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Chinese Civil War
1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Great Depression
1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
Second Sino-Japanese War
1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Invasion of Poland
1939-09-01 - 1939-10-06
World War II
1939-09-01 - 1945-09-20
Winter War
1939-11-30 - 1940-03-13
Battle of France
1940-05-10 - 1940-06-25
Battle of Dunkirk
1940-05-26 - 1940-06-04
Battle of Britain
1940-07-10 - 1940-10-31
The Holocaust
1941-01-01 - 1945-09-20
Invasion of Yugoslavia
1941-04-06 - 1941-04-18
Operation Barbarossa
1941-06-22 - 1942-01-07
Second Soviet-Finnish War
1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
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
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
Adolf Hitler
age 50
Führer
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Germany
Harry S. Truman
age 55
President
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United States
Winston Churchill
age 64
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Ho Chi Minh
age 49
President
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Vietnam
Joseph Stalin
age 60
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Clement Attlee
age 56
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Neville Chamberlain
age 70
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Mao Zedong
age 45
Chairman of the Communist Party of China
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Communist Party of China
Hirohito
age 38
Emperor
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Japan
Franklin D. Roosevelt
age 57
President
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United States
George VI
age 43
King
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United Kingdom
John Nance Garner
age 70
Vice President
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United States
Joseph Goebbels
age 41
Chancellor
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Germany
Henry A. Wallace
age 50
Vice President
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United States
Alben W. Barkley
age 61
Senate
-
United States
Hermann Göring
age 46
President of the Reichstag
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Germany
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 31
House of Representatives
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United States
Fred M. Vinson
age 49
Secretary Of The Treasury
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United States
Charles Evans Hughes
age 77
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Harlan F. Stone
age 66
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
George C. Marshall
age 58
Chief of Staff of the Army
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United States
David Lloyd George
age 76
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Earl Warren
age 48
Governor of California
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United States
Zhou Enlai
age 41
Communist Party of China
Byron White
age 22
Democratic Party (United States)
John F. Kennedy
age 22
Democratic Party (United States)
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 29
Kuomintang
Dick Cheney
born 1941-01-30
Republican Party (United States)
William Rehnquist
age 14
United States Air Force
Liu Shaoqi
age 40
Communist Party of China
Courtney Hodges
age 52
United States Army
Raymond A. Spruance
age 53
United States Navy
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 54
United States Navy
Sun Yun-suan
age 25
Kuomintang
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 15
Kuomintang
Lien Chan
age 3
Kuomintang
George S. Patton
age 53
United States Army
Hu Jintao
born 1942-12-21
Communist Party of China
Li Xiannian
age 30
Communist Party of China
Yang Shangkun
age 32
Communist Party of China
Dong Biwu
age 53
Communist Party of China
Zhao Ziyang
age 19
Communist Party of China
Hu Yaobang
age 23
Communist Party of China
Hua Guofeng
age 18
Communist Party of China
Richard Nixon
age 26
United States Navy
Jimmy Carter
age 14
Democratic Party (United States)
Douglas MacArthur
age 59
United States Army
Daniel Inouye
age 14
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Peng
age 10
Communist Party of China
Rong Yiren
age 23
Communist Party of China
Wang Zhen (general)
age 31
Communist Party of China
Kurt Daluege
age 41
Nazi Party
Wen Jiabao
born 1942-09-15
Communist Party of China
James R. Schlesinger
age 10
Republican Party (United States)
George H. W. Bush
age 15
Republican Party (United States)
Heinrich Himmler
age 38
Nazi Party
Ronald Reagan
age 28
Republican Party (United States)
Joe Biden
born 1942-11-20
Democratic Party (United States)
Lee Teng-hui
age 16
Imperial Japanese Army
Charles de Gaulle
age 48
French Army
Wilhelm Frick
age 62
Nazi Party
Deng Xiaoping
age 35
Communist Party of China
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 48
Republican Party (United States)
John Lewis
born 1940-02-21
Democratic Party (United States)
George Wallace
age 20
United States Army
Karl Dönitz
age 47
Nazi Party
Rudolf Hess
age 45
Nazi Party
Reinhard Heydrich
age 35
Nazi Party
John Foster Dulles
age 51
Republican Party (United States)
Martin Bormann
age 39
Nazi Party
Henry Kissinger
age 16
United States Army
Herbert Hoover
age 65
Republican Party (United States)
Walter Mondale
age 11
Democratic Party (United States)
James Baker
age 9
Democratic Party (United States)
Yoshijirō Umezu
age 57
Imperial Japanese Army
John Paul Stevens
age 19
United States Navy
David Souter
born 1939-09-17
Republican Party (United States)
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 9
Republican Party (United States)
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 31
Democratic Party (United States)
Thurgood Marshall
age 31
Democratic Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
age 27
Democratic Party (United States)
J. Edgar Hoover
age 44
Republican Party (United States)
William H. Webster
age 15
Republican Party (United States)
Arthur Goldberg
age 31
Democratic Party (United States)
Potter Stewart
age 24
Republican Party (United States)
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 33
United States Army
John Kerry
born 1943-12-11
Democratic Party (United States)
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 51
Communist Party of Vietnam
Clark Clifford
age 32
United States Navy
Melvin Laird
age 17
United States Navy
Jiang Zemin
age 13
Communist Party of China
Isoroku Yamamoto
age 55
Chester W. Nimitz
age 54
Elizabeth II
age 13
Manuel Azaña
age 59
Benito Mussolini
age 56
Francisco Franco
age 46
Eva Braun
age 27
Iwane Matsui
age 61
Margaret Thatcher
age 13
Kyösti Kallio
age 66
Hjalmar Schacht
age 62
Baldur von Schirach
age 32
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
age 47
Fritz Sauckel
age 44
Alfred Rosenberg
age 46
Erich Raeder
age 63
Hans Fritzsche
age 39
Walther Funk
age 49
Wilhelm Keitel
age 56
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
age 35
Friedrich Jeckeln
age 44
Kliment Voroshilov
age 58
Semyon Timoshenko
age 44
He Yingqin
age 49
Lê Duẩn
age 32
Akira Mutō
age 46
Doihara Kenji
age 56
Kōki Hirota
age 61
Naoki Hoshino
age 47
Pol Pot
age 14
Souphanouvong
age 30
Kim Il-sung
age 27
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 36
Saddam Hussein
age 2
Robert F. Kennedy
age 13
Nikita Khrushchev
age 45
Chiang Kai-shek
age 51
Claus von Stauffenberg
age 31
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 8
Martin Luther King Jr.
age 10
Hideki Tōjō
age 54
Rosa Parks
age 26
Seishirō Itagaki
age 54
Kingorō Hashimoto
age 49
Heitarō Kimura
age 50
Rodion Malinovsky
age 40
Leonid Brezhnev
age 32
Franz von Papen
age 59
Kiichirō Hiranuma
age 71
Nikola Tesla
age 83
Jacques Chirac
age 6
Kim Jong-il
born 1941-02-16
Nelson Mandela
age 21
Mahatma Gandhi
age 69
Albert Einstein
age 60
John Marshall Harlan II
age 40
Abe Fortas
age 29
Clarence M. Kelley
age 27
Antonin Scalia
age 3
Anthony Kennedy
age 3
Stephen Breyer
age 1
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 6
Yasser Arafat
age 10
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 21
Edward VIII
age 45
Ramsey Clark
age 11
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 17
Warren Christopher
age 13
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 21
Gennady Yanayev
age 2
Konstantin Chernenko
age 27
John Major
born 1943-03-29
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 34
Carlos Castillo Armas
age 24
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 23
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 31
Jacobo Árbenz
age 25
Juan José Arévalo
age 34
Robert A. Lovett
age 43
Thomas Gage
age 221
Malcolm X
age 14
Jo Ann Robinson
age 27
Colin Powell
age 2
Aung San Suu Kyi
born 1945-06-19
Muhammad Ali
born 1942-01-17
Konrad Adenauer
age 63
Boris Yeltsin
age 8
Spiro Agnew
age 20
Leon Trotsky
age 59
Peng Dehuai
age 40
Warren E. Burger
age 31
Anthony Eden
age 42
Emilio De Bono
age 73
Albert Speer
age 34
Gerald Ford
age 26
Yuri Andropov
age 25
Julius Streicher
age 54
Alfred Jodl
age 49
Otto Hofmann
age 43
Fritz Todt
age 48
Otto Rasch
age 47
Hans Frank
age 39
Hafez al-Assad
age 8
George Shultz
age 18
Souvanna Phouma
age 37
Hubert Gough
age 69
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 9
John Connally
age 22
Zhu Rongji
age 10
Zeng Qinghong
age 1 month
Soong Ching-ling
age 46
Zhu De
age 52
Puyi
age 33
Nelson Rockefeller
age 31
John J. Pershing
age 79
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 59
Gerd von Rundstedt
age 63
Omar Bradley
age 46
Erich von Manstein
age 51
Wilhelm II
age 80
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 33
Robert McNamara
age 23
Fidel Castro
age 13
Charles G. Dawes
age 74
Hubert Humphrey
age 28