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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
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Battles of Khalkhin Gol 1939-05-11 - 1939-09-16

People

Adolf Hitler age 50
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 60
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 57
President - United States
Hirohito age 38
Emperor - Japan
George VI age 43
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 46
Emperor - Ethiopia
Reza Shah age 61
Shah - Iran
Getúlio Vargas age 57
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 69
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 37
Monarch - Belgium
Farouk of Egypt age 19
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Lázaro Cárdenas age 44
President - Mexico
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 15
King - Yugoslavia
Jorge Ubico age 60
President - Guatemala
Albert Lebrun age 67
President - France
Benito Mussolini age 55
Prime Minister - Italy
Neville Chamberlain age 70
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Vyacheslav Molotov age 49
Chairman - Soviet Union
Éamon de Valera age 56
Taoiseach - Ireland
Édouard Daladier age 55
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 73
Prime Minister - South Africa
Dragiša Cvetković age 46
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
H. H. Kung age 57
Premier - Republic of China
Joseph Avenol age 60
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski age 54
Prime Minister - Poland
Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha age 62
Prime Minister - Egypt
Nasuhi al-Bukhari age 58
Prime Minister - Syria
Charles Evans Hughes age 77
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John Nance Garner age 70
Vice President - United States
Hermann Göring age 46
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
Rudolf Hess age 45
Reichsminister - Germany
Cordell Hull age 67
Secretary Of State - United States
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 48
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 66
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Frank Murphy age 49
Attorney General - United States
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 59
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Harry Hines Woodring age 52
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)
Wilhelm Frick age 62
Reichsleiter - Nazi Party
Harlan F. Stone age 66
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
Harry S. Truman age 55
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 61
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
Francisco Franco age 46
Caudillo - Spain
Pius XII age 63
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 63
- Saudi Arabia
İsmet İnönü age 54
President - Turkey
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 58
King - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 66
Monarch - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 81
Monarch - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 68
Monarch - Denmark
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 66
President - Finland
Carol II of Romania age 45
King - Kingdom of Romania
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 43
Monarch - 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 39
Monarch - 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 63
President - Peru
Eleazar López Contreras age 56
President - Venezuela
Eduardo Santos age 50
President - Colombia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 54
Emir - Kuwait
Philipp Etter age 47
President - Switzerland
Alfredo Baldomir age 54
President - Uruguay
Émile Eddé age 56
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
Monarch - Bahrain
Dansranbilegiin Dogsom age 55
President - Mongolia
António de Oliveira Salazar age 50
Prime Minister - Portugal
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 41
Prime Minister - Thailand
Ioannis Metaxas age 68
Prime Minister - Greece
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 64
Prime Minister - Canada
Robert Menzies age 44
Prime Minister - Australia
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 44
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Pál Teleki age 59
Prime Minister - Hungary
Per Albin Hansson age 53
Prime Minister - Sweden
Aimo Cajander age 60
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 51
Prime Minister - Estonia
Armand Călinescu age 46
Prime Minister - Romania
Hubert Pierlot age 55
Prime Minister - Belgium
Hermann Jónasson age 42
Prime Minister - Iceland
Hendrikus Colijn age 70
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Shefqet Vërlaci age 61
Prime Minister - Albania
Michael Joseph Savage age 67
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Pierre Dupong age 54
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
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
Abdallah El-Yafi age 37
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Josef Hoop age 43
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 51
Prime Minister - Tonga
Manuel Ugarteche age 67
Prime Minister - Peru
Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie age 66
Governor-General - Australia
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 58
Governor-General - Madagascar
Albert Einstein age 60
Ronald Reagan age 28
Nelson Mandela age 20
Mahatma Gandhi age 69
Pablo Picasso age 57
Charlie Chaplin age 50
Elizabeth II age 13
Sigmund Freud age 83
John F. Kennedy age 22
Martin Luther King Jr. age 10
Rabindranath Tagore age 78
Pope Francis age 2
Mao Zedong age 45
Che Guevara age 11
Charles de Gaulle age 48
Nikola Tesla age 82
Neil Armstrong age 8
Walt Disney age 37
Elvis Presley age 4
George Orwell age 35
John Paul II age 19
Margaret Thatcher age 13
Ernest Hemingway age 39
Gabriel García Márquez age 12
Fidel Castro age 12
Yuri Gagarin age 5
Mikhail Gorbachev age 8
Henry Ford age 75
Jean-Paul Sartre age 33
Jimmy Carter age 14
Benedict XVI age 12
Mother Teresa age 28
George H. W. Bush age 15
Jawaharlal Nehru age 49
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 48
Richard Nixon age 26
Alan Turing age 26
John Maynard Keynes age 56
Simone de Beauvoir age 31
Niels Bohr age 53
Leon Trotsky age 59
Max Planck age 81
Kofi Annan age 1
Gerald Ford age 25
Indira Gandhi age 21
Saddam Hussein age 2
Enrico Fermi age 37
Nikita Khrushchev age 45
14th Dalai Lama age 3
Silvio Berlusconi age 2
Herbert Hoover age 64
Mahathir Mohamad age 13
Boris Yeltsin age 8
Ali Khamenei age 1 month
Jacques Chirac age 6
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 20
Kwame Nkrumah age 29
Yasser Arafat age 9
Ho Chi Minh age 49
Konrad Adenauer age 63
Henry Kissinger age 16
Václav Havel age 2
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 11
Georges Pompidou age 27
Joseph Goebbels age 41
Leonid Brezhnev age 32
Robert Mugabe age 15