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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
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
Quit India Movement 1942-08-08 - 1944-09-01
Bengal famine of 1943 1943 - 1944
Italian campaign 1943-07-09 - 1945-05-02

People

Adolf Hitler age 54
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 64
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 61
President - United States
Mao Zedong age 49
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Hirohito age 42
Emperor - Japan
George VI age 47
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 51
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 23
Shah - Iran
Philippe Pétain age 87
Chief of the French State - Vichy France
Getúlio Vargas age 61
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 73
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 41
King - Belgium
Farouk of Egypt age 23
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 20
King - Yugoslavia
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 46
President - Mexico
Wang Jingwei age 60
President - Republic of China
Trường Chinh age 36
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Jorge Ubico age 64
President - Guatemala
Winston Churchill age 68
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Chiang Kai-shek age 55
Premier - Republic of China
Hideki Tojo age 58
Prime Minister - Japan
Éamon de Valera age 60
Taoiseach - Ireland
Pietro Badoglio age 72
Prime Minister - Italy
Pierre Laval age 60
Head of Government - Vichy France
Jan Smuts age 73
Prime Minister - South Africa
J. Sigfrid Edström age 72
President - International Olympic Committee
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 42
Prime Minister - Poland
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 64
Prime Minister - Egypt
Seán Lester age 55
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Saadallah al-Jabiri age 50
Prime Minister - Syria
Ramón Zaydín age 48
Prime Minister - Cuba
Harlan F. Stone age 70
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Henry A. Wallace age 54
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 39
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 44
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 57
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 42
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
William D. Leahy age 68
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
He Long age 47
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 43
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Heinrich Himmler age 42
Reichsminister - Germany
Hermann Göring age 50
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
George C. Marshall age 62
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Cordell Hull age 72
Secretary of State - United States
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 56
Reichsminister - Germany
Henry L. Stimson age 76
Secretary of War - United States
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 52
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Francis Biddle age 57
Attorney General - United States
Herbert Morrison age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Kingsley Wood age 62
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 58
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 52
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 48
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clement Attlee age 60
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Wilhelm Frick age 66
Reichsleiter - Nazi Party
Robert H. Jackson age 51
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Frank Murphy age 53
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Duff Cooper age 53
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Hugh Dalton age 56
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 50
President - African National Congress
Margaret Buckley age 64
President - Sinn Féin
Harry S. Truman age 59
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 65
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 85
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 35
House of Representatives - United States
David Lloyd George age 80
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Eden age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stafford Cripps age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Christian Herter age 48
House of Representatives - United States
Fred M. Vinson age 53
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 25
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 74
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 48
House of Representatives - United States
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ernest Bevin age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Earl Warren age 52
Governor of California - United States
Thomas E. Dewey age 41
Governor of New York - United States
John W. Bricker age 50
Governor of Ohio - United States
Charles Edison age 53
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Leverett Saltonstall age 51
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Coke R. Stevenson age 55
Governor of Texas - United States
Herbert O'Conor age 46
Governor of Maryland - United States
Colgate Darden age 46
Governor of Virginia - United States
Homer Martin Adkins age 52
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Henry F. Schricker age 60
Governor of Indiana - United States
Barber Conable age 20
New York State Senate - United States
Francisco Franco age 50
Caudillo - Spain
Pius XII age 67
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 67
King - Saudi Arabia
Norodom Sihanouk age 20
King - Cambodia
İsmet İnönü age 59
President - Turkey
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 63
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 71
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 85
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 73
King - Denmark
Michael I of Romania age 21
King - Kingdom of Romania
Rafael Trujillo age 51
President - Dominican Republic
Ananda Mahidol age 18
King - Thailand
Jozef Tiso age 55
President - Slovakia
Mohammed V of Morocco age 34
Sultan - Morocco
Manuel L. Quezon age 65
President - Philippines
Risto Ryti age 54
President - Finland
Douglas Hyde age 83
President - Ireland
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 47
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 44
King - Eswatini
Anastasio Somoza García age 47
President - Nicaragua
Óscar Carmona age 73
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 73
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 33
Sultan - Oman
Władysław Raczkiewicz age 58
President - Poland
Jigme Wangchuck age 38
King - Bhutan
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 60
President - El Salvador
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 54
President - Peru
Bechara El Khoury age 53
President - Lebanon
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 43
Queen - Tonga
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 56
Viceroy - British Raj
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 59
President - Argentina
Tiburcio Carías age 67
President - Honduras
Edwin Barclay age 61
President - Liberia
Enrique Peñaranda age 49
President - Bolivia
Juan Antonio Rios age 54
President - Chile
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 57
President - Colombia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 58
Emir - Kuwait
Juan José de Amézaga age 62
President - Uruguay
Isaías Medina Angarita age 46
President - Venezuela
Higinio Morínigo age 46
President - Paraguay
Carlos Arroyo age 49
President - Ecuador
Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia age 43
President - Costa Rica
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 88
Emir - Qatar
Élie Lescot age 59
President - Haiti
Enrico Celio age 54
President - Switzerland
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 41
Regent - Lesotho
Petro Trad age 67
President - Lebanon
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 62
President - Mongolia
António de Oliveira Salazar age 54
Prime Minister - Portugal
Ion Antonescu age 61
Prime Minister - Romania
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 46
Prime Minister - Thailand
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 68
Prime Minister - Canada
John Curtin age 58
Prime Minister - Australia
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 48
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Per Albin Hansson age 57
Prime Minister - Sweden
Johan Nygaardsvold age 64
Prime Minister - Norway
Nuri as-Said age 55
Prime Minister - Iraq
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 58
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Şükrü Saracoğlu age 56
Prime Minister - Turkey
Hubert Pierlot age 59
Prime Minister - Belgium
Edwin Linkomies age 48
Prime Minister - Finland
Miklós Kállay age 56
Prime Minister - Hungary
Ioannis Rallis age 65
Prime Minister - Greece
Pierre Dupong age 58
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Björn Þórðarson age 64
Prime Minister - Iceland
Peter Fraser age 59
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Dobry Bozhilov age 59
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 51
Prime Minister - Jordan
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 58
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Josef Hoop age 47
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Makonnen Endelkachew age 53
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Solomone Ula Ata age 60
Prime Minister - Tonga
Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie age 71
Governor-General - Australia
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 57
Governor-General - New Zealand
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 62
Governor-General - Madagascar
Albert Einstein age 64
Ronald Reagan age 32
Nelson Mandela age 25
Mahatma Gandhi age 74
Joe Biden age 10 months
Pablo Picasso age 61
Charlie Chaplin age 54
Elizabeth II age 17
John F. Kennedy age 26
Martin Luther King Jr. age 14
Pope Francis age 6
Che Guevara age 15
Charles de Gaulle age 52
Neil Armstrong age 13
Walt Disney age 41
Elvis Presley age 8
George Orwell age 40
John Paul II age 23