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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Great Depression 1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
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 57
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 19
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
Kiichirō Hiranuma age 71
Prime Minister - Japan
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 63
President - International Olympic Committee
J. B. M. Hertzog age 72
Prime Minister - South Africa
Dragiša Cvetković age 46
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
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
Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha age 62
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 53
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 39
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Hermann Göring age 46
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 66
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Frank Murphy age 48
Attorney General - United States
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 59
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
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 44
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Chiang Kai-shek age 51
Chairman - Kuomintang
Clement Attlee age 56
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Harlan F. Stone age 66
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Clark McReynolds age 77
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 45
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 48
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Zacharias Richard Mahabane age 57
President - African National Congress
Margaret Buckley age 59
President - Sinn Féin
Robert H. Jackson age 47
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 81
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 76
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Eden age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 45
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 49
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 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duff Cooper age 49
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 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 21
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 54
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 38
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 57
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 80
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 55
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
John W. Bricker age 45
Governor of Ohio - United States
W. Lee O'Daniel age 48
Governor of Texas - United States
Culbert Olson age 62
Governor of California - United States
Leverett Saltonstall age 46
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Carl E. Bailey age 44
Governor of Arkansas - United States
James Hubert Price age 60
Governor of Virginia - United States
Herbert O'Conor age 42
Governor of Maryland - United States
A. Harry Moore age 62
Governor of New Jersey - 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
Ibn Saud age 63
King - Saudi Arabia
İsmet İnönü age 54
President - Turkey
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 58
Queen - Netherlands
Subhas Chandra Bose age 42
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 65
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 79
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 43
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 39
King - Eswatini
Ignacy Mościcki age 71
President - Poland
Anastasio Somoza García age 43
President - Nicaragua
Óscar Carmona age 69
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 68
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 28
Sultan - Oman
Jigme Wangchuck age 34
King - Bhutan
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 56
President - El Salvador
Pedro Aguirre Cerda age 60
President - Chile
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 63
President - Honduras
Edwin Barclay age 57
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 54
Emir - Kuwait
Germán Busch age 35
President - Bolivia
Philipp Etter age 47
President - Switzerland
Alfredo Baldomir age 54
President - Uruguay
Émile Eddé age 55
President - Lebanon
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 84
Emir - Qatar
Félix Paiva age 62
President - Paraguay
León Cortés Castro age 56
President - Costa Rica
Stenio Vincent age 65
President - Haiti
Hamad I of Bahrain age 67
Hakim - Bahrain
Dansranbilegiin Dogsom age 55
President - Mongolia
António de Oliveira Salazar age 49
Prime Minister - Portugal
Paul-Henri Spaak age 40
Prime Minister - Belgium
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 41
Prime Minister - Thailand
Ioannis Metaxas age 67
Prime Minister - Greece
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 64
Prime Minister - Canada
Pál Teleki age 59
Prime Minister - Hungary
Per Albin Hansson age 53
Prime Minister - Sweden
Joseph Lyons age 59
Prime Minister - Australia
Juan Negrín age 47
Prime Minister - Spain
Aimo Cajander age 59
Prime Minister - Finland
Thorvald Stauning age 65
Prime Minister - Denmark
Johan Nygaardsvold age 59
Prime Minister - Norway
Nuri as-Said age 51
Prime Minister - Iraq
Kaarel Eenpalu age 50
Prime Minister - Estonia
Hermann Jónasson age 42
Prime Minister - Iceland
Hendrikus Colijn age 69
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Patriarch Miron of Romania age 70
Prime Minister - Romania
Michael Joseph Savage age 66
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Pierre Dupong age 54
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Refik Saydam age 57
Prime Minister - Turkey
Georgi Kʹoseivanov age 55
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 47
Prime Minister - Jordan
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 54
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Kostaq Kota age 50
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
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 57
Governor-General - Madagascar
Léon Cayla age 57
Governor-General - Madagascar
Albert Einstein age 59
Ronald Reagan age 28
Nelson Mandela age 20
Mahatma Gandhi age 69
Pablo Picasso age 57
Charlie Chaplin age 49
Elizabeth II age 12
Sigmund Freud age 82