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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
Western Desert campaign 1940-06-11 - 1943-02-04
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

People

Michael D. Higgins age 1
Alberto Fujimori age 3
Bernard Montgomery age 54
Richard von Weizsäcker age 22
Albert Speer age 37
Võ Nguyên Giáp age 30
Reza Shah age 64
Albert II of Belgium age 7
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 7
John Howard age 2
Rajendra Prasad age 57
Alexander Kerensky age 61
Turgut Özal age 14
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 66
Eisaku Satō age 41
Georgy Malenkov age 40
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 21
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 22
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 36
Michel Temer age 1
Sergei Korolev age 35
Reinhard Heydrich age 38
Edward Heath age 25
Lavrentiy Beria age 43
Walter Mondale age 14
Paul Biya age 9
Lester B. Pearson age 45
Hussein I of Jordan age 6
Habib Bourguiba age 38
Ratko Mladić age 2 months
Claus von Stauffenberg age 34
Martin Bormann age 41
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 11
B. J. Habibie age 5
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 21
Hastings Banda age 52
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 21
Moshe Dayan age 27
Trygve Lie age 45
Stanley Baldwin age 74
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 38
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 12
Abdurrahman Wahid age 1
Alassane Ouattara age 4 months
Johannes Rau age 11
Yasuo Fukuda age 5
Franz von Papen age 62
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 8 months
Omar Bongo age 6
Celâl Bayar age 59
Lee Myung-bak age 5 months
Alija Izetbegović age 16
Subhas Chandra Bose age 45
Franjo Tuđman age 20
Jorge Rafael Videla age 16
Urho Kekkonen age 41
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 3
Adolfo Suárez age 9
Walter Ulbricht age 48
François Englert age 9
Isoroku Yamamoto age 58
Wilhelm Keitel age 59
Hubert Humphrey age 31
Charles G. Dawes age 76
Nelson Rockefeller age 33
Reuven Rivlin age 2
Alcide De Gasperi age 61
Hassan II age 12
Cemal Gürsel age 46
Kenneth Kaunda age 18
Léon Blum age 70
Robert Schuman age 55
Lee Harvey Oswald age 2
Alfred Rosenberg age 49
Georgi Dimitrov age 59
Imre Nagy age 45
Victor Chernomyrdin age 4
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 8 months
Andrei Gromyko age 32
Constantine II of Greece age 1
Robert G. Edwards age 16
Kliment Voroshilov age 61
Spiro Agnew age 23
Carlos Menem age 11
Lal Bahadur Shastri age 37
Kenan Evren age 24
Roman Herzog age 8
Stjepan Mesić age 7
Isaac Shamir age 26
Michel Aoun age 8
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 17
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 2
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 24
Umberto II of Italy age 37
Ngo Dinh Diem age 41
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 5
Abdullah I of Jordan age 60
Ion Iliescu age 12
Bülent Ecevit age 17
Kim Young-sam age 14
Erich von Manstein age 54
Chaim Weizmann age 67
Sandro Pertini age 45
Tabaré Vázquez age 2
Theodor Heuss age 58
Walter Scheel age 22
Alfred Jodl age 52
Jalal Talabani age 8
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 12
Olusegun Obasanjo age 5
Olav V of Norway age 38
Beji Caid Essebsi age 15
Alfredo Stroessner age 29
Fidel Ramos age 14
Wallis Simpson age 45
Juscelino Kubitschek age 39
Baudouin of Belgium age 11
Mohammad Mosaddegh age 60
Hua Guofeng age 21
Agostinho Neto age 19
Alpha Condé age 4
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 20
Morarji Desai age 46
Ehud Barak age 3 months
Giuliano Amato age 4
Ayub Khan age 35
Emilio Aguinaldo age 73
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 40
Pietro Badoglio age 70
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 21
Anastas Mikoyan age 46
Sarojini Naidu age 63
Otto von Habsburg age 29
Chester W. Nimitz age 57
Mauno Koivisto age 18
Karolos Papoulias age 12
Zakir Husain age 45
Juliana of the Netherlands age 33
Pridi Banomyong age 42
Milton Obote age 16
Yun Po-sun age 44
Konstantin Rokossovsky age 45
Gustav Heinemann age 42
Lionel Jospin age 4
Hans Frank age 42
Albert Lebrun age 70
Abolhassan Banisadr age 9
János Kádár age 30
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 23
Bettino Craxi age 8
Valdas Adamkus age 15
Samora Moisés Machel age 8
Mamnoon Hussain age 1
Fahri Korutürk age 38
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 29
Édouard Daladier age 57
Manuel Noriega age 8
Raúl Alfonsín age 15
Paul Martin age 3
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 71
Mwai Kibaki age 10
Frederik IX of Denmark age 43
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 39
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 59
Chang Myon age 42
Chun Doo-hwan age 11
Lord Mountbatten age 41
Zhao Ziyang age 22
Gerd von Rundstedt age 66
Jean Chrétien age 8
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 2
John Kufuor age 3
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 20
Adnan Menderes age 43
Ivan Konev age 44
Karl Carstens age 27
Jacques Delors age 16
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 11
Arthur Seyss-Inquart age 49
John Nance Garner age 73
Alexandre Millerand age 83
Vincent Auriol age 57
Zog I of Albania age 46
Karl Renner age 71
V. V. Giri age 47
Giovanni Leone age 33
Yahya Khan age 25
Ivan Gašparovič age 1
Cevdet Sunay age 43
Necmettin Erbakan age 15
Felipe González age 2 months
Alexei Kosygin age 38
George F. Kennan age 38
Itamar Franco age 11
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 10
Jacques Rogge age 0 months
Albert Luthuli age 44
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 4
K. R. Narayanan age 21
Levi Eshkol age 46