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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
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01 - 1945-08-21
Italian campaign 1943-07-09 - 1945-05-02
Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine 1944-08-25 - 1945-03-07
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay 1945-01-01 - 1945-03-29
Battle of Luzon 1945-01-09 - 1945-08-15
East Prussian offensive 1945-01-13 - 1945-04-25
Battle of Iwo Jima 1945-02-19 - 1945-03-26
East Pomeranian offensive 1945-02-24 - 1945-04-04

People

Adolf Hitler age 55
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 66
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 63
President - United States
Mao Zedong age 51
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Hirohito age 43
Emperor - Japan
George VI age 49
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 52
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 25
Shah - Iran
Getúlio Vargas age 62
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 75
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 43
King - Belgium
Farouk of Egypt age 25
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 21
King - Yugoslavia
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 47
President - Mexico
Trường Chinh age 38
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Francisco Javier Arana age 39
President - Guatemala
Jorge Toriello Garrido age 36
President - Guatemala
Winston Churchill age 70
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Charles de Gaulle age 54
Chairman of the Provisional Government - France
Chiang Kai-shek age 57
Premier - Republic of China
Éamon de Valera age 62
Taoiseach - Ireland
Jan Smuts age 74
Prime Minister - South Africa
Ivanoe Bonomi age 71
Prime Minister - Italy
Kuniaki Koiso age 64
Prime Minister - Japan
J. Sigfrid Edström age 74
President - International Olympic Committee
Seán Lester age 56
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Mahmud Fahmi al-Nuqrashi age 56
Prime Minister - Egypt
Faris al-Khoury age 67
Prime Minister - Syria
Félix Lancís Sánchez age 44
Prime Minister - Cuba
Harlan F. Stone age 72
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Harry S. Truman age 60
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 40
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 46
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 59
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 43
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
William D. Leahy age 69
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
He Long age 48
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 45
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Heinrich Himmler age 44
Reichsminister - Germany
Hermann Göring age 52
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
George C. Marshall age 64
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 57
Reichsminister - Germany
Henry L. Stimson age 77
Secretary of War - United States
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 53
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Edward Stettinius Jr. age 44
Secretary of State - United States
Francis Biddle age 58
Attorney General - United States
Herbert Morrison age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 59
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 62
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 54
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 50
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clement Attlee age 62
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Wilhelm Frick age 68
Reichsleiter - Nazi Party
Robert H. Jackson age 53
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Frank Murphy age 54
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 52
President - African National Congress
Margaret Buckley age 65
President - Sinn Féin
J. Howard McGrath age 41
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Alben W. Barkley age 67
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 87
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Anthony Eden age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stafford Cripps age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Christian Herter age 49
House of Representatives - United States
Fred M. Vinson age 55
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duff Cooper age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 27
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 75
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 49
House of Representatives - United States
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ernest Bevin age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Earl Warren age 53
Governor of California - United States
Barber Conable age 22
New York State Senate - United States
Francisco Franco age 52
Caudillo - Spain
Pius XII age 69
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 69
King - Saudi Arabia
Norodom Sihanouk age 22
King - Cambodia
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 77
President - Finland
İsmet İnönü age 60
President - Turkey
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 64
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 72
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 86
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 74
King - Denmark
Michael I of Romania age 23
King - Kingdom of Romania
Rafael Trujillo age 53
President - Dominican Republic
Ananda Mahidol age 19
King - Thailand
Jozef Tiso age 57
President - Slovakia
Mohammed V of Morocco age 35
Sultan - Morocco
Bolesław Bierut age 52
President - Poland
Douglas Hyde age 85
President - Ireland
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 49
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 45
King - Eswatini
José Paciano Laurel age 54
President - Philippines
Sergio Osmeña age 66
President - Philippines
Anastasio Somoza García age 49
President - Nicaragua
William Tubman age 49
President - Liberia
Óscar Carmona age 75
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 74
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 34
Sultan - Oman
Władysław Raczkiewicz age 60
President - Poland
Jigme Wangchuck age 40
King - Bhutan
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 55
President - Peru
Bechara El Khoury age 54
President - Lebanon
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 45
Queen - Tonga
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 58
President - Argentina
Tiburcio Carías age 69
President - Honduras
Juan Antonio Rios age 56
President - Chile
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 59
President - Colombia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 60
Emir - Kuwait
Juan José de Amézaga age 64
President - Uruguay
Isaías Medina Angarita age 47
President - Venezuela
Higinio Morínigo age 48
President - Paraguay
Josip Vidmar age 49
President - Slovenia
Teodoro Picado Michalski age 45
President - Costa Rica
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 90
Emir - Qatar
Élie Lescot age 61
President - Haiti
Eduard von Steiger age 63
President - Switzerland
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 43
Regent - Lesotho
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 63
President - Mongolia
Archibald Wavell age 61
Viceroy - British Raj
Enver Hoxha age 36
Prime Minister - Albania
António de Oliveira Salazar age 55
Prime Minister - Portugal
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 74
Prime Minister - Finland
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 70
Prime Minister - Canada
John Curtin age 60
Prime Minister - Australia
Ferenc Szálasi age 48
Prime Minister - Hungary
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 50
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Per Albin Hansson age 59
Prime Minister - Sweden
Johan Nygaardsvold age 65
Prime Minister - Norway
Achille Van Acker age 46
Prime Minister - Belgium
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 59
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Kimon Georgiev age 62
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Ólafur Thors age 53
Prime Minister - Iceland
Khuang Aphaiwong age 42
Prime Minister - Thailand
Şükrü Saracoğlu age 57
Prime Minister - Turkey
Béla Miklós age 54
Prime Minister - Hungary
Nikolaos Plastiras age 61
Prime Minister - Greece
Otto Tief age 55
Prime Minister - Estonia
Pierre Dupong age 60
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Peter Fraser age 60
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 60
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Josef Hoop age 49
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Hamdi Pachachi age 59
Prime Minister - Iraq
Makonnen Endelkachew age 55
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Solomone Ula Ata age 61
Prime Minister - Tonga
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 44
Governor-General - Australia
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 59
Governor-General - New Zealand
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 63
Governor-General - Madagascar
Albert Einstein age 66
Ronald Reagan age 34
Nelson Mandela age 26
Mahatma Gandhi age 75
Joe Biden age 2
Pablo Picasso age 63
Charlie Chaplin age 55
Elizabeth II age 18
John F. Kennedy age 27
Martin Luther King Jr. age 16
Pope Francis age 8
Che Guevara age 16
Neil Armstrong age 14
Walt Disney age 43
Elvis Presley age 10
George Orwell age 41
John Paul II age 24
Margaret Thatcher age 19
Ernest Hemingway age 45
Gabriel García Márquez age 18
Fidel Castro age 18
Yuri Gagarin age 10
Mikhail Gorbachev age 14
Henry Ford age 81
Benito Mussolini age 61
Stephen Hawking age 3
Jean-Paul Sartre age 39
Jimmy Carter age 20
Benedict XVI age 17
Mother Teresa age 34
George H. W. Bush age 20
Jawaharlal Nehru age 55