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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
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01 - 1945-08-21
Manhattan Project 1942-08-13 - 1947-01-01
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Battle of Luzon 1945-01-09 - 1945-08-15
Chinese Communist Revolution 1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01

People

Ahmad Qavam age 69
Nobutake Kondō age 58
Bai Chongxi age 52
Johannes Frießner age 53
Lucjan Żeligowski age 79
Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon age 49
Veljko Kadijević age 19
Shunroku Hata age 66
Empress Teimei age 61
Princess Milica of Montenegro age 79
Frederick Francis IV age 63
Princess Helen of Serbia age 60
Dürrüşehvar Sultan age 31
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk) age 24
Sam Manekshaw age 31
Heinrich von Vietinghoff age 57
Prince Nicholas of Romania age 42
Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein age 59
Prince William of Gloucester age 3
Nathan Deal age 2
Gray Davis age 2
Milan Stojadinović age 57
Gaylord Nelson age 29
Ramsey Clark age 17
Courtney Hodges age 58
Bainbridge Colby age 75
Albert Pintat age 2
Carlos Lacoste age 16
Josef Klaus age 34
Juan José Torres age 25
Saye Zerbo age 12
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 3
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 21
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 5
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 21
Sufi Abu Taleb age 20
Tosiwo Nakayama age 13
Edwin Linkomies age 50
Theodoros Pangalos age 67
Nikolaos Plastiras age 61
Xenophon Zolotas age 41
Tillman Thomas age 1 month
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 1
Gérard Latortue age 11
Jenő Fock age 29
Miklós Kállay age 58
Sutan Sjahrir age 36
P. J. Patterson age 10
Abdullah Ensour age 6
Erik Eriksen age 42
Dirk Jan de Geer age 74
Victor Marijnen age 28
Charles D. B. King age 70
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 7
Anand Satyanand age 1
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 62
Gheorghe Tătărescu age 58
Constantin Dăscălescu age 22
Frederick Ballantyne age 9
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 8
Andrej Bajuk age 1
Adib Shishakli age 36
Qahhor Mahkamov age 13
Cleopa Msuya age 14
Yevhen Marchuk age 4
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 33
Aparicio Méndez age 40
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 35
Aleksander Zawadzki age 45
Guillermo Endara age 9
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 16
Kim Jong-pil age 19
William Gopallawa age 47
D. M. Jayaratne age 14
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 3
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones age 82
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 57
Matthew Ridgway age 50
Manlio Brosio age 48
Franco Maria Malfatti age 18
Denis Healey age 27
Amin al-Hafiz age 23
Dragiša Cvetković age 52
J. Lawton Collins age 49
John W. Snow age 6
Qazi Muhammad age 52
Josef Harpe age 57
Issa Pliyev age 41
Kim Chaek age 42
Masahito, Prince Hitachi age 9
Nikola Zhekov age 80
Markian Popov age 42
Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia age 58
Hermine Reuss of Greiz age 57
Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia age 37
Princess Ileana of Romania age 36
Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland age 33
Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone age 71
Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria age 6
Slobodan Jovanović age 75
Nguyễn Khánh age 17
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 27
Elliot Richardson age 25
Lester Bird age 7
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 61
Eduardo Lonardi age 48
Bill Hayden age 12
Alfons Gorbach age 46
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 5
Georges Theunis age 72
Paul van Zeeland age 51
Colville Young age 12
Aleksandar Tsankov age 66
Goukouni Oueddei age 3
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 53
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 30
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 18
Osvaldo Hurtado age 6
Galo Plaza age 39
Teuvo Aura age 32
Keijo Liinamaa age 16
Sakari Tuomioja age 33
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 50
Ioannis Grivas age 22
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 17
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 14
Vinicio Cerezo age 2
Desmond Hoyte age 16
Henri Namphy age 12
Sándor Garbai age 66
Péter Boross age 16
István Friedrich age 62
Károly Grósz age 15
Geir Hallgrímsson age 19
Erik Scavenius age 68
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 50
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 31
Salim al-Huss age 15
Edwin Barclay age 63
Antanas Merkys age 58
Anton Buttigieg age 33
Litokwa Tomeing age 5
Luis Somoza Debayle age 22
Iuliu Maniu age 72
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod age 73
Cuthbert Sebastian age 23
Flavio Cotti age 5
Husni al-Za'im age 48
H. H. Kung age 63
Yen Hsi-shan age 62
Sanya Dharmasakti age 38
Phraya Manopakorn Nitithada age 61
Kriangsak Chamanan age 27
Chatchai Chunhawan age 25
Arthur Foulkes age 17
Marguerite Pindling age 13
Eric Williams age 33
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 22
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 38
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 44
Julius Chan age 5
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 29
Don Stephen Senanayake age 60
Diego Martínez Barrio age 61
Edem Kodjo age 7
Miles Dempsey age 48
Masayoshi Ito age 31
Jim Fouché age 47
Nicolaas Diederichs age 41
Dirk Stikker age 48
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 69
James Wolfensohn age 11
Eric Shinseki age 2
Frank Carlucci age 14
Les Aspin age 7
Jafar Sharif-Emami age 34
Takeo Kurita age 56
Archduke Eugen of Austria age 82
Halil Kut age 63
Hal Moore age 23
Mario Roatta age 58
Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia age 50
Princess Deokhye age 33
Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884–1948) age 61
Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (born 1914) age 31
Princess Clémentine of Belgium age 73
Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 61
Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife age 54
Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia age 37
Hiram Johnson age 78
Zell Miller age 13
Miriam A. Ferguson age 70
Pete Wilson age 11
Mitja Ribičič age 26
Abeid Karume age 40
Jozef Lenárt age 22
Doihara Kenji age 62
Lien Chan age 8
William H. Webster age 21
Omer Nishani age 58