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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
The Holocaust 1941-01-01 - 1945-09-20

People

Adolf Hitler age 51
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 62
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 59
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
Jorge Ubico age 62
President - Guatemala
Bahij al-Khatib age 46
President - Syria
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 - 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 48
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Seán Lester age 52
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Hussein Sirri Pasha age 49
Prime Minister - Egypt
Carlos Saladrigas Zayas age 40
Prime Minister - Cuba
Charles Evans Hughes age 78
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Henry A. Wallace age 52
Vice President - United States
Hermann Göring age 48
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
Henry L. Stimson age 73
Secretary of War - United States
Robert H. Jackson age 49
Attorney General - United States
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 49
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Herbert Morrison age 53
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 46
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clement Attlee age 58
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Wilhelm Frick age 63
Reichsleiter - Nazi Party
Harlan F. Stone age 68
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
Lyndon B. Johnson age 32
House of Representatives - United States
David Lloyd George age 78
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
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
Risto Ryti age 52
President - Finland
Douglas Hyde age 81
President - Ireland
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 45
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 41
King - Eswatini
Anastasio Somoza García age 45
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 56
President - Poland
Jigme Wangchuck age 36
King - Bhutan
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 58
President - El Salvador
Pedro Aguirre Cerda age 62
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 59
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 56
Emir - Kuwait
Alfredo Baldomir age 56
President - Uruguay
Higinio Morínigo age 44
President - Paraguay
Carlos Arroyo age 47
President - Ecuador
Émile Eddé age 57
President - Lebanon
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 86
Emir - Qatar
Ernst Wetter age 63
President - Switzerland
Stenio Vincent age 66
President - Haiti
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 39
Regent - Lesotho
Hamad I of Bahrain age 69
Hakim - Bahrain
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 59
President - Mongolia
António de Oliveira Salazar age 51
Prime Minister - Portugal
Ion Antonescu age 58
Prime Minister - Romania
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 43
Prime Minister - Thailand
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 66
Prime Minister - Canada
Robert Menzies age 46
Prime Minister - Australia
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 46
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
Bogdan Filov age 57
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 55
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Hubert Pierlot age 57
Prime Minister - Belgium
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 46
Prime Minister - Finland
Alexandros Koryzis age 56
Prime Minister - Greece
Hermann Jónasson age 44
Prime Minister - Iceland
Shefqet Vërlaci age 63
Prime Minister - Albania
Pierre Dupong age 56
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Peter Fraser age 56
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Taha al-Hashimi age 53
Prime Minister - Iraq
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 49
Prime Minister - Jordan
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 56
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 30
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 12
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 6
George Orwell age 37
John Paul II age 20
Margaret Thatcher age 15
Ernest Hemingway age 41
Gabriel García Márquez age 13
Fidel Castro age 14
Yuri Gagarin age 6
Mikhail Gorbachev age 9
Henry Ford age 77
Jean-Paul Sartre age 35
Jimmy Carter age 16
Benedict XVI age 13
Mother Teresa age 30
George H. W. Bush age 16
Jawaharlal Nehru age 51
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 50
Richard Nixon age 28
Alan Turing age 28
John Maynard Keynes age 57
Simone de Beauvoir age 33
Niels Bohr age 55
John Lennon age 3 months
Max Planck age 82
Kofi Annan age 2
Gerald Ford age 27
Indira Gandhi age 23
Saddam Hussein age 3
Enrico Fermi age 39
Nikita Khrushchev age 46
14th Dalai Lama age 5
Silvio Berlusconi age 4
Herbert Hoover age 66
Mahathir Mohamad age 15
Boris Yeltsin age 10
Ali Khamenei age 1
Jacques Chirac age 8
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 22
Kwame Nkrumah age 31
Yasser Arafat age 11
Ho Chi Minh age 50
Konrad Adenauer age 65
Henry Kissinger age 17
Václav Havel age 4
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 13
Georges Pompidou age 29
Joseph Goebbels age 43
Leonid Brezhnev age 34
Robert Mugabe age 16
Hosni Mubarak age 12
Golda Meir age 42
John XXIII age 59
Deng Xiaoping age 36
Ferdinand Marcos age 23