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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

People

Pope Francis age 3
Mao Zedong age 46
Che Guevara age 12
Nikola Tesla age 84
Neil Armstrong age 10
Walt Disney age 38
Elvis Presley age 5
George Orwell age 37
John Paul II age 20
Margaret Thatcher age 15
Ernest Hemingway age 41
Gabriel García Márquez age 13
Fidel Castro age 14
Yuri Gagarin age 6
Mikhail Gorbachev age 9
Henry Ford age 77
Jean-Paul Sartre age 35
Jimmy Carter age 16
Benedict XVI age 13
Mother Teresa age 30
George H. W. Bush age 16
Jawaharlal Nehru age 51
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 50
Richard Nixon age 27
Alan Turing age 28
John Maynard Keynes age 57
Simone de Beauvoir age 32
Niels Bohr age 55
John Lennon age 1 month
Max Planck age 82
Kofi Annan age 2
Gerald Ford age 27
Indira Gandhi age 23
Saddam Hussein age 3
Enrico Fermi age 39
Nikita Khrushchev age 46
14th Dalai Lama age 5
Silvio Berlusconi age 4
Herbert Hoover age 66
Mahathir Mohamad age 15
Boris Yeltsin age 9
Ali Khamenei age 1
Jacques Chirac age 7
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 21
Kwame Nkrumah age 31
Yasser Arafat age 11
Ho Chi Minh age 50
Konrad Adenauer age 64
Henry Kissinger age 17
Václav Havel age 4
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 12
Georges Pompidou age 29
Joseph Goebbels age 43
Leonid Brezhnev age 33
Robert Mugabe age 16
Hosni Mubarak age 12
Golda Meir age 42
John XXIII age 59
Ferdinand Marcos age 23
Malcolm X age 15
François Mitterrand age 24
Alexander Fleming age 59
David Ben-Gurion age 54
Milton Friedman age 28
Ruhollah Khomeini age 38
Valentina Tereshkova age 3
Pol Pot age 15
Wilhelm II age 81
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 2
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 17
Sukarno age 39
John Paul I age 28
Anwar Sadat age 21
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 2
Paul VI age 43
Willy Brandt age 26
Dag Hammarskjöld age 35
Salvador Allende age 32
John von Neumann age 36
Augusto Pinochet age 25
Lee Kuan Yew age 17
Suharto age 19
Ariel Sharon age 12
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 22
Desmond Tutu age 9
Manmohan Singh age 8
Yuri Andropov age 26
Buzz Aldrin age 10
Patrice Lumumba age 15
Yitzhak Rabin age 18
Rosalind Franklin age 20
Andrei Sakharov age 19
Douglas MacArthur age 60
Raúl Castro age 9
Giorgio Napolitano age 15
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 4 months
Idi Amin age 15
Erwin Rommel age 49
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 21
Helmut Schmidt age 21
Margrethe II of Denmark age 7 months
Rachel Carson age 33
Corazon Aquino age 7
Edward VIII age 46
Madeleine Albright age 3
José Mujica age 5
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 16
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 32
Martti Ahtisaari age 3
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 4
Konstantin Chernenko age 29
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 9
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 2
Jiang Zemin age 14
Zhou Enlai age 42
Eduard Shevardnadze age 12
Romano Prodi age 1
Robert F. Kennedy age 15
Pranab Mukherjee age 4
Park Chung-hee age 23
Joachim Gauck age 10 months
Menachem Begin age 27
Erich Honecker age 28
Hafez al-Assad age 10
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 45
Heydar Aliyev age 17
Norodom Sihanouk age 18
Kim Dae-jung age 16
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 18
Aldo Moro age 24
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 0 months
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 34
F. W. de Klerk age 4
Ludwig Erhard age 43
Kurt Waldheim age 21
Mobutu Sese Seko age 10
Jomo Kenyatta age 47
Julius Nyerere age 18
Saparmurat Niyazov age 9 months
Leonid Kuchma age 2
Donald Rumsfeld age 8
Olof Palme age 13
Süleyman Demirel age 16
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 24
Joachim von Ribbentrop age 47
Jonas Salk age 26
Karl Dönitz age 49
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 7
Pierre Trudeau age 21
Fulgencio Batista age 39
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 73
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 52
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 17
Syngman Rhee age 65
Tarō Asō age 2 months
U Thant age 31
George S. Patton age 55
Colin Powell age 3
Giulio Andreotti age 21
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 4
Hideki Tojo age 55
Alexander Dubček age 19
Francesco Cossiga age 12
Leonid Kravchuk age 6
Puyi age 34
Ahmed Ben Bella age 23
Heinz Fischer age 2
Alberto Fujimori age 2
Bernard Montgomery age 53
Richard von Weizsäcker age 20
Albert Speer age 35
Albert II of Belgium age 6
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 6
John Howard age 1
Rajendra Prasad age 56
Alexander Kerensky age 59
Turgut Özal age 13
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 65
Eisaku Satō age 39
Georgy Malenkov age 38