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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Great Depression 1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
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
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

People

Adolf Hitler age 47
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 58
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 54
President - United States
Hirohito age 35
Emperor - Japan
George VI age 41
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 44
Emperor - Ethiopia
Reza Shah age 58
Shah - Iran
Getúlio Vargas age 54
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 67
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 35
King - Belgium
Farouk of Egypt age 16
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Lázaro Cárdenas age 41
President - Mexico
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 13
King - Yugoslavia
Jorge Ubico age 58
President - Guatemala
Albert Lebrun age 65
President - France
Zhang Wentian age 36
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Benito Mussolini age 53
Prime Minister - Italy
Chiang Kai-shek age 49
Premier - Republic of China
Vyacheslav Molotov age 46
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Stanley Baldwin age 69
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Éamon de Valera age 54
Taoiseach - Ireland
Léon Blum age 64
Prime Minister - France
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
Joseph Avenol age 57
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 57
Prime Minister - Egypt
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski age 51
Prime Minister - Poland
Jamil Mardam Bey age 44
Prime Minister - Syria
Charles Evans Hughes age 74
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John Nance Garner age 68
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 32
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 38
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 35
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 37
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 65
Secretary of State - United States
Wilhelm Frick age 59
Reichsminister - Germany
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 49
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
Duff Cooper age 46
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Harry Hines Woodring age 49
Secretary of War - United States
Homer Stille Cummings age 66
Attorney General - United States
Malin Craig age 61
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Heinrich Himmler age 36
Chief of German Police - Germany
J. Edgar Hoover age 42
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clement Attlee age 54
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Harlan F. Stone age 64
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Clark McReynolds age 74
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 46
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
J. C. C. Davidson age 47
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Pixley ka Isaka Seme age 56
President - African National Congress
Cathal Ó Murchadha age 56
President - Sinn Féin
J. Howard McGrath age 33
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Harry S. Truman age 52
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 59
Senate - United States
James F. Byrnes age 54
Senate - United States
William Gibbs McAdoo age 73
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 79
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Lloyd George age 73
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Eden age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ramsay MacDonald age 70
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 33
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 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kingsley Wood age 55
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
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 18
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 42
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 41
House of Representatives - United States
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 73
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Lansbury age 77
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert H. Lehman age 58
Governor of New York - United States
Frank Merriam age 71
Governor of California - United States
James Michael Curley age 62
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
James V. Allred age 37
Governor of Texas - United States
George C. Peery age 63
Governor of Virginia - United States
Junius Marion Futrell age 66
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Martin L. Davey age 52
Governor of Ohio - United States
Paul V. McNutt age 45
Governor of Indiana - United States
Harold G. Hoffman age 40
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Harry Nice age 59
Governor of Maryland - United States
Hill McAlister age 61
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Christian Herter age 41
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 52
New York State Senate - United States
Barber Conable age 14
New York State Senate - United States
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 56
President - Turkey
Jawaharlal Nehru age 47
President - Indian National Congress
Francisco Franco age 44
Caudillo - Spain
Pius XI age 79
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 61
King - Saudi Arabia
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 56
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 64
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 78
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 66
King - Denmark
Zog I of Albania age 41
King - Albania
Rafael Trujillo age 45
President - Dominican Republic
Ananda Mahidol age 11
King - Thailand
Mohammed V of Morocco age 27
Sultan - Morocco
Manuel L. Quezon age 58
President - Philippines
Antanas Smetona age 62
President - Lithuania
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 75
President - Finland
Kārlis Ulmanis age 59
President - Latvia
Carol II of Romania age 43
King - Kingdom of Romania
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 40
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 37
King - Eswatini
Ignacy Mościcki age 69
President - Poland
Óscar Carmona age 67
President - Portugal
Arturo Alessandri age 68
President - Chile
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 66
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 26
Sultan - Oman
Jigme Wangchuck age 32
King - Bhutan
Agustín Pedro Justo age 60
President - Argentina
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 54
President - El Salvador
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 36
Queen - Tonga
Sisowath Monivong age 61
King - Cambodia
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 49
Viceroy - British Raj
Tiburcio Carías age 60
President - Honduras
Edwin Barclay age 55
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 52
Emir - Kuwait
Rafael Franco age 40
President - Paraguay
David Toro age 38
President - Bolivia
Émile Eddé age 53
President - Lebanon
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 82
Emir - Qatar
Albert Meyer age 66
President - Switzerland
León Cortés Castro age 54
President - Costa Rica
Stenio Vincent age 62
President - Haiti
Federico Páez age 60
President - Ecuador
Hamad I of Bahrain age 64
Hakim - Bahrain
Dansranbilegiin Dogsom age 53
President - Mongolia
Carlos Alberto Brenes age 52
President - Nicaragua
António de Oliveira Salazar age 47
Prime Minister - Portugal
İsmet İnönü age 52
Prime Minister - Turkey
Kurt Schuschnigg age 39
Chancellor - Austria
Ioannis Metaxas age 65
Prime Minister - Greece
Kyösti Kallio age 63
Prime Minister - Finland
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 62
Prime Minister - Canada
Francisco Largo Caballero age 67
Prime Minister - Spain
Per Albin Hansson age 51
Prime Minister - Sweden
Joseph Lyons age 57
Prime Minister - Australia
Thorvald Stauning age 63
Prime Minister - Denmark
Johan Nygaardsvold age 57
Prime Minister - Norway
Joseph Bech age 49
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Gheorghe Tătărescu age 50
Prime Minister - Romania
Paul van Zeeland age 43
Prime Minister - Belgium
Kálmán Darányi age 50
Prime Minister - Hungary
Hermann Jónasson age 40
Prime Minister - Iceland
Hendrikus Colijn age 67
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Phraya Phahonphonphayuhasena age 49
Prime Minister - Thailand
Michael Joseph Savage age 64
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Georgi Kʹoseivanov age 52
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 52
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Kostaq Kota age 48
Prime Minister - Albania
Ayoub Tabet age 63
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Josef Hoop age 41
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Hikmat Sulayman age 48
Prime Minister - Iraq
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 49
Prime Minister - Tonga
Abraham Guloyan age 44
Prime Minister - Armenia
Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie age 64
Governor-General - Australia
Léon Cayla age 55
Governor-General - Madagascar
Albert Einstein age 57
Ronald Reagan age 25
Nelson Mandela age 18
Mahatma Gandhi age 67
Pablo Picasso age 55
Charlie Chaplin age 47
Elizabeth II age 10
Sigmund Freud age 80
John F. Kennedy age 19
Martin Luther King Jr. age 7