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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
Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang 1940-05-01 - 1940-06-24
Battle of France 1940-05-10 - 1940-06-25
Western Desert campaign 1940-06-11 - 1943-02-04

People

Zeid bin Shaker age 5
Sisavath Keobounphanh age 12
Augusts Kirhenšteins age 67
Abdul Ati al-Obeidi age 8 months
George Borg Olivier age 28
Ahmed Bahnini age 31
Mohammed Karim Lamrani age 21
Maati Bouabid age 12
Ahmed Osman age 10
Khin Nyunt age 8 months
San Yu age 22
Sao Shwe Thaik age 43
Emiliano Chamorro Vargas age 69
José María Moncada age 69
Ngiratkel Etpison age 15
Adelino da Palma Carlos age 35
Ion Gigurtu age 54
Edmund Lawrence age 8
Dragan Tomić age 4
Östen Undén age 53
Rudolf Gnägi age 22
Hans-Peter Tschudi age 26
Pierre Aubert age 13
Albert Meyer age 70
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 2
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 35
Lee Hong-koo age 6
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 8
Luigi Capello age 81
Krim Belkacem age 17
Jacques Massu age 32
Shigeko Higashikuni age 14
Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu age 28
Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia age 50
Princess Nina Georgievna of Russia age 39
Şükriye Sultan age 34
Bayezid Osman age 15
Nilufer Hanımsultan age 24
Leonhard Kaupisch age 61
Richmond K. Turner age 55
Chiang Fang-liang age 24
Prince Wolfgang of Hesse age 43
Prince Christoph of Hesse age 39
Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg age 74
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 16
Princess Margarita of Baden age 7
Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern age 7
Mark White age 3 months
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 34
Byron White age 23
John Marshall Harlan II age 41
Pjetër Arbnori age 5
Rexhep Mitrovica age 52
Pandeli Evangjeli age 81
Xhafer Bej Ypi age 60
Belaid Abdesselam age 11
Ismail Hamdani age 10
A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury age 24
Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar age 8
Aloys Van de Vyvere age 69
Jigme Palden Dorji age 20
Néstor Guillén age 50
Tomás Monje age 55
Carlos Quintanilla age 52
Nikola Mushanov age 68
Georgi Kʹoseivanov age 56
Said Mohamed Jaffar age 22
Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim age 4
Julio Acosta García age 68
Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich age 33
Ali Sabri age 19
Themistoklis Sofoulis age 80
Georgios Kafantaris age 66
Ilias Tsirimokos age 33
Panagiotis Poulitsas age 58
Anastasios Charalambis age 77
Alexandros Othonaios age 61
Jean-Marie Doré age 2
Prosper Avril age 2
Marc Bazin age 8
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 21
Abdallah Ibrahim age 21
Matrika Prasad Koirala age 28
Bill Rowling age 12
Lazarus Salii age 3
Constantin Argetoianu age 69
Gheorghe Argeșanu age 57
Sergej Kraigher age 26
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz age 4
Ernst Nobs age 53
Ernst Wetter age 62
Hans Schaffner age 31
Hans Hürlimann age 22
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
Faimalaga Luka age 2 months
Benedicto Kiwanuka age 18
Vasyl Durdynets age 2
Ati George Sokomanu age 4
José Gil Fortoul age 78
Phelekezela Mphoko age 0 months
Juan Manuel Frutos age 61
Cecilio Báez age 78
Félix Paiva age 63
Felipe Molas López age 38
David Samanez Ocampo age 73
Chung Won-shik age 11
John Kotelawala age 43
Văn Tiến Dũng age 23
Walton Walker age 50
James Van Fleet age 48
Eugene Meyer age 64
Charles Erwin Wilson age 49
Dick Thornburgh age 7
Iain Macleod age 26
Reginald McKenna age 77
Robert B. Anderson age 30
David Steel age 2
Isamu Chō age 45
Ahmed Jibril age 2
Otto von Knobelsdorff age 54
Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch age 52
Vladimir Stoychev age 48
Shigeyoshi Inoue age 50
Archibald James Murray age 80
Édouard de Castelnau age 88
Fidel Dávila Arrondo age 62
Larbi Ben M'hidi age 17
Avraham Adan age 13
William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood age 74
Atsuko Ikeda age 9
Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia age 34
Prince Gabriel Constantinovich of Russia age 52
Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia age 42
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 45
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 36
Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria (1918–2007) age 22
Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria (1922–1993) age 18
Archduchess Charlotte of Austria age 19
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 53
Bill Clements age 23
Winthrop Rockefeller age 28