Spanish Civil War 1936–1939

Republican faction ⚔ Nationalist faction

Key battles

• Siege of Madrid (1936)
• Siege of the Alcázar (1936)
• Battle of Majorca (1936)
• Battle of Mérida (1936)
• Battle of Badajoz (1936)
• Battle of Teruel (1937)
• Battle of Guadalajara (1937)
• Barcelona May Days (1937)
• Battle of Belchite (1937)
• Battle of Jarama (1937)
• Battle of Brunete (1937)
• Battle of Málaga (1937)
• Battle of Santander (1937)
• Battle of the Ebro (1938)
• Catalonia Offensive (1938)
• Aragon Offensive (1938)

Who lived through the Spanish Civil War

Well-known people alive during 1936–1939:

• Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) — dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945, main instigator of World War II (1889–1945)
• Albert Einstein (1879–1955) — German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
• Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) — president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and actor (1911–2004)
• Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) — President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918–2013)
• Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) — Indian independence activist (1869–1948)
• Joseph Stalin (1878–1953) — leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
• Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) — Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
• Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) — English comic actor and filmmaker (1889–1977)
• Winston Churchill (1874–1965) — British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965)
• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) — founding father of the Republic of Turkey (c. 1881–1938)
• Elizabeth II (1926–2022) — Queen of the United Kingdom from 1952 to 2022 (1926–2022)
• John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) — president of the United States from 1961 to 1963 (1917–1963)
• Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) — Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)
• Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) — Spanish artist (1904–1989)
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) — president of the United States from 1933 to 1945 (1882–1945)
• Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) — American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1929–1968)
• Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) — Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)
• Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) — American actress and model (1926–1962)
• Pope Francis (1936–2025) — 266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
• Mao Zedong (1893–1976) — 1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893–1976)
• Che Guevara (1928–1967) — Argentine Marxist revolutionary (1928–1967)
• Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) — French general and statesman (1890–1970)
• Neil Armstrong (1930–2012) — American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2012)
• Elvis Presley (1935–1977) — American singer and actor (1935–1977)
• Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) — Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)

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