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Events

Treaty of Bardo 1881-05-12 - 1956-03-20
Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1922-12-29 - 1991-12-12
Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Lateran Treaty 1929-02-11 - 1985-06-03
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Air raids on Japan 1939-08-15 - 1945-08-15
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
Tripartite Pact 1940-09-27 - 1945
The Holocaust 1941 - 1945
Axis occupation of Greece 1941-04 - 1944-10
Eastern Front (World War II) 1941-06-22 - 1955-01-21
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
South-East Asian theatre of World War II 1941-12-08 - 1945-09-09
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01 - 1945-08-21
Japanese occupation of Singapore 1942 - 1945
Battles of Rzhev 1942-01-05 - 1943-03-21
Aleutian Islands campaign 1942-06-03 - 1943-08-15
Battle of the Caucasus 1942-07 - 1943-10
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
Battle of Velikiye Luki 1942-11-19 - 1943-01-16
Operation Mars 1942-11-25 - 1942-12-16

People

Hans-Jürgen von Arnim age 53
Wakatsuki Reijirō age 76
Manfred Wörner age 8
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 28
Vladimir Ivashko age 10
Neil Kinnock age 8 months
Sisavang Vatthana age 35
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria age 73
Mark Felt age 29
Prince George of Greece and Denmark age 73
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone age 59
Elisabeth of Romania age 48
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark age 28
Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen age 12
Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler age 8
Ann Richards age 9
David Souter age 3
Carlos Castillo Armas age 28
William P. Rogers age 29
Agustín Pedro Justo age 66
George Cadle Price age 23
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 26
André Kolingba age 6
Epeli Nailatikau age 1
Karl-August Fagerholm age 40
Leslie Manigat age 12
Döme Sztójay age 59
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 50
Robert Guéï age 1
Dioncounda Traoré age 9 months
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 10 months
Lars Korvald age 26
John Lyng age 37
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 38
Américo Tomás age 48
James Mancham age 3
Siaka Stevens age 37
Benjamin Sheares age 35
Li Zongren age 52
Chuan Leekpai age 4
Yıldırım Akbulut age 7
Jan Olszewski age 12
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 8
Ho Chong age 46
Hugh Dowding age 60
Creighton Abrams age 28
Charles Haughey age 17
Joseph Luns age 31
Fevzi Çakmak age 66
Nereu Ramos age 54
William J. Perry age 15
Michael Foot age 29
Matvei Zakharov age 44
Juan Almeida Bosque age 15
Shapour Bakhtiar age 28
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst age 57
Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta age 38
Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark age 37
Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies age 32
Anne of Romania age 19
Lamar Alexander age 2
Edward Stettinius Jr. age 42
John McEwen age 42
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 16
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 65
Alfonso López Michelsen age 29
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 36
Ahmed Abdallah age 23
Ahti Karjalainen age 19
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 56
Martti Miettunen age 35
Mátyás Szűrös age 9
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 14
Adone Zoli age 55
H. C. Hansen age 36
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 12
Camille Chamoun age 42
Ruth Perry age 3
Abelardo L. Rodríguez age 53
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 65
Abdelaziz of Morocco age 64
Oscar Torp age 49
Per Borten age 29
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 5
Jules Wijdenbosch age 1
Rickard Sandler age 58
Carl Gustaf Ekman age 70
Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp age 59
Hjalmar Hammarskjöld age 80
Shukri al-Quwatli age 51
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 9
A. N. R. Robinson age 16
Nihat Erim age 30
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 22
Jaime Lusinchi age 18
Phan Văn Khải age 8
Giuseppe Bertello age 2 months
Giovanni Lajolo age 7
Giovanni Messe age 59
Zhang Xueliang age 41
José Linhares age 56
Geoffrey Howe age 15
Carlos Luz age 48
Maxwell D. Taylor age 41
William Cohen age 2
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield age 83
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 72
James Forrestal age 50
Caspar Weinberger age 25
Viktor Chernov age 69
Ugo Cavallero age 62
Lothar Rendulic age 55
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu age 9
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 5 months
Yuriko, Princess Mikasa age 19
Şehzade Ertuğrul Osman age 30
Princess Patricia of Connaught age 56
Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick age 55
Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1906–1969) age 36
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook age 63
Leonard Kleinrock age 8
Warren E. Burger age 35
Haxhi Lleshi age 29
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 51
Julius Raab age 51
Achille Van Acker age 44
Jaime Paz Zamora age 3
Julio César Turbay age 26
Laureano Gómez age 53
Spiros Cyprianou age 10
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 7
Jüri Uluots age 52
Kamisese Mara age 22
Mauno Pekkala age 52
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 11
Oswaldo López Arellano age 21
István Bethlen age 68
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 38
Poul Hartling age 28
Barend Biesheuvel age 22
Alberts Kviesis age 61
Bechara El Khoury age 52
Tom Thabane age 3
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 4
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 36
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 42
Choe Yong-rim age 12
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel age 72
Grégoire Kayibanda age 18
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 10
T. V. Soong age 51
Tito Okello age 28
Vitold Fokin age 10
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 17
Do Muoi age 25
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke age 23
Chung Il-kwon age 25
Ismail al-Azhari age 42
Raif Dizdarević age 16
Vo Chi Cong age 30
Pyotr Krasnov age 73
Joseph Stilwell age 59
J. G. Strijdom age 49
W. T. Cosgrave age 62
Jean Rey age 40
Lloyd Bentsen age 21
Feng Yuxiang age 60
Choe Yong-gon age 42
Jisaburō Ozawa age 56
Ralph Abernathy age 16
David Elazar age 17
Kâzım Karabekir age 60
Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 56
Mamoru Shigemitsu age 55
Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark age 29
Iwane Matsui age 64
Wang Zhen (general) age 34
Frank Jack Fletcher age 57
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 55
Tajuddin Ahmad age 17
Luis García Meza Tejada age 13
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 28
Norodom Suramarit age 46
Hazem Al Beblawi age 6
José Napoleón Duarte age 17
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 7 months
Rafael Paasio age 39
Johannes Virolainen age 28
Noe Zhordania age 74
Georgios Rallis age 23
Forbes Burnham age 19
István Dobi age 43
Ferenc Münnich age 56
Charles Konan Banny age 1 month
Joseph Bech age 55
Ċensu Tabone age 29
Hammer DeRoburt age 20
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 14
Jim Bolger age 7
Ernest Shonekan age 6