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Events

Prohibition in the United States 1920-01-17 - 1933-12-05
Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
First five-year plan (Soviet Union) 1928-10-01 - 1932-12-31
Great Depression 1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
Dust Bowl 1930 - 1936
Encirclement Campaigns 1930-11-01 - 1934-10-10
Japanese invasion of Manchuria 1931-09-18 - 1932-02-27

People

Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 13
Ferenc Szálasi age 34
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 37
Giovanni Spadolini age 6
Arnaldo Forlani age 6
Anerood Jugnauth age 1
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 20
Einar Gerhardsen age 34
Tage Erlander age 30
Rómulo Betancourt age 23
José Paciano Laurel age 40
Sergio Osmeña age 53
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 5
Luis Carrero Blanco age 27
Harold Alexander age 40
Rodolfo Graziani age 49
Masayoshi Ōhira age 21
Sōsuke Uno age 9
Pierre Mendès France age 24
Oliver Tambo age 14
Wilhelm, German Crown Prince age 49
Heinrich Müller age 31
Roland Freisler age 38
Spyridon Louis age 58
Earl Warren age 40
Chadli Bendjedid age 2
Louis St. Laurent age 49
Aristides Pereira age 8
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 20
Ephraim Katzir age 15
Adolfo López Mateos age 21
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 36
U Nu age 24
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 2
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 1
Rafael Caldera age 15
Fernando Belaúnde age 19
Elpidio Quirino age 41
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 50
Takeo Miki age 24
William Westmoreland age 17
Venceslau Brás age 63
Georges Bidault age 32
Ludwig Beck age 51
Vasily Sokolovsky age 34
Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin age 37
Marcel Lefebvre age 26
Ernest Bevin age 50
Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom age 74
Kate Sheppard age 84
Hans Fritzsche age 31
Yang Shangkun age 24
Thurgood Marshall age 23
Hubert Maga age 15
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 10
Arthur Meighen age 57
Léon M'ba age 29
Georgios Papandreou age 43
Zalman Shazar age 42
Piet de Jong age 16
Philibert Tsiranana age 19
Abdul Razak Hussein age 9
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 31
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 7
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 9
Maxime Weygand age 64
Kuniaki Koiso age 51
Kijūrō Shidehara age 59
Nikolai Tikhonov age 26
Jânio Quadros age 14
François Darlan age 50
Michel Aflaq age 21
Ferdinand Schörner age 39
Tomoyuki Yamashita age 46
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia age 49
Sophia of Prussia age 61
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine age 68
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 18
Dobrica Ćosić age 9
Emilio De Bono age 65
Daniel Inouye age 7
Lawrence Eagleburger age 1
Dean Rusk age 22
Cyrus Vance age 14
Arturo Umberto Illia age 31
Arturo Frondizi age 23
William McMahon age 23
Earle Page age 51
François Tombalbaye age 13
Tshombé Moïse age 12
Efraín Ríos Montt age 5
Pál Teleki age 52
Kristján Eldjárn age 15
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 19
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 26
Yigal Allon age 13
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 5
Gaston Thorn age 3
Shehu Shagari age 6
Per Albin Hansson age 46
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 6
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 12
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora age 54
Saionji Kinmochi age 82
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 48
Milka Planinc age 7
Günter Schabowski age 2
Tadamichi Kuribayashi age 40
Chen Duxiu age 52
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck age 61
Kurt Student age 41
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg age 44
Carrie Chapman Catt age 72
Souphanouvong age 22
S. M. Bruce age 48
John Gorton age 20
José Figueres Ferrer age 25
Osvaldo Dorticós age 12
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 10
Poul Schlüter age 2
Anastasio Somoza García age 35
Diori Hamani age 15
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 5
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 4
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 36
Tanzan Ishibashi age 47
Michel Debré age 19
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 16
Washington Luís age 62
Claude Auchinleck age 47
Maximilian von Weichs age 50
Wilhelm List age 51
Johannes Blaskowitz age 48
Frederica of Hanover age 14
Kim Jong-suk age 13
Louise Mountbatten age 42
Joseph Cook age 71
Karl Seitz age 62
Michael Hainisch age 73
Leo Tindemans age 9
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 24
Barthélemy Boganda age 21
Antoine Gizenga age 6
Eugenia Charles age 12
Mario Scelba age 30
Anker Jørgensen age 9
William Tubman age 36
William Richard Tolbert age 18
Pedro Lascuráin age 75
Kåre Willoch age 3
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 37
Pascal Lissouba age 1 month
Michal Kováč age 1
Wellington Koo age 43
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 13
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 21
Carlos P. Garcia age 35
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike age 32
Gaafar Nimeiry age 11 months
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 79
Nobuyuki Abe age 56
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 44
Tetsu Katayama age 44
Hitoshi Ashida age 44
Pierre Messmer age 15
Artur Bernardes age 56
Avery Brundage age 44
Biljana Plavšić age 1
Karl Rahner age 27
Paul Tibbets age 16
Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 52
Felix Yusupov age 44
Prince George, Duke of Kent age 29
Maria of Yugoslavia age 31
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 10
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 16
Robert H. Jackson age 39
Edmund Muskie age 17
Fan S. Noli age 49
Mohamed Boudiaf age 12
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 7
Arthur Fadden age 37
Ben Chifley age 46
Joseph Lyons age 52
Adolf Schärf age 41
Theodor Körner age 58
Hugo Banzer age 5
Nuon Chea age 5
Glafcos Clerides age 12
Joaquín Balaguer age 25
Josefa Iloilo age 10
Luís Cabral age 8 months
Janet Jagan age 11
Giuseppe Pella age 29
Fernando Tambroni age 30
Joop den Uyl age 12
Kazys Grinius age 65
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 15
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa age 19
António de Spínola age 21