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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
Winter War 1939-11-30 - 1940-03-13

People

Richard von Weizsäcker age 19
Albert Speer age 34
Võ Nguyên Giáp age 28
Albert II of Belgium age 5
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 5
John Howard age 6 months
Rajendra Prasad age 55
Alexander Kerensky age 58
Turgut Özal age 12
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 64
Eisaku Satō age 38
Georgy Malenkov age 38
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 18
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 20
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 34
Sergei Korolev age 33
Reinhard Heydrich age 35
Edward Heath age 23
Alfonso XIII age 53
Lavrentiy Beria age 40
Walter Mondale age 12
Paul Biya age 7
Lester B. Pearson age 42
Hussein I of Jordan age 4
Habib Bourguiba age 36
Claus von Stauffenberg age 32
Martin Bormann age 39
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 9
B. J. Habibie age 3
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 19
Hastings Banda age 50
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 18
Moshe Dayan age 24
Trygve Lie age 43
Stanley Baldwin age 72
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 35
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 9
Johannes Rau age 9
Yasuo Fukuda age 3
Franz von Papen age 60
Omar Bongo age 4
Celâl Bayar age 56
Alija Izetbegović age 14
Subhas Chandra Bose age 43
Franjo Tuđman age 17
Jorge Rafael Videla age 14
Urho Kekkonen age 39
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 10 months
Adolfo Suárez age 7
Walter Ulbricht age 46
François Englert age 7
Isoroku Yamamoto age 55
Wilhelm Keitel age 57
Hubert Humphrey age 28
Charles G. Dawes age 74
Nelson Rockefeller age 31
Reuven Rivlin age 5 months
Alcide De Gasperi age 58
Hassan II age 10
Cemal Gürsel age 44
Kenneth Kaunda age 15
Léon Blum age 67
Robert Schuman age 53
Lee Harvey Oswald age 4 months
Alfred Rosenberg age 47
Georgi Dimitrov age 57
Imre Nagy age 43
Victor Chernomyrdin age 1
Andrei Gromyko age 30
Robert G. Edwards age 14
Kliment Voroshilov age 59
Spiro Agnew age 21
Carlos Menem age 9
Lal Bahadur Shastri age 35
Kenan Evren age 22
Roman Herzog age 5
Stjepan Mesić age 5
Isaac Shamir age 24
Michel Aoun age 6
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 15
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 7 months
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 21
Umberto II of Italy age 35
Ngo Dinh Diem age 39
Henry A. Wallace age 51
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 2
Abdullah I of Jordan age 58
Ion Iliescu age 9
Bülent Ecevit age 14
Kim Young-sam age 12
Erich von Manstein age 52
Chaim Weizmann age 65
Sandro Pertini age 43
Tabaré Vázquez age 1 month
Theodor Heuss age 56
Walter Scheel age 20
Alfred Jodl age 49
Jalal Talabani age 6
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 10
Olusegun Obasanjo age 2
Olav V of Norway age 36
Ion Antonescu age 57
Beji Caid Essebsi age 13
Alfredo Stroessner age 27
Fidel Ramos age 11
Wallis Simpson age 43
Juscelino Kubitschek age 37
Baudouin of Belgium age 9
Mohammad Mosaddegh age 57
Hua Guofeng age 19
Agostinho Neto age 17
Alpha Condé age 1
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 18
Morarji Desai age 43
Giuliano Amato age 1
Ayub Khan age 32
Emilio Aguinaldo age 70
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 38
Pietro Badoglio age 68
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 19
Anastas Mikoyan age 44
Sarojini Naidu age 61
Otto von Habsburg age 27
Chester W. Nimitz age 55
Mauno Koivisto age 16
Karolos Papoulias age 10
Zakir Husain age 43
Juliana of the Netherlands age 30
Pridi Banomyong age 39
Milton Obote age 14
Yun Po-sun age 42
Konstantin Rokossovsky age 43
Gustav Heinemann age 40
Lionel Jospin age 2
Hans Frank age 39
Abolhassan Banisadr age 6
János Kádár age 27
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 21
Bettino Craxi age 5
Valdas Adamkus age 13
Samora Moisés Machel age 6
Fahri Korutürk age 36
Michael I of Romania age 18
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 27
Manuel Noriega age 6
Raúl Alfonsín age 12
Paul Martin age 1
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 69
Mwai Kibaki age 8
Frederik IX of Denmark age 40
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 37
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 57
Chang Myon age 40
Chun Doo-hwan age 9
Lord Mountbatten age 39
Manuel Azaña age 60
Zhao Ziyang age 20
Gerd von Rundstedt age 64
Jean Chrétien age 6
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 2 months
John Kufuor age 1
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 18
Adnan Menderes age 41
Ivan Konev age 42
Karl Carstens age 25
Jacques Delors age 14
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 9
Arthur Seyss-Inquart age 47
Alexandre Millerand age 81
Vincent Auriol age 55
Zog I of Albania age 44
Karl Renner age 69
Rafael Trujillo age 48
V. V. Giri age 45
Giovanni Leone age 31
Yahya Khan age 23
Cevdet Sunay age 41
Necmettin Erbakan age 13
Alexei Kosygin age 36
Pierre Laval age 56
George F. Kennan age 36
Itamar Franco age 9
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 8
Albert Luthuli age 42
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 2
K. R. Narayanan age 19
Levi Eshkol age 44
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 34
Daniel arap Moi age 15
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 16
Liaquat Ali Khan age 44
Mário Soares age 15
Heinrich Lübke age 45
Ferdinand I of Bulgaria age 79
Ernst Kaltenbrunner age 36
Liu Shaoqi age 41
Zhu Rongji age 11
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 6
Houari Boumédiène age 7
Gough Whitlam age 23