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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
Operation Weserübung 1940-04-09 - 1940-06-10
Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang 1940-05-01 - 1940-06-24
Battle of France 1940-05-10 - 1940-06-25

People

Mao Zedong age 46
Che Guevara age 12
Charles de Gaulle age 49
Nikola Tesla age 83
Neil Armstrong age 9
Walt Disney age 38
Elvis Presley age 5
George Orwell age 36
John Paul II age 20
Margaret Thatcher age 14
Ernest Hemingway age 40
Gabriel García Márquez age 13
Fidel Castro age 13
Yuri Gagarin age 6
Mikhail Gorbachev age 9
Henry Ford age 76
Jean-Paul Sartre age 34
Jimmy Carter age 15
Benedict XVI age 13
Mother Teresa age 29
George H. W. Bush age 15
Jawaharlal Nehru age 50
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 49
Richard Nixon age 27
Alan Turing age 27
John Maynard Keynes age 57
Simone de Beauvoir age 32
Niels Bohr age 54
Leon Trotsky age 60
Max Planck age 82
Kofi Annan age 2
Gerald Ford age 26
Indira Gandhi age 22
Saddam Hussein age 3
Enrico Fermi age 38
Nikita Khrushchev age 46
14th Dalai Lama age 4
Silvio Berlusconi age 3
Herbert Hoover age 65
Mahathir Mohamad age 14
Boris Yeltsin age 9
Ali Khamenei age 1
Jacques Chirac age 7
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 21
Kwame Nkrumah age 30
Yasser Arafat age 10
Ho Chi Minh age 50
Konrad Adenauer age 64
Henry Kissinger age 17
Václav Havel age 3
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 12
Georges Pompidou age 28
Joseph Goebbels age 42
Leonid Brezhnev age 33
Robert Mugabe age 16
Hosni Mubarak age 12
Golda Meir age 42
John XXIII age 58
Ferdinand Marcos age 22
Malcolm X age 15
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 15
Wilhelm II age 81
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 1
Akihito age 6
Josip Broz Tito age 48
Helmut Kohl age 10
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 36
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 19
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
Margrethe II of Denmark age 1 month
Rachel Carson age 33
Corazon Aquino age 7
Edward VIII age 45
Madeleine Albright age 3
José Mujica age 5
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 15
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 63
Wernher von Braun age 28
Eva Perón age 21
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 9 months
Robert F. Kennedy age 14
Pranab Mukherjee age 4
Park Chung-hee age 22
Joachim Gauck age 4 months
Menachem Begin age 26
Philippe Pétain age 84
Erich Honecker age 27
Hafez al-Assad age 9
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 1
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 17
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 18
Saparmurat Niyazov age 3 months
Leonid Kuchma age 1
Donald Rumsfeld age 7
Olof Palme age 13
Süleyman Demirel age 15
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 24
Joachim von Ribbentrop age 47
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 3
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 20
Albert Speer age 35
Albert II of Belgium age 5
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 5
John Howard age 10 months
Rajendra Prasad age 55
Alexander Kerensky age 59
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