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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

Marien Ngouabi age 1
Petru Groza age 55
Devan Nair age 17
Johan Ferrier age 30
Valentín Paniagua age 3
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 33
Ye Jianying age 43
Artur da Costa e Silva age 40
Roy Jenkins age 19
J. Sigfrid Edström age 69
Karl Hermann Frank age 42
Gotthard Heinrici age 53
Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten age 34
Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 32
Princess Alexandra of Kent age 3
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld age 2
Al Smith age 66
Wim Duisenberg age 5
Kiichirō Hiranuma age 72
Souvanna Phouma age 38
William, Prince of Albania age 64
Isa II of Bahrain age 7
René Emilio Barrientos Ortuño age 21
Khieu Samphan age 9
Abel Pacheco age 6
Giorgos Vasiliou age 9
León Febres-Cordero age 9
Hilla Limann age 5
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 41
Carmen Pereira age 3
József Antall age 8
Bjarni Benediktsson age 32
Jens Otto Krag age 25
Khamtai Siphandone age 16
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 32
Tufuga Efi age 2
Wee Kim Wee age 24
Rahmon Nabiyev age 9
Ali Fethi Okyar age 60
Phạm Văn Đồng age 34
Stanisław Wojciechowski age 71
Carlos Arias Navarro age 31
Trường Chinh age 33
Dương Văn Minh age 24
Garret FitzGerald age 14
Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli age 84
William Halsey Jr. age 57
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia age 47
Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta age 40
W. Averell Harriman age 48
Thomas E. Dewey age 38
John Paul Stevens age 20
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 15
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 37
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 10
Viačasław Kiebič age 4
Mark Eyskens age 7
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 23
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 10
Elisabeth Domitien age 15
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 18
Jaan Tõnisson age 71
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 25
Christos Sartzetakis age 11
Boniface Alexandre age 4
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 29
Seán T. O'Kelly age 58
Elias Hrawi age 13
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 2
Emilio Portes Gil age 49
Enrique Bolaños age 12
Murtala Muhammed age 1
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi age 16
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 7
Fulbert Youlou age 23
Thanom Kittikachorn age 29
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 18
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 7
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski age 41
Kiyoura Keigo age 90
Okada Keisuke age 72
Senjūrō Hayashi age 64
Mitsumasa Yonai age 60
Guy Mollet age 34
Ferruccio Parri age 50
Liam Cosgrave age 20
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 21
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 30
Mehdi Bazargan age 32
Yves Congar age 36
Empress Nagako age 37
Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope age 57
Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 56
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester age 38
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon age 10
Kurt Daluege age 42
Raymond A. Spruance age 54
Tôn Đức Thắng age 52
James R. Schlesinger age 11
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 21
Héctor José Cámpora age 31
Juan Carlos Onganía age 26
Frank Forde age 50
Leopold Figl age 37
Gaston Eyskens age 35
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 41
Juan Bosch age 31
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 13
Anthony Mamo age 31
Amata Kabua age 11
Petru Lucinschi age 6 months
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 15
Bernardino Machado age 89
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 26
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 6
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 37
Muteesa II of Buganda age 15
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 26
Le Duc Anh age 19
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 29
Ibrahim Abboud age 39
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim age 51
Wakatsuki Reijirō age 74
Manfred Wörner age 5
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 26
Vladimir Ivashko age 7
Sisavang Vatthana age 32
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria age 71
Mark Felt age 27
Prince George of Greece and Denmark age 71
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone age 57
Elisabeth of Romania age 45
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark age 26
Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen age 10
Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler age 5
Ann Richards age 6
David Souter age 11 months
Carlos Castillo Armas age 25
William P. Rogers age 27
Agustín Pedro Justo age 64
George Cadle Price age 21
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 24
André Kolingba age 4
Karl-August Fagerholm age 38
Leslie Manigat age 10
Döme Sztójay age 57
Lars Korvald age 24
John Lyng age 35
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 36
Américo Tomás age 45
James Mancham age 1
Siaka Stevens age 35
Benjamin Sheares age 33
Li Zongren age 50
Chuan Leekpai age 2
Yıldırım Akbulut age 4
Christian Rakovsky age 67
Jan Olszewski age 10
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 5
Ho Chong age 44
Hugh Dowding age 58
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 27
Matvei Zakharov age 42
Juan Almeida Bosque age 13
Shapour Bakhtiar age 26
Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark age 64
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst age 55
Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta age 36
Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark age 35
Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies age 29
Anne of Romania age 16
Lamar Alexander age 1 month
Edward Stettinius Jr. age 39
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear age 71
John McEwen age 40
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 13
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 62
Alfonso López Michelsen age 27
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 34
Ahmed Abdallah age 21
Otto Strandman age 64
Ahti Karjalainen age 17
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 54