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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 1941-01-01 - 1945-09-20
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 1942-01-01 - 1945-08-21
Battle of Stalingrad 1942-07-17 - 1943-02-02
Kokoda Track campaign 1942-07-21 - 1942-11-16

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
Hirohito age 41
Emperor - Japan
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
Getúlio Vargas age 60
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 72
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
Jorge Ubico age 63
President - Guatemala
Winston Churchill age 67
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Benito Mussolini age 59
Prime Minister - Italy
Chiang Kai-shek age 54
Premier - Republic of China
Hideki Tojo age 57
Prime Minister - Japan
Éamon de Valera age 59
Taoiseach - Ireland
Pierre Laval age 59
Head of Government - Vichy France
Władysław Sikorski age 61
Prime Minister - Poland
Jan Smuts age 72
Prime Minister - South Africa
J. Sigfrid Edström age 71
President - International Olympic Committee
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 63
Prime Minister - Egypt
Seán Lester age 53
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Carlos Saladrigas Zayas age 41
Prime Minister - Cuba
Husni al-Barazi age 47
Prime Minister - Syria
Harlan F. Stone age 69
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Henry A. Wallace age 53
Vice President - United States
William D. Leahy age 67
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Hermann Göring age 49
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
George C. Marshall age 61
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Cordell Hull age 70
Secretary Of State - United States
Henry L. Stimson age 74
Secretary of War - United States
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 51
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Francis Biddle age 56
Attorney General - United States
Herbert Morrison age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Kingsley Wood age 60
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 57
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 51
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
Heinrich Himmler age 41
Chief Of German Police - Germany
J. Edgar Hoover age 47
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clement Attlee age 59
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Wilhelm Frick age 65
Reichsleiter - Nazi Party
James F. Byrnes age 60
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Robert H. Jackson age 50
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 49
President - African National Congress
Margaret Buckley age 63
President - Sinn Féin
Harry S. Truman age 58
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 64
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 33
House of Representatives - United States
David Lloyd George age 79
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles de Gaulle age 51
Leader of Free France - Free France
Francisco Franco age 49
Caudillo - Spain
Pius XII age 66
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 66
King - Saudi Arabia
Norodom Sihanouk age 19
King - Cambodia
İsmet İnönü age 57
President - Turkey
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 61
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 70
King - Norway
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
Rafael Trujillo age 50
President - Dominican Republic
Ananda Mahidol age 16
King - Thailand
Jozef Tiso age 54
President - Slovakia
Mohammed V of Morocco age 32
Sultan - Morocco
Manuel L. Quezon age 63
President - Philippines
Risto Ryti age 53
President - Finland
Douglas Hyde age 82
President - Ireland
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 46
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 43
King - Eswatini
Anastasio Somoza García age 46
President - Nicaragua
Óscar Carmona age 72
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 72
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 31
Sultan - Oman
Władysław Raczkiewicz age 57
President - Poland
Jigme Wangchuck age 37
King - Bhutan
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 59
President - El Salvador
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 53
President - Peru
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 42
Queen - Tonga
Ramón Castillo age 68
President - Argentina
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 54
Viceroy - British Raj
Tiburcio Carías age 66
President - Honduras
Edwin Barclay age 60
President - Liberia
Eduardo Santos age 53
President - Colombia
Enrique Peñaranda age 48
President - Bolivia
Juan Antonio Rios age 53
President - Chile
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 57
Emir - Kuwait
Philipp Etter age 50
President - Switzerland
Alfredo Baldomir age 57
President - Uruguay
Isaías Medina Angarita age 45
President - Venezuela
Higinio Morínigo age 45
President - Paraguay
Carlos Arroyo age 48
President - Ecuador
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 87
Emir - Qatar
Élie Lescot age 58
President - Haiti
Alfred Naqqache age 54
President - Lebanon
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 40
Regent - Lesotho
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 60
President - Mongolia
António de Oliveira Salazar age 53
Prime Minister - Portugal
Ion Antonescu age 60
Prime Minister - Romania
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 45
Prime Minister - Thailand
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 67
Prime Minister - Canada
John Curtin age 57
Prime Minister - Australia
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 47
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Per Albin Hansson age 56
Prime Minister - Sweden
Johan Nygaardsvold age 62
Prime Minister - Norway
Nuri as-Said age 54
Prime Minister - Iraq
Bogdan Filov age 59
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 57
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Ólafur Thors age 50
Prime Minister - Iceland
Şükrü Saracoğlu age 55
Prime Minister - Turkey
Hubert Pierlot age 58
Prime Minister - Belgium
Miklós Kállay age 55
Prime Minister - Hungary
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 47
Prime Minister - Finland
Georgios Tsolakoglou age 56
Prime Minister - Greece
Vilhelm Buhl age 60
Prime Minister - Denmark
Pierre Dupong age 57
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Peter Fraser age 58
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 50
Prime Minister - Jordan
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 57
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Josef Hoop age 46
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Solomone Ula Ata age 59
Prime Minister - Tonga
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
Albert Einstein age 63
Ronald Reagan age 31
Nelson Mandela age 24
Mahatma Gandhi age 72
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
Mao Zedong age 48
Che Guevara age 14
Nikola Tesla age 86
Neil Armstrong age 11
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 15
Yuri Gagarin age 8
Mikhail Gorbachev age 11
Henry Ford age 79
Stephen Hawking age 6 months
Jean-Paul Sartre age 37
Jimmy Carter age 17
Benedict XVI age 15
Mother Teresa age 31
George H. W. Bush age 18
Jawaharlal Nehru age 52
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 51
Richard Nixon age 29
Alan Turing age 30
John Maynard Keynes age 59
Simone de Beauvoir age 34
Niels Bohr age 56
Muammar Gaddafi age 1 month
John Lennon age 1
Muhammad Ali age 6 months
Max Planck age 84
Kofi Annan age 4
Gerald Ford age 29
Indira Gandhi age 24
Saddam Hussein age 5
Enrico Fermi age 40
Nikita Khrushchev age 48
14th Dalai Lama age 7
Silvio Berlusconi age 5
Herbert Hoover age 68
Mahathir Mohamad age 17
Boris Yeltsin age 11
Ali Khamenei age 3
Jacques Chirac age 9
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 23
Kwame Nkrumah age 32
Yasser Arafat age 12
Ho Chi Minh age 52
Konrad Adenauer age 66
Henry Kissinger age 19
Václav Havel age 5
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 14
Georges Pompidou age 31
Joseph Goebbels age 44
Leonid Brezhnev age 35
Robert Mugabe age 18
Hosni Mubarak age 14
Golda Meir age 44
John XXIII age 60
Deng Xiaoping age 37
Ferdinand Marcos age 24