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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
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02

People

Árpád Göncz age 17
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 37
Nicolae Iorga age 67
Ingvar Carlsson age 4
Rómulo Gallegos age 54
Maurice Gamelin age 66
Hayato Ikeda age 39
Noboru Takeshita age 15
Keizō Obuchi age 1
Jan Smuts age 68
Kirill Meretskov age 41
Italo Balbo age 42
Edward Rydz-Śmigły age 53
Oswald Mosley age 42
Hu Yaobang age 23
Chris Watson age 72
Iajuddin Ahmed age 8
Lauri Kristian Relander age 55
Costas Simitis age 2
Abdul Salam Arif age 18
Abd al-Karim Qasim age 24
Ezer Weizman age 14
Isaac Navon age 18
Dries van Agt age 8
Émile Lahoud age 3
Jacques Santer age 1
Luis Echeverría age 17
Miguel de la Madrid age 4
Ne Win age 27
Benjamin Mkapa age 5 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
Allen Dulles age 46
Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark age 57
Andrey Vyshinsky age 55
Zita of Bourbon-Parma age 47
Princess Märtha of Sweden age 38
Jerry Brown age 1
Alice Paul age 54
Fritz Todt age 47
Warren Christopher age 13
Reynaldo Bignone age 11
Ayaz Mutallibov age 11 months
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 10
Quett Masire age 13
John Turner age 9
David Dacko age 9
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 29
H. D. Deve Gowda age 5
Abdul Rahman Arif age 23
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 54
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 18
Mamadou Tandja age 9 months
S. R. Nathan age 14
Fouad Mebazaa age 5
Rupiah Banda age 2
Canaan Banana age 3
Manuel Roxas age 47
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio age 36
Nikolai Vatutin age 37
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 9
Raymond Barre age 15
Ernesto Geisel age 31
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 4
Ingrid of Sweden age 29
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 42
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 3
Lon Nol age 25
Alfredo Palacio age 3 months
Mohammad Hatta age 36
Mariano Rumor age 23
Ciriaco De Mita age 11
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 24
Marcelo Caetano age 32
Wang Jingwei age 56
Trần Đức Lương age 1
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 30
Choi Kyu-hah age 19
Zenkō Suzuki age 28
Paul Reynaud age 60
Leon Panetta age 10 months
Mario Cuomo age 6
Lê Duẩn age 32
Li Xiannian age 29
George Wallace age 19
Henry L. Stimson age 71
Alexander Haig age 14
John Curtin age 54
Franz Jonas age 39
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 24
Patricio Aylwin age 20
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 22
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 20
Ferenc Szálasi age 42
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 45
Giovanni Spadolini age 13
Arnaldo Forlani age 13
Anerood Jugnauth age 9
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 28
Einar Gerhardsen age 42
Tage Erlander age 37
Rómulo Betancourt age 31
José Paciano Laurel age 48
Sergio Osmeña age 60
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 13
Luis Carrero Blanco age 35
Harold Alexander age 47
Rodolfo Graziani age 56
Masayoshi Ōhira age 29
Sōsuke Uno age 16
Pierre Mendès France age 32
Oliver Tambo age 21
Wilhelm, German Crown Prince age 57
Heinrich Müller age 39
Roland Freisler age 45
Spyridon Louis age 66
Earl Warren age 48
Gennady Yanayev age 1
Chadli Bendjedid age 10
Franz Vranitzky age 1
Wilfried Martens age 3
Louis St. Laurent age 57
Aristides Pereira age 15
Pedro Pires age 5
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 28
Ephraim Katzir age 22
Moussa Traoré age 2
Eddie Fenech Adami age 5
Adolfo López Mateos age 28
U Nu age 31
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 9
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 9
Ronald Venetiaan age 2
Rafael Caldera age 23
Fernando Belaúnde age 26
Elpidio Quirino age 48
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 58
Takeo Miki age 32
William Westmoreland age 25
Venceslau Brás age 71
Georges Bidault age 39
Ludwig Beck age 58
Vasily Sokolovsky age 41
Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin age 44
Marcel Lefebvre age 33
Ernest Bevin age 58
Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom age 82
Hans Fritzsche age 39
Yang Shangkun age 31
Stephen Breyer age 8 months
Thurgood Marshall age 30
Hubert Maga age 22
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 17
Arthur Meighen age 64
Léon M'ba age 37
Georgios Papandreou age 51
Zalman Shazar age 49
Piet de Jong age 24
Philibert Tsiranana age 26
Abdul Razak Hussein age 17
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 38
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 14
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 16
Maxime Weygand age 72
Kuniaki Koiso age 59
Kijūrō Shidehara age 66
Nikolai Tikhonov age 33
Jânio Quadros age 22
François Darlan age 57
Michel Aflaq age 29
Ferdinand Schörner age 46
Tomoyuki Yamashita age 53
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia age 56
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine age 76
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 25
Michael Dukakis age 5
Dobrica Ćosić age 17
Emilio De Bono age 73
Daniel Inouye age 14
Lawrence Eagleburger age 8
Anthony Kennedy age 2
Dean Rusk age 30
Cyrus Vance age 22
Arturo Umberto Illia age 38
Arturo Frondizi age 30
William McMahon age 31
Earle Page age 58
François Tombalbaye age 20
Tshombé Moïse age 19
Harri Holkeri age 2
Efraín Ríos Montt age 12
Kristján Eldjárn age 22
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 26