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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
The Holocaust 1941-01-01 - 1945-09-20
Second Soviet-Finnish War 1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Siege of Leningrad 1941-09-08 - 1944-01-27
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01-01 - 1945-08-21

People

Alfonso López Michelsen age 28
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 35
Ahmed Abdallah age 22
Ahti Karjalainen age 19
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 55
Martti Miettunen age 35
Mátyás Szűrös age 8
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 13
Adone Zoli age 54
H. C. Hansen age 35
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 12
Camille Chamoun age 42
Ruth Perry age 2
Abelardo L. Rodríguez age 53
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 65
Abdelaziz of Morocco age 64
Oscar Torp age 48
Per Borten age 29
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 4
Jules Wijdenbosch age 1
Rickard Sandler age 58
Carl Gustaf Ekman age 69
Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp age 58
Hjalmar Hammarskjöld age 80
Shukri al-Quwatli age 50
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 8
A. N. R. Robinson age 15
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 22
Jaime Lusinchi age 17
Phan Văn Khải age 8
Giovanni Lajolo age 7
Giovanni Messe age 58
Zhang Xueliang age 40
José Linhares age 56
Geoffrey Howe age 15
Carlos Luz age 47
Maxwell D. Taylor age 40
William D. Leahy age 67
William Cohen age 1
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield age 82
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 71
James Forrestal age 50
Warren E. Burger age 34
Haxhi Lleshi age 28
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 50
Julius Raab age 50
Achille Van Acker age 44
Jaime Paz Zamora age 3
Julio César Turbay age 25
Laureano Gómez age 53
Spiros Cyprianou age 9
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 6
Jüri Uluots age 52
Kamisese Mara age 22
Mauno Pekkala age 52
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 10
Oswaldo López Arellano age 20
István Bethlen age 67
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 37
Poul Hartling age 27
Barend Biesheuvel age 22
Alberts Kviesis age 60
Bechara El Khoury age 51
Tom Thabane age 2
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 4
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 36
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 41
Choe Yong-rim age 11
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel age 71
Grégoire Kayibanda age 18
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 9
T. V. Soong age 50
Tito Okello age 27
Vitold Fokin age 9
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 16
Do Muoi age 25
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke age 22
Chung Il-kwon age 24
Ismail al-Azhari age 41
Raif Dizdarević age 15
Vo Chi Cong age 29
Pyotr Krasnov age 72
Joseph Stilwell age 59
J. G. Strijdom age 48
W. T. Cosgrave age 61
Jean Rey age 39
Lloyd Bentsen age 21
Iwane Matsui age 63
Wang Zhen (general) age 34
Frank Jack Fletcher age 57
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 55
Tajuddin Ahmad age 16
Luis García Meza Tejada age 12
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 28
Norodom Suramarit age 46
Hazem Al Beblawi age 5
José Napoleón Duarte age 16
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 0 months
Rafael Paasio age 38
Johannes Virolainen age 28
Noe Zhordania age 74
Georgios Rallis age 23
Forbes Burnham age 19
István Dobi age 43
Ferenc Münnich age 55
Joseph Bech age 55
Ċensu Tabone age 29
Hammer DeRoburt age 19
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 14
Jim Bolger age 6
Ernest Shonekan age 6
Muhammad Junejo age 9
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 10 months
Vasco Gonçalves age 21
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 21
Ong Teng Cheong age 6
Chen Cheng age 45
Thanin Kraiwichian age 15
Luis Herrera Campins age 17
Manuel Odría age 44
Nur Hassan Hussein age 4
Goh Kun age 4
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 17
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort age 55
Marais Viljoen age 26
Sicco Mansholt age 33
François-Xavier Ortoli age 17
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 25
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 22
José María Guido age 31
Pierre Harmel age 31
Kimon Georgiev age 59
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 42
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 40
Jaime Roldos Aquilera age 1
Kamal Ganzouri age 9
Andres Tarand age 2
V. J. Sukselainen age 35
Edward Akufo-Addo age 35
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 28
Michael Stasinopoulos age 38
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 6
András Hegedüs age 19
László Bárdossy age 51
Géza Lakatos age 52
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 29
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 22
Viggo Kampmann age 31
Louis Beel age 40
Jelle Zijlstra age 23
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 1
Wasim Sajjad age 1
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 48
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 3
Manea Mănescu age 25
Nils Edén age 70
Nureddin al-Atassi age 13
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 30
Miguel Trovoada age 5
Yen Chia-kan age 36
Khuang Aphaiwong age 40
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 9
Şükrü Saracoğlu age 54
Nguyen Huu Tho age 31
Mieczysław Rakowski age 15
Alejandro Lerroux age 78
Ali Saibou age 1
John A. Costello age 50
Jack Lynch age 24
Willy Claes age 3
Rauf Orbay age 60
Nigel Lawson age 10
Harold Brown age 14
Seishirō Itagaki age 57
Friedrich Jeckeln age 47
Fred M. Vinson age 52
Melvin Laird age 19
Thomas Gage age 224
Juan José Arévalo age 37
Ali Kafi age 13
Michael Jeffery age 4
Jean Duvieusart age 42
Camille Huysmans age 71
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 23
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 24
Guillermo León Valencia age 33
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 34
Akwasi Afrifa age 6
Fred Akuffo age 5
Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou age 51
Phaedon Gizikis age 24
Béla Miklós age 51
Edward Seaga age 11
Hans Hedtoft age 39
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 4 months
Fouad Chehab age 40
René Moawad age 17
Hussein Onn age 20
Ibrahim Nasir age 15
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 9