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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

Blažo Jovanović age 33
José Ramos Preto age 69
Sylvestre Nsanzimana age 4
Paul Southwell age 27
Lee Moore age 1
Pretaap Radhakishun age 6
Husni al-Barazi age 45
Hassan al-Hakim age 54
Bashir al-Azma age 29
Wang Yun-wu age 52
Roland Theodore Symonette age 41
Paul Adderley age 12
Henry Milton Taylor age 36
Tekin Arıburun age 35
Muhammad Said al-Attar age 13
Faraj Said Bin Ghanem age 2
Nalumino Mundia age 12
Daniel Chanis Pinzón age 47
Tore Lokoloko age 10
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 2
George Decker age 38
Carl E. Vuono age 6
Dennis Reimer age 1
Harold Keith Johnson age 28
John William Vessey Jr. age 18
Tomás Mac Giolla age 16
Munif Razzaz age 20
Jassem Alwan age 12
Hakija Turajlić age 4
Lewis MacKenzie age 5 months
Takaji Wachi age 47
Kōtoku Satō age 47
Philip Effiong age 14
Robert Brooke-Popham age 62
Charles Macpherson Dobell age 71
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 27
Colonel Amirouche age 13
Ernesto Horacio Crespo age 10
Ayako Sano age 27
Toshimichi Takatsukasa age 17
Şehzade Abdurrahim Hayri age 46
Mukbile Sultan age 29
Nemika Sultan age 52
Senije Zogu age 36
Francisco Galán age 38
Walter Koch age 30
Masaomi Yasuoka age 54
Abdullah Al-Tell age 22
Han Xianchu age 27
Keizō Komura age 44
Julia Mullock age 17
Chang Ya-juo age 27
Duke Carl Alexander of Württemberg age 44
Prince Karl Alfred of Liechtenstein age 30
Archduchess Ilona of Austria age 13
Prince Otto of Windisch-Graetz age 67
Alexander Ramsay (Royal Navy officer) age 59
Richard Brandram age 29
Prince Heinrich of Hesse-Kassel age 12
Prince Karl of Leiningen age 12
Flora Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun age 10
Emmanuelle de Dampierre age 26
Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince of Civitella-Cesi age 28
Edelmira, Countess of Covadonga age 34
Chiang Pin-kung age 7
Homer Martin Adkins age 50
Benjamin T. Laney age 43
Tom Terral age 57
Francis Sargent age 25
Robert F. Bradford age 37
John S. Battle age 50
Junius Marion Futrell age 70
Charles F. Hurley age 46
Paul A. Dever age 37
Michael DiSalle age 32
Horace White age 75
Joseph B. Ely age 59
William M. Tuck age 44
Richard J. Hughes age 31
Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton age 57
Emerson Harrington age 76
John I. Cox age 84
William Donald Schaefer age 18
Albertis Harrison age 33
Robert D. Orr age 22
Buford Ellington age 33
Martin L. Davey age 56
Ernest Brown age 59
William Ruckelshaus age 8
Lawrence Walsh age 28
Chuck Horner age 3
Alfred Gruenther age 41
John Galvin age 11
Said Ali Kemal age 2
José Bordas Valdés age 66
Abdel Fattah Yahya Ibrahim Pasha age 64
Kamal el-Din Hussein age 19
Hailu Yimenu age 5
Imru Haile Selassie age 47
Assaat age 36
Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi age 54
Naji al-Suwaidi age 58
Abdul-Wahab Mirjan age 31
Herbert Duffus age 32
Hussein ibn Nasser age 37
Angidi Chettiar age 12
Ba Swe age 25
Carlos Alberto Brenes age 55
Sebastián Uriza age 79
Orlando Montenegro Medrano age 20
George Charles age 24
Miha Marinko age 40
Julius Caesar de Miranda age 34
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi age 8
Wang Zhengting age 58
John Warburton Paul age 24
İbrahim Şevki Atasagun age 41
Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani age 6
Elijah Mudenda age 13
Božidar Matić age 3
Ermenegildo Gasperoni age 34
Fernando Schwalb López Aldana age 24
Óscar Vargas Prieto age 23
Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín age 21
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 42
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 3
Seiichi Kita age 53
Marcello Soleri age 58
John Ernest Dahlquist age 44
Fred Gray age 9
Rolando Morán age 10
Edward P. King age 56
Oscar Griswold age 54
Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt, 1st Baronet age 70
Geoffrey Scoones age 47
Javad Fakoori age 1
Robert Lee Bullard age 79
Juan Lombardo age 13
Arun Shridhar Vaidya age 14
Princess Catherine Ivanovna of Russia age 25
Şehzade Ahmed Nureddin (son of Abdul Hamid II) age 39
Şehzade Mehmed Ertuğrul age 28
Şehzade Mehmed Şerafeddin age 36
Şehzade Mahmud Namık age 26
Lütfiye Sultan age 30
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Abdülkadir) age 14
Hümeyra Hanımsultan age 23
Liu Yalou age 30
Habis al-Majali age 26
Zaitao age 53
Zaixun, Prince Rui age 55
Wilhelm Karl Prinz von Preussen age 18
Princess Herzeleide of Prussia age 21
Heinrich XXXIII, Prince Reuss of Köstritz age 61
Prince Heinrich of Liechtenstein (1920–1993) age 20
Archduchess Yolande of Austria age 17
Prince Ataúlfo of Orléans age 27
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 16
Tony Newton, Baron Newton of Braintree age 3
Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton age 57
Harry L. Davis age 62
Frank O'Bannon age 10
William Preston Lane Jr. age 48
Charles Seymour Whitman age 72
Nathan L. Miller age 72
Paul V. McNutt age 49
Edward L. Jackson age 66
Gus Macdonald age 1 month
Harold G. Hoffman age 44
Matthew E. Welsh age 28
Roger D. Branigin age 38
Geoffrey Rippon age 16
Charles Fried age 5
Andrew Goodpaster age 25
George Joulwan age 11 months
Pierre de Chevigné age 31
Albin Nyamoya age 16
Léopold Biha age 21