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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

People

Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark age 43
Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland age 47
Eduard Dietl age 41
Wanrong age 24
Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine age 65
Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria age 48
Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony (1867–1944) age 64
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. age 43
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 14
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 11
José María Guido age 21
Pierre Harmel age 20
Kimon Georgiev age 49
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 31
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 29
V. J. Sukselainen age 24
Edward Akufo-Addo age 25
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 18
Michael Stasinopoulos age 28
András Hegedüs age 8
László Bárdossy age 40
Géza Lakatos age 41
Ólafur Thors age 39
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 18
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 11
Viggo Kampmann age 21
Louis Beel age 29
Jelle Zijlstra age 13
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 37
Manea Mănescu age 15
Armand Călinescu age 38
Nils Edén age 60
Nureddin al-Atassi age 2
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 19
Yen Chia-kan age 25
Hsu Shih-chang age 75
Cao Kun age 68
Khuang Aphaiwong age 29
Şükrü Saracoğlu age 44
Nguyen Huu Tho age 21
Mieczysław Rakowski age 4
Ignacy Daszyński age 64
Augusto Leguía age 68
Alejandro Lerroux age 67
John A. Costello age 40
Jack Lynch age 14
Rauf Orbay age 50
Harold Brown age 3
Alexander Vandegrift age 44
Masaharu Homma age 43
Archduke Joseph August of Austria age 59
Takahito, Prince Mikasa age 15
Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia age 65
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890–1958) age 41
Princess Margaret of Prussia age 59
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 53
Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia age 13
Aspasia Manos age 34
Princess Mafalda of Savoy age 28
John Profumo age 16
Seishirō Itagaki age 46
Friedrich Jeckeln age 36
Melvin Laird age 8
Thomas Gage age 213
Juan José Arévalo age 26
Ali Kafi age 2
Roberto Marcelino Ortiz age 44
José Figueroa Alcorta age 70
Johann Schober age 56
Ignaz Seipel age 55
Hubert Pierlot age 47
Jean Duvieusart age 31
Camille Huysmans age 60
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 12
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 13
Guillermo León Valencia age 22
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 23
Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou age 40
Phaedon Gizikis age 14
Béla Miklós age 41
Edward Seaga age 1
Hans Hedtoft age 28
Fouad Chehab age 29
René Moawad age 6
Hussein Onn age 9
Ibrahim Nasir age 4
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 37
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 7
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 42
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 26
Oscar von Sydow age 58
Ernst Trygger age 73
Hashim al-Atassi age 55
Seni Pramoj age 26
Kukrit Pramoj age 20
Godfrey Binaisa age 11
Vitalii Masol age 2
Raúl Leoni age 26
Ramón José Velásquez age 14
Vo Van Kiet age 8
Władysław Grabski age 57
Arnulfo Arias age 30
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 37
Andrés Rodríguez age 8
Liu Bocheng age 38
Glubb Pasha age 34
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ age 11 months
Claire Lee Chennault age 37
Dušan Simović age 48
Anton Korošec age 59
Abdel Hakim Amer age 11
Fazlollah Zahedi age 39
Ahmad Qavam age 55
Nobutake Kondō age 44
Bai Chongxi age 38
Johannes Frießner age 39
Lucjan Żeligowski age 65
Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon age 35
Veljko Kadijević age 5
Shunroku Hata age 52
Empress Teimei age 47
Princess Milica of Montenegro age 65
Frederick Francis IV age 49
Princess Helen of Serbia age 46
George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven age 38
Dürrüşehvar Sultan age 17
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk) age 10
Sam Manekshaw age 17
Heinrich von Vietinghoff age 43
Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal age 76
Prince Nicholas of Romania age 28
Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein age 45
Milan Stojadinović age 43
Gaylord Nelson age 15
Ramsey Clark age 3
Courtney Hodges age 44
Bainbridge Colby age 61
Carlos Lacoste age 2
Ramón Castillo age 57
Josef Klaus age 21
Juan José Torres age 11
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 7
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 7
Sufi Abu Taleb age 6
Ants Piip age 47
Edwin Linkomies age 36
Theodoros Pangalos age 53
Nikolaos Plastiras age 47
Xenophon Zolotas age 27
Georgios Kondylis age 52
Jenő Fock age 15
Miklós Kállay age 44
Sutan Sjahrir age 22
Erik Eriksen age 28
Dirk Jan de Geer age 60
Victor Marijnen age 14
Charles D. B. King age 56
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 48
Gheorghe Tătărescu age 44
Constantin Dăscălescu age 8
Adib Shishakli age 22
Cleopa Msuya age 7 months
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 19
Aparicio Méndez age 27
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 21
Aleksander Zawadzki age 31
Maciej Rataj age 47
Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro age 42
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 3
Kim Jong-pil age 5
William Gopallawa age 33
D. M. Jayaratne age 2 months
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones age 68
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 43
Georg Stumme age 45
Matthew Ridgway age 36
Manlio Brosio age 34
Franco Maria Malfatti age 4
Denis Healey age 13
Amin al-Hafiz age 9
Dragiša Cvetković age 38
J. Lawton Collins age 35
Qazi Muhammad age 38
Yakov Yurovsky age 53
Josef Harpe age 43
Issa Pliyev age 27
Kim Chaek age 28
Nikola Zhekov age 66
Sergey Kamenev age 50
Markian Popov age 28
Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia age 44
Hermine Reuss of Greiz age 43
Prince Arthur of Connaught age 48
Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia age 23
Princess Ileana of Romania age 22
Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland age 19
Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone age 57
Slobodan Jovanović age 61
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 13
Elliot Richardson age 11