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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
Second Soviet-Finnish War 1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Siege of Leningrad 1941-09-08 - 1944-01-27
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Malayan campaign 1941-12-08 - 1942-01-31
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01 - 1945-08-21
Battle of Bataan 1942-01-07 - 1942-04-09

People

Adolf Hitler age 52
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 63
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 59
President - United States
Hirohito age 40
Emperor - Japan
George VI age 46
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 49
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 22
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 72
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 40
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 63
President - Guatemala
Zhang Wentian age 41
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Winston Churchill age 67
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Benito Mussolini age 58
Prime Minister - Italy
Chiang Kai-shek age 54
Premier - Republic of China
Hideki Tojo age 57
Prime Minister - Japan
Éamon de Valera age 59
Taoiseach - Ireland
Władysław Sikorski age 60
Prime Minister - Poland
Jan Smuts age 71
Prime Minister - South Africa
François Darlan age 60
Vice-President of the Council - Vichy France
J. Sigfrid Edström age 71
President - International Olympic Committee
Seán Lester age 53
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Hussein Sirri Pasha age 50
Prime Minister - Egypt
Carlos Saladrigas Zayas age 41
Prime Minister - Cuba
Hassan al-Hakim age 56
Prime Minister - Syria
Harlan F. Stone age 69
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Henry A. Wallace age 53
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 43
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 42
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Hermann Göring age 49
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
George C. Marshall age 61
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 54
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 51
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
Heinrich Himmler age 41
Chief of German Police - Germany
J. Edgar Hoover age 47
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clement Attlee age 59
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 64
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 84
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 33
House of Representatives - United States
David Lloyd George age 79
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 52
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 68
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 34
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 24
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 57
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 47
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 60
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 38
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
Herbert H. Lehman age 63
Governor of New York - United States
John W. Bricker age 48
Governor of Ohio - United States
Charles Edison age 51
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Culbert Olson age 65
Governor of California - United States
Leverett Saltonstall age 49
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Coke R. Stevenson age 53
Governor of Texas - United States
James Hubert Price age 63
Governor of Virginia - United States
Herbert O'Conor age 45
Governor of Maryland - United States
Homer Martin Adkins age 51
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Henry F. Schricker age 58
Governor of Indiana - United States
Christian Herter age 46
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Barber Conable age 19
New York State Senate - United States
Charles de Gaulle age 51
Leader of Free France - Free France
Francisco Franco age 49
Caudillo - Spain
Pius XII age 65
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 66
King - Saudi Arabia
Norodom Sihanouk age 19
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 20
King - Kingdom of Romania
Ananda Mahidol age 16
King - Thailand
Jozef Tiso age 54
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 82
President - Ireland
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 46
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 42
King - Eswatini
Anastasio Somoza García age 45
President - Nicaragua
Óscar Carmona age 72
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 71
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 31
Sultan - Oman
Władysław Raczkiewicz age 57
President - Poland
Jigme Wangchuck age 37
King - Bhutan
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 59
President - El Salvador
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 52
President - Peru
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 41
Queen - Tonga
Roberto Marcelino Ortiz age 55
President - Argentina
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 54
Viceroy - British Raj
Tiburcio Carías age 65
President - Honduras
Edwin Barclay age 60
President - Liberia
Eduardo Santos age 53
President - Colombia
Enrique Peñaranda age 48
President - Bolivia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 57
Emir - Kuwait
Philipp Etter age 50
President - Switzerland
Alfredo Baldomir age 57
President - Uruguay
Isaías Medina Angarita age 44
President - Venezuela
Higinio Morínigo age 45
President - Paraguay
Carlos Arroyo age 48
President - Ecuador
Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia age 41
President - Costa Rica
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 87
Emir - Qatar
Élie Lescot age 58
President - Haiti
Alfred Naqqache age 53
President - Lebanon
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 40
Regent - Lesotho
Giuliano Gozi age 47
Captain Regent - San Marino
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 67
Prime Minister - Canada
John Curtin age 57
Prime Minister - Australia
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 46
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Per Albin Hansson age 56
Prime Minister - Sweden
Thorvald Stauning age 68
Prime Minister - Denmark
Johan Nygaardsvold age 62
Prime Minister - Norway
Nuri as-Said age 54
Prime Minister - Iraq
Bogdan Filov age 58
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 56
Prime Minister - Netherlands
László Bárdossy age 51
Prime Minister - Hungary
Hubert Pierlot age 58
Prime Minister - Belgium
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 47
Prime Minister - Finland
Hermann Jónasson age 45
Prime Minister - Iceland
Georgios Tsolakoglou age 55
Prime Minister - Greece
Pierre Dupong age 57
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Peter Fraser age 57
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 50
Prime Minister - Jordan
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 57
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Josef Hoop age 46
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 60
Charlie Chaplin age 52
Elizabeth II age 15
John F. Kennedy age 24
Martin Luther King Jr. age 13
Pope Francis age 5
Mao Zedong age 48
Che Guevara age 13
Nikola Tesla age 85
Neil Armstrong age 11
Walt Disney age 40
Elvis Presley age 7
George Orwell age 38
John Paul II age 21
Margaret Thatcher age 16