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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
Winter War 1939-11-30 - 1940-03-13

People

Takahito, Prince Mikasa age 24
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890–1958) age 49
Princess Margaret of Prussia age 67
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 61
Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia age 22
Aspasia Manos age 43
Princess Mafalda of Savoy age 37
Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz age 3
George Voinovich age 3
John Profumo age 24
Gabriel Terra age 66
Seishirō Itagaki age 55
Friedrich Jeckeln age 44
Melvin Laird age 17
Thomas Gage age 221
Juan José Arévalo age 35
Ali Kafi age 11
Michael Jeffery age 2
Jean Duvieusart age 39
Camille Huysmans age 68
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 20
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 21
Guillermo León Valencia age 30
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 31
Akwasi Afrifa age 3
Fred Akuffo age 2
Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou age 48
Phaedon Gizikis age 22
Béla Miklós age 49
Edward Seaga age 9
Hans Hedtoft age 36
Fouad Chehab age 37
René Moawad age 14
Hussein Onn age 17
Ibrahim Nasir age 13
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 7
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 45
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 15
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 50
Pak Pong-ju age 9 months
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 34
Haruo Remeliik age 6
Ivan Stambolić age 3
Ernst Trygger age 82
Hashim al-Atassi age 64
Seni Pramoj age 34
Kukrit Pramoj age 28
Anand Panyarachun age 7
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 3
Mohamed Ennaceur age 5
Godfrey Binaisa age 19
Vitalii Masol age 11
Raúl Leoni age 34
Ramón José Velásquez age 23
Vo Van Kiet age 17
Mohammed Basindawa age 4
Arnulfo Arias age 38
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 46
Andrés Rodríguez age 16
Liu Bocheng age 47
Glubb Pasha age 42
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ age 9
Claire Lee Chennault age 46
J. B. M. Hertzog age 73
Albert Reynolds age 7
Dušan Simović age 57
Anton Korošec age 67
John Smith age 1
Abdel Hakim Amer age 20
Fazlollah Zahedi age 47
Ahmad Qavam age 64
Nobutake Kondō age 53
Bai Chongxi age 46
Johannes Frießner age 47
Lucjan Żeligowski age 74
Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon age 43
Veljko Kadijević age 14
Shunroku Hata age 60
Empress Teimei age 55
Princess Milica of Montenegro age 73
Frederick Francis IV age 57
Princess Helen of Serbia age 55
Dürrüşehvar Sultan age 25
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk) age 18
Sam Manekshaw age 25
Heinrich von Vietinghoff age 52
Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal age 84
Prince Nicholas of Romania age 36
Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein age 54
Milan Stojadinović age 51
Gaylord Nelson age 23
Ramsey Clark age 12
Courtney Hodges age 53
Bainbridge Colby age 70
Carlos Lacoste age 10
Ramón Castillo age 66
Josef Klaus age 29
Juan José Torres age 19
Saye Zerbo age 7
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 16
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría born 1940-01-09
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 16
Sufi Abu Taleb age 14
Ants Piip age 55
Tosiwo Nakayama age 8
Edwin Linkomies age 45
Theodoros Pangalos age 62
Nikolaos Plastiras age 56
Xenophon Zolotas age 35
Gérard Latortue age 5
Jenő Fock age 23
Miklós Kállay age 52
Sutan Sjahrir age 30
P. J. Patterson age 4
Abdullah Ensour age 11 months
Erik Eriksen age 37
Victor Marijnen age 22
Charles D. B. King age 64
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 1
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 56
Constantin Dăscălescu age 16
Frederick Ballantyne age 3
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 2
Adib Shishakli age 31
Qahhor Mahkamov age 7
Cleopa Msuya age 9
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 27
Aparicio Méndez age 35
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 30
Aleksander Zawadzki age 40
Maciej Rataj age 55
Guillermo Endara age 3
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 11
Kim Jong-pil age 14
William Gopallawa age 42
D. M. Jayaratne age 8
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones age 76
Georg Stumme age 53
Matthew Ridgway age 44
Manlio Brosio age 42
Franco Maria Malfatti age 12
Denis Healey age 22
Amin al-Hafiz age 18
J. Lawton Collins age 43
John W. Snow age 5 months
Qazi Muhammad age 46
Josef Harpe age 52
Issa Pliyev age 36
Kim Chaek age 36
Masahito, Prince Hitachi age 4
Nikola Zhekov age 75
Markian Popov age 37
Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia age 52
Hermine Reuss of Greiz age 52
Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia age 32
Princess Ileana of Romania age 31
Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland age 27
Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone age 65
Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria age 10 months
Slobodan Jovanović age 70
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 21
Elliot Richardson age 19
Lester Bird age 1
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 55
Eduardo Lonardi age 43
Bill Hayden age 6
Alfons Gorbach age 41
Georges Theunis age 66
Paul van Zeeland age 46
Colville Young age 7
Aleksandar Tsankov age 60
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 48
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 24
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 13
Mario García Menocal age 73
Osvaldo Hurtado age 6 months
Galo Plaza age 33
Teuvo Aura age 27
Keijo Liinamaa age 10
Sakari Tuomioja age 28
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 45
Alexandros Koryzis age 55
Ioannis Grivas age 16
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 12
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 9
Desmond Hoyte age 10
Henri Namphy age 7
Sándor Garbai age 60
Péter Boross age 11
István Friedrich age 56
Károly Grósz age 9
Geir Hallgrímsson age 14
Erik Scavenius age 62
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 45
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 25
Salim al-Huss age 10
Anton Buttigieg age 27
Litokwa Tomeing age 2 months
Luis Somoza Debayle age 17
Iuliu Maniu age 67