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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

Muteesa II of Buganda age 6
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 17
Le Duc Anh age 10
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 20
Ibrahim Abboud age 30
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim age 42
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 17
Sisavang Vatthana age 23
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria age 62
Mark Felt age 18
Prince George of Greece and Denmark age 62
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone age 48
Elisabeth of Romania age 37
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark age 17
Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen age 1
Carlos Castillo Armas age 16
William P. Rogers age 18
Agustín Pedro Justo age 55
George Cadle Price age 12
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 15
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 49
Karl-August Fagerholm age 29
Leslie Manigat age 1
Döme Sztójay age 48
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 39
Lars Korvald age 15
John Lyng age 26
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 27
Américo Tomás age 36
Siaka Stevens age 26
Benjamin Sheares age 24
Li Zongren age 41
Christian Rakovsky age 58
Jan Olszewski age 1
Ho Chong age 35
Hugh Dowding age 49
Creighton Abrams age 17
Charles Haughey age 6
Joseph Luns age 20
Fevzi Çakmak age 55
Nereu Ramos age 43
William J. Perry age 4
Michael Foot age 18
Matvei Zakharov age 33
Juan Almeida Bosque age 4
David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty age 60
Shapour Bakhtiar age 17
Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark age 59
Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark age 55
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst age 46
Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta age 27
Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse age 62
Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark age 26
Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies age 20
Anne of Romania age 8
Ahmet Tevfik Pasha age 86
Ahmed Izzet Pasha age 67
Edward Stettinius Jr. age 31
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear age 63
John McEwen age 31
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 5
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 53
Pedro Aguirre Cerda age 52
Alfonso López Michelsen age 18
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 25
Ahmed Abdallah age 12
Otto Strandman age 55
Ahti Karjalainen age 8
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 45
Martti Miettunen age 24
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 3
Adone Zoli age 43
H. C. Hansen age 24
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 1
Gustavs Zemgals age 60
Camille Chamoun age 31
Abelardo L. Rodríguez age 42
Francisco León de la Barra age 68
Abdelaziz of Morocco age 53
Oscar Torp age 38
Per Borten age 18
Rickard Sandler age 47
Felix Hamrin age 56
Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp age 48
Arvid Lindman age 69
Hjalmar Hammarskjöld age 69
Shukri al-Quwatli age 40
A. N. R. Robinson age 4
Nihat Erim age 19
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 11
Jaime Lusinchi age 7
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 42
Giovanni Messe age 47
Zhang Xueliang age 30
José Linhares age 45
Geoffrey Howe age 4
Carlos Luz age 37
Maxwell D. Taylor age 30
William D. Leahy age 56
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield age 72
James Forrestal age 39
Caspar Weinberger age 14
Viktor Chernov age 57
Ugo Cavallero age 51
Lothar Rendulic age 44
Yuriko, Princess Mikasa age 8
Şehzade Ertuğrul Osman age 19
Princess Patricia of Connaught age 45
Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick age 43
Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia age 55
Alfonso, Prince of Asturias (1907–1938) age 24
Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1906–1969) age 25
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook age 52
Warren E. Burger age 24
Haxhi Lleshi age 18
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 40
Julius Raab age 39
Achille Van Acker age 33
Julio César Turbay age 15
Laureano Gómez age 42
Jüri Uluots age 41
Kamisese Mara age 11
Juho Vennola age 59
Mauno Pekkala age 41
Kaarlo Castrén age 71
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 0 months
Oswaldo López Arellano age 10
István Bethlen age 57
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 27
Poul Hartling age 17
Barend Biesheuvel age 11
Bechara El Khoury age 41
Augustinas Voldemaras age 48
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 25
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 31
Choe Yong-rim age 11 months
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel age 61
Octavian Goga age 50
Grégoire Kayibanda age 7
T. V. Soong age 39
Tito Okello age 17
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 5
Do Muoi age 14
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke age 12
Chung Il-kwon age 13
Ismail al-Azhari age 31
Raif Dizdarević age 4
Vo Chi Cong age 19
Alexander von Kluck age 85
Pyotr Krasnov age 62
Joseph Stilwell age 48
J. G. Strijdom age 38
Jean Rey age 29
Lloyd Bentsen age 10
Gustav Ritter von Kahr age 68
Feng Yuxiang age 48
Choe Yong-gon age 31
Jisaburō Ozawa age 45
Ralph Abernathy age 5
David Elazar age 6
Kâzım Karabekir age 49
Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg age 65
Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 45
Mamoru Shigemitsu age 44
Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark age 18
Iwane Matsui age 53
Wang Zhen (general) age 23
Frank Jack Fletcher age 46
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 44
Tajuddin Ahmad age 6
Luis García Meza Tejada age 2
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 17
Bogdan Filov age 48
Norodom Suramarit age 35
José Napoleón Duarte age 5
Kaarel Eenpalu age 43
Rafael Paasio age 28
Johannes Virolainen age 17
Noe Zhordania age 63
Georgios Rallis age 12
Forbes Burnham age 8
István Dobi age 32
Ferenc Münnich age 44
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 46
Ċensu Tabone age 18
Francisco S. Carvajal age 60
Abd al-Hafid of Morocco age 56
Hammer DeRoburt age 9
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 3
Vasco Gonçalves age 10
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 10
Chen Cheng age 34
Thanin Kraiwichian age 4
Luis Herrera Campins age 6
Wincenty Witos age 57
Manuel Odría age 33
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 7
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort age 45
C. R. Swart age 36
Marais Viljoen age 15