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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
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01 - 1945-08-21
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Battle of Luzon 1945-01-09 - 1945-08-15
Chinese Communist Revolution 1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01

People

Gough Whitlam age 29
Mathieu Kérékou age 11
Arnold Rüütel age 17
François Duvalier age 38
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 40
Luigi Einaudi age 71
Enrico de Nicola age 67
Ibrahim Rugova age 8 months
Anton Denikin age 72
Armand Fallières age 103
Pierre Mauroy age 17
Édith Cresson age 11
Robert McNamara age 29
Omar Bradley age 52
Soong Ching-ling age 52
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 4
Mohamed Naguib age 44
Mátyás Rákosi age 53
László Sólyom age 3
Charan Singh age 42
Bingu wa Mutharika age 11
Violeta Chamorro age 15
Semyon Budyonny age 62
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 108
Erich Raeder age 69
Julius Streicher age 60
John J. Pershing age 84
René Coty age 63
Brian Mulroney age 6
R. Venkataraman age 34
Antonio Segni age 54
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 7
Evgeny Primakov age 15
Siad Barre age 25
Mary of Teck age 78
Yoshirō Mori age 8
Hjalmar Schacht age 68
Rodion Malinovsky age 46
Lázaro Cárdenas age 50
Bob Hawke age 15
Makarios III age 31
Gulzarilal Nanda age 47
Moshe Sharett age 50
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 5
Joaquim Chissano age 5
Sam Nujoma age 16
Sani Abacha age 1
Juvénal Habyarimana age 8
Abdoulaye Wade age 19
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 27
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 18
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando age 85
P. W. Botha age 29
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood age 80
Wilhelm Frick age 68
Semyon Timoshenko age 50
Lee Teng-hui age 22
Paul Keating age 1
Thomas Klestil age 12
Paul-Henri Spaak age 46
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 21
Konstantin Päts age 71
Pál Schmitt age 3
Zail Singh age 29
Amintore Fanfani age 37
Willem Drees age 59
Viktor Zubkov age 3
Vojislav Koštunica age 1
Jozef Tiso age 57
Tomiichi Murayama age 21
Nikolai Bulganin age 50
João Goulart age 26
Jean Monnet age 56
Li Peng age 16
John Foster Dulles age 57
Ferhat Abbas age 45
Tassos Papadopoulos age 11
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 80
João Bernardo Vieira age 6
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 26
Chaim Herzog age 26
Giuseppe Saragat age 46
Lamberto Dini age 14
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 8
Askar Akayev age 8 months
Algirdas Brazauskas age 12
Prem Tinsulanonda age 24
Roh Tae-woo age 12
Lin Biao age 37
Egon Krenz age 8
Jacobo Árbenz age 31
Robert Mueller age 12 months
Ramiz Alia age 19
Leopoldo Galtieri age 19
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 6 months
Bruno Kreisky age 34
Festus Mogae age 5
Seretse Khama age 24
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 20
Lennart Meri age 16
Risto Ryti age 56
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 32
Giovanni Gronchi age 57
Wim Kok age 6
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 7
Agatha Barbara age 22
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 40
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 45
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 9
Moncef Marzouki age 0 months
Joseph Estrada age 8
Jean Casimir-Perier age 97
Robert Gates age 1
Baldur von Schirach age 38
Dean Acheson age 52
Andreas Papandreou age 26
Chandra Shekhar age 18
Fuad Masum age 7
Douglas Hyde age 85
Hage Geingob age 4
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 5
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 0 months
Jerzy Buzek age 5
Shigeru Yoshida age 66
Kakuei Tanaka age 27
James Baker age 15
Chiang Ching-kuo age 35
Antonin Scalia age 9
Babrak Karmal age 16
Hafizullah Amin age 16
Alfred Moisiu age 15
Kurt Schuschnigg age 47
Zillur Rahman age 16
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 38
Inder Kumar Gujral age 25
V. P. Singh age 14
Thein Sein age 3 months
Than Shwe age 12
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb age 68
Albert Kesselring age 59
Joseph Wirth age 65
Wilhelm Marx age 82
Hans Luther age 66
Édouard Herriot age 73
Javier Solana age 3
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 20
Lansana Conté age 10
René Préval age 2
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 31
Talal I of Jordan age 36
Ruud Lubbers age 6
Bounnhang Vorachit age 7
Andris Bērziņš age 7 months
Vladimir Voronin age 4
Kiro Gligorov age 28
Jorge Sampaio age 5
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 48
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 2
Franz Halder age 61
Nobusuke Kishi age 48
Toshiki Kaifu age 14
Kiichi Miyazawa age 25
Tsutomu Hata age 9
Édouard Balladur age 16
Zhu De age 58
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 36
Eduardo Duhalde age 3
Malcolm Fraser age 15
Wolfgang Schüssel age 1 month
Artur Rasizade age 10
John Diefenbaker age 49
Ricardo Lagos age 7
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 18
Gyula Horn age 13
Modibo Keïta age 30
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 19
Goh Chok Tong age 4
Michael Sata age 8
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 6
Diosdado Macapagal age 34
Ramon Magsaysay age 37
Heinrich Brüning age 59
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 57
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 8
José Sarney age 15
Walther Funk age 54
Fritz Sauckel age 50
George Shultz age 24
Billy Hughes age 82
Harold Holt age 37
Ziaur Rahman age 9
Emilio Colombo age 25
Choummaly Sayasone age 9
Plutarco Elías Calles age 67
José López Portillo age 25
Milovan Đilas age 34
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 9
Girija Prasad Koirala age 21
Abdou Diouf age 9
Milan Kučan age 4