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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

Princess Cecilie of Prussia age 22
Princess Henriette of Schönaich-Carolath age 21
George, Duke of Mecklenburg age 40
Lady Iris Mountbatten age 20
Zizi Lambrino age 41
Karl, Prince of Leiningen (1898–1946) age 42
Hans Albrecht, Hereditary Prince of Schleswig-Holstein age 22
John Ambler age 15
Frank D. White age 6
George White (Ohio politician) age 67
James V. Allred age 40
William P. Hobby age 61
Coke R. Stevenson age 51
J. Lindsay Almond age 41
Beauford H. Jester age 47
Dick Celeste age 2
Maurice J. Tobin age 38
Mills Godwin age 25
Ross S. Sterling age 65
Dan Moody age 46
Oscar Branch Colquitt age 78
Sid McMath age 27
Carl Sanders age 14
Joe Frank Harris age 4
Božidar Purić age 49
Laz Ahmed Pasha
İbrahim Sarim Pasha
Clarence M. Kelley age 28
Prince Shah Mahmud Khan of Afghanistan age 52
Mohammad Yusuf age 23
Fazal khaliq age 6
John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven age 65
John Montague Stow age 28
Lhendup Dorji age 4
André Muhirwa age 20
Joseph Bamina age 15
Khim Tit age 43
Ek Yi Oun age 30
Chan Nak age 47
Sak Sutsakhan age 12
Édouard Frank age 5
Timothée Malendoma age 5
Pedro Dartnell age 66
Carlos Saladrigas Zayas age 39
Ramón Zaydín age 45
Hassan Sabry Pasha age 65
Ahmad Najib al-Hilali age 48
Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha age 63
Makonnen Endelkachew age 50
Manuel María Orellana Contreras age 69
Naji Shawkat age 47
Edward Zacca age 8
Kassim al-Rimawi age 22
Mohammad Daoud al-Abbasi age 27
Nazem Akkari age 38
Guy Razanamasy age 11
Ahmed Ould Bouceif age 6
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 58
Jovan Plamenac age 67
Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet age 75
Leonardo Argüello Barreto age 64
Ksente Bogoev age 20
Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan age 51
Liberato Pinto age 59
Tupua Tamasese Lealofi IV age 17
Johan Adolf Pengel age 24
Izzat al-Nuss age 28
Haqqi al-Azm age 75
Nasuhi al-Bukhari age 59
Lutfi al-Haffar age 52
Weng Wenhao age 50
Yu Hung-chun age 42
Arturo Lezama age 41
Faustino Harrison age 39
Mainza Chona age 10
John Guise age 25
Kingsford Dibela age 7
Glauco Sansovini age 1
Efraín Goldenberg age 10
Pedro Beltrán age 43
Wei Lihuang age 43
George David Woods age 38
Frank Polk age 68
Charles Pelot Summerall age 73
Edward C. Meyer age 11
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk age 34
Earle Wheeler age 32
David E. Jeremiah age 6
Hardan al-Tikriti age 15
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 11
Kenneth Rush age 30
Jo Grimond age 26
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 7
Phoumi Nosavan age 20
Xu Shiyou age 35
James Bevel age 3
Ye Fei age 25
Zhang Zhen age 25
Tang Shengzhi age 50
William H. P. Blandy age 49
Yury Lomonosov age 63
Milutin Kukanjac age 5
Brian Robertson, 1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge age 43
Basilio Lami Dozo age 11
John Fieldhouse, Baron Fieldhouse age 12
Ngo Quang Truong age 10
Guglielmo Pecori Giraldi age 83
Sadae Inoue age 53
Kunio Nakagawa age 42
Leighton W. Smith, Jr. age 6 months
Carlos Asensio Cabanillas age 43
Nguyen Van Toan age 7
Avigdor Ben-Gal age 3
Aylmer Hunter-Weston age 75
Amir Drori age 2
Julian Thompson age 5
Jeremy Moore age 11
Teymuraz Bagration age 27
Irina Yusupova age 24
Prince Michael Feodorovich of Russia age 15
Filizten Hanım age 75
Mihrişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Izzeddin) age 23
Deng Hua age 30
Kristian Laake age 64
Friedrich Wiese age 47
Joseph J. Clark age 46
Frederick C. Sherman age 51
Yi Geon age 30
Kuzma Derevyanko age 35
Lu Muzhen age 72
Prince Friedrich Heinrich Albrecht of Prussia age 65
Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg age 41
Archduchess Mechthildis of Austria age 49
Princess Rosemary of Salm-Salm age 35
Princess Franziska of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst age 42
Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg age 18
Charles Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk age 46
Fernando Schwartz age 2
Channing H. Cox age 60
Alvan T. Fuller age 62
Francis Cherry age 31
C. William O'Neill age 24
Thomas J. Herbert age 45
Endicott Peabody age 20
Westmoreland Davis age 80
Vic Donahey age 66
Jim Rhodes age 30
John N. Dalton age 8
George C. Peery age 66
Pat Morris Neff age 68
John William Brown age 26
Auckland Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes age 60
William Sulzer age 77
Colgate Darden age 43
Ned McWherter age 9
Frank G. Allen age 65
Ernest Vandiver age 21
John L. Bates age 80
Joe Purcell age 16
Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton age 55
Benderli Ali Pasha
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial age 60
Sargis Hаmbardzumyan age 70
Pho Proeung age 36
Sam Yun age 35
Salomon Tandeng Muna age 27
Charles Assalé age 28
Emilio Bello Codesido age 71
Ali Mroudjaé age 7 months
Manuel Antonio de Varona age 31
Jorge García Montes age 43
Raúl López del Castillo age 47
Edward Oliver LeBlanc age 16
Ahmad Ziwar age 76
Abd El Aziz Muhammad Hegazi age 17
Sishayi Nxumalo age 4
Mikael Imru age 10
Charles Arden-Clarke age 41
Susanto Tirtoprodjo age 40
Mohammed al-Sadr age 58
Nureddin Mahmud age 41
Arshad al-Umari age 51
Gabasheane Masupha age 36
Dansranbilegiin Dogsom age 56
Vidoje Žarković age 12
Blažo Jovanović age 32
José Ramos Preto age 69
Sylvestre Nsanzimana age 4
Paul Southwell age 26
Lee Moore age 1
Pretaap Radhakishun age 5
Husni al-Barazi age 45
Hassan al-Hakim age 54
Bashir al-Azma age 29
Wang Yun-wu age 51
Roland Theodore Symonette age 41
Paul Adderley age 11
Henry Milton Taylor age 36
Tekin Arıburun age 34
Muhammad Said al-Attar age 13