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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
The Holocaust 1941-01-01 - 1945-09-20
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 1942-01-01 - 1945-08-21
Quit India Movement 1942-08-08 - 1944-09-01
Tunisian campaign 1942-11-17 - 1943-05-13
Bengal famine of 1943 1943 - 1944

People

Adolf Hitler age 54
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 64
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 61
President - United States
Mao Zedong age 49
Chairman of the Communist Party of China - Communist Party of China
Hirohito age 42
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 87
Chief of the French State - Vichy France
Getúlio Vargas age 61
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 73
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 41
King - Belgium
Farouk of Egypt age 23
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 19
King - Yugoslavia
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 46
President - Mexico
Wang Jingwei age 60
President - Republic of China
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 62
Prime Minister - Poland
Jan Smuts age 73
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
Harlan F. Stone age 70
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Henry A. Wallace age 54
Vice President - United States
William D. Leahy age 68
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
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
Henry L. Stimson age 75
Secretary of War - United States
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 52
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Francis Biddle age 57
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 58
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)
Wilhelm Frick age 66
Reichsleiter - Nazi Party
Robert H. Jackson age 51
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 50
President - African National Congress
Margaret Buckley age 63
President - Sinn Féin
Harry S. Truman age 59
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 65
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 34
House of Representatives - United States
David Lloyd George age 80
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
Earl Warren age 52
Governor of California - United States
Charles de Gaulle age 52
Leader of Free France - Free France
Francisco Franco age 50
Caudillo - Spain
Pius XII age 67
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 54
President - Finland
Douglas Hyde age 83
President - Ireland
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 47
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 43
King - Eswatini
Anastasio Somoza García age 47
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 58
President - Poland
Jigme Wangchuck age 38
King - Bhutan
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 60
President - El Salvador
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 54
President - Peru
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 43
Queen - Tonga
Ramón Castillo age 69
President - Argentina
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 55
Viceroy - British Raj
Tiburcio Carías age 67
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 57
President - Colombia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 58
Emir - Kuwait
Juan José de Amézaga age 62
President - Uruguay
Isaías Medina Angarita age 45
President - Venezuela
Higinio Morínigo age 46
President - Paraguay
Carlos Arroyo age 49
President - Ecuador
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 88
Emir - Qatar
Élie Lescot age 59
President - Haiti
Enrico Celio age 53
President - Switzerland
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 41
Regent - Lesotho
Ayoub Tabet age 69
President - Lebanon
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 61
President - Mongolia
António de Oliveira Salazar age 54
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 48
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 60
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 58
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Şükrü Saracoğlu age 55
Prime Minister - Turkey
Hubert Pierlot age 59
Prime Minister - Belgium
Edwin Linkomies age 48
Prime Minister - Finland
Miklós Kállay age 56
Prime Minister - Hungary
Erik Scavenius age 65
Prime Minister - Denmark
Ioannis Rallis age 65
Prime Minister - Greece
Pierre Dupong age 58
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Björn Þórðarson age 64
Prime Minister - Iceland
Peter Fraser age 58
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 51
Prime Minister - Jordan
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 58
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Maliq Bushati age 63
Prime Minister - Albania
Josef Hoop age 47
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Makonnen Endelkachew age 53
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Solomone Ula Ata age 60
Prime Minister - Tonga
Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie age 70
Governor-General - Australia
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 57
Governor-General - New Zealand
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 62
Governor-General - Madagascar
Albert Einstein age 64
Ronald Reagan age 32
Nelson Mandela age 24
Mahatma Gandhi age 73
Joe Biden age 5 months
Pablo Picasso age 61
Charlie Chaplin age 54
Elizabeth II age 17
John F. Kennedy age 25
Martin Luther King Jr. age 14
Pope Francis age 6
Che Guevara age 14
Neil Armstrong age 12
Walt Disney age 41
Elvis Presley age 8
George Orwell age 39
John Paul II age 22
Margaret Thatcher age 17
Ernest Hemingway age 43
Gabriel García Márquez age 16
Fidel Castro age 16
Yuri Gagarin age 9
Mikhail Gorbachev age 12
Henry Ford age 79
Stephen Hawking age 1
Jean-Paul Sartre age 37
Jimmy Carter age 18
Benedict XVI age 16
Mother Teresa age 32
George H. W. Bush age 18
Jawaharlal Nehru age 53
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 52
Richard Nixon age 30
Alan Turing age 30
John Maynard Keynes age 59
Simone de Beauvoir age 35
Niels Bohr age 57
Muammar Gaddafi age 11 months
John Lennon age 2
Muhammad Ali age 1
Max Planck age 85
Kofi Annan age 5
Gerald Ford age 29
Indira Gandhi age 25
Saddam Hussein age 6
Enrico Fermi age 41
Nikita Khrushchev age 49
14th Dalai Lama age 7
Silvio Berlusconi age 6
Herbert Hoover age 68
Mahathir Mohamad age 17
Boris Yeltsin age 12
Ali Khamenei age 4
Jacques Chirac age 10
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 24
Kwame Nkrumah age 33
Yasser Arafat age 13
Ho Chi Minh age 53
Konrad Adenauer age 67
Henry Kissinger age 19
Václav Havel age 6
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 15
Georges Pompidou age 31
Joseph Goebbels age 45
Leonid Brezhnev age 36
Robert Mugabe age 19
Hosni Mubarak age 15
Golda Meir age 45
John XXIII age 61
Deng Xiaoping age 38