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Events

Prohibition in the United States 1920-01-17 - 1933-12-05
Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
First five-year plan (Soviet Union) 1928-10-01 - 1932-12-31
Great Depression 1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
Dust Bowl 1930 - 1936
Encirclement Campaigns 1930-11-01 - 1934-10-10

People

Daniel Chanis Pinzón age 38
Tore Lokoloko age 10 months
Jure Pelivan age 2
José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma age 46
Armando Villanueva age 15
Manuel Cisneros Sánchez age 26
Manuel Ulloa Elias age 8
Pedro Richter Prada age 10
Sandro Mariátegui age 9
Aurelius Marie age 26
George Decker age 29
Harold Keith Johnson age 19
John William Vessey Jr. age 9
Tomás Mac Giolla age 7
Munif Razzaz age 11
Jassem Alwan age 3
Han Fuju age 41
Takaji Wachi age 38
Kōtoku Satō age 38
Hugo von Kathen age 76
Philip Effiong age 5
Robert Brooke-Popham age 52
Charles Macpherson Dobell age 62
Hunter Liggett age 74
Georg Fuchs age 74
Eduard von Below age 74
Edward Chaytor age 63
Georgi Vazov age 71
Victor d'Urbal age 72
Francisco de Borbón y de la Torre age 49
Harbaksh Singh age 17
Colonel Amirouche age 4
Ernesto Horacio Crespo age 1
Ayako Sano age 18
Toshimichi Takatsukasa age 7
Şehzade Abdurrahim Hayri age 37
Gevherriz Hanım age 69
Şehzade Ibrahim Tevfik age 56
Mukbile Sultan age 19
Nemika Sultan age 43
Senije Zogu age 27
Luis Barceló age 34
Francisco Galán age 29
Jirō Tamon age 52
Walter Koch age 20
Masaomi Yasuoka age 45
Abdullah Al-Tell age 13
Han Xianchu age 18
Keizō Komura age 35
Julia Mullock age 8
Chang Ya-juo age 18
Duke Carl Alexander of Württemberg age 35
Prince Karl Alfred of Liechtenstein age 21
Archduchess Ilona of Austria age 4
Prince Otto of Windisch-Graetz age 57
Alexander Ramsay (Royal Navy officer) age 50
Richard Brandram age 20
Prince Heinrich of Hesse-Kassel age 3
Prince Karl of Leiningen age 3
Flora Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun age 10 months
Emmanuelle de Dampierre age 17
Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince of Civitella-Cesi age 19
Edelmira, Countess of Covadonga age 25
Homer Martin Adkins age 40
Benjamin T. Laney age 34
Tom Terral age 48
Francis Sargent age 16
Robert F. Bradford age 28
John S. Battle age 41
Junius Marion Futrell age 61
Charles F. Hurley age 37
Paul A. Dever age 28
George Washington Donaghey age 75
Michael DiSalle age 23
Horace White age 65
William M. Tuck age 34
Henry Carter Stuart age 76
Richard J. Hughes age 22
Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton age 48
Emerson Harrington age 67
John I. Cox age 75
William Donald Schaefer age 9
Albertis Harrison age 24
Robert D. Orr age 13
Buford Ellington age 24
Martin L. Davey age 47
Ernest Brown age 50
Ronald McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun age 70
Lawrence Walsh age 19
Alfred Gruenther age 32
John Galvin age 2
José Bordas Valdés age 57
Abdel Fattah Yahya Ibrahim Pasha age 55
Kamal el-Din Hussein age 10
Imru Haile Selassie age 38
Assaat age 26
Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi age 45
Naji al-Suwaidi age 49
Abdul-Wahab Mirjan age 22
Herbert Duffus age 22
Hussein ibn Nasser age 28
Angidi Chettiar age 3
Lazar Mijušković age 63
Ba Swe age 15
Carlos Alberto Brenes age 46
Sebastián Uriza age 70
Orlando Montenegro Medrano age 11
George Charles age 15
Miha Marinko age 30
Julius Caesar de Miranda age 25
Wang Zhengting age 49
John Warburton Paul age 15
İbrahim Şevki Atasagun age 32
Elijah Mudenda age 4
Ermenegildo Gasperoni age 25
Fernando Schwalb López Aldana age 14
Óscar Vargas Prieto age 14
Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín age 11
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 33
Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham age 62
David D. Newsom age 13
James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope age 50
William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford age 66
Seiichi Kita age 44
Marcello Soleri age 49
John Ernest Dahlquist age 35
Fred Gray age 8 months
Rolando Morán age 1
Edward P. King age 47
Oscar Griswold age 44
Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt, 1st Baronet age 61
Geoffrey Scoones age 38
Robert Lee Bullard age 70
Juan Lombardo age 4
Arun Shridhar Vaidya age 5
Princess Catherine Ivanovna of Russia age 16
Şehzade Ahmed Nureddin (son of Abdul Hamid II) age 30
Şehzade Mehmed Ertuğrul age 18
Remzşinas Hanım age 67
Şehzade Mehmed Şerafeddin age 27
Şehzade Mehmed Nizameddin age 22
Şehzade Mahmud Namık age 17
Lütfiye Sultan age 21
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Abdülkadir) age 5
Hümeyra Hanımsultan age 14
Liu Yalou age 21
Habis al-Majali age 17
Zaitao age 44
Zaixun, Prince Rui age 46
Wilhelm Karl Prinz von Preussen age 9
Princess Herzeleide of Prussia age 12
Heinrich XXXIII, Prince Reuss of Köstritz age 52
Prince Heinrich of Liechtenstein (1920–1993) age 10
Archduchess Yolande of Austria age 8
Prince Ataúlfo of Orléans age 17
Alexander Ramsay of Mar age 11
Henry Abel Smith age 31
Princess Ortrud of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg age 5
Patricia Lascelles, Countess of Harewood age 4
John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne age 6
Fermín Palacios
Bob C. Riley age 6
Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton age 48
Harry L. Davis age 53
Frank O'Bannon age 1
William Kavanaugh Oldham age 66
Emmett Forest Branch age 57
William Preston Lane Jr. age 39
Charles Seymour Whitman age 62
Nathan L. Miller age 62
William Nelson Runyon age 60
Alfred A. Taylor age 83
Paul V. McNutt age 40
John Isaac Moore age 75
Edward L. Jackson age 57
James P. Goodrich age 67
Harold G. Hoffman age 35
Matthew E. Welsh age 18
Roger D. Branigin age 29
David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford age 59
Geoffrey Rippon age 7
Charles H. Allen age 83
Donald Maclean age 67
Hastings Lees-Smith age 53
Andrew Goodpaster age 16
Pierre de Chevigné age 22
Albin Nyamoya age 7
Léopold Biha age 12
Bernard Ayandho age 8 months
Emilio Núñez Portuondo age 32
Yahya Ibrahim Pasha age 70
Jorge Toriello Garrido age 23
Salvador Aguirre age 69
Mustafa Mahmud al-Umari age 37
Martial Merlin age 71
Jamtsangiin Damdinsüren age 33
Nyamyn Jagvaral age 12
Tsagaanlamyn Dügersüren age 17
Marko Orlandić age 10 months
Benjamín Lacayo Sacasa age 38