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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

Chūichi Hara age 51
Denis Auguste Duchêne age 78
Rex Hunt age 14
Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri age 32
José Solchaga age 59
Shimon Avidan age 29
Princess Catherine Yurievskaya age 62
Audrey Emery age 36
Prince Vsevolod Ivanovich of Russia age 26
Şehzade Ahmed Nuri age 61
Emsalinur Kadın age 74
Sazkar Hanım age 67
Naciye Sultan age 43
Behiye Sultan age 59
Prince Nayef bin Abdullah age 25
Marcel Carpentier age 45
Robert Laycock age 33
Tomitarō Horii age 49
Yi Kang age 63
Princess Cecilie of Prussia age 23
Princess Henriette of Schönaich-Carolath age 21
George, Duke of Mecklenburg age 41
Lady Iris Mountbatten age 20
Zizi Lambrino age 42
Karl, Prince of Leiningen (1898–1946) age 42
Hans Albrecht, Hereditary Prince of Schleswig-Holstein age 23
John Ambler age 16
Frank D. White age 7
George White (Ohio politician) age 68
James V. Allred age 41
William P. Hobby age 62
Coke R. Stevenson age 52
J. Lindsay Almond age 42
Beauford H. Jester age 47
Dick Celeste age 2
Maurice J. Tobin age 39
Mills Godwin age 25
Ross S. Sterling age 65
Dan Moody age 47
Sid McMath age 28
Carl Sanders age 15
Joe Frank Harris age 4
Božidar Purić age 49
Laz Ahmed Pasha
İbrahim Sarim Pasha
Clarence M. Kelley age 29
Prince Shah Mahmud Khan of Afghanistan age 53
Mohammad Yusuf age 23
Fazal khaliq age 6
John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven age 66
John Montague Stow age 29
Lhendup Dorji age 5
André Muhirwa age 20
Joseph Bamina age 15
Khim Tit age 44
Ek Yi Oun age 30
Chan Nak age 48
Sak Sutsakhan age 12
Édouard Frank age 6
Timothée Malendoma age 5
Pedro Dartnell age 66
Ramón Zaydín age 45
Ahmad Najib al-Hilali age 49
Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha age 63
Makonnen Endelkachew age 50
Naji Shawkat age 47
Edward Zacca age 9
Kassim al-Rimawi age 22
Mohammad Daoud al-Abbasi age 27
Nazem Akkari age 38
Guy Razanamasy age 11
Ahmed Ould Bouceif age 6
Jovan Plamenac age 67
Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet age 75
Leonardo Argüello Barreto age 65
Ksente Bogoev age 21
Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan age 51
Liberato Pinto age 60
Vaughan Lewis age 5 months
Tupua Tamasese Lealofi IV age 18
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 51
Yu Hung-chun age 42
Arturo Lezama age 41
Faustino Harrison age 40
Mainza Chona age 10
John Guise age 26
Kingsford Dibela age 8
Glauco Sansovini age 2
Efraín Goldenberg age 10
Pedro Beltrán age 43
Wei Lihuang age 43
George David Woods age 39
Frank Polk age 69
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 12
Kenneth Rush age 30
Jo Grimond age 27
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 8
Phoumi Nosavan age 20
Xu Shiyou age 35
James Bevel age 3
Ye Fei age 26
Zhang Zhen age 26
Tang Shengzhi age 51
William H. P. Blandy age 50
Yury Lomonosov age 64
Milutin Kukanjac age 5
Brian Robertson, 1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge age 44
Basilio Lami Dozo age 11
John Fieldhouse, Baron Fieldhouse age 12
Ngo Quang Truong age 10
Guglielmo Pecori Giraldi age 84
Sadae Inoue age 53
Kunio Nakagawa age 42
Leighton W. Smith, Jr. age 1
Carlos Asensio Cabanillas age 43
Nguyen Van Toan age 8
Avigdor Ben-Gal age 4
Amir Drori age 3
Julian Thompson age 6
Jeremy Moore age 12
Teymuraz Bagration age 28
Irina Yusupova age 25
Prince Michael Feodorovich of Russia age 16
Filizten Hanım age 75
Mihrişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Izzeddin) age 24
Deng Hua age 30
Kristian Laake age 65
Friedrich Wiese age 47
Joseph J. Clark age 46
Frederick C. Sherman age 52
Yi Geon age 30
Kuzma Derevyanko age 35
Lu Muzhen age 73
Prince Friedrich Heinrich Albrecht of Prussia age 66
Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg age 41
Archduchess Mechthildis of Austria age 49
Princess Rosemary of Salm-Salm age 36
Princess Franziska of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst age 43
Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg age 19
Charles Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk age 47
Fernando Schwartz age 2
Channing H. Cox age 61
Alvan T. Fuller age 62
Francis Cherry age 32
C. William O'Neill age 24
Thomas J. Herbert age 46
Endicott Peabody age 20
Westmoreland Davis age 81
Vic Donahey age 67
Jim Rhodes age 31
John N. Dalton age 9
George C. Peery age 67
Pat Morris Neff age 68
John William Brown age 26
Auckland Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes age 61
William Sulzer age 77
Colgate Darden age 43
Ned McWherter age 10
Frank G. Allen age 66
Ernest Vandiver age 22
John L. Bates age 81
Joe Purcell age 17
Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton age 56
Theodore Olson age 1 month
Benderli Ali Pasha
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial age 60
Sargis Hаmbardzumyan age 70
Pho Proeung age 37
Sam Yun age 35
Salomon Tandeng Muna age 28
Charles Assalé age 28
Emilio Bello Codesido age 72
Ali Mroudjaé age 1
Manuel Antonio de Varona age 31
Jorge García Montes age 44
Raúl López del Castillo age 47
Edward Oliver LeBlanc age 17
Ahmad Ziwar age 76
Abd El Aziz Muhammad Hegazi age 17
Sishayi Nxumalo age 4
Mikael Imru age 10
Charles Arden-Clarke age 42
Susanto Tirtoprodjo age 40
Mohammed al-Sadr age 58
Nureddin Mahmud age 41
Arshad al-Umari age 52
Gabasheane Masupha age 36
Dansranbilegiin Dogsom age 56
Vidoje Žarković age 13