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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

Emilio De Bono age 74
Daniel Inouye age 15
Lawrence Eagleburger age 10
Anthony Kennedy age 4
Dean Rusk age 31
Cyrus Vance age 23
Arturo Umberto Illia age 40
Arturo Frondizi age 31
William McMahon age 32
Earle Page age 60
Joe Clark age 1
François Tombalbaye age 22
Tshombé Moïse age 20
Harri Holkeri age 3
Efraín Ríos Montt age 14
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 14
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 63
Saionji Kinmochi age 90
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 57
Milka Planinc age 15
Günter Schabowski age 11
Tadamichi Kuribayashi age 49
Chen Duxiu age 60
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck age 70
Kurt Student age 50
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg age 52
Carrie Chapman Catt age 81
Souphanouvong age 31
S. M. Bruce age 57
John Gorton age 28
Richard Bedford Bennett age 70
José Figueres Ferrer age 33
Osvaldo Dorticós age 21
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 19
Poul Schlüter age 11
Diori Hamani age 24
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
Claude Auchinleck age 56
Maximilian von Weichs age 58
Wilhelm List age 60
Johannes Blaskowitz age 57
Frederica of Hanover age 23
Kim Jong-suk age 22
Louise Mountbatten age 51
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 4
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 3
Joseph Cook age 79
Karl Seitz age 71
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 18
William Tubman age 44
William Richard Tolbert age 27
Didier Ratsiraka age 3
Pedro Lascuráin age 84
Sushil Koirala age 1
Kåre Willoch age 11
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 46
Pascal Lissouba age 8
Michal Kováč age 10
Wellington Koo age 52
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 22
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 30
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 53
Hitoshi Ashida age 52
Pierre Messmer age 24
Artur Bernardes age 65
Avery Brundage age 52
Biljana Plavšić age 10
Karl Rahner age 36
Paul Tibbets age 25
Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 60
Felix Yusupov age 53
Prince George, Duke of Kent age 37
Maria of Yugoslavia age 40
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 19
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 24
Janet Reno age 2
Edmund Muskie age 26
Fan S. Noli age 58
Mohamed Boudiaf age 21
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 14
Ange-Félix Patassé age 3
Glafcos Clerides age 21
Joaquín Balaguer age 33
Josefa Iloilo age 19
Luís Cabral age 9
Janet Jagan age 19
Giuseppe Pella age 38
Fernando Tambroni age 38
Joop den Uyl age 21
Kazys Grinius age 73
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 23
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa age 28
António Ramalho Eanes age 5
António de Spínola age 30
France-Albert René age 4
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 8
Yusof bin Ishak age 30
Ruth Dreifuss age 7 months
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 3
Samak Sundaravej age 5
George Maxwell Richards age 8
Juan María Bordaberry age 12
Juan Negrín age 48
Hugo Sperrle age 55
Kantarō Suzuki age 72
Maurice Couve de Murville age 33
Pierre Bérégovoy age 14
Francesco Saverio Nitti age 72
Dwight F. Davis age 61
Mark W. Clark age 44
B. J. Vorster age 24
Epitácio Pessoa age 75
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 34
Walter Hallstein age 38
Wolfram von Richthofen age 44
Paul Hausser age 59
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia age 65
Helen of Greece and Denmark age 44
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn age 90
Princess Stéphanie of Belgium age 76
Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein age 34
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood age 43
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark age 33
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner age 8
Katharine, Duchess of Kent age 7
William Rehnquist age 15
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 40
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 10
Jorge Alessandri age 44
Arturo Alessandri age 71
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 14
Väinö Tanner age 59
Mihály Károlyi age 65
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 34
Patrick Hillery age 17
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 55
Dom Mintoff age 24
Guido de Marco age 9
Moktar Ould Daddah age 15
Adolfo de la Huerta age 59
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 49
Muhammad Ali Bogra age 30
Ola Ullsten age 9
Sarit Thanarat age 32
D. F. Malan age 66
Café Filho age 41
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 53
Félix Gouin age 55
Ante Marković age 15
James Earl Ray age 12
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny age 51
Kōki Hirota age 62
John Connally age 23
Mehmet Shehu age 27
Nicéphore Soglo age 5
Petar Mladenov age 3
Belisario Betancur age 17
Kalevi Sorsa age 9
Aimo Cajander age 61
Kaysone Phomvihane age 19