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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
Winter War 1939-11-30 - 1940-03-13

People

Ruth Perry age 5 months
Abelardo L. Rodríguez age 50
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 62
Abdelaziz of Morocco age 61
Oscar Torp age 46
Per Borten age 26
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 2
Rickard Sandler age 55
Carl Gustaf Ekman age 67
Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp age 56
Hjalmar Hammarskjöld age 77
Shukri al-Quwatli age 48
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 6
A. N. R. Robinson age 13
Nihat Erim age 28
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 19
Jaime Lusinchi age 15
Phan Văn Khải age 6
Giovanni Lajolo age 5
Giovanni Messe age 56
Zhang Xueliang age 38
José Linhares age 53
Geoffrey Howe age 13
Carlos Luz age 45
Maxwell D. Taylor age 38
William D. Leahy age 64
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield age 80
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 69
James Forrestal age 47
Caspar Weinberger age 22
Viktor Chernov age 66
Ugo Cavallero age 59
Lothar Rendulic age 52
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu age 6
Yuriko, Princess Mikasa age 16
Şehzade Ertuğrul Osman age 27
Princess Patricia of Connaught age 53
Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick age 52
Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1906–1969) age 33
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook age 60
Leonard Kleinrock age 5
Warren E. Burger age 32
Haxhi Lleshi age 26
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 48
Julius Raab age 48
Achille Van Acker age 41
Jaime Paz Zamora age 8 months
Julio César Turbay age 23
Laureano Gómez age 50
Spiros Cyprianou age 7
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 4
Kamisese Mara age 19
Mauno Pekkala age 49
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 8
Oswaldo López Arellano age 18
István Bethlen age 65
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 35
Poul Hartling age 25
Barend Biesheuvel age 19
Alberts Kviesis age 58
Bechara El Khoury age 49
Tom Thabane age 7 months
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 1
Augustinas Voldemaras age 56
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 33
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 39
Choe Yong-rim age 9
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel age 69
Grégoire Kayibanda age 15
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 7
T. V. Soong age 48
Tito Okello age 25
Vitold Fokin age 7
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 14
Do Muoi age 22
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke age 20
Chung Il-kwon age 22
Ismail al-Azhari age 39
Raif Dizdarević age 13
Vo Chi Cong age 27
Pyotr Krasnov age 70
Joseph Stilwell age 56
J. G. Strijdom age 46
W. T. Cosgrave age 59
Jean Rey age 37
Lloyd Bentsen age 18
Feng Yuxiang age 57
Choe Yong-gon age 39
Jisaburō Ozawa age 53
Ralph Abernathy age 13
David Elazar age 14
Kâzım Karabekir age 58
Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 53
Mamoru Shigemitsu age 52
Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark age 26
Iwane Matsui age 61
Wang Zhen (general) age 31
Frank Jack Fletcher age 54
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 52
Tajuddin Ahmad age 14
Luis García Meza Tejada age 10
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 25
Bogdan Filov age 56
Norodom Suramarit age 43
Hazem Al Beblawi age 3
José Napoleón Duarte age 14
Kaarel Eenpalu age 51
Rafael Paasio age 36
Johannes Virolainen age 25
Noe Zhordania age 72
Georgios Rallis age 21
Forbes Burnham age 16
István Dobi age 41
Ferenc Münnich age 53
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 54
Joseph Bech age 52
Ċensu Tabone age 26
Hammer DeRoburt age 17
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 11
Jim Bolger age 4
Ernest Shonekan age 3
Muhammad Junejo age 7
Vasco Gonçalves age 18
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 18
Ong Teng Cheong age 3
Chen Cheng age 43
Thanin Kraiwichian age 12
Luis Herrera Campins age 14
Wincenty Witos age 66
Manuel Odría age 42
Nur Hassan Hussein age 1
Goh Kun age 2
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 15
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort age 53
C. R. Swart age 45
Marais Viljoen age 24
Sicco Mansholt age 31
François-Xavier Ortoli age 14
Essam Sirius age 14
Jamshid Amouzegar age 16
Paul Blobel age 45
Kamal Jumblatt age 22
Husband E. Kimmel age 57
Borisav Jović age 11
Jalaluddin Haqqani age 1
Carlo Sforza age 68
Félicien Kabuga age 6
Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark age 51
Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland age 55
Eduard Dietl age 49
Wanrong age 33
Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine age 73
Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria age 56
Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony (1867–1944) age 72
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. age 52
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 23
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 19
José María Guido age 29
Pierre Harmel age 28
Kimon Georgiev age 57
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 39
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 38
Kamal Ganzouri age 6
V. J. Sukselainen age 33
Edward Akufo-Addo age 33
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 26
Michael Stasinopoulos age 36
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 4
András Hegedüs age 17
László Bárdossy age 49
Géza Lakatos age 49
Ólafur Thors age 48
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 26
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 19
Viggo Kampmann age 29
Louis Beel age 37
Jelle Zijlstra age 21
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 45
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 12 months
Manea Mănescu age 23
Nils Edén age 68
Nureddin al-Atassi age 11
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 27
Miguel Trovoada age 3
Yen Chia-kan age 34
Khuang Aphaiwong age 37
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 7
Şükrü Saracoğlu age 52
Nguyen Huu Tho age 29
Mieczysław Rakowski age 13
Alejandro Lerroux age 75
John A. Costello age 48
Jack Lynch age 22
Willy Claes age 1
Rauf Orbay age 58
Nigel Lawson age 7
Harold Brown age 12
Alexander Vandegrift age 52
Masaharu Homma age 52
Archduke Joseph August of Austria age 67