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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
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
Quit India Movement 1942-08-08 - 1944-09-01
Tunisian campaign 1942-11-17 - 1943-05-13
Bengal famine of 1943 1943 - 1944

People

Margaret Thatcher age 17
Ernest Hemingway age 43
Gabriel García Márquez age 16
Fidel Castro age 16
Yuri Gagarin age 9
Mikhail Gorbachev age 12
Henry Ford age 79
Stephen Hawking age 1
Jean-Paul Sartre age 37
Jimmy Carter age 18
Benedict XVI age 16
Mother Teresa age 32
George H. W. Bush age 18
Jawaharlal Nehru age 53
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 52
Richard Nixon age 30
Alan Turing age 30
John Maynard Keynes age 59
Simone de Beauvoir age 35
Niels Bohr age 57
Muammar Gaddafi age 11 months
John Lennon age 2
Muhammad Ali age 1
Max Planck age 85
Kofi Annan age 5
Gerald Ford age 29
Indira Gandhi age 25
Saddam Hussein age 6
Enrico Fermi age 41
Nikita Khrushchev age 49
14th Dalai Lama age 7
Silvio Berlusconi age 6
Herbert Hoover age 68
Mahathir Mohamad age 17
Boris Yeltsin age 12
Ali Khamenei age 4
Jacques Chirac age 10
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 24
Kwame Nkrumah age 33
Yasser Arafat age 13
Ho Chi Minh age 53
Konrad Adenauer age 67
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 19
Hosni Mubarak age 15
Golda Meir age 45
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 6
Pol Pot age 17
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 4
Akihito age 9
Josip Broz Tito age 51
Helmut Kohl age 13
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 39
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 25
Rosa Parks age 30
Shimon Peres age 19
Sukarno age 41
John Paul I age 30
Anwar Sadat age 24
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 5
Paul VI age 45
Willy Brandt age 29
Dag Hammarskjöld age 37
Salvador Allende age 34
Hu Jintao age 4 months
John von Neumann age 39
Augusto Pinochet age 27
Lee Kuan Yew age 19
Suharto age 21
Ariel Sharon age 15
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 25
Desmond Tutu age 11
Sergio Mattarella age 1
Manmohan Singh age 10
Yuri Andropov age 28
Buzz Aldrin age 13
Patrice Lumumba age 17
Yitzhak Rabin age 21
Rosalind Franklin age 22
Andrei Sakharov age 21
Dick Cheney age 2
Douglas MacArthur age 63
Raúl Castro age 11
Giorgio Napolitano age 17
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 2
Idi Amin age 18
Erwin Rommel age 51
Helmut Schmidt age 24
Margrethe II of Denmark age 3
Rachel Carson age 35
Corazon Aquino age 10
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 10 months
Wernher von Braun age 31
Eva Perón age 24
Harald V of Norway age 6
John Major age 1 month
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 6
Slobodan Milošević age 1
Enver Hoxha age 34
Jacob Zuma age 1
Martti Ahtisaari age 5
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 7
Konstantin Chernenko age 31
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 11
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 5
Jiang Zemin age 16
Zhou Enlai age 45
Eduard Shevardnadze age 15
Romano Prodi age 3
Robert F. Kennedy age 17
Pranab Mukherjee age 7
Park Chung-hee age 25
Vyacheslav Molotov age 53
Joachim Gauck age 3
Menachem Begin age 29
Erich Honecker age 30
Hafez al-Assad age 12
Muhammadu Buhari age 4 months
Horst Köhler age 2 months
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 4
Islam Karimov age 5
Harold Wilson age 27
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 23
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 278
James Callaghan age 31
Pratibha Patil age 8
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 15
Eva Braun age 31
Juan Perón age 47
Heydar Aliyev age 20
Kim Dae-jung age 19
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 7
Ludwig Erhard age 46
Kurt Waldheim age 24
Mobutu Sese Seko age 12
Jomo Kenyatta age 49
Julius Nyerere age 21
Saparmurat Niyazov age 3
Leonid Kuchma age 4
Donald Rumsfeld age 10
Olof Palme age 16
Süleyman Demirel age 18
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 27
Joachim von Ribbentrop age 50
Jonas Salk age 28
Karl Dönitz age 51
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 10
Pierre Trudeau age 23
Fulgencio Batista age 42
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 75
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 54
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 19
Syngman Rhee age 68
Junichiro Koizumi age 1
Tarō Asō age 2
U Thant age 34
Rudolf Hess age 49
George S. Patton age 57
Colin Powell age 6
Giulio Andreotti age 24
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 6
Alexander Dubček age 21
Wen Jiabao age 7 months
Václav Klaus age 1
Francesco Cossiga age 14
Leonid Kravchuk age 9
Puyi age 37
Ahmed Ben Bella age 26
Heinz Fischer age 4
Michael D. Higgins age 2
Mario Monti age 1 month
Alberto Fujimori age 4
Bernard Montgomery age 55
Richard von Weizsäcker age 23
Albert Speer age 38
Reza Shah age 65
Albert II of Belgium age 8
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 8