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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
The Holocaust 1941-01-01 - 1945-09-20
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01-01 - 1945-08-21
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Battle of Luzon 1945-01-09 - 1945-08-15
Chinese Communist Revolution 1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01

People

Malcolm X age 20
François Mitterrand age 28
Alexander Fleming age 64
David Ben-Gurion age 58
Milton Friedman age 33
Ruhollah Khomeini age 42
Valentina Tereshkova age 8
Pol Pot age 20
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 6
Akihito age 11
Helmut Kohl age 15
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 41
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 27
Rosa Parks age 32
Shimon Peres age 22
Sukarno age 44
John Paul I age 32
Anwar Sadat age 26
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 7
Paul VI age 47
Willy Brandt age 31
Gerhard Schröder age 1
Dag Hammarskjöld age 40
Salvador Allende age 37
Hu Jintao age 2
John von Neumann age 41
Augusto Pinochet age 29
Lee Kuan Yew age 21
Suharto age 24
Ariel Sharon age 17
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 27
Desmond Tutu age 13
Sergio Mattarella age 4
Manmohan Singh age 12
Pervez Musharraf age 1
Yuri Andropov age 31
Buzz Aldrin age 15
Mohammad Khatami age 1
Patrice Lumumba age 20
Yitzhak Rabin age 23
Rosalind Franklin age 25
Andrei Sakharov age 24
Dick Cheney age 4
Douglas MacArthur age 65
Raúl Castro age 14
Giorgio Napolitano age 20
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 5
Idi Amin age 20
Rodrigo Duterte age 4 months
Hermann Göring age 52
Helmut Schmidt age 26
Margrethe II of Denmark age 5
Rachel Carson age 38
Corazon Aquino age 12
Edward VIII age 51
John Kerry age 1
Madeleine Albright age 8
José Mujica age 10
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 21
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 68
Rajiv Gandhi age 11 months
Thabo Mbeki age 3
Wernher von Braun age 33
Eva Perón age 26
Harald V of Norway age 8
John Major age 2
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 8
Slobodan Milošević age 3
Jacob Zuma age 3
Martti Ahtisaari age 8
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 9
Konstantin Chernenko age 33
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 13
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 7
Jiang Zemin age 18
Zhou Enlai age 47
Eduard Shevardnadze age 17
Romano Prodi age 5
Robert F. Kennedy age 19
Pranab Mukherjee age 9
Park Chung-hee age 27
Vyacheslav Molotov age 55
Joachim Gauck age 5
Anthony Eden age 48
Menachem Begin age 31
Philippe Pétain age 89
Erich Honecker age 32
Hafez al-Assad age 14
Harold Macmillan age 51
Muhammadu Buhari age 2
Horst Köhler age 2
Tarja Halonen age 1
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 6
Islam Karimov age 7
Harold Wilson age 29
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 25
Omar al-Bashir age 1
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 280
James Callaghan age 33
Pratibha Patil age 10
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 17
Juan Perón age 49
Heydar Aliyev age 22
Kim Dae-jung age 21
Radovan Karadžić age 1 month
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 22
Aldo Moro age 28
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 4
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 38
F. W. de Klerk age 9
Ludwig Erhard age 48
Kurt Waldheim age 26
Alexander Van der Bellen age 1
Miloš Zeman age 10 months
Mobutu Sese Seko age 14
Jomo Kenyatta age 51
Julius Nyerere age 23
Saparmurat Niyazov age 5
Yoweri Museveni age 10 months
Leonid Kuchma age 6
Donald Rumsfeld age 13
Olof Palme age 18
Süleyman Demirel age 20
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 29
Joachim von Ribbentrop age 52
Jonas Salk age 30
Karl Dönitz age 53
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 12
Pierre Trudeau age 25
Fulgencio Batista age 44
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 56
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 22
Syngman Rhee age 70
Junichiro Koizumi age 3
Tarō Asō age 4
U Thant age 36
Rudolf Hess age 51
George S. Patton age 59
Colin Powell age 8
Giulio Andreotti age 26
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 8
Hideki Tojo age 60
Alexander Dubček age 23
Wen Jiabao age 2
Václav Klaus age 4
Francesco Cossiga age 17
Leonid Kravchuk age 11
Puyi age 39
Ahmed Ben Bella age 28
Heinz Fischer age 6
Michael D. Higgins age 4
Mario Monti age 2
Alberto Fujimori age 7
Bernard Montgomery age 57
Richard von Weizsäcker age 25
Albert Speer age 40
Albert II of Belgium age 11
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 10
José Eduardo dos Santos age 2
John Howard age 6
Rajendra Prasad age 60
Alexander Kerensky age 64
Turgut Özal age 17
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 69
Eisaku Satō age 44
Georgy Malenkov age 43
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 24
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 25
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 39
Michel Temer age 4
Sergei Korolev age 38
Edward Heath age 29
Walter Mondale age 17
Paul Biya age 12
Lester B. Pearson age 48
Hussein I of Jordan age 9
Habib Bourguiba age 42
Ratko Mladić age 3
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 14
Teodoro Obiang age 3
B. J. Habibie age 9
Mary Robinson age 1
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 24
Hastings Banda age 55
Moshe Dayan age 30
Trygve Lie age 49
Stanley Baldwin age 78
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 15
Abdurrahman Wahid age 4
Alassane Ouattara age 3
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 1
Johannes Rau age 14
Yasuo Fukuda age 9
Franz von Papen age 65
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 3
Omar Bongo age 9
Celâl Bayar age 62
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 2
Lee Myung-bak age 3
Alija Izetbegović age 20