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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
Operation Compass 1940-12-09 - 1941-02-09

People

Adolf Hitler age 51
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 62
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 58
President - United States
Hirohito age 39
Emperor - Japan
George VI age 45
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 71
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 39
King - Belgium
Farouk of Egypt age 20
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 17
King - Yugoslavia
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 43
President - Mexico
Wang Jingwei age 57
President - Republic of China
Trường Chinh age 33
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Jorge Ubico age 62
President - Guatemala
Bahij al-Khatib age 45
President - Syria
Zhang Wentian age 40
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Winston Churchill age 66
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Benito Mussolini age 57
Prime Minister - Italy
Chiang Kai-shek age 53
Premier - Republic of China
Vyacheslav Molotov age 50
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Éamon de Valera age 58
Taoiseach - Ireland
Władysław Sikorski age 59
Prime Minister - Poland
Fumimaro Konoe age 49
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
Seán Lester age 52
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Hussein Sirri Pasha age 48
Prime Minister - Egypt
Carlos Saladrigas Zayas age 40
Prime Minister - Cuba
Charles Evans Hughes age 78
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John Nance Garner age 72
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 36
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 42
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 54
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 39
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 44
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 40
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Hermann Göring age 47
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
George C. Marshall age 60
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Rudolf Hess age 46
Reichsminister - Germany
Cordell Hull age 69
Secretary of State - United States
Wilhelm Frick age 63
Reichsminister - Germany
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 53
Reichsminister - Germany
Henry L. Stimson age 73
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
Herbert Morrison age 52
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Kingsley Wood age 59
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 55
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 50
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
Heinrich Himmler age 40
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)
Harlan F. Stone age 68
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Frank Murphy age 50
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Clark McReynolds age 78
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 63
Senate - United States
James F. Byrnes age 58
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 83
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 32
House of Representatives - United States
David Lloyd George age 77
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Eden age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stafford Cripps age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duff Cooper age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 22
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 45
House of Representatives - United States
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ernest Bevin age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Christian Herter age 45
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Barber Conable age 18
New York State Senate - United States
Charles de Gaulle age 50
Leader of Free France - Free France
Francisco Franco age 48
Caudillo - Spain
Pius XII age 64
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 65
King - Saudi Arabia
İsmet İnönü age 56
President - Turkey
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 60
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 68
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 82
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 70
King - Denmark
Michael I of Romania age 19
King - Kingdom of Romania
Ananda Mahidol age 15
King - Thailand
Jozef Tiso age 53
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
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 71
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 70
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 30
Sultan - Oman
Władysław Raczkiewicz age 55
President - Poland
Jigme Wangchuck age 35
King - Bhutan
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 58
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 65
King - Cambodia
Roberto Marcelino Ortiz age 54
President - Argentina
Arnulfo Arias age 39
President - Panama
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 53
Viceroy - British Raj
Tiburcio Carías age 64
President - Honduras
Edwin Barclay age 58
President - Liberia
Eleazar López Contreras age 57
President - Venezuela
Eduardo Santos age 52
President - Colombia
Enrique Peñaranda age 47
President - Bolivia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 55
Emir - Kuwait
Alfredo Baldomir age 56
President - Uruguay
Higinio Morínigo age 43
President - Paraguay
Carlos Arroyo age 47
President - Ecuador
Marcel Pilet-Golaz age 50
President - Switzerland
Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia age 40
President - Costa Rica
Émile Eddé age 57
President - Lebanon
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 86
Emir - Qatar
Stenio Vincent age 66
President - Haiti
Hamad I of Bahrain age 68
Hakim - Bahrain
Seeiso of Basutoland age 35
King - Lesotho
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 59
President - Mongolia
António de Oliveira Salazar age 51
Prime Minister - Portugal
Ion Antonescu age 58
Prime Minister - Romania
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 66
Prime Minister - Canada
Robert Menzies age 46
Prime Minister - Australia
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 45
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Pál Teleki age 61
Prime Minister - Hungary
Per Albin Hansson age 55
Prime Minister - Sweden
Thorvald Stauning age 67
Prime Minister - Denmark
Johan Nygaardsvold age 61
Prime Minister - Norway
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 48
Prime Minister - Iraq
Bogdan Filov age 57
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 55
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Hubert Pierlot age 57
Prime Minister - Belgium
Hermann Jónasson age 44
Prime Minister - Iceland
Shefqet Vërlaci age 63
Prime Minister - Albania
Pierre Dupong age 55
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Peter Fraser age 56
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 45
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 53
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 59
Governor-General - Madagascar
Albert Einstein age 61
Ronald Reagan age 29
Nelson Mandela age 22
Mahatma Gandhi age 71
Pablo Picasso age 59
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 4
Mao Zedong age 47
Che Guevara age 12
Nikola Tesla age 84
Neil Armstrong age 10
Walt Disney age 39
Elvis Presley age 5
George Orwell age 37
John Paul II age 20
Margaret Thatcher age 15
Ernest Hemingway age 41
Gabriel García Márquez age 13