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1939-09-01 - 1945-09-20
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1941-01-01 - 1945-09-20
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1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
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1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Solomon Islands campaign
1942-01-01 - 1945-08-21
People
Joseph Stalin
age 63
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Winston Churchill
age 67
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Adolf Hitler
age 53
Führer
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Germany
Franklin D. Roosevelt
age 60
President
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United States
Hirohito
age 41
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
Harry S. Truman
age 58
Senate
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United States
Alben W. Barkley
age 64
Senate
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United States
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 33
House of Representatives
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United States
Hermann Göring
age 49
President of the Reichstag
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Germany
Harlan F. Stone
age 69
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
David Lloyd George
age 79
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
George C. Marshall
age 61
Chief of Staff of the Army
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United States
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 53
Communist Party of Vietnam
George Wallace
age 22
United States Army
Karl Dönitz
age 50
Nazi Party
Byron White
age 24
Democratic Party (United States)
Zhao Ziyang
age 22
Communist Party of China
John Paul Stevens
age 22
United States Navy
Yoshijirō Umezu
age 60
Imperial Japanese Army
John F. Kennedy
age 24
Democratic Party (United States)
Arthur Goldberg
age 33
Democratic Party (United States)
Hua Guofeng
age 21
Communist Party of China
Reinhard Heydrich
age 38
Nazi Party
Rong Yiren
age 26
Communist Party of China
Heinrich Himmler
age 41
Nazi Party
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 32
Kuomintang
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 36
United States Army
Ronald Reagan
age 31
Republican Party (United States)
John Foster Dulles
age 54
Republican Party (United States)
Courtney Hodges
age 55
United States Army
Li Xiannian
age 32
Communist Party of China
Raymond A. Spruance
age 55
United States Navy
Dong Biwu
age 56
Communist Party of China
George S. Patton
age 56
United States Army
Archibald Cox
age 29
Democratic Party (United States)
Richard Nixon
age 29
United States Navy
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 57
United States Navy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 51
Republican Party (United States)
Sun Yun-suan
age 28
Kuomintang
Charles de Gaulle
age 51
French Army
Deng Xiaoping
age 37
Communist Party of China
Potter Stewart
age 27
Republican Party (United States)
Hu Yaobang
age 26
Communist Party of China
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 34
Democratic Party (United States)
James R. Schlesinger
age 13
Republican Party (United States)
Zhou Enlai
age 44
Communist Party of China
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 12
Republican Party (United States)
James Baker
age 12
Democratic Party (United States)
Joseph Goebbels
age 44
Nazi Party
Herbert Hoover
age 67
Republican Party (United States)
Kurt Daluege
age 44
Nazi Party
Lien Chan
age 5
Kuomintang
Yang Shangkun
age 34
Communist Party of China
Mao Zedong
age 48
Communist Party of China
Clark Clifford
age 35
Democratic Party (United States)
J. Edgar Hoover
age 47
Republican Party (United States)
David Souter
age 2
Republican Party (United States)
John Lewis
age 2
Democratic Party (United States)
Dick Cheney
age 1
Republican Party (United States)
Rudolf Hess
age 48
Nazi Party
Melvin Laird
age 19
United States Navy
Henry Kissinger
age 18
Republican Party (United States)
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 18
Kuomintang
William H. Webster
age 18
Republican Party (United States)
George H. W. Bush
age 17
Republican Party (United States)
Daniel Inouye
age 17
Democratic Party (United States)
Jimmy Carter
age 17
Democratic Party (United States)
Douglas MacArthur
age 62
United States Army
Martin Bormann
age 41
Nazi Party
Thurgood Marshall
age 33
Democratic Party (United States)
Wang Zhen (general)
age 34
Communist Party of China
Liu Shaoqi
age 43
Communist Party of China
Jiang Zemin
age 15
Communist Party of China
Wilhelm Frick
age 65
Nazi Party
Walter Mondale
age 14
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Peng
age 13
Communist Party of China
He Yingqin
age 52
Kingorō Hashimoto
age 52
Alfred Jodl
age 52
Ho Chi Minh
age 52
Walther Funk
age 51
Earl Warren
age 51
Otto Rasch
age 50
Naoki Hoshino
age 50
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
age 49
Francisco Franco
age 49
Akira Mutō
age 49
Alfred Rosenberg
age 49
Soong Ching-ling
age 49
Omar Bradley
age 49
Nikita Khrushchev
age 48
Franz von Papen
age 62
Albert Einstein
age 63
Iwane Matsui
age 63
Kōki Hirota
age 64
Hjalmar Schacht
age 65
Erich Raeder
age 66
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 76
Charles G. Dawes
age 76
Charles Evans Hughes
age 80
John J. Pershing
age 81
Nikola Tesla
age 85
Edward VIII
age 47
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 57
Julius Streicher
age 57
Seishirō Itagaki
age 57
Hideki Tōjō
age 57
Isoroku Yamamoto
age 58
Doihara Kenji
age 58
Benito Mussolini
age 58
Clement Attlee
age 59
Wilhelm Keitel
age 59
Kliment Voroshilov
age 61
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 62
Fidel Castro
age 15
Elizabeth II
age 16
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 25
Robert McNamara
age 25
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 26
Carlos Castillo Armas
age 27
Muhammad Ali
age 3 months
Kim Jong-il
age 1
Zeng Qinghong
age 2
Stephen Breyer
age 3
Gennady Yanayev
age 4
Saddam Hussein
age 5
Colin Powell
age 5
Anthony Kennedy
age 5
Antonin Scalia
age 6
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 9
Jacques Chirac
age 9
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 11
Boris Yeltsin
age 11
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
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 36
Puyi
age 36
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 36
Albert Speer
age 37
Juan José Arévalo
age 37
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
age 38
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 39
Souvanna Phouma
age 40
Hans Frank
age 41
Hans Fritzsche
age 42
John Marshall Harlan II
age 42
Rodion Malinovsky
age 43
Peng Dehuai
age 43
Anthony Eden
age 44
Otto Hofmann
age 46
Robert A. Lovett
age 46
Semyon Timoshenko
age 47
Friedrich Jeckeln
age 47
Fritz Sauckel
age 47
Yuri Andropov
age 27
Jacobo Árbenz
age 28
Gerald Ford
age 28
Rosa Parks
age 29
Jo Ann Robinson
age 30
Kim Il-sung
age 30
Eva Braun
age 30
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 35
Lê Duẩn
age 35
Leonid Brezhnev
age 35
Thomas Gage
age 224