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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
Battle of Stalingrad 1942-07-17 - 1943-02-02
Guadalcanal campaign 1942-08-07 - 1943-02-09
Quit India Movement 1942-08-08 - 1944-09-01
Tunisian campaign 1942-11-17 - 1943-05-13

People

Jimmy Carter age 18
Benedict XVI age 15
Mother Teresa age 32
George H. W. Bush age 18
Jawaharlal Nehru age 53
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 52
Richard Nixon age 29
Alan Turing age 30
John Maynard Keynes age 59
Simone de Beauvoir age 34
Niels Bohr age 57
Muammar Gaddafi age 6 months
John Lennon age 2
Muhammad Ali age 11 months
Max Planck age 84
Kofi Annan age 4
Gerald Ford age 29
Indira Gandhi age 25
Saddam Hussein age 5
Enrico Fermi age 41
Nikita Khrushchev age 48
14th Dalai Lama age 7
Silvio Berlusconi age 6
Herbert Hoover age 68
Mahathir Mohamad age 17
Boris Yeltsin age 11
Ali Khamenei age 3
Jacques Chirac age 10
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 24
Kwame Nkrumah age 33
Yasser Arafat age 13
Ho Chi Minh age 52
Konrad Adenauer age 66
Henry Kissinger age 19
Václav Havel age 6
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 15
Georges Pompidou age 31
Joseph Goebbels age 45
Leonid Brezhnev age 36
Robert Mugabe age 18
Hosni Mubarak age 14
Golda Meir age 44
John XXIII age 61
Ferdinand Marcos age 25
Malcolm X age 17
François Mitterrand age 26
Alexander Fleming age 61
David Ben-Gurion age 56
Milton Friedman age 30
Ruhollah Khomeini age 40
Valentina Tereshkova age 5
Pol Pot age 17
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 4
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 19
Sukarno age 41
John Paul I age 30
Anwar Sadat age 23
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 4
Paul VI age 45
Willy Brandt age 29
Dag Hammarskjöld age 37
Salvador Allende age 34
John von Neumann age 38
Augusto Pinochet age 27
Lee Kuan Yew age 19
Suharto age 21
Ariel Sharon age 14
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 24
Desmond Tutu age 11
Sergio Mattarella age 1
Manmohan Singh age 10
Yuri Andropov age 28
Buzz Aldrin age 12
Patrice Lumumba age 17
Yitzhak Rabin age 20
Rosalind Franklin age 22
Andrei Sakharov age 21
Dick Cheney age 1
Douglas MacArthur age 62
Raúl Castro age 11
Giorgio Napolitano age 17
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 2
Idi Amin age 17
Erwin Rommel age 51
Helmut Schmidt age 23
Margrethe II of Denmark age 2
Rachel Carson age 35
Corazon Aquino age 9
Edward VIII age 48
Madeleine Albright age 5
José Mujica age 7
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 18
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 66
Thabo Mbeki age 6 months
Wernher von Braun age 30
Eva Perón age 23
Harald V of Norway age 5
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 5
Slobodan Milošević age 1
Enver Hoxha age 34
Jacob Zuma age 8 months
Martti Ahtisaari age 5
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 6
Konstantin Chernenko age 31
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 11
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 4
Jiang Zemin age 16
Zhou Enlai age 44
Eduard Shevardnadze age 14
Romano Prodi age 3
Robert F. Kennedy age 17
Pranab Mukherjee age 7
Park Chung-hee age 25
Vyacheslav Molotov age 52
Joachim Gauck age 2
Menachem Begin age 29
Erich Honecker age 30
Hafez al-Assad age 12
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 3
Islam Karimov age 4
Harold Wilson age 26
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 22
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 278
James Callaghan age 30
Pratibha Patil age 7
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 14
Eva Braun age 30
Juan Perón age 47
Heydar Aliyev age 19
Kim Dae-jung age 18
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 20
Aldo Moro age 26
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 2
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 36
F. W. de Klerk age 6
Ludwig Erhard age 45
Kurt Waldheim age 24
Mobutu Sese Seko age 12
Jomo Kenyatta age 49
Julius Nyerere age 20
Saparmurat Niyazov age 2
Leonid Kuchma age 4
Donald Rumsfeld age 10
Olof Palme age 15
Süleyman Demirel age 18
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 26
Joachim von Ribbentrop age 49
Jonas Salk age 28
Karl Dönitz age 51
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 9
Pierre Trudeau age 23
Fulgencio Batista age 41
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 75
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 54
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 19
Syngman Rhee age 67
Junichiro Koizumi age 11 months
Tarō Asō age 2
U Thant age 33
Rudolf Hess age 48
George S. Patton age 57
Colin Powell age 5
Giulio Andreotti age 23
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 6
Alexander Dubček age 21
Wen Jiabao age 3 months
Václav Klaus age 1
Francesco Cossiga age 14
Leonid Kravchuk age 8
Puyi age 36
Ahmed Ben Bella age 25
Heinz Fischer age 4
Michael D. Higgins age 1
Alberto Fujimori age 4
Bernard Montgomery age 55
Richard von Weizsäcker age 22
Albert Speer age 37
Reza Shah age 64
Albert II of Belgium age 8
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 8
José Eduardo dos Santos age 3 months
John Howard age 3
Rajendra Prasad age 58
Alexander Kerensky age 61
Turgut Özal age 15
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 67
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 2
Sergei Korolev age 35
Edward Heath age 26