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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

Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas age 1
Kazimierz Świtalski age 54
Marian Zyndram-Kościałkowski age 48
Manuel María Ponce Brousset age 66
Umar Arteh Ghalib age 10
Paik Sun-yup age 19
Xue Yue age 43
Halfdan T. Mahler age 17
Heitarō Kimura age 52
Hubert Gough age 70
Sun Yun-suan age 26
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 33
Archibald Cox age 28
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 36
Qasdi Mirbah age 2
Sayyid Ahmed Ghazali age 3
Zelman Cowen age 21
Richard Casey, Baron Casey age 50
Hafiz Uddin Ahmad age 11 months
Carlos Blanco Galindo age 58
Ivan Bagryanov age 49
Joseph Conombo age 23
Pié Masumbuko age 9
Sisowath Monireth age 30
Alfredo González Flores age 63
Ahmed Dini Ahmed age 10
Patrick John age 2
Federico Páez age 64
Aly Maher Pasha age 58
Jorge Meléndez Ramírez age 69
Cristino Seriche Bioko age 4 months
Jona Senilagakali age 10
Stilianos Mavromichalis age 41
Antonio Thrasybule Kébreau age 30
Franck Lavaud age 37
Franck Sylvain age 31
Smarck Michel age 3
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro age 10
Sjafruddin Prawiranegara age 29
Burhanuddin Harahap age 23
Naji Talib age 23
Husayn al-Khalidi age 46
Habib Pacha Es-Saad age 73
David D. Kpormakpor age 5
Mohieddin Fikini age 15
Walter Kieber age 9
Pierre Prüm age 54
Veselin Đuranović age 15
Ahmed Balafrej age 32
Maung Maung age 15
Win Maung age 24
Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie age 47
Gordon Coates age 62
René Schick age 30
Domingos Leite Pereira age 58
Duarte Leite age 76
Henri Lopès age 3
Kennedy Simmonds age 4
Moustapha Niasse age 11 months
Thomas Holenstein age 44
Faris al-Khoury age 62
Ata al-Ayyubi age 63
Rida al-Rikabi age 76
İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil age 32
Fiatau Penitala Teo age 29
Ionatana Ionatana age 1
Antoni Ponikowski age 62
Janusz Jędrzejewicz age 55
Pedro Peña age 76
Cesar Virata age 9
Wijeyananda Dahanayake age 38
Du Yuming age 35
Su Yu age 33
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 40
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby age 75
William E. Simon age 12
Nathan F. Twining age 43
Richard Kleindienst age 17
J. Howard McGrath age 36
Abe Fortas age 30
Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal age 19
Maliq Bushati age 60
Hamo Ohanjanyan age 67
Paul Hasluck age 35
Shah Azizur Rahman age 14
Chan Sy age 8
In Tam age 18
Sisowath Monipong age 28
Bartolomé Blanche age 61
Abdallah Mohamed Kamil age 4
Hussein Sirri Pasha age 48
Arturo Araujo age 62
Alfonso Quiñónez Molina age 66
Jean-Hilaire Aubame age 27
Alexandros Svolos age 48
Herbert Blaize age 22
Diarra Traoré age 5
Edward Luckhoo age 28
Émile Jonassaint age 27
Vicente Mejía Colindres age 62
Adnan Pachachi age 17
Abd ar-Razzaq an-Naif age 7
Jamil al-Midfai age 50
Tawfiq al-Suwaidi age 48
Abdelraouf al-Rawabdeh age 1
Apas Jumagulov age 6
Marģers Skujenieks age 54
Petro Trad age 64
Wilton G. S. Sankawulo age 3
Wanis al-Qaddafi age 16
Hussein Maziq age 22
Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi age 1
Alfred Hilbe age 12
Hubert Loutsch age 61
Ibrahim Muhammad Didi age 39
Dumaagiin Sodnom age 7
Mohan Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 54
Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae age 29
Yon Hyong-muk age 8
José Vicente de Freitas age 71
João Tamagnini Barbosa age 56
Allan Louisy age 24
Jules Sedney age 18
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm age 8
Yusuf Zuayyin age 8
Sabri al-Asali age 37
Taj al-Din al-Hasani age 55
Edward Sokoine age 2
John Malecela age 6
Orville Turnquest age 11
Clifford Darling age 18
Kléber Dadjo age 26
Tupua Leupena age 18
Koloa Talake age 6
Luis Giannattasio age 45
Frederick Karlomuana Timakata age 4
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani age 1
Artur Śliwiński age 63
Ricardo Arias Espinosa age 28
Muhammad Ali Samatar age 9
Giuliano Gozi age 46
Patrick J. Hurley age 57
Kenneth Claiborne Royall age 46
Hu Zongnan age 44
George M. Humphrey age 50
Duncan Sandys age 32
Homer Stille Cummings age 70
Henry H. Fowler age 32
William French Smith age 23
Thomas Hinman Moorer age 28
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 58
William S. Sessions age 10
Kostaq Kota age 51
Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman age 65
Salman II of Bahrain age 46
Nita Barrow age 23
Yem Sambaur age 27
Chhean Vam age 24
Sim Var age 34
Sisowath Watchayavong age 49
Norodom Kantol age 20
Nhiek Tioulong age 32
Djidingar Dono Ngardoum age 12
Pedro Opaso age 64
Évariste Kimba age 14
Léonard Mulamba age 12
Osborne Riviere age 8
Andrés F. Córdova age 48
Antonio Pons age 42
Julio Enrique Moreno age 61
Mamdouh Salem age 22
Ismaʿil Sidqi age 65
Obed Dlamini age 3
Mabandla Dlamini age 9
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 28
Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre age 28
Francisco Javier Arana age 34
Daniel Fignolé age 26
Arif Abd ar-Razzaq age 19
Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali age 37
Clifford Campbell age 48
Florizel Glasspole age 31
Suleiman al-Nabulsi age 32
Adolph Bowler age 51
Pēteris Juraševskis age 68
Abdallah El-Yafi age 39
Ayoub Tabet age 66
Amin al-Hafez age 14
Emmanuel Rakotovahiny age 2
Ugo Pasquale Mifsud age 51
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 54
Jack Marshall age 28
Francisco Urcuyo age 25
Lorenzo Guerrero age 39
Boukary Adji age 1
Francisco Cunha Leal age 52
Victor Hugo de Azevedo Coutinho age 68
Alfredo de Sá Cardoso age 76
Bernard Kolélas age 7
Milan Čič age 8