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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
Winter War 1939-11-30 - 1940-03-13

People

George Borg Olivier age 28
Ahmed Bahnini age 31
Mohammed Karim Lamrani age 20
Maati Bouabid age 12
Ahmed Osman age 10
Khin Nyunt age 3 months
San Yu age 21
Sao Shwe Thaik age 43
Emiliano Chamorro Vargas age 68
José María Moncada age 69
Ngiratkel Etpison age 14
Adelino da Palma Carlos age 34
Ion Gigurtu age 53
Edmund Lawrence age 7
Dragan Tomić age 4
Östen Undén age 53
Rudolf Gnägi age 22
Hans-Peter Tschudi age 26
Pierre Aubert age 12
Albert Meyer age 69
Georges-André Chevallaz age 25
Johannes Baumann age 65
Pierre Graber age 31
Ahmad al-Khatib age 7
Jamil Mardam Bey age 47
Chang Chun-hsiung age 1
Ellis Clarke age 22
Noor Hassanali age 21
Bahi Ladgham age 27
Hamed Karoui age 12
Ali Bozer age 14
Hasan Saka age 55
Toaripi Lauti age 11
Tomás Berreta age 64
Tomás Romero Pereira age 53
Luis Alberto Riart age 59
Ricardo Pérez Godoy age 34
Lee Hong-koo age 5
Fernando de Santiago y Díaz age 29
Joaquín Chapaprieta age 68
Joaquín Sánchez de Toca Calvo age 87
Rosalio Lara age 17
Fawzi al-Qawuqji age 50
C. Douglas Dillon age 30
Louis A. Johnson age 49
Asaka Yasuhiko age 52
Mustafa Tlass age 7
Luigi Capello age 80
Krim Belkacem age 17
Jacques Massu age 31
Shigeko Higashikuni age 14
Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu age 28
Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia age 50
Princess Nina Georgievna of Russia age 38
Şükriye Sultan age 33
Bayezid Osman age 15
Nilufer Hanımsultan age 24
Leonhard Kaupisch age 61
Richmond K. Turner age 54
Chiang Fang-liang age 23
Prince Wolfgang of Hesse age 43
Prince Christoph of Hesse age 38
Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg age 73
Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1906–1940) age 33
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (born 1882) age 58
Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1919–2010) age 20
Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine age 31
Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 76
Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 33
Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma age 15
Princess Margarita of Baden age 7
Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern age 7
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 33
Byron White age 22
John Marshall Harlan II age 40
Pjetër Arbnori age 5
Rexhep Mitrovica age 52
Pandeli Evangjeli age 81
Xhafer Bej Ypi age 60
Belaid Abdesselam age 11
Ismail Hamdani age 9
A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury age 24
Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar age 8
Aloys Van de Vyvere age 68
Jigme Palden Dorji age 20
Néstor Guillén age 50
Tomás Monje age 55
Nikola Mushanov age 67
Said Mohamed Jaffar age 21
Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim age 3
Julio Acosta García age 67
Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich age 32
Ali Sabri age 19
Themistoklis Sofoulis age 80
Georgios Kafantaris age 66
Ilias Tsirimokos age 32
Panagiotis Poulitsas age 58
Anastasios Charalambis age 77
Alexandros Othonaios age 61
Jean-Marie Doré age 1
Prosper Avril age 2
Marc Bazin age 7
Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés age 37
Djuanda Kartawidjaja age 29
Donald Sangster age 28
Norman Manley age 46
Michael Pedersen Friis age 82
Teatao Teannaki age 4
Ernestas Galvanauskas age 57
Laurynas Stankevičius age 4
Pierre Frieden age 47
Émile Reuter age 65
Gilles Andriamahazo age 20
Abdallah Ibrahim age 21
Matrika Prasad Koirala age 28
Bill Rowling age 12
Lazarus Salii age 3
Constantin Argetoianu age 68
Gheorghe Argeșanu age 56
Sergej Kraigher age 25
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz age 3
Ernst Nobs age 53
Ernst Wetter age 62
Hans Schaffner age 31
Hans Hürlimann age 21
Fritz Honegger age 22
Ludwig von Moos age 30
Leonel Mário d'Alva age 4
Sun Fo age 48
Thawan Thamrongnawasawat age 38
Ivy Dumont age 9
Suat Hayri Ürgüplü age 36
Benedicto Kiwanuka age 17
Vasyl Durdynets age 2
Ati George Sokomanu age 4
José Gil Fortoul age 78
Juan Manuel Frutos age 60
Cecilio Báez age 78
Félix Paiva age 62
Felipe Molas López age 38
David Samanez Ocampo age 73
Chung Won-shik age 11
John Kotelawala age 42
Văn Tiến Dũng age 22
Walton Walker age 50
James Van Fleet age 47
Eugene Meyer age 64
Charles Erwin Wilson age 49
Dick Thornburgh age 7
Iain Macleod age 26
Reginald McKenna age 76
Robert B. Anderson age 29
David Steel age 1
Isamu Chō age 45
Ahmed Jibril age 2
Otto von Knobelsdorff age 53
Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch age 51
Vladimir Stoychev age 47
Shigeyoshi Inoue age 50
Archibald James Murray age 79
Édouard de Castelnau age 88
Fidel Dávila Arrondo age 61
Larbi Ben M'hidi age 17
Avraham Adan age 13
William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood age 74
Atsuko Ikeda age 8
Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia age 33
Prince Gabriel Constantinovich of Russia age 52
Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia age 41
Princess Xenia Georgievna of Russia age 36
Prince Feodor Alexandrovich of Russia age 41
Prince Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia age 32
Prince Nicholas Romanov age 17
Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir age 62
Nazikeda Kadın (wife of Mehmed VI) age 73
Şehzade Osman Fuad age 44
Alexander M. Patch age 50
Yi Un age 42
Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg age 61
Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg age 27
Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria (1879–1962) age 60
Prince Ernst of Hohenberg age 35
Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria (1918–2007) age 21
Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria (1922–1993) age 17
Archduchess Charlotte of Austria age 18
Alastair Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn age 25
Prince Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (pilot) age 30
Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 21
James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife age 10
Friedrich Wilhelm Prinz von Hohenzollern age 16
Harry F. Byrd age 52
Bill Clements age 22
Winthrop Rockefeller age 27
Douglas Wilder age 9
Chuck Robb age 7 months
A. A. K. Niazi age 25
İbrahim Edhem Pasha
Akira Mutō age 47
Tom C. Clark age 40
Abd al-Hamid Ibrahimi age 3