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1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
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1942-01-01 - 1945-08-21
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1942-01-07 - 1942-04-09
People
Adolf Hitler
age 52
Führer
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Germany
Winston Churchill
age 67
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Franklin D. Roosevelt
age 59
President
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United States
Joseph Stalin
age 63
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Hirohito
age 40
Emperor
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Japan
Henry A. Wallace
age 53
Vice President
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United States
George VI
age 46
King
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United Kingdom
Alben W. Barkley
age 64
Senate
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United States
Harry S. Truman
age 57
Senate
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United States
Hermann Göring
age 49
President of the Reichstag
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Germany
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 33
House of Representatives
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United States
Harlan F. Stone
age 69
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
George C. Marshall
age 61
Chief of Staff of the Army
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United States
David Lloyd George
age 79
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Potter Stewart
age 26
Republican Party (United States)
Hu Yaobang
age 26
Communist Party of China
Charles de Gaulle
age 51
French Army
Reinhard Heydrich
age 37
Nazi Party
Sun Yun-suan
age 28
Kuomintang
Deng Xiaoping
age 37
Communist Party of China
Rong Yiren
age 25
Communist Party of China
John F. Kennedy
age 24
Democratic Party (United States)
Byron White
age 24
Democratic Party (United States)
Heinrich Himmler
age 41
Nazi Party
Yoshijirō Umezu
age 60
Imperial Japanese Army
George Wallace
age 22
United States Army
Zhao Ziyang
age 22
Communist Party of China
John Paul Stevens
age 21
United States Navy
Clark Clifford
age 35
Democratic Party (United States)
Yang Shangkun
age 34
Communist Party of China
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 34
Democratic Party (United States)
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 35
United States Army
Wang Zhen (general)
age 33
Communist Party of China
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 53
Communist Party of Vietnam
Thurgood Marshall
age 33
Democratic Party (United States)
John Foster Dulles
age 53
Republican Party (United States)
Arthur Goldberg
age 33
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Xiannian
age 32
Communist Party of China
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 31
Kuomintang
Ronald Reagan
age 30
Republican Party (United States)
Courtney Hodges
age 55
United States Army
Raymond A. Spruance
age 55
United States Navy
Dong Biwu
age 55
Communist Party of China
George S. Patton
age 56
United States Army
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 56
United States Navy
Archibald Cox
age 29
Democratic Party (United States)
Richard Nixon
age 29
United States Navy
Wilhelm Frick
age 64
Nazi Party
Jiang Zemin
age 15
Communist Party of China
Walter Mondale
age 14
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Peng
age 13
Communist Party of China
Zhou Enlai
age 43
Communist Party of China
Joseph Goebbels
age 44
Nazi Party
James R. Schlesinger
age 12
Republican Party (United States)
Kurt Daluege
age 44
Nazi Party
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 11
Republican Party (United States)
James Baker
age 11
Democratic Party (United States)
Herbert Hoover
age 67
Republican Party (United States)
Lien Chan
age 5
Kuomintang
J. Edgar Hoover
age 47
Republican Party (United States)
Mao Zedong
age 48
Communist Party of China
David Souter
age 2
Republican Party (United States)
John Lewis
age 1
Democratic Party (United States)
Dick Cheney
age 11 months
Republican Party (United States)
Rudolf Hess
age 47
Nazi Party
William H. Webster
age 17
Republican Party (United States)
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 18
Kuomintang
George H. W. Bush
age 17
Republican Party (United States)
Henry Kissinger
age 18
Republican Party (United States)
Douglas MacArthur
age 62
United States Army
Daniel Inouye
age 17
Democratic Party (United States)
Jimmy Carter
age 17
Democratic Party (United States)
Karl Dönitz
age 50
Nazi Party
Melvin Laird
age 19
United States Navy
Hua Guofeng
age 20
Communist Party of China
Martin Bormann
age 41
Nazi Party
Liu Shaoqi
age 43
Communist Party of China
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 51
Republican Party (United States)
Nikita Khrushchev
age 47
Omar Bradley
age 48
Kingorō Hashimoto
age 51
Soong Ching-ling
age 48
Alfred Rosenberg
age 49
Akira Mutō
age 49
He Yingqin
age 51
Alfred Jodl
age 51
Fritz Todt
age 50
Earl Warren
age 50
Ho Chi Minh
age 51
Otto Rasch
age 50
Naoki Hoshino
age 49
Francisco Franco
age 49
Walther Funk
age 51
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
age 49
Albert Einstein
age 62
Iwane Matsui
age 63
Kōki Hirota
age 63
Hjalmar Schacht
age 65
Erich Raeder
age 65
Konrad Adenauer
age 66
Gerd von Rundstedt
age 66
Hubert Gough
age 71
Mahatma Gandhi
age 72
John Nance Garner
age 73
Kiichirō Hiranuma
age 74
Emilio De Bono
age 75
Charles G. Dawes
age 76
Charles Evans Hughes
age 79
John J. Pershing
age 81
Nikola Tesla
age 85
Thomas Gage
age 223
Fred M. Vinson
age 52
Heitarō Kimura
age 53
Erich von Manstein
age 54
Chiang Kai-shek
age 54
Zhu De
age 55
Chester W. Nimitz
age 56
Julius Streicher
age 56
Seishirō Itagaki
age 57
Hideki Tōjō
age 57
Isoroku Yamamoto
age 57
Doihara Kenji
age 58
Benito Mussolini
age 58
Clement Attlee
age 59
Wilhelm Keitel
age 59
Kliment Voroshilov
age 60
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 62
Franz von Papen
age 62
Elizabeth II
age 15
Robert F. Kennedy
age 16
Warren Christopher
age 16
Margaret Thatcher
age 16
Malcolm X
age 16
Pol Pot
age 16
William Rehnquist
age 17
Lee Teng-hui
age 19
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 20
George Shultz
age 21
Spiro Agnew
age 23
Nelson Mandela
age 23
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 23
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 24
John Connally
age 24
Robert McNamara
age 25
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 26
Carlos Castillo Armas
age 27
Yuri Andropov
age 27
Kim Jong-il
age 11 months
Zeng Qinghong
age 2
Stephen Breyer
age 3
Gennady Yanayev
age 4
Saddam Hussein
age 4
Colin Powell
age 4
Anthony Kennedy
age 5
Antonin Scalia
age 5
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 8
Jacques Chirac
age 9
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 10
Boris Yeltsin
age 10
Hafez al-Assad
age 11
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 11
Yasser Arafat
age 12
Martin Luther King Jr.
age 13
Zhu Rongji
age 13
Ramsey Clark
age 14
Fidel Castro
age 15
Puyi
age 35
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 36
Albert Speer
age 36
Juan José Arévalo
age 37
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
age 38
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 39
Souvanna Phouma
age 40
Hans Frank
age 41
Hans Fritzsche
age 41
John Marshall Harlan II
age 42
Rodion Malinovsky
age 43
Peng Dehuai
age 43
Anthony Eden
age 44
Otto Hofmann
age 45
Robert A. Lovett
age 46
Semyon Timoshenko
age 46
Friedrich Jeckeln
age 46
Fritz Sauckel
age 47
Edward VIII
age 47
Jacobo Árbenz
age 28
Gerald Ford
age 28
Rosa Parks
age 28
Jo Ann Robinson
age 29
Kim Il-sung
age 29
Eva Braun
age 29
Clarence M. Kelley
age 30
Konstantin Chernenko
age 30
Hubert Humphrey
age 30
Abe Fortas
age 31
Souphanouvong
age 32
Nelson Rockefeller
age 33
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 33
Claus von Stauffenberg
age 34
Warren E. Burger
age 34
Baldur von Schirach
age 34
Lê Duẩn
age 34
Leonid Brezhnev
age 35
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 35