Akira Matsunaga
Akira Matsunaga · Photographer: unknown, Editor/Publisher: Asahi-Shinbun, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Person

Akira Matsunaga

1914 – 1943 · aged 29

Japanese association football player (1914–1943)

Born
21 Sept 1914 · Yaizu
Died
20 Jan 1943 · Guadalcanal

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 33 years
  1. 21 Sept 1914BornBorn in Yaizu
  2. 1936Took part1936 Summer Olympics
  3. 1936TeamJapan men's national football team
  4. 1939 – 1945WarWorld War II
  5. 20 Jan 1943DiedDied in Guadalcanal

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1914 – 1943).

  1. 1914 – 1918World War I
  2. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  3. 1917Balfour Declaration
  4. 1917February Revolution
  5. 1917October Revolution
  6. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  7. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  8. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  9. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  10. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  11. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  12. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  13. 1938Munich Agreement
  14. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  15. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  16. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  17. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  18. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  19. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad

Biography

Akira Matsunaga (松永 行, Matsunaga Akira; 21 September 1914 – 20 January 1943) was a Japanese footballer. He played for the Japan national team. His brother Nobuo Matsunaga and Seki Matsunaga also played for the Japan national team.

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