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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

Ji Xingwen age 32
Masakazu Kawabe age 53
Renya Mutaguchi age 52
Zaifeng, Prince Chun age 57
Stanislav Shushkevich age 5
Marcello Soleri age 58
Ludwig Beck age 60
Adolf Eichmann age 34
Paul Blobel age 46
Kurt Eberhard age 66
Caspar Weinberger age 23
Joseph Metcalf, III age 12
Ebrahim Hakimi age 69
Ahmad Qavam age 64
Ja'far Pishevari age 48
Qazi Muhammad age 47
Liu Yuzhang age 36
Hu Lian age 32
Ye Fei age 26
Chiang Chung-ling age 18
Wu Shih-wen age 6
Liu Huaqing age 24
Zhang Zhen age 26
Marwan Hadid age 6
Mustafa Tlass age 8
Hikmat al-Shihabi age 9
Günter Schabowski age 11
Alexander Vandegrift age 53
Robert L. Ghormley age 57
Nobutake Kondō age 54
Feng Yuxiang age 57
Chang Fa-kwei age 44
Liu Zhi age 48
Tang Shengzhi age 51
Heisuke Yanagawa age 61
Karl Hermann Frank age 42
Arthur Dewey Struble age 46
Oliver P. Smith age 47
Choe Yong-gon age 40
John Ernest Dahlquist age 44
William Hawi age 32
Kamal Jumblatt age 22
Emmanuel Erskine age 3
William O'Callaghan age 19
Said al-Muragha age 13
Ahmed Jibril age 2
Khalil al-Wazir age 5
Clarence R. Huebner age 51
Friedrich Köchling age 47
Gerhard von Schwerin age 41
Otto von Knobelsdorff age 54
Marc Mitscher age 53
Jisaburō Ozawa age 54
Takeo Kurita age 51
William H. P. Blandy age 50
Tadamichi Kuribayashi age 49
Takeichi Nishi age 38
Fred Gray age 9
James L. Farmer, Jr. age 20
Gordon Carey age 8
Diane Nash age 2
A. Philip Randolph age 51
Fred Shuttlesworth age 18
Charles Sherrod age 3
Albert Raby age 7
Bernard Lafayette age 2 months
Ralph Abernathy age 14
Alfred Daniel King age 10
Daisy Bates age 25
Allen Dulles age 47
Chen Duxiu age 61
Viktor Chernov age 66
Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia age 49
Yury Lomonosov age 64
Gotthard Heinrici age 53
Ferdinand Schörner age 48
Janko Bobetko age 21
Biljana Plavšić age 10
Hakija Turajlić age 4
Bernard Janvier age 1
Lewis MacKenzie age 5 months
Milutin Kukanjac age 5
Milan Gvero age 2
Wolfram von Richthofen age 45
He Jian age 53
Li Zhen age 32
Otto Braun age 40
Arthur Wauchope age 66
Harold MacMichael age 58
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini age 45
Izzat Darwaza age 52
Claude Auchinleck age 56
Ugo Cavallero age 60
James Watson age 12
Francis Crick age 24
Harry Crerar age 52
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny age 51
Paul Hausser age 60
Friedrich Schulz age 43
Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García age 10
Fernando Romeo Lucas García age 16
Rolando Morán age 10
Rodrigo Asturias age 11 months
Maxwell R. Thurman age 9
Jack B. Farris age 4
Manuel Noriega age 6
Marcos Justines age 6
Vasily Sokolovsky age 43
Lucius D. Clay age 43
Brian Robertson, 1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge age 44
Sanji Iwabuchi age 45
Tomoyuki Yamashita age 54
Masaharu Homma age 52
Jonathan M. Wainwright age 57
Edward P. King age 56
Takaji Wachi age 47
Oscar Griswold age 54
Robert S. Beightler age 48
Shizuo Yokoyama age 49
Tikka Khan age 25
Nguyễn Văn Huyền age 29
Bai Chongxi age 47
Bo Gu age 33
Zhang Guotao age 42
Du Yuesheng age 52
David Elazar age 15
Walther von Brauchitsch age 59
Maximilian von Weichs age 58
Montagu Stopford age 47
Wilhelm List age 60
Kōtoku Satō age 47
Hugo Österman age 48
Danilo Kalafatović age 65
Georg-Hans Reinhardt age 53
Milorad Petrović age 58
Jorge Anaya age 14
Friedrich Hoßbach age 45
Basilio Lami Dozo age 11
Henry Leach age 16
Hisaichi Terauchi age 61
John Fieldhouse, Baron Fieldhouse age 12
Sōsaku Suzuki age 49
Husband E. Kimmel age 58
Walter Short age 60
Edward Rydz-Śmigły age 54
Vu Van Mau age 26
Tadeusz Kasprzycki age 49
Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch age 52
Gerhard Schmidhuber age 46
Philip Chetwode age 71
Keith Park age 48
Dezső László age 47
Trafford Leigh-Mallory age 48
Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin age 46
Lothar Rendulic age 53
Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli age 84
Archduke Joseph August of Austria age 68
Józef Haller age 67
Ngo Quang Truong age 10
Franciszek Latinik age 76
Stanley S. Hughes age 21
Ferdinand I of Bulgaria age 79
Foster LaHue age 22
Trần Văn Quang age 23
Friedrich Altrichter age 50
Vasil Kutinchev age 81
Vũ Nam Long age 19
Walter Weiß age 50
Josef Harpe age 53
Dietrich von Saucken age 48
Archduke Eugen of Austria age 77
Guglielmo Pecori Giraldi age 84
Nguyễn Hữu An age 14
Johannes Frießner age 48
Maximilian Fretter-Pico age 48
Issa Pliyev age 36
Nicolae Macici age 53
Roy Geiger age 55
Yury Drozdov age 15
Sadae Inoue age 53
Kunio Nakagawa age 42
Adam Nieniewski age 54
Rudolf von Bünau age 50
Vladimir Stoychev age 48
Lucjan Żeligowski age 75
Zvonimir Červenko age 13
Petar Stipetić age 2
Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt, 1st Baronet age 70
Eleanor Roosevelt age 56
Rathvon M. Tompkins age 28
David E. Lownds age 20
René Cassin age 53
John Peters Humphrey age 35
Trần Quý Hai age 27
P. C. Chang age 48
Le Quang Dao age 19
Charles Malik age 34
Harold Courtenay Armstrong age 49
Halil Kut age 58
Kâzım Karabekir age 58