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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

People

Adolf Hitler age 50
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 61
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 58
President - United States
Hirohito age 38
Emperor - Japan
George VI age 44
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 47
Emperor - Ethiopia
Reza Shah age 62
Shah - Iran
Getúlio Vargas age 57
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 70
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 38
Monarch - Belgium
Farouk of Egypt age 20
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Lázaro Cárdenas age 44
President - Mexico
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 16
King - Yugoslavia
Wang Jingwei age 56
President - Republic of China
Jorge Ubico age 61
President - Guatemala
Bahij al-Khatib age 45
President - Syria
Albert Lebrun age 68
President - France
Benito Mussolini age 56
Prime Minister - Italy
Chiang Kai-shek age 52
Premier - Republic of China
Neville Chamberlain age 71
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Vyacheslav Molotov age 50
Chairman - Soviet Union
Éamon de Valera age 57
Taoiseach - Ireland
Władysław Sikorski age 58
Prime Minister - Poland
Jan Smuts age 69
Prime Minister - South Africa
Paul Reynaud age 61
Prime Minister - France
Mitsumasa Yonai age 60
Prime Minister - Japan
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 64
President - International Olympic Committee
Dragiša Cvetković age 47
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Joseph Avenol age 60
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Aly Maher Pasha age 58
Prime Minister - Egypt
Charles Evans Hughes age 78
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John Nance Garner age 71
Vice President - United States
Winston Churchill age 65
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Hermann Göring age 47
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
George C. Marshall age 59
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Rudolf Hess age 45
Reichsminister - Germany
Cordell Hull age 68
Secretary Of State - United States
Robert H. Jackson age 48
Attorney General - United States
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 48
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 67
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Harry Hines Woodring age 52
Secretary of War - United States
Kingsley Wood age 58
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Heinrich Himmler age 39
Chief Of German Police - Germany
J. Edgar Hoover age 45
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clement Attlee age 57
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Wilhelm Frick age 63
Reichsleiter - Nazi Party
Harlan F. Stone age 67
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 46
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 49
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Francis Biddle age 53
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Harry S. Truman age 55
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 62
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 31
House of Representatives - United States
David Lloyd George age 77
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
Francisco Franco age 47
Caudillo - Spain
Pius XII age 64
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 64
- Saudi Arabia
İsmet İnönü age 55
President - Turkey
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 59
King - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 67
Monarch - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 81
Monarch - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 69
Monarch - Denmark
Ananda Mahidol age 14
King - Thailand
Konstantin Päts age 66
President - Estonia
Jozef Tiso age 52
President - Slovakia
Mohammed V of Morocco age 30
Sultan - Morocco
Manuel L. Quezon age 61
President - Philippines
Antanas Smetona age 65
President - Lithuania
Douglas Hyde age 80
President - Ireland
Kārlis Ulmanis age 62
President - Latvia
Kyösti Kallio age 67
President - Finland
Carol II of Romania age 46
King - Kingdom of Romania
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 44
Monarch - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 40
King - Eswatini
Anastasio Somoza García age 44
President - Nicaragua
Óscar Carmona age 70
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 69
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 29
Sultan - Oman
Władysław Raczkiewicz age 55
President - Poland
Jigme Wangchuck age 35
King - Bhutan
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 57
President - El Salvador
Pedro Aguirre Cerda age 61
President - Chile
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 50
President - Peru
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 40
Monarch - Tonga
Sisowath Monivong age 64
King - Cambodia
Roberto Marcelino Ortiz age 53
President - Argentina
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 52
Viceroy - British Raj
Tiburcio Carías age 64
President - Honduras
Edwin Barclay age 58
President - Liberia
José Félix Estigarribia age 52
President - Paraguay
Eleazar López Contreras age 56
President - Venezuela
Eduardo Santos age 51
President - Colombia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 55
Emir - Kuwait
Alfredo Baldomir age 55
President - Uruguay
Marcel Pilet-Golaz age 50
President - Switzerland
Émile Eddé age 56
President - Lebanon
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 85
Emir - Qatar
Carlos Quintanilla age 52
President - Bolivia
León Cortés Castro age 57
President - Costa Rica
Stenio Vincent age 66
President - Haiti
Andrés F. Córdova age 47
President - Ecuador
Hamad I of Bahrain age 68
Monarch - Bahrain
Seeiso of Basutoland age 35
King - Lesotho
António de Oliveira Salazar age 50
Prime Minister - Portugal
Risto Ryti age 51
Prime Minister - Finland
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 42
Prime Minister - Thailand
Ioannis Metaxas age 69
Prime Minister - Greece
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 65
Prime Minister - Canada
Robert Menzies age 45
Prime Minister - Australia
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 45
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Pál Teleki age 60
Prime Minister - Hungary
Per Albin Hansson age 54
Prime Minister - Sweden
Thorvald Stauning age 66
Prime Minister - Denmark
Johan Nygaardsvold age 60
Prime Minister - Norway
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 48
Prime Minister - Iraq
Jüri Uluots age 50
Prime Minister - Estonia
Bogdan Filov age 57
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Hubert Pierlot age 56
Prime Minister - Belgium
Dirk Jan de Geer age 69
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Gheorghe Tătărescu age 53
Prime Minister - Romania
Antanas Merkys age 53
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Hermann Jónasson age 43
Prime Minister - Iceland
Shefqet Vërlaci age 62
Prime Minister - Albania
Pierre Dupong age 55
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Peter Fraser age 55
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 48
Prime Minister - Jordan
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 55
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Josef Hoop age 44
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 52
Prime Minister - Tonga
Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie age 67
Governor-General - Australia
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 58
Governor-General - Madagascar
Albert Einstein age 61
Ronald Reagan age 29
Nelson Mandela age 21
Mahatma Gandhi age 70
Pablo Picasso age 58
Charlie Chaplin age 50
Elizabeth II age 13
John F. Kennedy age 22
Martin Luther King Jr. age 11
Rabindranath Tagore age 78
Pope Francis age 3
Mao Zedong age 46
Che Guevara age 11
Charles de Gaulle age 49
Nikola Tesla age 83
Neil Armstrong age 9
Walt Disney age 38
Elvis Presley age 5
George Orwell age 36
John Paul II age 19
Margaret Thatcher age 14
Ernest Hemingway age 40
Gabriel García Márquez age 13
Fidel Castro age 13
Yuri Gagarin age 6
Mikhail Gorbachev age 9
Henry Ford age 76
Jean-Paul Sartre age 34
Jimmy Carter age 15
Benedict XVI age 12
Mother Teresa age 29
George H. W. Bush age 15
Jawaharlal Nehru age 50
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 49
Richard Nixon age 27
Alan Turing age 27
John Maynard Keynes age 56
Simone de Beauvoir age 32
Niels Bohr age 54
Leon Trotsky age 60
Max Planck age 81
Kofi Annan age 1
Gerald Ford age 26
Indira Gandhi age 22
Saddam Hussein age 2
Enrico Fermi age 38
Nikita Khrushchev age 45
14th Dalai Lama age 4
Silvio Berlusconi age 3
Herbert Hoover age 65
Mahathir Mohamad age 14
Boris Yeltsin age 9
Ali Khamenei age 11 months
Jacques Chirac age 7
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 21
Kwame Nkrumah age 30
Yasser Arafat age 10
Ho Chi Minh age 49
Konrad Adenauer age 64
Henry Kissinger age 16
Václav Havel age 3
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 12
Georges Pompidou age 28
Joseph Goebbels age 42
Leonid Brezhnev age 33
Robert Mugabe age 16
Hosni Mubarak age 11
Golda Meir age 41