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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
Battle of Bataan 1942-01-07 - 1942-04-09

People

Józef Haller age 68
Dragoljub Ojdanić age 8 months
Takeo Takagi age 50
Petar Bojović age 83
Constantin Prezan age 81
Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven age 45
Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia age 45
Erhard Raus age 53
Raoul Salan age 42
Dudley Pound age 64
Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni age 34
Prince George William of Hanover age 26
Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg age 39
Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein age 71
Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke age 55
Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk age 48
Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia age 35
Infanta María Cristina of Spain age 30
Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia age 14
Infante Alfonso of Spain age 4 months
Maximilian, Margrave of Baden age 8
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 26
John N. Mitchell age 28
Òscar Ribas Reig age 5
França Van-Dúnem age 7
James Carlisle age 4
Vere Bird age 31
Arturo Rawson age 56
Ninian Stephen age 18
Abdus Sattar age 35
Hernando Siles Reyes age 59
Dimitar Iliev Popov age 14
Gérard Kango Ouédraogo age 16
Sisowath Sirik Matak age 28
Abel Goumba age 15
Vladimir Bakarić age 29
Anselmo Alliegro y Milá age 42
Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy age 22
Isidro Ayora age 62
Otto Arosemena age 16
Arturo Armando Molina age 14
Bailey Olter age 9
Emil Jónsson age 39
Steingrímur Steinþórsson age 49
Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson age 47
Seydou Diarra age 8
Mustafa Ben Halim age 21
Bronislovas Lubys age 3
Mohamed Amin Didi age 31
Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici age 8
Azzeddine Laraki age 12
Ahmed Laraki age 10
Kirti Nidhi Bista age 15
Man Mohan Adhikari age 21
Adolfo Díaz age 66
Ivar Lykke age 70
Thomas Remengesau age 10
Carlos Mota Pinto age 5
Nicolae Rădescu age 67
Dominique Mbonyumutwa age 21
Habib Thiam age 9
Mamadou Dia age 31
Ramsewak Shankar age 4
Fred Ramdat Misier age 15
Kurt Furgler age 17
René Felber age 8
Hau Pei-tsun age 22
Salim Ahmed Salim age 0 months
Rachid Sfar age 8
Refik Saydam age 60
Valentyn Symonenko age 1
Juan José de Amézaga age 61
Alberto Demicheli age 45
Walter Lini age 1 month
Edward Babiuch age 14
Eric Arturo Delvalle age 5
Manuel Portela Valladares age 75
Jeremy Thorpe age 12
Sultan al-Atrash age 50
Jonathan M. Wainwright age 58
Bo Gu age 34
Du Yuesheng age 53
Walter Weiß age 51
John Peters Humphrey age 36
Vicente Rojo Lluch age 47
Walter Krueger age 61
Juan Yagüe Blanco age 50
Nikolaos Trikoupis age 74
Mahmoud Taleghani age 30
Théoneste Bagosora age 5 months
Hanako, Princess Hitachi age 1
Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia age 49
Lennart Bernadotte age 32
Walther Nehring age 49
Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin age 50
Soong Ai-ling age 52
Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (born 1891) age 50
Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg age 54
Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt age 43
Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria age 71
Albert, 8th Prince of Thurn and Taxis age 74
Philipp Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg age 48
Lady Pamela Hicks age 12
Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz age 5
Johan Ferner age 14
Princess Marie Louise of Bulgaria age 9
Richard Russell Jr. age 44
Ted Strickland age 6 months
Norman Tebbit age 10
Mika Špiljak age 25
Arthur Goldberg age 33
Potter Stewart age 27
Clark Clifford age 35
Robert A. Lovett age 46
Fejzi Alizoti age 67
Mehdi Frashëri age 69
Youssef Yousfi age 4 months
Simon Vratsian age 59
Alexander Khatisian age 68
Carl Vaugoin age 68
A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury age 9
Abu Sayeed Chowdhury age 21
Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem age 25
Moudud Ahmed age 1
Errol Barrow age 22
Paul-Émile Janson age 69
Juan Pereda age 10
Mamerto Urriolagoitía age 46
Stoyan Danev age 84
Penn Nouth age 35
Miguel Mariano Gómez age 52
Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno age 82
Tesfaye Genre Kidan age 5
Timoci Bavadra age 7
Penaia Ganilau age 23
Urho Castrén age 55
Otar Patsatsia age 12
Hudson Austin age 3
Paul Magloire age 34
Sándor Simonyi-Semadam age 77
Lajos Dinnyés age 40
Dénes Berinkey age 70
Björn Þórðarson age 63
Hugh Shearer age 18
Adnan Badran age 6
Mudar Badran age 8
Phoumi Vongvichit age 32
Mamohato of Lesotho age 9 months
Paul Boffa age 51
Mustafa Ould Salek age 6
Mohammed Ben Aarafa age 56
Mário da Graça Machungo age 1
Norman Kirk age 19
Hong Song-nam age 12
António Maria da Silva age 69
Constantin Angelescu age 72
Josip Vidmar age 46
Johan Kraag age 28
Marcel Pilet-Golaz age 52
Edmund Schulthess age 73
Alphons Egli age 17
Leon Schlumpf age 17
Sami al-Henaaui age 44
Rashidi Kawawa age 15
Hédi Baccouche age 12
Sadi Irmak age 37
Andrés Martínez Trueba age 58
Luis Batlle Berres Pérez age 44
Utkir Tukhtamurodovich Sultonov age 2
Harmodio Arias Madrid age 55
Natalicio González age 44
Rafael Franco age 45
Abdirizak Haji Hussein age 17
Lee Beom-seok age 41
Babiker Awadalla age 24
Xu Xiangqian age 40
Donald Regan age 23
Lyman Lemnitzer age 42
Nicholas F. Brady age 11
John Langalibalele Dube age 70
Otozō Yamada age 60
Ja'far Pishevari age 50
Gerhard Schmidhuber age 47
Thomas Cassin Kinkaid age 53
José Enrique Varela age 50
Saad el-Shazly age 19
Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu age 37
Takako Shimazu age 2
Dündar Ali Osman age 11
Luo Ronghuan age 39
Harukichi Hyakutake age 53
Mickey Marcus age 40
Chiang Wei-kuo age 25
Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen age 62
Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria age 24
Archduke Maximilian of Austria (1895–1952) age 46
Archduke Felix of Austria age 25
Song Hye-rim age 3
Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 44
Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse age 15