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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

Mohamed Naguib age 42
Mátyás Rákosi age 51
László Sólyom age 1
Charan Singh age 40
Bingu wa Mutharika age 9
Violeta Chamorro age 13
Semyon Budyonny age 60
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 105
Erich Raeder age 67
Julius Streicher age 58
John J. Pershing age 82
René Coty age 61
Brian Mulroney age 4
R. Venkataraman age 32
Antonio Segni age 52
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 5
Evgeny Primakov age 13
Siad Barre age 23
Mary of Teck age 76
Yoshirō Mori age 5
Hjalmar Schacht age 66
Rodion Malinovsky age 44
Lázaro Cárdenas age 47
Bob Hawke age 13
Makarios III age 29
Gulzarilal Nanda age 44
Moshe Sharett age 48
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 3
Joaquim Chissano age 3
Sam Nujoma age 13
Juvénal Habyarimana age 6
Abdoulaye Wade age 16
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 25
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 16
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando age 83
P. W. Botha age 27
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood age 78
Semyon Timoshenko age 48
Lee Teng-hui age 20
Thomas Klestil age 10
Paul-Henri Spaak age 44
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 19
Konstantin Päts age 69
Pál Schmitt age 12 months
Zail Singh age 27
Amintore Fanfani age 35
Willem Drees age 56
Viktor Zubkov age 1
Tomiichi Murayama age 19
Nikolai Bulganin age 47
João Goulart age 24
Jean Monnet age 54
Li Peng age 14
John Foster Dulles age 55
Ferhat Abbas age 43
Tassos Papadopoulos age 9
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 78
João Bernardo Vieira age 4
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 24
Chaim Herzog age 24
Giuseppe Saragat age 44
Lamberto Dini age 12
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 5
Algirdas Brazauskas age 10
Prem Tinsulanonda age 22
Roh Tae-woo age 10
Lin Biao age 35
Fedor von Bock age 62
Egon Krenz age 6
Jacobo Árbenz age 29
Ramiz Alia age 17
Leopoldo Galtieri age 16
Bruno Kreisky age 32
Festus Mogae age 3
Seretse Khama age 21
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 18
Lennart Meri age 14
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 29
Giovanni Gronchi age 55
Wim Kok age 4
Antanas Smetona age 68
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 5
Agatha Barbara age 20
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 38
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 43
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 7
Bolesław Bierut age 51
Joseph Estrada age 6
Jean Casimir-Perier age 95
Baldur von Schirach age 36
Dean Acheson age 50
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 81
Andreas Papandreou age 24
Chandra Shekhar age 16
Fuad Masum age 5
Hage Geingob age 1
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 3
Jerzy Buzek age 2
Walter Model age 52
Shigeru Yoshida age 64
Kakuei Tanaka age 25
James Baker age 13
Chiang Ching-kuo age 33
Antonin Scalia age 7
Babrak Karmal age 14
Hafizullah Amin age 13
Alfred Moisiu age 13
Kurt Schuschnigg age 45
Zillur Rahman age 14
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 36
Inder Kumar Gujral age 23
V. P. Singh age 11
Than Shwe age 10
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb age 66
Albert Kesselring age 57
Joseph Wirth age 63
Wilhelm Marx age 80
Hans Luther age 64
Édouard Herriot age 70
Javier Solana age 9 months
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 18
Lansana Conté age 8
René Préval age 3 months
Sveinn Björnsson age 62
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 28
Talal I of Jordan age 34
Ruud Lubbers age 4
Bounnhang Vorachit age 5
Vladimir Voronin age 1
Kiro Gligorov age 26
Jorge Sampaio age 3
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 7 months
Franz Halder age 58
Nobusuke Kishi age 46
Toshiki Kaifu age 12
Kiichi Miyazawa age 23
Tsutomu Hata age 7
Édouard Balladur age 14
Zhu De age 56
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 33
Eduardo Duhalde age 1
Malcolm Fraser age 12
Artur Rasizade age 8
John Diefenbaker age 47
Ricardo Lagos age 5
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 16
Gyula Horn age 10
Modibo Keïta age 27
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 17
Goh Chok Tong age 1
Michael Sata age 5
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 4
Diosdado Macapagal age 32
Ramon Magsaysay age 35
Gustav Bauer age 73
Heinrich Brüning age 57
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 5
José Sarney age 13
Abbas II of Egypt age 68
Walther Funk age 52
Fritz Sauckel age 48
George Shultz age 22
Billy Hughes age 80
Harold Holt age 34
Ziaur Rahman age 7
Emilio Colombo age 23
Choummaly Sayasone age 7
Plutarco Elías Calles age 65
José López Portillo age 22
Milovan Đilas age 31
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 7
Girija Prasad Koirala age 18
Abdou Diouf age 7
Milan Kučan age 2
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 1
Carol II of Romania age 49
Fumimaro Konoe age 51
Michel Rocard age 12
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 45
Alain Poher age 34
Abulfaz Elchibey age 4
Zhelyu Zhelev age 8
Hissène Habré age 8 months
Georgios Papadopoulos age 24
Ferenc Mádl age 12
Árpád Göncz age 21
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 41
Ingvar Carlsson age 8
Rómulo Gallegos age 58
Frederick Chiluba age 0 months
Maurice Gamelin age 70
Hayato Ikeda age 43
Noboru Takeshita age 19
Keizō Obuchi age 5
Oswald Mosley age 46
Hu Yaobang age 27
Robert Menzies age 48
Iajuddin Ahmed age 12
Costas Simitis age 6
Abdul Salam Arif age 22