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0241-03-10 BC Battle of the Aegates Islands: Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet, ending the First Punic War

0546-12-17 Ostrogoths of King Totila conquer Rome by bribing the Byzantine garrison during the Gothic War
0550-01-16 Gothic War (535-552): The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison
0971-01-23 War elephant corps of the Southern Han defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops forcing the Southern Han state to submit to the Song Dynasty. First regular war elephant corps in the Chinese army.
1146-08-30 European leaders outlaw the crossbow, intending to end war for all time
1157-10-23 Battle of Grathe Heath ends the civil war in Denmark. King Sweyn III is killed and Valdemar I restores the country.

1322-03-16 The Battle of Boroughbridge takes place in the First War of Scottish Independence
1379-03-24 End of Gelderse war victory
1383-10-22 The 1383-85 Crisis in Portugal: A period of civil war and disorder begins after King Fernando dies without a male heir to the Portuguese throne
1390-09-11 Lithuanian Civil War (1389-1392): the Teutonic Knights begin a five-week siege of Vilnius
1409-03-03 Austrian civil war ends

Wars of the Roses

1455-05-22 Opening battle in England's 30-year Wars of the Roses. Richard of York takes St Albans, capturing King Henry VI

1466-10-19 The Thirteen Years' War ends with the Second Peace of Thorn, Germany
1509-04-07 France declares war on Venice

1524-07-19 Peasants' War begins in Germany's Black Forest

England and France Declare War

1528-01-22 England and France declare war on Holy Roman Emperor Charles V

1529-06-09 Zurich declares war on Catholic kantons
1538-06-18 Truce of Nice signed between Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and French King Francis I ending the Italian War of 1536-38
1539-06-10 Council of Trent: Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.
1544-07-19 Italian War of 1542: The Siege of Boulogne begins
1549-08-08 Henry II of France declares war on England and orders the siege of Boulogne
1557-06-07 England declares war on France

Second War of Religion

1567-09-29 War of Religion breaks out in France as Huguenots try to kidnap King Charles IX

1570-01-23 The Regent of Scotland, the Earl of Moray, is assassinated, triggering a civil war
1574-02-23 France begins 5th "holy war" against Huguenots

1598-12-16 Battle of Noryang Point: In the final battle of the Seven Year War, the Korean navy decisively defeats the Japanese
1613-01-20 Peace of Knarod ends War of Kalmar between Denmark & Sweden
1614-11-12 Treaty of Xanten: Guliks-Kleefse War victory ends

French Huguenot Declaration

1620-12-25 French Huguenots declare their intention to create a "state within the state" at a gathering in La Rochelle

1624-03-10 England declares war on Spain
1635-05-19 France's First Minister, Cardinal Richelieu declares war on Spain (Franco-Spanish War 1635–59)

1642-08-22 English Civil War begins between Royalists and Parliamentarians
1648-10-24 Treaty of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War in the Holy Roman Empire; Switzerland's independence is recognized
1652-07-10 England declares war on The Netherlands - beginning of the 1st Anglo-Dutch war
1655-07-31 Russo-Polish War (1654-1667): the Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years
1663-04-18 Osman declares war on Austria

1666-01-26 France declares war on England & Munster
1667-01-20 Treaty of Andrussovo ends 13 year war between Poland & Russia
1668-05-02 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, 1st peace of Aachen: ends War of Devolution, French-Spanish war in The Netherlands
1672-04-06 France declares war on Netherlands
1675-09-09 New England colonies declare war on Wampanoag Indians
1676-08-12 1st war between American colonists & Indians ends in New England

1688-09-24 France declares war on Germany

1689-04-15 French King Louis XIV declares war on Spain

England Declares War on France

1689-05-17 English King William III declares war on France in support of the Dutch Republic (Nine Years' War)

1693-07-29 War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen/Neerwinden - France wins Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands
1697-09-03 King William's War in America ends with Treaty of Ryswick, the peace treaty ending the Nine Years' War between France and the Grand Alliance (reverting to conditions that existed before the war)
1700-02-12 Great Northern War begins in Northern Europe between Denmark–Norway, Saxony, Russia, and the Swedish Empire
1701-05-15 The War of the Spanish Succession begins
1702-05-14 England & Netherlands declare war on France & Spain
1702-09-16 Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I declares war on France, Cologne, and Bavaria
1704-08-04 War of Spanish Succession, English and Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar
1714-09-07 Treaty of Baden signed by the Holy Roman Empire and France, ending the War of the Spanish Succession; France retains Alsace and Landau, Austria gains east bank of the Rhine
1715-04-15 Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
1715-05-01 Brandenburg-Prussia joins the Russian-led anti Swedish alliance by declaring war on Sweden during the Great Northern War
1718-01-09 France declares war on Spain
1718-12-17 France, Britain and Austria declare war on Spain (War of the Quadruple Alliance 1718–1720)
1722-07-25 The Three Years War begins along the Maine and Massachusetts border
1731-04-09 British mariner Robert Jenkins' ear is cut off by Spanish Guarde Costa in the Caribbean, catalyst for a later war between Britain and Spain

1738-03-28 Parliament sends an address to the king requesting that he demand redress from Spain (War of Jenkin's Ear)
1738-05-25 A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners
1738-08-02 France offers Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI mediation in his war against Turkey
1739-10-19 England declares war on Spain [OS=Oct 30]

War of Jenkins' Ear

1739-10-23 War of Jenkins' Ear starts: British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on Spain

1739-10-30 Great Britain declares war on Spain: War of Jenkins' Ear [NS=Oct 19]
1741-04-10 War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz

Battle of Dettingen

1743-06-27 War of the Austrian Succession: King George II of Britain personally leads Allied troops to victory in the Battle of Dettingen in Bavaria. The last time a British monarch commanded troops in the field.

1744-03-15 French King Louis XV declares war on Britain
1748-10-18 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle signed, ending War of Austrian Succession
1756-05-17 Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French & Indian War)
1756-05-18 Great Britain declares war on France at the start of the Seven Years' War
1757-01-17 German Diet declares war on Prussia
1762-01-04 Seven Years' War: Great Britain declares war on Spain & Naples
1764-11-16 Native Americans surrender to the British during Pontiac's War of Odawa Chief Pontiac
1770-05-26 The Orlov Revolt, a first attempt to revolt against the Turks before the Greek War of Independence ends in disaster for the Greeks.
1771-05-16 Battle of Alamance: A pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called "The Regulators" is fought in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina
1772-06-09 1st naval attack of Revolutionary War takes place in Providence, Rhode Island

1776-03-04 American War of Independence: The Americans capture Dorchester Heights dominating the port of Boston, Massachusetts
1776-12-23 Continental Congress negotiates a war loan of $181,500 from France

France to Supply US Revolution

1777-07-23 King Louis XVI of France and his Foreign Minister clandestinely agree to supply the United States with munitions during the American Revolution

1777-08-28 American Revolutionary War - Battle of Cooch's Bridge takes place near Newark, Delaware
1777-09-03 Flag of the United States flies in battle for the first time at Cooch's Bridge, Delaware, a skirmish during the American Revolutionary War
1778-03-17 Britain declares war on France, due to French alliance with US
1778-07-03 Prussia declares war on Austria
1779-05-13 War of Bavarian Succession ends

Great Siege of Gibraltar

1779-06-16 Spain declares war on Great Britain in support of France and the USA, starting the Great Siege of Gibraltar which goes on to last 3 years, 7 months and 2 weeks

John Adams Peace Negotiator

1779-09-27 John Adams is appointed to negotiate Revolutionary War peace terms with Great Britain

1780-12-20 Britain declares war on Holland

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 148

1591-01-11 Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English Parliamentarian and Chief Commander of the Parliamentarian army during the English Civil War, born in England (d. 1646)
1619-12-17 Prince Rupert of the Rhine, English-German soldier (Royalist Commander English Civil War, 1stt Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company), born in Prague (d. 1682)
1718-01-07 Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (Battle of Bunker Hill), born in Salem, Massachusetts (d. 1790) [1]

1744-09-20 Thomas Grosvenor, American Revolutionary War hero, born in Pomfret, Connecticut Colony (d. 1825)
1745-03-10 John Gunby, Maryland Soldier in the American Revolutionary War (d. 1807)

1750-01-31 Gerrit Jan Pijman, Dutch Minister of War during the Batavian Republic (1798-1800, 1803-06), born in Deventer (d. 1839)
1750-05-02 John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, born in London (d. 1780)
1750-05-20 Stephen Girard, French-born American banker (bailed out US bonds during War of 1812), born in Bordeaux, France (d. 1831)
1755-11-12 Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussia general and Minister of War (1808-10) who reformed the Prussian army, born in Bordenau, Electorate of Hanover, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1813)
1758-04-29 Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish Lieutenant General and war hero, born in Stora Torpa, Västergötland, Sweden (d. 1820)
1761-10-13 Dirk van Hogendorp, Dutch military man, politician and colonial administrator (Lieutenant-governor of East-Java, 1974-98; Minister of War, 1806-07), born in Heenvliet, Netherlands (d. 1822)
1763-01-03 Joseph Fesch, French cardinal (Archbishop of Lyon, 1802-39), diplomat, art collector (Musée Fesch), and uncle of Napoleon, born in Ajaccio, Corsica, Republic of Genoa (d. 1839)

1779-01-05 Stephen Decatur, American naval hero (War of 1812), born in Sinepuxent, Maryland (d. 1820)
1781-10-01 James Lawrence, American naval hero (War of 1812-"Don't give up the ship!"), born in Burlington, New Jersey (d. 1813)
1786-05-15 General Dimitris Plapoutas, a Revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence (d. 1864)
1795-04-05 Henry Havelock, British soldier (War in Afghanistan 1838-39), born in Bishopwearmouth, County Durham (d. 1857)
1799-03-08 Simon Cameron, U.S. Senator and Secretary of War (Union), born in Maytown, Pennsylvania (d. 1889)
1806-06-01 John B Floyd, American Governor (Virginia), Secretary of War (1857-60) and Confederate general, born in Blacksburg, Virginia (d. 1863)
1809-11-09 Albert Taylor Bledsoe, American Episcopal priest and Confederate Army officer, born in Frankfurt, Kentucky (d. 1877)
1809-11-13 John A. Dahlgren, US Navy officer and inventor (Civil war Dahlgren-cannon), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1870)
1811-02-08 Edwin Denison Morgan, American politician, Governor of New York, born in Washington, Massachusetts (d. 1883)
1811-06-24 John Archibald Campbell, American jurist and Supreme Court justice (1853–61), born in Washington, Georgia (d. 1889)

1861-12-05 Armando Diaz, Italian marshal and minister of War (1922-24), born in Naples, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1928)
1864-04-24 George August Alexander Alting von Geusau, Dutch Minister of War (1918-20), born in Arnhem, Netherlands (d. 1937)
1864-11-28 Lindley M. Garrison, American lawyer and 46th U.S. Secretary of War (1913-16), born in Camden, New Jersey (d. 1932)
1867-09-21 Henry L. Stimson, American statesman (46th United States Secretary of State), born in New York City (d. 1950)
1877-05-26 Sadao Araki, Japanese general, Minister of War (1931-34), born in Tokyo, Japan (d. 1966)
1883-01-08 Patrick J. Hurley, American diplomat and United States Secretary of War under Hoover (1929-33), born near Lehigh, Indian Territory (d. 1963)
1885-03-14 Gervais Raoul Lufbery, French-American World War I fighter pilot and flying ace, born in Chamalières, France (d. 1918)
1888-05-11 Willis Augustus Lee, American World War II admiral (Guadalcanal) and sport shooter (5 Olympic golds 1920), born in Natlee, Kentucky (d. 1945)
1890-11-25 Isaac Rosenberg, English war poet (Poems from the Trenches) and artist, born in Bristol, England (d. 1918)
1891-05-19 Oswald Boelcke, German World War I pilot (d. 1916)
1891-12-12 Buck Jones [Charles F Gebhart], American Western actor (Just Pals, Forbidden Trails, War Horse), born in Vincennes, Indiana (d. 1942)
1892-04-15 Theo Osterkamp, World War I and World War II German fighter pilot, born in Düren, Rhine Province, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1975)
1892-07-22 Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi politician (Austrian Chancellor, 1938), and war criminal responsible for deportation of Dutch Jews, born in Stonařov, Austria-Hungary (d. 1946)
1892-12-27 Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian Royal Flying Corps WWI flying ace, born in Brussels, Ontario (d. 1917)
1893-01-10 Albert Jacka, Australian soldier, first Australian World War I Victoria Cross winner, born in Layard, Victoria (d. 1932)

1894-02-08 King Vidor, American film director (War & Peace, Stella Dallas), born in Galveston, Texas (d. 1982)
1894-02-25 Ernst Friedrich, German pacifist and anarchist (War Against War!), born in Breslau, Germany (d. 1967)
1895-03-31 John Jay McCloy, American lawyer and banker (Secretary of War 1941-45, Chairman Chase Manhattan Bank, President of World Bank 1947-49), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1989)
1896-05-03 Karl Allmenröder, German World War I flying Ace, born in Wald, Rhine Province, Germany (d. 1917)
1896-06-06 Henry Allingham, British supercentenarian and World War I veteran, born in Clapton, London (d. 2009)
1896-06-07 Douglas Campbell, American aviator and World War I flying ace, born in San Francisco, California (d. 1990)
1897-04-07 Erich Loewenhardt, German flying ace of World War I, born in Province of Silesia, Poland (d. 1918)
1897-04-13 Werner Voss, German World War I flying ace, born in Krefeld, Germany (d. 1917)
1897-05-19 Frank Luke, American World War I pilot (d. 1918)
1898-05-13 Justin Tuveri, Italian veteran of the First World War (d. 2007)

1899-11-29 Andrija Artuković, Croatian war criminal and Nazi ally during WWII who operated concentration camps, born in Klobuk, Austria-Hungary (d. 1988)
1900-01-28 Michael Head, British organist, pianist, and composer, born in Eastbourne, England (d. 1976)

1900-06-14 June Walker, American stage actress (War Nurse, Unforgiven), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1966)
1900-09-23 Bill Stone, British serviceman; one of the last surviving veterans of World War I, born in Ledstone, England (d. 2009)
1901-12-10 Franz Fischer, German Gestapo official and war criminal (one of the Breda 4, last ex-Nazi held in Dutch prison) (d. 1989)
1902-09-22 F R Boschvogel [Frans Ramon], Flemish writer (War of Worlds), born in Aartrijk, Belgium (d. 1994)
1903-12-13 John Piper, British writer (US Churches in WWI) and official war painter, born in Epsom, Surrey, England (d. 1992)
1904-01-08 Karl Brandt, German Nazi physician to Adolf Hitler and convicted war criminal, born in Mulhouse, German Alsace-Lorraine (d. 1948)
1905-07-13 Alfredo M. Santos, Philippine's first four-star General of the Armed Forces, World War II hero, born in Manila (d. 1990)
1905-11-04 Martin Raschke, German author and publisher, born in Dresden, Germany (d. 1943)
1907-04-16 August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal, born in Steyr, Austria (d. 1947)
1908-01-16 Günther Prien, German World War II submarine captain (U-47 - responsible for sinking at least 30 Allied vessels), born in Osterfeld, Germany (d. 1941)
1908-02-22 Sir John Mills, British actor (Ryan's Daughter, Big Sleep, King Rat, War & Peace), born in North Elmham, Norfolk, England (d. 2005)

1911-03-16 Dr. Josef Mengele, German, accused Nazi war criminal (d. 1979)
1912-08-30 Nancy Wake, New Zealand-born World War II secret agent (Special Operations Executive), born in Wellington, New Zealand (d. 2011)
1912-09-18 Kurt Lotz, German business executive and second postwar CEO of Volkswagen, born in Frielendorf, Hesse, Germany (d. 2005)
1912-10-05 Fritz Fischer, German physician and Nazi war criminal, born in Berlin (d. 2003)
1913-04-16 Lester "Les" Tremayne, British radio, film and television actor (Angry Red Planet, War of the Worlds), born in London, England (d. 2003)

1913-11-28 Hugo Pos, Surinamese-Dutch poet and writer, born in Paramaribo, Suriname (d. 2000)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 124

1675-11-28 Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, English Civil War soldier (c. 1608)
1682-11-29 Prince Rupert of the Rhine, English-German soldier (Royalist Commander English Civil War, 1st Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company), dies at 62
1777-01-12 Hugh Mercer, Scottish military officer (fought in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War), dies of his wounds at the Battle of Princeton at 50
1779-01-22 Claudius Smith, American Revolutionary War loyalist (b. 1736)
1790-05-29 Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (Battle of Bunker Hill), dies at 72 [1]

1802-02-26 Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War admiral and Commander in Chief of the Continental Navy, dies at 83
1807-05-17 John Gunby, Maryland Soldier in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1745)
1813-06-28 Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussia general and Minister of War (1808-10) who reformed the Prussian army, dies at 57 after being wounded in the foot during battle
1818-05-26 Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian fieldmarshal (Minister of War during Napoleonic invasion), dies at 56
1820-02-16 Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish Lieutenant General and war hero, dies at 61
1825-06-05 Odysseas Androutsos, hero in the Greek War of Independence (Chani of Gravia,), executed for supposedly collaborating with the Ottomans at 37
1825-07-11 Thomas P. Grosvenor, American Revolutionary War soldier (b. 1744)
1829-03-02 Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez, conspirator and supporter of the Mexican War of Independence (b. 1768)
1833-09-28 Lemuel Haynes, American clergyman (1st black man ordained as a minister in the US) and Revolutionary War veteran, dies at 88
1835-06-24 Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician, commander of Greek naval forces in Greek War of Independence (b. 1769)
1839-05-13 Joseph Fesch, French cardinal (Archbishop of Lyon, 1802-39), diplomat, art collector (Musée Fesch), and uncle of Napoleon, dies at 76
1839-06-09 Gerrit J. Pijman, Dutch Minister of War during the Batavian Republic (1798-1800), dies at 89
1852-05-12 John Richardson, Canadian writer (War of 1812), dies at 55
1862-09-01 Oliver Tilden, of the Bronx, killed in Civil War in Virginia
1863-08-26 John Bz. Floyd, American Governor (Virginia), Secretary of War (1857-60) and Confederate general, dies of failing health at 57

1870-02-14 St. John Richardson Liddell, American Civil War Confederate General, dies at 54

1882-07-09 Ignacio Carrera Pinto, Chilean war hero (b. 1848)
1890-12-31 Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican war heroine (Costa Rica's first woman in the military), dies at 74

1898-03-11 William Rosecrans, American Civil War Union general (b. 1819)
1901-09-25 Arthur Fremantle, British general and American Civil War observer (b. 1835)
1906-03-04 John McAllister Schofield, former U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U.S. Army (b. 1831)
1909-07-08 Gaston, Marquis de Gallifet, French general and Minister of War (1899-1900), dies at 79
1911-03-13 John J. Toffey, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (b. 1844)
1914-02-24 Joshua Chamberlain, Civil War hero for the Union on Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg
1915-05-19 John Simpson Kirkpatrick stretcher bearer with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli during World War I (b. 1892)
1915-09-13 Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (1906-09), dies at 79

1916-07-04 Alan Seeger, American war poet (b. 1888)
1917-09-23 Werner Voss, German World War I flying ace, dies at 20
1917-12-28 Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian Royal Flying Corps WWI flying ace, shot down and killed over Belgium at 25
1918-03-20 Lewis A. Grant, American Civil War General (b. 1828)
1918-05-19 Gervais Raoul Lufbery, French-American World War I fighter pilot and flying ace, dies at 33
1918-08-10 Erich Lowenhardt, Germany flying ace of World War I (b. 1897)
1924-11-04 Richard Conner, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient, dies at 79
1926-03-16 Sergeant Stubby, decorated World War I dog
1928-02-29 Armando Diaz, Italian marshal and minister of War (1922-24), dies at 66
1930-12-11 Friedrich von Bernhardi, German general and military historian (Germany & the Next War), dies at 80
1937-10-09 George August Alexander Alting von Geusau, Dutch Minister of war (1918-20), dies at 73
1941-12-12 Cesar Basa, Philippine Air Force and World War II hero (b. 1915)
1942-09-05 François de Labouchère, French aviator of World War II, compagnon de la Libération. (b. 1917)
1942-09-15 Jack Singer, American war reporter, dies aboard USS Wasp
1943-11-24 Martin Raschke, German author and publisher dies at 38
1944-04-09 Evgeniya Rudneva, Russian World War II heroine (b. 1920)
1945-01-31 Eddie Slovik, 1st American executed for desertion since Civil War at 25
1945-08-15 Korechika Anami, Japanese War Minister (who opposed surrender in WWII), commits suicide a day after signing Japan's surrender at 58
1946-02-21 José Streel, Belgian World War II collaborator (b. 1911)
1946-10-16 Alfred Rosenberg, German Nazi official who wrote Nazi ideologue "The Myth of the Twentieth Century", hanged for war crimes at 53
1946-10-16 Fritz Sauckel, German Nazi politician (General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment, 1942-45), and convicted war criminal, hanged at 51

1946-10-16 Wilhelm Frick, German leading Nazi official and war criminal (Minister of the Interior, responsible for concentration camps), hanged for crimes against humanity at 69
1947-05-02 Dorothea Binz, German Nazi war criminal (Ravensbrück concentration camp), executed by hanging for her crimes at 27
1947-05-28 August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal, dies at 40
1947-05-30 Georg von Trapp, Austrian WWI submarine commander and inspiration for "The Sound of Music" character, dies at 67

1951-06-07 Nazi war criminals Paul Blobel, Werner Braune, Erich Naumann, Otto Ohlendorf, Oswald Pohl, George Schallenmair & Otto Schmidt, hanged at Landsberg Prison in Germany
1955-01-24 Ira Hayes, American World War II hero (b. 1923)

1959-03-16 John B. Salling, reputed second to last Civil War veteran, dies at 111 [birth date, age and military service later disputed]

1963-05-13 Alois Hudal, Austrian bishop who helped Nazi war criminals escape trial, dies at 77
1966-02-03 June Walker, American actress (War Nurses), dies at 65
1966-11-02 Sadao Araki, Japanese general, Minister of War (1931-34), dies at 89
1967-08-26 Dilawar Hussain, Indian cricketer (Indian wicketkeeper in the 1930's), dies at 60
1967-09-01 Ilse Koch, Nazi war criminal (commonly known as "The Bitch of Buchenwald") hangs herself in prison at 60
1973-05-21 Carlo Emilio Gadda, Italian writer (La Madonna dei filosofi - The Philosoper's Madonna; Giornale di guerra e di prigionia - War and Prison Diary), poet, and engineer (Vatican City power station), dies at 79
1974-11-23 Cornelius Ryan, Irish war reporter and historian (Bridge too Far), dies at 54
1976-08-24 Michael Head, British organist, pianist, and composer, dies at 76
1976-12-24 Victor Stanitsin, actor (War & Peace, Jubilee), dies at 79
1978-01-22 Oliver Leese, British World War II general, dies at 83
1980-02-14 Luitkonwar Rudra Baruah, Assamese composer and actor

1982-09-05 Douglas Bader, English RAF fighter pilot in World War II, dies at 72
1982-11-01 King Vidor, American film director (War & Peace, Stella Dallas), dies of a heart ailment at 88

1988-01-16 Andrija Artuković, Croatian war criminal and Nazi ally during WWII who operated concentration camps, dies in prison at 88
1988-07-13 Samuel L Mendel, oldest US war veteran, dies at 104
1989-03-11 John Jay McCloy, American lawyer and banker (Secretary of War 1941-45, Chairman Chase Manhattan Bank, President of World Bank 1947-49), dies at 93
1989-09-21 F. Fischer, German war criminal (4, Two of Breda), dies
1989-11-25 Alva R. Fitch, American lieutenant general in US army, Elvis' commanding officer, dies at 82
1990-02-07 Alfredo M. Santos, Philippine's first four-star General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, World War II hero (b. 1905)
1992-02-16 George Mann MacBeth, Scottish journalist/poet (A War Quartet), dies
1993-03-24 Peter Roovers, Dutch sculptor/teacher (war monuments), dies at 90
1994-02-04 Harold Schneider, US producer (5 Easy Pieces, War Games), dies at 55
1994-04-01 Stuart Sloan, war hero/test pilot, dies at 72
1994-04-07 Evert Hartman, Dutch writer (War Without Friends), dies at 56
1994-11-28 Jerry Rubin, US anti-war activist (Youth Party) and businessman, dies at 56
1996-04-22 Hiteswar Saikia, Indian politician and Chief Minister of Assam (1983-85, 1991-96), dies at 61
1996-05-17 Rusi Modi, Indian cricketer (736 runs 10 post-war Tests for India), dies at 71