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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

People

Mao Zedong age 45
Che Guevara age 11
Charles de Gaulle age 48
Nikola Tesla age 83
Neil Armstrong age 9
Walt Disney age 37
Elvis Presley age 4
George Orwell age 36
John Paul II age 19
Margaret Thatcher age 14
Ernest Hemingway age 40
Gabriel García Márquez age 12
Fidel Castro age 13
Yuri Gagarin age 5
Mikhail Gorbachev age 8
Henry Ford age 76
Jean-Paul Sartre age 34
Jimmy Carter age 15
Benedict XVI age 12
Mother Teresa age 29
George H. W. Bush age 15
Jawaharlal Nehru age 49
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 49
Richard Nixon age 26
Alan Turing age 27
John Maynard Keynes age 56
Simone de Beauvoir age 31
Niels Bohr age 54
Leon Trotsky age 59
Max Planck age 81
Kofi Annan age 1
Gerald Ford age 26
Indira Gandhi age 21
Saddam Hussein age 2
Enrico Fermi age 38
Nikita Khrushchev age 45
14th Dalai Lama age 4
Silvio Berlusconi age 3
Herbert Hoover age 65
Mahathir Mohamad age 14
Boris Yeltsin age 8
Ali Khamenei age 6 months
Kim Il-sung age 27
Jacques Chirac age 6
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 20
Kwame Nkrumah age 30
Yasser Arafat age 10
Ho Chi Minh age 49
B. R. Ambedkar age 48
Eleanor Roosevelt age 55
Konrad Adenauer age 63
Henry Kissinger age 16
Václav Havel age 3
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 11
Georges Pompidou age 28
Joseph Goebbels age 42
Leonid Brezhnev age 32
Robert Mugabe age 15
Hosni Mubarak age 11
Golda Meir age 41
John XXIII age 57
Ferdinand Marcos age 22
Malcolm X age 14
François Mitterrand age 22
Alexander Fleming age 58
David Ben-Gurion age 53
Milton Friedman age 27
Ruhollah Khomeini age 37
Valentina Tereshkova age 2
John McCain age 3
Pol Pot age 14
Wilhelm II age 80
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 11 months
Akihito age 5
Josip Broz Tito age 47
Helmut Kohl age 9
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 35
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 21
Rosa Parks age 26
Shimon Peres age 16
Sukarno age 38
John Paul I age 27
Prince Philip age 18
Anwar Sadat age 20
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 1
Paul VI age 42
Willy Brandt age 25
Dag Hammarskjöld age 34
Salvador Allende age 31
John von Neumann age 35
Augusto Pinochet age 23
Lee Kuan Yew age 16
Suharto age 18
Ariel Sharon age 11
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 21
Desmond Tutu age 8
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 13
Manmohan Singh age 7
Yuri Andropov age 25
Buzz Aldrin age 9
Patrice Lumumba age 14
Yitzhak Rabin age 17
Rosalind Franklin age 19
Andrei Sakharov age 18
Douglas MacArthur age 59
Raúl Castro age 8
Giorgio Napolitano age 14
Idi Amin age 14
Erwin Rommel age 47
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 19
Helmut Schmidt age 20
Rachel Carson age 32
Corazon Aquino age 6
James Watson age 11
Edward VIII age 45
Madeleine Albright age 2
José Mujica age 4
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 15
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 62
Georgy Zhukov age 42
Wernher von Braun age 27
Eva Perón age 20
Harald V of Norway age 2
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell age 82
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 2
Enver Hoxha age 31
Martti Ahtisaari age 2
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 3
Konstantin Chernenko age 28
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 8
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 1
Jiang Zemin age 13
Zhou Enlai age 41
Eduard Shevardnadze age 11
Romano Prodi age 2 months
Robert F. Kennedy age 13
Pranab Mukherjee age 3
Park Chung-hee age 21
Menachem Begin age 26
Philippe Pétain age 83
Erich Honecker age 27
Francis Crick age 23
Hafez al-Assad age 9
Peter Higgs age 10
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 6 months
Islam Karimov age 1
Harold Wilson age 23
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 19
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 274
Adolf Eichmann age 33
James Callaghan age 27
Pratibha Patil age 4
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 11
Eva Braun age 27
Juan Perón age 44
Heydar Aliyev age 16
Norodom Sihanouk age 16
Kim Dae-jung age 15
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon age 39
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 16
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 14
Aldo Moro age 23
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 33
F. W. de Klerk age 3
Ludwig Erhard age 42
Kurt Waldheim age 20
Mobutu Sese Seko age 9
Jomo Kenyatta age 46
Julius Nyerere age 17
Leonid Kuchma age 1
Donald Rumsfeld age 7
Olof Palme age 12
Süleyman Demirel age 14
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 23
Joachim von Ribbentrop age 46
Jonas Salk age 24
Karl Dönitz age 48
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 6
Pierre Trudeau age 20
Fulgencio Batista age 38
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 72
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 51
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 16
Syngman Rhee age 64
U Thant age 30
George S. Patton age 53
Colin Powell age 2
Giulio Andreotti age 20
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 3
Hideki Tojo age 54
Alexander Dubček age 17
Francesco Cossiga age 11
Leonid Kravchuk age 5
Puyi age 33
Ahmed Ben Bella age 22
Heinz Fischer age 1
Alberto Fujimori age 1
Bernard Montgomery age 51
Richard von Weizsäcker age 19
Albert Speer age 34