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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

People

Hosni Mubarak age 11
Golda Meir age 41
John XXIII age 58
Deng Xiaoping age 35
Ferdinand Marcos age 22
Malcolm X age 14
François Mitterrand age 23
Alexander Fleming age 58
David Ben-Gurion age 53
Milton Friedman age 27
Ruhollah Khomeini age 37
Valentina Tereshkova age 3
Pol Pot age 14
Wilhelm II age 81
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 1
Akihito age 6
Josip Broz Tito age 47
Helmut Kohl age 10
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 35
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 22
Rosa Parks age 27
Shimon Peres age 16
Sukarno age 38
John Paul I age 27
Anwar Sadat age 21
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 2
Paul VI age 42
Willy Brandt age 26
Dag Hammarskjöld age 34
Salvador Allende age 31
John von Neumann age 36
Augusto Pinochet age 24
Lee Kuan Yew age 16
Suharto age 18
Ariel Sharon age 12
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 22
Desmond Tutu age 8
Manmohan Singh age 7
Yuri Andropov age 25
Buzz Aldrin age 10
Patrice Lumumba age 14
Yitzhak Rabin age 18
Rosalind Franklin age 19
Andrei Sakharov age 18
Douglas MacArthur age 60
Raúl Castro age 8
Giorgio Napolitano age 14
Idi Amin age 15
Erwin Rommel age 48
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 20
Helmut Schmidt age 21
Rachel Carson age 32
Corazon Aquino age 7
Edward VIII age 45
Madeleine Albright age 2
José Mujica age 4
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 15
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 63
Wernher von Braun age 28
Eva Perón age 20
Harald V of Norway age 3
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 3
Enver Hoxha age 31
Martti Ahtisaari age 2
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 4
Konstantin Chernenko age 28
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 8
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 2
Jiang Zemin age 13
Zhou Enlai age 42
Eduard Shevardnadze age 12
Romano Prodi age 7 months
Robert F. Kennedy age 14
Pranab Mukherjee age 4
Park Chung-hee age 22
Joachim Gauck age 2 months
Anthony Eden age 42
Menachem Begin age 26
Philippe Pétain age 83
Erich Honecker age 27
Hafez al-Assad age 9
Harold Macmillan age 46
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 11 months
Islam Karimov age 2
Harold Wilson age 24
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 20
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 275
James Callaghan age 28
Pratibha Patil age 5
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 12
Eva Braun age 28
Juan Perón age 44
Heydar Aliyev age 16
Norodom Sihanouk age 17
Kim Dae-jung age 16
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 17
Aldo Moro age 23
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 33
F. W. de Klerk age 4
Ludwig Erhard age 43
Kurt Waldheim age 21
Mobutu Sese Seko age 9
Jomo Kenyatta age 46
Julius Nyerere age 17
Saparmurat Niyazov age 1 month
Leonid Kuchma age 1
Donald Rumsfeld age 7
Olof Palme age 13
Süleyman Demirel age 15
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 23
Joachim von Ribbentrop age 46
Jonas Salk age 25
Karl Dönitz age 48
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 7
Pierre Trudeau age 20
Fulgencio Batista age 39
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 72
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 51
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 16
Syngman Rhee age 65
U Thant age 31
George S. Patton age 54
Colin Powell age 2
Giulio Andreotti age 21
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 3
Hideki Tojo age 55
Alexander Dubček age 18
Francesco Cossiga age 11
Leonid Kravchuk age 6
Puyi age 34
Ahmed Ben Bella age 23
Heinz Fischer age 1
Alberto Fujimori age 1
Bernard Montgomery age 52
Richard von Weizsäcker age 19
Albert Speer age 35
Albert II of Belgium age 5
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 5
John Howard age 8 months
Rajendra Prasad age 55
Alexander Kerensky age 58
Turgut Özal age 12
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 64
Eisaku Satō age 39
Georgy Malenkov age 38
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 19
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 20
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 34
Sergei Korolev age 33
Reinhard Heydrich age 36
Edward Heath age 23
Alfonso XIII age 53
Walter Mondale age 12
Paul Biya age 7
Lester B. Pearson age 42
Hussein I of Jordan age 4
Habib Bourguiba age 36
Claus von Stauffenberg age 32
Martin Bormann age 39
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 9
B. J. Habibie age 3
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 19
Hastings Banda age 50
Moshe Dayan age 24
Trygve Lie age 43
Stanley Baldwin age 72
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 9
Johannes Rau age 9
Yasuo Fukuda age 3
Franz von Papen age 60
Omar Bongo age 4
Celâl Bayar age 56
Alija Izetbegović age 14
Subhas Chandra Bose age 43
Franjo Tuđman age 17
Jorge Rafael Videla age 14
Urho Kekkonen age 39
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 1
Walter Ulbricht age 46
Isoroku Yamamoto age 56
Wilhelm Keitel age 57
Hubert Humphrey age 28
Charles G. Dawes age 74
Nelson Rockefeller age 31
Alec Douglas-Home age 36
Reuven Rivlin age 6 months
Alcide De Gasperi age 59
Hassan II age 10
Cemal Gürsel age 44
Kenneth Kaunda age 15
Léon Blum age 68
Robert Schuman age 53
Alfred Rosenberg age 47
Georgi Dimitrov age 57
Imre Nagy age 43
Victor Chernomyrdin age 1
Andrei Gromyko age 30
Kliment Voroshilov age 59
Spiro Agnew age 21
Carlos Menem age 9