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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
New Deal 1933-03-09 - 1939
1936–1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine 1936-04-19 - 1939-08-26
Spanish Civil War 1936-07-17 - 1939-04-01
Great Purge 1936-08-19 - 1938-11-17
Siege of Madrid 1936-11-08 - 1939-03-28
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Battle of Xuzhou 1937-12-01 - 1938-05-19
Levante Offensive 1938-04-23 - 1938-07-24

People

Yuriko, Princess Mikasa age 14
Şehzade Ertuğrul Osman age 25
Princess Patricia of Connaught age 52
Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick age 50
Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia age 61
Alfonso, Prince of Asturias (1907–1938) age 31
Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1906–1969) age 31
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook age 58
Leonard Kleinrock age 3
Warren E. Burger age 30
Haxhi Lleshi age 24
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 46
Julius Raab age 46
Achille Van Acker age 40
Julio César Turbay age 21
Laureano Gómez age 49
Gerardo Machado age 66
Spiros Cyprianou age 5
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 2
Jüri Uluots age 48
Kamisese Mara age 18
Juho Vennola age 65
Mauno Pekkala age 48
Kaarlo Castrén age 78
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 6
Oswaldo López Arellano age 16
István Bethlen age 63
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 33
Nuri as-Said age 50
Poul Hartling age 23
Barend Biesheuvel age 18
Alberts Kviesis age 56
Bechara El Khoury age 47
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 0 months
Augustinas Voldemaras age 55
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 32
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 37
Choe Yong-rim age 7
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel age 67
Grégoire Kayibanda age 14
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 5
T. V. Soong age 46
Tito Okello age 23
Vitold Fokin age 5
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 12
Do Muoi age 21
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke age 18
Chung Il-kwon age 20
Ismail al-Azhari age 37
Raif Dizdarević age 11
Vo Chi Cong age 25
Pyotr Krasnov age 68
Joseph Stilwell age 55
J. G. Strijdom age 44
W. T. Cosgrave age 57
Jean Rey age 35
Lloyd Bentsen age 17
Feng Yuxiang age 55
Choe Yong-gon age 37
Jisaburō Ozawa age 51
Ralph Abernathy age 12
David Elazar age 12
Kâzım Karabekir age 56
Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg age 72
Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 51
Mamoru Shigemitsu age 50
Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark age 25
Iwane Matsui age 59
Wang Zhen (general) age 30
Frank Jack Fletcher age 53
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 51
Tajuddin Ahmad age 12
Luis García Meza Tejada age 8
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 24
Bogdan Filov age 55
Norodom Suramarit age 42
Hazem Al Beblawi age 1
José Napoleón Duarte age 12
Rafael Paasio age 34
Johannes Virolainen age 24
Noe Zhordania age 70
Georgios Rallis age 19
Forbes Burnham age 15
István Dobi age 39
Ferenc Münnich age 51
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 53
Joseph Bech age 51
Ċensu Tabone age 25
Hammer DeRoburt age 15
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 10
Jim Bolger age 2
Ernest Shonekan age 1
Muhammad Junejo age 5
Vasco Gonçalves age 17
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 17
Ong Teng Cheong age 2
Chen Cheng age 41
Thanin Kraiwichian age 11
Luis Herrera Campins age 13
Wincenty Witos age 64
Manuel Odría age 40
Nur Hassan Hussein age 2 months
Goh Kun age 4 months
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 13
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort age 51
C. R. Swart age 43
Marais Viljoen age 22
Sicco Mansholt age 29
François-Xavier Ortoli age 13
Essam Sirius age 12
Jamshid Amouzegar age 14
Paul Blobel age 43
Kamal Jumblatt age 20
Husband E. Kimmel age 56
Borisav Jović age 9
Carlo Sforza age 66
Félicien Kabuga age 5
Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark age 49
Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland age 53
Eduard Dietl age 47
Wanrong age 31
Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine age 71
Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria age 54
Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony (1867–1944) age 70
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. age 50
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 21
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 18
José María Guido age 27
Pierre Harmel age 27
Kimon Georgiev age 55
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 38
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 36
Kamal Ganzouri age 5
V. J. Sukselainen age 31
Edward Akufo-Addo age 31
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 24
Michael Stasinopoulos age 34
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 2
András Hegedüs age 15
László Bárdossy age 47
Géza Lakatos age 48
Ólafur Thors age 46
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 25
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 18
Viggo Kampmann age 27
Louis Beel age 36
Jelle Zijlstra age 19
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 44
Manea Mănescu age 21
Armand Călinescu age 44
Nils Edén age 66
Nureddin al-Atassi age 9
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 26
Miguel Trovoada age 1
Yen Chia-kan age 32
Hsu Shih-chang age 82
Cao Kun age 75
Khuang Aphaiwong age 36
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 5
Şükrü Saracoğlu age 50
Nguyen Huu Tho age 27
Mieczysław Rakowski age 11
Alejandro Lerroux age 74
John A. Costello age 46
Jack Lynch age 20
Rauf Orbay age 56
Nigel Lawson age 6
Harold Brown age 10
Alexander Vandegrift age 51
Masaharu Homma age 50
Archduke Joseph August of Austria age 65
Takahito, Prince Mikasa age 22
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890–1958) age 48
Princess Margaret of Prussia age 66
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 59
Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia age 20
Aspasia Manos age 41
Princess Mafalda of Savoy age 35
Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz age 1
George Voinovich age 1
John Profumo age 23
Seishirō Itagaki age 53
Friedrich Jeckeln age 43
Melvin Laird age 15
Thomas Gage age 220
Juan José Arévalo age 33
Ali Kafi age 9
Michael Jeffery age 4 months
Hubert Pierlot age 54
Jean Duvieusart age 38
Camille Huysmans age 66
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 18
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 20
Guillermo León Valencia age 29
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 30
Akwasi Afrifa age 2
Fred Akuffo age 1
Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou age 47
Phaedon Gizikis age 20
Béla Miklós age 47