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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

Ibrahim Nasir age 15
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 9
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 48
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 18
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 53
Pak Pong-ju age 3
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 36
Haruo Remeliik age 8
Ivan Stambolić age 5
Ernst Trygger age 84
Hashim al-Atassi age 66
Seni Pramoj age 37
Kukrit Pramoj age 31
Anand Panyarachun age 9
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 5
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 1
Mohamed Ennaceur age 8
Apolo Nsibambi age 1
Godfrey Binaisa age 21
Vitalii Masol age 13
Raúl Leoni age 37
Ramón José Velásquez age 25
Vo Van Kiet age 19
Mohammed Basindawa age 7
Arnulfo Arias age 40
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 48
Andrés Rodríguez age 18
Liu Bocheng age 49
Claire Lee Chennault age 48
J. B. M. Hertzog age 76
Albert Reynolds age 9
Dušan Simović age 59
Kenneth Clarke age 1
Ramsey Clark age 14
Courtney Hodges age 55
Bainbridge Colby age 72
Carlos Lacoste age 13
Ramón Castillo age 68
Josef Klaus age 31
Juan José Torres age 22
Saye Zerbo age 9
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 18
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 2
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 18
Sufi Abu Taleb age 17
Ants Piip age 58
Tosiwo Nakayama age 10
Edwin Linkomies age 47
Theodoros Pangalos age 64
Nikolaos Plastiras age 58
Xenophon Zolotas age 38
Gérard Latortue age 7
Jenő Fock age 26
Sutan Sjahrir age 33
P. J. Patterson age 7
Abdullah Ensour age 3
Erik Eriksen age 39
Dirk Jan de Geer age 71
Victor Marijnen age 25
Charles D. B. King age 67
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 4
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 58
Gheorghe Tătărescu age 55
Constantin Dăscălescu age 18
Frederick Ballantyne age 5
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 5
Adib Shishakli age 33
Qahhor Mahkamov age 10
Cleopa Msuya age 11
Yevhen Marchuk age 1
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 29
Aparicio Méndez age 37
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 32
Aleksander Zawadzki age 42
Guillermo Endara age 6
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 13
Kim Jong-pil age 16
William Gopallawa age 44
D. M. Jayaratne age 10
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 9 months
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones age 79
Georg Stumme age 55
Matthew Ridgway age 47
He Long age 46
Manlio Brosio age 44
Franco Maria Malfatti age 14
Denis Healey age 24
Amin al-Hafiz age 20
Dragiša Cvetković age 49
J. Lawton Collins age 46
John W. Snow age 2
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 23
Elliot Richardson age 21
Lester Bird age 4
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 58
Eduardo Lonardi age 45
Bill Hayden age 9
Alfons Gorbach age 43
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 2
Georges Theunis age 69
Paul van Zeeland age 48
Colville Young age 9
Aleksandar Tsankov age 62
Goukouni Oueddei age 4 months
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 50
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 26
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 15
Osvaldo Hurtado age 2
Galo Plaza age 36
Teuvo Aura age 29
Keijo Liinamaa age 13
Sakari Tuomioja age 30
Ioannis Grivas age 19
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 14
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 11
Desmond Hoyte age 13
Henri Namphy age 9
Sándor Garbai age 63
Péter Boross age 13
István Friedrich age 58
Károly Grósz age 11
Geir Hallgrímsson age 16
Erik Scavenius age 64
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 47
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 28
Salim al-Huss age 12
Antanas Merkys age 55
Anton Buttigieg age 30
Litokwa Tomeing age 2
Luis Somoza Debayle age 19
Iuliu Maniu age 69
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod age 70
Cuthbert Sebastian age 20
Flavio Cotti age 2
Husni al-Za'im age 45
H. H. Kung age 60
Yen Hsi-shan age 58
Sanya Dharmasakti age 35
Phraya Manopakorn Nitithada age 57
Kriangsak Chamanan age 24
Chatchai Chunhawan age 22
Arthur Foulkes age 14
Marguerite Pindling age 9
Eric Williams age 30
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 19
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 35
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 40
Julius Chan age 2
Óscar R. Benavides age 66
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 26
Don Stephen Senanayake age 57
Diego Martínez Barrio age 58
Edem Kodjo age 3
Miles Dempsey age 45
Masayoshi Ito age 28
Dirk Stikker age 45
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 65
James Wolfensohn age 8
Frank Carlucci age 11
Les Aspin age 3
Rab Butler age 39
Doihara Kenji age 58
Lien Chan age 5
William H. Webster age 18
Omer Nishani age 55
Rabah Bitat age 16
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 15
William Deane age 11
Clifford Husbands age 15
Gualberto Villarroel age 33
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 31
Hipólito Mejía age 1
Atef Ebeid age 10
Johannes Vares age 52
Jacob Nena age 7 months
Antti Tulenheimo age 62
Reino Kuuskoski age 35
Reino Ragnar Lehto age 44
Rafael Erich age 62
Ralf Törngren age 43
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 39
Ramiro de León Carpio age 4 months
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 18
Gyula Károlyi age 71
Béla Imrédy age 50
Gyula Kállai age 31
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 17
Hermann Jónasson age 45
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 31
Alexander Bustamante age 58
Hendrikus Colijn age 72
Jan Eduard de Quay age 40
Rashid Karami age 20
Riad Al Solh age 49
Richard Ratsimandrava age 11
Abdellatif Filali age 14
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 2
Jens Hundseid age 59
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 56
Ilie Verdeț age 17