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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
Western Desert campaign 1940-06-11 - 1943-02-04
Battle of Britain 1940-07-10 - 1940-10-31

People

Heinrich Lübke age 45
Ferdinand I of Bulgaria age 79
Ernst Kaltenbrunner age 36
Liu Shaoqi age 41
Zhu Rongji age 11
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 7
Houari Boumédiène age 7
Gough Whitlam age 24
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 12
Édith Cresson age 6
Lê Đức Thọ age 28
Queen Sofía of Spain age 1
Robert McNamara age 24
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 103
Abdülmecid II age 72
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 3
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 17
Aleksandr Vasilevsky age 44
George II of Greece age 50
Hjalmar Schacht age 63
Rodion Malinovsky age 41
Bob Hawke age 10
Makarios III age 26
Gulzarilal Nanda age 42
Moshe Sharett age 45
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 7 months
Joaquim Chissano age 9 months
Sam Nujoma age 11
Juvénal Habyarimana age 3
Abdoulaye Wade age 14
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 22
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 13
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando age 80
P. W. Botha age 24
Lazar Kaganovich age 46
Jiang Qing age 26
Queen Sonja of Norway age 3
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 24
Amintore Fanfani age 32
Willem Drees age 54
Prajadhipok age 46
Tomiichi Murayama age 16
Nikolai Bulganin age 45
João Goulart age 21
Jean Monnet age 51
Soong Mei-ling age 42
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 1
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 3
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 3
Paul of Greece age 38
Jacobo Árbenz age 26
Ramiz Alia age 14
Leopoldo Galtieri age 14
Bruno Kreisky age 29
Festus Mogae age 11 months
Seretse Khama age 19
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 15
Lennart Meri age 11
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 27
Giovanni Gronchi age 52
Wim Kok age 1
Antanas Smetona age 65
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 2
Agatha Barbara age 17
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 35
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 40
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 4
Bolesław Bierut age 48
Joseph Estrada age 3
Jean Casimir-Perier age 92
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini age 45
Baldur von Schirach age 33
Sandra Day O'Connor age 10
Dean Acheson age 47
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 78
Andreas Papandreou age 21
Chandra Shekhar age 13
Fuad Masum age 2
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 5 months
Jerzy Buzek age 0 months
Walter Model age 49
Shigeru Yoshida age 61
Kakuei Tanaka age 22
Walther von Brauchitsch age 58
René Cassin age 53
Tariq Aziz age 4
James Baker age 10
Chiang Ching-kuo age 30
Antonin Scalia age 4
Babrak Karmal age 11
Hafizullah Amin age 10
Alfred Moisiu age 10
Kurt Schuschnigg age 42
Zillur Rahman age 11
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 33
Inder Kumar Gujral age 20
V. P. Singh age 9
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 68
Fernando de la Rúa age 2
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 15
Lansana Conté age 5
Sveinn Björnsson age 59
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 26
Talal I of Jordan age 31
Ruud Lubbers age 1
Bounnhang Vorachit age 2
Kiro Gligorov age 23
Jorge Sampaio age 10 months
Franz Halder age 56
Nobusuke Kishi age 43
Toshiki Kaifu age 9
Kiichi Miyazawa age 20
Tsutomu Hata age 4
Édouard Balladur age 11
Konstantin von Neurath age 67
Zhu De age 53
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 31
Malcolm Fraser age 10
Artur Rasizade age 5
John Diefenbaker age 44
Ricardo Lagos age 2
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 13
Gyula Horn age 8
Modibo Keïta age 25
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 14
Michael Sata age 3
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 10
Abbas II of Egypt age 66
Stanislav Shushkevich age 5
Princess Alice of Battenberg age 55
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 20
Choummaly Sayasone age 4
Plutarco Elías Calles age 62
José López Portillo age 20