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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 - 1945-09-20
The Holocaust
1941-01-01 - 1945-09-20
Operation Barbarossa
1941-06-22 - 1942-01-07
Second Soviet-Finnish War
1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Battle of Moscow
1941-10-02 - 1942-01-07
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941-12-07
Pacific War
1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Solomon Islands campaign
1942-01-01 - 1945-08-21
Battle of Bataan
1942-01-07 - 1942-04-09
Wannsee Conference
1942-01-20
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 Kursk
1943-07-05 - 1943-08-23
Operation Overlord
1944-06-06 - 1944-08-30
Battle of the Philippine Sea
1944-06-19 - 1944-06-20
20 July plot
1944-07-20
Battle of Leyte Gulf
1944-08-23 - 1944-10-26
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
Rescue of the Lost Battalion
1944-11-24 - 1944-10-30
Battle of the Bulge
1944-12-16 - 1945-01-25
Battle of Manila (1945)
1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Manila massacre
1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Battle of Iwo Jima
1945-02-19 - 1945-03-26
Chinese Communist Revolution
1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
Soviet–Japanese War
1945-08-09 - 1945-09-03
People
Hirohito
age 40
Emperor
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Japan
Adolf Hitler
age 52
Führer
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Germany
Joseph Stalin
age 63
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Ho Chi Minh
age 51
President
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Vietnam
Mao Zedong
age 47
Chairman of the Communist Party of China
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Communist Party of China
Clement Attlee
age 58
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Harry S. Truman
age 57
President
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United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
age 59
President
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United States
Winston Churchill
age 67
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Joseph Goebbels
age 44
Chancellor
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Germany
Henry A. Wallace
age 53
Vice President
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United States
George VI
age 46
King
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United Kingdom
Alben W. Barkley
age 64
Senate
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United States
Hermann Göring
age 48
President of the Reichstag
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Germany
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 33
House of Representatives
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United States
Harlan F. Stone
age 69
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Fred M. Vinson
age 51
Secretary Of The Treasury
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United States
David Lloyd George
age 78
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
George C. Marshall
age 60
Chief of Staff of the Army
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United States
Earl Warren
age 50
Governor of California
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United States
Byron White
age 24
Democratic Party (United States)
Kurt Daluege
age 44
Nazi Party
John F. Kennedy
age 24
Democratic Party (United States)
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 31
Kuomintang
Zhou Enlai
age 43
Communist Party of China
Courtney Hodges
age 54
United States Army
Raymond A. Spruance
age 55
United States Navy
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 56
United States Navy
Sun Yun-suan
age 28
Kuomintang
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 18
Kuomintang
Lien Chan
age 5
Kuomintang
Dick Cheney
age 10 months
Republican Party (United States)
Liu Shaoqi
age 43
Communist Party of China
Yang Shangkun
age 34
Communist Party of China
Dong Biwu
age 55
Communist Party of China
Zhao Ziyang
age 22
Communist Party of China
Hu Yaobang
age 26
Communist Party of China
Hua Guofeng
age 20
Communist Party of China
Li Xiannian
age 32
Communist Party of China
Hu Jintao
born 1942-12-21
Communist Party of China
George S. Patton
age 56
United States Army
Richard Nixon
age 28
United States Navy
Jimmy Carter
age 17
Democratic Party (United States)
Daniel Inouye
age 17
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Peng
age 13
Communist Party of China
Rong Yiren
age 25
Communist Party of China
Wang Zhen (general)
age 33
Communist Party of China
Wen Jiabao
born 1942-09-15
Communist Party of China
Douglas MacArthur
age 61
United States Army
James Baker
age 11
Democratic Party (United States)
James R. Schlesinger
age 12
Republican Party (United States)
Ronald Reagan
age 30
Republican Party (United States)
Joe Biden
born 1942-11-20
Democratic Party (United States)
Henry Kissinger
age 18
United States Army
Heinrich Himmler
age 41
Nazi Party
Charles de Gaulle
age 51
French Army
Walter Mondale
age 13
Democratic Party (United States)
Wilhelm Frick
age 64
Nazi Party
Lee Teng-hui
age 18
Imperial Japanese Army
Jiang Zemin
age 15
Communist Party of China
John Lewis
age 1
Democratic Party (United States)
George Wallace
age 22
United States Army
Rudolf Hess
age 47
Nazi Party
Karl Dönitz
age 50
Nazi Party
Deng Xiaoping
age 37
Communist Party of China
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 51
Republican Party (United States)
Reinhard Heydrich
age 37
Nazi Party
Martin Bormann
age 41
Nazi Party
John Foster Dulles
age 53
Republican Party (United States)
John Paul Stevens
age 21
United States Navy
David Souter
age 2
Republican Party (United States)
William Rehnquist
age 17
United States Air Force
Yoshijirō Umezu
age 59
Imperial Japanese Army
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 11
Republican Party (United States)
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 34
Democratic Party (United States)
Thurgood Marshall
age 33
Democratic Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
age 29
Democratic Party (United States)
J. Edgar Hoover
age 46
Republican Party (United States)
George H. W. Bush
age 17
Republican Party (United States)
William H. Webster
age 17
Republican Party (United States)
Arthur Goldberg
age 33
Democratic Party (United States)
Potter Stewart
age 26
Republican Party (United States)
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 35
United States Army
John Kerry
born 1943-12-11
Democratic Party (United States)
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 53
Communist Party of Vietnam
Clark Clifford
age 34
United States Navy
Melvin Laird
age 19
United States Navy
Herbert Hoover
age 67
Republican Party (United States)
Margaret Thatcher
age 16
Souvanna Phouma
age 40
Eva Braun
age 29
Elizabeth II
age 15
Francisco Franco
age 49
Isoroku Yamamoto
age 57
Chester W. Nimitz
age 56
Iwane Matsui
age 63
Kiichirō Hiranuma
age 74
Hjalmar Schacht
age 64
Baldur von Schirach
age 34
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
age 49
Fritz Sauckel
age 47
Alfred Rosenberg
age 48
Erich Raeder
age 65
Hans Fritzsche
age 41
Walther Funk
age 51
Wilhelm Keitel
age 59
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
age 38
Friedrich Jeckeln
age 46
Kliment Voroshilov
age 60
Semyon Timoshenko
age 46
He Yingqin
age 51
Lê Duẩn
age 34
Akira Mutō
age 49
Doihara Kenji
age 58
Kōki Hirota
age 63
Naoki Hoshino
age 49
Benito Mussolini
age 58
Pol Pot
age 16
Souphanouvong
age 32
Kim Il-sung
age 29
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 39
Saddam Hussein
age 4
Robert F. Kennedy
age 16
Nikita Khrushchev
age 47
Chiang Kai-shek
age 54
Claus von Stauffenberg
age 34
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 10
Martin Luther King Jr.
age 12
Hideki Tōjō
age 56
Rosa Parks
age 28
Seishirō Itagaki
age 56
Kingorō Hashimoto
age 51
Heitarō Kimura
age 53
Rodion Malinovsky
age 43
Leonid Brezhnev
age 34
Franz von Papen
age 62
Nikola Tesla
age 85
Jacques Chirac
age 9
Kim Jong-il
age 9 months
Nelson Mandela
age 23
Mahatma Gandhi
age 72
Albert Einstein
age 62
John Marshall Harlan II
age 42
Abe Fortas
age 31
Clarence M. Kelley
age 30
Antonin Scalia
age 5
Anthony Kennedy
age 5
Stephen Breyer
age 3
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 8
Yasser Arafat
age 12
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 23
Edward VIII
age 47
Ramsey Clark
age 13
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 19
Warren Christopher
age 16
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 23
Gennady Yanayev
age 4
Konstantin Chernenko
age 30
John Major
born 1943-03-29
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 36
Carlos Castillo Armas
age 27
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 26
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 33
Jacobo Árbenz
age 28
Juan José Arévalo
age 37
Robert A. Lovett
age 46
Thomas Gage
age 223
Malcolm X
age 16
Jo Ann Robinson
age 29
Colin Powell
age 4
Aung San Suu Kyi
born 1945-06-19
Muhammad Ali
born 1942-01-17
Konrad Adenauer
age 65
Hubert Humphrey
age 30
Spiro Agnew
age 23
Peng Dehuai
age 43
Warren E. Burger
age 34
Charles Evans Hughes
age 79
Anthony Eden
age 44
Emilio De Bono
age 75
Albert Speer
age 36
Gerald Ford
age 28
Yuri Andropov
age 27
Julius Streicher
age 56
Alfred Jodl
age 51
Otto Hofmann
age 45
Fritz Todt
age 50
Otto Rasch
age 50
Hans Frank
age 41
Hafez al-Assad
age 11
George Shultz
age 20
Hubert Gough
age 71
Boris Yeltsin
age 10
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 11
John Connally
age 24
Zhu Rongji
age 13
Zeng Qinghong
age 2
Soong Ching-ling
age 48
Zhu De
age 55
Puyi
age 35
Nelson Rockefeller
age 33
John J. Pershing
age 81
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 62
Gerd von Rundstedt
age 66
Omar Bradley
age 48
Erich von Manstein
age 54
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 35
Robert McNamara
age 25
Fidel Castro
age 15
Charles G. Dawes
age 76
John Nance Garner
age 73