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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

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 28
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 26
Prince Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (pilot) age 31
Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 21
James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife age 11
Friedrich Wilhelm Prinz von Hohenzollern age 16
Harry F. Byrd age 53
Bill Clements age 23
Winthrop Rockefeller age 28
Douglas Wilder age 9
Chuck Robb age 1
A. A. K. Niazi age 25
İbrahim Edhem Pasha
Óscar Osorio age 29
Akira Mutō age 47
Tom C. Clark age 41
Abd al-Hamid Ibrahimi age 4
Muhammad ibn Ahmad Abd al-Ghani age 13
Isaac Isaacs age 85
Lloyd Erskine Sandiford age 3
Hugo Ballivián age 39
Andrei Toshev age 73
Dobry Bozhilov age 56
Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum age 35
Juan Esteban Montero age 61
Gabriel París Gordillo age 30
Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno age 81
León Cortés Castro age 57
Justin Marie Bomboko age 12
Vernon Shaw age 10
Zakaria Mohieddin age 22
Mustafa Khalil age 19
Mahmud Fahmi al-Nuqrashi age 52
Kamal Hassan Ali age 7
Konstantinos Logothetopoulos age 62
Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas age 47
Konstantinos Dovas age 41
Konstantinos Georgakopoulos age 49
Juan Federico Ponce Vaides age 51
Hérard Abraham age 1 month
Élie Lescot age 56
Policarpo Paz García age 7
Julio Lozano Díaz age 55
Mohammed Hamza Zubeidi age 2
Zaid al-Rifai age 3
Ahmad Obeidat age 1
Hugo Celmiņš age 62
Abdul Majid Kubar age 31
Abdul Qadir al-Badri age 18
Muhammad Osman Said age 15
Jonas Žemaitis age 31
Veerasamy Ringadoo age 19
Mbarek Bekkay age 33
Mohamed Benhima age 16
Ba U age 53
Lagumot Harris age 1
Derog Gioura age 8
Michael Hardie Boys age 8
Walter Nash age 58
George Forbes age 71
Alfonso Oiterong age 15
Augusto de Vasconcelos age 73
Alfred Raoul age 1
Willi Ritschard age 22
Karl Kobelt age 49
Willy Spühler age 38
Rudolf Minger age 58
Nello Celio age 26
Ernest Chuard age 83
Paul Chaudet age 35
Eduard von Steiger age 59
Friedrich Traugott Wahlen age 41
Hans Streuli age 48
Enrico Celio age 51
Felix Calonder age 76
Khalid al-Azm age 45
Arthur Dion Hanna age 12
Naim Talu age 21
Tomasi Puapua age 2
Alberto Héber Usher age 22
Aleksander Prystor age 66
Julian Nowak age 75
Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro Jované age 58
Raimundo Rolón age 37
Zenón Noriega Agüero age 40
Abdullahi Issa age 17
Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein age 29
Hasan Muratović age 5 months
Sebastiano Baggio age 27
Tang Enbo age 41
Harry Hines Woodring age 53
Robert P. Patterson age 49
Hiroshi Nakajima age 12
George B. Cortelyou age 78
Griffin Bell age 21
Edwin Meese age 8
Frederick C. Weyand age 24
Abdul Hamid al-Sarraj age 15
G. William Miller age 15
Harry M. Daugherty age 80
Reginald Maudling age 23
William B. Saxbe age 24
Gerhard von Schwerin age 41
Hugo Österman age 48
Walter Short age 60
Keith Park age 48
Maximilian Fretter-Pico age 48
Donald A. Henderson age 12
Robert L. Eichelberger age 54
José Moscardó Ituarte age 61
Annibale Bergonzoli age 55
Rikichi Andō age 56
Somnath Sharma age 17
Setsuko, Princess Chichibu age 31
Prince Dimitri Romanov age 14
David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven age 21
Ayşe Sultan (daughter of Abdul Hamid II) age 53
Sabiha Sultan age 46
Ahmad Nami age 67
Necla Sultan age 14
Şehzade Ali Vasib age 36
Harun Osman age 8
Hoàng Văn Thái age 25
Carl Gustav Fleischer age 56
Yi U age 27
Prince Sigismund of Prussia (born 1896) age 43
Archduchess Maria Henrietta of Austria age 57
Archduchess Isabella of Austria age 51
Archduke Karl Albrecht of Austria age 51
Princess Auguste of Bavaria (1875–1964) age 65
Robert Hugo, Duke of Parma age 31
Prince Konrad of Bavaria age 56
Angus Ogilvy age 12
Francis Pym age 18
John Burns age 81
Hugh Dalton age 53
Maurice Strong age 11
Patrick Steptoe age 27
Ahmed Cevat Şakir Pasha
Kingorō Hashimoto age 50
Lee Yuan-tsu age 17
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 35
Benyoucef Benkhedda age 20
Josep Pintat-Solans age 15
Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury age 11
Muhammad Mansur Ali age 21
Tom Adams age 9
Pencho Zlatev age 56
Peter Gabrovski age 42
Konstantin Muraviev age 47
Pen Sovan age 4
Long Boret age 7
Simon Achidi Achu age 5
Carlos Dávila age 53
Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde age 6
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin age 14
Andrés Ignacio Menéndez age 61
Ado Birk age 56
Paulin Obame-Nguema age 5
Léon Mébiame age 6
Dimitrios Kiousopoulos age 48
Petros Voulgaris age 57
Ioannis Theotokis age 60
Ioannis Paraskevopoulos age 39
Nicholas Brathwaite age 15
Carlos Enrique Díaz de León age 25
Victor Saúde Maria age 1
Joseph Nemours Pierre-Louis age 39
Louis Borno age 75
Ferenc Keresztes-Fischer age 59
Soekiman Wirjosandjojo age 42
Tahir Yahya age 24
Taha al-Hashimi age 52
Pauls Kalniņš age 68
Rachid Solh age 14
Alfred Naqqache age 52
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 38
Abdul Hamid al-Bakkoush age 7
Gerard Batliner age 11
Mandé Sidibé age 8 months
Sidney Holland age 46
Domingos Oliveira age 67
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 48
Arthur Văitoianu age 76
Gheorghe Mironescu age 66
Milton Cato age 25
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 9
Roger Bonvin age 33
Ernst Brugger age 26
Markus Feldmann age 43
Rodolphe Rubattel age 44