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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
Battles of Khalkhin Gol 1939-05-11 - 1939-09-16

People

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
Kirill Meretskov age 42
Italo Balbo age 43
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 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
Miguel de la Madrid age 4
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
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 1
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 10
Quett Masire age 14
John Turner age 10
David Dacko age 9
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 29
H. D. Deve Gowda age 6
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
Nikolai Vatutin age 37
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 9
Raymond Barre age 15
Ernesto Geisel age 32
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 7 months
Mohammad Hatta age 37
Mariano Rumor age 24
Ciriaco De Mita age 11
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 24
Marcelo Caetano age 33
Wang Jingwei age 56
Trần Đức Lương age 2
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 30
Choi Kyu-hah age 20
Zenkō Suzuki age 28
Paul Reynaud age 60
Leon Panetta age 1
Mario Cuomo age 7
Lê Duẩn age 32
Li Xiannian age 30
George Wallace age 20
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 14
Arnaldo Forlani age 13
Anerood Jugnauth age 9
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 28
Einar Gerhardsen age 42
Tage Erlander age 38
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 57
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 23
Moussa Traoré age 2
Eddie Fenech Adami age 5
Adolfo López Mateos age 29
U Nu age 32
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 9
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 9
Ronald Venetiaan age 3
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 59
Vasily Sokolovsky age 42
Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin age 45
Marcel Lefebvre age 33
Ernest Bevin age 58
Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom age 82
Hans Fritzsche age 39
Yang Shangkun age 32
Stephen Breyer age 1
Thurgood Marshall age 31
Hubert Maga age 23
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 17
Arthur Meighen age 65
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 15
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 16
Maxime Weygand age 72
Kuniaki Koiso age 59
Kijūrō Shidehara age 66
Nikolai Tikhonov age 34
Jânio Quadros age 22
François Darlan age 58
Michel Aflaq age 29
Ferdinand Schörner age 47
Tomoyuki Yamashita age 53
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia age 57
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine age 76
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 26
Michael Dukakis age 5
Dobrica Ćosić age 17
Emilio De Bono age 73
Daniel Inouye age 14
Lawrence Eagleburger age 9
Anthony Kennedy age 3
Dean Rusk age 30
Cyrus Vance age 22
Arturo Umberto Illia age 39
Arturo Frondizi age 30
William McMahon age 31
Earle Page age 59
Joe Clark age 2 months
François Tombalbaye age 21