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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
Spanish Civil War 1936-07-17 - 1939-04-01
Siege of Madrid 1936-11-08 - 1939-03-28
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Catalonia Offensive 1938-12-23 - 1939-02-10

People

Enrico de Nicola age 61
Anton Denikin age 66
Armand Fallières age 97
Pierre Mauroy age 10
Édith Cresson age 4
Lê Đức Thọ age 27
Queen Sofía of Spain age 2 months
Robert McNamara age 22
Omar Bradley age 45
Soong Ching-ling age 45
Mohamed Naguib age 37
Mátyás Rákosi age 46
Charan Singh age 36
Bingu wa Mutharika age 4
Violeta Chamorro age 9
Ignacy Jan Paderewski age 78
Semyon Budyonny age 55
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 101
Abdülmecid II age 70
Erich Raeder age 62
Julius Streicher age 53
John J. Pershing age 78
René Coty age 56
R. Venkataraman age 28
Antonio Segni age 47
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 1
Evgeny Primakov age 9
Siad Barre age 19
Mary of Teck age 71
Yoshirō Mori age 1
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 15
Aleksandr Vasilevsky age 43
George II of Greece age 48
Hjalmar Schacht age 61
Rodion Malinovsky age 40
Bob Hawke age 9
Makarios III age 25
Gulzarilal Nanda age 40
Moshe Sharett age 44
Sam Nujoma age 9
Juvénal Habyarimana age 1
Abdoulaye Wade age 12
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 20
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 11
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando age 78
P. W. Botha age 22
Nikolai Yezhov age 42
Lazar Kaganovich age 45
Jiang Qing age 24
Queen Sonja of Norway age 1
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood age 74
Semyon Timoshenko age 43
Lee Teng-hui age 15
Thomas Klestil age 6
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 15
Zail Singh age 22
Amintore Fanfani age 30
Willem Drees age 52
Jozef Tiso age 51
Prajadhipok age 45
Tomiichi Murayama age 14
Nikolai Bulganin age 43
João Goulart age 19
Jean Monnet age 50
Soong Mei-ling age 40
Li Peng age 10
John Foster Dulles age 50
Ferhat Abbas age 39
Tassos Papadopoulos age 4
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 73
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 20
Chaim Herzog age 20
Giuseppe Saragat age 40
Lamberto Dini age 7
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 1
Algirdas Brazauskas age 6
Prem Tinsulanonda age 18
Roh Tae-woo age 6
Lin Biao age 31
Fedor von Bock age 58
Egon Krenz age 1
Paul of Greece age 37
Jacobo Árbenz age 25
Ramiz Alia age 13
Leopoldo Galtieri age 12
Bruno Kreisky age 27
Seretse Khama age 17
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 14
Lennart Meri age 9
Risto Ryti age 49
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 25
Giovanni Gronchi age 51
Wim Kok age 3 months
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 1
Agatha Barbara age 15
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 34
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 39
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 3
Bolesław Bierut age 46
Joseph Estrada age 1
Jean Casimir-Perier age 91
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini age 44
Baldur von Schirach age 31
Sandra Day O'Connor age 8
Dean Acheson age 45
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 77
Andreas Papandreou age 19
Chandra Shekhar age 11
Fuad Masum age 1
Walter Model age 47
Shigeru Yoshida age 60
Kakuei Tanaka age 20
Walther von Brauchitsch age 57
René Cassin age 51
Tariq Aziz age 2
James Baker age 8
Chiang Ching-kuo age 28
Antonin Scalia age 2
Babrak Karmal age 10
Hafizullah Amin age 9
Alfred Moisiu age 9
Kurt Schuschnigg age 41
Zillur Rahman age 9
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 31
Inder Kumar Gujral age 19
V. P. Singh age 7
Than Shwe age 5
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb age 62
Albert Kesselring age 53
Joseph Wirth age 59
Wilhelm Marx age 76
Hans Luther age 59
Édouard Herriot age 66
Philipp Scheidemann age 73
Fernando de la Rúa age 1
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 14
Lansana Conté age 4
Sveinn Björnsson age 57
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 24
Talal I of Jordan age 29
Bounnhang Vorachit age 1
Kiro Gligorov age 21
Władysław Sikorski age 57
Franz Halder age 54
Nobusuke Kishi age 42
Toshiki Kaifu age 8
Kiichi Miyazawa age 19
Tsutomu Hata age 3
Édouard Balladur age 9
Konstantin von Neurath age 65
Zhu De age 52
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 29
Malcolm Fraser age 8
Artur Rasizade age 3
John Diefenbaker age 43
Ricardo Lagos age 10 months
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 12
Gyula Horn age 6
Modibo Keïta age 23
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 13
Michael Sata age 1
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 3 months
Diosdado Macapagal age 28
Ramon Magsaysay age 31
Gustav Bauer age 69
Heinrich Brüning age 53
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 1
José Sarney age 8
Abbas II of Egypt age 64
Stanislav Shushkevich age 4
Princess Alice of Battenberg age 53
Walther Funk age 48
Fritz Sauckel age 44
George Shultz age 18
Billy Hughes age 76
Harold Holt age 30
Ziaur Rahman age 2
Emilio Colombo age 18
Choummaly Sayasone age 2
Plutarco Elías Calles age 61
José López Portillo age 18
Milovan Đilas age 27
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 3
Girija Prasad Koirala age 14
Abdou Diouf age 3
Archibald Wavell age 55
Michel Rocard age 8
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 41
Alain Poher age 29
August von Mackensen age 89
Empress Michiko age 4
Prince Henrik of Denmark age 4
Abulfaz Elchibey age 6 months
Zhelyu Zhelev age 3
Georgios Papadopoulos age 19
Ferenc Mádl age 7
Árpád Göncz age 16
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 37
Nicolae Iorga age 67
Ingvar Carlsson age 4