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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

People

Adolf Hitler age 53
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 63
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 60
President - United States
Mao Zedong age 48
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Harry S. Truman age 58
President - United States
Hirohito age 41
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 52
President - Vietnam
George VI age 46
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 50
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 22
Shah - Iran
Philippe Pétain age 86
Chief of the French State - Vichy France
Karl Dönitz age 50
Reich President - Germany
Getúlio Vargas age 60
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 72
King - Italy
Umberto II of Italy age 37
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 40
King - Belgium
Farouk of Egypt age 22
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 18
King - Yugoslavia
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 45
President - Mexico
Wang Jingwei age 59
President - Republic of China
Georges Bidault age 42
President - France
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 41
President - Mexico
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 59
President - Brazil
Trường Chinh age 35
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Shukri al-Quwatli age 50
President - Syria
José Linhares age 56
President - Brazil
Juan José Arévalo age 37
President - Guatemala
Jorge Ubico age 63
President - Guatemala
Juan Federico Ponce Vaides age 52
President - Guatemala
Francisco Javier Arana age 36
President - Guatemala
Jorge Toriello Garrido age 34
President - Guatemala
Zhang Wentian age 41
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Trygve Lie age 46
Secretary-General - United Nations
Winston Churchill age 67
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Charles de Gaulle age 51
Chairman of the Provisional Government - France
Benito Mussolini age 59
Prime Minister - Italy
Joseph Goebbels age 44
Chancellor - Germany
Chiang Kai-shek age 54
Premier - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 50
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Clement Attlee age 59
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Hideki Tojo age 57
Prime Minister - Japan
Éamon de Valera age 59
Taoiseach - Ireland
Alcide De Gasperi age 61
Prime Minister - Italy
Léon Blum age 70
Chairman of the Provisional Government - France
Pietro Badoglio age 70
Prime Minister - Italy
Vincent Auriol age 57
Chairman of the Provisional Government - France
Pierre Laval age 59
Head of Government - Vichy France
Shigeru Yoshida age 63
Prime Minister - Japan
Władysław Sikorski age 61
Prime Minister - Poland
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 55
Leading Minister - Germany
Jan Smuts age 72
Prime Minister - South Africa
Ivanoe Bonomi age 68
Prime Minister - Italy
Kuniaki Koiso age 62
Prime Minister - Japan
Kijūrō Shidehara age 69
Prime Minister - Japan
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 54
Prime Minister - Japan
Kantarō Suzuki age 74
Prime Minister - Japan
Félix Gouin age 57
Chairman of the Provisional Government - France
J. Sigfrid Edström age 71
President - International Olympic Committee
Ferruccio Parri age 52
Prime Minister - Italy
T. V. Soong age 50
Premier - Republic of China
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 41
Prime Minister - Poland
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 39
Prime Minister - Cuba
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 63
Prime Minister - Egypt
Seán Lester age 53
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Eugene Meyer age 66
President - World Bank
Mahmud Fahmi al-Nuqrashi age 54
Prime Minister - Egypt
Faris al-Khoury age 64
Prime Minister - Syria
Ismaʿil Sidqi age 67
Prime Minister - Egypt
Saadallah al-Jabiri age 49
Prime Minister - Syria
Jamil al-Elshi age 59
Prime Minister - Syria
Félix Lancís Sánchez age 41
Prime Minister - Cuba
Huynh Thuc Khang age 66
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Carlos Saladrigas Zayas age 41
Prime Minister - Cuba
Ramón Zaydín age 47
Prime Minister - Cuba
Husni al-Barazi age 47
Prime Minister - Syria
Miloš Trifunović age 70
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Slobodan Jovanović age 72
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Božidar Purić age 51
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Ivan Šubašić age 50
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Fred M. Vinson age 52
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Harlan F. Stone age 69
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Henry A. Wallace age 53
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 38
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 43
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 56
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 40
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
William D. Leahy age 67
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
He Long age 46
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 42
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 51
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Heinrich Himmler age 41
Reichsminister - Germany
Hermann Göring age 49
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
George C. Marshall age 61
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Harold Macmillan age 48
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
Cordell Hull age 70
Secretary of State - United States
Wilhelm Frick age 65
Reichsminister - Germany
Henry L. Stimson age 74
Secretary of War - United States
James F. Byrnes age 60
Secretary of State - United States
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 51
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Edward Stettinius Jr. age 41
Secretary of State - United States
Francis Biddle age 56
Attorney General - United States
Joseph Grew age 62
Secretary of State - United States
Herbert Morrison age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Tom C. Clark age 42
Attorney General - United States
Robert P. Patterson age 51
Secretary of War - United States
Kingsley Wood age 61
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 57
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 60
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
John Wesley Snyder age 47
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Brendan Bracken age 41
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 51
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 60
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 65
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 59
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Wilhelm Stuckart age 39
Reichsminister - Germany
J. Edgar Hoover age 47
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Robert H. Jackson age 50
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stafford Cripps age 53
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Frank Murphy age 52
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Duff Cooper age 52
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Hugh Dalton age 55
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Ernest Brown age 61
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Arthur Salter, 1st Baron Salter age 61
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Hynd age 40
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 58
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 49
President - African National Congress
Margaret Buckley age 63
President - Sinn Féin
J. Howard McGrath age 38
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Alben W. Barkley age 64
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 84
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 33
House of Representatives - United States
David Lloyd George age 79
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Eden age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Wilson age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Callaghan age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Christian Herter age 47
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Gaitskell age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 24
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 73
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 47
House of Representatives - United States
Frank Soskice age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Brown age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Foot age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ernest Bevin age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Earl Warren age 51
Governor of California - United States
Thomas E. Dewey age 40
Governor of New York - United States
Herbert H. Lehman age 64
Governor of New York - United States
John W. Bricker age 48
Governor of Ohio - United States
Charles Edison age 52
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Charles Poletti age 39
Governor of New York - United States
Culbert Olson age 65
Governor of California - United States
Frank Lausche age 46
Governor of Ohio - United States
Leverett Saltonstall age 49
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Walter E. Edge age 68
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Coke R. Stevenson age 54
Governor of Texas - United States
Maurice J. Tobin age 41
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Herbert O'Conor age 45
Governor of Maryland - United States
Colgate Darden age 45
Governor of Virginia - United States
Homer Martin Adkins age 51
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Benjamin T. Laney age 45
Governor of Arkansas - United States
William M. Tuck age 45
Governor of Virginia - United States
Henry F. Schricker age 59
Governor of Indiana - United States
Ralph F. Gates age 49
Governor of Indiana - United States
Barber Conable age 19
New York State Senate - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 14
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 49
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 41
President - Indonesia
Pius XII age 66
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 66
King - Saudi Arabia
Juan Perón age 46
President - Argentina
Norodom Sihanouk age 19
King - Cambodia
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 75
President - Finland
İsmet İnönü age 57
President - Turkey
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 61
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 70
King - Norway
Abdullah I of Jordan age 60
King - Jordan
Gustaf V of Sweden age 84
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 71
King - Denmark
Michael I of Romania age 20
King - Kingdom of Romania
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 71
President - Finland
Karl Renner age 71
President - Austria