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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
Western Desert campaign 1940-06-11 - 1943-02-04
Battle of Britain 1940-07-10 - 1940-10-31

People

Leonardo Argüello Barreto age 65
Ksente Bogoev age 20
Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan age 51
Liberato Pinto age 59
Vaughan Lewis age 3 months
Tupua Tamasese Lealofi IV age 18
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 51
Yu Hung-chun age 42
Arturo Lezama age 41
Faustino Harrison age 40
Mainza Chona age 10
John Guise age 26
Kingsford Dibela age 8
Glauco Sansovini age 2
Efraín Goldenberg age 10
Pedro Beltrán age 43
Wei Lihuang age 43
George David Woods age 39
Frank Polk age 69
Charles Pelot Summerall age 73
Edward C. Meyer age 11
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk age 34
Earle Wheeler age 32
David E. Jeremiah age 6
Hardan al-Tikriti age 15
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 12
Kenneth Rush age 30
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial age 60
Sargis Hаmbardzumyan age 70
Pho Proeung age 37
Sam Yun age 35
Salomon Tandeng Muna age 28
Charles Assalé age 28
Emilio Bello Codesido age 72
Ali Mroudjaé age 1
Manuel Antonio de Varona age 31
Jorge García Montes age 43
Raúl López del Castillo age 47
Edward Oliver LeBlanc age 16
Ahmad Ziwar age 76
Abd El Aziz Muhammad Hegazi age 17
Sishayi Nxumalo age 4
Mikael Imru age 10
Charles Arden-Clarke age 42
Susanto Tirtoprodjo age 40
Mohammed al-Sadr age 58
Nureddin Mahmud age 41
Arshad al-Umari age 52
Gabasheane Masupha age 36
Dansranbilegiin Dogsom age 56
Vidoje Žarković age 13
Blažo Jovanović age 33
José Ramos Preto age 69
Sylvestre Nsanzimana age 4
Paul Southwell age 27
Lee Moore age 1
Pretaap Radhakishun age 6
Husni al-Barazi age 45
Hassan al-Hakim age 54
Bashir al-Azma age 29
Wang Yun-wu age 52
Roland Theodore Symonette age 41
Paul Adderley age 12
Henry Milton Taylor age 36
Tekin Arıburun age 34
Muhammad Said al-Attar age 13
Faraj Said Bin Ghanem age 2
Nalumino Mundia age 12
Daniel Chanis Pinzón age 47
Tore Lokoloko age 9
Jure Pelivan age 11
José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma age 55
Armando Villanueva age 24
Manuel Cisneros Sánchez age 35
Manuel Ulloa Elias age 17
Pedro Richter Prada age 19
Sandro Mariátegui age 18
Aurelius Marie age 35
Frank G. Wisner age 2
George Decker age 38
Carl E. Vuono age 5
Dennis Reimer age 1
Harold Keith Johnson age 28
John William Vessey Jr. age 18
Chiang Pin-kung age 7
Said Ali Kemal age 2
José Bordas Valdés age 66
Abdel Fattah Yahya Ibrahim Pasha age 64
Kamal el-Din Hussein age 19
Imru Haile Selassie age 47
Assaat age 35
Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi age 54
Naji al-Suwaidi age 58
Abdul-Wahab Mirjan age 31
Herbert Duffus age 32
Hussein ibn Nasser age 37
Angidi Chettiar age 12
Ba Swe age 24
Carlos Alberto Brenes age 55
Sebastián Uriza age 79
Orlando Montenegro Medrano age 20
George Charles age 24
Miha Marinko age 40
Julius Caesar de Miranda age 34
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi age 8
Wang Zhengting age 58
John Warburton Paul age 24
İbrahim Şevki Atasagun age 41
Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani age 5
Elijah Mudenda age 13
Božidar Matić age 3
Ermenegildo Gasperoni age 34
Fernando Schwalb López Aldana age 24
Óscar Vargas Prieto age 23
Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín age 20
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 42
Michel Roquejeoffre age 6
Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham age 71
David D. Newsom age 22
James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope age 59
Michael Armacost age 3
Fermín Palacios
Albin Nyamoya age 16
Léopold Biha age 21
Joseph Cimpaye age 8
Bernard Ayandho age 9
Emilio Núñez Portuondo age 42
Jorge Toriello Garrido age 32
Salvador Aguirre age 78
Mustafa Mahmud al-Umari age 46
Raouf Bundhun age 3
Nyamyn Jagvaral age 21
Tsagaanlamyn Dügersüren age 26
Radivoje Brajović age 5
Marko Orlandić age 9
Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe age 73
Benjamín Lacayo Sacasa age 47
Rosendo Chamorro age 78
Yeoh Ghim Seng age 22
Štefan Sádovský age 11
Wim Udenhout age 2
Nur al-Din Kahala age 30
Sami al-Jundi age 18
Solomone Ula Ata age 57
Dennis Young age 4
Mariano Holguín age 80
Carlos Moreyra y Paz Soldán age 41
Rodolfo Llopis age 45
Arleigh Winston Scott age 40
George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe age 22
Frank Soskice age 38
John L. Hines age 72
Livingston T. Merchant age 36
Francisco de Aguilar age 130
Vicente Gómez
Stéphane Maurice Bongho-Nouarra age 3
Jo Ann Robinson age 28
Carlos Lemos Simmonds age 6
Salim Ben Ali age 22
Tesfaye Dinka age 10 months
Francisco Bueso age 80
Ahmad Salim uld Sidi age 1
Hugh Watt age 28
Jacques Opangault age 32
Archibald Currie age 52
Severinus Desiré Emanuels age 30
Hsu Ching-chung age 33
Luigi Lonfernini age 2
Giuseppe Amici age 1
Luis Pércovich Roca age 9
Raúl Ferrero Rebagliati age 28
Luis Gallo Porras age 45
Frederick M. Franks Jr. age 3
Gary E. Luck age 3
Francis Butler Loomis age 79
Richard N. Cooper age 6
Walter J. Stoessel Jr. age 20
Miloš Trifunović age 68
Felipe Neri Medina age 143
Ramón Rodríguez
Horacio Liendo age 15
Said Ibrahim Ben Ali age 29
Branislav Šoškić age 17
Filip Bajković age 30
Žarko Bulajić age 18
Đorđije Pajković age 23
Mohammed bin Jassim Al Thani age 59
Augustin Poignet age 12
Henry Neijhorst age 8 months
Jan Buiskool age 41
Paek Nak-chun age 45
Ubaldo Biordi age 2
Gian Luigi Berti age 10
Ernesto Montagne Sánchez age 24
Jorge Fernández-Maldonado age 18