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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
Western Desert campaign 1940-06-11 - 1943-02-04
Operation Compass 1940-12-09 - 1941-02-09
The Holocaust 1941 - 1945
Invasion of Yugoslavia 1941-04-06 - 1941-04-18
Siege of Tobruk 1941-04-10 - 1941-11-27
Battle of Crete 1941-05-20 - 1941-06-01
Operation Barbarossa 1941-06-22 - 1942-01-07
Second Soviet-Finnish War 1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Siege of Leningrad 1941-09-08 - 1944-01-27
Babi Yar massacre 1941-09-29 - 1941-09-30
Battle of Moscow 1941-10-02 - 1942-01-07
Attack on Pearl Harbor 1941-12-07
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Malayan campaign 1941-12-08 - 1942-01-31
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01 - 1945-08-21
Battle of Bataan 1942-01-07 - 1942-04-09
Wannsee Conference 1942-01-20
Battle of Singapore 1942-02-08 - 1942-02-15
Bataan Death March 1942-04-09 - 1942-04-17
Battle of the Coral Sea 1942-05-04 - 1942-05-08
Battle of Midway 1942-06-04 - 1942-06-07
Lidice massacre 1942-06-10
Battle of Stalingrad 1942-07-17 - 1943-02-02
Kokoda Track campaign 1942-07-21 - 1942-11-16
Guadalcanal campaign 1942-08-07 - 1943-02-09
Quit India Movement 1942-08-08 - 1944-09-01
Manhattan Project 1942-08-13 - 1947-01-01
Battle of the Eastern Solomons 1942-08-24 - 1942-08-25
Second Battle of El Alamein 1942-10-23 - 1942-11-11
Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands 1942-10-25 - 1942-10-27
Operation Torch 1942-11-08 - 1942-11-16
Tunisian campaign 1942-11-17 - 1943-05-13
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
Battle of Manila (1945) 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Manila massacre 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Yalta Conference 1945-02-04 - 1945-02-11
Bombing of Dresden 1945-02-13 - 1945-02-15
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

Sveinn Björnsson age 59
President - Iceland
Archibald Wavell age 57
Viceroy - British Raj
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 44
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 41
King - Eswatini
José Paciano Laurel age 49
President - Philippines
Sergio Osmeña age 62
President - Philippines
Anastasio Somoza García age 44
President - Nicaragua
William Tubman age 45
President - Liberia
Óscar Carmona age 71
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 70
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 30
Sultan - Oman
Władysław Raczkiewicz age 55
President - Poland
Jigme Wangchuck age 36
King - Bhutan
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 58
President - El Salvador
Pedro Aguirre Cerda age 61
President - Chile
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 51
President - Peru
Bechara El Khoury age 50
President - Lebanon
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 40
Queen - Tonga
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 53
President - Argentina
Sisowath Monivong age 65
King - Cambodia
Roberto Marcelino Ortiz age 54
President - Argentina
Arnulfo Arias age 39
President - Panama
Ramón Castillo age 67
President - Argentina
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 53
Viceroy - British Raj
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 56
President - Argentina
Tiburcio Carías age 64
President - Honduras
Edwin Barclay age 59
President - Liberia
Gualberto Villarroel age 32
President - Bolivia
Eleazar López Contreras age 57
President - Venezuela
Eduardo Santos age 52
President - Colombia
Zdeněk Fierlinger age 49
Prime Minister - Czechoslovakia
Enrique Peñaranda age 47
President - Bolivia
Juan Antonio Rios age 52
President - Chile
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 54
President - Colombia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 56
Emir - Kuwait
Arturo Rawson age 55
President - Argentina
Philipp Etter age 49
President - Switzerland
Alfredo Baldomir age 56
President - Uruguay
Juan José de Amézaga age 59
President - Uruguay
Isaías Medina Angarita age 43
President - Venezuela
Higinio Morínigo age 44
President - Paraguay
Carlos Arroyo age 47
President - Ecuador
Josip Vidmar age 45
President - Slovenia
Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia age 40
President - Costa Rica
Teodoro Picado Michalski age 41
President - Costa Rica
Émile Eddé age 57
President - Lebanon
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 86
Emir - Qatar
Ernst Wetter age 63
President - Switzerland
Khalifa bin Harub age 61
Sultan of Zanzibar - Sultanate of Zanzibar
Élie Lescot age 57
President - Haiti
Eduard von Steiger age 59
President - Switzerland
Enrico Celio age 51
President - Switzerland
Jan Šrámek age 70
Prime Minister - Czechoslovakia
Andrés Ignacio Menéndez age 61
President - El Salvador
Stenio Vincent age 66
President - Haiti
Alfred Naqqache age 52
President - Lebanon
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 39
Regent - Lesotho
Walther Stampfli age 56
President - Switzerland
Petro Trad age 65
President - Lebanon
Giuliano Gozi age 46
Captain Regent - San Marino
Ayoub Tabet age 67
President - Lebanon
Osmín Aguirre y Salinas age 51
President - El Salvador
Salvador Castaneda Castro age 53
President - El Salvador
Hamad I of Bahrain age 68
Hakim - Bahrain
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 59
President - Mongolia
Gabasheane Masupha age 37
King - Lesotho
Alvaro Casali age 45
Captain Regent - San Marino
Francesco Balsimelli age 46
Captain Regent - San Marino
Enver Hoxha age 32
Prime Minister - Albania
António de Oliveira Salazar age 51
Prime Minister - Portugal
Ion Antonescu age 58
Prime Minister - Romania
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 70
Prime Minister - Finland
Karl Renner age 70
Chancellor - Austria
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 43
Prime Minister - Thailand
Ioannis Metaxas age 69
Prime Minister - Greece
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 66
Prime Minister - Canada
Milovan Đilas age 29
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Robert Menzies age 46
Prime Minister - Australia
John Curtin age 56
Prime Minister - Australia
Ferenc Szálasi age 44
Prime Minister - Hungary
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 45
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Georgios Papandreou age 52
Prime Minister - Greece
Pál Teleki age 61
Prime Minister - Hungary
Per Albin Hansson age 55
Prime Minister - Sweden
Arthur Fadden age 46
Prime Minister - Australia
Petru Groza age 56
Prime Minister - Romania
Thorvald Stauning age 67
Prime Minister - Denmark
Johan Nygaardsvold age 61
Prime Minister - Norway
Döme Sztójay age 58
Prime Minister - Hungary
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 49
Prime Minister - Iraq
Achille Van Acker age 42
Prime Minister - Belgium
Nuri as-Said age 53
Prime Minister - Iraq
Bogdan Filov age 57
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 55
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Kimon Georgiev age 58
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
László Bárdossy age 50
Prime Minister - Hungary
Géza Lakatos age 50
Prime Minister - Hungary
Ólafur Thors age 48
Prime Minister - Iceland
Khuang Aphaiwong age 38
Prime Minister - Thailand
Şükrü Saracoğlu age 53
Prime Minister - Turkey
Hubert Pierlot age 57
Prime Minister - Belgium
Béla Miklós age 50
Prime Minister - Hungary
Edwin Linkomies age 46
Prime Minister - Finland
Nikolaos Plastiras age 57
Prime Minister - Greece
Miklós Kállay age 53
Prime Minister - Hungary
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 46
Prime Minister - Finland
Alexandros Koryzis age 56
Prime Minister - Greece
Erik Scavenius age 63
Prime Minister - Denmark
Iuliu Maniu age 68
Prime Minister - Romania
Hermann Jónasson age 44
Prime Minister - Iceland
Riad Al Solh age 48
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Georgios Tsolakoglou age 54
Prime Minister - Greece
Shefqet Vërlaci age 63
Prime Minister - Albania
Sofoklis Venizelos age 46
Prime Minister - Greece
Otto Tief age 51
Prime Minister - Estonia
Antti Hackzell age 59
Prime Minister - Finland
Ioannis Rallis age 63
Prime Minister - Greece
Vilhelm Buhl age 59
Prime Minister - Denmark
Constantin Sănătescu age 56
Prime Minister - Romania
Vladimir Bakarić age 28
Prime Minister - Croatia
Pierre Dupong age 56
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Nicolae Rădescu age 66
Prime Minister - Romania
Urho Castrén age 54
Prime Minister - Finland
Björn Þórðarson age 61
Prime Minister - Iceland
Peter Fraser age 56
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Ibrahim Biçakçiu age 35
Prime Minister - Albania
Rexhep Mitrovica age 52
Prime Minister - Albania
Dobry Bozhilov age 56
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Konstantinos Logothetopoulos age 62
Prime Minister - Greece
Peter Gabrovski age 42
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Konstantin Muraviev age 47
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Petros Voulgaris age 57
Prime Minister - Greece
Ferenc Keresztes-Fischer age 59
Acting Prime Minister - Hungary
Taha al-Hashimi age 53
Prime Minister - Iraq
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 49
Prime Minister - Jordan
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 56
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Ivan Bagryanov age 49
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Maliq Bushati age 60
Prime Minister - Albania
Alexandros Svolos age 49
Prime Minister - Greece
Jamil al-Midfai age 51
Prime Minister - Iraq
Josef Hoop age 45
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Hamdi Pachachi age 55
Prime Minister - Iraq
Makonnen Endelkachew age 50
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Blažo Jovanović age 33
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 53
Prime Minister - Tonga
Solomone Ula Ata age 57
Prime Minister - Tonga
Juddha Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 65
Prime Minister - Nepal
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 40
Governor-General - Australia
Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie age 68
Governor-General - Australia
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 54
Governor-General - New Zealand
Paul Legentilhomme age 56
Governor-General - Madagascar
Armand Annet age 52
Governor-General - Madagascar
Pierre de Saint-Mart age 55
Governor-General - Madagascar
Léon Cayla age 59
Governor-General - Madagascar
Semyon Timoshenko age 45
People's Commissar for Defence - Soviet Union
Albert Einstein age 61
Ronald Reagan age 29
Nelson Mandela age 22
Mahatma Gandhi age 71
Joe Biden born 1942-11-20
Pablo Picasso age 59
Charlie Chaplin age 51
Elizabeth II age 14
John F. Kennedy age 23
Martin Luther King Jr. age 11
Rabindranath Tagore age 79
Pope Francis age 4
Che Guevara age 12
Nikola Tesla age 84
Neil Armstrong age 10
Walt Disney age 39
Elvis Presley age 5
George Orwell age 37
John Paul II age 20
Margaret Thatcher age 15
Ernest Hemingway age 41
Gabriel García Márquez age 13
Fidel Castro age 14
Yuri Gagarin age 6
Mikhail Gorbachev age 9
Henry Ford age 77
Stephen Hawking born 1942-01-08
Jean-Paul Sartre age 35
Jimmy Carter age 16
Benedict XVI age 13
Mother Teresa age 30
George H. W. Bush age 16
Jawaharlal Nehru age 51
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 50
Richard Nixon age 27
Alan Turing age 28
John Maynard Keynes age 57
Simone de Beauvoir age 33
Niels Bohr age 55
Muammar Gaddafi born 1942-06-07
John Lennon age 2 months
Muhammad Ali born 1942-01-17
Max Planck age 82
Kofi Annan age 2
Lech Wałęsa born 1943-09-29