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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
Western Desert campaign 1940-06-11 - 1943-02-04
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
Battle of Stalingrad 1942-07-17 - 1943-02-02
Guadalcanal campaign 1942-08-07 - 1943-02-09
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

People

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 72
Heinrich Brüning age 57
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 5
José Sarney age 12
Abbas II of Egypt age 68
Stanislav Shushkevich age 8
Princess Alice of Battenberg age 57
Walther Funk age 52
Fritz Sauckel age 48
George Shultz age 22
Billy Hughes age 80
Harold Holt age 34
Ziaur Rahman age 6
Emilio Colombo age 22
Choummaly Sayasone age 6
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 1
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 1
Carol II of Romania age 49
Archibald Wavell age 59
Fumimaro Konoe age 51
Michel Rocard age 12
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 45
Alain Poher age 33
August von Mackensen age 93
Empress Michiko age 8
Prince Henrik of Denmark age 8
Abulfaz Elchibey age 4
Zhelyu Zhelev age 7
Hissène Habré age 4 months
Georgios Papadopoulos age 23
Ferenc Mádl age 11
Árpád Göncz age 20
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 41
Ingvar Carlsson age 8
Rómulo Gallegos age 58
Maurice Gamelin age 70
Hayato Ikeda age 43
Noboru Takeshita age 18
Keizō Obuchi age 5
Kirill Meretskov age 45
Oswald Mosley age 46
Hu Yaobang age 27
Robert Menzies age 48
Iajuddin Ahmed age 11
Costas Simitis age 6
Abdul Salam Arif age 21
Abd al-Karim Qasim age 28
Ezer Weizman age 18
Isaac Navon age 21
Dries van Agt age 11
Émile Lahoud age 6
Jacques Santer age 5
Luis Echeverría age 20
Miguel de la Madrid age 8
Ne Win age 31
Benjamin Mkapa age 4
Francisco Largo Caballero age 73
C. Rajagopalachari age 64
Günther von Kluge age 60
Ichirō Hatoyama age 59
Takeo Fukuda age 37
Morihiro Hosokawa age 4
Ivanoe Bonomi age 69
Hendrik Verwoerd age 41
João Figueiredo age 24
Allen Dulles age 49
Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark age 60
Andrey Vyshinsky age 59
Zita of Bourbon-Parma age 50
Princess Märtha of Sweden age 41
Jerry Brown age 4
Alice Paul age 57
Warren Christopher age 17
Reynaldo Bignone age 14
Ayaz Mutallibov age 4
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 13
Quett Masire age 17
John Turner age 13
David Dacko age 12
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 32
H. D. Deve Gowda age 9
Abdul Rahman Arif age 26
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 58
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 21
George William Vella age 7 months
Mamadou Tandja age 4
S. R. Nathan age 18
Fouad Mebazaa age 9
Rupiah Banda age 5
Canaan Banana age 6
Manuel Roxas age 50
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio age 40
Nikolai Vatutin age 41
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 13
Raymond Barre age 18
Ernesto Geisel age 35
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 8
Ingrid of Sweden age 32
John Lewis age 2
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 7
Lon Nol age 29
Alfredo Palacio age 3
Rose Francine Rogombe age 2 months
Mohammad Hatta age 40
Mariano Rumor age 27
Ciriaco De Mita age 14
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 27
Marcelo Caetano age 36
Trần Đức Lương age 5
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 34
Choi Kyu-hah age 23
Zenkō Suzuki age 31
Paul Reynaud age 64
Leon Panetta age 4
Mario Cuomo age 10
Lê Duẩn age 35
Li Xiannian age 33
George Wallace age 23
Alexander Haig age 18
Franz Jonas age 43
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 27
Patricio Aylwin age 24
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 26
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 24
Ferenc Szálasi age 45
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 48
Giovanni Spadolini age 17
Arnaldo Forlani age 17
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 2
Anerood Jugnauth age 12
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 31
Einar Gerhardsen age 45
Farooq Leghari age 2
Emil Constantinescu age 3
Tage Erlander age 41
Evaristo Carvalho age 1
Rómulo Betancourt age 34
Ignacy Mościcki age 75
José Paciano Laurel age 51
Sergio Osmeña age 64
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 16
Luis Carrero Blanco age 38
Harold Alexander age 51
Rodolfo Graziani age 60
Masayoshi Ōhira age 32
Sōsuke Uno age 20
Pierre Mendès France age 35
Oliver Tambo age 25
Wilhelm, German Crown Prince age 60
Heinrich Müller age 42
Roland Freisler age 49
Charles Evans Hughes age 80
Earl Warren age 51
Gennady Yanayev age 5
Chadli Bendjedid age 13
Franz Vranitzky age 5
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 2
Wilfried Martens age 6
Louis St. Laurent age 60
Aristides Pereira age 19
Pedro Pires age 8
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 31
Ephraim Katzir age 26
Moussa Traoré age 6
Eddie Fenech Adami age 8
Adolfo López Mateos age 32
U Nu age 35
Ibrahim Babangida age 1
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 13
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 12
Vladimír Mečiar age 4 months
Ronald Venetiaan age 6
Rafael Caldera age 26
Fernando Belaúnde age 30
Elpidio Quirino age 52
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 61
Takeo Miki age 35
William Westmoreland age 28
Venceslau Brás age 74
Georges Bidault age 43
Ludwig Beck age 62
Vasily Sokolovsky age 45
Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin age 48
Marcel Lefebvre age 37
Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom age 85
Hans Fritzsche age 42
Yang Shangkun age 35