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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 Wuhan 1938-06-11 - 1938-10-27
Battle of the Ebro 1938-07-25 - 1938-11-16

People

Adolf Hitler age 49
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 59
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 56
President - United States
Hirohito age 37
Emperor - Japan
George VI age 42
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 46
Emperor - Ethiopia
Reza Shah age 60
Shah - Iran
Getúlio Vargas age 56
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 68
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 36
King - Belgium
Farouk of Egypt age 18
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Lázaro Cárdenas age 43
President - Mexico
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 15
King - Yugoslavia
Jorge Ubico age 59
President - Guatemala
Albert Lebrun age 67
President - France
Benito Mussolini age 55
Prime Minister - Italy
Neville Chamberlain age 69
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Vyacheslav Molotov age 48
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Éamon de Valera age 55
Taoiseach - Ireland
Édouard Daladier age 54
Prime Minister - France
Fumimaro Konoe age 46
Prime Minister - Japan
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 62
President - International Olympic Committee
J. B. M. Hertzog age 72
Prime Minister - South Africa
H. H. Kung age 57
Premier - Republic of China
Joseph Avenol age 59
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski age 53
Prime Minister - Poland
Jamil Mardam Bey age 45
Prime Minister - Syria
Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha age 61
Prime Minister - Egypt
Charles Evans Hughes age 76
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John Nance Garner age 69
Vice President - United States
Hermann Göring age 45
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
Rudolf Hess age 44
Reichsminister - Germany
Cordell Hull age 67
Secretary of State - United States
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 47
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 65
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 58
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Duff Cooper age 48
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Harry Hines Woodring age 51
Secretary of War - United States
Kingsley Wood age 57
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
Homer Stille Cummings age 68
Attorney General - United States
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 45
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Malin Craig age 63
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Heinrich Himmler age 37
Chief of German Police - Germany
J. Edgar Hoover age 43
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Chiang Kai-shek age 50
Chairman - Kuomintang
Clement Attlee age 55
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Wilhelm Frick age 61
Reichsleiter - Nazi Party
Harlan F. Stone age 65
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 47
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Zacharias Richard Mahabane age 57
President - African National Congress
Margaret Buckley age 59
President - Sinn Féin
Harry S. Truman age 54
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 60
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Lyndon B. Johnson age 30
House of Representatives - United States
David Lloyd George age 75
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 57
President - Turkey
Francisco Franco age 45
Caudillo - Spain
Pius XI age 81
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 62
King - Saudi Arabia
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 58
Queen - Netherlands
Subhas Chandra Bose age 41
President - Indian National Congress
Haakon VII of Norway age 66
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 80
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 68
King - Denmark
Zog I of Albania age 42
King - Albania
Ananda Mahidol age 13
King - Thailand
Konstantin Päts age 64
President - Estonia
Mohammed V of Morocco age 29
Sultan - Morocco
Manuel L. Quezon age 60
President - Philippines
Antanas Smetona age 64
President - Lithuania
Douglas Hyde age 78
President - Ireland
Kārlis Ulmanis age 61
President - Latvia
Kyösti Kallio age 65
President - Finland
Carol II of Romania age 44
King - Kingdom of Romania
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 42
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 39
King - Eswatini
Ignacy Mościcki age 70
President - Poland
Anastasio Somoza García age 42
President - Nicaragua
Óscar Carmona age 68
President - Portugal
Arturo Alessandri age 69
President - Chile
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 68
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 28
Sultan - Oman
Jigme Wangchuck age 33
King - Bhutan
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 55
President - El Salvador
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 38
Queen - Tonga
Sisowath Monivong age 62
King - Cambodia
Roberto Marcelino Ortiz age 52
President - Argentina
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 51
Viceroy - British Raj
Tiburcio Carías age 62
President - Honduras
Edwin Barclay age 56
President - Liberia
Óscar R. Benavides age 62
President - Peru
Eleazar López Contreras age 55
President - Venezuela
Eduardo Santos age 50
President - Colombia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 53
Emir - Kuwait
Alfredo Baldomir age 54
President - Uruguay
Émile Eddé age 55
President - Lebanon
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 83
Emir - Qatar
Johannes Baumann age 63
President - Switzerland
Félix Paiva age 61
President - Paraguay
León Cortés Castro age 55
President - Costa Rica
Stenio Vincent age 64
President - Haiti
Hamad I of Bahrain age 66
Hakim - Bahrain
Dansranbilegiin Dogsom age 54
President - Mongolia
António de Oliveira Salazar age 49
Prime Minister - Portugal
Celâl Bayar age 55
Prime Minister - Turkey
Paul-Henri Spaak age 39
Prime Minister - Belgium
Ioannis Metaxas age 67
Prime Minister - Greece
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 63
Prime Minister - Canada
Per Albin Hansson age 52
Prime Minister - Sweden
Joseph Lyons age 59
Prime Minister - Australia
Juan Negrín age 46
Prime Minister - Spain
Aimo Cajander age 59
Prime Minister - Finland
Thorvald Stauning age 64
Prime Minister - Denmark
Johan Nygaardsvold age 59
Prime Minister - Norway
Kaarel Eenpalu age 50
Prime Minister - Estonia
Béla Imrédy age 46
Prime Minister - Hungary
Hermann Jónasson age 41
Prime Minister - Iceland
Hendrikus Colijn age 69
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Phraya Phahonphonphayuhasena age 51
Prime Minister - Thailand
Patriarch Miron of Romania age 70
Prime Minister - Romania
Michael Joseph Savage age 66
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Pierre Dupong age 53
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Georgi Kʹoseivanov age 54
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 53
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Jamil al-Midfai age 48
Prime Minister - Iraq
Kostaq Kota age 49
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 66
Governor-General - Australia
Léon Cayla age 56
Governor-General - Madagascar
Albert Einstein age 59
Ronald Reagan age 27
Nelson Mandela age 20
Mahatma Gandhi age 69
Pablo Picasso age 56
Charlie Chaplin age 49
Elizabeth II age 12
Sigmund Freud age 82
John F. Kennedy age 21
Martin Luther King Jr. age 9
Rabindranath Tagore age 77
Pope Francis age 1
Mao Zedong age 44
Che Guevara age 10
Charles de Gaulle age 47
Nikola Tesla age 82
Neil Armstrong age 8
Walt Disney age 36
Elvis Presley age 3
George Orwell age 35
John Paul II age 18
Margaret Thatcher age 12
Ernest Hemingway age 39
Gabriel García Márquez age 11
Fidel Castro age 12
Yuri Gagarin age 4
Mikhail Gorbachev age 7
Henry Ford age 75
Jean-Paul Sartre age 33
Jimmy Carter age 13
Benedict XVI age 11
Mother Teresa age 28
George H. W. Bush age 14
Jawaharlal Nehru age 48
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 47
Richard Nixon age 25
Alan Turing age 26
John Maynard Keynes age 55
Simone de Beauvoir age 30
Niels Bohr age 53
Leon Trotsky age 58
Max Planck age 80
Kofi Annan age 5 months
Gerald Ford age 25
Indira Gandhi age 20
Saddam Hussein age 1
Enrico Fermi age 37
Nikita Khrushchev age 44
14th Dalai Lama age 3
Silvio Berlusconi age 1
Herbert Hoover age 64
Mahathir Mohamad age 13
Boris Yeltsin age 7
Jacques Chirac age 5
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 19
Kwame Nkrumah age 29
Yasser Arafat age 9
Ho Chi Minh age 48
Konrad Adenauer age 62
Henry Kissinger age 15
Václav Havel age 1
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 10
Georges Pompidou age 27
Joseph Goebbels age 40
Leonid Brezhnev age 31
Robert Mugabe age 14
Hosni Mubarak age 10
Golda Meir age 40
John XXIII age 56