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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
The Holocaust 1941 - 1945
Second Soviet-Finnish War 1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01 - 1945-08-21
Quit India Movement 1942-08-08 - 1944-09-01
Manhattan Project 1942-08-13 - 1947-01-01
Italian campaign 1943-07-09 - 1945-05-02
Battle of Anzio 1944-01-22 - 1944-06-04
Battle of Imphal 1944-03-08 - 1944-07-03
Battle of Kohima 1944-04-04 - 1944-06-22
Operation Ichi-Go 1944-04-17 - 1944-12-10

People

Richmond K. Turner age 59
Chiang Fang-liang age 28
Prince Wolfgang of Hesse age 47
Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg age 78
Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1919–2010) age 24
Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine age 35
Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 80
Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 37
Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma age 20
Princess Margarita of Baden age 11
Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern age 11
Katherine Karađorđević age 6 months
Mark White age 4
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 38
Byron White age 26
John Marshall Harlan II age 45
Pjetër Arbnori age 9
Pandeli Evangjeli age 85
Belaid Abdesselam age 15
Ismail Hamdani age 14
Lopo do Nascimento age 3
Yaqub Mammadov age 3
A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury age 28
Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar age 12
Aloys Van de Vyvere age 73
Adrien Houngbédji age 2
Jigme Palden Dorji age 24
Néstor Guillén age 54
Tomás Monje age 59
Carlos Quintanilla age 56
Nikola Mushanov age 72
Georgi Kʹoseivanov age 60
Said Mohamed Jaffar age 26
Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim age 8
Julio Acosta García age 72
Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich age 37
Ali Sabri age 23
Themistoklis Sofoulis age 84
Georgios Kafantaris age 70
Ilias Tsirimokos age 37
Panagiotis Poulitsas age 62
Anastasios Charalambis age 81
Alexandros Othonaios age 65
Jean-Marie Doré age 5
Prosper Avril age 6
Marc Bazin age 12
Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés age 41
Djuanda Kartawidjaja age 33
Donald Sangster age 32
Kenneth O. Hall age 3
Norman Manley age 50
Teatao Teannaki age 8
Ernestas Galvanauskas age 61
Laurynas Stankevičius age 8
Pierre Frieden age 51
Émile Reuter age 69
Gilles Andriamahazo age 25
Abdallah Ibrahim age 25
Matrika Prasad Koirala age 32
Bill Rowling age 16
Lazarus Salii age 7
Constantin Argetoianu age 73
Sergej Kraigher age 29
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz age 8
Ernst Nobs age 57
Ernst Wetter age 66
Hans Schaffner age 35
Hans Hürlimann age 26
Fritz Honegger age 26
Ludwig von Moos age 34
Leonel Mário d'Alva age 8
Sun Fo age 52
Thawan Thamrongnawasawat age 42
Ivy Dumont age 13
Suat Hayri Ürgüplü age 40
Faimalaga Luka age 4
Benedicto Kiwanuka age 22
Vasyl Durdynets age 6
Ati George Sokomanu age 8
John Bani age 2
Donald Kalpokas age 9 months
Phelekezela Mphoko age 3
Arístides Royo age 3
Juan Manuel Frutos age 64
Félix Paiva age 67
Felipe Molas López age 42
David Samanez Ocampo age 77
Ali Khalif Galaydh age 2
Chung Won-shik age 15
John Kotelawala age 47
Văn Tiến Dũng age 27
Walton Walker age 54
James Van Fleet age 52
Eugene Meyer age 68
Charles Erwin Wilson age 53
Dick Thornburgh age 11
Iain Macleod age 30
Richard Myers age 2
Robert B. Anderson age 33
David Steel age 6
Isamu Chō age 49
Ahmed Jibril age 6
Otto von Knobelsdorff age 58
Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch age 55
Vladimir Stoychev age 52
Shigeyoshi Inoue age 54
Archibald James Murray age 84
Fidel Dávila Arrondo age 66
Larbi Ben M'hidi age 21
Avraham Adan age 17
William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood age 78
Atsuko Ikeda age 13
Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia age 38
Prince Gabriel Constantinovich of Russia age 56
Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia age 46
Princess Xenia Georgievna of Russia age 40
Prince Feodor Alexandrovich of Russia age 45
Prince Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia age 36
Prince Nicholas Romanov age 21
Şehzade Osman Fuad age 49
Alexander M. Patch age 54
Yi Un age 46
Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg age 65
Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg age 31
Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria (1879–1962) age 64
Prince Ernst of Hohenberg age 40
Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria (1918–2007) age 26
Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria (1922–1993) age 21
Archduchess Charlotte of Austria age 23
Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 25
James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife age 14
Andreas Prinz von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha age 1
Friedrich Wilhelm Prinz von Hohenzollern age 20
Harry F. Byrd age 56
Bill Clements age 27
Winthrop Rockefeller age 32
Douglas Wilder age 13
Chuck Robb age 4
A. A. K. Niazi age 29
İbrahim Edhem Pasha
Akira Mutō age 51
Tom C. Clark age 44
Abd al-Hamid Ibrahimi age 8
Muhammad ibn Ahmad Abd al-Ghani age 17
Isaac Isaacs age 88
Hasan Hasanov age 3
Lloyd Erskine Sandiford age 7
Hugo Ballivián age 42
Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum age 38
Juan Esteban Montero age 65
Gabriel París Gordillo age 34
Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno age 85
León Cortés Castro age 61
Justin Marie Bomboko age 15
Vernon Shaw age 14
Zakaria Mohieddin age 25
Mustafa Khalil age 23
Mahmud Fahmi al-Nuqrashi age 56
Kamal Hassan Ali age 11
Konstantinos Logothetopoulos age 65
Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas age 51
Konstantinos Dovas age 45
Konstantinos Georgakopoulos age 53
Juan Federico Ponce Vaides age 54
Hérard Abraham age 3
Policarpo Paz García age 11
Julio Lozano Díaz age 59
Mohammed Hamza Zubeidi age 6
Zaid al-Rifai age 7
Ahmad Obeidat age 5
Abdul Majid Kubar age 35
Abdul Qadir al-Badri age 22
Muhammad Osman Said age 19
Jonas Žemaitis age 35
Roger Kolo age 8 months
Veerasamy Ringadoo age 23
Mbarek Bekkay age 37
Mohamed Benhima age 19
Ba U age 57
Lagumot Harris age 5
Derog Gioura age 11
Kennan Adeang age 1
Michael Hardie Boys age 12
Walter Nash age 62
George Forbes age 75
Alfonso Oiterong age 19
Augusto de Vasconcelos age 76
Alfred Raoul age 5
Peter Kenilorea age 12 months
Willi Ritschard age 25
Karl Kobelt age 52
Willy Spühler age 42
Rudolf Minger age 62
Nello Celio age 30
Paul Chaudet age 39
Eduard von Steiger age 62
Friedrich Traugott Wahlen age 45
Hans Streuli age 51
Enrico Celio age 54
Felix Calonder age 80