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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
Operation Weserübung 1940-04-09 - 1940-06-10
Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang 1940-05-01 - 1940-06-24
Battle of France 1940-05-10 - 1940-06-25

People

Rupiah Banda age 3
Canaan Banana age 4
Manuel Roxas age 48
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio age 37
Nikolai Vatutin age 38
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 10
Raymond Barre age 16
Ernesto Geisel age 32
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 5
John Lewis age 3 months
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 43
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 4
Lon Nol age 26
Alfredo Palacio age 1
Mohammad Hatta age 37
Mariano Rumor age 24
Ciriaco De Mita age 12
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 25
Marcelo Caetano age 33
Trần Đức Lương age 3
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 31
Choi Kyu-hah age 20
Zenkō Suzuki age 29
Leon Panetta age 1
Mario Cuomo age 7
Lê Duẩn age 33
Li Xiannian age 30
George Wallace age 20
Henry L. Stimson age 72
Alexander Haig age 15
John Curtin age 55
Franz Jonas age 40
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 25
Patricio Aylwin age 21
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 23
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 21
Ferenc Szálasi age 43
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 46
Giovanni Spadolini age 14
Arnaldo Forlani age 14
Anerood Jugnauth age 10
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 29
Einar Gerhardsen age 43
Emil Constantinescu age 6 months
Tage Erlander age 38
Rómulo Betancourt age 32
Ignacy Mościcki age 72
José Paciano Laurel age 49
Sergio Osmeña age 61
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 14
Luis Carrero Blanco age 36
Rodolfo Graziani age 57
Masayoshi Ōhira age 30
Sōsuke Uno age 17
Pierre Mendès France age 33
Earl Warren age 49
Gennady Yanayev age 2
Chadli Bendjedid age 11
Franz Vranitzky age 2
Wilfried Martens age 4
Louis St. Laurent age 58
Aristides Pereira age 16
Pedro Pires age 6
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 29
Ephraim Katzir age 24
Moussa Traoré age 3
Eddie Fenech Adami age 6
Adolfo López Mateos age 30
U Nu age 33
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 10
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 10
Ronald Venetiaan age 3
Rafael Caldera age 24
Fernando Belaúnde age 27
Elpidio Quirino age 49
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 59
Takeo Miki age 33
William Westmoreland age 26
Venceslau Brás age 72
Georges Bidault age 40
Hans Fritzsche age 40
Yang Shangkun age 32
Stephen Breyer age 1
Thurgood Marshall age 31
Hubert Maga age 23
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 18
Arthur Meighen age 65
Léon M'ba age 38
Georgios Papandreou age 52
Zalman Shazar age 50
Piet de Jong age 25
Guntis Ulmanis age 8 months
Philibert Tsiranana age 27
Abdul Razak Hussein age 18
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 39
Mircea Snegur age 4 months
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 16
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 17
Maxime Weygand age 73
Kuniaki Koiso age 60
Kijūrō Shidehara age 67
Nikolai Tikhonov age 35
Jânio Quadros age 23
François Darlan age 58
Michael Dukakis age 6
Emilio De Bono age 74
Daniel Inouye age 15
Lawrence Eagleburger age 9
Anthony Kennedy age 3
Dean Rusk age 31
Cyrus Vance age 23
Arturo Umberto Illia age 39
Arturo Frondizi age 31
William McMahon age 32
Earle Page age 59
Joe Clark age 11 months
François Tombalbaye age 21
Tshombé Moïse age 20
Harri Holkeri age 3
Efraín Ríos Montt age 13
Kristján Eldjárn age 23
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 27
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 34
Yigal Allon age 21
Henri Konan Bédié age 6
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 13
Gaston Thorn age 11
Yakubu Gowon age 5
Shehu Shagari age 15
Rudolf Schuster age 6
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 15
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 20
Michael Somare age 4
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora age 62
Saionji Kinmochi age 90
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 57
Milka Planinc age 15
Souphanouvong age 30
S. M. Bruce age 57
John Gorton age 28
Richard Bedford Bennett age 69
José Figueres Ferrer age 33
Osvaldo Dorticós age 21
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 18
Poul Schlüter age 11
Diori Hamani age 23
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 14
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 12
Julio María Sanguinetti age 4
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 45
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 5
Tanzan Ishibashi age 55
Michel Debré age 28
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 25
Washington Luís age 70
Joseph Cook age 79
Karl Seitz age 70
Leo Tindemans age 18
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 32
Barthélemy Boganda age 30
Antoine Gizenga age 14
Eugenia Charles age 21
Nicholas Liverpool age 5
Mario Scelba age 38
Anker Jørgensen age 17
William Tubman age 44
William Richard Tolbert age 27
Didier Ratsiraka age 3
Pedro Lascuráin age 84
Sushil Koirala age 9 months
Kåre Willoch age 11
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 45
Pascal Lissouba age 8
Michal Kováč age 9
Wellington Koo age 52
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 21
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 29
Carlos P. Garcia age 43
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike age 41
Gaafar Nimeiry age 9
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 87
Nobuyuki Abe age 64
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 52
Tetsu Katayama age 52
Hitoshi Ashida age 52
Pierre Messmer age 24
Artur Bernardes age 64
Avery Brundage age 52
Janet Reno age 1
Edmund Muskie age 26
Fan S. Noli age 58
Mohamed Boudiaf age 20
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 15
James Scullin age 63
Arthur Fadden age 46
Ben Chifley age 54
Adolf Schärf age 50
Theodor Körner age 67
Hugo Banzer age 14
Nuon Chea age 13