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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

People

William M. Tuck age 43
Richard J. Hughes age 30
Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton age 56
Emerson Harrington age 75
John I. Cox age 83
William Donald Schaefer age 17
Albertis Harrison age 32
Robert D. Orr age 21
Buford Ellington age 32
Martin L. Davey age 55
Ernest Brown age 58
Said Ali Kemal age 1
José Bordas Valdés age 65
Abdel Fattah Yahya Ibrahim Pasha age 63
Kamal el-Din Hussein age 18
Imru Haile Selassie age 46
Assaat age 35
Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi age 53
Naji al-Suwaidi age 57
Abdul-Wahab Mirjan age 30
Herbert Duffus age 31
Hussein ibn Nasser age 36
Angidi Chettiar age 11
Ba Swe age 24
Carlos Alberto Brenes age 54
Sebastián Uriza age 78
Orlando Montenegro Medrano age 19
George Charles age 23
Miha Marinko age 39
Julius Caesar de Miranda age 33
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi age 7
Wang Zhengting age 57
John Warburton Paul age 23
İbrahim Şevki Atasagun age 40
Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani age 5
Elijah Mudenda age 12
Božidar Matić age 2
Ermenegildo Gasperoni age 33
Fernando Schwalb López Aldana age 23
Óscar Vargas Prieto age 22
Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín age 20
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 41
Michel Roquejeoffre age 5
Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham age 71
David D. Newsom age 21
James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope age 58
Michael Armacost age 2
Fermín Palacios
Bob C. Riley age 15
Tony Newton, Baron Newton of Braintree age 2
Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton age 56
Harry L. Davis age 61
Frank O'Bannon age 9
William Preston Lane Jr. age 47
Charles Seymour Whitman age 71
Nathan L. Miller age 71
Paul V. McNutt age 48
Edward L. Jackson age 65
James P. Goodrich age 75
Harold G. Hoffman age 43
Matthew E. Welsh age 27
Roger D. Branigin age 37
David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford age 68
Geoffrey Rippon age 15
Albin Nyamoya age 15
Léopold Biha age 20
Joseph Cimpaye age 7
Bernard Ayandho age 8
Emilio Núñez Portuondo age 41
Jorge Toriello Garrido age 31
Salvador Aguirre age 77
Mustafa Mahmud al-Umari age 45
Raouf Bundhun age 2
Losolyn Laagan age 52
Nyamyn Jagvaral age 20
Tsagaanlamyn Dügersüren age 25
Radivoje Brajović age 4
Marko Orlandić age 9
Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe age 72
Benjamín Lacayo Sacasa age 46
Rosendo Chamorro age 77
Yeoh Ghim Seng age 21
Štefan Sádovský age 11
Wim Udenhout age 2
Nur al-Din Kahala age 29
Sami al-Jundi age 17
Solomone Ula Ata age 56
Dennis Young age 3
Mariano Holguín age 79
Carlos Moreyra y Paz Soldán age 40
Rodolfo Llopis age 44
Arleigh Winston Scott age 39
George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe age 21
Frank Soskice age 37
John L. Hines age 71
Livingston T. Merchant age 35
Francisco de Aguilar age 129
Vicente Gómez
Stéphane Maurice Bongho-Nouarra age 2
Alfred E. Driscoll age 37
Theodore McKeldin age 38
Robert B. Meyner age 31
Harry Nice age 61
Edward C. Stokes age 78
Henry F. Schricker age 56
Hill McAlister age 64
Myers Y. Cooper age 65
William T. Cahill age 27
George N. Craig age 30
Ralph F. Gates age 46
Douglas Jay age 32
Frederick Lee, Baron Lee of Newton age 33
Jack Pease, 1st Baron Gainford age 79
John Davies age 23
Jo Ann Robinson age 27
Carlos Lemos Simmonds age 6
Salim Ben Ali age 21
Francisco Bueso age 79
Ahmad Salim uld Sidi age 10 months
Hugh Watt age 27
Jacques Opangault age 31
Archibald Currie age 51
Severinus Desiré Emanuels age 29
Hsu Ching-chung age 32
Luigi Lonfernini age 1
Giuseppe Amici age 9 months
Luis Pércovich Roca age 8
Raúl Ferrero Rebagliati age 28
Luis Gallo Porras age 44
Frederick M. Franks Jr. age 2
Gary E. Luck age 2
Francis Butler Loomis age 78
Richard N. Cooper age 5
Walter J. Stoessel Jr. age 19
Miloš Trifunović age 68
Felipe Neri Medina age 142
Ramón Rodríguez
David Young, Baron Young of Graffham age 7
J. Millard Tawes age 45
James Fairman Fielder age 72
George Sebastian Silzer age 69
Harold W. Handley age 29
Arthur Salter, 1st Baron Salter age 58
Clifford Ross Powell age 46
Frederick Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale age 25
John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham age 28
Horacio Liendo age 14
Said Ibrahim Ben Ali age 28
Branislav Šoškić age 16
Filip Bajković age 29
Žarko Bulajić age 17
Đorđije Pajković age 22
Mohammed bin Jassim Al Thani age 58
Augustin Poignet age 11
Jan Buiskool age 40
Paek Nak-chun age 44
Ubaldo Biordi age 1
Gian Luigi Berti age 9
Ernesto Montagne Sánchez age 23
Jorge Fernández-Maldonado age 17
Edgardo Seoane age 36
Guillermo Larco Cox age 7
H. Freeman Matthews age 40
Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton age 35
David Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere age 0 months
Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester age 25
Jack Cunningham, Baron Cunningham of Felling age 2 months
Clarence E. Case age 62
Morgan Foster Larson age 57
John Hynd age 37
George Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon age 68
Michael Noble, Baron Glenkinglas age 26
Charles Hobhouse age 77
Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baron Shuttleworth age 94
Vincent de Paul Ahanda age 21
Abraham Schrameck age 71
Milo Matanović age 69
Momčilo Cemović age 11
Jacques Drielsma age 53
Adriaan Alberga age 52
Gwak Sanghun age 43
Peter Gatkuoth age 1
Giuseppe Maiani age 14
Guillermo Arbulú Galliani age 18
Julio Óscar Trelles Montes age 35
Luis A. Flores age 40
Walter E. Boomer age 1
Douglas Houghton, Baron Houghton of Sowerby age 41
Horace Griggs Prall age 58
J. C. C. Davidson age 50
William Sutherland age 59
Vuko Vukadinović age 2
Arthur May age 36
Joseph James Tombura age 10
Carlo Franciosi age 4
Roque A. Saldías age 47
Óscar de la Puente Raygada age 1
Mariano Garrigó age 129
Punch Coomaraswamy age 14
Umberto Barulli age 18