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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 - 1945-09-20
People
Franklin D. Roosevelt
age 58
President
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United States
Neville Chamberlain
age 71
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Adolf Hitler
age 51
Führer
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Germany
Joseph Stalin
age 61
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Hirohito
age 39
Emperor
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Japan
George VI
age 44
King
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United Kingdom
John Nance Garner
age 71
Vice President
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United States
Harry S. Truman
age 56
Senate
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United States
Alben W. Barkley
age 62
Senate
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United States
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 31
House of Representatives
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United States
Hermann Göring
age 47
President of the Reichstag
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Germany
Charles Evans Hughes
age 78
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
David Lloyd George
age 77
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
George C. Marshall
age 59
Chief of Staff of the Army
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United States
Harlan F. Stone
age 67
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Heinrich Himmler
age 39
Nazi Party
Potter Stewart
age 25
Republican Party (United States)
Sun Yun-suan
age 26
Kuomintang
Hu Yaobang
age 24
Communist Party of China
Archibald Cox
age 27
Democratic Party (United States)
Rong Yiren
age 24
Communist Party of China
Yoshijirō Umezu
age 58
Imperial Japanese Army
Martin Bormann
age 39
Nazi Party
John F. Kennedy
age 22
Democratic Party (United States)
Byron White
age 22
Democratic Party (United States)
Douglas MacArthur
age 60
United States Army
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 49
Republican Party (United States)
Charles de Gaulle
age 49
French Army
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 34
Democratic Party (United States)
Clark Clifford
age 33
Democratic Party (United States)
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 51
Communist Party of Vietnam
John Foster Dulles
age 52
Republican Party (United States)
Yang Shangkun
age 32
Communist Party of China
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 32
Democratic Party (United States)
Wang Zhen (general)
age 32
Communist Party of China
Courtney Hodges
age 53
United States Army
Thurgood Marshall
age 31
Democratic Party (United States)
Arthur Goldberg
age 31
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Xiannian
age 30
Communist Party of China
Raymond A. Spruance
age 53
United States Navy
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 30
Kuomintang
Dong Biwu
age 54
Communist Party of China
Ronald Reagan
age 29
Republican Party (United States)
George S. Patton
age 54
United States Army
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 55
United States Navy
Deng Xiaoping
age 35
Communist Party of China
Reinhard Heydrich
age 36
Nazi Party
John Lewis
age 2 months
Democratic Party (United States)
David Souter
age 7 months
Republican Party (United States)
Mao Zedong
age 46
Communist Party of China
Rudolf Hess
age 46
Nazi Party
Lien Chan
age 3
Kuomintang
J. Edgar Hoover
age 45
Republican Party (United States)
James Baker
age 10
Democratic Party (United States)
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 10
Republican Party (United States)
James R. Schlesinger
age 11
Republican Party (United States)
Herbert Hoover
age 65
Republican Party (United States)
Li Peng
age 11
Communist Party of China
Walter Mondale
age 12
Democratic Party (United States)
Jiang Zemin
age 13
Communist Party of China
Kurt Daluege
age 42
Nazi Party
Joseph Goebbels
age 42
Nazi Party
George Wallace
age 20
Democratic Party (United States)
Zhao Ziyang
age 20
Communist Party of China
John Paul Stevens
age 20
Republican Party (United States)
Hua Guofeng
age 19
Communist Party of China
Liu Shaoqi
age 41
Communist Party of China
Henry Kissinger
age 16
Republican Party (United States)
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 16
Kuomintang
William H. Webster
age 16
Republican Party (United States)
George H. W. Bush
age 15
Republican Party (United States)
Daniel Inouye
age 15
Democratic Party (United States)
Wilhelm Frick
age 63
Nazi Party
Zhou Enlai
age 42
Communist Party of China
Karl Dönitz
age 48
Nazi Party
Jimmy Carter
age 15
Democratic Party (United States)
Walther Funk
age 49
Omar Bradley
age 47
Ho Chi Minh
age 49
Soong Ching-ling
age 47
Henry A. Wallace
age 51
Earl Warren
age 49
Alfred Jodl
age 50
Alfred Rosenberg
age 47
Kingorō Hashimoto
age 50
Akira Mutō
age 47
Fred M. Vinson
age 50
Francisco Franco
age 47
Fritz Todt
age 48
He Yingqin
age 50
Otto Rasch
age 48
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
age 47
Naoki Hoshino
age 48
Albert Einstein
age 61
Iwane Matsui
age 61
Kōki Hirota
age 62
Hjalmar Schacht
age 63
Erich Raeder
age 64
Konrad Adenauer
age 64
Gerd von Rundstedt
age 64
Winston Churchill
age 65
Kyösti Kallio
age 67
Hubert Gough
age 69
Mahatma Gandhi
age 70
Kiichirō Hiranuma
age 72
Emilio De Bono
age 74
Charles G. Dawes
age 74
John J. Pershing
age 79
Wilhelm II
age 81
Nikola Tesla
age 83
Thomas Gage
age 222
Heitarō Kimura
age 51
Erich von Manstein
age 52
Chiang Kai-shek
age 52
Zhu De
age 53
Chester W. Nimitz
age 55
Julius Streicher
age 55
Seishirō Itagaki
age 55
Hideki Tōjō
age 55
Isoroku Yamamoto
age 56
Doihara Kenji
age 56
Benito Mussolini
age 56
Clement Attlee
age 57
Wilhelm Keitel
age 57
Kliment Voroshilov
age 59
Manuel Azaña
age 60
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 60
Leon Trotsky
age 60
Warren Christopher
age 14
Margaret Thatcher
age 14
Malcolm X
age 14
Pol Pot
age 14
William Rehnquist
age 15
Lee Teng-hui
age 17
Melvin Laird
age 17
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 18
George Shultz
age 19
Spiro Agnew
age 21
Nelson Mandela
age 21
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 21
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 22
John Connally
age 23
Robert McNamara
age 23
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 24
Carlos Castillo Armas
age 25
Yuri Andropov
age 25
Jacobo Árbenz
age 26
Gerald Ford
age 26
Zeng Qinghong
age 9 months
Stephen Breyer
age 1
Gennady Yanayev
age 2
Saddam Hussein
age 3
Colin Powell
age 3
Anthony Kennedy
age 3
Antonin Scalia
age 4
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 7
Jacques Chirac
age 7
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 9
Boris Yeltsin
age 9
Hafez al-Assad
age 9
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 9
Yasser Arafat
age 10
Martin Luther King Jr.
age 11
Zhu Rongji
age 11
Ramsey Clark
age 12
Fidel Castro
age 13
Elizabeth II
age 14
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 34
Albert Speer
age 35
Juan José Arévalo
age 35
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
age 36
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 37
Souvanna Phouma
age 38
Hans Frank
age 39
Hans Fritzsche
age 40
John Marshall Harlan II
age 40
Rodion Malinovsky
age 41
Peng Dehuai
age 41
Anthony Eden
age 42
Otto Hofmann
age 44
Robert A. Lovett
age 44
Semyon Timoshenko
age 45
Friedrich Jeckeln
age 45
Fritz Sauckel
age 45
Edward VIII
age 45
Nikita Khrushchev
age 46
Franz von Papen
age 60
Robert F. Kennedy
age 14
Rosa Parks
age 27
Richard Nixon
age 27
Jo Ann Robinson
age 28
Kim Il-sung
age 28
Eva Braun
age 28
Clarence M. Kelley
age 28
Konstantin Chernenko
age 28
Hubert Humphrey
age 28
Abe Fortas
age 29
Souphanouvong
age 30
Nelson Rockefeller
age 31
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 31
Claus von Stauffenberg
age 32
Warren E. Burger
age 32
Baldur von Schirach
age 33
Lê Duẩn
age 33
Leonid Brezhnev
age 33
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 34
Puyi
age 34