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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

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
Mehmet Shehu age 28
Nicéphore Soglo age 6
Petar Mladenov age 4
Michel Micombero age 4 months
Belisario Betancur age 17
Kalevi Sorsa age 10
Aimo Cajander age 61
Kaysone Phomvihane age 20
Marien Ngouabi age 2
Petru Groza age 56
Devan Nair age 17
Johan Ferrier age 30
Valentín Paniagua age 4
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 34
Ye Jianying age 43
Artur da Costa e Silva age 41
Roy Jenkins age 20
J. Sigfrid Edström age 70
Karl Hermann Frank age 42
Gotthard Heinrici age 54
Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten age 34
Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 32
Princess Alexandra of Kent age 4
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld age 2
Al Smith age 67
Wim Duisenberg age 5
Kiichirō Hiranuma age 73
Souvanna Phouma age 39
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 7
Giorgos Vasiliou age 9
León Febres-Cordero age 9
Hilla Limann age 6
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 41
Carmen Pereira age 4
József Antall age 8
Bjarni Benediktsson age 32
Jens Otto Krag age 26
Khamtai Siphandone age 16
Omar Karami age 6
Jan P. Syse age 10
Trygve Bratteli age 31
Odvar Nordli age 13
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy age 48
Chivu Stoica age 32
Tufuga Efi age 2
Wee Kim Wee age 25
Rahmon Nabiyev age 10
Ali Fethi Okyar age 60
Phạm Văn Đồng age 34
Stanisław Wojciechowski age 71
Carlos Arias Navarro age 32
Dương Văn Minh age 24
Garret FitzGerald age 14
Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli age 84
William Halsey Jr. age 58
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia age 48
Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta age 40
W. Averell Harriman age 49
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 16
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 19
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 14
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 3
Emilio Portes Gil age 50
Enrique Bolaños age 12
Murtala Muhammed age 2
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi age 16
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 8
Fulbert Youlou age 23
Mame Madior Boye age 1 month
Thanom Kittikachorn age 29
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 19
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 7
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski age 41
Kiyoura Keigo age 90
Okada Keisuke age 73
Senjūrō Hayashi age 64
Mitsumasa Yonai age 60
Guy Mollet age 35
Ferruccio Parri age 51
Liam Cosgrave age 20
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 21
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 30
Mehdi Bazargan age 33
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam age 0 months
Yves Congar age 36
Empress Nagako age 37
Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope age 58
Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 56
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester age 39
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon age 10
Milan Hodža age 62
Kurt Daluege age 43
Raymond A. Spruance age 54
Tôn Đức Thắng age 52
James R. Schlesinger age 11
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 22
Héctor José Cámpora age 31
Juan Carlos Onganía age 26
Frank Forde age 50
Leopold Figl age 38
Gaston Eyskens age 35
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 42
Juan Bosch age 31
Gustavo Noboa age 3
Alexandros Papagos age 57
Arthur Chung age 23
Zoltán Tildy age 51
Michael Manley age 16
Pierre Werner age 27
Albert Zafy age 13
Anthony Mamo age 32
Amata Kabua age 12
Petru Lucinschi age 11 months
Abbas El Fassi age 3 months
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 16
Bernardino Machado age 89
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 26
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 6
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 38
Muteesa II of Buganda age 16
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 26
Le Duc Anh age 20
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 29
Ibrahim Abboud age 40
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim age 51
Wakatsuki Reijirō age 74
Manfred Wörner age 6
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 26
Vladimir Ivashko age 8
Sisavang Vatthana age 33
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 46
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark age 26
Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen age 10
Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler age 6
Ann Richards age 7
David Souter age 1
Carlos Castillo Armas age 26
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 39
Leslie Manigat age 10
Döme Sztójay age 58
Lars Korvald age 24
John Lyng age 35
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 37
Américo Tomás age 46
James Mancham age 1
Siaka Stevens age 35
Benjamin Sheares age 33
Li Zongren age 50
Chuan Leekpai age 2
Yıldırım Akbulut age 5
Christian Rakovsky age 67
Jan Olszewski age 10
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 6
Ho Chong age 44
Hugh Dowding age 58
Creighton Abrams age 26
Charles Haughey age 15
Joseph Luns age 29
Fevzi Çakmak age 65
Nereu Ramos age 52
William J. Perry age 13
Michael Foot age 27
Matvei Zakharov age 42