1965 Commerative Crown

Winston Churchill


This is a Uncirculated British Commerative Winston Churchull  Coin from 1965

It has a image of the great leader and his name on the back is the queen
The size is 39mm and it weight 28 grams or one ounce

It is Silver Coloured and made of Cupro Nickel

Winston Churchill was vote the Greatest Britian Ever after he won World War II beating Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany

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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS, Hon. RA (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician, best known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, he served as Prime Minister twice (1940–45 and 1951–55). A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. He is the only British prime minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature and was the first person to be made an Honorary Citizen of the United States.

Churchill was born into an aristocratic family as the grandson of the 7th Duke of Marlborough. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was a charismatic politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer; his mother, Jennie Jerome, was an American socialite. As a young army officer, he saw action in British India, the Sudan, and the Second Boer War. He gained fame as a war correspondent and wrote books about his campaigns.

At the forefront of politics for fifty years, he held many political and cabinet positions. Before the First World War, he served as President of the Board of Trade, Home Secretary, and First Lord of the Admiralty as part of the Asquith Liberal government. During the war, he continued as First Lord of the Admiralty until the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign caused his departure from government. He then briefly resumed active army service on the Western Front as commander of the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers. He returned to government as Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War, and Secretary of State for Air. After the War, Churchill served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Conservative (Baldwin) government of 1924–29, controversially returning the pound sterling in 1925 to the gold standard at its pre-war parity, a move widely seen as creating deflationary pressure on the UK economy. Also controversial was his opposition to increased home rule for India and his resistance to the 1936 abdication of Edward VIII.

Out of office and politically "in the wilderness" during the 1930s, Churchill took the lead in warning about Nazi Germany and in campaigning for rearmament. On the outbreak of the Second World War, he was again appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. Following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain on 10 May 1940, Churchill became Prime Minister. His steadfast refusal to consider defeat, surrender, or a compromise peace helped inspire British resistance, especially during the difficult early days of the War when Britain stood alone among European countries in its active opposition to Adolf Hitler. Churchill was particularly noted for his speeches and radio broadcasts, which helped inspire the British people. He led Britain as Prime Minister until victory over Nazi Germany had been secured.

After the Conservative Party lost the 1945 election, he became Leader of the Opposition to the Labour (Attlee) government. After winning the 1951 election, he again became Prime Minister, before retiring in 1955. Upon his death, Elizabeth II granted him the honour of a state funeral, which saw one of the largest assemblies of world statesmen in history.[1] Named the Greatest Briton of all time in a 2002 poll, Churchill is widely regarded as being among the most influential people in British history.

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
In office
26 October 1951 – 7 April 1955
Monarch    

    George VI
    Elizabeth II

Deputy     Anthony Eden
Preceded by     Clement Attlee
Succeeded by     Anthony Eden
In office
10 May 1940 – 26 July 1945
Monarch     George VI
Deputy     Clement Attlee
Preceded by     Neville Chamberlain
Succeeded by     Clement Attlee
Leader of the Opposition
In office
26 July 1945 – 26 October 1951
Monarch     George VI
Prime Minister     Clement Attlee
Preceded by     Clement Attlee
Succeeded by     Clement Attlee
Leader of the Conservative Party
In office
9 November 1940 – 7 April 1955
Preceded by     Neville Chamberlain
Succeeded by     Anthony Eden
Secretary of State for Defence
In office
28 October 1951 – 1 March 1952
Prime Minister     Himself
Preceded by     Emanuel Shinwell
Succeeded by     The Earl Alexander of Tunis
In office
10 May 1940 – 26 July 1945
Prime Minister     Himself
Preceded by    
The Lord Chatfield (Minister for Coordination of Defence)
Succeeded by     Clement Attlee
Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office
6 November 1924 – 4 June 1929
Prime Minister     Stanley Baldwin
Preceded by     Philip Snowden
Succeeded by     Philip Snowden
Home Secretary
In office
19 February 1910 – 24 October 1911
Prime Minister     Herbert Henry Asquith
Preceded by     Herbert Gladstone
Succeeded by     Reginald McKenna
President of the Board of Trade
In office
12 April 1908 – 14 February 1910
Prime Minister     Herbert Henry Asquith
Preceded by     David Lloyd George
Succeeded by     Sydney Buxton
Member of Parliament
for Woodford
In office
5 July 1945 – 15 October 1964
Preceded by     New Constituency
Succeeded by     Patrick Jenkin
Member of Parliament
for Epping
In office
29 October 1924 – 5 July 1945
Preceded by     Sir Leonard Lyle
Succeeded by     Leah Manning
Member of Parliament
for Dundee
with Alexander Wilkie
In office
24 April 1908 – 15 November 1922
Preceded by    

    Alexander Wilkie
    Edmund Robertson

Succeeded by    

    Edmund Morel
    Edwin Scrymgeour

Member of Parliament
for Manchester North West
In office
8 February 1906 – 24 April 1908
Preceded by     William Houldsworth
Succeeded by     William Joynson-Hicks
Member of Parliament
for Oldham
with Alfred Emmott
In office
24 October 1900 – 12 January 1906
Preceded by    
Walter Runciman
Alfred Emmott
Succeeded by    

    Alfred Emmott
    John Albert Bright

Personal details
Born     Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
30 November 1874
Blenheim Palace, Woodstock,
Oxfordshire, England,
United Kingdom
Died     24 January 1965 (aged 90)
28 Hyde Park Gate, London, England
Resting place     St Martin's Church, Bladon, Oxfordshire
Citizenship     British
Nationality     English
Political party    

    Conservative (1900–04, 1924–64)
    Liberal (1904–24)

Spouse(s)    
Clementine Churchill
1908–1965 (his death)
Relations    

    Lord Randolph Churchill (father)
    Lady Randolph Churchill (mother)
    John Strange Spencer-Churchill (brother)
    Pamela Harriman (former daughter-in-law)
    Winston Churchill (grandson)

Children    

    Diana Churchill
    Randolph Churchill
    Sarah Tuchet-Jesson
    Marigold Churchill
    Mary Soames

Residence    

    10 Downing Street (official)
    Chartwell  (private)
    28 Hyde Park Gate, London (private)

Alma mater    

    Harrow School
    Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

Profession     Member of Parliament, statesman, soldier, journalist, historian, author, painter
Religion     Anglican
Signature    
Military service
Allegiance     Flag of the United Kingdom.svg British Empire
Service/branch     Flag of the British Army.svg British Army
Years of service     1895–1900, 1902–24
Rank     Lieutenant-Colonel
Battles/wars    

    Anglo-Afghan War
      · Siege of Malakand
    Mahdist War
      · Battle of Omdurman
    Second Boer War
      · Siege of Ladysmith
    First World War
      · Western Front

Awards    

    Galó de l'Orde del Mèrit (UK).png Order of Merit
    Order of Companions of Honour ribbon.png Companion of Honour
    India Medal BAR.svg India Medal
    Queens Sudan Medal BAR.svg Queen's Sudan Medal
    Queens South Africa Medal 1899-1902 ribbon.png Queen's South Africa Medal
    1914 Star BAR.svg 1914–15 Star
    British War Medal BAR.svg British War Medal
    Allied Victory Medal BAR.svg Victory Medal
    Territorial Decoration (UK) ribbon.PNG Territorial Decoration

Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill    

    Winston Churchill as historian
    Winston Churchill as writer
    Winston Churchill in politics: 1900-1939
    Honours of Winston Churchill
    Later life of Winston Churchill
    Chartwell
    Blenheim Palace
    St Martin's Church, Bladon

   
Churchill portrait NYP 45063.jpg
Writings    

    The Story of the Malakand Field Force
    Savrola
    The River War
    London to Ladysmith via Pretoria
    Ian Hamilton's March
    Lord Randolph Churchill
    The World Crisis
    My Early Life
    Marlborough: His Life and Times
    Great Contemporaries
    While England Slept
    The Second World War
    A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

Speeches    

    Blood, toil, tears, and sweat
    Be Ye Men of Valour
    We shall fight on the beaches
    This was their finest hour
    Never was so much owed by so many to so few

Family    

    Father: Lord Randolph Churchill
    Mother: Lady Randolph Churchill
    Brother: John Strange Spencer-Churchill
    Wife: Clementine Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill
    Children: Diana
    Randolph
    Sarah
    Marigold
    Mary
    Grandchildren

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List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
Kingdom of Great Britain    

    Walpole
    Wilmington
    Pelham
    Newcastle
    Devonshire
    Newcastle
    Bute
    G Grenville
    Rockingham
    Chatham (Pitt the Elder)
    Grafton
    North
    Rockingham
    Shelburne
    Portland
    Pitt the Younger

   
United Kingdom    

    Pitt the Younger
    Addington
    Pitt the Younger
    W Grenville
    Portland
    Perceval
    Liverpool
    Canning
    Goderich
    Wellington
    Grey
    Melbourne
    Wellington
    Peel
    Melbourne
    Peel
    Russell
    Derby
    Aberdeen
    Palmerston
    Derby
    Palmerston
    Russell
    Derby
    Disraeli
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    Gladstone
    Salisbury
    Gladstone
    Salisbury
    Gladstone
    Rosebery
    Salisbury
    Balfour
    Campbell-Bannerman
    Asquith
    Lloyd George
    Bonar Law
    Baldwin
    MacDonald
    Baldwin
    MacDonald
    Baldwin
    Chamberlain
    Churchill
    Attlee
    Churchill
    Eden
    Macmillan
    Douglas-Home
    Wilson
    Heath
    Wilson
    Callaghan
    Thatcher
    Major
    Blair
    Brown
    Cameron

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    Category Category
    Commons

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Chancellors of the Exchequer
of England    

    Eustace of Fauconberg
    Maunsell
    Leicestre
    Westminster
    Giffard
    de la Leye
    Willoughby
    Benstead
    Sandale
    Hotham
    Stanton
    Harvington
    Wodehouse
    Stratford
    Ashby
    Ashton
    Somerset
    Browne
    Witham
    Thwaites
    Witham
    Fowler
    Catesby
    Lovell
    Berners
    Cromwell
    Baker
    Sackville
    Mildmay
    Fortescue
    Dunbar
    Caesar
    Greville
    Portland
    Barrett
    Cottington
    Colepeper
    Hyde
    Ashley
    Duncombe
    Ernle
    Delamer
    Hampden
    Montagu
    Smith
    Boyle

   
of Great Britain    

    Boyle
    Smith
    Harley
    Benson
    Wyndham
    Onslow
    Walpole
    Stanhope
    Aislabie
    Pratt
    Walpole
    Sandys
    Pelham
    Lee
    Bilson-Legge
    Lyttelton
    Bilson-Legge
    Mansfield
    Bilson-Legge
    Barrington
    Dashwood
    Grenville
    Dowdeswell
    Townshend
    North
    Cavendish
    Pitt
    Cavendish
    Pitt
    Addington
    Pitt
    Petty
    Perceval
    Vansittart

of the
United Kingdom    

    Vansittart
    Robinson
    Canning
    Tenterden
    Herries
    Goulburn
    Althorp
    Denman
    Peel
    Spring Rice
    Baring
    Goulburn
    Wood
    Disraeli
    Gladstone
    Lewis
    Disraeli
    Gladstone
    Disraeli
    Hunt
    Lowe
    Gladstone
    Northcote
    Gladstone
    Childers
    Hicks Beach
    Harcourt
    R Churchill
    Goschen
    Harcourt
    Hicks Beach
    Ritchie
    A Chamberlain
    Asquith
    Lloyd George
    McKenna
    Bonar Law
    A Chamberlain
    Horne
    Baldwin
    N Chamberlain
    Snowden
    W Churchill
    Snowden
    N Chamberlain
    Simon
    Wood
    Anderson
    Dalton
    Cripps
    Gaitskell
    Butler
    Macmillan
    Thorneycroft
    Heathcoat-Amory
    Lloyd
    Maudling
    Callaghan
    Jenkins
    Macleod
    Barber
    Healey
    Howe
    Lawson
    Major
    Lamont
    Clarke
    Brown
    Darling
    Osborne

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Home Secretaries of the United Kingdom
Secretary of State for the Home Department    

    Shelburne
    Townshend
    North
    Temple
    Sydney
    Grenville
    Dundas
    Portland
    Pelham
    Yorke
    Hawkesbury
    Spencer
    Liverpool
    Ryder
    Sidmouth
    Peel
    Sturges Bourne
    Lansdowne
    Peel
    Melbourne
    Duncannon
    Wellington
    Goulburn
    Russell
    Normanby
    Graham
    Grey
    Walpole
    Palmerston
    Grey
    Walpole
    Sotheron-Estcourt
    Lewis
    Grey
    Walpole
    Hardy
    Bruce
    Lowe
    Cross
    Harcourt
    Cross
    Childers
    Matthews
    Asquith
    Ridley
    Ritchie
    Akers-Douglas
    Gladstone
    Churchill
    McKenna
    Simon
    Samuel
    Cave
    Shortt
    Bridgeman
    Henderson
    Joynson-Hicks
    Clynes
    Samuel
    Gilmour
    Simon
    Hoare
    Anderson
    Morrison
    Somervell
    Chuter Ede
    Maxwell-Fyfe
    Lloyd George
    Butler
    Brooke
    Soskice
    Jenkins
    Callaghan
    Maudling
    Carr
    Jenkins
    Rees
    Whitelaw
    Brittan
    Hurd
    Waddington
    Baker
    K. Clarke
    Howard
    Straw
    Blunkett
    C. Clarke
    Reid
    Smith
    Johnson
    May

   
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Defence Secretaries of the United Kingdom
Ministers for Defence    

    Winston Churchill
    Clement Attlee
    A. V. Alexander
    Manny Shinwell
    Winston Churchill
    The Earl Alexander of Tunis
    Harold Macmillan
    Selwyn Lloyd
    Sir Walter Monckton
    Anthony Head
    Duncan Sandys
    Harold Watkinson
    Peter Thorneycroft

   
Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (HM Government).svg
Secretaries of State for Defence    

    Peter Thorneycroft
    Denis Healey
    The Lord Carrington
    Ian Gilmour
    Roy Mason
    Fred Mulley
    Francis Pym
    John Nott
    Michael Heseltine
    George Younger
    Tom King
    Malcolm Rifkind
    Michael Portillo
    George Robertson
    Geoff Hoon
    John Reid
    Des Browne
    John Hutton
    Bob Ainsworth
    Liam Fox
    Philip Hammond

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Presidents of the Board of Trade

    Shaftesbury
    Bridgewater
    Stamford
    Weymouth
    Stamford
    Winchilsea
    Guilford
    Berkeley
    Suffolk
    Holderness
    Fitzwalter
    Monson
    Halifax
    Sandys
    Townshend
    Shelburne
    Hillsborough
    Dartmouth
    Hillsborough
    Nugent
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    Dartmouth
    Sackville
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    Grantham
    Sydney
    Liverpool
    Montrose
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    Richmond
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    Ritchie
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    Churchill
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    Geddes
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    Duncan
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    Lyttelton
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    Wilson
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    Jay
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    Mason
    Noble
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    Walker
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    Varley
    Joseph
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    Shore
    Dell
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    Nott
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    Parkinson
    Tebbit
    Brittan
    Channon
    Young
    Ridley
    Lilley
    Heseltine
    Lang
    Beckett
    Mandelson
    Byers
    Hewitt
    Johnson
    Darling
    Hutton
    Mandelson
    Cable

   
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Leaders of the House of Commons

    Walpole
    Sandys
    Pelham
    Robinson
    H Fox
    Pitt the Elder
    Vacant (Caretaker Ministry)
    Pitt the Elder
    Grenville
    H Fox
    Grenville
    Conway
    North
    C Fox
    Townshend
    (C Fox/North)
    Pitt the Younger
    Addington
    Pitt the Younger
    C Fox
    Howick
    Perceval
    Castlereagh
    Canning
    Huskisson
    Peel
    Althorp
    Peel
    Russell
    Disraeli
    Russell
    Palmerston
    Disraeli
    Palmerston
    Gladstone
    Disraeli
    Gladstone
    Northcote
    Gladstone
    Hicks-Beach
    Gladstone
    R Churchill
    Smith
    Balfour
    Gladstone
    Harcourt
    Balfour
    Campbell-Bannerman
    Asquith
    Bonar Law
    A Chamberlain
    Bonar Law
    Baldwin
    MacDonald
    Baldwin
    MacDonald
    Baldwin
    MacDonald
    Baldwin
    N Chamberlain
    W Churchill
    Cripps
    Eden
    Morrison
    Chuter Ede
    Crookshank
    Butler
    Macleod
    Lloyd
    Bowden
    Crossman
    Peart
    Whitelaw
    Carr
    Prior
    Short
    Foot
    St John-Stevas
    Pym
    Biffen
    Wakeham
    Howe
    MacGregor
    Newton
    Taylor
    Beckett
    Cook
    Reid
    Hain
    Hoon
    Straw
    Harman
    Young

   
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Minister of Munitions of the United Kingdom

    David Lloyd George
    Edwin Samuel Montagu
    Christopher Addison
    Winston Churchill
    Lord Iverforth

   
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Fathers of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom

    Fagg
    Turgis
    Musgrave
    Strangeways
    Onslow
    Erle
    Vaughan
    Vaughan
    Powlett
    Isham
    Turner
    Bradshaigh
    Ashe
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    Shuttleworth
    Gybbon
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    Nugent
    Frederick
    Ellis
    Drake
    Stephens
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    Aubrey
    Smith
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    Harcourt
    Burrell
    Lowther
    Williams
    Lowry-Corry
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    Talbot
    Villiers
    Mowbray
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    Kennaway
    Burt
    O'Connor
    Lloyd George
    Turnour
    O'Neill
    Grenfell
    Churchill
    Butler
    Turton
    Strauss
    Parker
    Callaghan
    Braine
    Heath
    Dalyell
    Williams
    Tapsell

   
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Conservative Party
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    History of conservatism in Great Britain
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House of Lords
(1828–1922)
   

    The Duke of Wellington
    The Earl of Derby
    The Earl of Malmesbury
    The Lord Cairns
    The Duke of Richmond, Lennox & Gordon
    The Earl of Beaconsfield
    The Marquess of Salisbury
    The Duke of Devonshire
    The Marquess of Lansdowne
    The Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

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    Marquess of Granby
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    Sir Stafford Northcote
    Sir Michael Hicks Beach
    The Lord Randolph Churchill
    W.H. Smith
    Arthur Balfour
    Andrew Bonar Law
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Leaders (1922–)
   

    Andrew Bonar Law
    Stanley Baldwin
    Neville Chamberlain
    Sir Winston Churchill
    Sir Anthony Eden
    Harold Macmillan
    Sir Alec Douglas-Home
    Edward Heath
    Margaret Thatcher
    John Major
    William Hague
    Iain Duncan Smith
    Michael Howard
    David Cameron

Chairmen (1911-)
   

    Steel-Maitland
    Younger
    Jackson
    Davidson
    Chamberlain
    Baird
    Hacking
    Dugdale
    Assheton
    Woolton
    Poole
    Hailsham
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    du Cann
    Barber
    Thomas
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    Parkinson
    Gummer
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    Brooke
    Baker
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    Fowler
    Hanley
    Mawhinney
    Parkinson
    Ancram
    Davis
    May
    Fox
    Saatchi
    Maude
    Spelman
    Pickles
    Warsi
    Feldman
    Shapps

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War Cabinet of Winston Churchill
Prime Minister
Minister of Defence    

    Winston Churchill (1940–1945)

   
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Deputy Prime Minister    

    Clement Attlee (1942–1945)

Lord President of the Council    

    Neville Chamberlain (1940)
    Sir John Anderson (1940–1943)
    Clement Attlee (1943–1945)

Lord Privy Seal    

    Clement Attlee (1940–1942)
    Sir Stafford Cripps (1942)

Chancellor of the Exchequer    

    Sir Kingsley Wood (1940–1942)
    Sir John Anderson (1943–1945)

Foreign Secretary    

    Viscount Halifax (1940)
    Anthony Eden (1940–1945)

Home Secretary    

    Herbert Morrison (1940–1945)

Minister of Aircraft Production    

    Lord Beaverbrook (1940–1941)

Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs    

    Clement Attlee (1942–1943)

Minister of Labour and National Service    

    Ernest Bevin (1940–1945)

Minister Resident Middle East    

    Oliver Lyttelton (1942)
    Richard Casey (1942–1944)
    Lord Moyne (1944)

Minister without Portfolio    

    Arthur Greenwood (1940–1942)

Minister of Reconstruction    

    Lord Woolton (1943–1945)

Minister of State    

    Lord Beaverbrook (1941)

Minister of Supply    

    Lord Beaverbrook (1941–1942)

Minister of Production    

    Lord Beaverbrook (1942)
    Oliver Lyttelton (1942–1945)

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Caretaker Cabinet of Winston Churchill (May–July 1945)
Lord President of the Council    

    Lord Woolton

   
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Lord Privy Seal    

    Lord Beaverbrook

Chancellor of the Exchequer    

    Sir John Anderson

Foreign Secretary    

    Anthony Eden

Home Secretary    

    Sir Donald Somervell

First Lord of the Admiralty    

    Brendan Bracken

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food    

    Robert Hudson

Secretary of State for Air    

    Harold Macmillan

Secretary of State for the Colonies    

    Oliver Stanley

Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs    

    Viscount Cranborne

Minister of Education    

    Richard Law

Secretary of State for India and Burma    

    Leo Amery

Minister of Labour and National Service    

    Rab Butler

Minister of Production
President of the Board of Trade    

    Oliver Lyttelton

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    The Earl of Rosebery

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    Sir P. J. Grigg

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Cabinet of Sir Winston Churchill (1951–1955)
Prime Minister
First Lord of the Treasury    

    Sir Winston Churchill (1951–55)

   
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Lord Chancellor    

    The Lord Simonds (1951–54)
    The Viscount Kilmuir (1954–55)

Lord President of the Council    

    The Lord Woolton (1951–52)
    The Marquess of Salisbury (1952–55)

Lord Privy Seal    

    The Marquess of Salisbury (1951–52)
    Harry Crookshank (1952–55)

Chancellor of the Exchequer    

    Rab Butler (1951–55)

Foreign Secretary    

    Sir Anthony Eden (1951–55)

Home Secretary
Welsh Secretary    

    Sir David Maxwell Fyfe (1951–54)
    Gwilym Lloyd George (1954–55)

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries    

    David Heathcoat-Armory (1954–55)

Secretary of State for the Colonies    

    Oliver Lyttelton (1951–54)
    Alan Lennox-Boyd (1954–55)

Minister for Coordination of Transport, Fuel and Power    

    The Lord Leathers (1951–53)

Minister of Defence    

    Winston Churchill (1951–52)
    The Earl Alexander of Tunis (1952–54)
    Harold Macmillan (1954–55)

Minister of Education    

    Sir David Eccles (1954–55)

Minister of Health    

    Harry Crookshank (1951–52)

Ministry of Housing and Local Government    

    Harold Macmillan (1951–54)
    Duncan Sandys (1954–55)

Minister of Labour and National Service    

    Sir Walter Monckton (1951–55)

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster    

    The Lord Woolton (1952–55)

Minister of Materials    

    The Lord Woolton (1953–55)

Paymaster General    

    The Lord Cherwell (1951–53)

Secretary of State for Scotland    

    James Stuart (1951–55)

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War Cabinet of Neville Chamberlain (1939–1940)
Prime Minister
Leader of the House of Commons    

    Neville Chamberlain (1939–1940)

   
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Lord Privy Seal    

    Sir Samuel Hoare (1939–1940)
    Sir Kingsley Wood (1940)

Chancellor of the Exchequer    

    Sir John Simon (1939–1940)

Foreign Secretary    

    Lord Halifax (1939–1940)

Secretary of State for War    

    Leslie Hore-Belisha (1939–1940)
    Oliver Stanley (1940)

Secretary of State for Air    

    Sir Kingsley Wood (1939–1940)
    Sir Samuel Hoare (1940)

First Lord of the Admirality    

    Winston Churchill (1939–1940)

Minister for Coordination of Defence    

    Lord Chatfield (1939–1940)

Minister without Portfolio    

    Lord Hankey (1939–1940)

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Cold War

    Participants and notable figures
    ANZUS
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    Non-Aligned Movement
    SEATO
    Warsaw Pact

1940s    

    Yalta Conference
    Operation Unthinkable
    Potsdam Conference
    Gouzenko Affair
    War in Vietnam (1945–1946)
    Iran crisis of 1946
    Greek Civil War
    Corfu Channel incident
    Restatement of Policy on Germany
    First Indochina War
    Truman Doctrine
    Asian Relations Conference
    Marshall Plan
    Czechoslovak coup d'état of 1948
    Tito–Stalin split
    Berlin Blockade
    Western betrayal
    Iron Curtain
    Eastern Bloc
    Western Bloc
    Chinese Civil War (Second round)

1950s    

    Bamboo Curtain
    Korean War
    1953 Iranian coup d'état
    Uprising of 1953 in East Germany
    1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
    Partition of Vietnam
    First Taiwan Strait Crisis
    Geneva Summit (1955)
    Poznań 1956 protests
    Hungarian Revolution of 1956
    Suez Crisis
    Sputnik crisis
    Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
    Cuban Revolution
    Kitchen Debate
    Asian–African Conference
    Bricker Amendment
    McCarthyism
    Operation Gladio
    Iraqi July Revolution
    Hallstein Doctrine

1960s    

    Congo Crisis
    Sino-Soviet split
    1960 U-2 incident
    Bay of Pigs Invasion
    Berlin Wall
    Portuguese Colonial War (Angolan War of Independence
    Guinea-Bissau War of Independence
    Mozambican War of Independence)
    Cuban missile crisis
    Iraqi Ramadan Revolution
    1963 Syrian coup d'état[citation needed]
    November 1963 Iraqi coup d'état[citation needed]
    Vietnam War
    1964 Brazilian coup d'état
    United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1965–1966)
    South African Border War
    Transition to the New Order
    Domino theory
    ASEAN Declaration
    Laotian Civil War
    1966 Syrian coup d'état[citation needed]
    Argentine Revolution
    Korean DMZ Conflict
    Greek military junta of 1967–1974
    USS Pueblo incident
    Six-Day War
    War of Attrition
    Cultural Revolution
    Sino-Indian War
    Prague Spring
    Invasion of Czechoslovakia
    Iraqi Ba'athist Revolution
    Goulash Communism
    Sino-Soviet border conflict

1970s    

    Détente
    Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
    Black September in Jordan
    1970 Syrian Corrective Revolution[citation needed]
    Cambodian Civil War
    Realpolitik
    Ping Pong Diplomacy
    Four Power Agreement on Berlin
    1972 Nixon visit to China
    1973 Chilean coup d'état
    Yom Kippur War
    Carnation Revolution
    Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
    Rhodesian Bush War
    Angolan Civil War
    Mozambican Civil War
    Ogaden War
    Ethiopian Civil War
    Lebanese Civil War
    Sino-Albanian split
    Cambodian–Vietnamese War
    Sino-Vietnamese War
    Iranian Revolution
    Operation Condor
    Dirty War
    Bangladesh Liberation War
    Korean Air Lines Flight 902

1980s    

    Soviet war in Afghanistan
    1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics boycotts
    Solidarity
        Soviet reaction
    Contras
    Central American crisis
    RYAN
    Korean Air Lines Flight 007
    Able Archer 83
    Star Wars
    Invasion of Grenada
    People Power Revolution
    Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
    United States invasion of Panama
    Fall of the Berlin Wall
    Revolutions of 1989
    Glasnost
    Perestroika

1990s    

    Democratic Revolution in Mongolia
    Breakup of Yugoslavia
    Dissolution of the Soviet Union
    Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Foreign policy    

    Truman Doctrine
    Marshall Plan
    Containment
    Eisenhower Doctrine
    Domino theory
    Kennedy Doctrine
    Peaceful coexistence
    Ostpolitik
    Johnson Doctrine
    Brezhnev Doctrine
    Nixon Doctrine
    Ulbricht Doctrine
    Carter Doctrine
    Reagan Doctrine
    Rollback

Ideologies    

    Capitalism
        Chicago school
        Keynesianism
        Monetarism
        Neoclassical economics
        Reaganomics
        Supply-side economics
        Thatcherism

    Communism
        Marxism–Leninism
        Castroism
        Eurocommunism
        Guevarism
        Hoxhaism
        Juche
        Maoism
        Stalinism
        Titoism

    Liberal democracy
    Social democracy

Organizations    

    ASEAN
    CIA
    Comecon
    EEC
    KGB
    Safari Club
    MI6
    Stasi

Propaganda    

    Active measures
    Izvestia
    Pravda
    Crusade for Freedom
    Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
    Red Scare
    TASS
    Voice of America
    Voice of Russia

Races    

    Arms race
    Nuclear arms race
    Space Race

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    Brinkmanship
    NATO–Russia relations
    Soviet and Russian espionage in U.S.
    Soviet Union–United States relations
    US–Soviet summits

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Notable figures of the Cold War
Soviet Union    

    Joseph Stalin
    Vyacheslav Molotov
    Georgy Malenkov
    Andrei Gromyko
    Nikita Khrushchev
    Anatoly Dobrynin
    Leonid Brezhnev
    Alexei Kosygin
    Yuri Andropov
    Konstantin Chernenko
    Mikhail Gorbachev
    Nikolai Ryzhkov
    Eduard Shevardnadze
    Gennady Yanayev
    Boris Yeltsin

United States    

    Harry S. Truman
    George Marshall
    Joseph McCarthy
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    John Foster Dulles
    Francis Gary Powers
    John F. Kennedy
    Robert F. Kennedy
    Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
    Robert McNamara
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    Richard Nixon
    Henry Kissinger
    Gerald Ford
    Jimmy Carter
    Ronald Reagan
    George P. Shultz
    Caspar Weinberger
    George Bush

China and Taiwan    

    Chiang Kai-shek
    Mao Zedong
    Lin Biao
    Zhou Enlai
    Hua Guofeng
    Deng Xiaoping
    Chiang Ching-kuo
    Hu Yaobang
    Zhao Ziyang

Japan    

    Hirohito
    Shigeru Yoshida
    Ichirō Hatoyama

Germany    

    Walter Ulbricht
    Konrad Adenauer
    Walter Hallstein
    Willy Brandt
    Helmut Schmidt
    Helmut Kohl
    Erich Honecker

United Kingdom    

    Winston Churchill
    Clement Attlee
    Ernest Bevin
    Anthony Eden
    Harold Macmillan
    Alec Douglas-Home
    Kim Philby
    Harold Wilson
    Edward Heath
    James Callaghan
    Margaret Thatcher

Italy    

    Alcide De Gasperi
    Palmiro Togliatti
    Giulio Andreotti
    Aldo Moro
    Enrico Berlinguer
    Francesco Cossiga
    Bettino Craxi

France    

    Charles de Gaulle
    Alain Poher
    Georges Pompidou
    Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
    François Mitterrand

Northern Europe    

    Urho Kekkonen
    Dag Hammarskjöld

Spain    

    Francisco Franco
    Luis Carrero Blanco
    Juan Carlos I of Spain
    Adolfo Suárez
    Felipe González

Portugal    

    António de Oliveira Salazar
    Marcelo Caetano
    Álvaro Cunhal
    Salgueiro Maia
    Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho
    António de Spínola
    Vasco Gonçalves
    António Ramalho Eanes
    Mário Soares
    Francisco de Sá Carneiro
    Aníbal Cavaco Silva

Poland    

    Bolesław Bierut
    Władysław Gomułka
    Edward Gierek
    Wojciech Jaruzelski
    Pope John Paul II
    Lech Wałęsa

Canada    

    William Lyon Mackenzie King
    Louis St. Laurent
    John Diefenbaker
    Lester B. Pearson
    Pierre Trudeau
    Joe Clark
    John Turner
    Brian Mulroney
    Kim Campbell

Philippines    

    Benigno Aquino, Jr.
    Corazon Aquino
    Juan Ponce Enrile
    Gregorio Honasan
    Nur Misuari
    Jose Maria Sison
    Diosdado Macapagal
    Ferdinand Marcos
    Imelda Marcos
    Fidel V. Ramos

Africa    

    Agostinho Neto
    José Eduardo dos Santos
    Jonas Savimbi (Angola)
    Denis Sassou Nguesso (Congo)
    Patrice Lumumba
    Mobutu Sese Seko (Congo/Zaire)
    Gamal Abdel Nasser
    Anwar Sadat (Egypt)
    Haile Selassie I
    Mengistu Haile Mariam (Ethiopia)
    Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana)
    Muammar Gaddafi (Libya)
    Ian Smith
    Joshua Nkomo
    Robert Mugabe (Rhodesia/Zimbabwe)
    Siad Barre (Somalia)
    B. J. Vorster
    P. W. Botha
    F. W. de Klerk
    Nelson Mandela (South Africa)
    Gaafar Nimeiry (Sudan)
    Julius Nyerere (Tanzania)
    Milton Obote
    Idi Amin (Uganda)

Eastern Bloc    

    Enver Hoxha (Albania)
    Todor Zhivkov (Bulgaria)
    Alexander Dubček (Czechoslovakia)
    Mátyás Rákosi
    Imre Nagy
    János Kádár (Hungary)
    Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
    Nicolae Ceaușescu (Romania)
    Josip Broz Tito (Yugoslavia)

Latin America    

    Juan Perón
    Eva Perón
    Isabel Martínez de Perón
    Che Guevara
    Jorge Rafael Videla
    Leopoldo Galtieri (Argentina)
    Getúlio Vargas
    Luís Carlos Prestes
    Leonel Brizola
    João Goulart
    Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco (Brazil)
    Salvador Allende
    Augusto Pinochet (Chile)
    Fulgencio Batista
    Fidel Castro
    Raúl Castro (Cuba)
    Anastasio Somoza García
    Luis Somoza Debayle
    Anastasio Somoza Debayle
    Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua)
    Marcos Pérez Jiménez
    Rómulo Betancourt (Venezuela)
    Omar Torrijos
    Manuel Noriega (Panama)
    Jacobo Árbenz
    Carlos Castillo Armas
    Efraín Ríos Montt (Guatemala)

Middle East    

    Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
    Mohammad Mosaddegh
    Ruhollah Khomeini (Iran)
    Abd al-Karim Qasim
    Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
    Saddam Hussein (Iraq)
    Golda Meir
    Menachem Begin
    Yasser Arafat (Israel/Palestine)
    Michel Aflaq
    Salah Jadid
    Hafez al-Assad (Syria)
    Faisal of Saudi Arabia (Saudi Arabia)

South and East Asia    

    Nur Muhammad Taraki
    Hafizullah Amin
    Babrak Karmal
    Mohammad Najibullah
    Ahmad Shah Massoud (Afghanistan)
    Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (Bangladesh)
    U Nu
    Ne Win
    U Thant (Burma)
    Norodom Sihanouk
    Lon Nol
    Pol Pot
    Hun Sen (Cambodia)
    Indira Gandhi
    Jawaharlal Nehru (India)
    Sukarno
    Suharto
    Mohammad Hatta
    Adam Malik (Indonesia)
    Kim Il-sung
    Syngman Rhee
    Park Chung-hee (Korea)
    Ayub Khan
    Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
    Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (Pakistan)
    Ho Chi Minh
    Le Duan
    Ngo Dinh Diem
    Nguyen Van Thieu (Vietnam)

Australia and the Pacific    

    Robert Menzies
    Harold Holt
    Gough Whitlam (Australia)
    Keith Holyoake
    David Lange (New Zealand)

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Recipients of the Charlemagne Prize
1950–1969    

    1950 Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi
    1951 Hendrik Brugmans
    1952 Alcide de Gasperi
    1953 Jean Monnet
    1954 Konrad Adenauer
    1955
    1956 Sir Winston S. Churchill
    1957 Paul Henri Spaak
    1958 Robert Schuman
    1959 George C. Marshall
    1960 Joseph Bech
    1961 Walter Hallstein
    1962
    1963 Edward Heath
    1964 Antonio Segni
    1965
    1966 Jens Otto Krag
    1967 Joseph Luns
    1968
    1969 European Commission

1970–1989    

    1970 François Seydoux de Clausonne
    1971
    1972 Roy Jenkins
    1973 Don Salvador de Madariaga
    1974
    1975
    1976 Leo Tindemans
    1977 Walter Scheel
    1978 Konstantinos Karamanlis
    1979 Emilio Colombo
    1980
    1981 Simone Veil
    1982 King Juan Carlos I
    1983
    1984
    1985
    1986 People of Luxembourg
    1987 Henry Kissinger
    1988 François Mitterrand / Helmut Kohl
    1989 Frère Roger

1990–2009    

    1990 Gyula Horn
    1991 Václav Havel
    1992 Jacques Delors
    1993 Felipe González Márquez
    1994 Gro Harlem Brundtland
    1995 Franz Vranitzky
    1996 Queen Beatrix
    1997 Roman Herzog
    1998 Bronisław Geremek
    1999 Tony Blair
    2000 Bill Clinton
    2001 György Konrád
    2002 Euro
    2003 Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
    2004 Pat Cox / Pope John Paul II1
    2005 Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
    2006 Jean-Claude Juncker
    2007 Javier Solana
    2008 Angela Merkel
    2009 Andrea Riccardi

2010–2029    

    2010 Donald Tusk
    2011 Jean-Claude Trichet
    2012 Wolfgang Schäuble

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Nobel Laureates in Literature (1951–1975)

    Pär Lagerkvist (1951)
    François Mauriac (1952)
    Winston Churchill (1953)
    Ernest Hemingway (1954)
    Halldór Laxness (1955)
    Juan Ramón Jiménez (1956)
    Albert Camus (1957)
    Boris Pasternak (1958)
    Salvatore Quasimodo (1959)
    Saint-John Perse (1960)
    Ivo Andrić (1961)
    John Steinbeck (1962)
    Giorgos Seferis (1963)
    Jean-Paul Sartre (declined award) (1964)
    Mikhail Sholokhov (1965)
    Shmuel Yosef Agnon / Nelly Sachs (1966)
    Miguel Ángel Asturias (1967)
    Yasunari Kawabata (1968)
    Samuel Beckett (1969)
    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1970)
    Pablo Neruda (1971)
    Heinrich Böll (1972)
    Patrick White (1973)
    Eyvind Johnson / Harry Martinson (1974)
    Eugenio Montale (1975)

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    (2001–2025)

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    Charles Lindbergh (1927)
    Walter Chrysler (1928)
    Owen D. Young (1929)
    Mahatma Gandhi (1930)
    Pierre Laval (1931)
    Franklin D. Roosevelt (1932)
    Hugh Samuel Johnson (1933)
    Franklin D. Roosevelt (1934)
    Haile Selassie I (1935)
    Wallis Simpson (1936)
    Chiang Kai-shek / Soong May-ling (1937)
    Adolf Hitler (1938)
    Joseph Stalin (1939)
    Winston Churchill (1940)
    Franklin D. Roosevelt (1941)
    Joseph Stalin (1942)
    George Marshall (1943)
    Dwight D. Eisenhower (1944)
    Harry S. Truman (1945)
    James F. Byrnes (1946)
    George Marshall (1947)
    Harry S. Truman (1948)
    Winston Churchill (1949)
    The American Fighting-Man (1950)

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    Mohammed Mosaddeq (1951)
    Elizabeth II (1952)
    Konrad Adenauer (1953)
    John Foster Dulles (1954)
    Harlow Curtice (1955)
    Hungarian Freedom Fighters (1956)
    Nikita Khrushchev (1957)
    Charles de Gaulle (1958)
    Dwight D. Eisenhower (1959)
    U.S. Scientists: George Beadle / Charles Draper / John Enders / Donald A. Glaser / Joshua Lederberg / Willard Libby / Linus Pauling / Edward Purcell / Isidor Rabi / Emilio Segrè / William Shockley / Edward Teller / Charles Townes / James Van Allen / Robert Woodward (1960)
    John F. Kennedy (1961)
    Pope John XXIII (1962)
    Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
    Lyndon B. Johnson (1964)
    William Westmoreland (1965)
    The Generation Twenty-Five and Under (1966)
    Lyndon B. Johnson (1967)
    The Apollo 8 Astronauts: William Anders / Frank Borman / Jim Lovell (1968)
    The Middle Americans (1969)
    Willy Brandt (1970)
    Richard Nixon (1971)
    Henry Kissinger / Richard Nixon (1972)
    John Sirica (1973)
    King Faisal (1974)
    American Women: Susan Brownmiller / Kathleen Byerly / Alison Cheek / Jill Conway / Betty Ford / Ella Grasso / Carla Hills / Barbara Jordan / Billie Jean King / Susie Sharp / Carol Sutton / Addie Wyatt (1975)

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1976–2000

    Jimmy Carter (1976)
    Anwar Sadat (1977)
    Deng Xiaoping (1978)
    Ayatollah Khomeini (1979)
    Ronald Reagan (1980)
    Lech Wałęsa (1981)
    The Computer (1982)
    Ronald Reagan / Yuri Andropov (1983)
    Peter Ueberroth (1984)
    Deng Xiaoping (1985)
    Corazon Aquino (1986)
    Mikhail Gorbachev (1987)
    The Endangered Earth (1988)
    Mikhail Gorbachev (1989)
    George H. W. Bush (1990)
    Ted Turner (1991)
    Bill Clinton (1992)
    The Peacemakers: Yasser Arafat / F. W. de Klerk / Nelson Mandela / Yitzhak Rabin (1993)
    Pope John Paul II (1994)
    Newt Gingrich (1995)
    David Ho (1996)
    Andrew Grove (1997)
    Bill Clinton / Ken Starr (1998)
    Jeffrey P. Bezos (1999)
    George W. Bush (2000)

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2001–present

    Rudolph Giuliani (2001)
    The Whistleblowers: Cynthia Cooper / Coleen Rowley / Sherron Watkins (2002)
    The American Soldier (2003)
    George W. Bush (2004)
    The Good Samaritans: Bono / Bill Gates / Melinda Gates (2005)
    You (2006)
    Vladimir Putin (2007)
    Barack Obama (2008)
    Ben Bernanke (2009)
    Mark Zuckerberg (2010)
    The Protester (2011)
    Barack Obama (2012)

World War II (WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, with more than 100 million people serving in military units. In a state of "total war", the major participants placed their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities at the service of the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust and the only use of nuclear weapons in warfare, it resulted in 50 million to over 75 million fatalities. These deaths make World War II by far the deadliest conflict in human history.[1]

The Empire of Japan aimed to dominate East Asia and was already at war with the Republic of China in 1937,[2] but the world war is generally said to have begun on 1 September, 1939 with the invasion of Poland by Germany and subsequent declarations of war on Germany by France and Britain. From late 1939 to early 1941, in a series of campaigns and treaties, Germany formed the Axis alliance with Italy, conquering or subduing much of continental Europe. Following the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Germany and the Soviet Union partitioned and annexed territories between themselves of their European neighbours, including Poland. The United Kingdom and the other members of the British Commonwealth were the only major Allied forces continuing the fight against the Axis, with battles taking place in North Africa as well as the long-running Battle of the Atlantic. In June 1941, the European Axis launched an invasion of the Soviet Union, giving a start to the largest land theatre of war in history, which tied down the major part of the Axis' military forces for the rest of the war. In December 1941, Japan joined the Axis, attacked the United States and European territories in the Pacific Ocean, and quickly conquered much of the Western Pacific.

The Axis advance was stopped in 1942, after Japan lost a series of naval battles and European Axis troops were defeated in North Africa and, decisively, at Stalingrad. In 1943, with a series of German defeats in Eastern Europe, the Allied invasion of Italy, and American victories in the Pacific, the Axis lost the initiative and undertook strategic retreat on all fronts. In 1944, the Western Allies invaded France, while the Soviet Union regained all of its territorial losses and invaded Germany and its allies. During 1944 and 1945 the United States defeated the Japanese Navy and captured key Western Pacific islands.

The war in Europe ended with the capture of Berlin by Soviet and Polish troops and the subsequent German unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945. Following the Potsdam Declaration by the Allies on 26 July 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima on 6 August, and Nagasaki on 9 August. With an invasion of the Japanese archipelago imminent, and the Soviet Union having declared war on Japan by invading Manchuria, Japan surrendered on 15 August 1945, ending the war in Asia and cementing the total victory of the Allies over the Axis.

World War II altered the political alignment and social structure of the world. The United Nations (UN) was established to foster international cooperation and prevent future conflicts. The great powers that were the victors of the war—the United States, the Soviet Union, China, the United Kingdom, and France—became the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.[3] The Soviet Union and the United States emerged as rival superpowers, setting the stage for the Cold War, which lasted for the next 46 years. Meanwhile, the influence of European great powers started to decline, while the decolonisation of Asia and Africa began. Most countries whose industries had been damaged moved towards economic recovery. Political integration, especially in Europe, emerged as an effort to stabilise postwar relations and fight more effectively in the Cold War.

World War II

    Western Europe
    Eastern Europe
    Mediterranean and Middle East
    Asia and the Pacific
    Atlantic

    Casualties
    Military engagements
    Conferences
    Commanders

Participants    
Allies
(leaders)
   

    Australia
    Belgium
    Brazil
    Canada
    China
    Czechoslovakia
    Ethiopia
    Finland (1944–1945)
    France
    Greece
    India
    Italy (from September 1943)
    Luxembourg
    Mexico
    Netherlands
    New Zealand
    Norway
    Philippines (Commonwealth)
    Poland
    South Africa
    Soviet Union
    United Kingdom
    United States
    Yugoslavia

Axis and
Axis-aligned
(leaders)
   

    Bulgaria
    Reorganized National Government of China
    Independent State of Croatia
    Finland
    Germany
    Hungary
    Free India
    Iraq
    Italy (until September 1943)
    Italian Social Republic
    Japan
    Manchukuo
    Philippines (Second Republic)
    Romania
    Slovakia
    Thailand
    Vichy France

Resistance
   

    Albania
    Austria
    Baltic States
    Belgium
    Czech lands
    Denmark
    Estonia
    Ethiopia
    France
    Germany
    Greece
    Hong Kong
    India
    Italy
    Jewish
    Korea
    Latvia
    Luxembourg
    Netherlands
    Norway
    Philippines
    Poland (Anti-communist)
    Romania
    Thailand
    Soviet Union
    Slovakia
    Western Ukraine
    Vietnam
    Yugoslavia

Timeline    
Prelude
   

    Africa
    Asia
    Europe

1939
   

    Poland
    Phoney War
    Winter War
    Atlantic
    Changsha
    China

1940
   

    Weserübung
    Netherlands
    Belgium
    France
    Britain
    North Africa
    West Africa
    British Somaliland
    Baltic States
    Moldova
    Indochina
    Greece
    Compass

1941
   

    East Africa
    Yugoslavia
    Yugoslav Front
    Greece
    Crete
    Iraq
    Soviet Union (Barbarossa)
    Finland
    Lithuania
    Syria and Lebanon
    Kiev
    Iran
    Leningrad
    Moscow
    Sevastopol
    Pearl Harbor
    Hong Kong
    Philippines
    Changsha
    Malaya
    Borneo (1941–42)

1942
   

    Burma
    Changsha
    Coral Sea
    Gazala
    Midway
    Blue
    Stalingrad
    Dieppe
    El Alamein
    Guadalcanal
    Torch

1943
   

    Tunisia
    Kursk
    Smolensk
    Solomon Islands
    Sicily
    Lower Dnieper
    Italy
    Gilbert and Marshall Islands
    Changde

1944
   

    Monte Cassino / Shingle
    Narva
    Korsun-Cherkassy
    Tempest
    Ichi-Go
    Overlord
    Neptune
    Normandy
    Mariana and Palau
    Bagration
    Western Ukraine
    Tannenberg Line
    Warsaw
    Eastern Romania
    Belgrade
    Paris
    Gothic Line
    Market Garden
    Estonia
    Crossbow
    Pointblank
    Lapland
    Hungary
    Leyte
    Ardennes
    Burma (1944–1945)

1945
   

    Bodenplatte
    Vistula-Oder
    Iwo Jima
    Okinawa
    Italy (Spring 1945)
    Syrmian Front
    Berlin
    Czechoslovakia
    Budapest
    West Hunan
    Surrender of Germany
    Project Hula
    Manchuria
    Manila
    Borneo
    Atomic bombings
    Kuril Islands
    Shumshu
    Surrender of Japan

Aspects    
General
   

    Air warfare of World War II
    Attacks on North America
    Blitzkrieg
    Comparative military ranks
    Cryptography
    Home front
    Lend-Lease
    Manhattan Project
    Military awards
    Military equipment
    Military production
    Nazi plunder
    Technology
    Total war
    Strategic bombing
    Bengal famine of 1943

Aftermath
   

    Effects
    Expulsion of Germans
    Operation Paperclip
    Operation Keelhaul
    Occupation of Germany
    Morgenthau Plan
    Territorial changes of Germany
    Soviet occupations
        Romania
        Poland
        Hungary
        Baltic States
    Occupation of Japan
    First Indochina War
    Indonesian National Revolution
    Cold War
    Decolonization
    Popular culture

War crimes
   

    Allied war crimes
        Soviet war crimes
        United States war crimes
    German / Wehrmacht war crimes
        The Holocaust
    Italian war crimes
    Japanese war crimes
        Unit 731
    Croatian war crimes (against the Serbs / against the Jews)
    Serbian war crimes

Prostitution
War rape
   

    German military brothels
    Camp brothels
    Rape during the occupation of Japan
    Comfort women
    Rape of Nanking
    Rape during the occupation of Germany

Prisoners
   

    Finnish prisoners of war in the Soviet Union
    German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union
    German prisoners of war in the United States
    Italian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union
    Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union
    Japanese prisoners of war in World War II
    Nazi crimes against Soviet POWs
    Polish prisoners of war in the Soviet Union
    Romanian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union

100 Greatest Britons was broadcast in 2002 by the BBC. The programme was based on a television poll conducted to determine whom the United Kingdom public considered the greatest British people in history.[1][2] The series, Great Britons, included individual programmes featuring the individuals who featured in the top ten, with viewers having further opportunities to vote after each programme.[3] It concluded with a debate. All of the top 10 were dead by the year of broadcast.

The poll resulted in nominees including Guy Fawkes, who was executed for trying to blow up the Parliament of England; Oliver Cromwell who created a republican England; Richard III, suspected of murdering his nephews; James Connolly, an Irish nationalist and socialist who was executed by the Crown in 1916; and a surprisingly high ranking of 17th for actor and singer Michael Crawford (the second highest-ranked entertainer, after John Lennon). Diana, Princess of Wales was judged to be a greater historical British figure than William Shakespeare by BBC respondents to the survey. In addition to the Britons, some notable non-British entrants were listed, including two Irish nationals, the philanthropic musicians Bono and Bob Geldof. Furthermore, many candidates were from an era in which Britishness did not exist. The top 19 entries were people of English origin (though Sir Ernest Shackleton and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, were both born into Anglo-Irish families when what is now the Republic of Ireland was part of the United Kingdom). The highest-placed Scottish entry was Alexander Fleming in 20th place, with the highest Welsh entry, Owain Glyndŵr, at number 23.[4] Sixty had lived in the twentieth century. The highest-ranked living person was Margaret Thatcher, who placed 16th.[5] Ringo Starr is the only member of The Beatles not on the list. Perhaps the most surprising high entry was Isambard Kingdom Brunel, whose 2nd place was due largely to "students from Brunel University who have been campaigning vigorously for the engineer for weeks."[6]

The opening and closing ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympics featured the two greatest Britons, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Winston Churchill as main characters, played by Kenneth Branagh and Timothy Spall, each of them reading a monologue from William Shakespeare's The Tempest

Top 10 on the list

Because of the nature of the poll used to select and rank the Britons, the results do not claim to be an objective assessment. They are as follows:
Rank     Name     Time Frame     Image     Occupation     Notability
1     Sir Winston Churchill     (1874–1965)     Sir Winston S Churchill.jpg     Politician     Prime Minister during World War II, historically ranked the greatest British prime minister.
2     Isambard Kingdom Brunel     (1806–1859)     IKBrunelChains.jpg     Engineer     Creator of the Great Western Railway, and designer of numerous significant ships, tunnels and bridges.
3     Diana, Princess of Wales     (1961–1997)     Международная Леонардо-премия 18.jpg     Member of the British Royal family. Philanthropist.     First wife of Charles, Prince of Wales (marriage 1981–1996), and mother of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Prince Harry.
4     Charles Darwin     (1809–1882)     Charles Darwin seated crop.jpg     Naturalist     Originator of the theory of evolution through natural selection and author of On the Origin of Species.
5     William Shakespeare     (1564–1616)     Shakespeare.jpg     Poet and playwright     Thought of by many as the greatest of all English writers.
6     Sir Isaac Newton     (1642–1727)     GodfreyKneller-IsaacNewton-1689.jpg     Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher and biblical scholar     Originator of universal gravitation and laws of classical mechanics and laws of motion. His Principia is one of the most influential works in the history of science.
7     Queen Elizabeth I     (1533–1603)     Darnley stage 3.jpg     Queen regnant     Popular monarch of England (reigned 1558–1603) who brought a period of relative internal stability. She is associated with the defeat of the Spanish Armada.
8     John Lennon     (1940–1980)     John Lennon 1964 001 cropped.png     Composer, musician, philanthropist, peace activist, artist, and writer.     Co-writer with Paul McCartney in The Beatles and solo musician.
9     Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson     (1758–1805)     HoratioNelson1.jpg     Naval commander     Famous for his service in the Royal Navy, particularly during the Napoleonic Wars.
10     Oliver Cromwell     (1599–1658)     Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper.jpg     Military and political leader     1st Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. Commander of the New Model Army during the English Civil War against King Charles I.

The complete list of the top 100 in alphabetical order

Alfred the Great
Andrews, Julie
Attenborough, David
Austen, Jane
Babbage, Charles
Baden Powell
Bader, Douglas
Beckham, David
Bell, Alexander Graham
Benn, Tony
Berners Lee, Tim
Bevan, Aneurin
Blair, Tony
Blake, William
Bono
Booth, William
Boudicca
Bowie, David
Boy George
Branson, Richard
Bruce, Robert
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom
Burton, Richard
Campbell, Donald
Caxton, William
Chaplin, Charlie
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Cheshire, Leonard
Churchill, Winston
Connelly, James
Cook, Captain
Crawford, Michael
Cromwell, Oliver
Crowley, Aleister
Darwin, Charles
Diana, Princess of Wales
Dickens, Charles
Drake, Francis
Edward I
Elgar, Edward
Elizabeth I
Faraday, Michael
Fawkes, Guy
Fleming, Alexander
Geldof, Bob
Glyndwr, Owain
Harrison, George
Harrison, John
Hawking, Stephen
Henry II
Henry V
Henry VIII
Jenner, Edward
King Arthur
Lawrence, TE (L of Arabia)
Lennon, John
Livingstone, David
Lloyd George, David
Logie Baird, John
Lydon, John
Maxwell, James Clerk
McCartney, Paul
Mercury, Freddie
Montgomery
Moore, Bobby
More, Thomas
Morecambe, Eric
Nelson, Horatio
Newton, Isaac
Nightingale, Florence
Paine, Thomas
Pankhurst, Emmeline
Peel, John
Powell, Enoch
Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Mother
Queen Victoria
Raleigh, Walter
Redgrave, Steve
Richard III
Richard, Cliff
Rowling, J.K.
Scott, Captain
Shackleton, Ernest
Shakespeare, William
Stephenson, George
Stopes, Marie
Thatcher, Margaret
The Unknown Soldier
Tindale/Tyndale, William
Tolkien, J R R
Turing, Alan
Wallace, William
Wallis, Barnes
Watt, James
Wellington, Duke of
Wesley, John
Whittle, Frank
Wilberforce, William
Williams, Robbie



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1967 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar    1967
MCMLXVII
Ab urbe condita    2720
Armenian calendar    1416
ԹՎ ՌՆԺԶ
Assyrian calendar    6717
Bahá'í calendar    123–124
Bengali calendar    1374
Berber calendar    2917
British Regnal year    15 Eliz. 2 – 16 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar    2511
Burmese calendar    1329
Byzantine calendar    7475–7476
Chinese calendar    丙午年十一月廿一日
(4603/4663-11-21)
— to —
丁未年十二月初一日
(4604/4664-12-1)
Coptic calendar    1683–1684
Ethiopian calendar    1959–1960
Hebrew calendar    5727–5728
Hindu calendars   
 - Vikram Samvat    2023–2024
 - Shaka Samvat    1889–1890
 - Kali Yuga    5068–5069
Holocene calendar    11967
Iranian calendar    1345–1346
Islamic calendar    1386–1387
Japanese calendar    Shōwa 42
(昭和42年)
Julian calendar    Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar    4300
Minguo calendar    ROC 56
民國56年
Thai solar calendar    2510
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Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
Events

January
January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair.
January 4 – The Doors' self-titled debut album is released.
January 5
Spain and Romania sign in Paris an agreement establishing full consular and commercial relations (not diplomatic ones).
Charlie Chaplin launches his last film, A Countess From Hong Kong, in the UK.
January 6 – Vietnam War: USMC and ARVN troops launch Operation Deckhouse Five in the Mekong River Delta.
January 8 – Vietnam War: Operation Cedar Falls starts.
January 10 – Segregationist Lester Maddox is sworn in as Governor of Georgia.
January 12 – Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with the intent of future resuscitation.
January 13 – A military coup occurs in Togo under the leadership of Etienne Eyadema.
January 14
The New York Times reports that the U.S. Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments.
The Human Be-In takes place in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco; the event sets the stage for the Summer of Love.
January 15
Louis Leakey announces the discovery of pre-human fossils in Kenya; he names the species Kenyapithecus africanus.
January 15 The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10.
The United Kingdom enters the first round of negotiations for European Economic Community membership in Rome.
January 18
Albert DeSalvo (The Boston Strangler) is convicted of numerous crimes and sentenced to life in prison.
Jeremy Thorpe becomes leader of the UK's Liberal Party.
A Fistful of Dollars, the first significant "spaghetti Western" film, is released in the United States.
January 23
In Munich, the trial begins of Wilhelm Harster, accused of the murder of 82,856 Jews (including Anne Frank) when he led German security police during the German occupation of the Netherlands. He is eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison.
The new town of Milton Keynes (England) is founded by Order in Council.
January 26 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom decides to nationalize 90% of the British steel industry.
January 27
Apollo 1: U.S. astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward Higgins White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire breaks out in their Apollo spacecraft during a launch pad test.
The United States, Soviet Union and United Kingdom sign the Outer Space Treaty.
January 31 – West Germany and Romania establish diplomatic relations.
February
February 2 – The American Basketball Association is formed.
February 3 – Ronald Ryan becomes the last man hanged in Australia, for murdering a guard while escaping from prison in December 1965.
February 4 – The Soviet Union protests the demonstrations before its embassy in Beijing.
February 5
NASA launches Lunar Orbiter 3.
Italy's first guided missile cruiser, the Vittorio Veneto (C550), is launched.
General Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes president of Nicaragua.
February 6 – Alexei Kosygin arrives in the UK for an 8-day visit. He meets The Queen on February 9.
February 7
The Chinese government announces that it can no longer guarantee the safety of Soviet diplomats outside the Soviet Embassy building.
Serious bushfires in southern Tasmania claim 62 lives, and destroys 2,642.7 square kilometres (653,025.4 acres) of land.
Mazenod College, Victoria opens in Australia.
February 10 – The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution (presidential succession and disability) is ratified.
February 11 – Burgess Ice Rise lying off the west coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica is first mapped by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).
February 13 – American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.[1]
February 14 – Respect is recorded by Aretha Franklin (to be released in April).
February 15 – The Soviet Union announces that it has sent troops near the Chinese border.
February 18 – New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison claims he will solve the John F. Kennedy assassination, and that a conspiracy was planned in New Orleans.
February 22
Suharto takes power from Sukarno in Indonesia (see Transition to the New Order and Supersemar).
Donald Sangster becomes the new Prime Minister of Jamaica, succeeding Alexander Bustamante.
February 23
Trinidad and Tobago is the first Commonwealth nation to join the Organization of American States.
The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is enacted.
February 24 – Moscow forbids its satellite states to form diplomatic relations with West Germany.
February 25
The Chinese government announces that it has ordered the army to help in the spring seeding.
Britain's second Polaris missile submarine, HMS Renown, is launched.
February 26 – A Soviet nuclear test is conducted at the Semipalatinsk Test Site, Eastern Kazakhstan.
February 27 – The Dutch government supports British EEC membership.
March
March 1
The city of Hatogaya, Saitama, Japan is founded.
Brazilian police arrest Franz Stangl, ex-commander of Treblinka and Sobibór concentration camps.
The Red Guards return to schools in China.
The Queen Elizabeth Hall is opened in London.
March 4
The first North Sea gas is pumped ashore at Easington, East Riding of Yorkshire.
Queens Park Rangers become the first 3rd Division side to win the League Cup at Wembley Stadium, defeating West Bromwich Albion 3–2.
March 7 – Jimmy Hoffa begins his 8-year sentence for attempting to bribe a jury.
March 9 – Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, defects to the USA via the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi.
March 12
The Indonesian State Assembly takes all presidential powers from Sukarno and names Suharto as acting president.
The Velvet Underground's groundbreaking first album, The Velvet Underground & Nico, is released. It is initially a disaster but receives widespread critical and commercial acclaim in later years.
March 13 – Moise Tshombe, ex-prime minister of Congo, is sentenced to death in absentia.
March 14
The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
Nine executives of the German pharmaceutical company Grunenthal are charged for breaking German drug laws because of thalidomide.
March 16 – In the Aspida case in Greece, 15 officers are sentenced to 2–18 years in prison, accused of treason and intentions of staging a coup.
March 18 – The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground in between Land's End and the Scilly Isles.
March 19 – A referendum in French Somaliland favors the connection to France.
March 21 – A military coup takes place in Sierra Leone.
March 26 – 10,000 gather for the Central Park Be-In.
March 28 – Pope Paul VI issues the encyclical Populorum Progressio.
March 29
A 13-day TV strike begins in the U.S.
The first French nuclear submarine, Le Redoutable, is launched.
The SEACOM telephone cable is inaugurated.
Fleet Air Arm and Royal Air Force bomb the Torrey Canyon and sink her.
March 31 – U.S. President Lyndon Johnson signs the Consular Treaty.
April
April 2 – A United Nations delegation arrives in Aden due to approaching independence. They leave April 7, accusing British authorities of lack of cooperation. The British say the delegation did not contact them.
April 4 – Martin Luther King, Jr. denounces the Vietnam War during a religious service in New York City.
April 6 – Georges Pompidou begins to form the next French government.
April 7 – Six-Day War (approach): Israeli fighters shoot down 7 Syrian MIG-21s.
April 8 – Puppet On A String by Sandie Shaw (music and text by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1967 for United Kingdom.
April 9 – The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) takes its maiden flight.
April 10
The AFTRA strike is settled just in time for the 39th Academy Awards ceremony to be held, hosted by Bob Hope. Best Picture goes to A Man for All Seasons.
Oral arguments begin in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), challenging the State of Virginia's statutory scheme to prevent marriages between persons solely on the basis of racial classifications.
April 12 – The Ahmanson Theatre opens in Los Angeles.
April 13 – Conservatives win the Greater London Council elections.
April 14 – In San Francisco, 10,000 march against the Vietnam War.
April 15 – Large demonstrations are held against the Vietnam War in New York City and San Francisco.
April 20
Surveyor 3 probe lands on the Moon.
A Globe Air Bristol Britannia turboprop crashes at Nicosia, Cyprus, killing 126 people.[2][3]
April 21
Greece is taken over by a military dictatorship led by George Papadopoulos; future-Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou political prisoner to December 25.
An outbreak of tornadoes strikes the upper Midwest section of the United States (in particular the Chicago area, including the suburbs of Belvidere and Oak Lawn, Illinois, where 33 people are killed and 500 injured).
April 23 – A group of young radicals are expelled from the Nicaraguan Socialist Party (PSN). This group goes on to found the Socialist Workers Party (POS).
April 24 – Soyuz 1: Vladimir Komarov becomes the first Soviet cosmonaut to die, when the parachute of his space capsule fails during re-entry.
April 27 – Montreal, Quebec, Expo 67, a World's Fair to coincide with the Canadian Confederation centennial, officially opens with Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson igniting the Expo Flame in the Place des Nations.
April 28
In Houston, Texas, boxer Muhammad Ali refuses military service.
Expo 67 opens to the public, with over 310,000 people attending. Al Carter from Chicago is the first visitor as noted by Expo officials.
The U.S. aerospace manufacturer McDonnell Douglas is formed through a merger of McDonnell Aircraft and Douglas Aircraft. (becomes part of The Boeing Company three decades later)
April 29 – Fidel Castro announces that all intellectual property belongs to the people and that Cuba intends to translate and publish technical literature without compensation.
April 30 – Moscow's 537m-tall TV tower is finished.
May
May 1
Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas.
GO Transit, Canada's first interregional public transit system, is established.
May 2
The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup. It was their last Stanley Cup and last finals appearance to date. It would turn out to be the last game in the original six era. Six more teams would be added in the fall.
Harold Wilson announces that the United Kingdom has decided to apply for EEC membership.
May 4 – Lunar Orbiter 4 is launched by the United States.
May 6
Dr. Zakir Hussain is the first Muslim to become president of India.
Four hundred students seize the administration building at Cheyney State College, now Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, the oldest institute for higher education for African Americans.
Hong Kong 1967 riots: Clashes between striking workers and police kill 51 and injure 800.
May 8 – The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.
May 10 – The Greek military government accuses Andreas Papandreou of treason.
May 11 – The United Kingdom and Ireland apply officially for European Economic Community membership.
May 17
Syria mobilizes against Israel.
President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt demands withdrawal of the peacekeeping UN Emergency Force in the Sinai. U.N. Secretary-General U Thant complies (May 18).
May 18
Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals the "Monkey Law" (officially the Butler Act; see the Scopes Trial).
In Mexico, schoolteacher Lucio Cabañas begins guerrilla warfare in Atoyac de Alvarez, west of Acapulco, in the state of Guerrero.
NASA announces the crew for the Apollo 7 space mission (first manned Apollo flight): Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Donn F. Eisele, and R. Walter Cunningham.
May 19
The Soviet Union ratifies a treaty with the United States and the United Kingdom, banning nuclear weapons from outer space.
Yuri Andropov becomes KGB chief.
May 22 – The Innovation department store in the centre of Brussels, Belgium burns down. It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, resulting in 323 dead and missing and 150 injured.
May 23 – Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, blockading Israel's southern port of Eilat, and Israel's entire Red Sea coastline.
May 25 - Celtic Football Club become the first non-Latin football club to win the European Cup / Champions League.
May 25 - The 25th Amendment is added to the Constitution of the United States.
May 27
Naxalite Guerrilla War: Beginning with a peasant uprising in the town of Naxalbari, this Marxist/Maoist rebellion sputters on in the Indian countryside. The guerrillas operate among the impoverished peasants, fighting both the government security forces and private paramilitary groups funded by wealthy landowners. Most fighting takes place in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh.
The Australian referendum, 1967 passes with an overwhelming 90% support, removing, from the Australian Constitution, 2 discriminatory sentences referring to Indigenous Australians. It signifies Australia's first step in recognising Indigenous rights.
The Folk-Rock band Fairport Convention plays their first gig in Golders Green, north London.
May 30 – Biafra, in eastern Nigeria, announces its independence.
June
June – Moshe Dayan becomes Israel's Minister of Defense.
June 1 – The Beatles legendary release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, nicknamed "The Soundtrack of the Summer of Love"; it would be number one on the albums charts throughout the summer of 1967.
June 2
Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into fights, during which 27-year-old Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June.
Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.
June 4 – Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew.
June 5
Murderer Richard Speck is sentenced to death in the electric chair for killing eight student nurses in Chicago.
Six-Day War: Israel occupies the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai peninsula and Golan Heights after defeating its Arab neighbours.
June 7 – Two Moby Grape members are arrested for contributing to the delinquency of minors.
June 8 – Six-Day War – USS Liberty incident: Israeli fighter jets and Israeli warships fire at the USS Liberty off Gaza, killing 34 and wounding 171.
June 10
Israel and Syria agree to a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.
The Soviet Union severs diplomatic relations with Israel.
Margrethe, heir apparent to the throne of Denmark, marries French count Henri de Laborde de Monpezat.
June 11 – A race riot occurs in Tampa, Florida after the shooting death of Martin Chambers by police while allegedly robbing a camera store. The unrest lasts several days.
June 12
Loving v. Virginia: The United States Supreme Court declares all U.S. state laws prohibiting interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.[4]
Venera program: Venera 4 is launched by the Soviet Union (the first space probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and successfully return data).
June 13 – Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first African American justice of the United States Supreme Court.[5]
June 14
Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus.
The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.[6]
June 14–June 15 – Glenn Gould records Prokofiev's Seventh Piano Sonata, Op. 83, in New York City (his only recording of a Prokofiev composition).
June 16 – The Monterey Pop Festival begins and is held for 3 days.
June 17 – The People's Republic of China announces a successful hydrogen bomb test.
June 18 - Eighteen British officers killed in Aden police mutiny. [7]
June 23 – Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey, for the 3-day Glassboro Summit Conference. Johnson travels to Los Angeles for a dinner at the Century Plaza Hotel where earlier in the day thousands of war protesters clashed with L.A. police.[8]
June 25 – 400 million viewers watch Our World, the first live, international, satellite television production. It features the live debut of The Beatles' song "All You Need is Love".
June 26
Pope Paul VI ordains 276 new cardinals (one of whom is the future Pope John Paul II).
The Buffalo Race Riot begins, lasting until July 1; leads to 200 arrests.


Plaque commemorating installation of world's first bank cash machine
June 27 – The first automatic cash machine (voucher-based) is installed, in the office of the Barclays Bank in Enfield, England.
June 28 – Israel declares the annexation of East Jerusalem.
June 30 – Moise Tshombe, former President of Katanga and former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is kidnapped to Algeria.
July
July 1
Canada celebrates its first one hundred years of Confederation.
EEC joined with European Coal and Steel Community and European Atomic Community to form the European Communities (from the 1980s usually known as European Community [EC]).
The first UK colour television broadcasts begin on BBC2. The first one is from the tennis championship at Wimbledon. A full colour service begins on BBC2 on December 2.
American Samoa's first constitution becomes effective.
July 3 – A military rebellion led by Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme begins in Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
July 4 – The British Parliament decriminalizes homosexuality.
July 5 – Troops of Belgian mercenary commander Jean Schramme revolt against Mobutu Sese Seko, and try to take control of Stanleyville, Congo.
July 6
Biafran War: Nigerian forces invade Biafra, following the latter's secession May 30.
A level crossing collision between a train loaded with children and a tanker-truck near Magdeburg, East Germany kills 94 people, mostly children.
July 10
Heavy massive rains and a landslide at Kobe and Kure, Hiroshima, Japan, kill at least 371.
New Zealand decimalise its currency from pound to dollar at £1 to $2 ($1 = 10/-).
July 12
The Greek military regime strips 480 Greeks of their citizenship.
1967 Newark riots: After the arrest of an African-American cab driver for allegedly illegally driving around a police car and gunning it down the road, race riots break out in Newark, New Jersey, lasting six days and leaving 26 dead.
July 14 – Near Newark, New Jersey, the Plainfield, NJ, riots also occur.
July 16 – A prison riot in Jay, Florida leaves 37 dead.
July 18 – The United Kingdom announces the closing of its military bases in Malaysia and Singapore. Australia and the U.S. disapprove.
July 19 – A race riot breaks out in the North Side of Minneapolis on Plymouth Street during the Minneapolis Aquatennial Parade and business are vandalized and fires break out in the area, although the disturbance is quelled within hours. However, the next day a shooting sets off another incident in the same area that leads to 18 fires, 36 arrests, 3 shootings, 2 dozen people injured, and damages totaling 4.2 million. There will be two more such incidents in the following two weeks.
July 20 – Chilean poet Pablo Neruda receives the first Viareggio-Versile prize.
July 21 – The town of Winneconne, Wisconsin, announces secession from the United States because it is not included in the official maps and declares war. Secession is repealed the next day.
July 23 – 12th Street Riot/Detroit Race Riots: In Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city: 43 are killed, 342 injured and 1,400 buildings burned.
July 24 – During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! (Long live free Quebec!). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delights many Quebecers but angers the Canadian government and many English Canadians.
July 29
An explosion and fire aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin leaves 134 dead.
Georges Bidault moves to Belgium where he receives political asylum.
An earthquake in Caracas, Venezuela leaves 240 dead.
July 30 – The 1967 Milwaukee race riots begin, lasting through August 2 and leading to a ten-day shutdown of the city from August 1.
August
August 1 - Race riots in the United States spread to Washington, D.C..
August 2 – The Turkish football club Trabzonspor is established in Trabzon.
August 5 – Pink Floyd releases their debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn in the United Kingdom.
August 6 – A pulsar is noted by Jocelyn Bell and Antony Hewish. The discovery is first recorded in print in 1968: "An entirely novel kind of star came to light on Aug. 6 last year [...]". The date of the discovery is not recorded.
August 7
Vietnam War: The People's Republic of China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.
A general strike in the old quarter of Jerusalem protests Israel's unification of the city.
August 8 – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded in Bangkok, Thailand.
August 9 – Vietnam War – Operation Cochise: United States Marines begin a new operation in the Que Son Valley.
August 10 – Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme's troops take the Congolese border town of Bukavu.
August 13 – Night of the Grizzlies sparks national concern over bear drama, from PBS in Montana's Glacier National Park.
August 14 – Wonderful Radio London shuts down at 3:00 PM in anticipation of the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act. Many fans greet the staff upon their return to London that evening with placards reading "Freedom died with Radio London."
August 15 – The United Kingdom Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal. Radio Caroline defies the Act and continues broadcasting.
August 18 – The State of Tamil Nadu, India is established.
August 19 – West Germany receives 36 East German prisoners it has "purchased" through the border posts of Herleshausen and Wartha.
August 21
A truce is declared in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The People's Republic of China announces that it has shot down United States planes violating its airspace.
August 25 – American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell is assassinated in Arlington, Virginia.
August 27 – East Coast Wrestling Association is established.
August 30 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
September
September 1
The Khmer–Chinese Friendship Association is banned in Cambodia
Ilse Koch, also known as the "Witch of Buchenwald", commits suicide in the Bavarian prison of Aichach.
September 3
Nguyen Van Thieu is elected President of South Vietnam.
H-Day in Sweden: At 5:00 a.m. local time, all traffic in the country switches from left-hand traffic pattern to right-hand traffic.
September 4 – Vietnam War – Operation Swift: The United States Marines launch a search and destroy mission in Quang Nam and Quang Tin Provinces. The ensuing 4-day battle in Que Son Valley kills 114 Americans and 376 North Vietnamese.
September 9 – Fashion Island, one of California's first outdoor shopping malls, opens in Newport Beach.
September 10 – In Gibraltar, only 44 out of 12,182 voters support union with Spain.
September 17
A riot during a football match in Kayseri, Turkey leaves 44 dead, about 600 injured.
Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show, when Morrison sings the word "higher" from their #1 hit Light My Fire, despite having been asked not to.
September 18 – Love Is a Many Splendored Thing debuts on U.S. daytime television and is the first soap opera to deal with an interracial relationship. CBS censors find it too controversial and ask for it to be stopped, causing show creator Irna Phillips to quit.
September 27 – The RMS Queen Mary arrives in Southampton, at the end of her last transatlantic voyage.
September 30 – BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4 are all launched.
October
October 3 – An X-15 research aircraft with test pilot William J. Knight establishes an unofficial world fixed-wing speed record of Mach 6.7.
October 4 – Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.
October 6 – Southern California's Pacific Ocean Park closes down, known as the Disneyland by the sea.
October 8 – Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
October 12
Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the U.S. Congress for peace initiatives are futile, because of North Vietnam's opposition.
Desmond Morris publishes The Naked Ape.[9]
October 14 – Quebec Nationalism: René Lévesque leaves the Liberal Party.
October 16 – Thirty-nine people, including singer-activist Joan Baez, are arrested in Oakland, California, for blocking the entrance of that city's military induction center.
October 17
The musical Hair opens off-Broadway. It moves to Broadway the following April.
Vietnam War: Battle of Ong Thanh
October 18
Vietnam War: Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison protest over recruitment by Dow Chemical on the University campus. 76 are injured in the resulting riot.
Walt Disney's 19th full-length animated feature The Jungle Book, the last animated film personally supervised by Disney, is released and becomes an enormous box-office and critical success. On a double bill with the film is the (now) much less well-known true-life adventure, Charlie the Lonesome Cougar.
October 19 – The Mariner 5 probe flies by Venus.
October 20 - Patterson-Gimlin film, Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin's famous film of an unidentified animate cryptid, thought to be Bigfoot or Sasquatch, is recorded at Bluff Creek, California.
October 21
Tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters march in Washington, D.C.. Allen Ginsberg symbolically chants to 'levitate' The Pentagon.
An Egyptian surface-to-surface missile sinks the Israeli destroyer Eilat, killing 47 Israeli sailors. Israel retaliates by shelling Egyptian refineries along the Suez Canal.
October 25 – An abortion bill passes in the British Parliament.
October 26
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran is officially crowned.
U.S. Navy pilot John McCain is shot down over North Vietnam and made a POW. His capture will be announced in the NY Times and Washington Post two days later.
October 27
Charles De Gaulle vetoes British entry into the European Economic Community again.
London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall.
October 29
Mobutu's troops launch an offensive against mercenaries in Bukavu, Congo.
The Montreal, Quebec Expo 67 closes, having received over 50 million attendees.
October 30 – Hong Kong 1967 riots: British troops and Chinese demonstrators clash on the border of China and Hong Kong.
November
November 2 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson holds a secret meeting with a group of the nation's most prestigious leaders ("the Wise Men") and asks them to suggest ways to unite the American people behind the war effort. They conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
November 3 – Vietnam War – Battle of Dak To: Around Dak To (located about 280 miles north of Saigon near the Cambodian border), heavy casualties are suffered on both sides (the Americans narrowly win the battle on November 22).
November 4–November 5 – Mercenaries of Jean Schramme and Jerry Puren withdraw from Bukavu, over the Shangugu Bridge, to Rwanda.
November 6 – The Rhodesian parliament passes pro-Apartheid laws.
November 7
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Carl B. Stokes is elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major United States city.
The 50th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution is celebrated in the Soviet Union.
November 8 – The BBC's first local radio station (BBC Radio Leicester) is launched.
November 9 – Apollo program: NASA launches the first Saturn V rocket, successfully carrying the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy into Earth orbit.
November 11 – Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 3 United States prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "New Left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.
November 14 – The Congress of Colombia in commemoration of the 150-year anniversary of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as the "Day of the Colombian Woman".
November 15
General Grivas and his 10,000 strong Greek Army division are forced to leave Cyprus, after 24 Turkish Cypriot civilians are killed by the Greek Cypriot National Guard in the villages of Kophinou and Ayios Theodhoros; relations sour between Nicosia and Athens. Turkey flies sorties into Greek territory, and masses troops in Thrace on her border with Greece.
Test pilot Michael Adams is killed when his X-15 rocket plane tumbles out of control during atmospheric re-entry and disintegrates.
November 17
Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on November 13, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells his nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress." (2 months later the Tet Offensive by the Viet Cong makes it appear, to those watching news reports, that progress is not being made.)
French author Régis Debray is sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in Bolivia.
November 18 – The UK pound is devalued from 1 GBP = 2.80 USD to 1 GBP = 2.40 USD.
November 21 – Vietnam War: United States General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."
November 22 – UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted by the UN Security Council, establishing a set of principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab–Israeli peace settlement.
November 26 – Major floods hit Lisbon, Portugal, killing 462.
November 27 – The Beatles release Magical Mystery Tour in the US as a full album. The songs added to the original six songs on the double EP include All You Need Is Love, Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields Forever, Baby, You're a Rich Man and Hello, Goodbye. Release as a double EP will not take place in the UK until December.
November 29 – Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation to become president of the World Bank. This action is due to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's outright rejection of McNamara's early November recommendations to freeze troop levels, stop bombing North Vietnam and hand over ground fighting to South Vietnam.
November 30
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto founds the Pakistan People's Party and becomes its first chairman. Today it is one of the major political parties in Pakistan (alongside the Pakistan Muslim League) that is broken into many factions, bearing the same name under different leaders, such as the Pakistan's Peoples Party Parliamentarians (PPPP).
The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent of the United Kingdom.
U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy announces his candidacy for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, challenging incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson over the Vietnam War.
December
December 1 – The RMS Queen Mary is retired. Her place is taken by the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2.
December 3 – Christiaan Barnard carries out the world's first heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town.
December 4
At 6:50 PM, a volcano erupts on Deception Island in Antarctica.
Vietnam War: U.S. and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta (235 of the 300-strong Viet Cong battalion are killed).
December 5 – In New York City, Benjamin Spock and Allen Ginsberg are arrested for protesting against the Vietnam War.
December 8 – Magical Mystery Tour is released by The Beatles as a double EP in the U.K. and also the only psychedelic rock album of The Rolling Stones, Their Satanic Majesties Request in the U.K and in the U.S.A.
December 9 – Nicolae Ceauşescu becomes the Chairman of the Romanian State Council, making him the de facto leader of Romania.
December 11 – Supersonic airliner Concorde is unveiled in Toulouse, France.
December 13 – King Constantine II of Greece flees the country when his coup attempt fails.
December 15 – The Silver Bridge over the Ohio River in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, collapses, killing 46 people. It has been linked to the so-called Mothman mystery.
December 17 – Harold Holt, Australian prime minister, disappears when swimming at a beach 60 km from Melbourne.
December 19 – Professor John Archibald Wheeler uses the term Black Hole for the first time.
December 26 – The Beatles film Magical Mystery Tour (film) receives its world premier on BBC Television in the UK
December 31
The Green Bay Packers become the first team in the modern era to win their third consecutive NFL Championship, 21-17 over the Dallas Cowboys in what became known as "The Ice Bowl".
Motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel attempted to jump 141 feet over the Caesars Palace Fountains on the Las Vegas Strip. Knievel crashed on landing and the accident was caught on film.
Date unknown
St Christopher's Hospice, the world's first purpose-built secular hospice specialising in palliative care of the terminally ill, is established in South London by Cicely Saunders.[10]
Warner Bros. Pictures becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Seven Arts Productions, thus becoming Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.
The Jari project begins in the Amazon.
Albania is officially declared an atheist state by its leader, Enver Hoxha.
The University of Winnipeg is founded in Canada.
Lonsdaleite (the rarest allotrope of carbon) is first discovered in the Barringer Crater, Arizona.
A lost city is discovered on the island of Thera, buried under volcanic debris. It has been suggested that Plato may have heard legends about this, and used them as the germ of his story of Atlantis.
PAL is first introduced in Germany.
The Summer of Love is held in San Francisco.
Lech Wałęsa goes to work in Gdańsk shipyards.
Benjamin Netanyahu joins the Israeli Army.
The Greek military junta exiles Melina Mercouri.
Parker Morris Standards become mandatory for all housing built in New Towns in the UK.
Gabriel García Márquez's influential novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is published (in Spanish).
The first edition of the book, A Short History of Pakistan, is published by Karachi University, Pakistan.
Fernand Braudel begins publication of Civilisation matérielle, économie et capitalisme, XVe-XVIIIe siècle.
Births

January
January 1 – Sunny Chan, Hong Kong TVB actor
January 2 – Tia Carrere, American actress
January 4 – Marina Orsini, Canadian actress
January 5 – Joe Flanigan, American actor
January 7 – Mark Lamarr, British comedian/TV and radio presenter
January 8 – R. Kelly, American R&B singer/songwriter/producer
January 9
Dave Matthews, South African–born musician
Dale Gordon, English footballer
January 12 – Vendela Kirsebom, Swedish supermodel
January 14
Sharon Beshenivsky, West Yorkshire police constable (d. 2005)
Leonardo "Leo" Ortolani, Italian comic book author
January 15 – Lisa Lisa, American singer
January 17 – Song Kang-ho, Korean actor
January 18 – Iván Zamorano, Chilean footballer
January 21 – Artashes Minasian, Armenian chess grand master
January 22 – Eleanor McEvoy, Irish singer-songwriter
January 23 – Naim Süleymanoğlu, Turkish weightlifter
January 24 – John Myung, American musician
January 25
Voltaire, Cuban singer
Nozomu Sasaki, Japanese voice actor
January 26 – Toshiyuki Morikawa, Japanese voice actor
January 28 – Jan Lamb, Hong Kong singer and actor
January 29 – Khalid Skah, Moroccan long-distance runner
January 31 – Joey Wong, Taiwanese actress
February
February 1 – Meg Cabot, American teen author
February 2
Chris Parnell, American actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live)
Frederick Pitcher, Nauruan politician
February 6 – Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard) (d. 2007)
February 7 – Cheung Man, Hong Kong actress
February 9
Todd Pratt, American baseball player
Dan Shulman, Canadian sports announcer
February 10
Laura Dern, American actress
Armand Serrano, Filipino animator
Vince Gilligan, American writer, director and producer (creator of Breaking Bad)
February 11 – Hank Gathers, American college basketball player
February 12 – Chitravina N. Ravikiran, Indian composer and musician
February 14 – Mark Rutte, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands since 2010.
February 15 – Trond Egil Soltvedt, Norwegian footballer
February 18
Marco Aurélio, Brazilian footballer
Roberto Baggio, Italian football player
John Valentin, American baseball player
Benicio del Toro, Puerto Rican actor
February 19 – Sven Erik Kristiansen Norwegian Black metal and hardcore punk singer (Maniac)
February 20
Kurt Cobain, American musician (Nirvana) (d. 1994)
Andrew Shue, American actor
February 23 – Tamsin Greig, English actress
February 26 – Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese footballer
March
March 1 – George Eads, American actor
March 3 - Hans Teeuwen, Dutch comedian
March 4 – Daryll Cullinan, South African cricketer
March 10- Omer Tarin, Pakistani/South Asian poet, writer and scholar
March 11
John Barrowman, Scottish-born actor
George Gray, American comedian and game show announcer
March 12 – Massimiliano Frezzato, Italian comic writer
March 13 – Andres Escobar, Colombian football player (d. 1994)
March 15 - Naoko Takeuchi, Japanese artist
March 16 – Lauren Graham, American actress
March 17 – Billy Corgan, American musician and songwriter
March 18 – Andre Rison, American pro football player
March 19 – Mary Scheer, American actress
March 21
Jonas "Joker" Berggren, Swedish rock musician (Ace of Base)
Adrian Chiles, British television and radio presenter
March 22 – Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist
March 25 – Debi Thomas, American figure skater
March 26 – Mark Carroll, Australian rugby league footballer
March 27
Talisa Soto, American actress
Kenta Kobashi, Japanese professional wrestler
March 29 – Brian Jordan, American baseball player
March 30 – Christopher Bowman, American figure skater (d. 2008)
April
April 5 – Anu Garg, Indian-American writer and speaker
April 6 – Mika Koivuniemi, Finnish ten-pin bowler
April 9 – Alex Kahn, American artist
April 14 – Jeff Jarrett, American professional wrestler
April 15 - Dara Torres, American swimmer
April 17
Marquis Grissom, American baseball player
Kimberly Elise, American actress
Liz Phair, American musician
April 18 – Maria Bello, American actress
April 20
Mike Portnoy, American musician
Raymond van Barneveld, Dutch darts player
April 22
Sheryl Lee, American actress
Sherri Shepherd, American comedian and TV show host
April 23 – Melina Kanakaredes, American actress
April 26
Glenn Jacobs (Kane), American professional wrestler
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, American actress
April 27 – Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, Dutch heir apparent
April 29
Curtis Joseph, Canadian hockey player
Rachel Williams, American model, actress, and TV presenter
May
May 1 – Kenny Hotz, Canadian entertainer
May 4 – Akiko Yajima, Japanese voice actress
May 5 – Takehito Koyasu, Japanese voice actor
May 10 – Nobuhiro Takeda, Japanese footballer and sportscaster
May 14 – Tony Siragusa, American football player
May 15 – John Smoltz, American baseball player
May 19
Geraldine Somerville, Irish actress
Massimo Taccon, Italian painter, sculptor and writer
May 20 - Ramzi Yousef, Islamic terrorist; one of the main perpetrators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
May 21 – Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2007)
May 22 - Brooke Smith, American actress
May 24
Andrey Borodin, Russian banker
Bruno Putzulu, French actor
Heavy D, Jamaican-born American actor, rapper (d. 2011)
May 25 – Poppy Z. Brite, American author
May 27 – Paul Gascoigne, English footballer (Newcastle United, England & Middlesbrough)
May 28 - Glen Rice, American basketball player
May 29 – Noel Gallagher, British musician (Oasis)
May 31
Phil Keoghan, New Zealand-born television host
Kenny Lofton, American baseball player
June
June 3
Anderson Cooper, American television journalist
Tamás Darnyi, Hungarian swimmer
June 5
Joe DeLoach, American athlete
Ron Livingston, American actor
June 6 – Paul Giamatti, American actor
June 8
Efan Ekoku, Nigerian footballer
Jasmin Tabatabai, German/Iranian actress and musician
June 9 – Rubén Maza, Venezuelan long-distance runner
June 10 – Darren "Buffy, the Human Beatbox" Robinson, American rapper (The Fat Boys) (d. 1995)
June 15 – Yūji Ueda, Japanese voice actor
June 16 - Jürgen Klopp, German footballer
June 19
Bjørn Dæhlie, Norwegian skier
Mia Sara, American actress
June 20 – Nicole Kidman, American-born Australian actress
June 21 – Jim Breuer, former Saturday Night Live cast member and stand up comedian
June 23 – Yoko Minamino, Japanese Idol star and actress
June 24
Bill Huard, Canadian ice hockey player
Richard Z. Kruspe, German rock musician (Rammstein)
Janez Lapajne, Slovenian film director
June 26 – Kaori Asoh, Japanese voice actress and singer
July
July 1 – Pamela Anderson, Canadian actress and model
July 4
Vinny Castilla, Mexican Major League Baseball player
Andy Walker, Canadian television personality
July 5 – Silvia Ziche, Italian comics artist
July 8 – Jordan Chan, Hong Kong singer and actor
July 9
Gunnar Axén, Swedish politician
Mark Stoops, American football coach
July 11 – John Henson, American TV show host
July 12
John Petrucci, American musician
Count Jefferson von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth
July 13 – Akira Hokuto, Japanese women's professional wrestler
July 14 – Robin Ventura, American baseball player
July 15
Michael Tse, Hong Kong actor
Adam Savage, American TV show host
July 16 – Will Ferrell, American comedian and actor
July 18 – Vin Diesel, American actor
July 19 – Rageh Omaar, broadcaster
July 23 – Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor
July 25 – Matt LeBlanc, American actor
July 28 – Taka Hirose, Japanese musician (Feeder)
July 30 – A. W. Yrjänä, Finnish rock musician and poet
July 31
Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (d. 2005)
Elizabeth Wurtzel, author and feminist
August
August 3 – Mathieu Kassovitz, French movie director and actor
August 4 – Michael Marsh, American athlete
August 5 – Thomas Lang, Austrian drummer
August 7 – Charlotte Lewis, English actress
August 8
Rena Mero, American wrestler, model and actress
Yuki Amami, Japanese actress
August 9 – Deion Sanders, American pro football and baseball player
August 10 – Riddick Bowe, American boxer
August 11
Collin Chou, Taiwanese martial arts actor
Enrique Bunbury, Spanish singer and songwriter
Joe Rogan, American comedian and television host
August 12
Regilio Tuur, Dutch boxer
Andy Hui, Hong Kong singer and actor
Emil Kostadinov, Bulgarian football player
August 13 – Amélie Nothomb, Belgian writer
August 15 – Brahim Boutayeb, Moroccan long-distance runner
August 16
Pamela Smart, American murderer
Ulrika Jonsson, Swedish-born television personality
August 21
Carrie-Anne Moss, Canadian actress
Serj Tankian, Lebanese-born singer (System of a Down)
August 22
Layne Staley, American rock musician (Alice in Chains) (d. 2002)
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Nigerian-British actor and model
Yukiko Okada, Japanese idol singer (d. 1986)
Ty Burrell, American actor
August 29 – Jiří Růžek, Czech photographer
August 30 – Frederique van der Wal, Dutch supermodel
September
September 3 – Luis Gonzalez, American baseball player
September 5
Jane Sixsmith, English field hockey player
Arnel Pineda, Filipino singer-songwriter
Koichi Morishita, Japanese long-distance runner
September 6 – Macy Gray, American R&B singer
September 9 – Akshay Kumar,Bollywood Actor
September 11 – Harry Connick, Jr., American singer and actor
September 12 – Jason Statham, English actor
September 13 – Michael Johnson, American athlete
September 18 – Tara FitzGerald, British actress
September 19 – Alexander Karelin, Russian Greco-Roman wrestler
September 20 – Kristen Johnston, American actress
September 21
Susie Dent, British lexicographer
Faith Hill, American country singer
September 22 – Félix Savón, Cuban boxer
September 23
Masashi Nakayama, Japanese footballer
Jenna Stern, American actress
September 25 – Kim Issel, Canadian ice hockey player
September 28
Mira Sorvino, American actress
Moon Unit Zappa, American actress, musician and author
September 30 – Andrea Roth, Canadian actress
October
October 2 – Frankie Fredericks, Namibian athlete
October 4 – Liev Schreiber, American actor
October 5 – Guy Pearce, English-born actor
October 7 – Toni Braxton, American R&B singer
October 9 – Eddie Guerrero, American professional wrestler (d. 2005)
October 11
Tazz, American professional wrestler and commentator
Artie Lange, American actor, comedian and radio personality
David Starr, American racecar driver
October 13
Trevor Hoffman, American Major League Baseball player
Kate Walsh, American actress
Javier Sotomayor, Cuban high jumper
October 16 – Davina McCall, British TV presenter and UK Big Brother host
October 17
René Dif, Danish-Algerian singer (Aqua)
Venus Terzo, Canadian actress/voice actress
October 22
Carlos Mencia, Latino-American actor and standup comedian
Salvatore Di Vittorio, Italian composer & conductor
Ulrike Maier, Austrian alpine skier (d. 1994)
October 24 – Jacqueline McKenzie, Australian actress
October 26 – Keith Urban, New Zealand-born Australian country music singer
October 27 – Scott Weiland, American musician
October 28
Julia Roberts, American actress
Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein
October 29
Joely Fisher, American actress
Rufus Sewell, English actor
Péter Kun, Hungarian guitarist (d. 1993)
October 30
Brad Aitken, Canadian ice hockey player
Ty Detmer, American NFL quarterback and 1990 Heisman Trophy winner
November
November 1
Sophie B. Hawkins, American singer and songwriter
Tina Arena, Australian singer and songwriter
November 2 – Akira Ishida, Japanese voice actor
November 3 – Steven Wilson, British musician
November 5 – Judy Reyes, American actress
November 6 - Rebecca Schaeffer, American actrees (d. 1989)
November 7
Sharleen Spiteri, Scottish singer and songwriter
David Guetta, French DJ and songwriter
November 8 – Courtney Thorne-Smith, American actress
November 11 – Gil de Ferran, Brazilian race car driver
November 13
Jimmy Kimmel, American comedian and talk show host
Steve Zahn, American actor
November 14 – Letitia Dean, British actress
November 15 – François Ozon, French writer and director
November 16 – Lisa Bonet, American actress
November 20 – Teoman, Turkish rock singer and song-writer
November 22
Boris Becker, German tennis player
Mark Ruffalo, American actor
Bart Veldkamp, Dutch-born speed skater
November 23 – Salli Richardson, American actress
November 25 – Anthony Nesty, Surinamese swimmer
November 28 – Anna Nicole Smith, American model and actress (d. 2007)
November 29 – John "Bradshaw" Layfield, American professional wrestler
December
December 1 – Reggie Sanders, American Major League Baseball outfielder
December 6
Judd Apatow, American screenwriter and producer
Hacken Lee, Hong Kong singer and actor
December 8 – Kotono Mitsuishi, Japanese voice actress
December 9 – Joshua Bell, American violinist
December 11 – Mo'Nique, American actress and comedian
December 12 – John Randle, American football player
December 13
Jamie Foxx, American actor
Yuji Oda, Japanese singer and actor
December 14 – Ewa Białołęcka, Polish writer
December 16
Donovan Bailey, Canadian athlete
Miranda Otto, Australian actress
December 17 – Gigi D'Agostino, Italian musician and DJ
December 18 – Toine van Peperstraten, Dutch sports journalist
December 19 – Criss Angel, American musician, magician, illusionist, escapologist, and stunt performer
December 21 – Mikheil Saakashvili, President of Georgia
December 22 – Dan Petrescu, Romanian footballer
Date unknown
Joan Vizcarra, Spanish artist
András Rosztóczy, Hungarian gastroenterologist
Deaths

January


Jack Ruby
January 3
Mary Garden, Scottish opera singer (b. 1874)
Jack Ruby, American killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (b. 1911)
January 4
Donald Campbell, English water and land speed record seeker (b. 1921)
Mohammed Khider, Algerian politician (b. 1912)


Barney Ross
January 17
Evelyn Nesbit, American actress and model (b. 1884)
Barney Ross, American boxer (b. 1909)
January 18 - Harry Antrim, American actor (b. 1884)
January 19 – Kazimierz Funk, Polish biochemist (b. 1884)
January 21 – Ann Sheridan, American actress (b. 1915)
January 27
Crew of Apollo 1:
Edward White, American astroanut (b. 1930)
Gus Grissom, American astronaut (b. 1926)
Roger Chaffee, American astronaut (b. 1935)
Alphonse Juin, Marshal of France (b. 1888)
January 31 – Eddie Tolan, American athlete (b. 1908)
February
February 4 – Albert Orsborn, 6th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1886)
February 6
Martine Carol, French actress (b. 1920)
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., United States Secretary of the Treasury during World War II (b. 1891)
February 7   David Unaipon, Australian author and inventor (b. 1872)
February 8 – Victor Gollancz, British publisher (b. 1893)
February 14 – Sig Ruman, German actor (b. 1884)
February 15 – Antonio Moreno, Spanish actor (b. 1887)
February 16
Smiley Burnette, American actor (b. 1911)
Józef Hofmann, Polish pianist (b. 1876)
February 18 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1904)


J. Robert Oppenheimer
February 21 – Charles Beaumont, American writer (b. 1929)
February 24
Franz Waxman, German-American composer (b. 1906)
Hilliard Almond Wilbanks, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1933)
February 28 – Henry Luce, American publisher (b. 1898)
March
March 2 – Gordon Harker, English actor (b. 1885)
March 4 – Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, deposed prime minister of Iran (b. 1882)
March 5 – Mischa Auer, Russian-born actor (b. 1905)
March 6
John Haden Badley, English author (b. 1865)
Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (b. 1901)
Kenneth Harlan, American actor (b. 1895)
Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (b. 1882)
March 7 – Alice B. Toklas, American personality (b. 1877)
March 11
Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (b. 1882)
Hanns Lothar, German actor (b. 1929)
March 21 – Marcellus Boss, American politician, member of the Kansas Senate and the 5th Civilian Governor of Guam. (b. 1901)
March 27 – Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
March 30 – Jean Toomer, American writer (b. 1894)
March 31 – Don Alvarado, American actor (b. 1904)
April
April 4 – Al Lewis, American songwriter (b. 1901)
April 5 – Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1890)
April 17 – Red Allen, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1908)
April 19 – Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
April 22 – Tom Conway, British actor (b. 1904)
April 24 – Vladimir Komarov, Soviet cosmonaut (parachute failure) (b. 1927)
April 25
Joseph Boxhall, British sailor, fourth officer of the RMS Titanic (b. 1884)
Benjamin Foulois, American Brigadier General(USAF), first rated US military pilot, trained by the Wright Brothers (b. 1879)
April 27 – William Douglas Cook, founder of Eastwoodhill Arboretum and Pukeiti, (New Zealand) (b. 1884)
April 29 – Anthony Mann, American actor and director (b. 1906)
May
May 6 – Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (b. 1885)
May 7 – Judith Evelyn, American actress (b. 1913)
May 8
Laverne Andrews, American singer (b. 1911)
Barbara Payton, American actress (b. 1927)
Elmer Rice, American playwright (b. 1892)
May 10 – Lorenzo Bandini, Italian Formula One driver (b. 1935)
May 12 – John Masefield, English poet and novelist (b. 1878)
May 15 – Edward Hopper, American painter (b. 1882)
May 18 – Andy Clyde, Scottish actor (b. 1892)
May 21
Géza Lakatos, Hungarian general and politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1890)
Rexhep Mitrovica, Albanian politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1888)
May 22 – Langston Hughes, American writer (b. 1902)
May 27 – Johannes Itten, Swiss painter (b. 1888)
May 29 – Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Austrian film director (b. 1885)
May 30 – Claude Rains, British actor (b. 1889)
May 31 – Billy Strayhorn, American composer and pianist (b. 1915)
June
June 3 – Arthur Tedder, British military, Marshal of the Royal Air Force (b. 1890)
June 5 – Arthur Biram, Israeli philosopher and educator, and Israel Prize recipient (b. 1878)
June 7 – Dorothy Parker, American writer (b. 1893)
June 10 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (b. 1900)
June 13
Gerald Patterson, Australian tennis champion (b. 1895)
Edward Leonard Ellington, British military, Marshal of the Royal Air Force (b. 1877)
June 14 – Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (b. 1897)
June 16 – Reginald Denny, English actor (b. 1891)
June 17 – Vernon Huber, American admiral and 36th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1899)
June 26 – Françoise Dorléac, French actress (b.1942)
June 29
Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)
Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933) (car accident)
July
July 1 – Gerhard Ritter, German historian (b. 1888)
July 8
Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani 'Mother of the Nation' (b. 1893)
Vivien Leigh, English actress (b. 1913)
July 9 – Douglas MacLean, American actor (b. 1890)
July 14 – Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (b. 1880)
July 17
John Coltrane, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1926)
Cyril Ring, American film actor (b. 1892)
July 18 – Humberto de Alencar Castello Branco, ex-president of Brazil (b. 1897) (plane crash)
July 21
Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player (b. 1907)
Albert Lutuli, South African politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
Basil Rathbone, British actor (b. 1892)
July 22 – Carl Sandburg, American poet (b. 1878)
July 31 – Margaret Kennedy, English writer (b. 1896)
August
August 1 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
August 2 – Walter Terence Stace, British philosopher (b. 1886)
August 9
Joe Orton, English playwright (b. 1933) (murdered)
Anton Walbrook, Austrian actor (b. 1896)
August 13 – Jane Darwell, American actress (b. 1879)
August 15
René Magritte, Belgian painter (b. 1898)
Manuel Prado y Ugarteche, former President of Peru (b. 1889)
August 19
Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born editor and publisher (b. 1884)
Isaac Deutscher, British Marxist historian (b. 1907)
August 24
Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (b. 1882)
Lam Bun, Hong Kong radio commentator (b. 1930)
August 25
Stanley Bruce, 8th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1883)
Paul Muni, Polish actor (b. 1895)
George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi Party leader (b. 1918)
August 27 – Brian Epstein, English band manager (The Beatles) (b. 1934)
August 31 – Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer (b. 1891)
September
September 1
Ilse Koch, Nazi German war criminal (b. 1906)
Siegfried Sassoon, British poet (b. 1886)
September 3
James Dunn, American actor (b. 1901)
Francis Ouimet, American professional golfer (b.1893)
September 11 – Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish technician and textilist (b. 1904)
September 13 – Varian Fry, American journalist (b. 1907)
September 16 – Ethel May Halls, American theatrical and film actress (b. 1882)
September 18 – John Cockcroft, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
September 23 - Stanislaus Zbyszko, professional wrestler (b. 1879)
September 27 – Prince Felix Yussupov, Russian assassin of Rasputin (b. 1887)
September 29
Ludwig Donath, Austrian actor (b. 1900)
Carson McCullers, American writer (b. 1917) (brain hemorrhage)
October
October 3
Woody Guthrie, American folk musician (b. 1912) (Huntington's disease)
Sir Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (b. 1895)
Pinto Colvig, American vaudeville actor, radio actor, newspaper cartoonist, prolific movie voice actor, and circus performer (original voice of Goofy) (b. 1892)
October 7 – Norman Angell, British politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1872)
October 8 – Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1883)
October 9
Che Guevara, Argentine communist revolutionary (executed) (b. 1928)
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
Edith Storey, American actress (b. 1892)
October 12 – Nat Pendleton, American actor and Olympic wrestler (b. 1895)
October 17 – Xuantong Emperor, Emperor of China (b. 1906)
October 20 – Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
October 23 – Helen Palmer Geisel, Dr. Seuss' first wife (b. 1899)
October 25 – Margaret Ayer Barnes, American playwright, novelist, and short-story writer (b. 1886)
October 29 – Julien Duvivier, French film director (b. 1896)
November
November 5 – Joseph Kesselring, American playwright (b. 1902)
November 7 – John Nance Garner, U.S. Vice President (b. 1868)
November 9 – Charles Bickford, American actor (b. 1891)
November 13 – Harriet Cohen, English pianist (b. 1895)
November 15 – Alice Lake, American actress (b. 1895)
November 19 – Charles J. Watters, U.S. Army chaplain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1927)
November 21
C. M. Eddy, Jr., American writer (b. 1896)
Florence Reed, American stage actress (b. 1883)
November 25 – Ossip Zadkine, Russian sculptor, painter and lithographer (b. 1890)
November 28 – Leon M'ba, Gabonese politician (b. 1902)
December
December 3 – Harry Wismer, American baseball owner (b. 1913)
December 4
Daniel Jones, British phonetician (b. 1881)
Bert Lahr, American actor (b. 1894)
December 7 – House Peters, Sr., British-born actor (b. 1880)
December 10 (in an air crash):
Otis Redding, American singer (b. 1941)
Ronnie Caldwell, American musician (b. 1948)
Phalon Jones, American musician (b. 1949)
December 17
Harold Holt, Australian Prime Minister (body never found) (b. 1908)
Jack Perrin, American actor (b. 1896)
December 21 – Stuart Erwin, American actor (b. 1903)
December 24 – Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (b. 1900)
December 26 – Sydney Barnes, English cricketer (b. 1873)
December 28 – Katharine McCormick, American feminist (b. 1875)
December 29 – Paul Whiteman, American bandleader (b. 1890)
December 30 – Vincent Massey, former Canadian Governor General (b. 1887)
Date unknown
Ken Battefield, American artist (b. ? )
Charles Exeter Devereux Crombie, Scottish cartoonist (d. 1967)
Nobel Prizes


Physics – Hans Albrecht Bethe
Chemistry – Manfred Eigen, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, George Porter
Physiology or Medicine – Ragnar Granit, Haldan Keffer Hartline, George Wald
Literature – Miguel Ángel Asturias
Peace – not awarded


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Victory in Europe Day — known as V-E Day or VE Day — was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (in Commonwealth countries, 7 May 1945) to mark the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, thus ending the war in Europe. The formal surrender of the occupying German forces in the Channel Islands was not until 9 May 1945. On 30 April Hitler committed suicide during the Battle of Berlin, and so the surrender of Germany was authorized by his successor, President of Germany Karl Dönitz. The administration headed by Dönitz was known as the Flensburg government. The act of military surrender was signed on 7 May in Reims, France, and on 8 May in Berlin, Germany.


Upon the defeat of Nazi Germany (Italy having already surrendered), celebrations erupted throughout the Western world. From Moscow to New York, people cheered. In the United Kingdom, more than one million people celebrated in the streets to mark the end of the European part of the war. In London, crowds massed in Trafalgar Square and up The Mall to Buckingham Palace, where King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, accompanied by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, appeared on the balcony of the Palace before the cheering crowds. Princess Elizabeth (the future Queen Elizabeth II) and her sister Princess Margaret were allowed to wander incognito among the crowds and take part in the celebrations.[1]
In the United States, President Harry Truman dedicated the victory to the memory of his predecessor, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had died of a cerebral hemorrhage less than a month earlier, on 12 April.[2] Flags remained at half-staff for the remainder of the 30-day mourning period.[3][4] Truman said of dedicating the victory to Roosevelt's memory and keeping the flags at half-staff that his only wish was "that Franklin D. Roosevelt had lived to witness this day."[2] Massive celebrations also took place in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, and especially in New York City's Times Square.[5] Victory celebrations in Canada were marred by the Halifax Riot.[citation needed]

The Daily Sketch was a British national tabloid newspaper, founded in Manchester in 1909 by Sir Edward Hulton.
Daily Sketch
Type    newspaper
Format    Tabloid
Editor    Various
Founded    1909
Political alignment    Populist, centre-right, Conservative Party
Ceased publication    1971
It was bought in 1920 by Lord Rothermere's Daily Mirror Newspapers but in 1925 Rothermere offloaded it to William and Gomer Berry (later Viscount Camrose and Viscount Kemsley).
It was owned by a subsidiary of the Berrys' Allied Newspapers from 1928[1] (renamed Kemsley Newspapers in 1937 when Camrose withdrew to concentrate his efforts on the Daily Telegraph). In 1946 it was merged with the Daily Graphic.[1] In 1952 Kemsley decided to sell the paper to Associated Newspapers, the owner of the Daily Mail, who promptly revived the Daily Sketch name in 1953. The paper struggled through the 1950s and 1960s, never managing to compete successfully with the Daily Mirror, and in 1971 it was closed and merged with the Daily Mail.
The Sketch was Conservative in its politics and populist in its tone during its existence through all its changes of ownership. In some ways much of the more populist element of today's Daily Mail was inherited from the Sketch: before the merger, the more serious Mail, then and for a long time afterwards a broadsheet, was also right-wing. The Sketch notably launched a moral panic over Daniel Farson's 1960 television documentary Living for Kicks, a portrait of British teenage life at the time, which led to a war of words between the Sketch and the Daily Mirror. It also participated in the press campaign against the screening of the BBC film The War Game.[2]
[edit]Editors

1909: Jimmy Heddle
1914: William Sugden Robinson
1919: H. Lane
1922: H. Gates
1923: H. Lane
1928: A. Curthoys
1936: A. Sinclair
1939: Sydney Carroll
1942: Lionel Berry
1943: A. Roland Thornton and M. Watts
1944: A. Roland Thornton
1947: N. Hamilton
1948: Henry Clapp
1953: Herbert Gunn
1959: Colin Valdar
1962: Howard French
1969: David English
1971: Louis Kirby (acting)
[edit]References

^ a b Dennis Griffiths (ed.) The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1492-1992, London: Macmillan, 1992, p.187
^ Press articles discussing The War Game on director Peter Watkin's Website, retrieved 2012-06-23.
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World War II

Date 1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945
Location Europe, Pacific, Atlantic, South-East Asia, China, Middle East, Mediterranean and Africa, briefly North America
Result Allied victory
Dissolution of the Third Reich
Creation of the United Nations
Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers
Beginning of the Cold War. (more...)
Belligerents
Allies
Soviet Union (1941–45)
United States (1941–45)
British Empire
China (at war 1937–45)
France[1]
Poland
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
Yugoslavia (1941–45)
Greece (1940–45)
Norway (1940–45)
Netherlands (1940–45)
Belgium (1940–45)
Czechoslovakia
Brazil (1942–45)
...and others
Axis
Germany
Japan (at war 1937–45)
Italy (1940–43)
Hungary (1941–45)
Romania (1941–44)
Bulgaria (1941–44)
Co-belligerents
Finland (1941–44)
Iraq (1941)
Thailand (1942–45)
Puppet states
Manchukuo
Croatia (1941–45)
Slovakia
...and others
Commanders and leaders
Allied leaders
Joseph Stalin
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
...and others
Axis leaders
Adolf Hitler
Hirohito
Benito Mussolini
...and others
Casualties and losses
Military dead:
Over 16,000,000
Civilian dead:
Over 45,000,000
Total dead:
Over 61,000,000 (1937–45)
...further details Military dead:
Over 8,000,000
Civilian dead:
Over 4,000,000
Total dead:
Over 12,000,000 (1937–45)
...further details
World War II seriesv · d · e
Precursors
Asian events · European events · Timeline
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Campaigns of World War II
1939 · 1940 · 1941 · 1942 · 1943 · 1944 · 1945
Eastern front · Western Front · Pacific War · Battles · Mediterranean, Middle East and African Campaigns · Commanders
Technology · Military operations · Manhattan Project
Air warfare of World War II · Home front · Collaboration · Resistance
Aftermath
Casualties · Further effects · War crimes · Japanese war crimes · Consequences of Nazism
Depictions

World War II, or the Second World War[2] (often abbreviated as WWII or WW2), was a global military conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, which involved most of the world's nations, including all of the great powers: eventually forming two opposing military alliances, the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, with more than 100 million military personnel mobilised. In a state of "total war," the major participants placed their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities at the service of the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. Marked by significant events involving the mass death of civilians, including the Holocaust and the only use of nuclear weapons in warfare, it was the deadliest conflict in human history,[3] resulting in 50 million to over 70 million fatalities.
The war is generally accepted to have begun on 1 September 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany and Slovakia, and subsequent declarations of war on Germany by France and most of the countries of the British Empire and Commonwealth. Germany set out to establish a large empire in Europe. From late 1939 to early 1941, in a series of campaigns and treaties, Germany conquered or subdued much of continental Europe; amid Nazi-Soviet agreements, the nominally neutral Soviet Union fully or partially occupied and annexed territories of its six European neighbours. Britain and the Commonwealth remained the only major force continuing the fight against the Axis in North Africa and in extensive naval warfare. In June 1941, the European Axis launched an invasion of the Soviet Union. The USSR joined the Allies and the largest land theatre of war in history began, which, from this moment on, would tied down the major part of the Axis military power. In December 1941, Japan, the major Asian Axis nation, which had been at war with China since 1937,[4] and aimed to dominate Asia, attacked the United States and European possessions in the Pacific Ocean, quickly conquering much of the region. In response, the United States entered into military operations on the Allied side.
The Axis advance was stopped in 1942 after the defeat of Japan in a series of naval battles and after defeats of European Axis troops in North Africa and, decisively, at Stalingrad. In 1943, with a series of German defeats in Eastern Europe, the Allied invasion of Fascist Italy, and American victories in the Pacific, the Axis lost the initiative and undertook strategic retreat on all fronts. In 1944, the Western Allies invaded France, while the Soviet Union regained all territorial losses and invaded Germany and its allies.
The war in Europe ended with the capture of Berlin by Soviet and Polish troops and the subsequent German unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945. The Japanese Navy was defeated by the United States, and invasion of the Japanese Archipelago ("Home Islands") became imminent. The war in Asia ended on 15 August 1945 when Japan agreed to surrender.
The war ended with the total victory of the Allies over Germany and Japan in 1945. World War II altered the political alignment and social structure of the world. The United Nations (UN) was established to foster international cooperation and prevent future conflicts. The Soviet Union and the United States emerged as rival superpowers, setting the stage for the Cold War, which lasted for the next 46 years. Meanwhile, the influence of European great powers started to decline, while the decolonisation of Asia and Africa began. Most countries whose industries had been damaged moved towards economic recovery. Political integration, especially in Europe, emerged as an effort to stabilise postwar relations

World War II
Western Europe · Eastern Europe · Africa · Mediterranean · Asia and the Pacific · Atlantic
Casualties · Military engagements · Topics · Conferences · Commanders
Participants
Allies (Leaders)
Ethiopia · China · Czechoslovakia · Poland · United Kingdom · India · France · Australia · New Zealand · South Africa · Canada · Norway · Belgium · Netherlands · Luxembourg · Greece · Yugoslavia · Soviet Union · United States · Philippines · Mexico · Brazil
Axis and
Axis-aligned
(Leaders)
Bulgaria · Reorganized National Government of China · Croatia · Finland · Germany · Hungary · Iraq · Italy · Italian Social Republic · Japan · Manchukuo · Romania · Slovakia · Thailand · Vichy France
Resistance
Albania · Austria · Baltic States · Belgium · Czech lands · Denmark · Estonia · Ethiopia · France · Germany · Greece · Hong Kong · India · Italy · Jewish · Korea · Latvia · Luxembourg · Netherlands · Norway · Philippines · Poland (Anti-communist) · Romania · Thailand · Soviet Union · Slovakia · Western Ukraine · Vietnam · Yugoslavia
Timeline
Prelude
Africa · Asia · Europe
1939
Invasion of Poland · Phoney War · Winter War · Atlantic · Changsha (1939) · China
1940
Weserübung · Netherlands · Belgium · France · UK · North Africa · British Somaliland · Baltic States · Moldova · Indochina · Greece · Compass
1941
East Africa · Invasion of Yugoslavia · Yugoslav Front · Greece · Crete · Soviet Union (Barbarossa) · Karelia · Lithuania · Middle East · Kiev · Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran · Leningrad · Moscow · Sevastopol · Pearl Harbor · Hong Kong · Philippines · Changsha (1941) · Malaya · Borneo
1942
Burma · Changsha (1942) · Coral Sea · Gazala · Midway · Blue · Stalingrad · Dieppe · El Alamein · Torch · Guadalcanal
1943
End in Africa · Kursk · Smolensk · Solomon Islands · Sicily · Lower Dnieper · Italy · Gilbert and Marshall · Changde
1944
Monte Cassino and Shingle · Narva · Cherkassy · Tempest · Ichi-Go · Normandy · Mariana and Palau · Bagration · Western Ukraine · Tannenberg Line · Warsaw Uprising · Eastern Romania · Yugoslavia · Paris · Gothic Line · Market Garden · Estonia · Crossbow · Pointblank · Lapland · Hungary · Leyte · Bulge · Burma
1945
Vistula-Oder · Iwo Jima · Okinawa · Surrender of Italy · Berlin · Czechoslovakia · Budapest · West Hunan · Surrender of Germany · Manchuria · Philippines · Borneo · Atomic bombings · Surrender of Japan
Aspects
General
Air warfare of World War II · Attacks on North America · Blitzkrieg · Comparative military ranks · Cryptography · Home front · Manhattan Project · Military awards · Military equipment · Military production · Nazi plunder · Technology · Total war · Strategic bombing · Bengal famine of 1943
Aftermath
Effects · Expulsion of Germans · Operation Paperclip · Operation Keelhaul · Occupation of Germany · Morgenthau Plan · Territorial changes · Soviet occupations (Romania, Poland, Hungary, Baltic States) · Occupation of Japan · First Indochina War · Indonesian National Revolution · Cold War · Decolonization · Popular culture
War crimes
German and Wehrmacht war crimes · The Holocaust · Italian war crimes · Japanese war crimes · Allied war crimes · Soviet war crimes · United States war crimes
War rape
Rape during the occupation of Japan · Comfort women · Rape of Nanking · Rape during the occupation of Germany
Prisoners
Nazi crimes against Soviet POWs · Italian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union · Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union · Japanese prisoners of war in World War II · German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union · German prisoners of war in the United States



TV series

Years Country Title Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1957 1958  UK O.S.S. The OSS in occupied France
1962 1966  USA McHale's Navy The misadventures of a misfit PT Boat crew in the Pacific Campaign
1962 1967  USA Combat! A frontline American infantry squad battle their way across France
1964 1967  USA Twelve O'Clock High
1965 1966  USA The Wackiest Ship in the Army
1965 1971  USA Hogan's Heroes Comedy about a POW camp
1966 1966  UK Court Martial During the war, the Judge Advocate General's office investigates crime
1966 1968  USA The Rat Patrol Long Range Desert Patrol
1966 1970  Poland Czterej pancerni i pies (Four tank men and a dog) A tank crew, their dog, and their T-34 tank in the 1st Polish Army on the Eastern Front, 1943–45
1967 1968  Poland Stawka większa niż życie (More Than Life at Stake) Kapitan Hans Kloss - Poland / Germany 1941 - 1945
1968 1977  UK Dad's Army Comedy about the Home Guard
1972 1973  UK The Pathfinders RAF pathfinding missions
1972 1974  UK Colditz Colditz Castle POW camp
1973 1973  USSR Seventeen Moments of Spring A Soviet spy operating in Nazi Germany
1975 1975  Poland
Hungary Trzecia granica (Third Border) Polish Resistance: Poland, Tatra Mountains, Slovakia, Hungary
1976 1976  Iran My Uncle Napoleon Comedy set in Tehran under Allied occupation
1976 1978  USA Baa Baa Black Sheep Gregory 'Pappy' Boyington and a Marine air squadron during the war in the Pacific
1977 1978  UK Backs to the Land Comedy about the Land Girls
1977 1979  USA Operation Petticoat
1977 1979  UK
Belgium Secret Army Belgian resistance
1978 1981  Denmark Matador The fictional Danish town of Korsbæk between 1929 and 1947
1981 1981  UK Kessler
1982 1992  UK 'Allo 'Allo! Comedy about a café in Occupied France
1985 1985  USA Jenny's War A woman launches a rescue of her RAF pilot son, shot down over Germany in 1941
1988 1988  UK Piece of Cake RAF from the Phoney War through the Battle of Britain
1992 1992  Denmark Mørklægning Thriler about the war-tired and sick amusement Denmark.
1997 1997  Singapore The Price of Peace Japanese occupation of Singapore
2001 2001  Australia Changi Changi POW camp
2001 2001  Singapore In Pursuit of Peace Japanese occupation of Singapore
2001 2001  Singapore A War Diary Japanese occupation of Singapore
2002 now  UK Foyle's War
2004 2005  Japan Zipang An anime TV series about Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's destroyer that travels through time to early days of WW2.
2006 2007  China Dàdāo xiàng guǐzi men de tóu shàng kǎn qù The last fight during the Sino-Japanese War in 1945
2007 2007  China Gongxun China, the USSR, and Japan launch a win-or-die spy war
2007 2007  China Sentry Under the Neon Lights (霓虹灯下的哨兵) The Eighth Route Army on the Nanjing Road of Shanghai
2007 2007  Poland Tajemnica twierdzy szyfrów (Fortress of Codes) Polish - German espionage thriller, 1945
2007 2007  Hong Kong War and Destiny The Nanjing Massacre
2007 2007  Iran
Hungary
France
Lebanon Zero Degree Turn An Iranian student in occupied Paris loves a Jewish woman
2007 2008  China Xie Se Xiang Xi The Battle of West Hunan
2007 now  China Soldiers Sortie
2008 2008  Russia Apostol Life and treachery for a Russian teacher trained as a double agent in German intelligence
2008 2008  Estonia Tuulepealne maa Two Estonian families from World War I until 1941
2008 2010  Poland Czas honoru Cichociemni (SOE agents) and the Polish Resistance
2008 2010  Japan Hetalia: Axis Powers An anime in which characters are national personifications showing interactions of Countries during WWII
2009 now  UK Land Girls Drama about the Land Girls
2009 now  China My Chief and My Regiment
2009 now  France Un village français An Occupied French village, from May, 1940 to...
1 month of war per episode.
2010 now  Hong Kong No Regrets Set in the late 1930s to late 1940s in Canton, China during Japanese occupation.

List of wars by death toll

60,000,000–72,000,000 - World War II (1939–1945), (see World War II casualties)[91][92]
36,000,000 - An Shi Rebellion (China, 755–763)[93]
30,000,000–60,000,000 - Mongol Conquests (13th century) (see Mongol invasions and Tatar invasions)[94][95][96][97]
25,000,000 - Qing dynasty conquest of Ming dynasty (1616–1662)[98]
20,000,000 - World War I (1914–1918) (see World War I casualties)[99]
20,000,000 - Taiping Rebellion (China, 1850–1864) (see Dungan revolt)[100]
20,000,000 - Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)[101]
10,000,000 - Warring States Era (China, 475 BC–221 BC)
8,000,000–12,000,000 - Dungan revolt (China, 1862 –1877)
7,000,000 - 20,000,000 Conquests of Tamerlane (1370–1405)[102][103]
5,000,000–9,000,000 - Russian Civil War and Foreign Intervention (1917–1922)[104]
5,000,000 - Conquests of Menelik II of Ethiopia (1882–1898)[105][106]
3,800,000 - 5,400,000 - Second Congo War (1998–2003)[107][108][109]
3,500,000–6,000,000 - Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) (see Napoleonic Wars casualties)
3,000,000–11,500,000 - Thirty Years' War (1618–1648)[110]
3,000,000–7,000,000 - Yellow Turban Rebellion (China, 184–205)
2,500,000–3,500,000 - Korean War (1950–1953) (see Cold War)[111]
2,300,000–3,800,000 - Vietnam War (entire war 1945–1975)
300,000–1,300,000 - First Indochina War (1946–1954)
100,000–300,000 - Vietnamese Civil War (1954–1965)
1,750,000–2,100,000 - American phase (1965–1973)
170,000 - Final phase (1973–1975)
175,000–1,150,000 - Secret War (1953–1975)
2,000,000–4,000,000 - Huguenot Wars[112]
2,000,000 - Shaka's conquests (1816–1828)[113]
300,000–3,000,000[114] - Bangladesh Liberation War (1971)
2,000,000 - Russian-Circassian War (1763–1864) (see Caucasian War) and the exile of another 1.5 million Circassians from there homeland to the Ottoman Empire and another 500,000 Circassians Killed at sea during the Circassian exile from there homeland.
1,500,000–2,000,000 - Afghan Civil War (1979-)
1,000,000–1,500,000 Soviet intervention (1979–1989)
1,300,000–6,100,000 - Chinese Civil War (1927–1949) note that this figure excludes World War II casualties
300,000–3,100,000 before 1937
1,000,000–3,000,000 after World War II
1,000,000–2,000,000 - Mexican Revolution (1910–1920)[115]
1,000,000 - Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988)[116]
1,000,000 - Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)[117]
1,000,000 - Second Sudanese Civil War (1983–2005)
1,000,000 - Panthay Rebellion (China,1856–1873)
1,000,000 - Nien Rebellion (China,1853–1868)
1,000,000 - Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970)
618,000[118] - 970,000 - American Civil War (including 350,000 from disease) (1861–1865)
900,000–1,000,000 - Mozambique Civil War (1975–1994)
868,000[119] - 1,400,000[120] - Seven Years' War (1756–1763)
800,000 - 1,000,000 - Rwandan Civil War (1990–1993)
800,000 - Congo Civil War (1996–1997)
600,000 to 1,300,000 - First Jewish-Roman War (see List of Roman wars)
580,000 - Bar Kokhba’s revolt (132–135CE)
570,000 - Eritrean War of Independence (1961–1991)
550,000 - Somali Civil War (1988- )
500,000 - 1,000,000 - Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)
500,000 - Angolan Civil War (1975–2002)
500,000 - Ugandan Civil War (1979–1986)
400,000–1,000,000 - War of the Triple Alliance in Paraguay (1864–1870)
400,000 - War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714)
371,000 - Continuation War (1941–1944)
350,000 - Great Northern War (1700–1721)[121]
315,000 - 735,000 - Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1639–1651) English campaign ~40,000, Scottish 73,000, Irish 200,000-620,000[122]
300,000 - First Burundi Civil War (1972)
300,000 - Darfur conflict (2003-)
250,000 - Bosnian War (1992–1995)[123]
230.000 - 2,000,000 - Eighty Years' War (1568–1648)
270,000–300,000 - Crimean War (1854–1856)
234,000 Philippine-American War (1899–1912)[124]
230,000–1,400,000 - Ethiopian Civil War (1974–1991)
224,000 - Balkan Wars, includes both wars (1912–1913)
220,000 - Liberian Civil War (1989–1995 )
217,000 - 1,124,303 - War on Terror (9/11/2001–Present)[citation needed]
200,000 - 1,000,000[125][126] - Albigensian Crusade (1208–1259)
200,000–800,000 - Warlord era in China (1916–1928)
200,000 - 400,000 - Politionele acties (Indonesian war of independence) (1945–1949)
200,000 - 220,000 - The Conquest of Chile ((1536-1883)
200,000 - Second Punic War (BC218-BC204) (see List of Roman battles)
200,000 - Sierra Leone Civil War (1992–2001)
200,000 - Algerian Civil War (1991–2002 )[127][128]
200,000 - Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996)
190,000 - Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871)
180,000 - 300,000 - La Violencia (1948–1960)
170,000 - Greek War of Independence (1821–1830)
150,000 - Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990)
150,000 - North Yemen Civil War (1962–1970)
150,000 - Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905)
148,000-1,000,000 - Winter War (1939)
125,000 - Eritrean-Ethiopian War (1998–2000)
120,000 - 384,000 Great Turkish War (1683–1699) (see Ottoman-Habsburg wars)
120,000 - Third Servile War (BC73-BC71)
117,000 - 500,000 - Revolt in the Vendée (1793–1796)
103,359+ - 1,136,920+ - Invasion and Occupation of Iraq (2003–Present)
101,000 - 115,000 - Arab-Israeli conflict (1929- )
100,500 - Chaco War (1932–1935)
100,000 - 1,000,000 - War of the two brothers (1531–1532)
100,000 - 400,000 - Western New Guinea (1984 - ) (see Genocide in West Papua)
100,000 - 200,000 - Indonesian invasion of East Timor (1975–1978)
100,000 - Persian Gulf War (1990–1991)
100,000–1,000,000 - Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962)
100,000 - Thousand Days War (1899–1902)
100,000 - German Peasants' War (1524–1525)[129]
80,000 - Third Punic War (BC149-BC146)
75,000 - 200,000? - Conquests of Alexander the Great (BC336-BC323)
75,000 - El Salvador Civil War (1980–1992)
75,000 - Second Boer War (1899–1902)
70,000 - Boudica's uprising (AD60-AD61)
69,000 - Internal conflict in Peru (1980- )
60,000 - Sri Lanka/Tamil conflict (1983–2009)
60,000 - Nicaraguan Rebellion (1972–91)
55,000 - War of the Pacific (1879–1884)
50,000 - 200,000 - First Chechen War (1994–1996)
50,000 - 100,000 - Tajikistan Civil War (1992–1997)
50,000 - Wars of the Roses (1455–1485) (see Wars involving England)
45,000 - Greek Civil War (1945–1949)
41,000–100,000 - Kashmiri insurgency (1989- )
36,000 - Finnish Civil War (1918)
35,000 - 40,000 - War of the Pacific (1879–1884)
35,000 - 45,000 - Siege of Malta (1565) (see Ottoman wars in Europe)
30,000 - Turkey/PKK conflict (1984- )
30,000 - Sino-Vietnamese War (1979)
30,000 - Rhodesian Bush War (1964–1979)
~28,000 - 1982 Lebanon War (1982)
25,000 - Second Chechen War (1999–2001)[130]
25,000 - American Revolutionary War (1775–1783)
23,384 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 (December 1971)
23,000 - Nagorno-Karabakh War (1988–1994)
20,000 - 49,600 U.S. Invasion of Afghanistan (2001–2002)
19,000+ - Mexican–American War (1846–1848)
14,000+ - Six-Day War (1967)
15,000–20,000 - Croatian War of Independence (1991–1995)
13,000+ - Nepalese Civil War (1996-2006)
11,053 - Malayan Emergency (1948–1960)
11,000 - Spanish-American War (1898)
10,000–20,000 - Libyian civil war (2011–present)
10,000 - Amadu's Jihad (1810–1818)
10,000 - Halabja poison gas attack (1988)
7,264–10,000 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (August–September 1965)
7,000–24,000 - American War of 1812 (1812–1815)
2000-7,000 - Kosovo War (1998–1999)
5,000 - Turkish invasion of Cyprus (1974)
4,600 - Sino-Indian War (1962)
4,000 - Waziristan War (2004–2006)
4,000 - Irish Civil War (1922–23)
3,500 - The Troubles (1969–1998)
3,000 - Civil war in Côte d'Ivoire (2002–2007)
2,899 - New Zealand Land Wars (1845–1872)
2,604–7,000 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 (October 1947-December 1948)
2,000 - Football War (1969)
2,000 - Irish War of Independence (1919–21)
1,975–4,500+ - violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (2000–2005)
1,724 - War of Lapland (1945)
1,500 - Romanian Revolution (December 1989)
~1,500 - 2006 Lebanon War
1,000 - Zapatista uprising in Chiapas (1994)
907 - Falklands War (1982)
62 - Slovenian Independence War (1991)

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