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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
The Holocaust 1941 - 1945
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 - 1945-08-21
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
Allied invasion of Sicily 1943-07-09 - 1943-08-17
Italian campaign 1943-07-09 - 1945-05-02
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
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
Charter of the United Nations 1945-06-26
Trinity nuclear test 1945-07-16
Potsdam Conference 1945-07-17 - 1945-08-02
Chinese Communist Revolution 1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945-08-06 - 1945-08-09
Soviet–Japanese War 1945-08-09 - 1945-09-03
Indonesian National Revolution 1945-08-17 - 1949-12-27
Surrender of Japan 1945-09-02 - 1945-09-02
Shangdang Campaign 1945-09-10 - 1945-10-12
Iran crisis of 1946 1945-11-01 - 1946-12-15
Nuremberg trials 1945-11-20 - 1946-10-01
Second Battle of Siping 1946-04-17 - 1946-05-19
International Military Tribunal for the Far East 1946-04-29 - 1948-11-12
Direct Action Day 1946-08-16
Linjiang Campaign 1946-12-17 - 1947-04-01
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01

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Tomás Monje age 57
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Eduard von Steiger age 61
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Enrico Celio age 53
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Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 40
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Walther Stampfli age 57
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Petro Trad age 66
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Ayoub Tabet age 68
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Giuseppe Forcellini age 41
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Alvaro Casali age 46
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Francesco Balsimelli age 48
Captain Regent - San Marino
Archibald Wavell age 59
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John Curtin age 57
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Prime Minister - Hungary
Einar Gerhardsen age 45
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Tage Erlander age 41
Prime Minister - Sweden
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 47
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Georgios Papandreou age 54
Prime Minister - Greece
Per Albin Hansson age 56
Prime Minister - Sweden
Ben Chifley age 56
Prime Minister - Australia
Petru Groza age 57
Prime Minister - Romania
Frank Forde age 52
Prime Minister - Australia
Leopold Figl age 39
Chancellor - Austria
Zoltán Tildy age 52
Prime Minister - Hungary
Johan Nygaardsvold age 62
Prime Minister - Norway
Döme Sztójay age 59
Prime Minister - Hungary
Achille Van Acker age 44
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Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 57
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Kimon Georgiev age 60
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Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou age 51
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Nikolaos Plastiras age 58
Prime Minister - Greece
Miklós Kállay age 55
Prime Minister - Hungary
Sutan Sjahrir age 33
Prime Minister - Indonesia
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 47
Prime Minister - Finland
Erik Scavenius age 65
Prime Minister - Denmark
Iuliu Maniu age 69
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Riad Al Solh age 49
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Georgios Tsolakoglou age 56
Prime Minister - Greece
Ferenc Nagy age 38
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Wim Schermerhorn age 47
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Sofoklis Venizelos age 47
Prime Minister - Greece
Konstantinos Tsaldaris age 58
Prime Minister - Greece
Knud Kristensen age 61
Prime Minister - Denmark
Recep Peker age 53
Prime Minister - Turkey
Son Ngoc Thanh age 33
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Otto Tief age 53
Prime Minister - Estonia
Antti Hackzell age 60
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Ioannis Rallis age 64
Prime Minister - Greece
Vilhelm Buhl age 60
Prime Minister - Denmark
Constantin Sănătescu age 57
Prime Minister - Romania
Vladimir Bakarić age 30
Prime Minister - Croatia
Pierre Dupong age 57
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Nicolae Rădescu age 68
Prime Minister - Romania
Urho Castrén age 55
Prime Minister - Finland
Björn Þórðarson age 63
Prime Minister - Iceland
Peter Fraser age 58
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Ibrahim Biçakçiu age 36
Prime Minister - Albania
Östen Undén age 56
Prime Minister - Sweden
Rexhep Mitrovica age 54
Prime Minister - Albania
Themistoklis Sofoulis age 82
Prime Minister - Greece
Panagiotis Poulitsas age 60
Prime Minister - Greece
Thawan Thamrongnawasawat age 40
Prime Minister - Thailand
Dobry Bozhilov age 58
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Konstantinos Logothetopoulos age 64
Prime Minister - Greece
Peter Gabrovski age 44
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Konstantin Muraviev age 49
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Petros Voulgaris age 58
Prime Minister - Greece
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 50
Prime Minister - Jordan
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 57
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Ivan Bagryanov age 50
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Sisowath Monireth age 32
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Maliq Bushati age 62
Prime Minister - Albania
Alexandros Svolos age 50
Prime Minister - Greece
Tawfiq al-Suwaidi age 50
Prime Minister - Iraq
Josef Hoop age 46
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Sisowath Youtevong age 29
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Hamdi Pachachi age 56
Prime Minister - Iraq
Alexander Frick age 32
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Prince Shah Mahmud Khan of Afghanistan age 55
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Makonnen Endelkachew age 52
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Arshad al-Umari age 54
Prime Minister - Iraq
Blažo Jovanović age 35
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Solomone Ula Ata age 59
Prime Minister - Tonga
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 42
Governor-General - Australia
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 53
Governor-General - New Zealand
Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie age 70
Governor-General - Australia
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 56
Governor-General - New Zealand
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 61
Governor-General - Madagascar
Robert Boudry age 49
Governor-General - Madagascar
Donald Trump born 1946-06-14
Albert Einstein age 63
Ronald Reagan age 31
Nelson Mandela age 24
Mahatma Gandhi age 72
George W. Bush born 1946-07-06
Joe Biden born 1942-11-20
Pablo Picasso age 60
Charlie Chaplin age 53
Elizabeth II age 16
John F. Kennedy age 25
Martin Luther King Jr. age 13
Pope Francis age 5
Che Guevara age 14
Bill Clinton born 1946-08-19
Nikola Tesla age 86
Neil Armstrong age 12
Walt Disney age 40
Elvis Presley age 7
George Orwell age 39
John Paul II age 22
Margaret Thatcher age 16
Ernest Hemingway age 43
Gabriel García Márquez age 15
Fidel Castro age 16