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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 - 1945
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 - 1945-08-21
Battle of Stalingrad 1942-07-17 - 1943-02-02
Guadalcanal campaign 1942-08-07 - 1943-02-09
Quit India Movement 1942-08-08 - 1944-09-01
Manhattan Project 1942-08-13 - 1947-01-01
Tunisian campaign 1942-11-17 - 1943-05-13

People

Hugo Sperrle age 57
Kantarō Suzuki age 74
Maurice Couve de Murville age 35
Pierre Bérégovoy age 16
Francesco Saverio Nitti age 74
Dwight F. Davis age 63
Mark W. Clark age 46
B. J. Vorster age 27
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 37
Walter Hallstein age 41
Wolfram von Richthofen age 47
Paul Hausser age 62
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia age 67
Helen of Greece and Denmark age 46
Princess Stéphanie of Belgium age 78
Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein age 36
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood age 45
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark age 36
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner age 10
Katharine, Duchess of Kent age 9
William Rehnquist age 18
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 42
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 12
Jorge Alessandri age 46
Arturo Alessandri age 74
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 16
Väinö Tanner age 61
Mihály Károlyi age 67
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 37
Patrick Hillery age 19
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 57
Dom Mintoff age 26
Guido de Marco age 11
Moktar Ould Daddah age 17
Adolfo de la Huerta age 61
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 51
Muhammad Ali Bogra age 33
Ola Ullsten age 11
Sarit Thanarat age 34
D. F. Malan age 68
Café Filho age 43
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 55
Félix Gouin age 58
Ante Marković age 18
James Earl Ray age 14
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny age 53
Kōki Hirota age 64
John Connally age 25
Mehmet Shehu age 29
Nicéphore Soglo age 8
Petar Mladenov age 6
Michel Micombero age 2
Belisario Betancur age 19
Kalevi Sorsa age 11
Aimo Cajander age 63
Kaysone Phomvihane age 22
Amine Gemayel age 10 months
Marien Ngouabi age 3
Petru Groza age 58
Devan Nair age 19
Johan Ferrier age 32
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 1
Valentín Paniagua age 6
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 36
Ye Jianying age 45
Artur da Costa e Silva age 43
Roy Jenkins age 22
Karl Hermann Frank age 44
Gotthard Heinrici age 56
Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten age 36
Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 34
Princess Alexandra of Kent age 5
Prince Michael of Kent age 5 months
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld age 4
Al Smith age 69
Wim Duisenberg age 7
Kiichirō Hiranuma age 75
Souvanna Phouma age 41
William, Prince of Albania age 66
Liamine Zéroual age 1
Isa II of Bahrain age 9
René Emilio Barrientos Ortuño age 23
Khieu Samphan age 11
Abel Pacheco age 8
Giorgos Vasiliou age 11
León Febres-Cordero age 11
Hilla Limann age 8
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 43
Carmen Pereira age 6
József Antall age 10
Bjarni Benediktsson age 34
Jens Otto Krag age 28
Khamtai Siphandone age 18
Omar Karami age 8
Nangolo Mbumba age 1
Jan P. Syse age 12
Trygve Bratteli age 32
Odvar Nordli age 15
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy age 50
Chivu Stoica age 34
Tufuga Efi age 4
Wee Kim Wee age 27
Rahmon Nabiyev age 12
Ali Fethi Okyar age 62
Phạm Văn Đồng age 36
Stanisław Wojciechowski age 73
Carlos Arias Navarro age 34
Dương Văn Minh age 26
Garret FitzGerald age 16
Michael Howard age 1
William Halsey Jr. age 60
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia age 50
Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark age 7 months
Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta age 42
W. Averell Harriman age 51
Thomas E. Dewey age 40
John Paul Stevens age 22
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 17
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 1
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 39
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 12
Viačasław Kiebič age 6
Mark Eyskens age 9
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 25
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 12
Elisabeth Domitien age 17
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 21
Ahmed Shafik age 1
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 27
Christos Sartzetakis age 13
Boniface Alexandre age 6
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 31
Seán T. O'Kelly age 60
Elias Hrawi age 16
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 4
Emilio Portes Gil age 52
Enrique Bolaños age 14
Murtala Muhammed age 4
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi age 18
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 10
Fulbert Youlou age 25
Radu Vasile age 2 months
Mame Madior Boye age 2
Thanom Kittikachorn age 31
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 21
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 9
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski age 43
Okada Keisuke age 74
Senjūrō Hayashi age 66
Mitsumasa Yonai age 62
Guy Mollet age 36
Ferruccio Parri age 52
Liam Cosgrave age 22
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 23
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 32
Mehdi Bazargan age 35
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam age 1
Yves Congar age 38
Empress Nagako age 39
Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope age 59
Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 58
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester age 41
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon age 12
Milan Hodža age 64
Kurt Daluege age 45
Raymond A. Spruance age 56
Tôn Đức Thắng age 54
James R. Schlesinger age 13
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 24
Héctor José Cámpora age 33
Juan Carlos Onganía age 28
Frank Forde age 52
Leopold Figl age 40
Gaston Eyskens age 37
Michel Kafando age 3 months
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 44
Juan Bosch age 33
Gustavo Noboa age 5
Alexandros Papagos age 59
Arthur Chung age 24
Zoltán Tildy age 53
Michael Manley age 18
Pierre Werner age 28
Albert Zafy age 15
Anthony Mamo age 33
Amata Kabua age 14
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 1
Petru Lucinschi age 2
Abbas El Fassi age 2
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 17
David Lange age 4 months
Bernardino Machado age 91
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 28
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 8
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 40
Muteesa II of Buganda age 18
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 28
Le Duc Anh age 22
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 31
Ibrahim Abboud age 42