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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
Winter War 1939-11-30 - 1940-03-13

People

John Malecela age 5
Orville Turnquest age 10
Clifford Darling age 18
Kléber Dadjo age 25
Tupua Leupena age 17
Koloa Talake age 5
Luis Giannattasio age 45
Frederick Karlomuana Timakata age 4
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani age 7 months
Artur Śliwiński age 62
Ricardo Arias Espinosa age 27
Muhammad Ali Samatar age 9
Giuliano Gozi age 45
Patrick J. Hurley age 57
Kenneth Claiborne Royall age 45
Hu Zongnan age 43
George M. Humphrey age 49
Homer Stille Cummings age 69
Henry H. Fowler age 31
William French Smith age 22
Thomas Hinman Moorer age 28
Pixley ka Isaka Seme age 59
Ramiro Valdés Menéndez age 7
Masakazu Kawabe age 53
Robert L. Ghormley age 56
Chang Fa-kwei age 44
Heisuke Yanagawa age 60
Clarence R. Huebner age 51
Franciszek Latinik age 75
Yury Drozdov age 14
Petar Stipetić age 2
Antonio Aranda age 51
Mehmet Esat Bülkat age 77
Paul Aussaresses age 21
Irina Paley age 36
Saliha Sultan (daughter of Abdulaziz) age 77
Nazime Sultan age 74
Peyveste Hanım age 66
Müveddet Kadın age 46
Nevvare Hanım age 38
Mehisti Hanım age 48
Muhammad Abdel Moneim age 40
Dov Joseph age 40
Kōsaku Aruga age 42
Yi Bangja age 38
Yi Hae-won age 20
Yi Ku age 8
Filipp Goloshchyokin age 63
Prince Frederick of Prussia (1911–1966) age 28
Princess Elisabeth Helene of Thurn and Taxis age 36
Edward J. King age 14
John A. Volpe age 31
Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey age 62
Marvin Mandel age 19
Winfield Dunn age 12
Friend Richardson age 74
Charles Poletti age 36
Anthony Crosland age 21
Nikola Uzunović age 66
William S. Sessions age 9
Kostaq Kota age 51
Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman age 65
Salman II of Bahrain age 46
Kazi Zafar Ahmed age 1
Nita Barrow age 23
Yem Sambaur age 27
Chhean Vam age 23
Sim Var age 34
Sisowath Watchayavong age 48
Norodom Kantol age 19
Nhiek Tioulong age 31
Djidingar Dono Ngardoum age 12
Pedro Opaso age 63
Évariste Kimba age 13
Léonard Mulamba age 12
Osborne Riviere age 7
Antonio Pons age 42
Julio Enrique Moreno age 61
Mamdouh Salem age 22
Ismaʿil Sidqi age 64
Obed Dlamini age 2
Mabandla Dlamini age 9
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 27
Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre age 27
Francisco Javier Arana age 34
Daniel Fignolé age 26
Arif Abd ar-Razzaq age 19
Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali age 36
Clifford Campbell age 47
Florizel Glasspole age 30
Suleiman al-Nabulsi age 32
Adolph Bowler age 50
Pēteris Juraševskis age 67
Abdallah El-Yafi age 38
Ayoub Tabet age 66
Amin al-Hafez age 14
Emmanuel Rakotovahiny age 1
Ugo Pasquale Mifsud age 50
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 54
Jack Marshall age 27
Francisco Urcuyo age 24
Lorenzo Guerrero age 39
Boukary Adji age 1
Francisco Cunha Leal age 51
Victor Hugo de Azevedo Coutinho age 68
Alfredo de Sá Cardoso age 75
Bernard Kolélas age 6
Milan Čič age 8
Viktor Avbelj age 25
Bartholomew Ulufa'alu age 1 month
Maamun al-Kuzbari age 26
Muhsin al-Barazi age 36
Saadallah al-Jabiri age 47
Lee Huan age 22
Tang Fei age 7
Tu'i Pelehake age 18
Baron Vaea age 18
Tahar Ben Ammar age 50
Alberto Fermín Zubiría age 38
Washington Beltrán age 25
Benito Nardone age 33
Jean-Marie Léyé age 8
Živko Radišić age 2
Luis Alberto Sánchez age 39
Fu Zuoyi age 44
Henri Navarre age 41
David F. Houston age 74
David Waddington age 10
Benjamin Civiletti age 4
Arthur W. Radford age 43
Neil H. McElroy age 35
John A. Wickham Jr. age 11
George Brown age 25
Flora MacDonald age 13
Ebrahim Hakimi age 68
Oliver P. Smith age 46
Arthur Wauchope age 65
Harold MacMichael age 58
Sōsaku Suzuki age 48
Vu Van Mau age 25
Tadeusz Kasprzycki age 49
Roy Geiger age 55
Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen age 77
Georg Bruchmüller age 76
Abane Ramdane age 19
Princess Masako Takeda age 51
Fusako Kitashirakawa age 50
Toshiko Higashikuni age 43
Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda age 30
Morihiro Higashikuni age 22
Anastasia de Torby age 47
Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia age 37
Prince Andrew Romanoff age 17
Dilfirib Kadın age 50
Zekiye Sultan age 69
Şehzade Mehmed Burhaneddin (son of Abdul Hamid II) age 54
Şehsuvar Hanım age 58
Gevheri Sultan age 35
Fritz Bronsart von Schellendorf age 75
Heinrich Schnee age 69
Ma Zhanshan age 54
Leslie Morshead age 50
Charles Noguès age 63
Tadeusz Pełczyński age 48
Wang Jiaxiang age 33
Alexander Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse age 77
Prince Alexander Ferdinand of Prussia age 27
Archduke Hubert Salvator of Austria age 45
Yuk Young-soo age 14
Infante Álvaro, Duke of Galliera age 29
Kraft, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 4
Marion Stein age 13
John J. Gilligan age 18
Frank Merriam age 74
Malcolm Wilson age 25
William Stephens age 80
Harry Hughes age 13
Frank Lausche age 44
John Strachey (politician) age 38
George Brown, Baron George-Brown age 25
Lauris Norstad age 32
Paul Legentilhomme age 55
Bill McKell age 48
Firuz Mustafayev age 6
Grantley Herbert Adams age 41
Pierre Ngendandumwe age 10
Sisowath Youtevong age 27
Oum Cheang Sun age 39
Hang Thun Hak age 15
Henri Maïdou age 3
Mohamed Ahmed age 22
Ahmed Abdou age 4
Mahmoud Fawzi age 39
Aziz Sedki age 19
Makhosini Dlamini age 26
Abebe Aregai age 36
Ben Jones age 15
José María Reyna Andrade age 79
Luis Arturo González López age 39
Wilopo age 30