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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
Battle of South Guangxi 1939-11-15 - 1940-11-30
Western Desert campaign 1940-06-11 - 1943-02-04
Battle of Britain 1940-07-10 - 1940-10-31

People

Natalia Pavlovna Paley age 34
Thomas Blamey age 56
Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria age 62
Elias, Duke of Parma age 60
Prince Alois of Liechtenstein (1869–1955) age 71
Princess Sophie of Hohenberg age 39
Kim Song-ae age 15
Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein age 68
Sigvard Bernadotte age 33
Carl Johan Bernadotte age 23
Berthold, Margrave of Baden age 34
Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg age 5
George Deukmejian age 12
Ivan Šubašić age 48
François Georges-Picot age 69
He Yingqin age 50
Otto Rasch age 48
Abderrahmane Farès age 29
John Kerr age 25
Otto Ender age 64
Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad age 22
Henri Carton de Wiart age 71
Manuel Esquivel age 3 months
Wálter Guevara age 28
David Padilla age 12
Enrique Hertzog age 42
Guido Vildoso age 3
Lol Mahamat Choua age 1
Juan Antonio Rios age 51
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 54
José Joaquín Trejos Fernández age 24
Josip Manolić age 20
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 61
Aman Andom age 16
Tengiz Sigua age 5
Adamantios Androutsopoulos age 20
Sofoklis Venizelos age 45
Konstantinos Tsaldaris age 56
Ansumane Mané age 7 months
Martial Célestin age 26
Ramón Villeda Morales age 30
Carlos Roberto Reina age 14
Gyula Peidl age 67
Móric Esterházy age 59
Mohammad Natsir age 32
Abdelsalam al-Majali age 15
Knud Kristensen age 59
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal age 63
Jo Cals age 26
Elias Sarkis age 16
Jonas Staugaitis age 72
Tulsi Giri age 13
Catherine Tizard age 9
Kim Il age 30
Manuel Teixeira Gomes age 80
Alfredo Nobre da Costa age 16
Henk Chin A Sen age 6
Luai al-Atassi age 14
Chawalit Yongchaiyut age 8
Basdeo Panday age 7
Recep Peker age 51
Bazilio Olara-Okello age 11
Paulo Muwanga age 16
Octavio Lepage age 16
Federico Chávez age 59
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri age 2
Dudley Senanayake age 29
Sadiq al-Mahdi age 4
Dámaso Berenguer, 1st Count of Xauen age 67
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon age 73
Orville Wright age 69
Brock Chisholm age 44
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 67
Robert Bork age 13
Khalil al-Wazir age 4
A. Philip Randolph age 51
Janko Bobetko age 21
Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García age 10
Dietrich von Saucken age 48
Charles Malik age 34
José Miaja age 62
Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein age 70
Agustín Muñoz Grandes age 44
Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu age 38
Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia age 43
Şehzade Mehmed Orhan age 31
Jacob L. Devers age 52
Christian de Castries age 38
Pujie age 33
Prince Oskar of Prussia age 52
Archduke Wilhelm of Austria age 45
Archduchess Maria Annunziata of Austria age 64
Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este age 25
Archduchess Adelheid of Austria age 26
Kim Yong-ju age 20
Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia age 11
Pat Brown age 35
Dale Bumpers age 14
Harry Blackmun age 31
Otto Hofmann age 44
William J. Brennan Jr. age 34
Adil Çarçani age 18
Peter Hollingworth age 5
Charles de Broqueville age 79
Joseph Pholien age 55
Elmira Minita Gordon age 9
Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas age 15
Son Ngoc Thanh age 31
Ali Soilih age 3
Cyrille Adoula age 18
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 10
Camilo Ponce Enríquez age 28
Ignacio Milam Tang age 1 month
Otto Tief age 51
Antti Hackzell age 58
Rainer von Fieandt age 49
Stefanos Stefanopoulos age 42
Alexandros Diomidis age 64
Ioannis Rallis age 62
Stylianos Gonatas age 64
Spiridon Markezinis age 31
Carlos Correia age 6
Francisco Mendes age 1
Dumarsais Estimé age 40
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 13
Sigurður Eggerz age 65
Jóhann Hafstein age 24
Wasfi Tal age 21
Vilhelm Buhl age 58
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 27
Boun Oum age 28
Charles Helou age 26
Enrico Mizzi age 54
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 7 months
Saw Maung age 11
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt age 40
Robert Muldoon age 18
Juan Bautista Sacasa age 65
Nikola Kljusev age 12
Christopher Hornsrud age 80
José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo age 23
Constantin Sănătescu age 55
Gavril Dejeu age 7
Théodore Sindikubwabo age 12
Otto Stich age 13
Arnold Koller age 6
Max Petitpierre age 41
Zhang Qun age 51
Hedi Amara Nouira age 29
Şemsettin Günaltay age 57
Ferit Melen age 33
Óscar Diego Gestido age 38
Pham Hung age 28
Jędrzej Moraczewski age 70
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski age 55
Paulias Matane age 8
José Patricio Guggiari age 56
Ricardo Leoncio Elías Arias age 65
Charles Hardinge age 82
Yasuji Okamura age 56
John J. McCloy age 45
Leon Brittan age 10 months
Joseph Grew age 60
W. Michael Blumenthal age 14
Petar Živković age 61
Marc Mitscher age 53
Harry Crerar age 52
Fernando Romeo Lucas García age 16
Zhang Guotao age 42
Józef Haller age 67
Takeo Takagi age 48
Petar Bojović age 82
Constantin Prezan age 79
Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven age 44
Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia age 43
Erhard Raus age 51
Raoul Salan age 41
Dudley Pound age 62
Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni age 32
Prince George William of Hanover age 25
Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg age 37
Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein age 70
Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke age 53
Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk age 47
Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia age 33
Infanta María Cristina of Spain age 28
Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia age 12
Maximilian, Margrave of Baden age 7
José Serrato age 71
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 24
John N. Mitchell age 26
Òscar Ribas Reig age 3
França Van-Dúnem age 5
James Carlisle age 3
Vere Bird age 29
Arturo Rawson age 55
Ninian Stephen age 17
Abdus Sattar age 34
Hernando Siles Reyes age 58
Dimitar Iliev Popov age 13