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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
Second Italo-Ethiopian War 1935-10-03 - 1937-02-19
1936–1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine 1936-04-19 - 1939-08-26

People

Adolf Hitler age 47
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 57
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 54
President - United States
Hirohito age 35
Emperor - Japan
Haile Selassie age 43
Emperor - Ethiopia
Edward VIII age 41
King - United Kingdom
Reza Shah age 58
Shah - Iran
Getúlio Vargas age 54
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 66
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 34
King - Belgium
Albert Lebrun age 64
President - France
Farouk of Egypt age 16
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Lázaro Cárdenas age 41
President - Mexico
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 12
King - Yugoslavia
Jorge Ubico age 57
President - Guatemala
Zhang Wentian age 35
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Miguel Mariano Gómez age 46
President - Cuba
Benito Mussolini age 52
Prime Minister - Italy
Chiang Kai-shek age 48
Premier - Republic of China
Vyacheslav Molotov age 46
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Stanley Baldwin age 68
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Éamon de Valera age 53
Taoiseach - Ireland
Kōki Hirota age 58
Prime Minister - Japan
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 60
President - International Olympic Committee
J. B. M. Hertzog age 70
Prime Minister - South Africa
Milan Stojadinović age 47
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Joseph Avenol age 56
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 56
Prime Minister - Egypt
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski age 50
Prime Minister - Poland
Ata al-Ayyubi age 59
Prime Minister - Syria
Charles Evans Hughes age 74
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John Nance Garner age 67
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 31
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 37
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 50
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 34
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 40
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 36
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Neville Chamberlain age 67
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Hermann Göring age 43
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
Rudolf Hess age 42
Reichsminister - Germany
Cordell Hull age 64
Secretary of State - United States
Wilhelm Frick age 59
Reichsminister - Germany
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 48
Reichsminister - Germany
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 45
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 63
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 56
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
George Dern age 63
Secretary of War - United States
Duff Cooper age 46
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Homer Stille Cummings age 66
Attorney General - United States
Malin Craig age 60
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
J. H. Thomas age 61
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 41
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Heinrich Himmler age 35
Reichsleiter - Nazi Party
Clement Attlee age 53
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Harlan F. Stone age 63
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Pixley ka Isaka Seme age 55
President - African National Congress
James Clark McReynolds age 74
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 45
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
J. C. C. Davidson age 47
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Cathal Ó Murchadha age 56
President - Sinn Féin
J. Howard McGrath age 32
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Harry S. Truman age 52
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 58
Senate - United States
James F. Byrnes age 54
Senate - United States
William Gibbs McAdoo age 72
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 78
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Lloyd George age 73
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Eden age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ramsay MacDonald age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 72
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stafford Cripps age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 46
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Lansbury age 77
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kingsley Wood age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 18
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 40
House of Representatives - United States
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert H. Lehman age 58
Governor of New York - United States
Frank Merriam age 70
Governor of California - United States
James Michael Curley age 61
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
James V. Allred age 37
Governor of Texas - United States
George C. Peery age 62
Governor of Virginia - United States
Junius Marion Futrell age 65
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Martin L. Davey age 51
Governor of Ohio - United States
Paul V. McNutt age 44
Governor of Indiana - United States
Harold G. Hoffman age 40
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Harry Nice age 58
Governor of Maryland - United States
Hill McAlister age 60
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Eugene Talmadge age 51
Governor of Georgia - United States
Christian Herter age 41
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 51
New York State Senate - United States
Barber Conable age 13
New York State Senate - United States
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 55
President - Turkey
Jawaharlal Nehru age 46
President - Indian National Congress
Pius XI age 79
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 60
King - Saudi Arabia
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 55
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 63
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 77
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 65
King - Denmark
Zog I of Albania age 40
King - Albania
Rafael Trujillo age 44
President - Dominican Republic
Ananda Mahidol age 10
King - Thailand
Mohammed V of Morocco age 26
Sultan - Morocco
Manuel L. Quezon age 57
President - Philippines
Antanas Smetona age 61
President - Lithuania
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 74
President - Finland
Kārlis Ulmanis age 58
President - Latvia
Carol II of Romania age 42
King - Kingdom of Romania
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 40
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 36
King - Eswatini
Ignacy Mościcki age 68
President - Poland
Óscar Carmona age 66
President - Portugal
Arturo Alessandri age 67
President - Chile
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 65
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 25
Sultan - Oman
Jigme Wangchuck age 31
King - Bhutan
Agustín Pedro Justo age 60
President - Argentina
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 53
President - El Salvador
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 36
Queen - Tonga
Sisowath Monivong age 60
King - Cambodia
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 48
Viceroy - British Raj
Tiburcio Carías age 60
President - Honduras
Edwin Barclay age 54
President - Liberia
Óscar R. Benavides age 60
President - Peru
Eleazar López Contreras age 53
President - Venezuela
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 50
President - Colombia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 51
Emir - Kuwait
Juan Bautista Sacasa age 61
President - Nicaragua
Germán Busch age 33
President - Bolivia
Harmodio Arias Madrid age 49
President - Panama
Rafael Franco age 39
President - Paraguay
David Toro age 37
President - Bolivia
Émile Eddé age 53
President - Lebanon
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 81
Emir - Qatar
Albert Meyer age 66
President - Switzerland
León Cortés Castro age 53
President - Costa Rica
Stenio Vincent age 62
President - Haiti
Federico Páez age 59
President - Ecuador
Hamad I of Bahrain age 64
Hakim - Bahrain
Dansranbilegiin Dogsom age 52
President - Mongolia
António de Oliveira Salazar age 47
Prime Minister - Portugal
İsmet İnönü age 51
Prime Minister - Turkey
Kurt Schuschnigg age 38
Chancellor - Austria
Ioannis Metaxas age 65
Prime Minister - Greece
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 61
Prime Minister - Canada
Per Albin Hansson age 50
Prime Minister - Sweden
Joseph Lyons age 56
Prime Minister - Australia
Thorvald Stauning age 62
Prime Minister - Denmark
Gyula Gömbös age 49
Prime Minister - Hungary
Johan Nygaardsvold age 56
Prime Minister - Norway
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 49
Prime Minister - Finland
Joseph Bech age 49
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Gheorghe Tătărescu age 49
Prime Minister - Romania
Paul van Zeeland age 42
Prime Minister - Belgium
Hermann Jónasson age 39
Prime Minister - Iceland
Hendrikus Colijn age 66
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Phraya Phahonphonphayuhasena age 49
Prime Minister - Thailand
Santiago Casares Quiroga age 52
Prime Minister - Spain
Michael Joseph Savage age 64
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Mehdi Frashëri age 64
Prime Minister - Albania
Georgi Kʹoseivanov age 52
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Yasin Hashimi age 54
Prime Minister - Iraq
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 51
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Ayoub Tabet age 62
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Josef Hoop age 40
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 48
Prime Minister - Tonga
Abraham Guloyan age 43
Prime Minister - Armenia
Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie age 63
Governor-General - Australia
Léon Cayla age 54
Governor-General - Madagascar
Albert Einstein age 57
Ronald Reagan age 25
Nelson Mandela age 17
Mahatma Gandhi age 66
Pablo Picasso age 54
Charlie Chaplin age 47