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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
The Holocaust 1941 - 1945
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 - 1945-08-21
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
Bengal famine of 1943 1943 - 1944

People

Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 29
Le Duc Anh age 22
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 32
Ibrahim Abboud age 42
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim age 54
Wakatsuki Reijirō age 77
Manfred Wörner age 8
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 28
Vladimir Ivashko age 10
Neil Kinnock age 1
Sisavang Vatthana age 35
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria age 74
Mark Felt age 29
Prince George of Greece and Denmark age 73
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone age 60
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
George Cadle Price age 24
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 27
André Kolingba age 6
Epeli Nailatikau age 1
Karl-August Fagerholm age 41
Leslie Manigat age 12
Döme Sztójay age 60
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 51
Robert Guéï age 2
Dioncounda Traoré age 1
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 1
Lars Korvald age 27
John Lyng age 37
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 39
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
José María Balcázar age 3 months
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 8
Ho Chong age 47
Hugh Dowding age 61
Creighton Abrams age 28
Charles Haughey age 17
Joseph Luns age 31
Fevzi Çakmak age 67
Nereu Ramos age 54
William J. Perry age 15
Michael Foot age 29
Matvei Zakharov age 44
Juan Almeida Bosque age 16
Shapour Bakhtiar age 29
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst age 58
Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta age 39
Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark age 38
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 43
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 20
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 56
Martti Miettunen age 36
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 43
Ruth Perry age 3
Abelardo L. Rodríguez age 54
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 66
Abdelaziz of Morocco age 65
Oscar Torp age 49
Per Borten age 30
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 5
Jules Wijdenbosch age 2
Rickard Sandler age 59
Carl Gustaf Ekman age 70
Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp age 59
Hjalmar Hammarskjöld age 81
Shukri al-Quwatli age 51
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 9
A. N. R. Robinson age 16
Nihat Erim age 31
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 23
Jaime Lusinchi age 18
Phan Văn Khải age 9
Giuseppe Bertello age 7 months
Giovanni Lajolo age 8
Giovanni Messe age 59
Zhang Xueliang age 41
José Linhares age 57
Geoffrey Howe age 16
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 51
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 10 months
Yuriko, Princess Mikasa age 19
Şehzade Ertuğrul Osman age 30
Princess Patricia of Connaught age 57
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 45
Jaime Paz Zamora age 4
Julio César Turbay age 26
Laureano Gómez age 54
Spiros Cyprianou age 10
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 7
Jüri Uluots age 53
Kamisese Mara age 23
Mauno Pekkala age 53
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 23
Alberts Kviesis age 61
Bechara El Khoury age 52
Tom Thabane age 3
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 5
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 37
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 42
Choe Yong-rim age 12
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel age 72
Grégoire Kayibanda age 19
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 26
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 60
J. G. Strijdom age 49
W. T. Cosgrave age 62
Jean Rey age 40
Lloyd Bentsen age 22
Feng Yuxiang age 60
Choe Yong-gon age 42
Jisaburō Ozawa age 56
Ralph Abernathy age 17
David Elazar age 17
Kâzım Karabekir age 61
Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 56
Mamoru Shigemitsu age 55
Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark age 30
Iwane Matsui age 64
Wang Zhen (general) age 35
Frank Jack Fletcher age 58
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 56
Tajuddin Ahmad age 17
Luis García Meza Tejada age 13
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 29
Norodom Suramarit age 47
Hazem Al Beblawi age 6
José Napoleón Duarte age 17
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 11 months
Rafael Paasio age 39
Johannes Virolainen age 29
Noe Zhordania age 75
Georgios Rallis age 24
Forbes Burnham age 20
István Dobi age 44
Ferenc Münnich age 56
Charles Konan Banny age 5 months
Joseph Bech age 56
Ċensu Tabone age 30