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Events

Treaty of Bardo 1881-05-12 - 1956-03-20
Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1922-12-29 - 1991-12-12
Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Lateran Treaty 1929-02-11 - 1985-06-03
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Air raids on Japan 1939-08-15 - 1945-08-15
World War II 1939-09-01 - 1945-09-02
Battle of the Atlantic 1939-09-03 - 1945-05-08
The Holocaust 1941 - 1945
Eastern Front (World War II) 1941-06-22 - 1955-01-21
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
South-East Asian theatre of World War II 1941-12-08 - 1945-09-09
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01 - 1945-08-21
Manhattan Project 1942-08-13 - 1947-01-01
Alsos Mission 1943 - 1945-10-15
Italian campaign 1943-07-09 - 1945-05-02
Italian Civil War 1943-09-08 - 1945-05-02
Lapland War 1944-09-15 - 1945-04-25
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Bombing of Singapore (1944–1945) 1944-11-05 - 1945-05-24
Battle of Luzon 1945-01-09 - 1945-08-15
East Prussian offensive 1945-01-13 - 1945-04-25
Volcano and Ryukyu Islands campaign 1945-02-19 - 1945-06-21
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

People

Adolf Hitler age 55
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 66
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 63
President - United States
Mao Zedong age 51
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Hirohito age 43
Emperor - Japan
George VI age 49
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 52
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 25
Shah - Iran
Getúlio Vargas age 62
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 75
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 43
King - Belgium
Farouk of Egypt age 25
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 21
King - Yugoslavia
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 47
President - Mexico
Trường Chinh age 38
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Juan José Arévalo age 40
President - Guatemala
Winston Churchill age 70
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Charles de Gaulle age 54
Chairman of the Provisional Government - France
Chiang Kai-shek age 57
Premier - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 52
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Éamon de Valera age 62
Taoiseach - Ireland
Jan Smuts age 74
Prime Minister - South Africa
Ivanoe Bonomi age 71
Prime Minister - Italy
Kuniaki Koiso age 65
Prime Minister - Japan
J. Sigfrid Edström age 74
President - International Olympic Committee
Seán Lester age 56
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Mahmud Fahmi al-Nuqrashi age 56
Prime Minister - Egypt
Faris al-Khoury age 67
Prime Minister - Syria
Félix Lancís Sánchez age 44
Prime Minister - Cuba
Harlan F. Stone age 72
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Harry S. Truman age 60
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 40
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 46
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 59
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 43
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
William D. Leahy age 69
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
He Long age 49
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 45
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Heinrich Himmler age 44
Reichsminister - Germany
Hermann Göring age 52
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
George C. Marshall age 64
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 57
Reichsminister - Germany
Henry L. Stimson age 77
Secretary of War - United States
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 53
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Edward Stettinius Jr. age 44
Secretary of State - United States
Francis Biddle age 58
Attorney General - United States
Herbert Morrison age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 59
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 62
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 54
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
Oliver Stanley age 48
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 50
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clement Attlee age 62
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Wilhelm Frick age 68
Reichsleiter - Nazi Party
Robert H. Jackson age 53
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Frank Murphy age 55
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Hugh Dalton age 57
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 52
President - African National Congress
Ernest Brown age 63
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Margaret Buckley age 65
President - Sinn Féin
J. Howard McGrath age 41
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
H. Struve Hensel age 43
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 67
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 87
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Anthony Eden age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ernest Bevin age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stafford Cripps age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Christian Herter age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Fred M. Vinson age 55
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duff Cooper age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 27
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 76
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 49
House of Representatives - United States
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Earl Warren age 54
Governor of California - United States
Thomas E. Dewey age 43
Governor of New York - United States
Frank Lausche age 49
Governor of Ohio - United States
Walter E. Edge age 71
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Coke R. Stevenson age 57
Governor of Texas - United States
Maurice J. Tobin age 43
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Herbert O'Conor age 48
Governor of Maryland - United States
Colgate Darden age 48
Governor of Virginia - United States
Benjamin T. Laney age 48
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Jim Nance McCord age 66
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Ralph F. Gates age 52
Governor of Indiana - United States
Barber Conable age 22
New York State Senate - United States
Francisco Franco age 52
Caudillo - Spain
Pius XII age 69
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 69
King - Saudi Arabia
Norodom Sihanouk age 22
King - Cambodia
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 77
President - Finland
İsmet İnönü age 60
President - Turkey
Puyi age 39
Emperor - Manchukuo
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 64
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 72
King - Norway
Edvard Beneš age 60
President - Czechoslovakia
Gustaf V of Sweden age 86
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 74
King - Denmark
Michael I of Romania age 23
King - Kingdom of Romania
Rafael Trujillo age 53
President - Dominican Republic
Ananda Mahidol age 19
King - Thailand
Jozef Tiso age 57
President - Slovakia
Mohammed V of Morocco age 35
Sultan - Morocco
Bolesław Bierut age 52
President - Poland
Douglas Hyde age 85
President - Ireland
Sveinn Björnsson age 64
President - Iceland
Archibald Wavell age 61
Viceroy - British Raj
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 49
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 45
King - Eswatini
José Paciano Laurel age 54
President - Philippines
Sergio Osmeña age 66
President - Philippines
Anastasio Somoza García age 49
President - Nicaragua
William Tubman age 49
President - Liberia
Óscar Carmona age 75
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 74
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 34
Sultan - Oman
Władysław Raczkiewicz age 60
President - Poland
Jigme Wangchuck age 40
King - Bhutan
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 55
President - Peru
Bechara El Khoury age 54
President - Lebanon
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 45
Queen - Tonga
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 58
President - Argentina
Tiburcio Carías age 69
President - Honduras
Gualberto Villarroel age 36
President - Bolivia
Juan Antonio Rios age 56
President - Chile
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 59
President - Colombia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 60
Emir - Kuwait
Mwambutsa IV of Burundi age 32
Mwami - Kingdom of Burundi
Juan José de Amézaga age 64
President - Uruguay
Isaías Medina Angarita age 47
President - Venezuela
Higinio Morínigo age 48
President - Paraguay
Josip Vidmar age 49
President - Slovenia
Teodoro Picado Michalski age 45
President - Costa Rica
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 90
Emir - Qatar
Khalifa bin Harub age 65
Sultan of Zanzibar - Sultanate of Zanzibar
Mutara III Rudahigwa age 34
Mwami - Kingdom of Rwanda
Élie Lescot age 61
President - Haiti
Eduard von Steiger age 63
President - Switzerland
Jan Šrámek age 74
Prime Minister - Czechoslovakia
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 43
Regent - Lesotho
Salvador Castaneda Castro age 57
President - El Salvador
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 63
President - Mongolia
Alvaro Casali age 49
Captain Regent - San Marino
Mir Osman Ali Khan age 59
Nizam of Hyderabad - Hyderabad State
Enver Hoxha age 36
Prime Minister - Albania
António de Oliveira Salazar age 55
Prime Minister - Portugal
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 74
Prime Minister - Finland
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 70
Prime Minister - Canada
Milovan Đilas age 33
Prime Minister - Montenegro
John Curtin age 60
Prime Minister - Australia
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 50
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Per Albin Hansson age 59
Prime Minister - Sweden
Petru Groza age 60
Prime Minister - Romania
Johan Nygaardsvold age 65
Prime Minister - Norway
Achille Van Acker age 47
Prime Minister - Belgium
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 60
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Kimon Georgiev age 62
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Ólafur Thors age 53
Prime Minister - Iceland
Khuang Aphaiwong age 42
Prime Minister - Thailand
Şükrü Saracoğlu age 57
Prime Minister - Turkey
Béla Miklós age 54
Prime Minister - Hungary
Nikolaos Plastiras age 61
Prime Minister - Greece
Otto Tief age 55
Prime Minister - Estonia
Pierre Dupong age 60
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Peter Fraser age 60
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 60
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Josef Hoop age 49
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Hamdi Pachachi age 59
Prime Minister - Iraq
Makonnen Endelkachew age 55
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Solomone Ula Ata age 61
Prime Minister - Tonga
Juddha Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 69
Prime Minister - Nepal
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 45
Governor-General - Australia
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 59
Governor-General - New Zealand
Pierre de Saint-Mart age 59
Governor-General - Madagascar
Albert Einstein age 66
Ronald Reagan age 34
Nelson Mandela age 26
Mahatma Gandhi age 75
Joe Biden age 2