✦ History

Explore November 15, 1939 – November 30, 1940

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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
World War II 1939-09-01 - 1945-09-02
Battle of the Atlantic 1939-09-03 - 1945-05-08
Battle of South Guangxi 1939-11-15 - 1940-11-30
Winter War 1939-11-30 - 1940-03-13
Operation Weserübung 1940-04-09 - 1940-06-10
Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang 1940-05-01 - 1940-06-24
Battle of France 1940-05-10 - 1940-06-25
Battle of Dunkirk 1940-05-26 - 1940-06-04
Western Desert campaign 1940-06-11 - 1943-02-04
Battle of Britain 1940-07-10 - 1940-10-31

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 47
Emperor - Ethiopia
Philippe Pétain age 83
Chief of the French State - Vichy France
Reza Shah age 61
Shah - Iran
Getúlio Vargas age 57
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 70
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 38
King - Belgium
Farouk of Egypt age 19
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Lázaro Cárdenas age 44
President - Mexico
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 16
King - Yugoslavia
Wang Jingwei age 56
President - Republic of China
Jorge Ubico age 61
President - Guatemala
Bahij al-Khatib age 44
President - Syria
Albert Lebrun age 68
President - France
Winston Churchill age 65
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Benito Mussolini age 56
Prime Minister - Italy
Chiang Kai-shek age 52
Premier - Republic of China
Neville Chamberlain age 70
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Vyacheslav Molotov age 49
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Éamon de Valera age 57
Taoiseach - Ireland
Édouard Daladier age 55
Prime Minister - France
Władysław Sikorski age 58
Prime Minister - Poland
Fumimaro Konoe age 48
Prime Minister - Japan
Jan Smuts age 69
Prime Minister - South Africa
Paul Reynaud age 61
Prime Minister - France
Nobuyuki Abe age 64
Prime Minister - Japan
Mitsumasa Yonai age 59
Prime Minister - Japan
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 63
President - International Olympic Committee
Dragiša Cvetković age 46
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
H. H. Kung age 58
Premier - Republic of China
Joseph Avenol age 60
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Seán Lester age 51
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Aly Maher Pasha age 58
Prime Minister - Egypt
Hussein Sirri Pasha age 47
Prime Minister - Egypt
Carlos Saladrigas Zayas age 39
Prime Minister - Cuba
Hassan Sabry Pasha age 64
Prime Minister - Egypt
Charles Evans Hughes age 77
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John Nance Garner age 71
Vice President - United States
Hermann Göring age 46
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
George C. Marshall age 58
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Rudolf Hess age 45
Reichsminister - Germany
Cordell Hull age 68
Secretary Of State - United States
Henry L. Stimson age 72
Secretary of War - United States
Robert H. Jackson age 47
Attorney General - 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
Herbert Morrison age 51
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Harry Hines Woodring age 52
Secretary of War - United States
Kingsley Wood age 58
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 54
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 46
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 49
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
Heinrich Himmler age 39
Chief Of German Police - Germany
J. Edgar Hoover age 44
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clement Attlee age 56
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Wilhelm Frick age 62
Reichsleiter - Nazi Party
Harlan F. Stone age 67
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 46
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Zacharias Richard Mahabane age 58
President - African National Congress
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 46
President - African National Congress
Margaret Buckley age 60
President - Sinn Féin
Francis Biddle age 53
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Harry S. Truman age 55
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 62
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 31
House of Representatives - United States
David Lloyd George age 76
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles de Gaulle age 49
Leader of Free France - Free France
Francisco Franco age 46
Caudillo - Spain
Pius XII age 63
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 63
King - Saudi Arabia
İsmet İnönü age 55
President - Turkey
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 59
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 67
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 81
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 69
King - Denmark
Michael I of Romania age 18
King - Kingdom of Romania
Ananda Mahidol age 14
King - Thailand
Konstantin Päts age 65
President - Estonia
Jozef Tiso age 52
President - Slovakia
Mohammed V of Morocco age 30
Sultan - Morocco
Manuel L. Quezon age 61
President - Philippines
Antanas Smetona age 65
President - Lithuania
Douglas Hyde age 79
President - Ireland
Kārlis Ulmanis age 62
President - Latvia
Kyösti Kallio age 66
President - Finland
Carol II of Romania age 46
King - Kingdom of Romania
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 43
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 40
King - Eswatini
Anastasio Somoza García age 43
President - Nicaragua
Óscar Carmona age 70
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 69
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 29
Sultan - Oman
Władysław Raczkiewicz age 54
President - Poland
Jigme Wangchuck age 34
King - Bhutan
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 57
President - El Salvador
Pedro Aguirre Cerda age 60
President - Chile
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 50
President - Peru
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 39
Queen - Tonga
Sisowath Monivong age 63
King - Cambodia
Roberto Marcelino Ortiz age 53
President - Argentina
Arnulfo Arias age 38
President - Panama
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 52
Viceroy - British Raj
Tiburcio Carías age 63
President - Honduras
Edwin Barclay age 57
President - Liberia
Antanas Merkys age 52
President - Lithuania
José Félix Estigarribia age 51
President - Paraguay
Óscar R. Benavides age 63
President - Peru
Eleazar López Contreras age 56
President - Venezuela
Eduardo Santos age 51
President - Colombia
Enrique Peñaranda age 46
President - Bolivia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 54
Emir - Kuwait
Justas Paleckis age 40
President - Lithuania
Philipp Etter age 47
President - Switzerland
Alfredo Baldomir age 55
President - Uruguay
Higinio Morínigo age 42
President - Paraguay
Carlos Arroyo age 45
President - Ecuador
Marcel Pilet-Golaz age 49
President - Switzerland
Émile Eddé age 56
President - Lebanon
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 84
Emir - Qatar
Carlos Quintanilla age 51
President - Bolivia
León Cortés Castro age 56
President - Costa Rica
Stenio Vincent age 65
President - Haiti
Andrés F. Córdova age 47
President - Ecuador
Julio Enrique Moreno age 60
President - Ecuador
Hamad I of Bahrain age 67
Hakim - Bahrain
Seeiso of Basutoland age 34
King - Lesotho
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 58
President - Mongolia
António de Oliveira Salazar age 50
Prime Minister - Portugal
Ion Antonescu age 57
Prime Minister - Romania
Risto Ryti age 50
Prime Minister - Finland
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 42
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 60
Prime Minister - Hungary
Per Albin Hansson age 54
Prime Minister - Sweden
Aimo Cajander age 60
Prime Minister - Finland
Thorvald Stauning age 66
Prime Minister - Denmark
Johan Nygaardsvold age 60
Prime Minister - Norway
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 47
Prime Minister - Iraq
Jüri Uluots age 49
Prime Minister - Estonia
Nuri as-Said age 51
Prime Minister - Iraq
Bogdan Filov age 56
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 54
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Hubert Pierlot age 55
Prime Minister - Belgium
Dirk Jan de Geer age 68
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Gheorghe Tătărescu age 53
Prime Minister - Romania
Johannes Vares age 49
Prime Minister - Estonia
Hermann Jónasson age 42
Prime Minister - Iceland
Shefqet Vërlaci age 61
Prime Minister - Albania
Michael Joseph Savage age 67
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Pierre Dupong age 54
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Peter Fraser age 55
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Augusts Kirhenšteins age 67
Prime Minister - Latvia
Ion Gigurtu age 53
Prime Minister - Romania
Georgi Kʹoseivanov age 55
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Constantin Argetoianu age 68
Prime Minister - Romania
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 47
Prime Minister - Jordan
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 54
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Josef Hoop age 43
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 52
Prime Minister - Tonga
Manuel Ugarteche age 67
Prime Minister - Peru
Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie age 67
Governor-General - Australia
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 58
Governor-General - Madagascar
Léon Cayla age 58
Governor-General - Madagascar
Albert Einstein age 60
Ronald Reagan age 28
Nelson Mandela age 21
Mahatma Gandhi age 70
Pablo Picasso age 58
Charlie Chaplin age 50
Elizabeth II age 13
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
Nikola Tesla age 83
Neil Armstrong age 9
Walt Disney age 37
Elvis Presley age 4
George Orwell age 36
John Paul II age 19
Margaret Thatcher age 14
Ernest Hemingway age 40
Gabriel García Márquez age 12
Fidel Castro age 13
Yuri Gagarin age 5
Mikhail Gorbachev age 8
Henry Ford age 76
Jean-Paul Sartre age 34
Jimmy Carter age 15