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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

People

Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia age 55
Hermine Reuss of Greiz age 54
Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia age 34
Princess Ileana of Romania age 33
Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland age 30
Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone age 68
Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria age 3
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 23
Elliot Richardson age 21
Lester Bird age 4
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 58
Eduardo Lonardi age 45
Bill Hayden age 9
Alfons Gorbach age 43
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 2
Georges Theunis age 69
Paul van Zeeland age 48
Colville Young age 9
Aleksandar Tsankov age 62
Goukouni Oueddei age 5 months
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 50
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 26
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 15
Osvaldo Hurtado age 2
Galo Plaza age 36
Teuvo Aura age 29
Keijo Liinamaa age 13
Sakari Tuomioja age 30
Ioannis Grivas age 19
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 14
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 11
Desmond Hoyte age 13
Henri Namphy age 9
Sándor Garbai age 63
Péter Boross age 13
István Friedrich age 58
Károly Grósz age 11
Geir Hallgrímsson age 16
Erik Scavenius age 64
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 47
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 28
Salim al-Huss age 12
Antanas Merkys age 55
Anton Buttigieg age 30
Litokwa Tomeing age 2
Luis Somoza Debayle age 19
Iuliu Maniu age 69
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod age 70
Cuthbert Sebastian age 20
Flavio Cotti age 2
Husni al-Za'im age 45
H. H. Kung age 60
Yen Hsi-shan age 58
Sanya Dharmasakti age 35
Phraya Manopakorn Nitithada age 57
Kriangsak Chamanan age 24
Chatchai Chunhawan age 22
Arthur Foulkes age 14
Marguerite Pindling age 9
Eric Williams age 30
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 19
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 35
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 40
Julius Chan age 2
Óscar R. Benavides age 66
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 26
Don Stephen Senanayake age 57
Diego Martínez Barrio age 58
Edem Kodjo age 4
Miles Dempsey age 45
Masayoshi Ito age 28
Jim Fouché age 44
Nicolaas Diederichs age 38
Dirk Stikker age 45
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 65
James Wolfensohn age 8
Frank Carlucci age 11
Les Aspin age 3
Jafar Sharif-Emami age 31
Takeo Kurita age 53
Takeichi Nishi age 39
Archduke Eugen of Austria age 79
Halil Kut age 60
Hal Moore age 20
Mario Roatta age 55
Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia age 46
Mitsuru Ushijima age 54
Princess Deokhye age 30
Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884–1948) age 57
Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (born 1914) age 28
Princess Clémentine of Belgium age 69
Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 58
Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife age 51
Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia age 33
Hiram Johnson age 75
Zell Miller age 10
Miriam A. Ferguson age 67
Pete Wilson age 8
Mitja Ribičič age 23
Abeid Karume age 36
Doihara Kenji age 58
Lien Chan age 5
William H. Webster age 18
Omer Nishani age 55
Rabah Bitat age 16
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 15
William Deane age 11
Clifford Husbands age 15
Gualberto Villarroel age 33
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 31
Hipólito Mejía age 1
Atef Ebeid age 10
Johannes Vares age 52
Jacob Nena age 7 months
Antti Tulenheimo age 62
Reino Kuuskoski age 35
Reino Ragnar Lehto age 44
Rafael Erich age 63
Ralf Törngren age 43
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 39
Ramiro de León Carpio age 4 months
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 18
Gyula Károlyi age 71
Béla Imrédy age 50
Gyula Kállai age 32
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 17
Hermann Jónasson age 45
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 31
Alexander Bustamante age 58
Hendrikus Colijn age 72
Jan Eduard de Quay age 40
Rashid Karami age 20
Riad Al Solh age 49
Richard Ratsimandrava age 11
Abdellatif Filali age 14
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 2
Jens Hundseid age 59
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 56
Ilie Verdeț age 17
Vladimir Kokovtsov age 89
Pote Sarasin age 37
Phraya Phahonphonphayuhasena age 55
Lynden Pindling age 12
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 4
Mohamed Mzali age 16
Yukhym Zvyahilskyi age 9
Eleazar López Contreras age 59
Carlos Delgado Chalbaud age 33
Eusebio Ayala age 66
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 3
Santiago Casares Quiroga age 58
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda age 26
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 8
José Giral age 62
Seán Lemass age 42
Hugh Gaitskell age 36
Robert Rubin age 3
Bayard Rustin age 30
Lucius D. Clay age 45
Hisaichi Terauchi age 62
Vittorio Ambrosio age 62
Arthur Percival age 54
Mostafa Chamran age 9
Gonzalo Queipo de Llano age 67
Şehzade Ahmed Nihad age 58
Otto Ruge age 60
Eberhard von Mackensen age 52
Alphonse Juin age 53
Seiichi Itō age 51
Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia age 58
Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse age 45
Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia age 33
Regina von Habsburg age 17
Infanta Beatriz of Spain age 32
Lady Mountbatten age 40
Hernando de Soto (economist) age 12 months
James M. Cox age 72
Petar Stambolić age 29
Yoshijirō Umezu age 60
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 16
Edmond Leburton age 27
Jean Van Houtte age 35
Théo Lefèvre age 28
Andrey Lukanov age 3
Son Sann age 30
Said Mohamed Djohar age 23
Otilio Ulate Blanco age 50
Luis Alberto Monge age 16
Vlatko Pavletić age 11
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 38
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 24
Tafari Benti age 20
Leo Falcam age 6
Laisenia Qarase age 1
Oskari Mantere age 67
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 46
José Azcona del Hoyo age 15
György Lázár age 17
Ferenc Nagy age 38
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 29