The History of War

Events 1 - 100 of 698

• 0241-03-10 BC First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands - The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end

• 0546-12-17 Gothic War (535-554): The Ostrogoths of King Totila conquer Rome by bribing the Byzantine garrison.
• 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 The 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

• 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

• 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

• 1570-01-23 Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland, assassinated; civil war breaks out
• 1574-02-23 France begins 5th "holy war" against Huguenots

• 1598-12-16 Seven Year War: Battle of Noryang Point - in the final battle of the war 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

• 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 Parliament
• 1648-10-24 Treaty of Westphalia ends The Thirty Years' War in the Holy Roman Empire; Switzerland's independence 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

• 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 The Great Northern War begins in Northern Europe between Denmark–Norway, Saxony and 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 Emperor Leopold I declares war on France, Cologne & 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; French retain Alsace and Landau, Austria gets east bank of 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]

• 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

• 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 British in Indian War of 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 The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called "The Regulators", occurs 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

• 1777-08-28 American Revolutionary War - Battle of Cooch's Bridge takes place near Newark, Delaware.
• 1777-09-03 Flag of the United States flown in battle for the 1st time at Cooch's Bridge, Delaware, a skirmish during 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

• 1780-12-20 Britain declares war on Holland

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Birthdays 1 - 100 of 151

• 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 (d. 1790)

• 1744-09-20 Thomas Grosvenor, American Revolutionary War hero (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 (1798-1800, 1803-06) (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 minister of War, 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)

• 1815-07-13 James Alexander Seddon, politician and lawyer (Confederate Secretary of War, 1862-65), born in Falmouth, Virginia (d. 1880)
• 1815-08-29 Anna Ella Carroll, American politician and civil war writer (Reconstruction), born in Pocomoke City, Maryland (d. 1894)
• 1817-02-07 LeRoy Pope Walker, American lawyer and 1st Confederate States Secretary of War (1861), born in Huntsville, Alabama (d. 1884)
• 1818-02-23 Jeremy Francis Gilmer, American general and engineer (Chief Engineer for Confederate War Dept, planned defense of Atlanta), born in Guilford County, North Carolina (d. 1883)
• 1818-03-10 George Wythe Randolph, American Secretary of War for the Confederacy, born in Charlottesville, Virginia (d. 1867)
• 1821-08-30 Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian warrior; Garibaldi's wife (War of Tatters), born in Laguna, Santa Catarina, Brazil (d. 1849)
• 1821-11-30 Gustavus Woodson Smith, American Major General (Confederate States Army), born in Georgetown, Kentucky (d. 1896)
• 1823-12-28 Thomas Alexander Scott, American businessman and Assistant Secretary of War (Civil War), born in Peters Township, Pennsylvania (d. 1881)
• 1826-04-08 Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican war heroine (Costa Rica's first woman in the military), born in Cartago, Costa Rica (d. 1890)
• 1826-04-26 Ambrose R. Wright, American Civil War General, born in Louisville, Georgia (d. 1872)
• 1830-01-23 Gaston, Marquis de Galliffet, French general and Minister of War (1899-1900), born in Paris, France (d. 1909)
• 1831-06-26 Julius Rodenberg [Levy], German writer (Kriegs-Songs of War & Peace), born in Rodenberg, Germany (d. 1914)
• 1837-06-17 Strong Vincent, American army officer (died famously at Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg), born in Waterford, Pennsylvania (d. 1863)
• 1840-02-29 William Harvey Carney, American Civil War soldier (first African-American to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor), born in Norfolk, Virginia (d. 1908)
• 1841-01-30 Alfred Townsend George, American Civil War journalist, born in Georgetown, Delaware (d. 1914)
• 1842-11-14 Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War (d. 1959)
• 1843-10-26 Vasily Vereshchagin, Russian painter (War & Peace), born in Cherepovets, Russia (d. 1904)
• 1843-12-23 Richard Conner, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (d. 1924)
• 1844-06-01 John J. Toffey, American Civil War hero (d. 1911)
• 1846-02-14 Julian Scott, American artist and Civil War Medal of Honor recipient, born in Johnson, Vermont (d. 1901)
• 1848-02-05 Ignacio Carrera Pinto, Chilean war hero (d. 1882)
• 1849-03-19 Alfred von Tirpitz, German architect of the Imperial Navy (Tirpitz Plan, Unrestricted U-boat Warfare) and World War I Grand Admiral, born in Küstrin, Province of Brandenburg, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1930)

• 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, United States Secretary of War (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 (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 (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, Alsacian Nazi war criminal (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)

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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 (b. 1718)

• 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 (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 (b. 1835)

• 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 (b. 1843)
• 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 war criminal, hanged
• 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 (b. 1899)
• 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 World War II and Korean soldier (b. 1907)
• 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

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