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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
Katyn massacre 1940-04 - 1940-05-31
Operation Weserübung 1940-04-09 - 1940-06-10
Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang 1940-05-01 - 1940-06-24
Battle of France 1940-05-10 - 1940-06-25

People

Mátyás Szűrös age 6
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 11
Adone Zoli age 52
H. C. Hansen age 33
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 10
Camille Chamoun age 40
Ruth Perry age 10 months
Abelardo L. Rodríguez age 51
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 63
Abdelaziz of Morocco age 62
Oscar Torp age 46
Per Borten age 27
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 2
Rickard Sandler age 56
Carl Gustaf Ekman age 67
Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp age 56
Hjalmar Hammarskjöld age 78
Shukri al-Quwatli age 48
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 6
A. N. R. Robinson age 13
Nihat Erim age 28
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 20
Jaime Lusinchi age 16
Phan Văn Khải age 6
Giovanni Lajolo age 5
Giovanni Messe age 56
Zhang Xueliang age 38
José Linhares age 54
Geoffrey Howe age 13
Carlos Luz age 45
Maxwell D. Taylor age 38
William D. Leahy age 65
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield age 80
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 69
James Forrestal age 48
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 54
Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick age 52
Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1906–1969) age 34
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook age 61
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 42
Jaime Paz Zamora age 1
Julio César Turbay age 23
Laureano Gómez age 51
Spiros Cyprianou age 7
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 4
Kamisese Mara age 20
Mauno Pekkala age 50
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 8
Oswaldo López Arellano age 18
István Bethlen age 65
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 35
Nuri as-Said age 52
Poul Hartling age 25
Barend Biesheuvel age 20
Alberts Kviesis age 58
Bechara El Khoury age 49
Tom Thabane age 12 months
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 2
Augustinas Voldemaras age 57
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 34
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 39
Choe Yong-rim age 9
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel age 69
Grégoire Kayibanda age 16
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 23
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 57
J. G. Strijdom age 46
W. T. Cosgrave age 60
Jean Rey age 37
Lloyd Bentsen age 19
Feng Yuxiang age 57
Choe Yong-gon age 39
Jisaburō Ozawa age 53
Ralph Abernathy age 14
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 27
Iwane Matsui age 61
Wang Zhen (general) age 32
Frank Jack Fletcher age 55
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 53
Tajuddin Ahmad age 14
Luis García Meza Tejada age 10
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 36
Johannes Virolainen age 26
Noe Zhordania age 72
Georgios Rallis age 21
Forbes Burnham age 17
István Dobi age 41
Ferenc Münnich age 53
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 55
Joseph Bech age 53
Ċensu Tabone age 27
Hammer DeRoburt age 17
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 12
Jim Bolger age 4
Ernest Shonekan age 4
Muhammad Junejo age 7
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
Wincenty Witos age 66
Manuel Odría age 42
Nur Hassan Hussein age 2
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 15
Essam Sirius age 14
Jamshid Amouzegar age 16
Paul Blobel age 45
Kamal Jumblatt age 22
Husband E. Kimmel age 58
Borisav Jović age 11
Jalaluddin Haqqani age 1
Carlo Sforza age 68
Félicien Kabuga age 7
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 73
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. age 52
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 23
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 20
José María Guido age 29
Pierre Harmel age 29
Kimon Georgiev age 57
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 40
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 38
Kamal Ganzouri age 7
Andres Tarand age 4 months
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 50
Ólafur Thors age 48
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 27
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 20
Viggo Kampmann age 29
Louis Beel age 38
Jelle Zijlstra age 21
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 46
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 1
Manea Mănescu age 23
Nils Edén age 68
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 7
Şükrü Saracoğlu age 52
Nguyen Huu Tho age 29
Mieczysław Rakowski age 13
Alejandro Lerroux age 76
John A. Costello age 48
Jack Lynch age 22
Willy Claes age 1