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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
Siege of Leningrad 1941-09-08 - 1944-01-27
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
Bengal famine of 1943 1943 - 1944
Battle of Kursk 1943-07-05 - 1943-08-23
Italian campaign 1943-07-09 - 1945-05-02
Allied invasion of Sicily 1943-07-09 - 1943-08-17
Allied invasion of Italy 1943-09-03 - 1943-09-16
Battle of Tarawa 1943-11-20 - 1943-11-23
Tehran Conference 1943-11-28 - 1943-12-01
Battle of Monte Cassino 1944-01-17 - 1944-05-18
Battle of Anzio 1944-01-22 - 1944-06-04
Operation Hailstone 1944-02-17 - 1944-02-18
Battle of Imphal 1944-03-08 - 1944-07-03
Battle of Kohima 1944-04-04 - 1944-06-22
Operation Ichi-Go 1944-04-17 - 1944-12-10
Operation Overlord 1944-06-06 - 1944-08-30
Battle of Saipan 1944-06-15 - 1944-07-09
Battle of the Philippine Sea 1944-06-19 - 1944-06-20
Operation Bagration 1944-06-22 - 1944-08-19
Bretton Woods Conference 1944-07-01 - 1944-07-22
Lvov–Sandomierz offensive 1944-07-13 - 1944-08-29
20 July plot 1944-07-20
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
Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay 1945-01-01 - 1945-03-29
Battle of Luzon 1945-01-09 - 1945-08-15
Vistula–Oder offensive 1945-01-12 - 1945-02-02
East Prussian offensive 1945-01-13 - 1945-04-25
Manila massacre 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Battle of Manila (1945) 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Yalta Conference 1945-02-04 - 1945-02-11
Battle of Iwo Jima 1945-02-19 - 1945-03-26
East Pomeranian offensive 1945-02-24 - 1945-04-04
Vienna offensive 1945-03-16 - 1945-04-15
Western Allied invasion of Germany 1945-03-22 - 1945-05-08
Battle of Okinawa 1945-04-01 - 1945-06-22
Spring 1945 offensive in Italy 1945-04-06 - 1945-05-02
Operation Ten-Go 1945-04-07 - 1945-04-07
Battle of Berlin 1945-04-16 - 1945-05-02

People

Adolf Hitler age 54
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 64
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 61
President - United States
Mao Zedong age 49
Chairman of the Communist Party of China - Communist Party of China
Harry S. Truman age 59
President - United States
Hirohito age 42
Emperor - Japan
George VI age 47
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 50
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 23
Shah - Iran
Philippe Pétain age 87
Chief of the French State - Vichy France
Karl Dönitz age 51
Reich President - Germany
Getúlio Vargas age 61
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 73
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 41
King - Belgium
Farouk of Egypt age 23
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 19
King - Yugoslavia
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 46
President - Mexico
Wang Jingwei age 60
President - Republic of China
Juan José Arévalo age 38
President - Guatemala
Jorge Ubico age 64
President - Guatemala
Juan Federico Ponce Vaides age 53
President - Guatemala
Francisco Javier Arana age 37
President - Guatemala
Jorge Toriello Garrido age 35
President - Guatemala
Winston Churchill age 68
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Charles de Gaulle age 52
Chairman of the Provisional Government - France
Benito Mussolini age 59
Prime Minister - Italy
Joseph Goebbels age 45
Chancellor - Germany
Chiang Kai-shek age 55
Premier - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 51
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Hideki Tojo age 58
Prime Minister - Japan
Éamon de Valera age 60
Taoiseach - Ireland
Pietro Badoglio age 71
Prime Minister - Italy
Pierre Laval age 60
Head of Government - Vichy France
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 55
Leading Minister - Germany
Jan Smuts age 73
Prime Minister - South Africa
Ivanoe Bonomi age 69
Prime Minister - Italy
Kuniaki Koiso age 63
Prime Minister - Japan
Kantarō Suzuki age 75
Prime Minister - Japan
J. Sigfrid Edström age 72
President - International Olympic Committee
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 42
Prime Minister - Poland
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 64
Prime Minister - Egypt
Seán Lester age 54
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Mahmud Fahmi al-Nuqrashi age 55
Prime Minister - Egypt
Faris al-Khoury age 65
Prime Minister - Syria
Saadallah al-Jabiri age 50
Prime Minister - Syria
Félix Lancís Sánchez age 42
Prime Minister - Cuba
Ramón Zaydín age 48
Prime Minister - Cuba
Miloš Trifunović age 71
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Harlan F. Stone age 70
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Henry A. Wallace age 54
Vice President - United States
William D. Leahy age 68
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Heinrich Himmler age 42
Reichsminister - Germany
Hermann Göring age 50
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
George C. Marshall age 62
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Cordell Hull age 71
Secretary Of State - United States
Henry L. Stimson age 75
Secretary of War - United States
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 52
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Edward Stettinius Jr. age 42
Secretary Of State - United States
Francis Biddle age 57
Attorney General - United States
Herbert Morrison age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Kingsley Wood age 61
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 58
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 61
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 52
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 48
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clement Attlee age 60
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Wilhelm Frick age 66
Reichsleiter - Nazi Party
Robert H. Jackson age 51
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 50
President - African National Congress
Margaret Buckley age 63
President - Sinn Féin
Alben W. Barkley age 65
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 34
House of Representatives - United States
David Lloyd George age 80
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
Earl Warren age 52
Governor of California - United States
Francisco Franco age 50
Caudillo - Spain
Pius XII age 67
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 67
King - Saudi Arabia
Norodom Sihanouk age 20
King - Cambodia
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 76
President - Finland
İsmet İnönü age 58
President - Turkey
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 62
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 70
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 85
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 72
King - Denmark
Michael I of Romania age 21
King - Kingdom of Romania
Rafael Trujillo age 51
President - Dominican Republic
Ananda Mahidol age 17
King - Thailand
Jozef Tiso age 55
President - Slovakia
Mohammed V of Morocco age 33
Sultan - Morocco
Manuel L. Quezon age 64
President - Philippines
Risto Ryti age 54
President - Finland
Bolesław Bierut age 51
President - Poland
Douglas Hyde age 83
President - Ireland
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 47
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 43
King - Eswatini
José Paciano Laurel age 52
President - Philippines
Sergio Osmeña age 64
President - Philippines
Anastasio Somoza García age 47
President - Nicaragua
William Tubman age 47
President - Liberia
Óscar Carmona age 73
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 73
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 32
Sultan - Oman
Władysław Raczkiewicz age 58
President - Poland
Jigme Wangchuck age 38
King - Bhutan
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 60
President - El Salvador
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 54
President - Peru
Bechara El Khoury age 52
President - Lebanon
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 43
Queen - Tonga
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 56
President - Argentina
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 55
Viceroy - British Raj
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 59
President - Argentina
Tiburcio Carías age 67
President - Honduras
Edwin Barclay age 61
President - Liberia
Enrique Peñaranda age 49
President - Bolivia
Juan Antonio Rios age 54
President - Chile
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 57
President - Colombia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 58
Emir - Kuwait
Juan José de Amézaga age 62
President - Uruguay
Isaías Medina Angarita age 46
President - Venezuela
Higinio Morínigo age 46
President - Paraguay
Carlos Arroyo age 49
President - Ecuador
Josip Vidmar age 47
President - Slovenia
Teodoro Picado Michalski age 43
President - Costa Rica
Émile Eddé age 60
President - Lebanon
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 88
Emir - Qatar
Élie Lescot age 59
President - Haiti
Eduard von Steiger age 62
President - Switzerland
Enrico Celio age 54
President - Switzerland
Andrés Ignacio Menéndez age 64
President - El Salvador
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 41
Regent - Lesotho
Walther Stampfli age 58
President - Switzerland
Petro Trad age 67
President - Lebanon
Ayoub Tabet age 69
President - Lebanon
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 61
President - Mongolia
Alvaro Casali age 47
Captain Regent - San Marino
Francesco Balsimelli age 49
Captain Regent - San Marino
Archibald Wavell age 60
Viceroy - British Raj
Enver Hoxha age 34
Prime Minister - Albania
António de Oliveira Salazar age 54
Prime Minister - Portugal
Ion Antonescu age 61
Prime Minister - Romania
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 72
Prime Minister - Finland
Karl Renner age 72
Chancellor - Austria
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 46
Prime Minister - Thailand
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 68
Prime Minister - Canada
Milovan Đilas age 32
Prime Minister - Montenegro
John Curtin age 58
Prime Minister - Australia
Ferenc Szálasi age 46
Prime Minister - Hungary
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 48
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Georgios Papandreou age 55
Prime Minister - Greece
Per Albin Hansson age 57
Prime Minister - Sweden
Petru Groza age 58
Prime Minister - Romania
Johan Nygaardsvold age 63
Prime Minister - Norway
Döme Sztójay age 60
Prime Minister - Hungary
Achille Van Acker age 45
Prime Minister - Belgium
Nuri as-Said age 55
Prime Minister - Iraq
Bogdan Filov age 60
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 58
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Kimon Georgiev age 60
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Géza Lakatos age 53
Prime Minister - Hungary
Ólafur Thors age 51
Prime Minister - Iceland
Khuang Aphaiwong age 41
Prime Minister - Thailand
Şükrü Saracoğlu age 56
Prime Minister - Turkey
Hubert Pierlot age 59
Prime Minister - Belgium
Béla Miklós age 53
Prime Minister - Hungary
Edwin Linkomies age 48
Prime Minister - Finland
Nikolaos Plastiras age 59
Prime Minister - Greece
Miklós Kállay age 56
Prime Minister - Hungary
Erik Scavenius age 66
Prime Minister - Denmark
Iuliu Maniu age 70
Prime Minister - Romania
Riad Al Solh age 50
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Sofoklis Venizelos age 48
Prime Minister - Greece
Otto Tief age 53
Prime Minister - Estonia
Antti Hackzell age 61
Prime Minister - Finland
Ioannis Rallis age 65
Prime Minister - Greece
Constantin Sănătescu age 58
Prime Minister - Romania
Vladimir Bakarić age 31
Prime Minister - Croatia
Pierre Dupong age 58
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Nicolae Rădescu age 69
Prime Minister - Romania
Urho Castrén age 56
Prime Minister - Finland
Björn Þórðarson age 64
Prime Minister - Iceland
Peter Fraser age 58
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Ibrahim Biçakçiu age 37
Prime Minister - Albania
Rexhep Mitrovica age 55
Prime Minister - Albania
Dobry Bozhilov age 59
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Peter Gabrovski age 45
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Konstantin Muraviev age 50
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Petros Voulgaris age 59
Prime Minister - Greece
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 51
Prime Minister - Jordan
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 58
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Ivan Bagryanov age 51
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Alexandros Svolos age 51
Prime Minister - Greece
Josef Hoop age 47
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Hamdi Pachachi age 57
Prime Minister - Iraq
Makonnen Endelkachew age 53
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Blažo Jovanović age 36
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Solomone Ula Ata age 60
Prime Minister - Tonga
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 43
Governor-General - Australia
Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie age 71
Governor-General - Australia
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 57
Governor-General - New Zealand
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 62
Governor-General - Madagascar