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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
The Holocaust 1941 - 1945
Siege of Tobruk 1941-04-10 - 1941-11-27

People

Adolf Hitler age 52
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 62
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 59
President - United States
Hirohito age 40
Emperor - Japan
George VI age 45
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 48
Emperor - Ethiopia
Philippe Pétain age 85
Chief of the French State - Vichy France
Reza Shah age 63
Shah - Iran
Getúlio Vargas age 59
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 71
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 39
King - Belgium
Farouk of Egypt age 21
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 17
King - Yugoslavia
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 44
President - Mexico
Wang Jingwei age 58
President - Republic of China
Trường Chinh age 34
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Jorge Ubico age 62
President - Guatemala
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
Éamon de Valera age 58
Taoiseach - Ireland
Władysław Sikorski age 60
Prime Minister - Poland
Fumimaro Konoe age 49
Prime Minister - Japan
Jan Smuts age 71
Prime Minister - South Africa
François Darlan age 59
Vice-President of the Council - Vichy France
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 65
President - International Olympic Committee
Dušan Simović age 58
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Seán Lester age 52
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Khalid al-Azm age 46
Prime Minister - Syria
Hussein Sirri Pasha age 49
Prime Minister - Egypt
Carlos Saladrigas Zayas age 40
Prime Minister - Cuba
Charles Evans Hughes age 79
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Henry A. Wallace age 52
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 55
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 45
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 41
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Hermann Göring age 48
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
George C. Marshall age 60
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Cordell Hull age 69
Secretary of State - United States
Wilhelm Frick age 64
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 49
Attorney General - United States
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 50
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 56
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)
Harlan F. Stone age 68
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Frank Murphy age 51
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey age 64
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Hastings Lees-Smith age 63
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 48
President - African National Congress
Margaret Buckley age 61
President - Sinn Féin
Francis Biddle age 55
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Harry S. Truman age 57
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 63
Senate - United States
James F. Byrnes age 59
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 83
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 32
House of Representatives - United States
David Lloyd George age 78
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Eden age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stafford Cripps age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 51
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 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duff Cooper age 51
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 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 33
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 23
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 72
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 40
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 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 38
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 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ernest Bevin age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert H. Lehman age 63
Governor of New York - United States
John W. Bricker age 47
Governor of Ohio - United States
Charles Edison age 50
Governor of New Jersey - United States
W. Lee O'Daniel age 51
Governor of Texas - United States
Culbert Olson age 64
Governor of California - United States
Leverett Saltonstall age 48
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
James Hubert Price age 62
Governor of Virginia - United States
Herbert O'Conor age 44
Governor of Maryland - United States
Homer Martin Adkins age 50
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Henry F. Schricker age 57
Governor of Indiana - United States
Christian Herter age 46
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 65
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 65
King - Saudi Arabia
Norodom Sihanouk age 18
King - Cambodia
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 83
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 52
President - Peru
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 41
Queen - Tonga
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 65
President - Honduras
Edwin Barclay age 59
President - Liberia
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
Isaías Medina Angarita age 43
President - Venezuela
Higinio Morínigo age 44
President - Paraguay
Carlos Arroyo age 47
President - Ecuador
Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia age 41
President - Costa Rica
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 86
Emir - Qatar
Ernst Wetter age 63
President - Switzerland
Élie Lescot age 57
President - Haiti
Alfred Naqqache age 53
President - Lebanon
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 52
Prime Minister - Portugal
Ion Antonescu age 59
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
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 58
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 56
Prime Minister - Netherlands
László Bárdossy age 50
Prime Minister - Hungary
Hubert Pierlot age 57
Prime Minister - Belgium
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 46
Prime Minister - Finland
Hermann Jónasson age 44
Prime Minister - Iceland
Georgios Tsolakoglou age 55
Prime Minister - Greece
Shefqet Vërlaci age 63
Prime Minister - Albania
Pierre Dupong age 56
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Peter Fraser age 56
Prime Minister - New Zealand
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
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 55
Governor-General - New Zealand
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 60
Governor-General - Madagascar
Albert Einstein age 62
Ronald Reagan age 30
Nelson Mandela age 22
Mahatma Gandhi age 71
Pablo Picasso age 59
Charlie Chaplin age 52
Elizabeth II age 15
John F. Kennedy age 24
Martin Luther King Jr. age 12
Rabindranath Tagore age 80
Pope Francis age 4
Mao Zedong age 47
Che Guevara age 13