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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
Western Desert campaign 1940-06-11 - 1943-02-04
The Holocaust 1941 - 1945
Second Soviet-Finnish War 1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Siege of Leningrad 1941-09-08 - 1944-01-27
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01 - 1945-08-21

People

Mother Teresa age 31
George H. W. Bush age 17
Jawaharlal Nehru age 52
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 51
Richard Nixon age 29
Alan Turing age 29
John Maynard Keynes age 59
Simone de Beauvoir age 34
Niels Bohr age 56
John Lennon age 1
Muhammad Ali age 4 months
Max Planck age 84
Kofi Annan age 4
Gerald Ford age 28
Indira Gandhi age 24
Saddam Hussein age 5
Enrico Fermi age 40
Nikita Khrushchev age 48
14th Dalai Lama age 6
Silvio Berlusconi age 5
Herbert Hoover age 67
Mahathir Mohamad age 16
Boris Yeltsin age 11
Ali Khamenei age 3
Jacques Chirac age 9
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 23
Kwame Nkrumah age 32
Yasser Arafat age 12
Ho Chi Minh age 52
Konrad Adenauer age 66
Henry Kissinger age 19
Václav Havel age 5
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 14
Georges Pompidou age 30
Joseph Goebbels age 44
Leonid Brezhnev age 35
Robert Mugabe age 18
Hosni Mubarak age 14
Golda Meir age 44
John XXIII age 60
Ferdinand Marcos age 24
Malcolm X age 17
François Mitterrand age 25
Alexander Fleming age 60
David Ben-Gurion age 55
Milton Friedman age 29
Ruhollah Khomeini age 39
Valentina Tereshkova age 5
Pol Pot age 17
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 3
Akihito age 8
Josip Broz Tito age 50
Helmut Kohl age 12
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 38
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 24
Rosa Parks age 29
Shimon Peres age 18
Sukarno age 41
John Paul I age 29
Anwar Sadat age 23
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 4
Paul VI age 44
Willy Brandt age 28
Dag Hammarskjöld age 36
Salvador Allende age 33
John von Neumann age 38
Augusto Pinochet age 26
Lee Kuan Yew age 18
Suharto age 20
Ariel Sharon age 14
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 24
Desmond Tutu age 10
Sergio Mattarella age 10 months
Manmohan Singh age 9
Yuri Andropov age 27
Buzz Aldrin age 12
Patrice Lumumba age 16
Yitzhak Rabin age 20
Rosalind Franklin age 21
Andrei Sakharov age 21
Dick Cheney age 1
Douglas MacArthur age 62
Raúl Castro age 10
Giorgio Napolitano age 16
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 1
Idi Amin age 17
Erwin Rommel age 50
Helmut Schmidt age 23
Margrethe II of Denmark age 2
Rachel Carson age 35
Corazon Aquino age 9
Edward VIII age 47
Madeleine Albright age 5
José Mujica age 7
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 17
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 65
Wernher von Braun age 30
Eva Perón age 23
Harald V of Norway age 5
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 5
Slobodan Milošević age 9 months
Enver Hoxha age 33
Jacob Zuma age 1 month
Martti Ahtisaari age 4
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 6
Konstantin Chernenko age 30
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 10
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 4
Jiang Zemin age 15
Zhou Enlai age 44
Eduard Shevardnadze age 14
Romano Prodi age 2
Robert F. Kennedy age 16
Pranab Mukherjee age 6
Park Chung-hee age 24
Vyacheslav Molotov age 52
Joachim Gauck age 2
Menachem Begin age 28
Erich Honecker age 29
Hafez al-Assad age 11
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 3
Islam Karimov age 4
Harold Wilson age 26
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 22
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 277
James Callaghan age 30
Pratibha Patil age 7
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 14
Eva Braun age 30
Juan Perón age 46
Heydar Aliyev age 19
Kim Dae-jung age 18
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 19
Aldo Moro age 25
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 1
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 35
F. W. de Klerk age 6
Ludwig Erhard age 45
Kurt Waldheim age 23
Mobutu Sese Seko age 11
Jomo Kenyatta age 48
Julius Nyerere age 20
Saparmurat Niyazov age 2
Leonid Kuchma age 3
Donald Rumsfeld age 9
Olof Palme age 15
Süleyman Demirel age 17
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 26
Joachim von Ribbentrop age 49
Jonas Salk age 27
Karl Dönitz age 50
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 9
Pierre Trudeau age 22
Fulgencio Batista age 41
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 74
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 53
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 18
Syngman Rhee age 67
Junichiro Koizumi age 4 months
Tarō Asō age 1
U Thant age 33
Rudolf Hess age 48
George S. Patton age 56
Colin Powell age 5
Giulio Andreotti age 23
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 5
Alexander Dubček age 20
Václav Klaus age 11 months
Francesco Cossiga age 13
Leonid Kravchuk age 8
Puyi age 36
Ahmed Ben Bella age 25
Heinz Fischer age 3
Michael D. Higgins age 1
Alberto Fujimori age 3
Bernard Montgomery age 54
Richard von Weizsäcker age 22
Albert Speer age 37
Reza Shah age 64
Albert II of Belgium age 7
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 7
John Howard age 2
Rajendra Prasad age 57
Alexander Kerensky age 61
Turgut Özal age 14
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 66
Eisaku Satō age 41
Georgy Malenkov age 40
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 21
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 22
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 36
Michel Temer age 1
Sergei Korolev age 35
Reinhard Heydrich age 38
Edward Heath age 25
Walter Mondale age 14
Paul Biya age 9
Lester B. Pearson age 45
Hussein I of Jordan age 6
Habib Bourguiba age 38