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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
Western Desert campaign 1940-06-11 - 1943-02-04
The Holocaust 1941 - 1945
Second Soviet-Finnish War 1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Siege of Leningrad 1941-09-08 - 1944-01-27
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Malayan campaign 1941-12-08 - 1942-01-31
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01 - 1945-08-21
Battle of Bataan 1942-01-07 - 1942-04-09

People

Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 46
Andrija Radović age 70
Radoje Kontić age 4
José Domingues dos Santos age 54
Charles David Ganao age 14
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 25
Charles Antrobus age 8
Peter Colotka age 17
Raul Bragança Neto age 2
Yu Kuo-hwa age 28
Tomu Sione age 2 months
Carlos Fischer age 39
Martín Echegoyen age 50
Daniel Fernández Crespo age 40
Eduardo Víctor Haedo age 40
Huynh Thuc Khang age 66
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini age 9
Daniel Lisulo age 11
Malimba Masheke age 7 months
Ignatius Kilage age 6 months
Muhammad Hawadle Madar age 3
Ro Jai-bong age 5
Pak Choong-hoon age 23
Javier Valle Riestra age 10
Alden W. Clausen age 18
Peter de la Billière age 7
Edward H. Levi age 30
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 42
Bruce Palmer Jr. age 28
Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham age 69
Anthony Barber age 21
Bernard W. Rogers age 20
David C. Jones age 20
Malin Craig age 66
William D. Mitchell age 67
William J. Crowe age 17
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 73
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 7
Merlyn Rees age 21
James Moroka age 50
Ernest Medina age 5
Yang Dezhi age 31
Gholam Hossein Sadighi age 36
William Hawi age 33
Sanji Iwabuchi age 46
Danilo Kalafatović age 66
Nguyễn Hữu An age 15
Chūichi Hara age 52
Denis Auguste Duchêne age 79
Salah Aboud Mahmoud age 0 months
Rex Hunt age 15
Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri age 33
José Solchaga age 60
Shimon Avidan age 30
Princess Catherine Yurievskaya age 63
Audrey Emery age 38
Prince Vsevolod Ivanovich of Russia age 28
Şehzade Ahmed Nuri age 63
Emsalinur Kadın age 76
Sazkar Hanım age 68
Naciye Sultan age 45
Behiye Sultan age 60
Prince Nayef bin Abdullah age 27
Marcel Carpentier age 46
Robert Laycock age 34
Tomitarō Horii age 51
Yi Kang age 64
Princess Cecilie of Prussia age 24
Princess Henriette of Schönaich-Carolath age 23
George, Duke of Mecklenburg age 42
Lady Iris Mountbatten age 22
Zizi Lambrino age 43
Karl, Prince of Leiningen (1898–1946) age 43
Hans Albrecht, Hereditary Prince of Schleswig-Holstein age 24
Tord Magnuson age 9 months
John Ambler age 17
Carl E. Bailey age 47
Frank D. White age 8
George White (Ohio politician) age 69
James V. Allred age 42
William P. Hobby age 63
J. Lindsay Almond age 43
Beauford H. Jester age 49
Dick Celeste age 4
Maurice J. Tobin age 40
Mills Godwin age 27
Ross S. Sterling age 66
Dan Moody age 48
Sid McMath age 29
Carl Sanders age 16
Joe Frank Harris age 5
Božidar Purić age 50
Laz Ahmed Pasha
İbrahim Sarim Pasha
Clarence M. Kelley age 30
Prince Shah Mahmud Khan of Afghanistan age 54
Mohammad Yusuf age 25
Fazal khaliq age 8
John Montague Stow age 30
Lhendup Dorji age 6
André Muhirwa age 22
Joseph Bamina age 17
Khim Tit age 45
Ek Yi Oun age 32
Chan Nak age 49
Sak Sutsakhan age 13
Édouard Frank age 7
Timothée Malendoma age 7
Pedro Dartnell age 68
Ramón Zaydín age 47
Rosie Douglas age 3 months
Ahmad Najib al-Hilali age 50
Makonnen Endelkachew age 51
Naji Shawkat age 49
Edward Zacca age 10
Kassim al-Rimawi age 24
Mohammad Daoud al-Abbasi age 29
Nazem Akkari age 40
Guy Razanamasy age 13
Younoussi Touré age 1
Ahmed Ould Bouceif age 8
Mircea Druc age 5 months
Jovan Plamenac age 69
Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet age 77
Leonardo Argüello Barreto age 66
Ksente Bogoev age 22
Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan age 52
Liberato Pinto age 61
Vaughan Lewis age 1
Tupua Tamasese Lealofi IV age 19
Johan Adolf Pengel age 26
Izzat al-Nuss age 30
Haqqi al-Azm age 77
Nasuhi al-Bukhari age 61
Lutfi al-Haffar age 54
Weng Wenhao age 52
Yu Hung-chun age 44
Arturo Lezama age 43
Faustino Harrison age 41
Mainza Chona age 11
John Guise age 27
Kingsford Dibela age 9
Glauco Sansovini age 3
Efraín Goldenberg age 12
Pedro Beltrán age 44
Wei Lihuang age 44
George David Woods age 40
Frank Polk age 70
Charles Pelot Summerall age 74
Edward C. Meyer age 13
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk age 36
Earle Wheeler age 34
David E. Jeremiah age 7
Hardan al-Tikriti age 17
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 13
Kenneth Rush age 32
Jo Grimond age 28
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 9
Phoumi Nosavan age 21
Xu Shiyou age 36
James Bevel age 5
Ye Fei age 27
Zhang Zhen age 27
Tang Shengzhi age 52
William H. P. Blandy age 51
Yury Lomonosov age 65
Milutin Kukanjac age 7
Brian Robertson, 1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge age 45
Basilio Lami Dozo age 12
John Fieldhouse, Baron Fieldhouse age 13
Ngo Quang Truong age 12
Sadae Inoue age 55
Kunio Nakagawa age 44
Leighton W. Smith, Jr. age 2
Carlos Asensio Cabanillas age 45
Nguyen Van Toan age 9
Avigdor Ben-Gal age 5
Amir Drori age 4
Julian Thompson age 7
Jeremy Moore age 13
Teymuraz Bagration age 29
Irina Yusupova age 26
Prince Michael Feodorovich of Russia age 17
Filizten Hanım age 77
Mihrişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Izzeddin) age 25
Deng Hua age 32
Kristian Laake age 66
Friedrich Wiese age 49
Joseph J. Clark age 48
Frederick C. Sherman age 53
Yi Geon age 32
Kuzma Derevyanko age 37
Lu Muzhen age 74
Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg age 42
Archduchess Mechthildis of Austria age 51
Princess Rosemary of Salm-Salm age 37
Princess Franziska of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst age 44
Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg age 20
Charles Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk age 48
Fernando Schwartz age 4