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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

Archibald Wavell age 57
Michel Rocard age 10
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 43
Alain Poher age 31
August von Mackensen age 90
Empress Michiko age 5
Prince Henrik of Denmark age 6
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 68
Hayato Ikeda age 40
Noboru Takeshita age 16
Keizō Obuchi age 3
Kirill Meretskov age 43
Edward Rydz-Śmigły age 54
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
Miguel de la Madrid age 5
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 39
João Figueiredo age 22
Allen Dulles age 47
Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark age 58
Andrey Vyshinsky age 56
Zita of Bourbon-Parma age 48
Princess Märtha of Sweden age 39
Jerry Brown age 2
Alice Paul age 55
Fritz Todt age 49
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
H. D. Deve Gowda age 7
Abdul Rahman Arif age 24
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 55
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 19
Mamadou Tandja age 2
S. R. Nathan age 16
Fouad Mebazaa age 7
Rupiah Banda age 3
Canaan Banana age 4
Manuel Roxas age 48
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio age 38
Nikolai Vatutin age 38
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 10
Raymond Barre age 16
Ernesto Geisel age 33
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 6
Ingrid of Sweden age 30
John Lewis age 6 months
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 43
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 4
Lon Nol age 26
Alfredo Palacio age 1
Mohammad Hatta age 38
Mariano Rumor age 25
Ciriaco De Mita age 12
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 25
Marcelo Caetano age 34
Trần Đức Lương age 3
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 31
Choi Kyu-hah age 21
Zenkō Suzuki age 29
Paul Reynaud age 61
Leon Panetta age 2
Mario Cuomo age 8
Lê Duẩn age 33
Li Xiannian age 31
George Wallace age 21
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 15
Arnaldo Forlani age 14
Anerood Jugnauth age 10
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 29
Einar Gerhardsen age 43
Farooq Leghari age 3 months
Emil Constantinescu age 9 months
Tage Erlander age 39
Rómulo Betancourt age 32
Ignacy Mościcki age 72
José Paciano Laurel age 49
Sergio Osmeña age 62
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 14
Luis Carrero Blanco age 36
Harold Alexander age 48
Rodolfo Graziani age 58
Masayoshi Ōhira age 30
Sōsuke Uno age 18
Pierre Mendès France age 33
Oliver Tambo age 22
Wilhelm, German Crown Prince age 58
Heinrich Müller age 40
Roland Freisler age 46
Earl Warren age 49
Gennady Yanayev age 3
Chadli Bendjedid age 11
Franz Vranitzky age 2
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 1 month
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 4
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
Ludwig Beck age 60
Vasily Sokolovsky age 43
Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin age 46
Marcel Lefebvre age 34
Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom age 83
Hans Fritzsche age 40
Yang Shangkun age 33
Stephen Breyer age 2
Thurgood Marshall age 32
Hubert Maga age 24
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 19
Arthur Meighen age 66
Léon M'ba age 38
Georgios Papandreou age 52
Zalman Shazar age 50
Piet de Jong age 25
Guntis Ulmanis age 12 months
Philibert Tsiranana age 27
Abdul Razak Hussein age 18
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 39
Mircea Snegur age 7 months
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 16
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 17
Maxime Weygand age 73
Kuniaki Koiso age 60
Kijūrō Shidehara age 68
Nikolai Tikhonov age 35
Jânio Quadros age 23
François Darlan age 59
Michel Aflaq age 30
Ferdinand Schörner age 48
Tomoyuki Yamashita age 54
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia age 58
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine age 77
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 27
Michael Dukakis age 6
Dobrica Ćosić age 18
Emilio De Bono age 74
Daniel Inouye age 16
Lawrence Eagleburger age 10
Anthony Kennedy age 4