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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
War in the North 1937-03-31 - 1937-10-21
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Battle of Shanghai 1937-08-13 - 1937-11-26
Battle of Belchite (1937) 1937-08-24 - 1937-09-07

People

Nikolai Bulganin age 42
João Goulart age 18
Jean Monnet age 48
Li Peng age 8
John Foster Dulles age 49
Ferhat Abbas age 38
Tassos Papadopoulos age 3
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 72
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 19
Chaim Herzog age 18
Giuseppe Saragat age 38
Lamberto Dini age 6
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 2 months
Algirdas Brazauskas age 4
Prem Tinsulanonda age 17
Roh Tae-woo age 4
Lin Biao age 29
Fedor von Bock age 56
Egon Krenz age 5 months
Jacobo Árbenz age 23
Ramiz Alia age 11
Leopoldo Galtieri age 11
Bruno Kreisky age 26
Seretse Khama age 16
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 13
Lennart Meri age 8
Risto Ryti age 48
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 24
Giovanni Gronchi age 49
Agatha Barbara age 14
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 32
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 37
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 1
Bolesław Bierut age 45
Joseph Estrada age 4 months
Jean Casimir-Perier age 89
Baldur von Schirach age 30
Dean Acheson age 44
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 75
Andreas Papandreou age 18
Chandra Shekhar age 10
Douglas Hyde age 77
Walter Model age 46
Shigeru Yoshida age 58
Kakuei Tanaka age 19
James Baker age 7
Chiang Ching-kuo age 27
Antonin Scalia age 1
Babrak Karmal age 8
Hafizullah Amin age 8
Alfred Moisiu age 7
Zillur Rahman age 8
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 30
Inder Kumar Gujral age 17
V. P. Singh age 6
Than Shwe age 4
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb age 61
Albert Kesselring age 51
Joseph Wirth age 58
Wilhelm Marx age 74
Hans Luther age 58
Édouard Herriot age 65
Philipp Scheidemann age 72
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 12
Lansana Conté age 2
Sveinn Björnsson age 56
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 23
Talal I of Jordan age 28
Bounnhang Vorachit age 0 months
Kiro Gligorov age 20
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 40
Władysław Sikorski age 56
Franz Halder age 53
Nobusuke Kishi age 40
Toshiki Kaifu age 6
Kiichi Miyazawa age 17
Tsutomu Hata age 2
Édouard Balladur age 8
Zhu De age 50
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 28
Malcolm Fraser age 7
Artur Rasizade age 2
John Diefenbaker age 41
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 11
Gyula Horn age 5
Modibo Keïta age 22
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 11
Michael Sata age 1 month
Diosdado Macapagal age 26
Ramon Magsaysay age 30
Gustav Bauer age 67
Heinrich Brüning age 51
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 0 months
José Sarney age 7
Abbas II of Egypt age 63
Walther Funk age 47
Fritz Sauckel age 42
George Shultz age 16
Billy Hughes age 74
Harold Holt age 29
Ziaur Rahman age 1
Emilio Colombo age 17
Choummaly Sayasone age 1
Plutarco Elías Calles age 59
José López Portillo age 17
Milovan Đilas age 26
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 2
Girija Prasad Koirala age 13
Abdou Diouf age 1
Michel Rocard age 7
Vasily Blyukher age 47
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 39
Alain Poher age 28
Zhelyu Zhelev age 2
Georgios Papadopoulos age 18
Ferenc Mádl age 6
Árpád Göncz age 15
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 35
Nicolae Iorga age 66
Ingvar Carlsson age 2
Rómulo Gallegos age 53
Maurice Gamelin age 64
Hayato Ikeda age 37
Noboru Takeshita age 13
Keizō Obuchi age 2 months
Jan Smuts age 67
Oswald Mosley age 40
Hu Yaobang age 21
Chris Watson age 70
Robert Menzies age 42
Iajuddin Ahmed age 6
Lauri Kristian Relander age 54
Costas Simitis age 1
Abdul Salam Arif age 16
Abd al-Karim Qasim age 22
Ezer Weizman age 13
Isaac Navon age 16
Dries van Agt age 6
Émile Lahoud age 1
Jacques Santer age 3 months
Luis Echeverría age 15
Ne Win age 26
Francisco Largo Caballero age 67
C. Rajagopalachari age 58
Günther von Kluge age 54
Ichirō Hatoyama age 54
Takeo Fukuda age 32
Ivanoe Bonomi age 63
Hendrik Verwoerd age 35
João Figueiredo age 19
Fritz Todt age 46
Warren Christopher age 11
Reynaldo Bignone age 9
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 8
Quett Masire age 12
John Turner age 8
David Dacko age 7
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 27
Abdul Rahman Arif age 21
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 52
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 16
S. R. Nathan age 13
Fouad Mebazaa age 4
Rupiah Banda age 6 months
Canaan Banana age 1
Manuel Roxas age 45
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio age 34
Nikolai Vatutin age 35
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 7
Raymond Barre age 13
Ernesto Geisel age 30
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 3
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 40
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 1
Lon Nol age 23
Mohammad Hatta age 35
Mariano Rumor age 22
Ciriaco De Mita age 9
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 22
Marcelo Caetano age 31
Wang Jingwei age 54
Trần Đức Lương age 3 months
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 28
Choi Kyu-hah age 18
Zenkō Suzuki age 26
Paul Reynaud age 58
Mario Cuomo age 5
Lê Duẩn age 30
Li Xiannian age 28
George Wallace age 18
Henry L. Stimson age 69
Alexander Haig age 12
John Curtin age 52
Franz Jonas age 37
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 22
Patricio Aylwin age 18
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 20
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 18
Ferenc Szálasi age 40
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 43