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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

Edward Seaga age 7
Hans Hedtoft age 35
Fouad Chehab age 36
René Moawad age 13
Hussein Onn age 16
Ibrahim Nasir age 11
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 5
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 44
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 14
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 49
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 32
Haruo Remeliik age 4
Ivan Stambolić age 1
Ernst Trygger age 80
Hashim al-Atassi age 62
Seni Pramoj age 32
Kukrit Pramoj age 27
Anand Panyarachun age 5
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 1
Mohamed Ennaceur age 4
Godfrey Binaisa age 17
Vitalii Masol age 9
Raúl Leoni age 33
Ramón José Velásquez age 21
Vo Van Kiet age 15
Mohammed Basindawa age 3
Arnulfo Arias age 36
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 44
Andrés Rodríguez age 14
Liu Bocheng age 45
Glubb Pasha age 41
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ age 7
Claire Lee Chennault age 44
Albert Reynolds age 5
Dušan Simović age 55
Anton Korošec age 66
Abdel Hakim Amer age 18
Fazlollah Zahedi age 46
Ahmad Qavam age 62
Nobutake Kondō age 51
Bai Chongxi age 45
Johannes Frießner age 46
Lucjan Żeligowski age 72
Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon age 42
Veljko Kadijević age 12
Shunroku Hata age 58
Empress Teimei age 53
Princess Milica of Montenegro age 71
Frederick Francis IV age 56
Princess Helen of Serbia age 53
Dürrüşehvar Sultan age 24
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk) age 17
Sam Manekshaw age 24
Heinrich von Vietinghoff age 50
Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal age 82
Prince Nicholas of Romania age 34
Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein age 52
Gaylord Nelson age 21
Ramsey Clark age 10
Courtney Hodges age 51
Bainbridge Colby age 68
Carlos Lacoste age 9
Ramón Castillo age 64
Josef Klaus age 27
Juan José Torres age 18
Saye Zerbo age 5
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 14
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 14
Sufi Abu Taleb age 13
Ants Piip age 54
Tosiwo Nakayama age 6
Edwin Linkomies age 43
Theodoros Pangalos age 60
Nikolaos Plastiras age 54
Xenophon Zolotas age 34
Gérard Latortue age 3
Jenő Fock age 21
Miklós Kállay age 51
Sutan Sjahrir age 29
P. J. Patterson age 3
Erik Eriksen age 35
Dirk Jan de Geer age 67
Victor Marijnen age 21
Charles D. B. King age 63
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 3 months
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 54
Gheorghe Tătărescu age 51
Constantin Dăscălescu age 14
Frederick Ballantyne age 1
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 1
Adib Shishakli age 29
Qahhor Mahkamov age 6
Cleopa Msuya age 7
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 25
Aparicio Méndez age 33
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 28
Aleksander Zawadzki age 38
Maciej Rataj age 54
Guillermo Endara age 1
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 9
Kim Jong-pil age 12
William Gopallawa age 40
D. M. Jayaratne age 6
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones age 75
Georg Stumme age 51
Matthew Ridgway age 43
Manlio Brosio age 40
Franco Maria Malfatti age 10
Denis Healey age 20
Amin al-Hafiz age 16
Dragiša Cvetković age 45
J. Lawton Collins age 42
Qazi Muhammad age 45
Yakov Yurovsky age 59
Josef Harpe age 50
Issa Pliyev age 34
Kim Chaek age 34
Masahito, Prince Hitachi age 2
Nikola Zhekov age 73
Markian Popov age 35
Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia age 51
Hermine Reuss of Greiz age 50
Prince Arthur of Connaught age 55
Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia age 30
Princess Ileana of Romania age 29
Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland age 26
Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone age 64
Slobodan Jovanović age 68
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 19
Elliot Richardson age 17
Lester Bird age 2 months
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 54
Eduardo Lonardi age 41
Bill Hayden age 5
Alfons Gorbach age 39
Georges Theunis age 65
Paul van Zeeland age 44
Colville Young age 5
Aleksandar Tsankov age 58
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 46
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 22
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 11
Mario García Menocal age 71
Galo Plaza age 32
Teuvo Aura age 25
Keijo Liinamaa age 9
Sakari Tuomioja age 26
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 43
Alexandros Koryzis age 53
Ioannis Grivas age 15
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 10
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 7
Desmond Hoyte age 9
Henri Namphy age 5
Sándor Garbai age 59
Péter Boross age 9
István Friedrich age 54
Károly Grósz age 7
Geir Hallgrímsson age 12
Erik Scavenius age 60
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 43
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 24
Salim al-Huss age 8
Antanas Merkys age 51
Anton Buttigieg age 26
Luis Somoza Debayle age 15
Iuliu Maniu age 65
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod age 66
Cuthbert Sebastian age 16
Husni al-Za'im age 41
Yen Hsi-shan age 54
Sanya Dharmasakti age 31
Phraya Manopakorn Nitithada age 53
Kriangsak Chamanan age 20
Chatchai Chunhawan age 18
Arthur Foulkes age 9
Marguerite Pindling age 5
Eric Williams age 26
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 15
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 31
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 36
José Félix Estigarribia age 50
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 22
Don Stephen Senanayake age 53
Diego Martínez Barrio age 54
Miles Dempsey age 41
Masayoshi Ito age 24
Jim Fouché age 39
Nicolaas Diederichs age 34
Dirk Stikker age 41
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 61
James Wolfensohn age 4
Frank Carlucci age 7
Jafar Sharif-Emami age 27
Takeo Kurita age 49
Takeichi Nishi age 35
Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia age 46
Archduke Eugen of Austria age 75
Halil Kut age 56
Hal Moore age 16