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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
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01 - 1945-08-21
Manhattan Project 1942-08-13 - 1947-01-01
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Chinese Communist Revolution 1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
Soviet–Japanese War 1945-08-09 - 1945-09-03
Indonesian National Revolution 1945-08-17 - 1949-12-27

People

Joseph Stalin age 66
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Mao Zedong age 51
Chairman - 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
King - 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
Trường Chinh age 38
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
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
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 57
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
Deng Xiaoping age 41
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 44
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
William D. Leahy age 70
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
He Long age 49
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
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
Chiang Kai-shek age 57
Chairman - Kuomintang
Robert H. Jackson age 53
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stafford Cripps age 56
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Frank Murphy age 55
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Hynd age 43
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 61
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 52
President - African National Congress
Margaret Buckley age 66
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 37
House of Representatives - United States
Anthony Eden age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Wilson age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Callaghan age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Christian Herter age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Gaitskell age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 57
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 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 63
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 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 45
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 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 50
House of Representatives - United States
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Frank Soskice age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Brown age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Foot age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ernest Bevin age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Earl Warren age 54
Governor of California - United States
Thomas E. Dewey age 43
Governor of New York - United States
Frank Lausche age 49
Governor of Ohio - United States
Walter E. Edge age 71
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Coke R. Stevenson age 57
Governor of Texas - United States
Maurice J. Tobin age 44
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Herbert O'Conor age 48
Governor of Maryland - United States
Colgate Darden age 48
Governor of Virginia - United States
Benjamin T. Laney age 48
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Ralph F. Gates age 52
Governor of Indiana - United States
Barber Conable age 22
New York State Senate - United States
Francisco Franco age 52
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 44
President - Indonesia
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 78
President - Finland
İsmet İnönü age 60
President - Turkey
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 65
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 73
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 87
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
Mohammed V of Morocco age 36
Sultan - Morocco
Bolesław Bierut age 53
President - Poland
Sveinn Björnsson age 64
President - Iceland
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 49
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 46
King - Eswatini
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 63
President - Ireland
Bechara El Khoury age 55
President - Lebanon
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 45
Queen - Tonga
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 58
President - Argentina
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 51
President - Peru
Tiburcio Carías age 69
President - Honduras
Gualberto Villarroel age 36
President - Bolivia
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
Regent - 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
Son Ngoc Thanh age 36
Prime Minister - Cambodia
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 19
Yuri Gagarin age 11
Mikhail Gorbachev age 14