WWII
1939–1945
World War II, the deadliest war in history.
- Type
- War
- Date
- 1939–1945
- Place
- Worldwide
Who was alive during WWII
- Albert Einstein 1879–1955, physicist
- Alexander Fleming 1881–1955, physician
- Adolf Hitler 1889–1945, dictator
- Agatha Christie 1890–1976, writer
- Alexander Calder 1898–1976, sculptor
- Al Capone 1899–1947, gangster
- Alfred Hitchcock 1899–1980, director
- Adi Dassler 1900–1978, shoemaker
- Ansel Adams 1902–1984, photographer
- Adolf Eichmann 1906–1962, Nazi officer
- Aristotle Onassis c. 1906–1975, shipping magnate
- Akira Kurosawa 1910–1998, director
- Alan Turing 1912–1954, computer scientist
- Albert Camus 1913–1960, writer
- Arthur Miller 1915–2005, playwright
- Akio Morita 1921–1999, electronics entrepreneur
- Alfredo Di Stéfano 1926–2014, footballer
- Andy Warhol 1928–1987, artist
- Anne Frank 1929–1945, diarist
- Arnold Palmer 1929–2016, golfer
- Ali al-Sistani 1930–, ayatollah
- Abebe Bikila 1932–1973, marathon runner
- Amartya Sen 1933–, economist
- 14th Dalai Lama 1935–, Buddhist leader