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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

Gustav Schädler age 55
Léon Kauffman age 70
Abdoulaye Sékou Sow age 8
Yoro Diakité age 7
Mitar Martinović age 69
David Beattie age 15
Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes age 67
Juan José Estrada Morales age 67
Manuel Maria Coelho age 82
Vitorino Guimarães age 62
Winston Cenac age 14
Monica Dacon age 5
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 15
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 18
Janez Stanovnik age 17
Jamil al-Elshi age 56
Mahmoud Zuabi age 4
Abdul Rahman Khleifawi age 12
Gerald Cash age 22
Milo Butler age 33
Tulaga Manuella age 3
Stanisław Mackiewicz age 42
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 51
Domingo Díaz Arosemena age 64
Vincent Eri age 3
Hyun Soong-jong age 20
Eugene Koffi Adoboli age 5
Shlomo Shamir age 24
Edward Almond age 46
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 28
Lewis Thompson Preston age 13
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford age 33
Christopher Soames age 19
Gordon R. Sullivan age 2
George Scratchley Brown age 21
John Wesley Snyder age 44
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 80
Robert Carr age 22
Peyton C. March age 74
George Barnes age 80
Wu Po-hsiung age 4 months
Muhammad Umran age 17
Kurt Eberhard age 65
James L. Farmer, Jr. age 19
Diane Nash age 1
Fred Shuttlesworth age 17
Izzat Darwaza age 51
Montagu Stopford age 46
Philip Chetwode age 70
Dezső László age 46
William H. Rupertus age 49
Song Shilun age 32
Harry Chauvel age 74
Juan Vigón age 59
Yeshayahu Gavish age 14
Prince Nagahisa Kitashirakawa age 29
Paul Ilyinsky age 11
Naile Sultan (daughter of Abdul Hamid II) age 55
Şehzade Mehmed Abid age 35
Müşfika Kadın age 71
Şayan Kadın age 86
Mihrimah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ziyaeddin) age 17
Mukarram Jah age 6
Azam Jah age 32
Swaran Singh age 32
Alfred Schlemm age 44
Keiji Shibazaki age 45
David Shaltiel age 36
Empress Sunjeonghyo age 45
Yang Hucheng age 45
Wilhelm Graf von Hohenau age 54
Ina Marie von Bassewitz-Levetzow age 51
Archduchess Eleonora of Austria age 52
Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 27
Gerald David Lascelles age 15
Gonzalo, Duke of Aquitaine age 2
Endelkachew Makonnen age 12
George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth age 18
James Michael Curley age 64
Allan Shivers age 32
Roy Mason age 15
Phillips Lee Goldsborough age 74
George Pardee age 82
Thomas B. Stanley age 49
Foster Furcolo age 28
Dolph Briscoe age 16
Edgar Whitcomb age 21
Cecil Parkinson age 8
David I. Walsh age 67
Walter E. Edge age 65
Lester Maddox age 24
James Florio age 2
Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood age 67
James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury age 78
John Okello age 2
Sakızlı Ahmed Esat Pasha
Naoki Hoshino age 47
José Domingo Molina Gómez age 43
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 30
Fazlul Haque age 1
Ieu Koeus age 34
Huy Kanthoul age 30
Leng Ngeth age 39
Gonzalo Güell age 44
Félix Lancís Sánchez age 38
Pedro Bartolomé Benoit age 18
Ibrahim Abdel Hadi Pasha age 43
Muhammad Sedki Sulayman age 20
Silvestre Siale Bileka age 10 months
Maphevu Dlamini age 17
Óscar Mendoza Azurdia age 22
Guillermo Flores Avendaño age 45
Constantino Teixeira age 6
Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum age 12
Muzahim Pachachi age 49
Sayyid Salih Jabr age 43
Mohsen Abdel Hamid age 2
Kenneth Blackburne age 31
Abdelmunim al-Rifai age 22
Ahmad Toukan age 36
Ahmad Lawzi age 14
Alexander Frick age 29
Mamadou Dembelé age 5
Puntsagiin Jasrai age 5
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 44
Andrija Radović age 67
Radoje Kontić age 2
José Domingues dos Santos age 52
António Ginestal Machado age 65
Charles David Ganao age 12
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 23
Charles Antrobus age 6
Peter Colotka age 14
Raul Bragança Neto age 6 months
Yu Kuo-hwa age 25
Carlos Fischer age 36
Martín Echegoyen age 48
Daniel Fernández Crespo age 38
Eduardo Víctor Haedo age 38
Huynh Thuc Khang age 63
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini age 7
Daniel Lisulo age 8
Muhammad Hawadle Madar age 10 months
Ro Jai-bong age 3
Pak Choong-hoon age 20
Javier Valle Riestra age 7
Alden W. Clausen age 16
Peter de la Billière age 5
Edward H. Levi age 28
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 39
Bruce Palmer Jr. age 26
Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham age 67
Anthony Barber age 19
Bernard W. Rogers age 18
David C. Jones age 18
Malin Craig age 64
William D. Mitchell age 65
William J. Crowe age 14
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan age 68
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 71
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 4
Merlyn Rees age 18
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 46
James Moroka age 48
Ernest Medina age 3
Yang Dezhi age 28
Gholam Hossein Sadighi age 33
William Hawi age 31
Sanji Iwabuchi age 44
Danilo Kalafatović age 64
Nguyễn Hữu An age 13
Chūichi Hara age 50
Denis Auguste Duchêne age 77
Rex Hunt age 13
Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri age 31
José Solchaga age 58
Zhang Zizhong age 48
Shimon Avidan age 28
Princess Catherine Yurievskaya age 61
Audrey Emery age 35
Prince Vsevolod Ivanovich of Russia age 25
Şehzade Ahmed Nuri age 60
Emsalinur Kadın age 73
Sazkar Hanım age 66
Naciye Sultan age 42
Behiye Sultan age 58
Prince Nayef bin Abdullah age 24
Marcel Carpentier age 44
Robert Laycock age 32
Tomitarō Horii age 49
Yi Kang age 62
Princess Cecilie of Prussia age 22
Princess Henriette of Schönaich-Carolath age 20
George, Duke of Mecklenburg age 40
Lady Iris Mountbatten age 19
Zizi Lambrino age 41
Karl, Prince of Leiningen (1898–1946) age 41
Hans Albrecht, Hereditary Prince of Schleswig-Holstein age 22
John Ambler age 15
Frank D. White age 6