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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
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Battle of Xuzhou 1937-12-01 - 1938-05-19
Nanjing Massacre 1937-12-13 - 1938-02-07
Battle of Teruel 1937-12-15 - 1938-02-22

People

Adolf Hitler age 48
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 59
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 55
President - United States
Hirohito age 36
Emperor - Japan
George VI age 42
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 68
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 36
King - Belgium
Farouk of Egypt age 17
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Lázaro Cárdenas age 42
President - Mexico
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 14
King - Yugoslavia
Jorge Ubico age 59
President - Guatemala
Albert Lebrun age 66
President - France
Zhang Wentian age 37
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Benito Mussolini age 54
Prime Minister - Italy
Chiang Kai-shek age 50
Premier - Republic of China
Neville Chamberlain age 68
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Vyacheslav Molotov age 47
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Éamon de Valera age 55
Taoiseach - Ireland
Fumimaro Konoe age 46
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
Milan Stojadinović age 49
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Charles Evans Hughes age 75
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John Nance Garner age 69
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 33
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 39
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 51
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 36
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 41
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
Hermann Göring age 44
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
Rudolf Hess age 43
Reichsminister - Germany
Cordell Hull age 66
Secretary of State - United States
Wilhelm Frick age 60
Reichsminister - Germany
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 50
Reichsminister - Germany
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
Duff Cooper age 47
First Lord of the Admiralty - 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 44
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Malin Craig age 62
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Heinrich Himmler age 37
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 65
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Clark McReynolds age 75
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 47
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton age 54
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Zacharias Richard Mahabane age 56
President - African National Congress
Margaret Buckley age 58
President - Sinn Féin
J. Howard McGrath age 34
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Harry S. Truman age 53
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 60
Senate - United States
James F. Byrnes age 55
Senate - United States
William Gibbs McAdoo age 74
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 79
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Lyndon B. Johnson age 29
House of Representatives - United States
David Lloyd George age 74
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Eden age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stafford Cripps age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 47
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kingsley Wood age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 19
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 42
House of Representatives - United States
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Lansbury age 78
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert H. Lehman age 59
Governor of New York - United States
Frank Merriam age 72
Governor of California - United States
Carl E. Bailey age 43
Governor of Arkansas - United States
James V. Allred age 38
Governor of Texas - United States
George C. Peery age 64
Governor of Virginia - United States
Charles F. Hurley age 44
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Martin L. Davey age 53
Governor of Ohio - United States
Harold G. Hoffman age 41
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Harry Nice age 60
Governor of Maryland - United States
M. Clifford Townsend age 53
Governor of Indiana - United States
Christian Herter age 42
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Barber Conable age 15
New York State Senate - United States
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 56
President - Turkey
Jawaharlal Nehru age 48
President - Indian National Congress
Francisco Franco age 45
Caudillo - Spain
Pius XI age 80
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 61
King - Saudi Arabia
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 57
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 65
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 79
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 67
King - Denmark
Zog I of Albania age 42
King - Albania
Rafael Trujillo age 46
President - Dominican Republic
Ananda Mahidol age 12
King - Thailand
Mohammed V of Morocco age 28
Sultan - Morocco
Manuel L. Quezon age 59
President - Philippines
Antanas Smetona age 63
President - Lithuania
Kārlis Ulmanis age 60
President - Latvia
Kyösti Kallio age 64
President - Finland
Carol II of Romania age 44
King - Kingdom of Romania
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 41
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 38
King - Eswatini
Ignacy Mościcki age 70
President - Poland
Anastasio Somoza García age 41
President - Nicaragua
Óscar Carmona age 68
President - Portugal
Arturo Alessandri age 69
President - Chile
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 67
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 27
Sultan - Oman
Jigme Wangchuck age 32
King - Bhutan
Agustín Pedro Justo age 61
President - Argentina
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 55
President - El Salvador
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 37
Queen - Tonga
Sisowath Monivong age 62
King - Cambodia
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 50
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 66
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
Germán Busch age 34
President - Bolivia
Émile Eddé age 54
President - Lebanon
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 83
Emir - Qatar
Félix Paiva age 60
President - Paraguay
León Cortés Castro age 55
President - Costa Rica
Stenio Vincent age 63
President - Haiti
Hamad I of Bahrain age 65
Hakim - Bahrain
Dansranbilegiin Dogsom age 53
President - Mongolia
António de Oliveira Salazar age 48
Prime Minister - Portugal
Celâl Bayar age 54
Prime Minister - Turkey
Kurt Schuschnigg age 40
Chancellor - Austria
Ioannis Metaxas age 66
Prime Minister - Greece
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 63
Prime Minister - Canada
Per Albin Hansson age 52
Prime Minister - Sweden
Joseph Lyons age 58
Prime Minister - Australia
Juan Negrín age 45
Prime Minister - Spain
Aimo Cajander age 58
Prime Minister - Finland
Thorvald Stauning age 64
Prime Minister - Denmark
Johan Nygaardsvold age 58
Prime Minister - Norway
Gheorghe Tătărescu age 51
Prime Minister - Romania
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
Pierre Dupong age 52
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Paul-Émile Janson age 65
Prime Minister - Belgium
Georgi Kʹoseivanov age 53
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 52
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Jamil al-Midfai age 47
Prime Minister - Iraq
Kostaq Kota age 48
Prime Minister - Albania
Josef Hoop age 42
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 50
Prime Minister - Tonga
Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie age 65
Governor-General - Australia
Léon Cayla age 56
Governor-General - Madagascar
Albert Einstein age 58
Ronald Reagan age 26
Nelson Mandela age 19
Mahatma Gandhi age 68
Pablo Picasso age 56
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 12 months
Mao Zedong age 43
Che Guevara age 9
Charles de Gaulle age 47
Nikola Tesla age 81
Neil Armstrong age 7