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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
Operation Barbarossa 1941-06-22 - 1942-01-07
Second Soviet-Finnish War 1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Siege of Leningrad 1941-09-08 - 1944-01-27

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 49
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 21
Shah - Iran
Philippe Pétain age 85
Chief of the French State - Vichy France
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 18
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 41
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Winston Churchill age 66
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Benito Mussolini age 58
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 60
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 53
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Hussein Sirri Pasha age 49
Prime Minister - Egypt
Carlos Saladrigas Zayas age 40
Prime Minister - Cuba
Hassan al-Hakim age 55
Prime Minister - Syria
Harlan F. Stone age 68
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Henry A. Wallace age 52
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 37
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 40
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 70
Secretary of State - United States
Wilhelm Frick age 64
Reichsminister - Germany
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 54
Reichsminister - Germany
Henry L. Stimson age 74
Secretary of War - United States
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 50
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Francis Biddle age 55
Attorney General - United States
Herbert Morrison age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Kingsley Wood age 60
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)
James F. Byrnes age 59
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Robert H. Jackson age 49
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Frank Murphy age 51
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Duff Cooper age 51
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 48
President - African National Congress
Margaret Buckley age 62
President - Sinn Féin
Harry S. Truman age 57
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 63
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 83
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 33
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 38
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
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 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 48
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 48
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 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 46
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 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow age 52
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 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ernest Bevin age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
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 57
President - Turkey
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 61
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 69
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 83
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 71
King - Denmark
Michael I of Romania age 19
King - Kingdom of Romania
Ananda Mahidol age 16
King - Thailand
Jozef Tiso age 53
President - Slovakia
Mohammed V of Morocco age 32
Sultan - Morocco
Manuel L. Quezon age 63
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 42
King - Eswatini
Anastasio Somoza García age 45
President - Nicaragua
Óscar Carmona age 71
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 71
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 31
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 55
President - Argentina
Arnulfo Arias age 40
President - Panama
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 54
Viceroy - British Raj
Tiburcio Carías age 65
President - Honduras
Edwin Barclay age 59
President - Liberia
Eduardo Santos age 53
President - Colombia
Enrique Peñaranda age 47
President - Bolivia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 56
Emir - Kuwait
Alfredo Baldomir age 57
President - Uruguay
Isaías Medina Angarita age 44
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 64
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 60
President - Mongolia
António de Oliveira Salazar age 52
Prime Minister - Portugal
Ion Antonescu age 59
Prime Minister - Romania
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 44
Prime Minister - Thailand
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 66
Prime Minister - Canada
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 46
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Per Albin Hansson age 55
Prime Minister - Sweden
Arthur Fadden age 47
Prime Minister - Australia
Thorvald Stauning age 67
Prime Minister - Denmark
Johan Nygaardsvold age 62
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 57
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 49
Prime Minister - Jordan
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 56
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Jamil al-Midfai age 51
Prime Minister - Iraq
Josef Hoop age 45
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Solomone Ula Ata age 58
Prime Minister - Tonga
Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie age 69
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 23
Mahatma Gandhi age 72
Pablo Picasso age 59
Charlie Chaplin age 52
Elizabeth II age 15
John F. Kennedy age 24
Martin Luther King Jr. age 12
Pope Francis age 4
Mao Zedong age 47
Che Guevara age 13
Nikola Tesla age 85
Neil Armstrong age 11
Walt Disney age 39
Elvis Presley age 6
George Orwell age 38
John Paul II age 21
Margaret Thatcher age 15
Ernest Hemingway age 42
Gabriel García Márquez age 14
Fidel Castro age 15
Yuri Gagarin age 7
Mikhail Gorbachev age 10
Henry Ford age 78