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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
The Holocaust 1941-01-01 - 1945-09-20
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
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Battle of Luzon 1945-01-09 - 1945-08-15
Chinese Communist Revolution 1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01

People

Joseph Stalin age 66
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Mao Zedong age 51
Chairman of the Communist Party of China - Communist Party of China
Harry S. Truman age 61
President - United States
Hirohito age 44
Emperor - Japan
George VI age 49
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 53
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 25
Shah - Iran
Getúlio Vargas age 63
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 75
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 43
Monarch - Belgium
Farouk of Egypt age 25
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 21
King - Yugoslavia
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 48
President - Mexico
Juan José Arévalo age 40
President - Guatemala
Charles de Gaulle age 54
Chairman of the Provisional Government - France
Josip Broz Tito age 53
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Clement Attlee age 62
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Éamon de Valera age 62
Taoiseach - Ireland
Jan Smuts age 75
Prime Minister - South Africa
Kantarō Suzuki age 77
Prime Minister - Japan
J. Sigfrid Edström age 74
President - International Olympic Committee
Ferruccio Parri age 55
Prime Minister - Italy
T. V. Soong age 53
Premier - Republic of China
Seán Lester age 56
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Mahmud Fahmi al-Nuqrashi age 57
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
William D. Leahy age 70
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
George C. Marshall age 64
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Henry L. Stimson age 77
Secretary of War - United States
James F. Byrnes age 63
Secretary Of State - United States
Fred M. Vinson age 55
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Tom C. Clark age 45
Attorney General - United States
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 60
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 68
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 62
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 50
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Winston Churchill age 70
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Robert H. Jackson age 53
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Alben W. Barkley age 67
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Earl Warren age 54
Governor of California - United States
Francisco Franco age 52
Caudillo - Spain
Pius XII age 69
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 69
- Saudi Arabia
Norodom Sihanouk age 22
King - Cambodia
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 78
President - Finland
İsmet İnönü age 60
President - Turkey
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 64
King - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 73
Monarch - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 87
Monarch - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 74
Monarch - Denmark
Michael I of Romania age 23
King - Kingdom of Romania
Rafael Trujillo age 53
President - Dominican Republic
Ananda Mahidol age 19
King - Thailand
Mohammed V of Morocco age 36
Sultan - Morocco
Bolesław Bierut age 53
President - Poland
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 49
Monarch - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 46
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 75
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 35
Sultan - Oman
Władysław Raczkiewicz age 60
President - Poland
Jigme Wangchuck age 40
King - Bhutan
Seán T. O'Kelly age 62
President - Ireland
Bechara El Khoury age 55
President - Lebanon
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 45
Monarch - Tonga
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 58
President - Argentina
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 51
President - Peru
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 48
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 64
President - Switzerland
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 43
King - Lesotho
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 57
President - Panama
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 63
President - Mongolia
Alvaro Casali age 49
Captain Regent - San Marino
Archibald Wavell age 62
Viceroy - British Raj
Enver Hoxha age 36
Prime Minister - Albania
António de Oliveira Salazar age 56
Prime Minister - Portugal
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 74
Prime Minister - Finland
Karl Renner age 74
Chancellor - Austria
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 70
Prime Minister - Canada
Einar Gerhardsen age 48
Prime Minister - Norway
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 50
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Per Albin Hansson age 59
Prime Minister - Sweden
Ben Chifley age 59
Prime Minister - Australia
Petru Groza age 60
Prime Minister - Romania
Achille Van Acker age 47
Prime Minister - Belgium
Kimon Georgiev age 63
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Ólafur Thors age 53
Prime Minister - Iceland
Şükrü Saracoğlu age 58
Prime Minister - Turkey
Béla Miklós age 55
Prime Minister - Hungary
Wim Schermerhorn age 50
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Otto Tief age 56
Prime Minister - Estonia
Vilhelm Buhl age 63
Prime Minister - Denmark
Vladimir Bakarić age 33
Prime Minister - Croatia
Pierre Dupong age 60
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Peter Fraser age 61
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Petros Voulgaris age 61
Prime Minister - Greece
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
Blažo Jovanović age 38
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Solomone Ula Ata age 62
Prime Minister - Tonga
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 45
Governor-General - Australia
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 59
Governor-General - New Zealand
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 64
Governor-General - Madagascar
Albert Einstein age 66
Ronald Reagan age 34
Nelson Mandela age 27
Mahatma Gandhi age 75
Joe Biden age 2
Pablo Picasso age 63
Charlie Chaplin age 56
Elizabeth II age 19
John F. Kennedy age 28
Martin Luther King Jr. age 16
Pope Francis age 8
Che Guevara age 17
Neil Armstrong age 15
Walt Disney age 43
Elvis Presley age 10
George Orwell age 42
John Paul II age 25
Margaret Thatcher age 19
Ernest Hemingway age 46
Gabriel García Márquez age 18
Fidel Castro age 18
Yuri Gagarin age 11
Mikhail Gorbachev age 14
Henry Ford age 82
Stephen Hawking age 3
Jean-Paul Sartre age 40
Jimmy Carter age 20
Benedict XVI age 18
Mother Teresa age 34
George H. W. Bush age 21
Jawaharlal Nehru age 55
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 54
Richard Nixon age 32
Alan Turing age 33
John Maynard Keynes age 62
Simone de Beauvoir age 37
Niels Bohr age 59
Muammar Gaddafi age 3
John Lennon age 4
Muhammad Ali age 3
Max Planck age 87
Kofi Annan age 7
Lech Wałęsa age 1
Gerald Ford age 32
Indira Gandhi age 27
Saddam Hussein age 8
Aung San Suu Kyi age 1 month
Enrico Fermi age 43
Nikita Khrushchev age 51
14th Dalai Lama age 10
Silvio Berlusconi age 8
Bob Marley age 5 months
Herbert Hoover age 71
Mahathir Mohamad age 20
Boris Yeltsin age 14
Ali Khamenei age 6
Jacques Chirac age 12
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 26
Kwame Nkrumah age 35
Yasser Arafat age 15
Ho Chi Minh age 55
Ban Ki-moon age 1
Konrad Adenauer age 69
Henry Kissinger age 22
Václav Havel age 8
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 17
Georges Pompidou age 34
Leonid Brezhnev age 38
Robert Mugabe age 21
Chiang Kai-shek age 57
Hosni Mubarak age 17
Golda Meir age 47
John XXIII age 63
Deng Xiaoping age 40
Ferdinand Marcos age 27
Malcolm X age 20
François Mitterrand age 28
Alexander Fleming age 64