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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
Battle of Britain 1940-07-10 - 1940-10-31

People

Javad Fakoori age 1
Robert Lee Bullard age 79
Juan Lombardo age 13
Arun Shridhar Vaidya age 14
Princess Catherine Ivanovna of Russia age 25
Şehzade Ahmed Nureddin (son of Abdul Hamid II) age 39
Şehzade Mehmed Ertuğrul age 28
Şehzade Mehmed Şerafeddin age 36
Şehzade Mahmud Namık age 26
Lütfiye Sultan age 30
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Abdülkadir) age 14
Hümeyra Hanımsultan age 23
Liu Yalou age 30
Habis al-Majali age 26
Zaitao age 53
Zaixun, Prince Rui age 55
Wilhelm Karl Prinz von Preussen age 18
Princess Herzeleide of Prussia age 21
Heinrich XXXIII, Prince Reuss of Köstritz age 61
Prince Heinrich of Liechtenstein (1920–1993) age 19
Archduchess Yolande of Austria age 17
Prince Ataúlfo of Orléans age 27
Alexander Ramsay of Mar age 20
Henry Abel Smith age 40
Princess Ortrud of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg age 14
Patricia Lascelles, Countess of Harewood age 13
John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne age 15
Fermín Palacios
Bob C. Riley age 16
Tony Newton, Baron Newton of Braintree age 3
Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton age 57
Harry L. Davis age 62
Frank O'Bannon age 10
William Preston Lane Jr. age 48
Charles Seymour Whitman age 72
Nathan L. Miller age 72
Paul V. McNutt age 49
Edward L. Jackson age 66
Gus Macdonald age 1 month
Harold G. Hoffman age 44
Matthew E. Welsh age 28
Roger D. Branigin age 38
Geoffrey Rippon age 16
Charles Fried age 5
Andrew Goodpaster age 25
George Joulwan age 11 months
Pierre de Chevigné age 31
Jim Nance McCord age 61
Alfredo Navarro age 72
Ralph Austin Bard age 56
Albin Nyamoya age 16
Léopold Biha age 21
Joseph Cimpaye age 8
Bernard Ayandho age 9
Emilio Núñez Portuondo age 42
Jorge Toriello Garrido age 32
Salvador Aguirre age 78
Mustafa Mahmud al-Umari age 46
Raouf Bundhun age 3
Nyamyn Jagvaral age 21
Tsagaanlamyn Dügersüren age 26
Radivoje Brajović age 5
Marko Orlandić age 10
Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe age 73
Benjamín Lacayo Sacasa age 47
Rosendo Chamorro age 78
Yeoh Ghim Seng age 22
Štefan Sádovský age 12
Wim Udenhout age 3
Nur al-Din Kahala age 30
Sami al-Jundi age 18
Solomone Ula Ata age 57
Dennis Young age 4
Mariano Holguín age 80
Giancarlo Ghironzi age 8
Carlos Moreyra y Paz Soldán age 41
Rodolfo Llopis age 45
Arleigh Winston Scott age 40
George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe age 22
Frank Soskice age 38
John L. Hines age 72
Livingston T. Merchant age 36
Josiah Tshangana Gumede age 73
Brian O'Higgins age 58
Salim Hatum age 12
Ziad al-Hariri age 10
Miles Copeland, Jr. age 24
William Kelly Harrison, Jr. age 45
Hu Lian age 32
Liu Zhi age 48
Arthur Dewey Struble age 46
Friedrich Köchling age 47
Bernard Lafayette age 2 months
Milan Gvero age 2
Rodrigo Asturias age 11 months
Maxwell R. Thurman age 9
Friedrich Altrichter age 50
Le Quang Dao age 19
William Pulteney age 79
Ved Prakash Malik age 11 months
James Harbord age 74
Richard von Conta age 83
Saad Mamoun age 18
William R. Peers age 26
Seiichi Kuno age 53
Mizban Khadr al-Hadi age 2
Lê Minh Đảo age 7
Waichirō Sonobe age 57
Nguyễn Văn Minh age 11
Raja Aziz Bhatti age 12
David Chavchavadze age 16
Princess Xenia Andreevna of Russia age 21
Prince Nikita Romanov age 17
Prince Alexander Romanov age 10
Şehzade Mehmed Cemaleddin age 49
Adile Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Selaheddin) age 53
Mahpeyker Hanımsultan age 23
Türkan Hanımsultan age 21
Nevil Macready age 78
Prince Richard of Hesse age 39
Princess Isabelle of Salm-Salm age 37
Alice Habsburg age 50
Irene Mountbatten, Marchioness of Carisbrooke age 50
Princess Christina of Hesse age 7
Princess Marie Alexandra of Schleswig-Holstein age 13
Francisco de Aguilar age 130
Vicente Gómez
Stéphane Maurice Bongho-Nouarra age 3
Alfred E. Driscoll age 38
Theodore McKeldin age 39
Robert B. Meyner age 32
Harry Nice age 62
Edward C. Stokes age 79
Henry F. Schricker age 57
Hill McAlister age 65
Myers Y. Cooper age 66
William T. Cahill age 28
George N. Craig age 31
Ralph F. Gates age 47
Douglas Jay age 33
Frederick Lee, Baron Lee of Newton age 34
Jack Pease, 1st Baron Gainford age 80
John Davies age 24
Aleksandar Mitrović age 7
Armand Annet age 52
J. Lee Rankin age 33
Philip Perlman age 50
Thomas Clarke Rye age 77
Jo Ann Robinson age 28
Carlos Lemos Simmonds age 6
Salim Ben Ali age 22
Tesfaye Dinka age 11 months
Francisco Bueso age 80
Ahmad Salim uld Sidi age 1
Hugh Watt age 28
Jacques Opangault age 32
Archibald Currie age 52
Severinus Desiré Emanuels age 30
Muhammad Ali al-Halabi age 3
Hsu Ching-chung age 33
Luigi Lonfernini age 2
Giuseppe Amici age 1
Luis Pércovich Roca age 9
Raúl Ferrero Rebagliati age 29
Luis Gallo Porras age 45
Frederick M. Franks Jr. age 3
Gary E. Luck age 3
Francis Butler Loomis age 79
Richard N. Cooper age 6
Walter J. Stoessel Jr. age 20
Miloš Trifunović age 69
John J. O'Kelly age 68
Michael O'Flanagan age 64
Liu Yuzhang age 36
Li Zhen age 32
Nicolae Macici age 53
George Dominic Murray age 51
Paul J. Mueller age 47
Richard T. Knowles age 24
Huynh Van Cao age 13
John Paul Vann age 16
Rüştü Sakarya age 63
Walter Braithwaite age 74
Ibrahim El-Orabi age 9
Ptolemaios Sarigiannis age 58
Danny Matt age 12
Le Van Hung age 7
Le Nguyen Vy age 7
Youcef Zighoud age 19
Sharbat Ali Changezi age 8
Şehzade Mahmud Şevket age 37
Şehzade Ahmed Tevhid age 35
Fevziye Sultan age 11
Muffakham Jah age 1
Moazzam Jah age 32
Leonard W. Murray age 44
Harry W. Hill age 50
Yi Cheong age 4
Chen Jieru age 34
Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia (1895–1959) age 45