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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
Western Desert campaign 1940-06-11 - 1943-02-04
The Holocaust 1941-01-01 - 1945-09-20
Second Soviet-Finnish War 1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Siege of Leningrad 1941-09-08 - 1944-01-27
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Malayan campaign 1941-12-08 - 1942-01-31
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01-01 - 1945-08-21
Battle of Bataan 1942-01-07 - 1942-04-09

People

David C. Jones age 20
Malin Craig age 66
Peter Thorneycroft age 32
William D. Mitchell age 67
William J. Crowe age 17
James P. McGranery age 46
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 73
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 7
Merlyn Rees age 21
Clarence M. Kelley age 30
Prince Shah Mahmud Khan of Afghanistan age 54
Mohammad Yusuf age 25
Fazal khaliq age 8
John Montague Stow age 30
Lhendup Dorji age 6
André Muhirwa age 22
Joseph Bamina age 17
Khim Tit age 45
Ek Yi Oun age 32
Chan Nak age 49
Sak Sutsakhan age 13
Édouard Frank age 7
Timothée Malendoma age 7
Pedro Dartnell age 68
Ramón Zaydín age 47
Rosie Douglas age 3 months
Ahmad Najib al-Hilali age 50
Makonnen Endelkachew age 51
Naji Shawkat age 49
Edward Zacca age 10
Kassim al-Rimawi age 24
Mohammad Daoud al-Abbasi age 29
Nazem Akkari age 40
Guy Razanamasy age 13
Younoussi Touré age 1
Ahmed Ould Bouceif age 8
Mircea Druc age 5 months
Jovan Plamenac age 69
Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet age 77
Leonardo Argüello Barreto age 66
Ksente Bogoev age 22
Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan age 52
Liberato Pinto age 61
Vaughan Lewis age 1
Tupua Tamasese Lealofi IV age 19
Johan Adolf Pengel age 26
Izzat al-Nuss age 30
Haqqi al-Azm age 77
Nasuhi al-Bukhari age 61
Lutfi al-Haffar age 54
Weng Wenhao age 52
Yu Hung-chun age 44
Arturo Lezama age 43
Faustino Harrison age 41
Mainza Chona age 11
John Guise age 27
Kingsford Dibela age 9
Glauco Sansovini age 3
Efraín Goldenberg age 12
Pedro Beltrán age 44
Wei Lihuang age 44
George David Woods age 40
Frank Polk age 70
Charles Pelot Summerall age 74
Edward C. Meyer age 13
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 60
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk age 36
Earle Wheeler age 34
David E. Jeremiah age 7
Hardan al-Tikriti age 17
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 13
Kenneth Rush age 32
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial age 62
Sargis Hаmbardzumyan age 72
Pho Proeung age 38
Sam Yun age 37
Salomon Tandeng Muna age 29
Charles Assalé age 30
Emilio Bello Codesido age 73
Ali Mroudjaé age 2
Manuel Antonio de Varona age 33
Jorge García Montes age 45
Raúl López del Castillo age 49
Edward Oliver LeBlanc age 18
Ahmad Ziwar age 78
Abd El Aziz Muhammad Hegazi age 19
Sishayi Nxumalo age 6
Mikael Imru age 12
Charles Arden-Clarke age 43
Susanto Tirtoprodjo age 41
Mohammed al-Sadr age 60
Nureddin Mahmud age 43
Arshad al-Umari age 53
Gabasheane Masupha age 38
Vidoje Žarković age 14
Blažo Jovanović age 34
José Ramos Preto age 71
Ange Édouard Poungui age 0 months
Sylvestre Nsanzimana age 6
Paul Southwell age 28
Lee Moore age 2
Pretaap Radhakishun age 7
Husni al-Barazi age 47
Bashir al-Azma age 31
Wang Yun-wu age 53
Roland Theodore Symonette age 43
Paul Adderley age 13
Henry Milton Taylor age 38
Tekin Arıburun age 36
Muhammad Said al-Attar age 15
Faraj Said Bin Ghanem age 4
Nalumino Mundia age 14
Daniel Chanis Pinzón age 49
Tore Lokoloko age 11
Jure Pelivan age 13
José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma age 56
Armando Villanueva age 26
Manuel Cisneros Sánchez age 37
Manuel Ulloa Elias age 19
Pedro Richter Prada age 21
Sandro Mariátegui age 20
Aurelius Marie age 37
Frank G. Wisner age 3
George Decker age 39
Carl E. Vuono age 7
Dennis Reimer age 2
Harold Keith Johnson age 29
John William Vessey Jr. age 19
Said Ali Kemal age 4
José Bordas Valdés age 67
Abdel Fattah Yahya Ibrahim Pasha age 66
Kamal el-Din Hussein age 21
Imru Haile Selassie age 49
Assaat age 37
Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi age 56
Naji al-Suwaidi age 60
Abdul-Wahab Mirjan age 33
Herbert Duffus age 33
Hussein ibn Nasser age 39
Angidi Chettiar age 13
Ba Swe age 26
Sebastián Uriza age 81
Orlando Montenegro Medrano age 21
George Charles age 25
Miha Marinko age 41
Julius Caesar de Miranda age 35
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi age 10
Wang Zhengting age 60
John Warburton Paul age 25
İbrahim Şevki Atasagun age 43
Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani age 7
Elijah Mudenda age 14
Božidar Matić age 4
Ermenegildo Gasperoni age 35
Fernando Schwalb López Aldana age 25
Óscar Vargas Prieto age 24
Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín age 22
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 43
Michel Roquejeoffre age 8
Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham age 73
David D. Newsom age 24
James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope age 61
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 64
Michael Armacost age 4
Albin Nyamoya age 17
Antoine Nduwayo age 0 months
Léopold Biha age 23
Joseph Cimpaye age 10
Bernard Ayandho age 11
Emilio Núñez Portuondo age 43
Jorge Toriello Garrido age 33
Salvador Aguirre age 79
Mustafa Mahmud al-Umari age 48
Raouf Bundhun age 5
Nyamyn Jagvaral age 22
Tsagaanlamyn Dügersüren age 28
Radivoje Brajović age 7
Marko Orlandić age 11
Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe age 74
Benjamín Lacayo Sacasa age 48
Rosendo Chamorro age 79
Yeoh Ghim Seng age 23
Štefan Sádovský age 13
Wim Udenhout age 4
Nur al-Din Kahala age 32
Sami al-Jundi age 20
Dennis Young age 6
Mariano Holguín age 81
Carlos Moreyra y Paz Soldán age 43
Rodolfo Llopis age 46
Arleigh Winston Scott age 41
George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe age 23
Frank Soskice age 39
Jim Griffiths age 51
John L. Hines age 73
Livingston T. Merchant age 38
Jo Ann Robinson age 29
Carlos Lemos Simmonds age 8
Salim Ben Ali age 24
Tesfaye Dinka age 2