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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 - 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
Battle of Stalingrad 1942-07-17 - 1943-02-02
Kokoda Track campaign 1942-07-21 - 1942-11-16

People

Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine age 76
Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria age 58
Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony (1867–1944) age 75
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. age 54
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 25
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 22
José María Guido age 31
Pierre Harmel age 31
Kimon Georgiev age 60
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 42
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 40
Jaime Roldos Aquilera age 1
Kamal Ganzouri age 9
Andres Tarand age 2
V. J. Sukselainen age 35
Edward Akufo-Addo age 36
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 29
Michael Stasinopoulos age 38
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 6
András Hegedüs age 19
László Bárdossy age 51
Géza Lakatos age 52
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 29
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 22
Viggo Kampmann age 32
Louis Beel age 40
Jelle Zijlstra age 23
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 1
Wasim Sajjad age 1
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 48
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 3
Manea Mănescu age 25
Nils Edén age 70
Nureddin al-Atassi age 13
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 30
Miguel Trovoada age 5
Yen Chia-kan age 36
Khuang Aphaiwong age 40
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 9
Nguyen Huu Tho age 32
Mieczysław Rakowski age 15
Alejandro Lerroux age 78
Ali Saibou age 2
John A. Costello age 51
Jack Lynch age 24
Willy Claes age 3
Rauf Orbay age 61
Nigel Lawson age 10
Harold Brown age 14
Alexander Vandegrift age 55
Masaharu Homma age 54
Archduke Joseph August of Austria age 70
Takahito, Prince Mikasa age 26
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890–1958) age 52
Princess Margaret of Prussia age 70
Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia age 24
Aspasia Manos age 45
Princess Mafalda of Savoy age 39
Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz age 5
George Voinovich age 6
John Profumo age 27
Seishirō Itagaki age 57
Friedrich Jeckeln age 47
Melvin Laird age 19
Thomas Gage age 224
Juan José Arévalo age 37
Ali Kafi age 13
Michael Jeffery age 4
Jean Duvieusart age 42
Camille Huysmans age 71
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 23
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 24
Guillermo León Valencia age 33
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 34
Akwasi Afrifa age 6
Fred Akuffo age 5
Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou age 51
Phaedon Gizikis age 25
Béla Miklós age 52
Edward Seaga age 12
Hans Hedtoft age 39
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 6 months
Fouad Chehab age 40
René Moawad age 17
Hussein Onn age 20
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 37
Haruo Remeliik age 9
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 6
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 1
Mohamed Ennaceur age 8
Apolo Nsibambi age 1
Godfrey Binaisa age 22
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 19
Liu Bocheng age 49
Glubb Pasha age 45
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ age 11
Claire Lee Chennault age 48
J. B. M. Hertzog age 76
Albert Reynolds age 9
Dušan Simović age 59
Kenneth Clarke age 2
John Smith age 3
Abdel Hakim Amer age 22
Fazlollah Zahedi age 50
Ahmad Qavam age 66
Nobutake Kondō age 55
Bai Chongxi age 49
Johannes Frießner age 50
Lucjan Żeligowski age 76
Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon age 46
Veljko Kadijević age 16
Shunroku Hata age 63
Empress Teimei age 58
Princess Milica of Montenegro age 76
Frederick Francis IV age 60
Princess Helen of Serbia age 57
Dürrüşehvar Sultan age 28
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk) age 21
Sam Manekshaw age 28
Heinrich von Vietinghoff age 54
Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal age 86
Prince Nicholas of Romania age 39
Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein age 56
Prince William of Gloucester age 7 months
Milan Stojadinović age 54
Gaylord Nelson age 26
Ramsey Clark age 14
Courtney Hodges age 55
Bainbridge Colby age 72
Carlos Lacoste age 13
Josef Klaus age 31
Juan José Torres age 22
Saye Zerbo age 9
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 0 months
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 8
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 19
Frederick Ballantyne age 6
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 30
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 11
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 11 months
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones age 79
Georg Stumme age 56
Matthew Ridgway age 47
Manlio Brosio age 45
Franco Maria Malfatti age 15
Denis Healey age 24
Amin al-Hafiz age 20
Dragiša Cvetković age 49