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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
Western Desert campaign 1940-06-11 - 1943-02-04
Battle of Britain 1940-07-10 - 1940-10-31

People

Adolf Hitler age 51
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 61
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 58
President - United States
Hirohito age 39
Emperor - Japan
George VI age 44
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 48
Emperor - Ethiopia
Philippe Pétain age 84
Chief of the French State - Vichy France
Reza Shah age 62
Shah - Iran
Getúlio Vargas age 58
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 70
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 38
King - Belgium
Farouk of Egypt age 20
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Lázaro Cárdenas age 45
President - Mexico
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 16
King - Yugoslavia
Wang Jingwei age 57
President - Republic of China
Jorge Ubico age 61
President - Guatemala
Bahij al-Khatib age 45
President - Syria
Winston Churchill age 65
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Benito Mussolini age 57
Prime Minister - Italy
Chiang Kai-shek age 52
Premier - Republic of China
Vyacheslav Molotov age 50
Chairman - Soviet Union
Éamon de Valera age 57
Taoiseach - Ireland
Władysław Sikorski age 59
Prime Minister - Poland
Fumimaro Konoe age 48
Prime Minister - Japan
Jan Smuts age 70
Prime Minister - South Africa
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 64
President - International Olympic Committee
Dragiša Cvetković age 47
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Joseph Avenol age 61
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Hassan Sabry Pasha age 65
Prime Minister - Egypt
Charles Evans Hughes age 78
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John Nance Garner age 71
Vice President - United States
Hermann Göring age 47
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
George C. Marshall age 59
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Rudolf Hess age 46
Reichsminister - Germany
Cordell Hull age 68
Secretary Of State - United States
Henry L. Stimson age 72
Secretary of War - United States
Robert H. Jackson age 48
Attorney General - United States
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 49
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Kingsley Wood age 58
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 55
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 58
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 49
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
Heinrich Himmler age 39
Chief Of German Police - Germany
J. Edgar Hoover age 45
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Neville Chamberlain age 71
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
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
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 47
President - African National Congress
Margaret Buckley age 61
President - Sinn Féin
Francis Biddle age 54
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Harry S. Truman age 56
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
Charles de Gaulle age 49
Leader of Free France - Free France
Francisco Franco age 47
Caudillo - Spain
Pius XII age 64
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 64
King - Saudi Arabia
İsmet İnönü age 55
President - Turkey
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 59
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 68
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 82
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 69
King - Denmark
Ananda Mahidol age 14
King - Thailand
Jozef Tiso age 52
President - Slovakia
Mohammed V of Morocco age 31
Sultan - Morocco
Manuel L. Quezon age 62
President - Philippines
Douglas Hyde age 80
President - Ireland
Kyösti Kallio age 67
President - Finland
Carol II of Romania age 46
King - Kingdom of Romania
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 44
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 41
King - Eswatini
Anastasio Somoza García age 44
President - Nicaragua
Óscar Carmona age 70
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 70
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 51
President - Peru
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 40
Queen - 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 57
President - Venezuela
Eduardo Santos age 51
President - Colombia
Enrique Peñaranda age 46
President - Bolivia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 55
Emir - Kuwait
Justas Paleckis age 41
President - Lithuania
Alfredo Baldomir age 55
President - Uruguay
Marcel Pilet-Golaz age 50
President - Switzerland
Émile Eddé age 57
President - Lebanon
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 85
Emir - Qatar
Stenio Vincent age 66
President - Haiti
Andrés F. Córdova age 48
President - Ecuador
Hamad I of Bahrain age 68
Hakim - Bahrain
Seeiso of Basutoland age 35
King - Lesotho
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 58
President - Mongolia
António de Oliveira Salazar age 51
Prime Minister - Portugal
Risto Ryti age 51
Prime Minister - Finland
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 43
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
Bogdan Filov age 57
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Hubert Pierlot age 56
Prime Minister - Belgium
Dirk Jan de Geer age 69
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Johannes Vares age 50
Prime Minister - Estonia
Hermann Jónasson age 43
Prime Minister - Iceland
Shefqet Vërlaci age 62
Prime Minister - Albania
Pierre Dupong age 55
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Peter Fraser age 56
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Augusts Kirhenšteins age 67
Prime Minister - Latvia
Ion Gigurtu age 54
Prime Minister - Romania
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 68
Governor-General - Australia
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 59
Governor-General - Madagascar
Léon Cayla age 58
Governor-General - Madagascar
Albert Einstein age 61
Ronald Reagan age 29
Nelson Mandela age 22
Mahatma Gandhi age 70
Pablo Picasso age 58
Charlie Chaplin age 51
Elizabeth II age 14
John F. Kennedy age 23
Martin Luther King Jr. age 11
Rabindranath Tagore age 79
Pope Francis age 3
Mao Zedong age 46
Che Guevara age 12
Nikola Tesla age 84
Neil Armstrong age 10
Walt Disney age 38
Elvis Presley age 5
George Orwell age 37
John Paul II age 20
Margaret Thatcher age 14
Ernest Hemingway age 41
Gabriel García Márquez age 13
Fidel Castro age 13
Yuri Gagarin age 6
Mikhail Gorbachev age 9
Henry Ford age 77
Jean-Paul Sartre age 35
Jimmy Carter age 15
Benedict XVI age 13
Mother Teresa age 29
George H. W. Bush age 16
Jawaharlal Nehru age 50
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 49
Richard Nixon age 27
Alan Turing age 28
John Maynard Keynes age 57
Simone de Beauvoir age 32
Niels Bohr age 54
Leon Trotsky age 60
Max Planck age 82
Kofi Annan age 2
Gerald Ford age 27
Indira Gandhi age 22
Saddam Hussein age 3
Enrico Fermi age 38
Nikita Khrushchev age 46
14th Dalai Lama age 5
Silvio Berlusconi age 3
Herbert Hoover age 66
Mahathir Mohamad age 15
Boris Yeltsin age 9
Ali Khamenei age 1
Jacques Chirac age 7
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 21
Kwame Nkrumah age 30
Yasser Arafat age 10
Ho Chi Minh age 50
Konrad Adenauer age 64
Henry Kissinger age 17
Václav Havel age 3
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 12
Georges Pompidou age 29
Joseph Goebbels age 42
Leonid Brezhnev age 33
Robert Mugabe age 16
Hosni Mubarak age 12
Golda Meir age 42
John XXIII age 58