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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
Levante Offensive 1938-04-23 - 1938-07-24

People

Ferdinand Marcos age 20
Malcolm X age 13
François Mitterrand age 21
Alexander Fleming age 56
David Ben-Gurion age 51
Milton Friedman age 25
Ruhollah Khomeini age 35
Valentina Tereshkova age 1
Pol Pot age 13
Wilhelm II age 79
Akihito age 4
Josip Broz Tito age 46
Helmut Kohl age 8
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 34
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 20
Rosa Parks age 25
Shimon Peres age 14
Sukarno age 37
John Paul I age 25
Anwar Sadat age 19
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 5 months
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 17
Ariel Sharon age 10
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 16
Rosalind Franklin age 17
Andrei Sakharov age 17
Douglas MacArthur age 58
Raúl Castro age 7
Giorgio Napolitano age 12
Idi Amin age 13
Erwin Rommel age 46
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 18
Helmut Schmidt age 19
Rachel Carson age 31
Corazon Aquino age 5
Edward VIII age 43
Madeleine Albright age 1
José Mujica age 3
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 13
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 61
Wernher von Braun age 26
Eva Perón age 19
Harald V of Norway age 1
George C. Marshall age 57
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 1
Enver Hoxha age 29
Martti Ahtisaari age 11 months
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 2
Konstantin Chernenko age 26
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 6
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 4 months
Jiang Zemin age 11
Zhou Enlai age 40
Eduard Shevardnadze age 10
Robert F. Kennedy age 12
Pranab Mukherjee age 2
Park Chung-hee age 20
Anthony Eden age 41
Menachem Begin age 24
Philippe Pétain age 82
Erich Honecker age 25
Hafez al-Assad age 7
Harold Macmillan age 44
Islam Karimov age 4 months
Harold Wilson age 22
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 18
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 273
James Callaghan age 26
Pratibha Patil age 3
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 10
Eva Braun age 26
Juan Perón age 42
Heydar Aliyev age 15
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 2
Ludwig Erhard age 41
Kurt Waldheim age 19
Mobutu Sese Seko age 7
Jomo Kenyatta age 44
Julius Nyerere age 16
Donald Rumsfeld age 5
Olof Palme age 11
Süleyman Demirel age 13
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 22
Joachim von Ribbentrop age 45
Jonas Salk age 23
Karl Dönitz age 46
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 5
Pierre Trudeau age 18
Fulgencio Batista age 37
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 71
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 49
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 14
Syngman Rhee age 63
U Thant age 29
George S. Patton age 52
Colin Powell age 1
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 18
Albert Speer age 33
Albert II of Belgium age 4
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 3
Rajendra Prasad age 53
Alexander Kerensky age 57
Turgut Özal age 10
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 62
Eisaku Satō age 37
Georgy Malenkov age 36
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 17
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 18
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 32
Sergei Korolev age 31
Reinhard Heydrich age 34
Edward Heath age 21
Alfonso XIII age 52
Walter Mondale age 10
Paul Biya age 5
Lester B. Pearson age 41
Hussein I of Jordan age 2
Habib Bourguiba age 34
Claus von Stauffenberg age 30
Martin Bormann age 38
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 7
B. J. Habibie age 1
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 17
Hastings Banda age 48
Moshe Dayan age 23
Trygve Lie age 41
Stanley Baldwin age 70
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 8
Johannes Rau age 7
Yasuo Fukuda age 1
Franz von Papen age 58
Omar Bongo age 2
Alija Izetbegović age 12
Franjo Tuđman age 16
Jorge Rafael Videla age 12
Urho Kekkonen age 37
Walter Ulbricht age 44
Isoroku Yamamoto age 54
Wilhelm Keitel age 55
Hubert Humphrey age 27
Charles G. Dawes age 72
Nelson Rockefeller age 29
Alec Douglas-Home age 34
Alcide De Gasperi age 57
Hassan II age 8
Cemal Gürsel age 42
Kenneth Kaunda age 14
Léon Blum age 66
Robert Schuman age 51
Alfred Rosenberg age 45
Georgi Dimitrov age 55
Imre Nagy age 42
Victor Chernomyrdin age 2 months
Andrei Gromyko age 28
Kliment Voroshilov age 57
Spiro Agnew age 19
Carlos Menem age 7
Kenan Evren age 20
Roman Herzog age 4
Stjepan Mesić age 3
Isaac Shamir age 22
Michel Aoun age 4
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 13
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 20
Umberto II of Italy age 33
Ngo Dinh Diem age 37
Henry A. Wallace age 49
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 1
Abdullah I of Jordan age 56
Ion Iliescu age 8
Bülent Ecevit age 13