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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
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01 - 1945-08-21
Battle of Stalingrad 1942-07-17 - 1943-02-02
Kokoda Track campaign 1942-07-21 - 1942-11-16
Guadalcanal campaign 1942-08-07 - 1943-02-09
Quit India Movement 1942-08-08 - 1944-09-01
Manhattan Project 1942-08-13 - 1947-01-01
Second Battle of El Alamein 1942-10-23 - 1942-11-11

People

Adolf Hitler age 53
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 63
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 60
President - United States
Hirohito age 41
Emperor - Japan
George VI age 46
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 50
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 23
Shah - Iran
Philippe Pétain age 86
Chief of the French State - Vichy France
Getúlio Vargas age 60
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 73
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 41
King - Belgium
Farouk of Egypt age 22
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 19
King - Yugoslavia
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 45
President - Mexico
Wang Jingwei age 59
President - Republic of China
Trường Chinh age 35
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Jorge Ubico age 64
President - Guatemala
Zhang Wentian age 42
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Winston Churchill age 67
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Benito Mussolini age 59
Prime Minister - Italy
Chiang Kai-shek age 55
Premier - Republic of China
Hideki Tojo age 57
Prime Minister - Japan
Éamon de Valera age 60
Taoiseach - Ireland
Pierre Laval age 59
Head of Government - Vichy France
Władysław Sikorski age 61
Prime Minister - Poland
Jan Smuts age 72
Prime Minister - South Africa
J. Sigfrid Edström age 72
President - International Olympic Committee
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 63
Prime Minister - Egypt
Seán Lester age 54
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Ramón Zaydín age 47
Prime Minister - Cuba
Husni al-Barazi age 47
Prime Minister - Syria
Slobodan Jovanović age 72
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Harlan F. Stone age 70
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Henry A. Wallace age 54
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 38
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 44
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 56
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 41
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
William D. Leahy age 67
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
He Long age 46
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 71
Secretary of State - United States
Wilhelm Frick age 65
Reichsminister - Germany
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 55
Reichsminister - Germany
Henry L. Stimson age 75
Secretary of War - United States
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 51
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Francis Biddle age 56
Attorney General - United States
Herbert Morrison age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Kingsley Wood age 61
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 57
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 52
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
Heinrich Himmler age 42
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)
Robert H. Jackson age 50
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Frank Murphy age 52
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Duff Cooper age 52
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Hugh Dalton age 55
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 49
President - African National Congress
Margaret Buckley age 63
President - Sinn Féin
Harry S. Truman age 58
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 64
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 84
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 34
House of Representatives - United States
David Lloyd George age 79
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Eden age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stafford Cripps age 53
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 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 24
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 73
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 47
House of Representatives - United States
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes age 70
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ernest Bevin age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert H. Lehman age 64
Governor of New York - United States
John W. Bricker age 49
Governor of Ohio - United States
Charles Edison age 52
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Culbert Olson age 66
Governor of California - United States
Leverett Saltonstall age 50
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Coke R. Stevenson age 54
Governor of Texas - United States
Herbert O'Conor age 45
Governor of Maryland - United States
Colgate Darden age 45
Governor of Virginia - United States
Homer Martin Adkins age 52
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Henry F. Schricker age 59
Governor of Indiana - United States
Christian Herter age 47
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Barber Conable age 20
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 66
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 66
King - Saudi Arabia
Norodom Sihanouk age 20
King - Cambodia
İsmet İnönü age 58
President - Turkey
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 62
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 70
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 84
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 72
King - Denmark
Michael I of Romania age 21
King - Kingdom of Romania
Rafael Trujillo age 51
President - Dominican Republic
Ananda Mahidol age 17
King - Thailand
Jozef Tiso age 55
President - Slovakia
Mohammed V of Morocco age 33
Sultan - Morocco
Manuel L. Quezon age 64
President - Philippines
Risto Ryti age 53
President - Finland
Douglas Hyde age 82
President - Ireland
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 46
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 43
King - Eswatini
Anastasio Somoza García age 46
President - Nicaragua
Óscar Carmona age 72
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 72
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 32
Sultan - Oman
Władysław Raczkiewicz age 57
President - Poland
Jigme Wangchuck age 37
King - Bhutan
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 60
President - El Salvador
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 53
President - Peru
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 42
Queen - Tonga
Ramón Castillo age 69
President - Argentina
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 55
Viceroy - British Raj
Tiburcio Carías age 66
President - Honduras
Edwin Barclay age 60
President - Liberia
Enrique Peñaranda age 49
President - Bolivia
Juan Antonio Rios age 54
President - Chile
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 56
President - Colombia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 57
Emir - Kuwait
Philipp Etter age 50
President - Switzerland
Alfredo Baldomir age 58
President - Uruguay
Isaías Medina Angarita age 45
President - Venezuela
Higinio Morínigo age 45
President - Paraguay
Carlos Arroyo age 48
President - Ecuador
Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia age 42
President - Costa Rica
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 87
Emir - Qatar
Élie Lescot age 58
President - Haiti
Alfred Naqqache age 54
President - Lebanon
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 40
Regent - Lesotho
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 61
President - Mongolia
António de Oliveira Salazar age 53
Prime Minister - Portugal
Ion Antonescu age 60
Prime Minister - Romania
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 45
Prime Minister - Thailand
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 67
Prime Minister - Canada
John Curtin age 57
Prime Minister - Australia
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 47
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Per Albin Hansson age 57
Prime Minister - Sweden
Johan Nygaardsvold age 63
Prime Minister - Norway
Nuri as-Said age 54
Prime Minister - Iraq
Bogdan Filov age 59
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 57
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Ólafur Thors age 50
Prime Minister - Iceland
Şükrü Saracoğlu age 55
Prime Minister - Turkey
Hubert Pierlot age 58
Prime Minister - Belgium
Miklós Kállay age 55
Prime Minister - Hungary
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 48
Prime Minister - Finland
Georgios Tsolakoglou age 56
Prime Minister - Greece
Vilhelm Buhl age 61
Prime Minister - Denmark
Pierre Dupong age 57
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Peter Fraser age 58
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 59
Prime Minister - Tonga
Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie age 70
Governor-General - Australia
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 56
Governor-General - New Zealand
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 61
Governor-General - Madagascar
Albert Einstein age 63
Ronald Reagan age 31
Nelson Mandela age 24
Mahatma Gandhi age 73
Pablo Picasso age 61
Charlie Chaplin age 53
Elizabeth II age 16
John F. Kennedy age 25
Martin Luther King Jr. age 13
Pope Francis age 5
Mao Zedong age 48
Che Guevara age 14
Nikola Tesla age 86
Neil Armstrong age 12
Walt Disney age 40
Elvis Presley age 7