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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 1941-01-01 - 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
Quit India Movement 1942-08-08 - 1944-09-01
Bengal famine of 1943 1943 - 1944
Italian campaign 1943-07-09 - 1945-05-02

People

Manea Mănescu age 27
Nils Edén age 72
Nureddin al-Atassi age 14
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 31
Miguel Trovoada age 6
Yen Chia-kan age 38
Khuang Aphaiwong age 41
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 11
Nguyen Huu Tho age 33
Mieczysław Rakowski age 16
Alejandro Lerroux age 79
Ali Saibou age 3
John A. Costello age 52
Jack Lynch age 26
Willy Claes age 4
Rauf Orbay age 62
Nigel Lawson age 11
Harold Brown age 16
Seishirō Itagaki age 58
Friedrich Jeckeln age 48
Fred M. Vinson age 53
Melvin Laird age 21
Thomas Gage age 225
Juan José Arévalo age 39
Ali Kafi age 15
Michael Jeffery age 5
Jean Duvieusart age 43
Camille Huysmans age 72
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 24
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 25
Guillermo León Valencia age 34
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 35
Akwasi Afrifa age 7
Fred Akuffo age 6
Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou age 52
Phaedon Gizikis age 26
Béla Miklós age 53
Edward Seaga age 13
Hans Hedtoft age 40
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 1
Fouad Chehab age 41
René Moawad age 18
Hussein Onn age 21
Ibrahim Nasir age 17
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 10
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 49
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 19
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 54
Pak Pong-ju age 4
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 38
Haruo Remeliik age 10
Ivan Stambolić age 6
Hashim al-Atassi age 67
Seni Pramoj age 38
Kukrit Pramoj age 32
Anand Panyarachun age 11
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 7
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 2
Mohamed Ennaceur age 9
Apolo Nsibambi age 2
Godfrey Binaisa age 23
Vitalii Masol age 14
Raúl Leoni age 38
Ramón José Velásquez age 26
Vo Van Kiet age 20
Mohammed Basindawa age 8
Arnulfo Arias age 42
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 49
Andrés Rodríguez age 20
Liu Bocheng age 50
Claire Lee Chennault age 50
Albert Reynolds age 10
Dušan Simović age 61
Kenneth Clarke age 3
Ramsey Clark age 15
Courtney Hodges age 56
Bainbridge Colby age 73
Albert Pintat age 3 months
Carlos Lacoste age 14
Ramón Castillo age 69
Josef Klaus age 33
Juan José Torres age 23
Saye Zerbo age 11
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 1
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 19
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 3
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 19
Sufi Abu Taleb age 18
Tosiwo Nakayama age 11
Theodoros Pangalos age 65
Nikolaos Plastiras age 59
Xenophon Zolotas age 39
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 2 months
Gérard Latortue age 9
Jenő Fock age 27
Sutan Sjahrir age 34
P. J. Patterson age 8
Abdullah Ensour age 4
Erik Eriksen age 40
Dirk Jan de Geer age 72
Victor Marijnen age 26
Charles D. B. King age 68
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 5
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 60
Gheorghe Tătărescu age 56
Constantin Dăscălescu age 20
Frederick Ballantyne age 7
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 6
Adib Shishakli age 34
Qahhor Mahkamov age 11
Cleopa Msuya age 12
Yevhen Marchuk age 2
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 31
Aparicio Méndez age 39
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 34
Aleksander Zawadzki age 43
Guillermo Endara age 7
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 15
Kim Jong-pil age 17
William Gopallawa age 46
D. M. Jayaratne age 12
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 2
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones age 80
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 56
Matthew Ridgway age 48
He Long age 47
Manlio Brosio age 46
Franco Maria Malfatti age 16
Denis Healey age 26
Amin al-Hafiz age 21
Dragiša Cvetković age 50
J. Lawton Collins age 47
John W. Snow age 4
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 25
Elliot Richardson age 23
Lester Bird age 5
Eduardo Lonardi age 47
Bill Hayden age 10
Alfons Gorbach age 45
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 3
Georges Theunis age 70
Paul van Zeeland age 49
Colville Young age 10
Aleksandar Tsankov age 64
Goukouni Oueddei age 1
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 51
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 28
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 16
Osvaldo Hurtado age 4
Galo Plaza age 37
Teuvo Aura age 30
Keijo Liinamaa age 14
Sakari Tuomioja age 32
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 49
Ioannis Grivas age 20
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 16
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 12
Vinicio Cerezo age 9 months
Desmond Hoyte age 14
Henri Namphy age 10
Sándor Garbai age 64
Péter Boross age 15
István Friedrich age 60
Károly Grósz age 13
Geir Hallgrímsson age 17
Erik Scavenius age 66
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 48
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 29
Salim al-Huss age 13
Antanas Merkys age 56
Anton Buttigieg age 31
Litokwa Tomeing age 4
Luis Somoza Debayle age 20
Iuliu Maniu age 70
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod age 71
Cuthbert Sebastian age 22
Flavio Cotti age 4
Husni al-Za'im age 46
H. H. Kung age 62
Yen Hsi-shan age 60
Sanya Dharmasakti age 36
Phraya Manopakorn Nitithada age 59
Kriangsak Chamanan age 25
Chatchai Chunhawan age 23
Arthur Foulkes age 15
Marguerite Pindling age 11
Eric Williams age 32
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 20
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 36
Julius Chan age 4
Óscar R. Benavides age 67
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 27
Don Stephen Senanayake age 59
Diego Martínez Barrio age 59
Edem Kodjo age 5
Miles Dempsey age 46
Masayoshi Ito age 29
Dirk Stikker age 46
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 67
James Wolfensohn age 9