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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
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
War in the North 1937-03-31 - 1937-10-21
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02

People

Adolf Hitler age 48
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 58
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 55
President - United States
Hirohito age 36
Emperor - Japan
George VI age 41
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 45
Emperor - Ethiopia
Reza Shah age 59
Shah - Iran
Getúlio Vargas age 55
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 67
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 35
King - Belgium
Farouk of Egypt age 17
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Lázaro Cárdenas age 42
President - Mexico
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 13
King - Yugoslavia
Jorge Ubico age 58
President - Guatemala
Albert Lebrun age 65
President - France
Benito Mussolini age 54
Prime Minister - Italy
Chiang Kai-shek age 49
Premier - Republic of China
Neville Chamberlain age 68
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Vyacheslav Molotov age 47
Chairman - Soviet Union
Éamon de Valera age 54
Taoiseach - Ireland
Fumimaro Konoe age 45
Prime Minister - Japan
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 61
President - International Olympic Committee
J. B. M. Hertzog age 71
Prime Minister - South Africa
Joseph Avenol age 58
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 58
Prime Minister - Egypt
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski age 52
Prime Minister - Poland
Jamil Mardam Bey age 44
Prime Minister - Syria
Charles Evans Hughes age 75
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John Nance Garner age 68
Vice President - United States
Hermann Göring age 44
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
Rudolf Hess age 43
Reichsminister - Germany
Cordell Hull age 65
Secretary Of State - United States
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 46
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 64
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Harry Hines Woodring age 50
Secretary of War - United States
Homer Stille Cummings age 67
Attorney General - United States
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 43
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Malin Craig age 62
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)
Wilhelm Frick age 60
Reichsleiter - Nazi Party
Harlan F. Stone age 64
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 46
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Zacharias Richard Mahabane age 55
President - African National Congress
Margaret Buckley age 58
President - Sinn Féin
Harry S. Truman age 53
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 59
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 62
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
Lyndon B. Johnson age 28
House of Representatives - United States
David Lloyd George age 74
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 56
President - Turkey
Jawaharlal Nehru age 47
President - Indian National Congress
Francisco Franco age 44
Caudillo - Spain
Pius XI age 80
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 61
King - Saudi Arabia
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 56
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 65
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 79
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 63
President - Lithuania
Kārlis Ulmanis age 59
President - Latvia
Kyösti Kallio age 64
President - Finland
Carol II of Romania age 43
King - Kingdom of Romania
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 41
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 38
King - Eswatini
Ignacy Mościcki age 69
President - Poland
Anastasio Somoza García age 41
President - Nicaragua
Óscar Carmona age 67
President - Portugal
Arturo Alessandri age 68
President - Chile
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 67
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 26
Sultan - Oman
Jigme Wangchuck age 32
King - Bhutan
Agustín Pedro Justo age 61
President - Argentina
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 54
President - El Salvador
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 37
Queen - Tonga
Sisowath Monivong age 61
King - Cambodia
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 49
Viceroy - British Raj
Tiburcio Carías age 61
President - Honduras
Edwin Barclay age 55
President - Liberia
Óscar R. Benavides age 61
President - Peru
Giuseppe Motta age 65
President - Switzerland
Eleazar López Contreras age 54
President - Venezuela
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 51
President - Colombia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 52
Emir - Kuwait
Rafael Franco age 40
President - Paraguay
Émile Eddé age 54
President - Lebanon
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 82
Emir - Qatar
León Cortés Castro age 54
President - Costa Rica
Stenio Vincent age 63
President - Haiti
Federico Páez age 61
President - Ecuador
Giuliano Gozi age 43
Captain Regent - San Marino
Hamad I of Bahrain age 65
Hakim - Bahrain
Dansranbilegiin Dogsom age 53
President - Mongolia
António de Oliveira Salazar age 48
Prime Minister - Portugal
İsmet İnönü age 52
Prime Minister - Turkey
Kurt Schuschnigg age 39
Chancellor - Austria
Ioannis Metaxas age 66
Prime Minister - Greece
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 62
Prime Minister - Canada
Per Albin Hansson age 51
Prime Minister - Sweden
Joseph Lyons age 57
Prime Minister - Australia
Juan Negrín age 45
Prime Minister - Spain
Aimo Cajander age 58
Prime Minister - Finland
Thorvald Stauning age 63
Prime Minister - Denmark
Johan Nygaardsvold age 57
Prime Minister - Norway
Joseph Bech age 50
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Gheorghe Tătărescu age 50
Prime Minister - Romania
Paul van Zeeland age 43
Prime Minister - Belgium
Kálmán Darányi age 51
Prime Minister - Hungary
Hermann Jónasson age 40
Prime Minister - Iceland
Hendrikus Colijn age 68
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Phraya Phahonphonphayuhasena age 50
Prime Minister - Thailand
Michael Joseph Savage age 65
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Georgi Kʹoseivanov age 53
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 52
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Kostaq Kota age 48
Prime Minister - Albania
Josef Hoop age 41
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Hikmat Sulayman age 48
Prime Minister - Iraq
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 49
Prime Minister - Tonga
Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie age 65
Governor-General - Australia
Léon Cayla age 55
Governor-General - Madagascar
Albert Einstein age 58
Ronald Reagan age 26
Nelson Mandela age 19
Mahatma Gandhi age 67
Pablo Picasso age 55
Charlie Chaplin age 48
Elizabeth II age 11
Sigmund Freud age 81
John F. Kennedy age 20
Martin Luther King Jr. age 8
Rabindranath Tagore age 76
Pope Francis age 7 months
Mao Zedong age 43
Che Guevara age 9
Charles de Gaulle age 46
Nikola Tesla age 81
Neil Armstrong age 6
Walt Disney age 35
Elvis Presley age 2
George Orwell age 34
John Paul II age 17
Margaret Thatcher age 11
Ernest Hemingway age 38
Gabriel García Márquez age 10
Fidel Castro age 10
Yuri Gagarin age 3
Mikhail Gorbachev age 6
Henry Ford age 74
Jean-Paul Sartre age 32
Jimmy Carter age 12
Benedict XVI age 10
Mother Teresa age 26
George H. W. Bush age 13
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 46
Richard Nixon age 24
Alan Turing age 25
John Maynard Keynes age 54
Simone de Beauvoir age 29
Niels Bohr age 51
Leon Trotsky age 57
Max Planck age 79
Gerald Ford age 24
Indira Gandhi age 19
Saddam Hussein age 3 months
Enrico Fermi age 35
Nikita Khrushchev age 43
14th Dalai Lama age 2
Silvio Berlusconi age 10 months
Herbert Hoover age 63
Mahathir Mohamad age 12
Boris Yeltsin age 6
Jacques Chirac age 4
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 18
Kwame Nkrumah age 27
Yasser Arafat age 7
Ho Chi Minh age 47
Konrad Adenauer age 61
Henry Kissinger age 14
Václav Havel age 10 months
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 9
Georges Pompidou age 26
Joseph Goebbels age 39
Leonid Brezhnev age 30
Robert Mugabe age 13
Hosni Mubarak age 9
Golda Meir age 39
John XXIII age 55
Deng Xiaoping age 32
Ferdinand Marcos age 19
Malcolm X age 12
François Mitterrand age 20
Alexander Fleming age 56
David Ben-Gurion age 50