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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

James Clark McReynolds age 78
Manny Shinwell age 55
John A. Wickham Jr. age 11
Bill McKell age 48
Firuz Mustafayev age 6
Grantley Herbert Adams age 41
Pierre Ngendandumwe age 10
Sisowath Youtevong age 27
Oum Cheang Sun age 39
Hang Thun Hak age 15
Henri Maïdou age 4
Mohamed Ahmed age 22
Ahmed Abdou age 4
Mahmoud Fawzi age 39
Aziz Sedki age 19
Makhosini Dlamini age 26
Abebe Aregai age 36
Ben Jones age 15
José María Reyna Andrade age 79
Luis Arturo González López age 39
Wilopo age 30
Hikmat Sulayman age 51
Ahmad Mukhtar Baban age 40
Hamdi Pachachi age 54
Hazza' al-Majali age 21
Abdelhamid Sharaf age 7 months
Andrei Iordan age 5
Voldemārs Zāmuēls age 67
Shafik Wazzan age 15
Takieddin el-Solh age 32
Gustav Schädler age 56
Léon Kauffman age 70
Abdoulaye Sékou Sow age 9
Yoro Diakité age 7
Mitar Martinović age 69
David Beattie age 16
Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes age 67
Juan José Estrada Morales age 68
Vitorino Guimarães age 63
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 57
Mahmoud Zuabi age 5
Abdul Rahman Khleifawi age 13
Gerald Cash age 22
Milo Butler age 33
Tulaga Manuella age 3
Stanisław Mackiewicz age 43
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 52
Domingo Díaz Arosemena age 64
Vincent Eri age 3
Hyun Soong-jong age 21
Eugene Koffi Adoboli age 5
Shlomo Shamir age 24
Edward Almond age 47
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 28
Barber Conable age 17
Lewis Thompson Preston age 13
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford age 34
Christopher Soames age 19
Gordon R. Sullivan age 2
George Scratchley Brown age 21
John Wesley Snyder age 44
J. R. Clynes age 70
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 80
Robert Carr age 23
Peyton C. March age 75
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 35
Huy Kanthoul age 31
Leng Ngeth age 40
Gonzalo Güell age 45
Félix Lancís Sánchez age 39
Pedro Bartolomé Benoit age 19
Ibrahim Abdel Hadi Pasha age 44
Muhammad Sedki Sulayman age 21
Silvestre Siale Bileka age 1
Maphevu Dlamini age 17
Óscar Mendoza Azurdia age 22
Guillermo Flores Avendaño age 45
Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum age 13
Muzahim Pachachi age 49
Sayyid Salih Jabr age 44
Mohsen Abdel Hamid age 3
Kenneth Blackburne age 32
Abdelmunim al-Rifai age 23
Ahmad Toukan age 36
Ahmad Lawzi age 15
Alexander Frick age 30
Mamadou Dembelé age 6
Puntsagiin Jasrai age 6
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 44
Andrija Radović age 68
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 15
Raul Bragança Neto age 10 months
Yu Kuo-hwa age 26
Carlos Fischer age 37
Martín Echegoyen age 48
Daniel Fernández Crespo age 38
Eduardo Víctor Haedo age 38
Huynh Thuc Khang age 64
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini age 7
Daniel Lisulo age 9
Muhammad Hawadle Madar age 1
Ro Jai-bong age 4
Pak Choong-hoon age 21
Javier Valle Riestra age 8
Alden W. Clausen age 17
Peter de la Billière age 5
Edward H. Levi age 28
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 40
Gwilym Lloyd George age 45
Bruce Palmer Jr. age 26
Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham age 68
Brendan Bracken age 39
Anthony Barber age 19
Bernard W. Rogers age 18
David C. Jones age 18
Malin Craig age 64
Peter Thorneycroft age 30
William D. Mitchell age 65
William J. Crowe age 15
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan age 69
James P. McGranery age 44
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 71
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 5
Merlyn Rees age 19
Clarence M. Kelley age 28
Prince Shah Mahmud Khan of Afghanistan age 52
Mohammad Yusuf age 23
Fazal khaliq age 6
John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven age 65
John Montague Stow age 28
Lhendup Dorji age 4
André Muhirwa age 20
Joseph Bamina age 15
Khim Tit age 43
Ek Yi Oun age 30
Chan Nak age 47
Sak Sutsakhan age 12
Édouard Frank age 5
Timothée Malendoma age 5
Pedro Dartnell age 66
Carlos Saladrigas Zayas age 39
Ramón Zaydín age 45
Hassan Sabry Pasha age 65
Ahmad Najib al-Hilali age 48
Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha age 63
Makonnen Endelkachew age 50
Manuel María Orellana Contreras age 69
Naji Shawkat age 47
Edward Zacca age 8
Kassim al-Rimawi age 22
Mohammad Daoud al-Abbasi age 27
Nazem Akkari age 38
Guy Razanamasy age 11
Ahmed Ould Bouceif age 6
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 58
Jovan Plamenac age 67
Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet age 75
Leonardo Argüello Barreto age 64
Ksente Bogoev age 20
Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan age 51
Liberato Pinto age 59
Tupua Tamasese Lealofi IV age 17
Johan Adolf Pengel age 24
Izzat al-Nuss age 28
Haqqi al-Azm age 75
Nasuhi al-Bukhari age 59
Lutfi al-Haffar age 52
Weng Wenhao age 50
Yu Hung-chun age 42
Arturo Lezama age 41
Faustino Harrison age 39
Mainza Chona age 10
John Guise age 25
Kingsford Dibela age 7
Glauco Sansovini age 1
Efraín Goldenberg age 10
Pedro Beltrán age 43
Wei Lihuang age 43
George David Woods age 38
Frank Polk age 68
Charles Pelot Summerall age 73
Edward C. Meyer age 11
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 58
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk age 34
Earle Wheeler age 32