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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 - 1945-09-20
Battle of the Atlantic 1939-09-03 - 1945-05-08
Winter War 1939-11-30 - 1940-03-13

People

Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 15
Georgy Zhukov age 43
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 63
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 64
Subhas Chandra Bose age 43
Lord Mountbatten age 39
Rabindranath Tagore age 78
Charles Hardinge age 81
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 58
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon age 73
Archibald Wavell age 56
Andrés Rodríguez age 16
Arleigh Winston Scott age 39
Aurelius Marie age 35
Giovanni Lajolo age 5
Bernard Montgomery age 52
Erwin Rommel age 48
Joachim von Ribbentrop age 46
Philippe Pétain age 83
B. R. Ambedkar age 48
C. Rajagopalachari age 61
Lin Biao age 32
Liu Bocheng age 47
Chen Yi age 38
Li Zongren age 49
Bai Chongxi age 46
Du Yuming age 35
Fu Zuoyi age 44
Tang Enbo age 40
Hugh Dowding age 57
Fedor von Bock age 59
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb age 63
Maxime Weygand age 73
Maurice Gamelin age 67
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort age 53
Albert Kesselring age 54
Hugo Sperrle age 54
Franz Halder age 55
Walter Model age 49
Günther von Kluge age 57
Konstantin Rokossovsky age 43
Nikolai Vatutin age 38
Ivan Konev age 42
Miles Dempsey age 43
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski age 40
Harold Alexander age 48
Richard O'Connor age 50
Rodolfo Graziani age 57
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim age 50
Giovanni Messe age 56
Georg Stumme age 53
Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma age 48
Vyacheslav Molotov age 49
Semyon Budyonny age 56
Anton Denikin age 67
Moshe Dayan age 24
Glubb Pasha age 42
Fawzi al-Qawuqji age 50
Shlomo Shamir age 24
Mary of Teck age 72
Wallis Simpson age 43
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon age 39
Prince Philip age 18