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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
Siege of Tobruk 1941-04-10 - 1941-11-27
Operation Barbarossa 1941-06-22 - 1942-01-07
Second Soviet-Finnish War 1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19

People

Adolf Hitler age 52
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 62
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 59
President - United States
Hirohito age 40
Emperor - Japan
George VI age 45
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 49
Emperor - Ethiopia
Philippe Pétain age 85
Chief of the French State - Vichy France
Reza Shah age 63
Shah - Iran
Getúlio Vargas age 59
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 71
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 39
King - Belgium
Farouk of Egypt age 21
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 17
King - Yugoslavia
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 44
President - Mexico
Wang Jingwei age 58
President - Republic of China
Trường Chinh age 34
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Jorge Ubico age 62
President - Guatemala
Zhang Wentian age 41
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Winston Churchill age 66
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Benito Mussolini age 58
Prime Minister - Italy
Chiang Kai-shek age 53
Premier - Republic of China
Éamon de Valera age 58
Taoiseach - Ireland
Władysław Sikorski age 60
Prime Minister - Poland
Fumimaro Konoe age 49
Prime Minister - Japan
Jan Smuts age 71
Prime Minister - South Africa
François Darlan age 60
Vice-President of the Council - Vichy France
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 65
President - International Olympic Committee
Dušan Simović age 58
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Seán Lester age 52
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Khalid al-Azm age 46
Prime Minister - Syria
Hussein Sirri Pasha age 49
Prime Minister - Egypt
Carlos Saladrigas Zayas age 40
Prime Minister - Cuba
Harlan F. Stone age 68
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Henry A. Wallace age 52
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 37
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 42
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 55
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
He Long age 45
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 41
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Hermann Göring age 48
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
George C. Marshall age 60
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Cordell Hull age 69
Secretary of State - United States
Wilhelm Frick age 64
Reichsminister - Germany
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 54
Reichsminister - Germany
Henry L. Stimson age 73
Secretary of War - United States
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 50
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Francis Biddle age 55
Attorney General - United States
Herbert Morrison age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Kingsley Wood age 60
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 56
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 50
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne age 61
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Heinrich Himmler age 40
Chief of German Police - Germany
J. Edgar Hoover age 46
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clement Attlee age 58
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
James F. Byrnes age 59
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Robert H. Jackson age 49
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Frank Murphy age 51
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Duff Cooper age 51
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 48
President - African National Congress
Hastings Lees-Smith age 63
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Margaret Buckley age 62
President - Sinn Féin
Ralph Austin Bard age 57
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
Harry S. Truman age 57
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 63
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 83
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 33
House of Representatives - United States
David Lloyd George age 78
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Eden age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ernest Bevin age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stafford Cripps age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 23
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 72
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 46
House of Representatives - United States
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert H. Lehman age 63
Governor of New York - United States
John W. Bricker age 48
Governor of Ohio - United States
Charles Edison age 51
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Culbert Olson age 64
Governor of California - United States
Leverett Saltonstall age 49
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Coke R. Stevenson age 53
Governor of Texas - United States
James Hubert Price age 63
Governor of Virginia - United States
Herbert O'Conor age 44
Governor of Maryland - United States
Homer Martin Adkins age 50
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Prentice Cooper age 45
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Henry F. Schricker age 58
Governor of Indiana - United States
Christian Herter age 46
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Barber Conable age 18
New York State Senate - United States
Charles de Gaulle age 50
Leader of Free France - Free France
Francisco Franco age 48
Caudillo - Spain
Pius XII age 65
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 65
King - Saudi Arabia
Norodom Sihanouk age 18
King - Cambodia
İsmet İnönü age 56
President - Turkey
Puyi age 35
Emperor - Manchukuo
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 61
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 69
King - Norway
Edvard Beneš age 57
President - Czechoslovakia
Gustaf V of Sweden age 83
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 70
King - Denmark
Michael I of Romania age 19
King - Kingdom of Romania
Ananda Mahidol age 15
King - Thailand
Jozef Tiso age 53
President - Slovakia
Mohammed V of Morocco age 32
Sultan - Morocco
Manuel L. Quezon age 63
President - Philippines
Risto Ryti age 52
President - Finland
Douglas Hyde age 81
President - Ireland
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 45
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 42
King - Eswatini
Anastasio Somoza García age 45
President - Nicaragua
Óscar Carmona age 71
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 71
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 31
Sultan - Oman
Władysław Raczkiewicz age 56
President - Poland
Jigme Wangchuck age 36
King - Bhutan
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 58
President - El Salvador
Pedro Aguirre Cerda age 62
President - Chile
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 52
President - Peru
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 41
Queen - Tonga
Roberto Marcelino Ortiz age 54
President - Argentina
Arnulfo Arias age 40
President - Panama
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 53
Viceroy - British Raj
Tiburcio Carías age 65
President - Honduras
Edwin Barclay age 59
President - Liberia
Eduardo Santos age 53
President - Colombia
Enrique Peñaranda age 47
President - Bolivia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 56
Emir - Kuwait
Alfredo Baldomir age 57
President - Uruguay
Isaías Medina Angarita age 44
President - Venezuela
Higinio Morínigo age 44
President - Paraguay
Carlos Arroyo age 47
President - Ecuador
Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia age 41
President - Costa Rica
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 86
Emir - Qatar
Ernst Wetter age 64
President - Switzerland
Élie Lescot age 57
President - Haiti
Jan Šrámek age 71
Prime Minister - Czechoslovakia
Alfred Naqqache age 53
President - Lebanon
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 39
Regent - Lesotho
Hamad I of Bahrain age 69
Hakim - Bahrain
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 60
President - Mongolia
António de Oliveira Salazar age 52
Prime Minister - Portugal
Ion Antonescu age 59
Prime Minister - Romania
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 44
Prime Minister - Thailand
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 66
Prime Minister - Canada
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 46
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Per Albin Hansson age 55
Prime Minister - Sweden
Arthur Fadden age 47
Prime Minister - Australia
Thorvald Stauning age 67
Prime Minister - Denmark
Johan Nygaardsvold age 62
Prime Minister - Norway
Bogdan Filov age 58
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 56
Prime Minister - Netherlands
László Bárdossy age 50
Prime Minister - Hungary
Hubert Pierlot age 57
Prime Minister - Belgium
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 46
Prime Minister - Finland
Hermann Jónasson age 44
Prime Minister - Iceland
Georgios Tsolakoglou age 55
Prime Minister - Greece
Shefqet Vërlaci age 63
Prime Minister - Albania
Pierre Dupong age 56
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Peter Fraser age 57
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 49
Prime Minister - Jordan
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 56
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Jamil al-Midfai age 51
Prime Minister - Iraq
Josef Hoop age 45
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Solomone Ula Ata age 58
Prime Minister - Tonga
Juddha Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 66
Prime Minister - Nepal
Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie age 69
Governor-General - Australia
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 55
Governor-General - New Zealand
Armand Annet age 53
Governor-General - Madagascar
Albert Einstein age 62
Ronald Reagan age 30
Nelson Mandela age 23
Mahatma Gandhi age 71
Pablo Picasso age 59
Charlie Chaplin age 52
Elizabeth II age 15