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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

Alexander Madiebo age 7
Shigeyoshi Inoue age 50
Takeo Takagi age 48
Chūichi Hara age 50
William Halsey Jr. age 57
Thomas Cassin Kinkaid age 51
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria age 70
Viktor Dankl von Krasnik age 85
Leighton W. Smith, Jr. age 6 months
Robert Brooke-Popham age 61
Arthur Percival age 52
William H. Rupertus age 50
Paul J. Mueller age 47
Richard T. Knowles age 24
Hal Moore age 18
Melvin Zais age 23
Lucian Truscott age 45
Antonio Aranda age 51
José Enrique Varela age 48
Bui Dinh Dam age 14
Huynh Van Cao age 12
John Paul Vann age 15
Walter Krueger age 59
Robert L. Eichelberger age 54
José Moscardó Ituarte age 61
Mario Roatta age 53
Annibale Bergonzoli age 55
Zeki Kolaç age 78
James Harbord age 73
Richard von Conta age 83
Archibald James Murray age 79
Charles Macpherson Dobell age 70
Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein age 69
Rüştü Sakarya age 63
Song Shilun age 32
Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen age 77
Édouard de Castelnau age 88
Denis Auguste Duchêne age 77
Masami Kobayashi age 49
Fidel Dávila Arrondo age 61
Juan Yagüe Blanco age 48
Shunroku Hata age 60
Toshizō Nishio age 58
Jalaluddin Haqqani age 1
Rex Hunt age 13
Eduard von Below age 83
Kim Chaek age 36
Kim Ung age 28
Herbert Lawrence age 78
Harry Chauvel age 74
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell age 83
Petrus Johannes Liebenberg age 83
Francisco García-Escámez age 47
Carlos Asensio Cabanillas age 43
Ahmad Ismail Ali age 22
Saad el-Shazly age 17
Saad Mamoun age 17
Nikola Ivanov age 79
Petar Bojović age 81
Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark age 58
Victor d'Urbal age 81
Georg Bruchmüller age 76
Luigi Capello age 80
Nikolaos Trikoupis age 72
Kimon Digenis age 69
Kamel Sajid age 1
Mostafa Chamran age 7
Constantin Prezan age 79
Harry Smith age 6
Oliver David Jackson age 20
Hooshang Samadi age 1 month
Gonzalo Queipo de Llano age 65
Francisco de Borbón y de la Torre age 58
Agustín Muñoz Grandes age 44
Juan Vigón age 59
Moshe Carmel age 29
William R. Peers age 25
Leo H. Schweiter age 22
Hoàng Minh Thảo age 18
Mehmet Esat Bülkat age 77
Abane Ramdane age 19
Krim Belkacem age 17
Larbi Ben M'hidi age 17
Jacques Massu age 31
Marcel Maurice Bigeard age 24
Yves Godard age 28
Sadi Tuma Abbas age 11 months
Ítalo Piaggi age 4
Walter Braithwaite age 74
Ibrahim El-Orabi age 8
Avraham Adan age 13
Amnon Reshef age 1
Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri age 31
Akhtar Hussain Malik age 30
Rikichi Andō age 55
Seiichi Kuno age 53
Ptolemaios Sarigiannis age 58
Konstantinos Pallis age 69
Bahram Afzali age 2
Javad Fakoori age 1
Mizban Khadr al-Hadi age 2
Hoàng Cầm age 19
Nguyen Van Toan age 7
Lê Minh Đảo age 6
José Solchaga age 58
Babru Bhan Yadav age 11
M. A. K. Lodhi age 19
Zhang Zizhong age 48
Waichirō Sonobe age 56
Lou Lenart age 18
Shimon Avidan age 29
Yeshayahu Gavish age 14
Avigdor Ben-Gal age 3
Brian Young age 9
William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood age 74
Danny Matt age 12
Robert Lee Bullard age 79
Aylmer Hunter-Weston age 75
Trần Văn Trà age 22
Đàm Văn Ngụy age 11
Nguyễn Văn Minh age 11
Le Van Hung age 6
Le Nguyen Vy age 6
Moshe Mann age 32
Harbaksh Singh age 26
Thomas K. Theogaraj age 20
Abdul Hamid Khan age 22
Amir Drori age 2
Bakhtiar Rana age 29
Abrar Hussain age 21
Amjad Ali Chaudhri age 23
Youcef Zighoud age 19
Salah Boubnider age 11
Paul Aussaresses age 21
Sandy Woodward age 7
Michael Clapp age 8
Julian Thompson age 5
Ian Hamilton age 87
Malik Yaqo age 46
İsmail Hakkı Okday age 59
Yona Efrat age 14
Raja Aziz Bhatti age 11
Colonel Amirouche age 13
Jeremy Moore age 11
Ernesto Horacio Crespo age 10
Mario Benjamín Menéndez age 9
Juan Lombardo age 12
Khem Karan Singh age 14
W. A. G. Pinto age 15
Arun Shridhar Vaidya age 14
Abdul-Ali Malik age 33
Sharbat Ali Changezi age 7
Nick Vaux age 4
Somnath Sharma age 17
Lachhman Singh Lehl age 16
Kuazi Nuruzzaman age 14
Tajammul Hussain Malik age 15
Valentin Varennikov age 16
Lionel Protip Sen age 29
Ranjit Singh Dyal age 11
Sher Jung Thapa age 32
Burhan-ud-Din of Chitral age 25
Andrey Vyshinsky age 56
Lazar Kaganovich age 46
Lavrentiy Beria age 40
Yves Congar age 35
Karl Rahner age 36
Marcel Lefebvre age 34
Konstantin von Neurath age 67
Ernest Bevin age 59
Carlo Sforza age 68
Halvard Lange age 37
Heinrich Müller age 39
Roland Freisler age 46
Wilhelm Stuckart age 37
Mark Felt age 26
John McCain age 3
Jiang Qing age 26
Paul Tibbets age 25
Shapour Bakhtiar age 26
Mahmoud Taleghani age 29
Félicien Kabuga age 7
Tokugawa Iesato age 76
Princess Masako Takeda age 51
Fusako Kitashirakawa age 50
Toshiko Higashikuni age 43
Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu age 37
Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu age 35
Takahito, Prince Mikasa age 24
Empress Teimei age 55
Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda age 31
Ayako Sano age 26
Prince Nagahisa Kitashirakawa age 30
Morihiro Higashikuni age 22
Shigeko Higashikuni age 14
Kazuko Takatsukasa age 10
Atsuko Ikeda age 8
Masahito, Prince Hitachi age 4
Takako Shimazu age 12 months
Empress Nagako age 37