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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
Operation Compass 1940-12-09 - 1941-02-09
The Holocaust 1941 - 1945

People

Michel Aflaq age 31
Ferdinand Schörner age 48
Tomoyuki Yamashita age 55
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 7
Dobrica Ćosić age 19
Emilio De Bono age 74
Daniel Inouye age 16
Lawrence Eagleburger age 10
Anthony Kennedy age 4
Dean Rusk age 31
Cyrus Vance age 23
Arturo Umberto Illia age 40
Arturo Frondizi age 32
William McMahon age 32
Earle Page age 60
Joe Clark age 1
François Tombalbaye age 22
Tshombé Moïse age 21
Harri Holkeri age 4
Efraín Ríos Montt age 14
Kristján Eldjárn age 24
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 28
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 35
Yigal Allon age 22
Henri Konan Bédié age 6
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 14
Gaston Thorn age 12
Yakubu Gowon age 6
Shehu Shagari age 15
Rudolf Schuster age 7
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 15
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 21
Michael Somare age 4
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora age 63
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 57
Milka Planinc age 16
Günter Schabowski age 12
Tadamichi Kuribayashi age 49
Chen Duxiu age 61
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck age 70
Kurt Student age 50
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg age 53
Carrie Chapman Catt age 82
Souphanouvong age 31
S. M. Bruce age 57
John Gorton age 29
Richard Bedford Bennett age 70
José Figueres Ferrer age 34
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 13
Julio María Sanguinetti age 5
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 45
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 6
Tanzan Ishibashi age 56
Michel Debré age 29
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 25
Washington Luís age 71
Claude Auchinleck age 56
Maximilian von Weichs age 59
Wilhelm List age 60
Johannes Blaskowitz age 57
Frederica of Hanover age 23
Kim Jong-suk age 23
Louise Mountbatten age 51
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 5
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 3
Joseph Cook age 80
Karl Seitz age 71
Leo Tindemans age 18
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 33
Barthélemy Boganda age 30
Antoine Gizenga age 15
Eugenia Charles age 21
Nicholas Liverpool age 6
Mario Scelba age 39
Anker Jørgensen age 18
William Tubman age 45
William Richard Tolbert age 27
Didier Ratsiraka age 4
Pedro Lascuráin age 84
Sushil Koirala age 1
Kåre Willoch age 12
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 46
Pascal Lissouba age 9
Michal Kováč age 10
Wellington Koo age 52
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 22
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 30
Carlos P. Garcia age 44
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike age 42
Gaafar Nimeiry age 10
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 88
Nobuyuki Abe age 65
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 53
Tetsu Katayama age 53
Hitoshi Ashida age 53
Pierre Messmer age 24
Artur Bernardes age 65
Avery Brundage age 53
Biljana Plavšić age 10
Karl Rahner age 36
Paul Tibbets age 25
Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 61
Felix Yusupov age 53
Prince George, Duke of Kent age 38
Maria of Yugoslavia age 41
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 19
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 25
Janet Reno age 2
Edmund Muskie age 26
Fan S. Noli age 59
Mohamed Boudiaf age 21
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 16
James Scullin age 64
Arthur Fadden age 46
Ben Chifley age 55
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 34
Josefa Iloilo age 20
Luís Cabral age 9
Janet Jagan age 20
Giuseppe Pella age 38
Fernando Tambroni age 39
Joop den Uyl age 21
Kazys Grinius age 74
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 24
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa age 29
António Ramalho Eanes age 5
António de Spínola age 30
France-Albert René age 5
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 8
Yusof bin Ishak age 30
Ruth Dreifuss age 1
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 3
Samak Sundaravej age 5
George Maxwell Richards age 9
Juan María Bordaberry age 12
Juan Negrín age 48
Hugo Sperrle age 55
Kantarō Suzuki age 73
Maurice Couve de Murville age 33
Pierre Bérégovoy age 15
Francesco Saverio Nitti age 72
Dwight F. Davis age 61
Mark W. Clark age 44
B. J. Vorster age 25
Epitácio Pessoa age 75
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 35
Walter Hallstein age 39
Wolfram von Richthofen age 45
Paul Hausser age 60
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 34
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner age 8
Katharine, Duchess of Kent age 7
William Rehnquist age 16
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 40
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 10
Jorge Alessandri age 44
Arturo Alessandri age 72
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 14
Väinö Tanner age 59
Mihály Károlyi age 65
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 35
Patrick Hillery age 17
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 55
Dom Mintoff age 24
Guido de Marco age 9
Moktar Ould Daddah age 16
Adolfo de la Huerta age 59
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 50
Muhammad Ali Bogra age 31
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 56
Ante Marković age 16
James Earl Ray age 12
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny age 51
Kōki Hirota age 62
John Connally age 23