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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

Henri Konan Bédié age 4
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 12
Gaston Thorn age 10
Yakubu Gowon age 4
Shehu Shagari age 13
Rudolf Schuster age 5
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 13
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 19
Michael Somare age 2
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora age 61
Saionji Kinmochi age 89
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 55
Milka Planinc age 14
Günter Schabowski age 10
Tadamichi Kuribayashi age 47
Chen Duxiu age 59
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck age 68
Kurt Student age 48
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg age 51
Carrie Chapman Catt age 80
Souphanouvong age 29
S. M. Bruce age 55
John Gorton age 27
Richard Bedford Bennett age 68
José Figueres Ferrer age 32
Osvaldo Dorticós age 19
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 17
Poul Schlüter age 9
Diori Hamani age 22
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 12
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 11
Julio María Sanguinetti age 3
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 43
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 4
Tanzan Ishibashi age 54
Michel Debré age 27
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 23
Washington Luís age 69
Claude Auchinleck age 54
Maximilian von Weichs age 57
Wilhelm List age 58
Johannes Blaskowitz age 55
Frederica of Hanover age 21
Kim Jong-suk age 21
Louise Mountbatten age 49
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 3
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 1
Joseph Cook age 78
Karl Seitz age 69
Michael Hainisch age 80
Leo Tindemans age 16
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 31
Barthélemy Boganda age 28
Antoine Gizenga age 13
Eugenia Charles age 19
Nicholas Liverpool age 4
Mario Scelba age 37
Anker Jørgensen age 16
William Tubman age 43
William Richard Tolbert age 25
Didier Ratsiraka age 2
Pedro Lascuráin age 82
Kåre Willoch age 10
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 44
Pascal Lissouba age 7
Michal Kováč age 8
Wellington Koo age 50
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 20
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 28
Carlos P. Garcia age 42
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike age 40
Gaafar Nimeiry age 8
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 86
Nobuyuki Abe age 63
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 51
Tetsu Katayama age 51
Hitoshi Ashida age 51
Pierre Messmer age 22
Artur Bernardes age 63
Avery Brundage age 51
Biljana Plavšić age 8
Karl Rahner age 34
Paul Tibbets age 23
Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 59
Felix Yusupov age 51
Prince George, Duke of Kent age 36
Maria of Yugoslavia age 39
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 17
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 23
Janet Reno age 5 months
Edmund Muskie age 24
Fan S. Noli age 57
Mohamed Boudiaf age 19
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 14
James Scullin age 62
Arthur Fadden age 44
Ben Chifley age 53
Adolf Schärf age 48
Theodor Körner age 65
Hugo Banzer age 12
Nuon Chea age 12
Ange-Félix Patassé age 1
Glafcos Clerides age 19
Joaquín Balaguer age 32
Josefa Iloilo age 18
Luís Cabral age 7
Janet Jagan age 18
Giuseppe Pella age 36
Fernando Tambroni age 37
Joop den Uyl age 19
Kazys Grinius age 72
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 22
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa age 27
António Ramalho Eanes age 3
António de Spínola age 28
France-Albert René age 3
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 6
Yusof bin Ishak age 28
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 1
Samak Sundaravej age 3
George Maxwell Richards age 7
Juan María Bordaberry age 10
Hugo Sperrle age 53
Kantarō Suzuki age 71
Maurice Couve de Murville age 31
Pierre Bérégovoy age 13
Francesco Saverio Nitti age 70
Dwight F. Davis age 59
Mark W. Clark age 42
B. J. Vorster age 23
Epitácio Pessoa age 73
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 33
Walter Hallstein age 37
Wolfram von Richthofen age 43
Paul Hausser age 58
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia age 63
Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse age 70
Helen of Greece and Denmark age 42
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn age 88
Princess Stéphanie of Belgium age 74
Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein age 32
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll age 90
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood age 41
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark age 32
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner age 6
Katharine, Duchess of Kent age 5
William Rehnquist age 14
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 38
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 8
Jorge Alessandri age 42
Arturo Alessandri age 70
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 12
Väinö Tanner age 57
Mihály Károlyi age 63
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 33
Patrick Hillery age 15
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 53
Dom Mintoff age 22
Guido de Marco age 7
Moktar Ould Daddah age 14
Adolfo de la Huerta age 57
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 48
Muhammad Ali Bogra age 29
Ola Ullsten age 7
Sarit Thanarat age 30
D. F. Malan age 64
Café Filho age 39
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 51
Félix Gouin age 54
Ante Marković age 14
James Earl Ray age 10
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny age 49
Kōki Hirota age 60
John Connally age 21
Mehmet Shehu age 26
Nicéphore Soglo age 4
Petar Mladenov age 2
Belisario Betancur age 15
Kalevi Sorsa age 8
Kaysone Phomvihane age 18
Marien Ngouabi age 0 months
Petru Groza age 54
Devan Nair age 15
Johan Ferrier age 28
Władysław Raczkiewicz age 54
Valentín Paniagua age 2
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 32
Ye Jianying age 41
Artur da Costa e Silva age 39
Roy Jenkins age 18
J. Sigfrid Edström age 68
Karl Hermann Frank age 40
Gotthard Heinrici age 52
Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten age 32
Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 31
Princess Alexandra of Kent age 2
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld age 7 months
Al Smith age 65
Wim Duisenberg age 3
Souvanna Phouma age 37