✦ History

Explore March 22, 1945 – May 8, 1945

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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 - 1945
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01 - 1945-08-21
Italian campaign 1943-07-09 - 1945-05-02
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay 1945-01-01 - 1945-03-29
Battle of Luzon 1945-01-09 - 1945-08-15
East Prussian offensive 1945-01-13 - 1945-04-25
Battle of Iwo Jima 1945-02-19 - 1945-03-26
East Pomeranian offensive 1945-02-24 - 1945-04-04
Western Allied invasion of Germany 1945-03-22 - 1945-05-08
Battle of Okinawa 1945-04-01 - 1945-06-22
Vienna offensive 1945-04-02 - 1945-04-13
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
Prague offensive 1945-05-06 - 1945-05-11

People

Adolf Hitler age 55
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 66
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 63
President - United States
Mao Zedong age 51
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Harry S. Truman age 60
President - United States
Hirohito age 43
Emperor - Japan
George VI age 49
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 52
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 25
Shah - Iran
Karl Dönitz age 53
Reich President - Germany
Getúlio Vargas age 62
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 75
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 43
King - Belgium
Farouk of Egypt age 25
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 21
King - Yugoslavia
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 47
President - Mexico
Trường Chinh age 38
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Juan José Arévalo age 40
President - Guatemala
Winston Churchill age 70
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Charles de Gaulle age 54
Chairman of the Provisional Government - France
Joseph Goebbels age 47
Chancellor - Germany
Chiang Kai-shek age 57
Premier - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 52
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Éamon de Valera age 62
Taoiseach - Ireland
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 57
Leading Minister - Germany
Jan Smuts age 74
Prime Minister - South Africa
Ivanoe Bonomi age 71
Prime Minister - Italy
Kuniaki Koiso age 65
Prime Minister - Japan
Kantarō Suzuki age 77
Prime Minister - Japan
J. Sigfrid Edström age 74
President - International Olympic Committee
Seán Lester age 56
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Mahmud Fahmi al-Nuqrashi age 56
Prime Minister - Egypt
Faris al-Khoury age 67
Prime Minister - Syria
Félix Lancís Sánchez age 44
Prime Minister - Cuba
Harlan F. Stone age 72
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Deng Xiaoping age 40
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 46
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 59
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 43
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
William D. Leahy age 69
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
He Long age 49
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 45
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Heinrich Himmler age 44
Reichsminister - Germany
Hermann Göring age 52
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
George C. Marshall age 64
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Henry L. Stimson age 77
Secretary of War - United States
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 53
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Edward Stettinius Jr. age 44
Secretary of State - United States
Francis Biddle age 58
Attorney General - United States
Herbert Morrison age 57
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 54
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
Wilhelm Stuckart age 42
Reichsminister - Germany
J. Edgar Hoover age 50
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clement Attlee age 62
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Wilhelm Frick age 68
Reichsleiter - Nazi Party
Robert H. Jackson age 53
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Frank Murphy age 54
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 52
President - African National Congress
Margaret Buckley age 65
President - Sinn Féin
J. Howard McGrath age 41
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Alben W. Barkley age 67
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 87
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Anthony Eden age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stafford Cripps age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Christian Herter age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Fred M. Vinson age 55
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duff Cooper age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 27
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 76
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 49
House of Representatives - United States
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ernest Bevin age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Earl Warren age 54
Governor of California - United States
Barber Conable age 22
New York State Senate - United States
Francisco Franco age 52
Caudillo - Spain
Pius XII age 69
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 69
King - Saudi Arabia
Norodom Sihanouk age 22
King - Cambodia
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 77
President - Finland
İsmet İnönü age 60
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 74
King - Denmark
Michael I of Romania age 23
King - Kingdom of Romania
Rafael Trujillo age 53
President - Dominican Republic
Ananda Mahidol age 19
King - Thailand
Jozef Tiso age 57
President - Slovakia
Mohammed V of Morocco age 35
Sultan - Morocco
Bolesław Bierut age 52
President - Poland
Douglas Hyde age 85
President - Ireland
Sveinn Björnsson age 64
President - Iceland
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 49
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 45
King - Eswatini
José Paciano Laurel age 54
President - Philippines
Sergio Osmeña age 66
President - Philippines
Anastasio Somoza García age 49
President - Nicaragua
William Tubman age 49
President - Liberia
Óscar Carmona age 75
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 74
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 34
Sultan - Oman
Władysław Raczkiewicz age 60
President - Poland
Jigme Wangchuck age 40
King - Bhutan
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 55
President - Peru
Bechara El Khoury age 54
President - Lebanon
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 45
Queen - Tonga
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 58
President - Argentina
Tiburcio Carías age 69
President - Honduras
Gualberto Villarroel age 36
President - Bolivia
Juan Antonio Rios age 56
President - Chile
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 59
President - Colombia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 60
Emir - Kuwait
Juan José de Amézaga age 64
President - Uruguay
Isaías Medina Angarita age 47
President - Venezuela
Higinio Morínigo age 48
President - Paraguay
Josip Vidmar age 49
President - Slovenia
Teodoro Picado Michalski age 45
President - Costa Rica
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 90
Emir - Qatar
Élie Lescot age 61
President - Haiti
Eduard von Steiger age 63
President - Switzerland
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 43
Regent - Lesotho
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 63
President - Mongolia
Alvaro Casali age 49
Captain Regent - San Marino
Archibald Wavell age 61
Viceroy - British Raj
Enver Hoxha age 36
Prime Minister - Albania
António de Oliveira Salazar age 55
Prime Minister - Portugal
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 74
Prime Minister - Finland
Karl Renner age 74
Chancellor - Austria
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 70
Prime Minister - Canada
Milovan Đilas age 33
Prime Minister - Montenegro
John Curtin age 60
Prime Minister - Australia
Ferenc Szálasi age 48
Prime Minister - Hungary
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 50
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Per Albin Hansson age 59
Prime Minister - Sweden
Petru Groza age 60
Prime Minister - Romania
Johan Nygaardsvold age 65
Prime Minister - Norway
Achille Van Acker age 46
Prime Minister - Belgium
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 59
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Kimon Georgiev age 62
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Ólafur Thors age 53
Prime Minister - Iceland
Khuang Aphaiwong age 42
Prime Minister - Thailand
Şükrü Saracoğlu age 57
Prime Minister - Turkey
Béla Miklós age 54
Prime Minister - Hungary
Nikolaos Plastiras age 61
Prime Minister - Greece
Otto Tief age 55
Prime Minister - Estonia
Vilhelm Buhl age 63
Prime Minister - Denmark
Vladimir Bakarić age 33
Prime Minister - Croatia
Pierre Dupong age 60
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Peter Fraser age 60
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Petros Voulgaris age 61
Prime Minister - Greece
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 60
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Josef Hoop age 49
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Hamdi Pachachi age 59
Prime Minister - Iraq
Makonnen Endelkachew age 55
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Blažo Jovanović age 38
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Solomone Ula Ata age 61
Prime Minister - Tonga
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 45
Governor-General - Australia
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 59
Governor-General - New Zealand
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 63
Governor-General - Madagascar
Albert Einstein age 66
Ronald Reagan age 34
Nelson Mandela age 26
Mahatma Gandhi age 75
Joe Biden age 2
Pablo Picasso age 63
Charlie Chaplin age 55
Elizabeth II age 18
John F. Kennedy age 27
Martin Luther King Jr. age 16
Pope Francis age 8
Che Guevara age 16
Neil Armstrong age 14
Walt Disney age 43
Elvis Presley age 10
George Orwell age 41
John Paul II age 24
Margaret Thatcher age 19