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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
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
Tunisian campaign 1942-11-17 - 1943-05-13
Bengal famine of 1943 1943 - 1944

People

Adolf Hitler age 53
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 64
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 60
President - United States
Hirohito age 41
Emperor - Japan
George VI age 47
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
Winston Churchill age 68
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Benito Mussolini age 59
Prime Minister - Italy
Chiang Kai-shek age 55
Premier - Republic of China
Hideki Tojo age 58
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 48
Prime Minister - Cuba
Husni al-Barazi age 48
Prime Minister - Syria
Slobodan Jovanović age 73
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 43
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Hermann Göring age 50
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
George C. Marshall age 62
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 55
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 48
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clement Attlee age 60
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 65
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 85
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 34
House of Representatives - United States
David Lloyd George age 80
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 40
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 48
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 61
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
Thomas E. Dewey age 40
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 46
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
Barber Conable age 20
New York State Senate - United States
Charles de Gaulle age 52
Leader of Free France - Free France
Francisco Franco age 50
Caudillo - Spain
Pius XII age 66
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 67
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 83
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 73
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 38
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 61
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 58
Emir - Kuwait
Alfredo Baldomir age 58
President - Uruguay
Isaías Medina Angarita age 45
President - Venezuela
Higinio Morínigo age 46
President - Paraguay
Carlos Arroyo age 49
President - Ecuador
Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia age 42
President - Costa Rica
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 88
Emir - Qatar
Élie Lescot age 59
President - Haiti
Enrico Celio age 53
President - Switzerland
Alfred Naqqache age 54
President - Lebanon
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 41
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 68
Prime Minister - Canada
John Curtin age 58
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 55
Prime Minister - Iraq
Bogdan Filov age 59
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 57
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Şükrü Saracoğlu age 55
Prime Minister - Turkey
Hubert Pierlot age 59
Prime Minister - Belgium
Miklós Kállay age 55
Prime Minister - Hungary
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 48
Prime Minister - Finland
Erik Scavenius age 65
Prime Minister - Denmark
Pierre Dupong age 58
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Björn Þórðarson age 63
Prime Minister - Iceland
Peter Fraser age 58
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Konstantinos Logothetopoulos age 64
Prime Minister - Greece
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 51
Prime Minister - Jordan
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 58
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Josef Hoop age 47
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
Joe Biden age 1 month
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 6
Mao Zedong age 49
Che Guevara age 14
Nikola Tesla age 86
Neil Armstrong age 12
Walt Disney age 41
Elvis Presley age 7
George Orwell age 39