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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
Operation Weserübung 1940-04-09 - 1940-06-10
Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang 1940-05-01 - 1940-06-24
Battle of France 1940-05-10 - 1940-06-25

People

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
Moshe Dayan age 25
Trygve Lie age 43
Stanley Baldwin age 72
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 10
Johannes Rau age 9
Yasuo Fukuda age 3
Franz von Papen age 60
Omar Bongo age 4
Celâl Bayar age 57
Alija Izetbegović age 14
Subhas Chandra Bose age 43
Franjo Tuđman age 18
Jorge Rafael Videla age 14
Urho Kekkonen age 39
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 1
Walter Ulbricht age 46
Isoroku Yamamoto age 56
Wilhelm Keitel age 57
Hubert Humphrey age 28
Charles G. Dawes age 74
Nelson Rockefeller age 31
Reuven Rivlin age 8 months
Alcide De Gasperi age 59
Hassan II age 10
Cemal Gürsel age 44
Kenneth Kaunda age 16
Léon Blum age 68
Robert Schuman age 53
Alfred Rosenberg age 47
Georgi Dimitrov age 57
Imre Nagy age 43
Victor Chernomyrdin age 2
Andrei Gromyko age 30
Kliment Voroshilov age 59
Spiro Agnew age 21
Carlos Menem age 9
Kenan Evren age 22
Roman Herzog age 6
Stjepan Mesić age 5
Isaac Shamir age 24
Michel Aoun age 6
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 15
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 10 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 10
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 3 months
Theodor Heuss age 56
Walter Scheel age 20
Alfred Jodl age 50
Jalal Talabani age 6
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 10
Olusegun Obasanjo age 3
Olav V of Norway age 36
Ion Antonescu age 57
Beji Caid Essebsi age 13
Alfredo Stroessner age 27
Fidel Ramos age 12
Wallis Simpson age 43
Juscelino Kubitschek age 37
Baudouin of Belgium age 9
Hua Guofeng age 19
Agostinho Neto age 17
Alpha Condé age 2
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 18
Giuliano Amato age 2
Ayub Khan age 33
Emilio Aguinaldo age 71
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 38
Pietro Badoglio age 68
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 19
Chester W. Nimitz age 55
Mauno Koivisto age 16
Karolos Papoulias age 10
Zakir Husain age 43
Juliana of the Netherlands age 31
Pridi Banomyong age 40
Milton Obote age 14
Yun Po-sun age 42
Gustav Heinemann age 40
Lionel Jospin age 2
Hans Frank age 40
Abolhassan Banisadr age 7
János Kádár age 27
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 21
Bettino Craxi age 6
Valdas Adamkus age 13
Samora Moisés Machel age 6
Fahri Korutürk age 36
Michael I of Romania age 18
Édouard Daladier age 55
Raúl Alfonsín age 13
Paul Martin age 1
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 69
Mwai Kibaki age 8
Frederik IX of Denmark age 41
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 37
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 57
Chang Myon age 40
Chun Doo-hwan age 9
Manuel Azaña age 60
Zhao Ziyang age 20
Gerd von Rundstedt age 64
Jean Chrétien age 6
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 5 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
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
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
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
Mathieu Kérékou age 6
Arnold Rüütel age 12
François Duvalier age 33
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 35
Luigi Einaudi age 66
Enrico de Nicola age 62
Anton Denikin age 67
Armand Fallières age 98
Pierre Mauroy age 11
Édith Cresson age 6
Robert McNamara age 23
Omar Bradley age 47
Soong Ching-ling age 47
Mohamed Naguib age 39
Mátyás Rákosi age 48
Charan Singh age 37
Bingu wa Mutharika age 6
Violeta Chamorro age 10
Ignacy Jan Paderewski age 79
Semyon Budyonny age 57
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 102
Erich Raeder age 64
Julius Streicher age 55
John J. Pershing age 79
René Coty age 58
Brian Mulroney age 1
R. Venkataraman age 29
Antonio Segni age 49
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 2
Evgeny Primakov age 10
Siad Barre age 20
Mary of Teck age 73
Yoshirō Mori age 2
Hjalmar Schacht age 63
Rodion Malinovsky age 41
Bob Hawke age 10
Makarios III age 26
Gulzarilal Nanda age 41
Moshe Sharett age 45
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 5 months
Joaquim Chissano age 6 months
Sam Nujoma age 11
Juvénal Habyarimana age 3