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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

People

Henri Navarre age 41
David F. Houston age 73
David Waddington age 10
Benjamin Civiletti age 4
Arthur W. Radford age 43
Neil H. McElroy age 35
John A. Wickham Jr. age 11
Bill McKell age 48
Firuz Mustafayev age 6
Grantley Herbert Adams age 41
Pierre Ngendandumwe age 9
Sisowath Youtevong age 26
Oum Cheang Sun age 39
Hang Thun Hak age 15
Henri Maïdou age 3
Mohamed Ahmed age 22
Ahmed Abdou age 3
Mahmoud Fawzi age 39
Aziz Sedki age 19
Makhosini Dlamini age 25
Abebe Aregai age 36
Ben Jones age 15
José María Reyna Andrade age 79
Luis Arturo González López age 38
Wilopo age 30
Hikmat Sulayman age 50
Ahmad Mukhtar Baban age 39
Hamdi Pachachi age 53
Hazza' al-Majali age 20
Abdelhamid Sharaf age 3 months
Andrei Iordan age 4
Voldemārs Zāmuēls age 67
Shafik Wazzan age 14
Takieddin el-Solh age 31
Gustav Schädler age 55
Léon Kauffman age 70
Abdoulaye Sékou Sow age 8
Yoro Diakité age 7
Mitar Martinović age 69
David Beattie age 15
Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes age 67
Juan José Estrada Morales age 67
Vitorino Guimarães age 62
Winston Cenac age 14
Monica Dacon age 5
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 15
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 18
Janez Stanovnik age 17
Jamil al-Elshi age 56
Mahmoud Zuabi age 4
Abdul Rahman Khleifawi age 12
Gerald Cash age 22
Milo Butler age 33
Tulaga Manuella age 3
Stanisław Mackiewicz age 42
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 51
Domingo Díaz Arosemena age 64
Vincent Eri age 3
Hyun Soong-jong age 20
Eugene Koffi Adoboli age 5
Shlomo Shamir age 24
Edward Almond age 46
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 28
Lewis Thompson Preston age 13
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford age 33
Christopher Soames age 19
Gordon R. Sullivan age 2
George Scratchley Brown age 21
John Wesley Snyder age 44
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 80
Robert Carr age 22
Peyton C. March age 74
Endelkachew Makonnen age 12
Naoki Hoshino age 47
José Domingo Molina Gómez age 43
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 30
Fazlul Haque age 1
Ieu Koeus age 34
Huy Kanthoul age 30
Leng Ngeth age 39
Gonzalo Güell age 44
Félix Lancís Sánchez age 38
Pedro Bartolomé Benoit age 18
Ibrahim Abdel Hadi Pasha age 43
Muhammad Sedki Sulayman age 20
Silvestre Siale Bileka age 10 months
Maphevu Dlamini age 17
Óscar Mendoza Azurdia age 22
Guillermo Flores Avendaño age 45
Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum age 12
Muzahim Pachachi age 49
Sayyid Salih Jabr age 43
Mohsen Abdel Hamid age 2
Kenneth Blackburne age 31
Abdelmunim al-Rifai age 22
Ahmad Toukan age 36
Ahmad Lawzi age 14
Alexander Frick age 29
Mamadou Dembelé age 5
Puntsagiin Jasrai age 5
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 44
Andrija Radović age 67
Radoje Kontić age 2
José Domingues dos Santos age 52
António Ginestal Machado age 65
Charles David Ganao age 12
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 23
Charles Antrobus age 6
Peter Colotka age 14
Raul Bragança Neto age 6 months
Yu Kuo-hwa age 25
Carlos Fischer age 36
Martín Echegoyen age 48
Daniel Fernández Crespo age 38
Eduardo Víctor Haedo age 38
Huynh Thuc Khang age 63
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini age 7
Daniel Lisulo age 8
Muhammad Hawadle Madar age 10 months
Ro Jai-bong age 3
Pak Choong-hoon age 20
Javier Valle Riestra age 7
Alden W. Clausen age 16
Peter de la Billière age 5
Edward H. Levi age 28
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 39
Bruce Palmer Jr. age 26
Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham age 67
Anthony Barber age 19
Bernard W. Rogers age 18
David C. Jones age 18
Malin Craig age 64
William D. Mitchell age 65
William J. Crowe age 14
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan age 68
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 71
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 4
Merlyn Rees age 18
Clarence M. Kelley age 28
Prince Shah Mahmud Khan of Afghanistan age 52
Mohammad Yusuf age 22
Fazal khaliq age 5
John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven age 65
John Montague Stow age 28
Lhendup Dorji age 4
André Muhirwa age 19
Joseph Bamina age 14
Khim Tit age 43
Ek Yi Oun age 29
Chan Nak age 47
Sak Sutsakhan age 11
Édouard Frank age 5
Timothée Malendoma age 4
Pedro Dartnell age 65
Carlos Saladrigas Zayas age 39
Ramón Zaydín age 44
Hassan Sabry Pasha age 64
Ahmad Najib al-Hilali age 48
Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha age 62
Makonnen Endelkachew age 49
Manuel María Orellana Contreras age 68
Naji Shawkat age 46
Edward Zacca age 8
Kassim al-Rimawi age 21
Mohammad Daoud al-Abbasi age 26
Nazem Akkari age 37
Guy Razanamasy age 10
Ahmed Ould Bouceif age 5
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 58
Jovan Plamenac age 66
Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet age 74
Leonardo Argüello Barreto age 64
Ksente Bogoev age 20
Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan age 50
Liberato Pinto age 59
Tupua Tamasese Lealofi IV age 17
Johan Adolf Pengel age 23
Izzat al-Nuss age 27
Haqqi al-Azm age 74
Nasuhi al-Bukhari age 58
Lutfi al-Haffar age 51
Weng Wenhao age 50
Yu Hung-chun age 41
Arturo Lezama age 40
Faustino Harrison age 39
Mainza Chona age 9
John Guise age 25
Kingsford Dibela age 7
Glauco Sansovini age 1
Efraín Goldenberg age 9
Pedro Beltrán age 42
Wei Lihuang age 42
George David Woods age 38
Frank Polk age 68
Charles Pelot Summerall age 72
Edward C. Meyer age 10
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk age 33
Earle Wheeler age 31
David E. Jeremiah age 5
Hardan al-Tikriti age 14