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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

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
Homer Martin Adkins age 49
Benjamin T. Laney age 43
Tom Terral age 57
Francis Sargent age 25
Robert F. Bradford age 37
John S. Battle age 50
Junius Marion Futrell age 70
Charles F. Hurley age 46
Paul A. Dever age 37
Michael DiSalle age 32
Horace White age 74
Joseph B. Ely age 59
William M. Tuck age 43
Richard J. Hughes age 31
Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton age 57
Emerson Harrington age 76
John I. Cox age 84
William Donald Schaefer age 18
Albertis Harrison age 33
Robert D. Orr age 22
Buford Ellington age 33
Martin L. Davey age 56
Ernest Brown age 59
William Ruckelshaus age 8
Lawrence Walsh age 28
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
Bob C. Riley age 15
Tony Newton, Baron Newton of Braintree age 3
Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton age 57
Harry L. Davis age 62
Frank O'Bannon age 10
William Preston Lane Jr. age 48
Charles Seymour Whitman age 71
Nathan L. Miller age 71
Paul V. McNutt age 49
Edward L. Jackson age 66
Gus Macdonald age 0 months
Harold G. Hoffman age 44
Matthew E. Welsh age 28
Roger D. Branigin age 38
Geoffrey Rippon age 16
Charles Fried age 5
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
Alfred E. Driscoll age 37
Theodore McKeldin age 39
Robert B. Meyner age 32
Harry Nice age 62
Edward C. Stokes age 79
Henry F. Schricker age 57
Hill McAlister age 65
Myers Y. Cooper age 66
William T. Cahill age 28
George N. Craig age 31
Ralph F. Gates age 47
Douglas Jay age 33
Frederick Lee, Baron Lee of Newton age 34
Jack Pease, 1st Baron Gainford age 80
John Davies age 24
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
David Young, Baron Young of Graffham age 8
J. Millard Tawes age 46
James Fairman Fielder age 73
George Sebastian Silzer age 70
Harold W. Handley age 30
Arthur Salter, 1st Baron Salter age 59
Clifford Ross Powell age 47
Frederick Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale age 26
John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham age 29
Charles Evans Hughes Jr. age 50
Laurence Silberman age 4
Philip Heymann age 7
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