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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
Siege of Madrid 1936-11-08 - 1939-03-28
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02

People

Adolf Hitler age 49
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 60
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 56
President - United States
Hirohito age 37
Emperor - Japan
George VI age 43
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 69
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 37
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 60
President - Guatemala
Albert Lebrun age 67
President - France
Zhang Wentian age 38
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
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 56
Taoiseach - Ireland
Édouard Daladier age 54
Prime Minister - France
Fumimaro Konoe age 47
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 70
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 34
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 40
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 52
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 37
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 42
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 38
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Hermann Göring age 45
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
Rudolf Hess age 44
Reichsminister - Germany
Cordell Hull age 67
Secretary of State - United States
Wilhelm Frick age 61
Reichsminister - Germany
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 51
Reichsminister - Germany
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
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
James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope age 58
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Heinrich Himmler age 38
Chief of German Police - Germany
J. Edgar Hoover age 43
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Chiang Kai-shek age 51
Chairman - Kuomintang
Clement Attlee age 55
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Harlan F. Stone age 66
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Clark McReynolds age 76
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 48
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton age 55
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Zacharias Richard Mahabane age 57
President - African National Congress
Margaret Buckley age 59
President - Sinn Féin
Robert H. Jackson age 46
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
J. Howard McGrath age 35
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Harry S. Truman age 54
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 61
Senate - United States
James F. Byrnes age 56
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 80
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 64
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
Anthony Eden age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stafford Cripps age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 48
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duff Cooper age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 20
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 43
House of Representatives - United States
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Lansbury age 79
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert H. Lehman age 60
Governor of New York - United States
Frank Merriam age 73
Governor of California - United States
Carl E. Bailey age 44
Governor of Arkansas - United States
James V. Allred age 39
Governor of Texas - United States
James Hubert Price age 60
Governor of Virginia - United States
A. Harry Moore age 61
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Charles F. Hurley age 45
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Martin L. Davey age 54
Governor of Ohio - United States
Harry Nice age 61
Governor of Maryland - United States
M. Clifford Townsend age 54
Governor of Indiana - United States
Christian Herter age 43
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Barber Conable age 16
New York State Senate - United States
Francisco Franco age 46
Caudillo - Spain
Pius XI age 81
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 62
King - Saudi Arabia
İsmet İnönü age 54
President - Turkey
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 43
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 45
King - Kingdom of Romania
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 42
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 39
King - Eswatini
Ignacy Mościcki age 71
President - Poland
Anastasio Somoza García age 42
President - Nicaragua
Óscar Carmona age 69
President - Portugal
Arturo Alessandri age 70
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 56
President - El Salvador
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 38
Queen - Tonga
Sisowath Monivong age 63
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
Germán Busch age 35
President - Bolivia
Alfredo Baldomir age 54
President - Uruguay
Émile Eddé age 55
President - Lebanon
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 84
Emir - Qatar
Johannes Baumann age 64
President - Switzerland
Félix Paiva age 61
President - Paraguay
León Cortés Castro age 56
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 64
Prime Minister - Canada
Per Albin Hansson age 53
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 65
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
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 46
Prime Minister - Jordan
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 53
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Jamil al-Midfai age 48
Prime Minister - Iraq
Kostaq Kota age 49
Prime Minister - Albania
Abdallah El-Yafi age 37
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Josef Hoop age 43
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 51
Prime Minister - Tonga
Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie age 66
Governor-General - Australia
Léon Cayla age 57
Governor-General - Madagascar
Albert Einstein age 59
Ronald Reagan age 27
Nelson Mandela age 20
Mahatma Gandhi age 69
Pablo Picasso age 57
Charlie Chaplin age 49
Elizabeth II age 12