey age 62
Marvin Mandel age 19
Winfield Dunn age 11
Friend Richardson age 73
Charles Poletti age 35
Anthony Crosland age 20
Nikola Uzunović age 66
Salih Hulusi Pasha age 75
William S. Sessions age 8
Kostaq Kota age 50
Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman age 64
Salman II of Bahrain age 45
Kazi Zafar Ahmed age 4 months
Nita Barrow age 22
Yem Sambaur age 26
Chhean Vam age 23
Sim Var age 33
Sisowath Watchayavong age 47
Norodom Kantol age 18
Nhiek Tioulong age 30
Djidingar Dono Ngardoum age 11
Pedro Opaso age 62
Évariste Kimba age 12
Léonard Mulamba age 11
Osborne Riviere age 7
Andrés F. Córdova age 47
Antonio Pons age 41
Julio Enrique Moreno age 60
Mamdouh Salem age 21
Ismaʿil Sidqi age 63
Obed Dlamini age 2
Mabandla Dlamini age 8
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 27
Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre age 27
Francisco Javier Arana age 33
Daniel Fignolé age 25
Arif Abd ar-Razzaq age 18
Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali age 36
Clifford Campbell age 46
Florizel Glasspole age 29
Suleiman al-Nabulsi age 31
Adolph Bowler age 49
Pēteris Juraševskis age 67
Ayoub Tabet age 65
Amin al-Hafez age 13
Emmanuel Rakotovahiny age 9 months
Ugo Pasquale Mifsud age 49
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 53
Jack Marshall age 27
Francisco Urcuyo age 23
Lorenzo Guerrero age 38
Boukary Adji age 4 months
Francisco Cunha Leal age 50
Victor Hugo de Azevedo Coutinho age 67
Alfredo de Sá Cardoso age 75
Bernard Kolélas age 5
Milan Čič age 7
Viktor Avbelj age 25
Maamun al-Kuzbari age 25
Muhsin al-Barazi age 35
Saadallah al-Jabiri age 46
Lee Huan age 21
Tang Fei age 7
Tu'i Pelehake age 17
Baron Vaea age 18
Tahar Ben Ammar age 49
Alberto Fermín Zubiría age 37
Washington Beltrán age 25
Benito Nardone age 32
Jean-Marie Léyé age 7
Živko Radišić age 1
Luis Alberto Sánchez age 38
Fu Zuoyi age 43
Henri Navarre age 40
David F. Houston age 73
David Waddington age 9
Benjamin Civiletti age 3
Arthur W. Radford age 43
Neil H. McElroy age 34
John A. Wickham Jr. age 10
George Brown age 24
Flora MacDonald age 12
Ebrahim Hakimi age 67
Oliver P. Smith age 45
Arthur Wauchope age 65
Harold MacMichael age 57
Sōsaku Suzuki age 47
Vu Van Mau age 24
Tadeusz Kasprzycki age 48
Roy Geiger age 54
Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen age 76
Georg Bruchmüller age 75
Abane Ramdane age 18
Princess Masako Takeda age 50
Fusako Kitashirakawa age 49
Toshiko Higashikuni age 43
Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda age 30
Morihiro Higashikuni age 22
Anastasia de Torby age 46
Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia age 36
Prince Andrew Romanoff age 16
Dilfirib Kadın age 49
Zekiye Sultan age 68
Şehzade Mehmed Burhaneddin (son of Abdul Hamid II) age 53
Şehsuvar Hanım age 58
Gevheri Sultan age 34
Fritz Bronsart von Schellendorf age 74
Heinrich Schnee age 68
Ma Zhanshan age 53
Leslie Morshead age 49
Charles Noguès age 62
Tadeusz Pełczyński age 47
Wang Jiaxiang age 32
Alexander Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse age 76
Prince Alexander Ferdinand of Prussia age 26
Archduke Hubert Salvator of Austria age 45
Yuk Young-soo age 13
Infante Álvaro, Duke of Galliera age 29
Kraft, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 3
Marion Stein age 12
John J. Gilligan age 18
Frank Merriam age 73
Malcolm Wilson age 25
William Stephens age 79
Harry Hughes age 12
Frank Lausche age 43
John Strachey (politician) age 37
George Brown, Baron George-Brown age 24
Lauris Norstad age 32
Paul Legentilhomme age 55
Bill McKell age 47
Firuz Mustafayev age 5
Grantley Herbert Adams age 41
Pierre Ngendandumwe age 9
Sisowath Youtevong age 26
Oum Cheang Sun age 38
Hang Thun Hak age 14
Henri Maïdou age 3
Mohamed Ahmed age 21
Ahmed Abdou age 3
Mahmoud Fawzi age 38
Aziz Sedki age 18
Makhosini Dlamini age 25
Abebe Aregai age 35
Ben Jones age 14
José María Reyna Andrade age 78
Luis Arturo González López age 38
Wilopo age 29
Hikmat Sulayman age 50
Ahmad Mukhtar Baban age 39
Hamdi Pachachi age 53
Hazza' al-Majali age 20
Andrei Iordan age 4
Voldemārs Zāmuēls age 67
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
Manuel Maria Coelho age 82