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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
Western Desert campaign 1940-06-11 - 1943-02-04
Battle of Britain 1940-07-10 - 1940-10-31

People

Saye Zerbo age 7
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 16
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 6 months
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 16
Sufi Abu Taleb age 15
Ants Piip age 56
Tosiwo Nakayama age 8
Edwin Linkomies age 45
Theodoros Pangalos age 62
Nikolaos Plastiras age 56
Xenophon Zolotas age 36
Gérard Latortue age 6
Jenő Fock age 24
Miklós Kállay age 53
Sutan Sjahrir age 31
P. J. Patterson age 5
Abdullah Ensour age 1
Erik Eriksen age 37
Victor Marijnen age 23
Charles D. B. King age 65
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 2
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 56
Gheorghe Tătărescu age 53
Constantin Dăscălescu age 17
Frederick Ballantyne age 4
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 3
Adib Shishakli age 31
Qahhor Mahkamov age 8
Cleopa Msuya age 9
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 28
Aparicio Méndez age 35
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 30
Aleksander Zawadzki age 40
Guillermo Endara age 4
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 11
Kim Jong-pil age 14
William Gopallawa age 42
D. M. Jayaratne age 9
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones age 77
Georg Stumme age 54
Matthew Ridgway age 45
He Long age 44
Manlio Brosio age 43
Franco Maria Malfatti age 13
Denis Healey age 22
Amin al-Hafiz age 18
J. Lawton Collins age 44
John W. Snow age 11 months
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 22
Elliot Richardson age 20
Lester Bird age 2
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 56
Eduardo Lonardi age 43
Bill Hayden age 7
Alfons Gorbach age 41
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 2 months
Georges Theunis age 67
Paul van Zeeland age 46
Colville Young age 7
Aleksandar Tsankov age 61
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 48
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 25
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 13
Mario García Menocal age 73
Osvaldo Hurtado age 1
Galo Plaza age 34
Teuvo Aura age 27
Keijo Liinamaa age 11
Sakari Tuomioja age 28
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 45
Alexandros Koryzis age 55
Ioannis Grivas age 17
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 12
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 9
Desmond Hoyte age 11
Henri Namphy age 7
Sándor Garbai age 61
Péter Boross age 11
István Friedrich age 57
Károly Grósz age 9
Geir Hallgrímsson age 14
Erik Scavenius age 63
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 45
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 26
Salim al-Huss age 10
Antanas Merkys age 53
Anton Buttigieg age 28
Litokwa Tomeing age 9 months
Luis Somoza Debayle age 17
Iuliu Maniu age 67
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod age 68
Cuthbert Sebastian age 18
Flavio Cotti age 9 months
Husni al-Za'im age 43
H. H. Kung age 58
Yen Hsi-shan age 56
Sanya Dharmasakti age 33
Phraya Manopakorn Nitithada age 56
Kriangsak Chamanan age 22
Chatchai Chunhawan age 20
Arthur Foulkes age 12
Marguerite Pindling age 8
Eric Williams age 28
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 17
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 33
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 39
Julius Chan age 10 months
Óscar R. Benavides age 64
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 24
Don Stephen Senanayake age 55
Diego Martínez Barrio age 56
Edem Kodjo age 2
Miles Dempsey age 43
Masayoshi Ito age 26
Dirk Stikker age 43
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 63
James Wolfensohn age 6
Frank Carlucci age 9
Les Aspin age 1
Rab Butler age 37
Doihara Kenji age 56
Lien Chan age 3
William H. Webster age 16
Omer Nishani age 53
Rabah Bitat age 14
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 13
William Deane age 9
Rudolf Ramek age 59
Clifford Husbands age 13
Gualberto Villarroel age 31
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 29
Atef Ebeid age 8
Antti Tulenheimo age 60
Reino Kuuskoski age 33
Reino Ragnar Lehto age 42
Rafael Erich age 61
Ralf Törngren age 41
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 37
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 16
Károly Huszár age 57
Gyula Károlyi age 69
Béla Imrédy age 48
Gyula Kállai age 30
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 16
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 29
Alexander Bustamante age 56
Hendrikus Colijn age 71
Jan Eduard de Quay age 38
Rashid Karami age 18
Riad Al Solh age 47
Richard Ratsimandrava age 9
Abdellatif Filali age 12
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 5 months
Jens Hundseid age 57
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 54
Ilie Verdeț age 15
Vladimir Kokovtsov age 87
Phraya Phahonphonphayuhasena age 53
Lynden Pindling age 10
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 2
Mohamed Mzali age 14
Yukhym Zvyahilskyi age 7
Carlos Delgado Chalbaud age 31
Eusebio Ayala age 64
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 1
Santiago Casares Quiroga age 56
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda age 24
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 6
José Giral age 60
Seán Lemass age 41
Hugh Gaitskell age 34
Robert Rubin age 1
Yoshijirō Umezu age 58
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 14
Edmond Leburton age 25
Jean Van Houtte age 33
Théo Lefèvre age 26
Andrey Lukanov age 1
Son Sann age 28
Said Mohamed Djohar age 21
Otilio Ulate Blanco age 48
Luis Alberto Monge age 14
Vlatko Pavletić age 9
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 37
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 23
Tafari Benti age 18
Leo Falcam age 4
Oskari Mantere age 65
Georgios Tsolakoglou age 54
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 44
José Azcona del Hoyo age 13
György Lázár age 15
Ferenc Nagy age 36
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 27
Carl Theodor Zahle age 74
Wim Schermerhorn age 45
Suleiman Frangieh age 30
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 1
Paul Xuereb age 17
Keith Holyoake age 36