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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
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01 - 1945-08-21
Manhattan Project 1942-08-13 - 1947-01-01
Italian campaign 1943-07-09 - 1945-05-02
Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine 1944-08-25 - 1945-03-07
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Battle of the Bulge 1944-12-16 - 1945-01-25
Siege of Budapest 1944-12-26 - 1945-02-13
Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay 1945-01-01 - 1945-03-29

People

Wojciech Jaruzelski age 21
Syngman Rhee age 69
Junichiro Koizumi age 2
Tarō Asō age 4
U Thant age 35
Rudolf Hess age 50
George S. Patton age 59
Colin Powell age 7
Giulio Andreotti age 25
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 8
Hideki Tojo age 60
Alexander Dubček age 23
Wen Jiabao age 2
Václav Klaus age 3
Francesco Cossiga age 16
Leonid Kravchuk age 10
Puyi age 38
Ahmed Ben Bella age 28
Heinz Fischer age 6
Michael D. Higgins age 3
Mario Monti age 1
Alberto Fujimori age 6
Bernard Montgomery age 57
Richard von Weizsäcker age 24
Albert Speer age 39
Võ Nguyên Giáp age 33
Albert II of Belgium age 10
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 10
José Eduardo dos Santos age 2
John Howard age 5
Rajendra Prasad age 60
Alexander Kerensky age 63
Turgut Özal age 17
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 69
Eisaku Satō age 43
Georgy Malenkov age 43
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 23
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 24
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 39
Michel Temer age 4
Sergei Korolev age 38
Edward Heath age 28
Walter Mondale age 17
Paul Biya age 11
Lester B. Pearson age 47
Hussein I of Jordan age 9
Habib Bourguiba age 41
Ratko Mladić age 2
Dzhokhar Dudayev age 10 months
Martin Bormann age 44
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 13
Teodoro Obiang age 2
B. J. Habibie age 8
Mary Robinson age 7 months
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 24
Hastings Banda age 55
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 23
Moshe Dayan age 29
Trygve Lie age 48
Stanley Baldwin age 77
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 40
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 14
Abdurrahman Wahid age 4
Alassane Ouattara age 3
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 1
Johannes Rau age 13
Yasuo Fukuda age 8
Franz von Papen age 65
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 3
Omar Bongo age 9
Celâl Bayar age 61
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 2
Lee Myung-bak age 3
Alija Izetbegović age 19
Subhas Chandra Bose age 47
Franjo Tuđman age 22
Jorge Rafael Videla age 19
Urho Kekkonen age 44
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 5
Nana Akufo-Addo age 9 months
Adolfo Suárez age 12
Walter Ulbricht age 51
François Englert age 12
Wilhelm Keitel age 62
Hubert Humphrey age 33
Charles G. Dawes age 79
Nelson Rockefeller age 36
John Evans Atta Mills age 5 months
Reuven Rivlin age 5
Alcide De Gasperi age 63
Hassan II age 15
Cemal Gürsel age 49
Kenneth Kaunda age 20
Léon Blum age 72
Robert Schuman age 58
Lee Harvey Oswald age 5
Alfred Rosenberg age 52
Georgi Dimitrov age 62
Imre Nagy age 48
Victor Chernomyrdin age 6
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 3
Andrei Gromyko age 35
Kliment Voroshilov age 63
Spiro Agnew age 26
Carlos Menem age 14
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 2
Lal Bahadur Shastri age 40
Kenan Evren age 27
Roman Herzog age 10
Sali Berisha age 2 months
Stjepan Mesić age 10
Isaac Shamir age 29
Michel Aoun age 11
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 20
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 5
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 26
Umberto II of Italy age 40
Ngo Dinh Diem age 44
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 7
Abdullah I of Jordan age 63
Ion Iliescu age 14
Bülent Ecevit age 19
Kim Young-sam age 17
Erich von Manstein age 57
Chaim Weizmann age 70
Sandro Pertini age 48
Tabaré Vázquez age 4
Theodor Heuss age 60
Walter Scheel age 25
Alfred Jodl age 54
Jalal Talabani age 11
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 15
Vicente Fox age 2
Olusegun Obasanjo age 7
Olav V of Norway age 41
Ion Antonescu age 62
Beji Caid Essebsi age 18
Alfredo Stroessner age 32
Fidel Ramos age 16
Wallis Simpson age 48
Juscelino Kubitschek age 42
Baudouin of Belgium age 14
Mohammad Mosaddegh age 62
Hua Guofeng age 23
Agostinho Neto age 22
Alpha Condé age 6
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 22
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 1
Morarji Desai age 48
Ehud Barak age 2
Giuliano Amato age 6
Ayub Khan age 37
Emilio Aguinaldo age 75
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 42
Pietro Badoglio age 73
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 24
Anastas Mikoyan age 49
Chester W. Nimitz age 59
Abdul Hamid age 1
Mauno Koivisto age 21
Karolos Papoulias age 15
Zakir Husain age 47
Juliana of the Netherlands age 35
Rafiq Hariri age 2 months
Pridi Banomyong age 44
Milton Obote age 19
Yun Po-sun age 47
Konstantin Rokossovsky age 48
Gustav Heinemann age 45
Lionel Jospin age 7
Hans Frank age 44
Albert Lebrun age 73
Abolhassan Banisadr age 11
János Kádár age 32
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 26
Bettino Craxi age 10
Valdas Adamkus age 18
Samora Moisés Machel age 11
Mamnoon Hussain age 4
Fahri Korutürk age 41
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 31
Édouard Daladier age 60
Manuel Noriega age 10
Cordell Hull age 73
Raúl Alfonsín age 17
Paul Martin age 6
Mwai Kibaki age 13
Frederik IX of Denmark age 45
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 41
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 62
Chang Myon age 45
Chun Doo-hwan age 13
Lord Mountbatten age 44
Zhao Ziyang age 25
Gerd von Rundstedt age 69
Jean Chrétien age 10
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 5
John Kufuor age 6
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 23
Adnan Menderes age 46