✦ History

Explore August 25, 1944 – December 31, 1944

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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
The Holocaust 1941-01-01 - 1945-09-20
Second Soviet-Finnish War 1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01-01 - 1945-08-21
Quit India Movement 1942-08-08 - 1944-09-01
Italian campaign 1943-07-09 - 1945-05-02
Operation Ichi-Go 1944-04-17 - 1944-12-10
Operation Overlord 1944-06-06 - 1944-08-30
Lvov–Sandomierz offensive 1944-07-13 - 1944-08-29
Warsaw Uprising 1944-08-01 - 1944-10-02
Operation Dragoon 1944-08-15 - 1944-09-14
Second Jassy–Kishinev offensive 1944-08-20 - 1944-08-29
Operation Olive 1944-08-25 - 1944-12-31
Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine 1944-08-25 - 1945-03-07
Battle of Peleliu 1944-09-15 - 1944-11-27
Operation Market Garden 1944-09-17 - 1944-09-25
Battle of Metz 1944-09-27 - 1944-12-13
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Battle of Aachen 1944-10-02 - 1944-10-21
Battle of Debrecen 1944-10-06 - 1944-10-29
Battle of Leyte 1944-10-17 - 1944-12-31
Battle of Leyte Gulf 1944-10-23 - 1944-10-26
Rescue of the Lost Battalion 1944-10-26 - 1944-10-30
Battle of the Bulge 1944-12-16 - 1945-01-25
Siege of Budapest 1944-12-26 - 1945-02-13

People

Adolf Hitler age 55
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 65
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 62
President - United States
Mao Zedong age 50
Chairman of the Communist Party of China - Communist Party of China
Hirohito age 43
Emperor - Japan
George VI age 48
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 52
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 24
Shah - Iran
Getúlio Vargas age 62
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 74
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 42
King - Belgium
Farouk of Egypt age 24
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 20
King - Yugoslavia
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 47
President - Mexico
Wang Jingwei age 61
President - Republic of China
Juan Federico Ponce Vaides age 55
President - Guatemala
Francisco Javier Arana age 38
President - Guatemala
Jorge Toriello Garrido age 36
President - Guatemala
Winston Churchill age 69
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Charles de Gaulle age 53
Chairman of the Provisional Government - France
Chiang Kai-shek age 56
Premier - Republic of China
Éamon de Valera age 61
Taoiseach - Ireland
Jan Smuts age 74
Prime Minister - South Africa
Ivanoe Bonomi age 70
Prime Minister - Italy
Kuniaki Koiso age 64
Prime Minister - Japan
J. Sigfrid Edström age 73
President - International Olympic Committee
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 43
Prime Minister - Poland
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 65
Prime Minister - Egypt
Seán Lester age 55
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Faris al-Khoury age 66
Prime Minister - Syria
Saadallah al-Jabiri age 51
Prime Minister - Syria
Félix Lancís Sánchez age 43
Prime Minister - Cuba
Harlan F. Stone age 71
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Henry A. Wallace age 55
Vice President - United States
William D. Leahy age 69
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Heinrich Himmler age 43
Reichsminister - Germany
Hermann Göring age 51
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
George C. Marshall age 63
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Cordell Hull age 72
Secretary Of State - United States
Henry L. Stimson age 76
Secretary of War - United States
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 53
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Edward Stettinius Jr. age 43
Secretary Of State - United States
Francis Biddle age 58
Attorney General - United States
Herbert Morrison age 56
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 59
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 62
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 53
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 49
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clement Attlee age 61
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Wilhelm Frick age 67
Reichsleiter - Nazi Party
Robert H. Jackson age 52
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 51
President - African National Congress
Margaret Buckley age 65
President - Sinn Féin
Harry S. Truman age 60
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 66
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 36
House of Representatives - United States
David Lloyd George age 81
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
Earl Warren age 53
Governor of California - United States
Francisco Franco age 51
Caudillo - Spain
Pius XII age 68
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 68
King - Saudi Arabia
Norodom Sihanouk age 21
King - Cambodia
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 77
President - Finland
İsmet İnönü age 59
President - Turkey
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 64
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 72
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 86
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 73
King - Denmark
Michael I of Romania age 22
King - Kingdom of Romania
Rafael Trujillo age 52
President - Dominican Republic
Ananda Mahidol age 18
King - Thailand
Jozef Tiso age 56
President - Slovakia
Mohammed V of Morocco age 35
Sultan - Morocco
Bolesław Bierut age 52
President - Poland
Douglas Hyde age 84
President - Ireland
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 48
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 45
King - Eswatini
José Paciano Laurel age 53
President - Philippines
Sergio Osmeña age 66
President - Philippines
Anastasio Somoza García age 48
President - Nicaragua
William Tubman age 48
President - Liberia
Óscar Carmona age 74
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 74
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 34
Sultan - Oman
Władysław Raczkiewicz age 59
President - Poland
Jigme Wangchuck age 39
King - Bhutan
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 61
President - El Salvador
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 55
President - Peru
Bechara El Khoury age 54
President - Lebanon
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 44
Queen - Tonga
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 57
President - Argentina
Tiburcio Carías age 68
President - Honduras
Juan Antonio Rios age 55
President - Chile
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 58
President - Colombia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 59
Emir - Kuwait
Juan José de Amézaga age 63
President - Uruguay
Isaías Medina Angarita age 47
President - Venezuela
Higinio Morínigo age 47
President - Paraguay
Josip Vidmar age 48
President - Slovenia
Teodoro Picado Michalski age 44
President - Costa Rica
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 89
Emir - Qatar
Élie Lescot age 60
President - Haiti
Andrés Ignacio Menéndez age 65
President - El Salvador
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 42
Regent - Lesotho
Walther Stampfli age 59
President - Switzerland
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 62
President - Mongolia
Francesco Balsimelli age 50
Captain Regent - San Marino
Archibald Wavell age 61
Viceroy - British Raj
Enver Hoxha age 35
Prime Minister - Albania
António de Oliveira Salazar age 55
Prime Minister - Portugal
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 73
Prime Minister - Finland
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 69
Prime Minister - Canada
John Curtin age 59
Prime Minister - Australia
Ferenc Szálasi age 47
Prime Minister - Hungary
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 49
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Georgios Papandreou age 56
Prime Minister - Greece
Per Albin Hansson age 58
Prime Minister - Sweden
Johan Nygaardsvold age 65
Prime Minister - Norway
Döme Sztójay age 61
Prime Minister - Hungary
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 59
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Kimon Georgiev age 62
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Géza Lakatos age 54
Prime Minister - Hungary
Ólafur Thors age 52
Prime Minister - Iceland
Khuang Aphaiwong age 42
Prime Minister - Thailand
Şükrü Saracoğlu age 57
Prime Minister - Turkey
Hubert Pierlot age 60
Prime Minister - Belgium
Béla Miklós age 54
Prime Minister - Hungary
Riad Al Solh age 51
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Otto Tief age 55
Prime Minister - Estonia
Antti Hackzell age 62
Prime Minister - Finland
Ioannis Rallis age 66
Prime Minister - Greece
Constantin Sănătescu age 59
Prime Minister - Romania
Pierre Dupong age 59
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Nicolae Rădescu age 70
Prime Minister - Romania
Urho Castrén age 57
Prime Minister - Finland
Björn Þórðarson age 65
Prime Minister - Iceland
Peter Fraser age 60
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Ibrahim Biçakçiu age 38
Prime Minister - Albania
Konstantin Muraviev age 51
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 52
Prime Minister - Jordan
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 59
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Ivan Bagryanov age 52
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Alexandros Svolos age 52
Prime Minister - Greece
Josef Hoop age 48
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Hamdi Pachachi age 58
Prime Minister - Iraq
Makonnen Endelkachew age 54
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Solomone Ula Ata age 61
Prime Minister - Tonga
Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie age 72
Governor-General - Australia
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 58
Governor-General - New Zealand
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 63
Governor-General - Madagascar
Albert Einstein age 65
Ronald Reagan age 33
Nelson Mandela age 26
Mahatma Gandhi age 74
Joe Biden age 1
Pablo Picasso age 62
Charlie Chaplin age 55
Elizabeth II age 18
John F. Kennedy age 27
Martin Luther King Jr. age 15
Pope Francis age 7
Che Guevara age 16
Neil Armstrong age 14
Walt Disney age 42
Elvis Presley age 9
George Orwell age 41
John Paul II age 24
Margaret Thatcher age 18
Ernest Hemingway age 45
Gabriel García Márquez age 17
Fidel Castro age 18
Yuri Gagarin age 10
Mikhail Gorbachev age 13
Henry Ford age 81
Benito Mussolini age 61
Stephen Hawking age 2
Jean-Paul Sartre age 39
Jimmy Carter age 19
Benedict XVI age 17
Mother Teresa age 34
George H. W. Bush age 20
Jawaharlal Nehru age 54
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 53
Richard Nixon age 31
Alan Turing age 32
John Maynard Keynes age 61
Simone de Beauvoir age 36
Niels Bohr age 58
Muammar Gaddafi age 2
John Lennon age 3
Muhammad Ali age 2
Max Planck age 86
Kofi Annan age 6
Lech Wałęsa age 11 months
Gerald Ford age 31
Indira Gandhi age 26
Saddam Hussein age 7
Enrico Fermi age 42
Nikita Khrushchev age 50
14th Dalai Lama age 9