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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

Bruce Palmer Jr. age 26
Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham age 67
Anthony Barber age 18
Bernard W. Rogers age 17
David C. Jones age 17
William D. Mitchell age 64
William J. Crowe age 14
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan age 68
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 71
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 4
Merlyn Rees age 18
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 46
James Moroka age 48
Ernest Medina age 2
Yang Dezhi age 28
Gholam Hossein Sadighi age 33
William Hawi age 30
Sanji Iwabuchi age 44
Danilo Kalafatović age 63
Nguyễn Hữu An age 12
Chūichi Hara age 50
Denis Auguste Duchêne age 76
Rex Hunt age 12
Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri age 30
José Solchaga age 57
Zhang Zizhong age 47
Shimon Avidan age 28
Princess Catherine Yurievskaya age 60
Audrey Emery age 35
Prince Vsevolod Ivanovich of Russia age 25
Şehzade Ahmed Nuri age 60
Emsalinur Kadın age 73
Sazkar Hanım age 66
Naciye Sultan age 42
Behiye Sultan age 57
Prince Nayef bin Abdullah age 24
Marcel Carpentier age 44
Robert Laycock age 32
Tomitarō Horii age 48
Yi Kang age 62
Princess Cecilie of Prussia age 21
Princess Henriette of Schönaich-Carolath age 20
George, Duke of Mecklenburg age 39
Lady Iris Mountbatten age 19
Zizi Lambrino age 40
Karl, Prince of Leiningen (1898–1946) age 41
Hans Albrecht, Hereditary Prince of Schleswig-Holstein age 22
John Ambler age 14
Frank D. White age 5
George White (Ohio politician) age 66
James V. Allred age 40
William P. Hobby age 61
Coke R. Stevenson age 51
J. Lindsay Almond age 40
Beauford H. Jester age 46
Dick Celeste age 1
Maurice J. Tobin age 38
Mills Godwin age 24
Ross S. Sterling age 64
Dan Moody age 45
Oscar Branch Colquitt age 77
Sid McMath age 26
Carl Sanders age 14
Joe Frank Harris age 3
Božidar Purić age 48
Laz Ahmed Pasha
İbrahim Sarim Pasha
Beekman Winthrop age 64
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 Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk age 33
Earle Wheeler age 31
David E. Jeremiah age 5
Hardan al-Tikriti age 14
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 10
Kenneth Rush age 29
Jo Grimond age 25
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 6
Phoumi Nosavan age 19
Xu Shiyou age 34
James Bevel age 2
Ye Fei age 25
Zhang Zhen age 24
Tang Shengzhi age 49
William H. P. Blandy age 48
Yury Lomonosov age 63
Milutin Kukanjac age 4
Brian Robertson, 1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge age 42
Basilio Lami Dozo age 10
John Fieldhouse, Baron Fieldhouse age 11
Edward Bulfin age 76
Ngo Quang Truong age 9
Guglielmo Pecori Giraldi age 83
Sadae Inoue age 52
Kunio Nakagawa age 41
Carlos Asensio Cabanillas age 42
Nguyen Van Toan age 6
Avigdor Ben-Gal age 3
Aylmer Hunter-Weston age 74
Amir Drori age 1
Julian Thompson age 4
Jeremy Moore age 10
Teymuraz Bagration age 26
Irina Yusupova age 24
Prince Michael Feodorovich of Russia age 15
Filizten Hanım age 74
Münire Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Kemaleddin) age 59
Mihrişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Izzeddin) age 22
Deng Hua age 29
Kristian Laake age 64
Friedrich Wiese age 46
Joseph J. Clark age 45
Frederick C. Sherman age 51
Yi Geon age 29
Kuzma Derevyanko age 34
Lu Muzhen age 71
Mao Fumei age 56
Prince Joachim Albert of Prussia age 62
Prince Friedrich Heinrich Albrecht of Prussia age 65
Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg age 40
Archduchess Mechthildis of Austria age 48
Princess Rosemary of Salm-Salm age 35
Princess Franziska of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst age 41
Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg age 17
Charles Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk age 45
Fernando Schwartz age 1
Channing H. Cox age 59
Eugene Foss age 80
Alvan T. Fuller age 61
Francis Cherry age 30
C. William O'Neill age 23
Thomas J. Herbert age 44
Endicott Peabody age 19
Westmoreland Davis age 79
Vic Donahey age 65
Jim Rhodes age 29
E. Lee Trinkle age 63
John N. Dalton age 7
George C. Peery age 65
Pat Morris Neff age 67
John William Brown age 25
Auckland Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes age 59
William Sulzer age 76
Colgate Darden age 42
Ned McWherter age 8