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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

Zhang Xueliang age 39
José Linhares age 54
Geoffrey Howe age 13
Carlos Luz age 46
Maxwell D. Taylor age 39
William D. Leahy age 65
William Cohen age 0 months
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield age 81
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 69
James Forrestal age 48
Warren E. Burger age 33
Haxhi Lleshi age 26
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 49
Julius Raab age 48
Achille Van Acker age 42
Jaime Paz Zamora age 1
Julio César Turbay age 24
Laureano Gómez age 51
Spiros Cyprianou age 7
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 5
Jüri Uluots age 50
Kamisese Mara age 20
Mauno Pekkala age 50
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 9
Oswaldo López Arellano age 19
István Bethlen age 66
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 36
Nuri as-Said age 52
Poul Hartling age 26
Barend Biesheuvel age 20
Alberts Kviesis age 58
Bechara El Khoury age 50
Tom Thabane age 1
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 2
Augustinas Voldemaras age 57
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 34
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 40
Choe Yong-rim age 9
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel age 69
Grégoire Kayibanda age 16
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 8
T. V. Soong age 48
Tito Okello age 25
Vitold Fokin age 7
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 14
Do Muoi age 23
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke age 21
Chung Il-kwon age 22
Ismail al-Azhari age 39
Raif Dizdarević age 13
Vo Chi Cong age 28
Pyotr Krasnov age 71
Joseph Stilwell age 57
J. G. Strijdom age 47
W. T. Cosgrave age 60
Jean Rey age 38
Lloyd Bentsen age 19
Iwane Matsui age 62
Wang Zhen (general) age 32
Frank Jack Fletcher age 55
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 53
Tajuddin Ahmad age 15
Luis García Meza Tejada age 11
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 26
Norodom Suramarit age 44
Hazem Al Beblawi age 3
José Napoleón Duarte age 14
Kaarel Eenpalu age 52
Rafael Paasio age 37
Johannes Virolainen age 26
Noe Zhordania age 72
Georgios Rallis age 21
Forbes Burnham age 17
István Dobi age 41
Ferenc Münnich age 53
Joseph Bech age 53
Ċensu Tabone age 27
Hammer DeRoburt age 18
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 12
Jim Bolger age 5
Ernest Shonekan age 4
Muhammad Junejo age 8
Vasco Gonçalves age 19
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 19
Ong Teng Cheong age 4
Chen Cheng age 43
Thanin Kraiwichian age 13
Luis Herrera Campins age 15
Manuel Odría age 42
Nur Hassan Hussein age 2
Goh Kun age 2
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 16
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort age 54
Marais Viljoen age 24
Sicco Mansholt age 32
François-Xavier Ortoli age 15
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 24
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 20
José María Guido age 30
Pierre Harmel age 29
Kimon Georgiev age 58
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 40
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 38
Kamal Ganzouri age 7
Andres Tarand age 8 months
V. J. Sukselainen age 33
Edward Akufo-Addo age 34
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 27
Michael Stasinopoulos age 37
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 4
András Hegedüs age 17
László Bárdossy age 49
Géza Lakatos age 50
Ólafur Thors age 48
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 27
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 20
Viggo Kampmann age 30
Louis Beel age 38
Jelle Zijlstra age 22
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 46
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 1
Manea Mănescu age 24
Nils Edén age 69
Nureddin al-Atassi age 11
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 28
Miguel Trovoada age 3
Yen Chia-kan age 34
Khuang Aphaiwong age 38
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 8
Şükrü Saracoğlu age 53
Nguyen Huu Tho age 30
Mieczysław Rakowski age 13
Alejandro Lerroux age 76
Ali Saibou age 3 months
John A. Costello age 49
Jack Lynch age 23
Willy Claes age 1
Rauf Orbay age 59
Nigel Lawson age 8
Harold Brown age 13
Seishirō Itagaki age 55
Friedrich Jeckeln age 45
Fred M. Vinson age 50
Melvin Laird age 18
Thomas Gage age 222
Juan José Arévalo age 36
Ali Kafi age 11
Michael Jeffery age 2
Jean Duvieusart age 40
Camille Huysmans age 69
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 21
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 22
Guillermo León Valencia age 31
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 32
Akwasi Afrifa age 4
Fred Akuffo age 3
Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou age 49
Phaedon Gizikis age 23
Béla Miklós age 50
Edward Seaga age 10
Hans Hedtoft age 37
Fouad Chehab age 38
René Moawad age 15
Hussein Onn age 18
Ibrahim Nasir age 14
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 7
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 46
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 16
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 51
Pak Pong-ju age 1
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 35
Haruo Remeliik age 7
Ivan Stambolić age 3
Ernst Trygger age 82
Hashim al-Atassi age 64
Seni Pramoj age 35
Kukrit Pramoj age 29
Anand Panyarachun age 8
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 4
Mohamed Ennaceur age 6
Godfrey Binaisa age 20
Vitalii Masol age 11
Raúl Leoni age 35
Ramón José Velásquez age 23
Vo Van Kiet age 17
Mohammed Basindawa age 5
Arnulfo Arias age 39
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 46
Andrés Rodríguez age 17
Liu Bocheng age 47
Claire Lee Chennault age 47
J. B. M. Hertzog age 74
Albert Reynolds age 7
Dušan Simović age 57
Anton Korošec age 68
Kenneth Clarke age 2 months
Ramsey Clark age 12
Courtney Hodges age 53
Bainbridge Colby age 70
Carlos Lacoste age 11