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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Great Depression 1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
New Deal 1933-03-09 - 1939
1936–1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine 1936-04-19 - 1939-08-26
Spanish Civil War 1936-07-17 - 1939-04-01
Great Purge 1936-08-19 - 1938-11-17
Siege of Madrid 1936-11-08 - 1939-03-28
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Battle of Xuzhou 1937-12-01 - 1938-05-19
Battle of Teruel 1937-12-15 - 1938-02-22

People

Elvis Presley age 3
George Orwell age 34
John Paul II age 17
Margaret Thatcher age 12
Ernest Hemingway age 38
Gabriel García Márquez age 10
Fidel Castro age 11
Yuri Gagarin age 3
Mikhail Gorbachev age 6
Henry Ford age 74
Jean-Paul Sartre age 32
Jimmy Carter age 13
Benedict XVI age 10
Mother Teresa age 27
George H. W. Bush age 13
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 47
Richard Nixon age 25
Alan Turing age 25
John Maynard Keynes age 54
Simone de Beauvoir age 30
Niels Bohr age 52
Leon Trotsky age 58
Max Planck age 79
Gerald Ford age 24
Indira Gandhi age 20
Saddam Hussein age 9 months
Enrico Fermi age 36
Nikita Khrushchev age 43
14th Dalai Lama age 2
Silvio Berlusconi age 1
Herbert Hoover age 63
Mahathir Mohamad age 12
Boris Yeltsin age 7
Jacques Chirac age 5
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 19
Kwame Nkrumah age 28
Yasser Arafat age 8
Ho Chi Minh age 47
Konrad Adenauer age 62
Henry Kissinger age 14
Václav Havel age 1
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 10
Georges Pompidou age 26
Joseph Goebbels age 40
Leonid Brezhnev age 31
Robert Mugabe age 14
Chiang Kai-shek age 50
Hosni Mubarak age 9
Golda Meir age 39
John XXIII age 56
Ferdinand Marcos age 20
Malcolm X age 12
François Mitterrand age 21
Alexander Fleming age 56
David Ben-Gurion age 51
Milton Friedman age 25
Ruhollah Khomeini age 35
Valentina Tereshkova age 11 months
Pol Pot age 12
Wilhelm II age 79
Akihito age 4
Josip Broz Tito age 45
Helmut Kohl age 7
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 33
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 20
Rosa Parks age 25
Shimon Peres age 14
Sukarno age 36
John Paul I age 25
Anwar Sadat age 19
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 1 month
Paul VI age 40
Willy Brandt age 24
Dag Hammarskjöld age 32
Salvador Allende age 29
Pius XII age 62
John von Neumann age 34
Augusto Pinochet age 22
Lee Kuan Yew age 14
Suharto age 16
Ariel Sharon age 9
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 20
Desmond Tutu age 6
Manmohan Singh age 5
Yuri Andropov age 23
Buzz Aldrin age 8
Patrice Lumumba age 12
Yitzhak Rabin age 15
Rosalind Franklin age 17
Andrei Sakharov age 16
Douglas MacArthur age 58
Raúl Castro age 6
Giorgio Napolitano age 12
Idi Amin age 13
Erwin Rommel age 46
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 18
Helmut Schmidt age 19
Rachel Carson age 30
Corazon Aquino age 5
Edward VIII age 43
Madeleine Albright age 9 months
José Mujica age 2
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 13
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 61
Wernher von Braun age 25
Eva Perón age 18
Harald V of Norway age 12 months
George C. Marshall age 57
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 11 months
Enver Hoxha age 29
Martti Ahtisaari age 7 months
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 2
Konstantin Chernenko age 26
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 6
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 0 months
Jiang Zemin age 11
Zhou Enlai age 39
Eduard Shevardnadze age 10
Robert F. Kennedy age 12
Pranab Mukherjee age 2
Park Chung-hee age 20
Menachem Begin age 24
Philippe Pétain age 81
Erich Honecker age 25
Hafez al-Assad age 7
Islam Karimov age 0 months
Harold Wilson age 21
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 17
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 273
James Callaghan age 25
Pratibha Patil age 3
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 10
Eva Braun age 26
Juan Perón age 42
Heydar Aliyev age 14
Norodom Sihanouk age 15
Kim Dae-jung age 14
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 15
Aldo Moro age 21
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 31
F. W. de Klerk age 1
Ludwig Erhard age 41
Kurt Waldheim age 19
Mobutu Sese Seko age 7
Jomo Kenyatta age 44
Julius Nyerere age 15
Donald Rumsfeld age 5
Olof Palme age 11
Süleyman Demirel age 13
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 21
Joachim von Ribbentrop age 44
Jonas Salk age 23
Karl Dönitz age 46
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 4
Pierre Trudeau age 18
Fulgencio Batista age 37
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 70
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 49
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 14
Syngman Rhee age 62
U Thant age 29
George S. Patton age 52
Colin Powell age 10 months
Giulio Andreotti age 19
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 1
Hideki Tojo age 53
Alexander Dubček age 16
Francesco Cossiga age 9
İsmet İnönü age 53
Leonid Kravchuk age 4
Puyi age 32
Ahmed Ben Bella age 21
Bernard Montgomery age 50
Richard von Weizsäcker age 17
Albert Speer age 32
Albert II of Belgium age 3
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 3
Rajendra Prasad age 53
Alexander Kerensky age 56
Turgut Özal age 10
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 62
Eisaku Satō age 36
Georgy Malenkov age 36
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 16
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 18
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 32
Sergei Korolev age 31
Reinhard Heydrich age 33
Edward Heath age 21
Alfonso XIII age 51
Walter Mondale age 10
Paul Biya age 5
Lester B. Pearson age 40
Hussein I of Jordan age 2
Habib Bourguiba age 34
Claus von Stauffenberg age 30
Martin Bormann age 37
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 7
B. J. Habibie age 1
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 17