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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
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
Quit India Movement 1942-08-08 - 1944-09-01
Manhattan Project 1942-08-13 - 1947-01-01
Tunisian campaign 1942-11-17 - 1943-05-13
Bengal famine of 1943 1943 - 1944

People

José Eduardo dos Santos age 8 months
John Howard age 3
Rajendra Prasad age 58
Alexander Kerensky age 62
Turgut Özal age 15
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 67
Eisaku Satō age 42
Georgy Malenkov age 41
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 22
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 23
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 37
Michel Temer age 2
Sergei Korolev age 36
Edward Heath age 26
Walter Mondale age 15
Paul Biya age 10
Lester B. Pearson age 46
Hussein I of Jordan age 7
Habib Bourguiba age 39
Ratko Mladić age 1
Claus von Stauffenberg age 35
Martin Bormann age 42
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 12
Teodoro Obiang age 11 months
B. J. Habibie age 6
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 22
Hastings Banda age 53
Moshe Dayan age 27
Trygve Lie age 46
Stanley Baldwin age 75
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 13
Abdurrahman Wahid age 2
Alassane Ouattara age 1
Johannes Rau age 12
Yasuo Fukuda age 6
Franz von Papen age 63
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 1
Omar Bongo age 7
Celâl Bayar age 60
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 7 months
Lee Myung-bak age 1
Alija Izetbegović age 17
Subhas Chandra Bose age 46
Franjo Tuđman age 20
Jorge Rafael Videla age 17
Urho Kekkonen age 42
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 4
Walter Ulbricht age 49
Wilhelm Keitel age 60
Hubert Humphrey age 31
Charles G. Dawes age 77
Nelson Rockefeller age 34
Reuven Rivlin age 3
Alcide De Gasperi age 62
Hassan II age 13
Cemal Gürsel age 47
Kenneth Kaunda age 19
Léon Blum age 71
Robert Schuman age 56
Alfred Rosenberg age 50
Georgi Dimitrov age 60
Imre Nagy age 46
Victor Chernomyrdin age 5
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 1
Andrei Gromyko age 33
Kliment Voroshilov age 62
Spiro Agnew age 24
Carlos Menem age 12
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 7 months
Kenan Evren age 25
Roman Herzog age 9
Stjepan Mesić age 8
Isaac Shamir age 27
Michel Aoun age 9
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 18
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 3
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 24
Umberto II of Italy age 38
Ngo Dinh Diem age 42
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 5
Abdullah I of Jordan age 61
Ion Iliescu age 13
Bülent Ecevit age 17
Kim Young-sam age 15
Erich von Manstein age 55
Chaim Weizmann age 68
Sandro Pertini age 46
Tabaré Vázquez age 3
Theodor Heuss age 59
Walter Scheel age 23
Alfred Jodl age 53
Jalal Talabani age 9
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 13
Vicente Fox age 10 months
Olusegun Obasanjo age 6
Olav V of Norway age 39
Beji Caid Essebsi age 16
Alfredo Stroessner age 30
Fidel Ramos age 15
Wallis Simpson age 46
Juscelino Kubitschek age 40
Baudouin of Belgium age 12
Hua Guofeng age 22
Agostinho Neto age 20
Alpha Condé age 5
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 21
Ehud Barak age 1
Giuliano Amato age 4
Ayub Khan age 36
Emilio Aguinaldo age 74
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 41
Pietro Badoglio age 71
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 22
Chester W. Nimitz age 58
Mauno Koivisto age 19
Karolos Papoulias age 13
Zakir Husain age 46
Juliana of the Netherlands age 34
Pridi Banomyong age 43
Milton Obote age 17
Yun Po-sun age 45
Gustav Heinemann age 43
Lionel Jospin age 5
Hans Frank age 42
Abolhassan Banisadr age 10
János Kádár age 30
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 24
Bettino Craxi age 9
Valdas Adamkus age 16
Samora Moisés Machel age 9
Mamnoon Hussain age 2
Fahri Korutürk age 39
Édouard Daladier age 58
Raúl Alfonsín age 16
Paul Martin age 4
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 72
Mwai Kibaki age 11
Frederik IX of Denmark age 44
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 40
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 60
Chang Myon age 43
Chun Doo-hwan age 12
Zhao Ziyang age 23
Gerd von Rundstedt age 67
Jean Chrétien age 9
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 3
John Kufuor age 4
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 21
Adnan Menderes age 44
Ivan Konev age 45
Karl Carstens age 28
Jacques Delors age 17
Arthur Seyss-Inquart age 50
John Nance Garner age 74
Vincent Auriol age 58
Zog I of Albania age 47
Karl Renner age 72
V. V. Giri age 48
Giovanni Leone age 34
Yahya Khan age 26
Ivan Gašparovič age 2
Cevdet Sunay age 44
Necmettin Erbakan age 16
Felipe González age 1
Alexei Kosygin age 39
George F. Kennan age 39
Itamar Franco age 12
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 11
Jacques Rogge age 1
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 5
K. R. Narayanan age 22
Levi Eshkol age 47
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 37
Daniel arap Moi age 18
Peter Mutharika age 2
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 19
Liaquat Ali Khan age 47
Mário Soares age 18
Heinrich Lübke age 48
Ernst Kaltenbrunner age 39
Liu Shaoqi age 44
Zhu Rongji age 14
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 9
Houari Boumédiène age 10
Gough Whitlam age 26
Mathieu Kérékou age 9
Arnold Rüütel age 15
François Duvalier age 36
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 38
Luigi Einaudi age 69
Enrico de Nicola age 65
Anton Denikin age 70
Armand Fallières age 101
Pierre Mauroy age 14
Édith Cresson age 9
Robert McNamara age 26
Omar Bradley age 50
Soong Ching-ling age 50
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 2
Mohamed Naguib age 42