Historical Characters Who Died Sooner Than In OTL
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This entry lists all of the historical figures whose lifespan was shorter in one or more of the works of Harry Turtledove than in OTL. Most of these characters were killed off years before they died in OTL (for instance, Jimmy Carter died in 1942 in Southern Victory whereas he is still alive in 2013 in OTL), although some did die mere months early.
Atlantis
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- Earl of Warwick (d. 1470)
- William Howe (d. 1776)
Days of Infamy
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- Mitsuo Fuchida (d. April, 1943)
- Minoru Genda (d. April, 1943)
- William Halsey (d. December, 1941)
- Sanji Iwabuchi (d. April, 1943)
- Kazuo Sakamaki (d. February, 1942)
- Saburo Shindo (d. April, 1943)
- Tomoyuki Yamashita (d. April, 1943)
"The Daimon"
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- Androkles (d. 415 BCE)
- Kritias (d. 415 BCE)
- Plato (d. 415 BCE)
- Socrates (d. 415 BCE)
- Thettalos (d. 415 BCE)
A Different Flesh
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- John Smith (d. 1607)
The Guns of the South
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- Albert Gallatin Brown (d. March 4, 1868)
- George Crook (d. May 9, 1864)
- Jubal Early (d. March 4, 1868)
- Rutherford B. Hayes (d. May 9, 1864)
- Mary Anna Custis Lee (d. March 4, 1868)
In High Places
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- Geoffrey Chaucer (d. before 1372)
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
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- Winston Churchill (between 1940 and 1950)
- Joseph Stalin (between 1941 and 1950)
"Joe Steele"
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- Pierce Butler (d. 1935)
- Charles Coughlin (d. 1935)
- Albert Einstein (d. 1946)
- Enrico Fermi (d. 1946)
- John Nance Garner (d. 1953)
- Hirohito (d. 1945)
- Husband Kimmel (d. 1942)
- Huey Long (d. 1933)
- Douglas MacArthur (d. 1942)
- James McReynolds (d. 1935)
- Vyacheslav Molotov (d. 1953)
- J. Robert Oppenheimer (d. 1946)
- Sam Rayburn (d. 1937)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (d. 1932)
- Walter Short (d. 1942)
- Leo Szilard (d. 1946)
"The Last Article"
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- Mohandas Gandhi (d. 1947)
- Jawaharlal Nehru (d. 1947)
- Georgy Zhukov (d. 1946)
The Man With the Iron Heart
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- Konrad Adenauer (d. 1946)
- Erich Bagge (d. 1947)
- Francis Biddle (d. November 1945)
- Norman Birkett (?) (d. November 1945)
- Kurt Diebner (d. 1947)
- Walter Gerlach (d. 1947)
- Otto Hahn (d. 1947)
- Paul Harteck (d. 1947)
- Werner Heisenberg (d. 1946)
- Horst Korsching (d. 1947)
- Geoffrey Lawrence (d. November 1945)
- Ivan Koniev (d. May 1945)
- Iona Nikitchenko (d. November 1945)
- George Patton (d. September 1945)
- Henri Donnedieu de Vabres (d. November 1945)
- Georgy Zhukov (d. December 31, 1945)
"Must and Shall"
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- Jefferson Davis (d. between 1865 and 1870)
- Joseph Johnston (d. between 1865 and 1870)
- Robert E. Lee (d. between 1865 and 1870)
- Abraham Lincoln (d. July 12, 1864)
"The Phantom Tolbukhin"
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- Ivan Koniev (d. c. 1937)
- Georgy Zhukov (d. c. 1937)
"Ready for the Fatherland"
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- Adolf Hitler (d. February 19, 1943)
Ruled Britannia
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- Robert Parsons (d. 1598)
- John Shakespeare (d. 1588?)
- Philip Stubbes (d. November 1, 1597)
"Shock and Awe"
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- St. Peter (d. AD 30)
Southern Victory
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- George Q. Cannon (d. 1881)
- Jimmy Carter (d. 1942)
- James Bethel Gresham (d. 1914)
- Ernest Hemingway (d. 1939)
- Mary Lincoln (d. 1877)
- Tad Lincoln (d. c. 1863)
- Vyacheslav Molotov (d. 1925)
- John Pershing (d. 1929)
- Orson Pratt (d. September 1881)
- Anna von Schlieffen (d. 1872)
- Al Smith (d. 1942)
- Joseph Stalin (d. 1925)
- Robert Taft (d. 1943)
- Daniel Wells (d. 1881)
The War That Came Early
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- Winston Churchill (d. Summer 1940)
- Francisco Franco (d. Winter 1941)
- Konrad Henlein (d. September 29, 1938)
- Husband Kimmel (d. Spring 1941)
- Douglas MacArthur (d. Spring 1941 (?))
A World of Difference
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- Mikhail Gorbachev (d. 1986)
Worldwar
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- Kurt Chill (d. 1944)
- Werner Heisenberg (d. 1943)
- Yoshio Nishina (d. 1943)
- Pope Pius XII (d. 1943)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (d. 1944)
- Otto Skorzeny (d. 1944)
- Henry Wallace (d. 1943)
- Earl Warren (d. 1965)