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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

Yoshirō Mori age 3
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 8 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
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
Konstantin Päts age 66
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
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
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 66
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
Baldur von Schirach age 33
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 1 month
Walter Model age 49
Shigeru Yoshida age 61
Kakuei Tanaka age 22
James Baker age 10
Chiang Ching-kuo age 30
Antonin Scalia age 4
Babrak Karmal age 11
Hafizullah Amin age 11
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
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
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
Kārlis Ulmanis age 62
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 3
José Sarney age 10
Abbas II of Egypt age 66
Walther Funk age 49
Fritz Sauckel age 45
George Shultz age 19
Billy Hughes age 77
Harold Holt age 32
Ziaur Rahman age 4
Emilio Colombo age 20
Choummaly Sayasone age 4
Plutarco Elías Calles age 62
José López Portillo age 20
Milovan Đilas age 29
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 4
Girija Prasad Koirala age 16
Abdou Diouf age 4
Michel Rocard age 9
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 42
Alain Poher age 31
Abulfaz Elchibey age 2
Zhelyu Zhelev age 5
Georgios Papadopoulos age 21
Ferenc Mádl age 9
Árpád Göncz age 18
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 38
Nicolae Iorga age 69
Ingvar Carlsson age 5
Rómulo Gallegos age 56
Maurice Gamelin age 67
Hayato Ikeda age 40
Noboru Takeshita age 16
Keizō Obuchi age 3
Oswald Mosley age 43
Hu Yaobang age 24
Chris Watson age 73
Iajuddin Ahmed age 9
Lauri Kristian Relander age 57
Costas Simitis age 4
Abdul Salam Arif age 19
Abd al-Karim Qasim age 25
Ezer Weizman age 16
Isaac Navon age 19
Dries van Agt age 9
Émile Lahoud age 4
Jacques Santer age 3
Luis Echeverría age 18
Ne Win age 29
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 2
Fritz Todt age 48
Warren Christopher age 14
Reynaldo Bignone age 12
Ayaz Mutallibov age 2
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 11
Quett Masire age 15
John Turner age 11
David Dacko age 10
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 30
Abdul Rahman Arif age 24
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 55
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 19