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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

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
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood age 74
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 39
Tassos Papadopoulos age 5
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 74
João Bernardo Vieira age 3 months
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 20
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 18
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
Seretse Khama age 18
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 14
Lennart Meri age 10
Risto Ryti age 50
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 26
Giovanni Gronchi age 51
Wim Kok age 10 months
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 1
Agatha Barbara age 16
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 34
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 39
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 3
Bolesław Bierut age 47
Joseph Estrada age 2
Jean Casimir-Perier age 91
Baldur von Schirach age 32
Dean Acheson age 46
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 77
Andreas Papandreou age 20
Chandra Shekhar age 12
Fuad Masum age 1
Walter Model age 48
Shigeru Yoshida age 60
Kakuei Tanaka age 21
James Baker age 9
Chiang Ching-kuo age 29
Antonin Scalia age 3
Babrak Karmal age 10
Hafizullah Amin age 10
Alfred Moisiu age 9
Kurt Schuschnigg age 41
Zillur Rahman age 10
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 32
Inder Kumar Gujral age 19
V. P. Singh age 8
Than Shwe age 6
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb age 62
Albert Kesselring age 53
Joseph Wirth age 59
Wilhelm Marx age 76
Hans Luther age 60
Édouard Herriot age 67
Philipp Scheidemann age 74
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 14
Lansana Conté age 4
Sveinn Björnsson age 58
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 25
Talal I of Jordan age 30
Ruud Lubbers age 3 months
Bounnhang Vorachit age 1
Kiro Gligorov age 22
Władysław Sikorski age 58
Franz Halder age 55
Nobusuke Kishi age 42
Toshiki Kaifu age 8
Kiichi Miyazawa age 19
Tsutomu Hata age 3
Édouard Balladur age 10
Zhu De age 52
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 30
Malcolm Fraser age 9
Artur Rasizade age 4
John Diefenbaker age 43
Ricardo Lagos age 1
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 13
Gyula Horn age 7
Modibo Keïta age 24
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 13
Michael Sata age 2
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 10 months
Diosdado Macapagal age 28
Ramon Magsaysay age 31
Gustav Bauer age 69
Heinrich Brüning age 53
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 2
José Sarney age 9
Abbas II of Egypt age 65
Walther Funk age 49
Fritz Sauckel age 44
George Shultz age 18
Billy Hughes age 76
Harold Holt age 31
Ziaur Rahman age 3
Emilio Colombo age 19
Choummaly Sayasone age 3
Plutarco Elías Calles age 61
José López Portillo age 19
Milovan Đilas age 28
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 3
Girija Prasad Koirala age 15
Abdou Diouf age 3
Fumimaro Konoe age 47
Michel Rocard age 8
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 41
Alain Poher age 30
Abulfaz Elchibey age 1
Zhelyu Zhelev age 4
Georgios Papadopoulos age 20
Ferenc Mádl age 8
Árpád Göncz age 17
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 37
Nicolae Iorga age 68
Ingvar Carlsson age 4
Rómulo Gallegos age 55
Maurice Gamelin age 66
Hayato Ikeda age 39
Noboru Takeshita age 15
Keizō Obuchi age 2
Jan Smuts age 69
Oswald Mosley age 42
Hu Yaobang age 23
Chris Watson age 72
Iajuddin Ahmed age 8
Lauri Kristian Relander age 56
Costas Simitis age 3
Abdul Salam Arif age 18
Abd al-Karim Qasim age 24
Ezer Weizman age 15
Isaac Navon age 18
Dries van Agt age 8
Émile Lahoud age 3
Jacques Santer age 2
Luis Echeverría age 17
Ne Win age 28
Benjamin Mkapa age 9 months
Francisco Largo Caballero age 69
C. Rajagopalachari age 60
Günther von Kluge age 56
Ichirō Hatoyama age 56
Takeo Fukuda age 34
Morihiro Hosokawa age 1
Ivanoe Bonomi age 65
Hendrik Verwoerd age 37
João Figueiredo age 21
Jerry Brown age 1
Fritz Todt age 47
Warren Christopher age 13
Reynaldo Bignone age 11
Ayaz Mutallibov age 1
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 10
Quett Masire age 14
John Turner age 10
David Dacko age 9
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 29
Abdul Rahman Arif age 23
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 54
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 18
Mamadou Tandja age 1
S. R. Nathan age 15
Fouad Mebazaa age 6
Rupiah Banda age 2
Canaan Banana age 3
Manuel Roxas age 47
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio age 36