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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

Firuz Mustafayev age 6
Grantley Herbert Adams age 42
Pierre Ngendandumwe age 10
Sisowath Youtevong age 27
Oum Cheang Sun age 40
Hang Thun Hak age 16
Henri Maïdou age 4
Mohamed Ahmed age 23
Ahmed Abdou age 4
Mahmoud Fawzi age 39
Aziz Sedki age 20
Makhosini Dlamini age 26
Abebe Aregai age 37
Ben Jones age 16
José María Reyna Andrade age 79
Luis Arturo González López age 39
Wilopo age 30
Hikmat Sulayman age 51
Ahmad Mukhtar Baban age 40
Hamdi Pachachi age 54
Hazza' al-Majali age 21
Abdelhamid Sharaf age 1
Andrei Iordan age 5
Voldemārs Zāmuēls age 68
Shafik Wazzan age 15
Takieddin el-Solh age 32
Gustav Schädler age 56
Léon Kauffman age 71
Abdoulaye Sékou Sow age 9
Yoro Diakité age 7
Mitar Martinović age 70
David Beattie age 16
Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes age 67
Juan José Estrada Morales age 68
Manuel Maria Coelho age 83
Vitorino Guimarães age 63
Winston Cenac age 14
Monica Dacon age 6
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 16
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 19
Janez Stanovnik age 18
Jamil al-Elshi age 57
Mahmoud Zuabi age 5
Abdul Rahman Khleifawi age 13
Joseph Sinde Warioba age 0 months
Gerald Cash age 23
Milo Butler age 34
Tulaga Manuella age 4
Stanisław Mackiewicz age 43
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 52
Domingo Díaz Arosemena age 65
Vincent Eri age 3
Hyun Soong-jong age 21
Eugene Koffi Adoboli age 5
Shlomo Shamir age 25
Edward Almond age 47
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 29
Lewis Thompson Preston age 14
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford age 34
Christopher Soames age 19
Gordon R. Sullivan age 2
George Scratchley Brown age 22
John Wesley Snyder age 45
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 80
Robert Carr age 23
Peyton C. March age 75
Wu Po-hsiung age 1
Muhammad Umran age 18
Kurt Eberhard age 66
James L. Farmer, Jr. age 20
Diane Nash age 2
Fred Shuttlesworth age 18
Izzat Darwaza age 52
Montagu Stopford age 47
Philip Chetwode age 71
Dezső László age 47
William H. Rupertus age 50
Song Shilun age 33
Harry Chauvel age 75
Juan Vigón age 59
Yeshayahu Gavish age 15
Paul Ilyinsky age 12
Naile Sultan (daughter of Abdul Hamid II) age 56
Şehzade Mehmed Abid age 36
Müşfika Kadın age 72
Şayan Kadın age 87
Mihrimah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ziyaeddin) age 17
Mukarram Jah age 6
Azam Jah age 33
Swaran Singh age 33
Alfred Schlemm age 45
Keiji Shibazaki age 46
David Shaltiel age 37
Empress Sunjeonghyo age 46
Yang Hucheng age 46
Wilhelm Graf von Hohenau age 55
Ina Marie von Bassewitz-Levetzow age 52
Archduchess Eleonora of Austria age 53
Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 28
Gerald David Lascelles age 16
Gonzalo, Duke of Aquitaine age 3
Endelkachew Makonnen age 13
George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth age 19
James Michael Curley age 65
Allan Shivers age 32
Roy Mason age 16
Phillips Lee Goldsborough age 75
George Pardee age 83
Gerald Baliles age 2 months
Thomas B. Stanley age 50
Foster Furcolo age 29
Dolph Briscoe age 17
Edgar Whitcomb age 22
Cecil Parkinson age 9
David I. Walsh age 67
Walter E. Edge age 66
Lester Maddox age 24
James Florio age 3
Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood age 68
James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury age 78
John Okello age 3
Sakızlı Ahmed Esat Pasha
Naoki Hoshino age 48
Mokdad Sifi age 4 months
José Domingo Molina Gómez age 43
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 31
Fazlul Haque age 2
Ieu Koeus age 35
Huy Kanthoul age 31
Leng Ngeth age 40
Gonzalo Güell age 45
Félix Lancís Sánchez age 39
Pedro Bartolomé Benoit age 19
Ibrahim Abdel Hadi Pasha age 44
Muhammad Sedki Sulayman age 21
Silvestre Siale Bileka age 1
Maphevu Dlamini age 18
Óscar Mendoza Azurdia age 23
Guillermo Flores Avendaño age 46
Constantino Teixeira age 7
Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum age 13
Muzahim Pachachi age 49
Sayyid Salih Jabr age 44
Mohsen Abdel Hamid age 3
Kenneth Blackburne age 32
Abdelmunim al-Rifai age 23
Ahmad Toukan age 37
Ahmad Lawzi age 15
Alexander Frick age 30
Mamadou Dembelé age 6
Puntsagiin Jasrai age 6
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 45
Andrija Radović age 68
Radoje Kontić age 3
José Domingues dos Santos age 53
Charles David Ganao age 13
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 23
Charles Antrobus age 7
Peter Colotka age 15
Raul Bragança Neto age 1
Yu Kuo-hwa age 26
Carlos Fischer age 37
Martín Echegoyen age 49
Daniel Fernández Crespo age 39
Eduardo Víctor Haedo age 39
Huynh Thuc Khang age 64
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini age 7
Daniel Lisulo age 9
Muhammad Hawadle Madar age 1
Ro Jai-bong age 4
Pak Choong-hoon age 21
Javier Valle Riestra age 8
Alden W. Clausen age 17
Peter de la Billière age 6
Edward H. Levi age 29
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 40
Bruce Palmer Jr. age 27
Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham age 68
Anthony Barber age 20
Bernard W. Rogers age 19
David C. Jones age 19
Malin Craig age 65
William D. Mitchell age 66
William J. Crowe age 15
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 72
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 5
Merlyn Rees age 19
James Moroka age 49
Ernest Medina age 4
Yang Dezhi age 29
Gholam Hossein Sadighi age 34
William Hawi age 32
Sanji Iwabuchi age 45
Danilo Kalafatović age 64
Nguyễn Hữu An age 13
Chūichi Hara age 51
Denis Auguste Duchêne age 78
Rex Hunt age 14
Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri age 32
José Solchaga age 58