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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

Rodion Malinovsky age 41
Bob Hawke age 10
Makarios III age 26
Gulzarilal Nanda age 41
Moshe Sharett age 45
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 3 months
Joaquim Chissano age 4 months
Sam Nujoma age 10
Juvénal Habyarimana age 2
Abdoulaye Wade age 13
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 21
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 12
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando age 79
P. W. Botha age 24
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood age 75
Semyon Timoshenko age 45
Lee Teng-hui age 17
Thomas Klestil age 7
Paul-Henri Spaak age 41
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 16
Zail Singh age 23
Amintore Fanfani age 32
Willem Drees age 53
Prajadhipok age 46
Tomiichi Murayama age 16
Nikolai Bulganin age 44
João Goulart age 21
Jean Monnet age 51
Li Peng age 11
John Foster Dulles age 52
Ferhat Abbas age 40
Tassos Papadopoulos age 6
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 75
João Bernardo Vieira age 10 months
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 21
Chaim Herzog age 21
Giuseppe Saragat age 41
Lamberto Dini age 9
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 2
Algirdas Brazauskas age 7
Prem Tinsulanonda age 19
Roh Tae-woo age 7
Lin Biao age 32
Fedor von Bock age 59
Egon Krenz age 2
Jacobo Árbenz age 26
Ramiz Alia age 14
Leopoldo Galtieri age 13
Bruno Kreisky age 29
Festus Mogae age 6 months
Seretse Khama age 18
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 15
Lennart Meri age 10
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 26
Giovanni Gronchi age 52
Wim Kok age 1
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 2
Agatha Barbara age 16
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 35
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 40
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 4
Bolesław Bierut age 47
Joseph Estrada age 2
Jean Casimir-Perier age 92
Baldur von Schirach age 32
Dean Acheson age 46
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 78
Andreas Papandreou age 21
Chandra Shekhar age 12
Fuad Masum age 2
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 0 months
Walter Model age 49
Shigeru Yoshida age 61
Kakuei Tanaka age 21
James Baker age 9
Chiang Ching-kuo age 29
Antonin Scalia age 3
Babrak Karmal age 11
Hafizullah Amin age 10
Alfred Moisiu age 10
Kurt Schuschnigg age 42
Zillur Rahman age 10
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 32
Inder Kumar Gujral age 20
V. P. Singh age 8
Than Shwe age 7
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb age 63
Albert Kesselring age 54
Joseph Wirth age 60
Wilhelm Marx age 77
Hans Luther age 61
Édouard Herriot age 67
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 15
Lansana Conté age 5
Sveinn Björnsson age 59
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 25
Talal I of Jordan age 31
Ruud Lubbers age 10 months
Bounnhang Vorachit age 2
Kiro Gligorov age 22
Jorge Sampaio age 5 months
Franz Halder age 55
Nobusuke Kishi age 43
Toshiki Kaifu age 9
Kiichi Miyazawa age 20
Tsutomu Hata age 4
Édouard Balladur age 10
Zhu De age 53
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 30
Malcolm Fraser age 9
Artur Rasizade age 5
John Diefenbaker age 44
Ricardo Lagos age 2
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 13
Gyula Horn age 7
Modibo Keïta age 24
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 14
Michael Sata age 2
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 1
Diosdado Macapagal age 29
Ramon Magsaysay age 32
Gustav Bauer age 70
Heinrich Brüning age 54
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 2
José Sarney age 9
Abbas II of Egypt age 65
Walther Funk age 49
Fritz Sauckel age 45
George Shultz age 19
Billy Hughes age 77
Harold Holt age 31
Ziaur Rahman age 4
Emilio Colombo age 19
Choummaly Sayasone age 3
Plutarco Elías Calles age 62
José López Portillo age 19
Milovan Đilas age 28
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 4
Girija Prasad Koirala age 15
Abdou Diouf age 4
Fumimaro Konoe age 48
Michel Rocard age 9
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 42
Alain Poher age 30
Abulfaz Elchibey age 1
Zhelyu Zhelev age 5
Georgios Papadopoulos age 20
Ferenc Mádl age 9
Árpád Göncz age 18
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 38
Nicolae Iorga age 68
Ingvar Carlsson age 5
Rómulo Gallegos age 55
Maurice Gamelin age 67
Hayato Ikeda age 40
Noboru Takeshita age 16
Keizō Obuchi age 2
Oswald Mosley age 43
Hu Yaobang age 24
Chris Watson age 72
Iajuddin Ahmed age 9
Lauri Kristian Relander age 56
Costas Simitis age 3
Abdul Salam Arif age 19
Abd al-Karim Qasim age 25
Ezer Weizman age 15
Isaac Navon age 18
Dries van Agt age 9
Émile Lahoud age 4
Jacques Santer age 2
Luis Echeverría age 18
Ne Win age 28
Benjamin Mkapa age 1
Francisco Largo Caballero age 70
C. Rajagopalachari age 61
Günther von Kluge age 57
Ichirō Hatoyama age 57
Takeo Fukuda age 35
Morihiro Hosokawa age 2
Ivanoe Bonomi age 66
Hendrik Verwoerd age 38
João Figueiredo age 22
Jerry Brown age 1
Fritz Todt age 48
Warren Christopher age 14
Reynaldo Bignone age 12
Ayaz Mutallibov age 1
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 10
Quett Masire age 14
John Turner age 10
David Dacko age 9
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 30
Abdul Rahman Arif age 23
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 55
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 19
Mamadou Tandja age 1
S. R. Nathan age 15
Fouad Mebazaa age 6
Rupiah Banda age 3
Canaan Banana age 4