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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
Winter War 1939-11-30 - 1940-03-13

People

Artur da Costa e Silva age 40
Roy Jenkins age 19
J. Sigfrid Edström age 69
Karl Hermann Frank age 41
Gotthard Heinrici age 53
Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten age 33
Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 31
Princess Alexandra of Kent age 3
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld age 1
Al Smith age 66
Wim Duisenberg age 4
Kiichirō Hiranuma age 72
Souvanna Phouma age 38
William, Prince of Albania age 63
Isa II of Bahrain age 6
René Emilio Barrientos Ortuño age 20
Khieu Samphan age 8
Abel Pacheco age 6
Giorgos Vasiliou age 8
León Febres-Cordero age 8
Hilla Limann age 5
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 40
Carmen Pereira age 3
József Antall age 7
Bjarni Benediktsson age 31
Jens Otto Krag age 25
Khamtai Siphandone age 15
Omar Karami age 5
Jan P. Syse age 9
Trygve Bratteli age 30
Odvar Nordli age 12
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy age 47
Chivu Stoica age 31
Tufuga Efi age 1
Wee Kim Wee age 24
Rahmon Nabiyev age 9
Ali Fethi Okyar age 59
Phạm Văn Đồng age 33
Stanisław Wojciechowski age 70
Carlos Arias Navarro age 31
Trường Chinh age 32
Dương Văn Minh age 23
Garret FitzGerald age 13
Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli age 83
William Halsey Jr. age 57
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia age 47
Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta age 39
W. Averell Harriman age 48
Thomas E. Dewey age 37
John Paul Stevens age 19
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 14
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 36
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 9
Viačasław Kiebič age 3
Mark Eyskens age 6
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 22
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 9
Elisabeth Domitien age 15
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 18
Jaan Tõnisson age 71
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 24
Christos Sartzetakis age 10
Boniface Alexandre age 3
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 28
Seán T. O'Kelly age 57
Elias Hrawi age 13
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 2
Emilio Portes Gil age 49
Enrique Bolaños age 11
Murtala Muhammed age 1
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi age 15
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 7
Fulbert Youlou age 22
Thanom Kittikachorn age 28
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 18
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 6
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski age 40
Kiyoura Keigo age 89
Okada Keisuke age 72
Senjūrō Hayashi age 63
Mitsumasa Yonai age 59
Guy Mollet age 34
Ferruccio Parri age 50
Liam Cosgrave age 19
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 20
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 29
Mehdi Bazargan age 32
Yves Congar age 35
Empress Nagako age 36
Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope age 57
Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 55
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester age 38
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon age 9
Kurt Daluege age 42
Raymond A. Spruance age 53
Tôn Đức Thắng age 51
James R. Schlesinger age 10
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 21
Héctor José Cámpora age 30
Juan Carlos Onganía age 25
Frank Forde age 49
Leopold Figl age 37
Gaston Eyskens age 34
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 41
Juan Bosch age 30
Gustavo Noboa age 2
Alexandros Papagos age 56
Arthur Chung age 22
Zoltán Tildy age 50
Michael Manley age 15
Pierre Werner age 26
Albert Zafy age 12
Anthony Mamo age 31
Amata Kabua age 11
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 15
Bernardino Machado age 88
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 25
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 5
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 37
Muteesa II of Buganda age 15
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 25
Le Duc Anh age 19
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 28
Ibrahim Abboud age 39
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim age 50
Wakatsuki Reijirō age 73
Manfred Wörner age 5
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 25
Vladimir Ivashko age 7
Sisavang Vatthana age 32
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria age 70
Mark Felt age 26
Prince George of Greece and Denmark age 70
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone age 56
Elisabeth of Romania age 45
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark age 25
Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen age 9
Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler age 5
Ann Richards age 6
David Souter age 3 months
Carlos Castillo Armas age 25
William P. Rogers age 26
Agustín Pedro Justo age 63
George Cadle Price age 20
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 23
André Kolingba age 3
Karl-August Fagerholm age 38
Leslie Manigat age 9
Döme Sztójay age 57
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 48
Lars Korvald age 23
John Lyng age 34
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 36
Américo Tomás age 45
James Mancham age 5 months
Siaka Stevens age 34
Benjamin Sheares age 32
Li Zongren age 49
Chuan Leekpai age 1
Yıldırım Akbulut age 4
Christian Rakovsky age 66
Jan Olszewski age 9
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 5
Ho Chong age 43
Hugh Dowding age 57
Creighton Abrams age 25
Charles Haughey age 14
Joseph Luns age 28
Fevzi Çakmak age 64
Nereu Ramos age 51
William J. Perry age 12
Michael Foot age 26
Matvei Zakharov age 41
Juan Almeida Bosque age 12
Shapour Bakhtiar age 26
Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark age 63
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst age 55
Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta age 35
Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark age 34
Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies age 29
Anne of Romania age 16
Edward Stettinius Jr. age 39
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear age 71
John McEwen age 39
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 13
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 62
Alfonso López Michelsen age 26
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 33
Ahmed Abdallah age 20
Otto Strandman age 64
Ahti Karjalainen age 16
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 53
Martti Miettunen age 32
Mátyás Szűrös age 6
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 11
Adone Zoli age 52
H. C. Hansen age 33
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 9
Camille Chamoun age 39
Ruth Perry age 5 months