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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

Hussein Maziq age 22
Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi age 1
Alfred Hilbe age 12
Hubert Loutsch age 61
Ibrahim Muhammad Didi age 39
Dumaagiin Sodnom age 7
Mohan Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 54
Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae age 29
Yon Hyong-muk age 8
José Vicente de Freitas age 71
João Tamagnini Barbosa age 56
Allan Louisy age 24
Jules Sedney age 17
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm age 8
Yusuf Zuayyin age 8
Sabri al-Asali age 37
Taj al-Din al-Hasani age 55
Edward Sokoine age 2
John Malecela age 6
Orville Turnquest age 11
Clifford Darling age 18
Kléber Dadjo age 26
Tupua Leupena age 18
Koloa Talake age 6
Luis Giannattasio age 45
Frederick Karlomuana Timakata age 4
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani age 1
Artur Śliwiński age 63
Ricardo Arias Espinosa age 28
Muhammad Ali Samatar age 9
Giuliano Gozi age 46
Patrick J. Hurley age 57
Kenneth Claiborne Royall age 46
Hu Zongnan age 44
George M. Humphrey age 50
Homer Stille Cummings age 70
Henry H. Fowler age 32
William French Smith age 23
Thomas Hinman Moorer age 28
Pixley ka Isaka Seme age 59
Ramiro Valdés Menéndez age 8
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 76
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 78
Nazime Sultan age 74
Peyveste Hanım age 67
Müveddet Kadın age 46
Nevvare Hanım age 39
Mehisti Hanım age 48
Muhammad Abdel Moneim age 41
Dov Joseph age 41
Kōsaku Aruga age 43
Yi Bangja age 38
Yi Hae-won age 21
Yi Ku age 8
Filipp Goloshchyokin age 64
Prince Frederick of Prussia (1911–1966) age 28
Michael Prinz von Preussen age 5 months
Princess Elisabeth Helene of Thurn and Taxis age 36
Edward J. King age 15
John A. Volpe age 31
Marvin Mandel age 20
Winfield Dunn age 13
Friend Richardson age 74
Charles Poletti age 37
Anthony Crosland age 22
Nikola Uzunović age 67
William S. Sessions age 10
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 24
Sim Var age 34
Sisowath Watchayavong age 49
Norodom Kantol age 19
Nhiek Tioulong age 32
Djidingar Dono Ngardoum age 12
Pedro Opaso age 64
Évariste Kimba age 14
Léonard Mulamba age 12
Osborne Riviere age 8
Andrés F. Córdova age 48
Antonio Pons age 42
Julio Enrique Moreno age 61
Mamdouh Salem age 22
Ismaʿil Sidqi age 65
Obed Dlamini age 3
Mabandla Dlamini age 9
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 28
Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre age 28
Francisco Javier Arana age 34
Daniel Fignolé age 26
Arif Abd ar-Razzaq age 19
Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali age 37
Clifford Campbell age 48
Florizel Glasspole age 30
Suleiman al-Nabulsi age 32
Adolph Bowler age 51
Pēteris Juraševskis age 68
Abdallah El-Yafi age 39
Ayoub Tabet age 66
Amin al-Hafez age 14
Emmanuel Rakotovahiny age 2
Ugo Pasquale Mifsud age 51
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 54
Jack Marshall age 28
Francisco Urcuyo age 25
Lorenzo Guerrero age 39
Boukary Adji age 1
Francisco Cunha Leal age 52
Victor Hugo de Azevedo Coutinho age 68
Alfredo de Sá Cardoso age 76
Bernard Kolélas age 7
Milan Čič age 8
Viktor Avbelj age 26
Bartholomew Ulufa'alu age 8 months
Maamun al-Kuzbari age 26
Muhsin al-Barazi age 36
Saadallah al-Jabiri age 47
Lee Huan age 22
Tang Fei age 8
Tu'i Pelehake age 18
Baron Vaea age 19
Tahar Ben Ammar age 50
Alberto Fermín Zubiría age 38
Washington Beltrán age 26
Benito Nardone age 33
Jean-Marie Léyé age 8
Živko Radišić age 3
Luis Alberto Sánchez age 39
Fu Zuoyi age 45
Henri Navarre age 42
David Waddington age 11
Benjamin Civiletti age 5
Arthur W. Radford age 44
Neil H. McElroy age 35
John A. Wickham Jr. age 12
George Brown age 26
Flora MacDonald age 14
Ebrahim Hakimi age 69
Oliver P. Smith age 46
Arthur Wauchope age 66
Harold MacMichael age 58
Sōsaku Suzuki age 48
Vu Van Mau age 26
Tadeusz Kasprzycki age 49
Roy Geiger age 55
Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen age 77
Georg Bruchmüller age 76
Abane Ramdane age 20
Fusako Kitashirakawa age 50
Toshiko Higashikuni age 44
Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda age 31
Morihiro Higashikuni age 23
Anastasia de Torby age 48
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 59
Gevheri Sultan age 35
Fritz Bronsart von Schellendorf age 76
Heinrich Schnee age 69
Ma Zhanshan age 54
Leslie Morshead age 51
Charles Noguès age 64
Tadeusz Pełczyński age 48
Wang Jiaxiang age 34
Alexander Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse age 77
Prince Alexander Ferdinand of Prussia age 27
Archduke Hubert Salvator of Austria age 46
Yuk Young-soo age 14
Infante Álvaro, Duke of Galliera age 30
Kraft, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 5
Marion Stein age 13
John J. Gilligan age 19
Frank Merriam age 74
Malcolm Wilson age 26
William Stephens age 80
Harry Hughes age 13
Frank Lausche age 44
John Strachey (politician) age 38
George Brown, Baron George-Brown age 26
Lauris Norstad age 33
Paul Legentilhomme age 56
Bill McKell age 48