Key Figures of World War II

World War II: List of People

World War II was shaped by dominant political and military leaders. Winston Churchill rallied British defense, Adolf Hitler drove Nazi aggression, and Joseph Stalin directed Soviet resistance. Together, along with Allied commanders, their actions determined the fate of Europe and global destiny.

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Year	List of People
1841	Birth of Georges Clemenceau (Location: Mouilleron-en-Pareds (now Mouilleron-Saint-Germain), France)
1847	Birth of Paul von Hindenburg (Location: Poznań (present-day Poznań, Poland; Posen, Kingdom of Prussia at the time of his birth))
1856	Birth of Philippe Pétain (Location: Cauchy-à-la-Tour (Pas-de-Calais, France))
1860	Birth of Friedrich Naumann (Location: Großpösna (Störmthal district, Germany))
1863	Birth of Wilhelm Marx (Location: Cologne, Germany) Birth of David Lloyd George (Location: Manchester, England)
1866	Birth of Wassily Kandinsky (Location: Moscow (currently Moscow, Russian Federation))
1867	Birth of Maxime Weygand (Location: Brussels (Present-day Belgium)) Birth of Käthe Schmidt (Location: Kaliningrad (Russia; known as Königsberg in the Kingdom of Prussia at the time of her birth)) Birth of Stanley Baldwin (Location: Bewdley, Worcestershire, England) Birth of Walther Rathenau (Location: Berlin, Germany (then North German Confederation))
1869	Birth of Neville Chamberlain (Location: Birmingham, England)
1871	Birth of Friedrich Ebert (Location: Heidelberg (Germany))
1872	Birth of Léon Blum (Location: Paris (France)) Birth of Maurice Gamelin (Location: Paris (France))
1874	Birth of Arnold Schoenberg (Location: Vienna (currently the Republic of Austria, City of Vienna)) Birth of Winston Churchill (Location: Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England)
1875	Birth of Matthias Erzberger (Location: Münsingen (Germany, Baden-Württemberg))
1876	Birth of Hermann Müller (Location: Mannheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire (present-day Mannheim, Germany))
1878	Birth of Gustav Stresemann (Location: Berlin (Germany)) Birth of Paul Reynaud (Location: Barcelonnette (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France)) Birth of Lise Meitner (Location: Vienna (Austria))
1879	Birth of Otto Hahn (Location: Frankfurt am Main (present-day Germany)) Birth of Henryk Goldszmit (Location: Warsaw, Poland) Birth of Paul Klee (Location: Münchenbuchsee (currently a municipality in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland))
1880	Birth of Ludwig Beck (Location: Wiesbaden (formerly Biebrich, now Germany))
1881	Birth of Ernest Bevin (Location: Winsford, Somerset, England (birthplace; near Exeter)) Birth of Edward Wood (Location: Exeter, Devon, England (birthplace Powderham Castle near Kenton, south of Exeter)) Birth of Pablo Picasso (Location: Malaga (Spain)) Birth of Erwin von Witzleben (Location: Wrocław (now Poland))
1883	Birth of Clement Attlee (Location: Putney, London Borough of Wandsworth, London, England) Birth of Anton Webern (Location: Vienna (Vienna))
1884	Birth of Édouard Daladier (Location: Carpentras (Vaucluse, France)) Birth of Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (Location: Piła (now Poland))
1885	Birth of Alban Berg (Location: Vienna (Austria)) Birth of Aristides de Sousa Mendes (Location: Cabanas de Viriato (Present-day Carregal do Sal, Viseu District, Portugal)) Birth of Heinrich Brüning (Location: Münster (Germany))
1886	Birth of Oskar Kokoschka (Location: Pöchlarn (currently the Republic of Austria, Lower Austria))
1887	Birth of Hans Oster (Location: Dresden (now Germany))
1889	Birth of Adolf Hitler (Location: Braunau am Inn (present-day Republic of Austria))
1890	Birth of Egon Schiele (Location: Tulln an der Donau (Austria)) Birth of Charles de Gaulle (Location: Lille (Nord, France))
1891	Birth of Edith Stein (Location: Wrocław (Poland; then Breslau, German Empire)) Birth of James Chadwick (Location: Bollington, Cheshire, England)
1893	Birth of Hermann Göring (Location: Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany) Birth of Hermann Wilhelm Göring (Location: Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany) Birth of Joachim von Ribbentrop (Location: Wesel, Rhine Province, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire)
1894	Birth of Rudolf Hess (Location: El-Ibrahimiyya district, Alexandria, Egypt (Khedivate of Egypt under British influence at the time))
1897	Birth of John Cockcroft (Location: Todmorden, England) Birth of Anthony Eden (Location: Ferryhill, County Durham, England (birthplace Rushyford, current post town Ferryhill)) Birth of Joseph Goebbels (Location: Mönchengladbach, Germany) Birth of Paul Joseph Goebbels (Location: Mönchengladbach, Germany) Birth of Patrick Blackett (Location: London (Kensington), England)
1900	Birth of Chiune Sugihara (Location: Mino (Gifu Prefecture)) Birth of Martin Ludwig Bormann (Location: Wegeleben, Province of Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire) Birth of Heinrich Himmler (Location: Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire (present-day Munich, Federal Republic of Germany)) Birth of Emanuel Ringelblum (Location: Buchach (present-day Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine))
1901	Birth of Mark Oliphant (Location: Adelaide (Kent Town), South Australia, Australia)
1903	Birth of Ernest Walton (Location: Dungarvan, County Waterford, Ireland)
1904	Birth of Otto Robert Frisch (Location: Vienna (present-day Republic of Austria))
1905	Birth of Albert Speer (Location: Mannheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire (present-day Mannheim, Germany))
1906	Birth of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Location: Wrocław (now Poland)) Birth of Tuvia Bielski (Location: Stankiewicze near Navahrudak (Stankiewicze is now a defunct settlement located near Navahrudak in western Belarus))
1907	Birth of Varian Fry (Location: New York City (New York, United States)) Birth of Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (Location: Jettingen-Scheppach (now Bavaria, Germany))
1909	Birth of Nicholas Winton (Location: London (Hampstead))
1912	Birth of Raoul Wallenberg (Location: Lidingö (Sweden))
1914	Birth of Etty Hillesum (Location: Middelburg (Netherlands))
1917	Birth of Alexander Schmorell (Location: Orenburg (Russia))
1918	Birth of Abba Kovner (Location: Ašmiany (present-day Hrodna Region, Republic of Belarus)) Birth of Hans Scholl (Location: Crailsheim (Germany)) Death of Egon Schiele
1919	Birth of Mordechai Anielewicz (Location: Wyszków, Poland) Death of Friedrich Naumann Birth of Christoph Probst (Location: Murnau am Staffelsee (Germany))
1921	Birth of Sophie Scholl (Location: Forchtenberg (Germany)) Death of Matthias Erzberger
1922	Birth of Marek Edelman (Location: Gomel/Homel, present-day Republic of Belarus) Death of Walther Rathenau
1925	Death of Friedrich Ebert
1929	Birth of Anne Frank (Location: Frankfurt am Main (Germany)) Death of Gustav Stresemann Death of Georges Clemenceau
1931	Death of Hermann Müller
1934	Death of Paul von Hindenburg
1935	Death of Alban Berg
1940	Death of Paul Klee Death of Neville Chamberlain
1942	Death of Henryk Goldszmit Death of Edith Stein
1943	Death of Hans Scholl Death of Sophie Scholl Death of Christoph Probst Death of Mordechai Anielewicz Death of Alexander Schmorell Death of Etty Hillesum
1944	Death of Emanuel Ringelblum Death of Ludwig Beck Death of Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg Death of Erwin von Witzleben Death of Wassily Kandinsky
1945	Death of Anne Frank Death of Carl Friedrich Goerdeler Death of David Lloyd George Death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Death of Hans Oster Death of Käthe Schmidt Death of Adolf Hitler Death of Joseph Goebbels Death of Paul Joseph Goebbels Death of Martin Ludwig Bormann Death of Heinrich Himmler Death of Anton Webern
1946	Death of Wilhelm Marx Death of Hermann Göring Death of Hermann Wilhelm Göring Death of Joachim von Ribbentrop
1947	Death of Raoul Wallenberg Death of Stanley Baldwin
1950	Death of Léon Blum
1951	Death of Ernest Bevin Death of Arnold Schoenberg Death of Philippe Pétain
1954	Death of Aristides de Sousa Mendes
1958	Death of Maurice Gamelin
1959	Death of Edward Wood
1965	Death of Winston Churchill Death of Maxime Weygand
1966	Death of Paul Reynaud
1967	Death of Varian Fry Death of John Cockcroft Death of Clement Attlee
1968	Death of Otto Hahn Death of Lise Meitner
1970	Death of Heinrich Brüning Death of Édouard Daladier Death of Charles de Gaulle
1973	Death of Pablo Picasso
1974	Death of Patrick Blackett Death of James Chadwick
1977	Death of Anthony Eden
1979	Death of Otto Robert Frisch
1980	Death of Oskar Kokoschka
1981	Death of Albert Speer
1986	Death of Chiune Sugihara
1987	Death of Tuvia Bielski Death of Rudolf Hess Death of Abba Kovner
1995	Death of Ernest Walton
2000	Death of Mark Oliphant
2009	Death of Marek Edelman
2015	Death of Nicholas Winton

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