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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Great Depression 1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
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

Roman Herzog age 5
Stjepan Mesić age 4
Isaac Shamir age 23
Michel Aoun age 5
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 15
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 1 month
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 21
Umberto II of Italy age 34
Ngo Dinh Diem age 38
Henry A. Wallace age 50
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 2
Abdullah I of Jordan age 57
Ion Iliescu age 9
Bülent Ecevit age 14
Kim Young-sam age 11
Erich von Manstein age 51
Chaim Weizmann age 64
Sandro Pertini age 42
Theodor Heuss age 55
Walter Scheel age 20
Alfred Jodl age 49
Jalal Talabani age 5
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 10
Olusegun Obasanjo age 2
Olav V of Norway age 36
Ion Antonescu age 57
Beji Caid Essebsi age 12
Alfredo Stroessner age 26
Fidel Ramos age 11
Wallis Simpson age 43
Juscelino Kubitschek age 36
Baudouin of Belgium age 8
Hua Guofeng age 18
Agostinho Neto age 16
Alpha Condé age 1
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 17
Giuliano Amato age 1
Ayub Khan age 32
Emilio Aguinaldo age 70
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 37
Pietro Badoglio age 67
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 19
Chester W. Nimitz age 54
Mauno Koivisto age 15
Karolos Papoulias age 10
Zakir Husain age 42
Juliana of the Netherlands age 30
Pridi Banomyong age 39
Milton Obote age 13
Yun Po-sun age 42
Gustav Heinemann age 40
Lionel Jospin age 2
Hans Frank age 39
Abolhassan Banisadr age 6
János Kádár age 27
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 20
Bettino Craxi age 5
Valdas Adamkus age 12
Samora Moisés Machel age 5
Fahri Korutürk age 36
Michael I of Romania age 17
Raúl Alfonsín age 12
Paul Martin age 12 months
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 68
Mwai Kibaki age 7
Frederik IX of Denmark age 40
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 36
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 56
Chang Myon age 40
Chun Doo-hwan age 8
Manuel Azaña age 59
Zhao Ziyang age 19
Gerd von Rundstedt age 63
Jean Chrétien age 5
John Kufuor age 8 months
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 18
Adnan Menderes age 40
Ivan Konev age 41
Karl Carstens age 24
Jacques Delors age 14
Arthur Seyss-Inquart age 47
Alexandre Millerand age 80
Vincent Auriol age 55
Zog I of Albania age 43
Karl Renner age 68
Rafael Trujillo age 47
V. V. Giri age 45
Giovanni Leone age 30
Yahya Khan age 22
Cevdet Sunay age 40
Necmettin Erbakan age 12
Alexei Kosygin age 35
Pierre Laval age 56
George F. Kennan age 35
Itamar Franco age 9
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 8
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 2
K. R. Narayanan age 18
Levi Eshkol age 43
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 33
Daniel arap Moi age 14
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 16
Liaquat Ali Khan age 43
Mário Soares age 14
Heinrich Lübke age 44
Ernst Kaltenbrunner age 35
Liu Shaoqi age 40
Zhu Rongji age 10
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 6
Houari Boumédiène age 7
Gough Whitlam age 23
Mathieu Kérékou age 5
Arnold Rüütel age 11
François Duvalier age 32
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 34
Luigi Einaudi age 65
Enrico de Nicola age 61
Anton Denikin age 66
Armand Fallières age 97
Pierre Mauroy age 11
Édith Cresson age 5
Robert McNamara age 23
Omar Bradley age 46
Soong Ching-ling age 46
Mohamed Naguib age 38
Mátyás Rákosi age 47
Charan Singh age 36
Bingu wa Mutharika age 5
Violeta Chamorro age 9
Ignacy Jan Paderewski age 78
Semyon Budyonny age 56
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 102
Erich Raeder age 63
Julius Streicher age 54
John J. Pershing age 78
René Coty age 57
Brian Mulroney age 5 months
R. Venkataraman age 28
Antonio Segni age 48
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 1
Evgeny Primakov age 9
Siad Barre age 19
Mary of Teck age 72
Yoshirō Mori age 2
Hjalmar Schacht age 62
Rodion Malinovsky age 40
Bob Hawke age 9
Makarios III age 26
Gulzarilal Nanda age 41
Moshe Sharett age 44
Sam Nujoma age 10
Juvénal Habyarimana age 2
Abdoulaye Wade age 13
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 21
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 12
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando age 79
P. W. Botha age 23
Semyon Timoshenko age 44
Lee Teng-hui age 16
Thomas Klestil age 6
Paul-Henri Spaak age 40
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 15
Zail Singh age 23
Amintore Fanfani age 31
Willem Drees age 53
Jozef Tiso age 51
Prajadhipok age 45
Tomiichi Murayama age 15
Nikolai Bulganin age 44
João Goulart age 20
Jean Monnet age 50
Li Peng age 10
John Foster Dulles age 51
Ferhat Abbas age 40
Tassos Papadopoulos age 5
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 74
João Bernardo Vieira age 4 months
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 21
Chaim Herzog age 20
Giuseppe Saragat age 40
Lamberto Dini age 8
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 2
Algirdas Brazauskas age 6
Prem Tinsulanonda age 19
Roh Tae-woo age 6
Lin Biao age 31
Fedor von Bock age 58
Egon Krenz age 2
Jacobo Árbenz age 25
Ramiz Alia age 13
Leopoldo Galtieri age 13
Bruno Kreisky age 28
Festus Mogae age 0 months
Seretse Khama age 18
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 15
Lennart Meri age 10
Risto Ryti age 50
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 26
Giovanni Gronchi age 51
Wim Kok age 11 months