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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

Faraj Said Bin Ghanem age 2
Nalumino Mundia age 12
Daniel Chanis Pinzón age 47
Tore Lokoloko age 9
Jure Pelivan age 11
José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma age 55
Armando Villanueva age 24
Manuel Cisneros Sánchez age 35
Manuel Ulloa Elias age 17
Pedro Richter Prada age 19
Sandro Mariátegui age 18
Aurelius Marie age 35
Frank G. Wisner age 1
George Decker age 38
Carl E. Vuono age 5
Dennis Reimer age 7 months
Harold Keith Johnson age 28
John William Vessey Jr. age 17
Tomás Mac Giolla age 16
Munif Razzaz age 20
Jassem Alwan age 11
Hakija Turajlić age 4
Takaji Wachi age 47
Kōtoku Satō age 47
Philip Effiong age 14
Robert Brooke-Popham age 61
Charles Macpherson Dobell age 70
Eduard von Below age 83
Victor d'Urbal age 81
Francisco de Borbón y de la Torre age 58
Bahram Afzali age 2
Harbaksh Singh age 26
Colonel Amirouche age 13
Ernesto Horacio Crespo age 10
Ayako Sano age 26
Toshimichi Takatsukasa age 16
Şehzade Abdurrahim Hayri age 45
Mukbile Sultan age 28
Nemika Sultan age 52
Senije Zogu age 36
Francisco Galán age 38
Walter Koch age 29
Masaomi Yasuoka age 53
Abdullah Al-Tell age 21
Han Xianchu age 27
Keizō Komura age 43
Julia Mullock age 16
Chang Ya-juo age 27
Duke Carl Alexander of Württemberg age 43
Prince Karl Alfred of Liechtenstein age 29
Archduchess Ilona of Austria age 12
Prince Otto of Windisch-Graetz age 66
Alexander Ramsay (Royal Navy officer) age 58
Richard Brandram age 28
Prince Heinrich of Hesse-Kassel age 12
Prince Karl of Leiningen age 12
Flora Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun age 9
Emmanuelle de Dampierre age 26
Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince of Civitella-Cesi age 28
Edelmira, Countess of Covadonga age 33
Chiang Pin-kung age 7
Homer Martin Adkins age 49
Benjamin T. Laney age 43
Tom Terral age 57
Francis Sargent age 24
Robert F. Bradford age 37
John S. Battle age 49
Junius Marion Futrell age 69
Charles F. Hurley age 46
Paul A. Dever age 37
Michael DiSalle age 32
Horace White age 74
Joseph B. Ely age 59
William M. Tuck age 43
Richard J. Hughes age 30
Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton age 56
Emerson Harrington age 75
John I. Cox age 84
William Donald Schaefer age 18
Albertis Harrison age 33
Robert D. Orr age 22
Buford Ellington age 32
Martin L. Davey age 55
Ernest Brown age 58
William Ruckelshaus age 7
Lawrence Walsh age 28
Chuck Horner age 3
Alfred Gruenther age 41
John Galvin age 10
Said Ali Kemal age 2
José Bordas Valdés age 65
Abdel Fattah Yahya Ibrahim Pasha age 64
Kamal el-Din Hussein age 19
Hailu Yimenu age 5
Imru Haile Selassie age 47
Assaat age 35
Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi age 54
Naji al-Suwaidi age 58
Abdul-Wahab Mirjan age 31
Herbert Duffus age 31
Hussein ibn Nasser age 37
Angidi Chettiar age 11
Ba Swe age 24
Carlos Alberto Brenes age 55
Sebastián Uriza age 79
Orlando Montenegro Medrano age 19
George Charles age 23
Miha Marinko age 39
Julius Caesar de Miranda age 33
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi age 8
Wang Zhengting age 58
John Warburton Paul age 23
İbrahim Şevki Atasagun age 41
Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani age 5
Elijah Mudenda age 12
Božidar Matić age 2
Ermenegildo Gasperoni age 33
Fernando Schwalb López Aldana age 23
Óscar Vargas Prieto age 22
Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín age 20
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 41
Michel Roquejeoffre age 6
Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham age 71
David D. Newsom age 22
James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope age 59
Michael Armacost age 2
Seiichi Kita age 53
Marcello Soleri age 57
John Ernest Dahlquist age 43
Fred Gray age 9
Rolando Morán age 10
Edward P. King age 55
Oscar Griswold age 53
Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt, 1st Baronet age 69
Geoffrey Scoones age 47
Javad Fakoori age 1
Robert Lee Bullard age 79
Juan Lombardo age 12
Arun Shridhar Vaidya age 14
Princess Catherine Ivanovna of Russia age 24
Şehzade Ahmed Nureddin (son of Abdul Hamid II) age 38
Şehzade Mehmed Ertuğrul age 27
Şehzade Mehmed Şerafeddin age 35
Şehzade Mahmud Namık age 26
Lütfiye Sultan age 29
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Abdülkadir) age 14
Hümeyra Hanımsultan age 22
Liu Yalou age 29
Habis al-Majali age 25
Zaitao age 52
Zaixun, Prince Rui age 54
Wilhelm Karl Prinz von Preussen age 18
Princess Herzeleide of Prussia age 21
Heinrich XXXIII, Prince Reuss of Köstritz age 60
Prince Heinrich of Liechtenstein (1920–1993) age 19
Archduchess Yolande of Austria age 16
Prince Ataúlfo of Orléans age 26
Alexander Ramsay of Mar age 20
Henry Abel Smith age 40
Princess Ortrud of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg age 14
Patricia Lascelles, Countess of Harewood age 13
John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne age 15
Fermín Palacios
Bob C. Riley age 15
Tony Newton, Baron Newton of Braintree age 2
Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton age 56
Harry L. Davis age 62
Frank O'Bannon age 10
William Preston Lane Jr. age 47
Charles Seymour Whitman age 71
Nathan L. Miller age 71
Paul V. McNutt age 48
Edward L. Jackson age 66
James P. Goodrich age 76
Harold G. Hoffman age 44
Matthew E. Welsh age 27
Roger D. Branigin age 37
David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford age 68
Geoffrey Rippon age 15
Charles Fried age 4
Hastings Lees-Smith age 62
Andrew Goodpaster age 25
George Joulwan age 3 months
Pierre de Chevigné age 30
Albin Nyamoya age 15
Léopold Biha age 21
Joseph Cimpaye age 8
Bernard Ayandho age 9
Emilio Núñez Portuondo age 41
Jorge Toriello Garrido age 31
Salvador Aguirre age 77
Mustafa Mahmud al-Umari age 46
Raouf Bundhun age 3
Losolyn Laagan age 53
Nyamyn Jagvaral age 20
Tsagaanlamyn Dügersüren age 26
Radivoje Brajović age 5
Marko Orlandić age 9
Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe age 72
Benjamín Lacayo Sacasa age 46