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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 - 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
Quit India Movement 1942-08-08 - 1944-09-01
Manhattan Project 1942-08-13 - 1947-01-01
Bengal famine of 1943 1943 - 1944
Italian campaign 1943-07-09 - 1945-05-02

People

Adolf Hitler age 54
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 65
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 61
President - United States
Mao Zedong age 49
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Hirohito age 42
Emperor - Japan
George VI age 48
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 51
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 24
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 74
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 42
King - Belgium
Farouk of Egypt age 23
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 20
King - Yugoslavia
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 46
President - Mexico
Wang Jingwei age 60
President - Republic of China
Trường Chinh age 36
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Jorge Ubico age 65
President - Guatemala
Winston Churchill age 69
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Chiang Kai-shek age 56
Premier - Republic of China
Hideki Tojo age 58
Prime Minister - Japan
Éamon de Valera age 61
Taoiseach - Ireland
Pietro Badoglio age 72
Prime Minister - Italy
Pierre Laval age 60
Head of Government - Vichy France
Jan Smuts age 73
Prime Minister - South Africa
J. Sigfrid Edström age 73
President - International Olympic Committee
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 42
Prime Minister - Poland
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 64
Prime Minister - Egypt
Seán Lester age 55
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Saadallah al-Jabiri age 51
Prime Minister - Syria
Ramón Zaydín age 48
Prime Minister - Cuba
Božidar Purić age 52
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Harlan F. Stone age 71
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Henry A. Wallace age 55
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 39
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 45
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 57
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 42
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
William D. Leahy age 68
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
He Long age 47
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
Heinrich Himmler age 43
Reichsminister - Germany
Hermann Göring age 50
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
George C. Marshall age 62
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Cordell Hull age 72
Secretary of State - United States
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 56
Reichsminister - Germany
Henry L. Stimson age 76
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
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 58
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 61
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 53
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
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
Frank Murphy age 53
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Hugh Dalton age 56
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Ernest Brown age 62
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 50
President - African National Congress
Margaret Buckley age 64
President - Sinn Féin
Harry S. Truman age 59
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 66
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 85
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 35
House of Representatives - United States
David Lloyd George age 80
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Eden age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stafford Cripps age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Christian Herter age 48
House of Representatives - United States
Fred M. Vinson age 53
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 70
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duff Cooper age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 25
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 74
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 48
House of Representatives - United States
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ernest Bevin age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Earl Warren age 52
Governor of California - United States
Thomas E. Dewey age 41
Governor of New York - United States
John W. Bricker age 50
Governor of Ohio - United States
Charles Edison age 53
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Leverett Saltonstall age 51
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Coke R. Stevenson age 55
Governor of Texas - United States
Herbert O'Conor age 47
Governor of Maryland - United States
Colgate Darden age 46
Governor of Virginia - United States
Homer Martin Adkins age 53
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Henry F. Schricker age 60
Governor of Indiana - United States
Barber Conable age 21
New York State Senate - United States
Francisco Franco age 51
Caudillo - Spain
Pius XII age 67
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 67
King - Saudi Arabia
Norodom Sihanouk age 21
King - Cambodia
İsmet İnönü age 59
President - Turkey
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 63
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 71
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 85
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 73
King - Denmark
Michael I of Romania age 22
King - Kingdom of Romania
Rafael Trujillo age 52
President - Dominican Republic
Ananda Mahidol age 18
King - Thailand
Jozef Tiso age 56
President - Slovakia
Mohammed V of Morocco age 34
Sultan - Morocco
Manuel L. Quezon age 65
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 44
King - Eswatini
José Paciano Laurel age 52
President - Philippines
Anastasio Somoza García age 47
President - Nicaragua
Óscar Carmona age 74
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 73
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 33
Sultan - Oman
Władysław Raczkiewicz age 58
President - Poland
Jigme Wangchuck age 38
King - Bhutan
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 61
President - El Salvador
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 54
President - Peru
Bechara El Khoury age 53
President - Lebanon
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 43
Queen - Tonga
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 59
President - Argentina
Tiburcio Carías age 67
President - Honduras
Edwin Barclay age 61
President - Liberia
Enrique Peñaranda age 50
President - Bolivia
Juan Antonio Rios age 55
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 46
President - Venezuela
Higinio Morínigo age 46
President - Paraguay
Carlos Arroyo age 50
President - Ecuador
Josip Vidmar age 48
President - Slovenia
Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia age 43
President - Costa Rica
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 89
Emir - Qatar
Élie Lescot age 60
President - Haiti
Enrico Celio age 54
President - Switzerland
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 41
Regent - Lesotho
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 62
President - Mongolia
Archibald Wavell age 60
Viceroy - British Raj
António de Oliveira Salazar age 54
Prime Minister - Portugal
Ion Antonescu age 61
Prime Minister - Romania
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 46
Prime Minister - Thailand
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 69
Prime Minister - Canada
John Curtin age 58
Prime Minister - Australia
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 48
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Per Albin Hansson age 58
Prime Minister - Sweden
Johan Nygaardsvold age 64
Prime Minister - Norway
Nuri as-Said age 55
Prime Minister - Iraq
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 58
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Şükrü Saracoğlu age 56
Prime Minister - Turkey
Hubert Pierlot age 60
Prime Minister - Belgium
Edwin Linkomies age 49
Prime Minister - Finland
Miklós Kállay age 56
Prime Minister - Hungary
Riad Al Solh age 50
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Ioannis Rallis age 65
Prime Minister - Greece
Pierre Dupong age 58
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Björn Þórðarson age 64
Prime Minister - Iceland
Peter Fraser age 59
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Rexhep Mitrovica age 55
Prime Minister - Albania
Dobry Bozhilov age 59
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 51
Prime Minister - Jordan
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 58
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Josef Hoop age 48
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 71
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 25
Mahatma Gandhi age 74
Joe Biden age 1
Pablo Picasso age 62
Charlie Chaplin age 54
Elizabeth II age 17
John F. Kennedy age 26
Martin Luther King Jr. age 14
Pope Francis age 6
Che Guevara age 15
Charles de Gaulle age 53
Neil Armstrong age 13