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Chinese Civil War
1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Guatemalan Revolution
1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Chinese Communist Revolution
1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
International Military Tribunal for the Far East
1946-04-29 - 1948-11-12
First Indochina War
1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War
1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
1948 Arab–Israeli War
1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Berlin Blockade
1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12
1949 Syrian coup d'état
1949-03-29
People
Joseph Stalin
age 69
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Clement Attlee
age 65
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Harry S. Truman
age 64
President
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United States
Hirohito
age 47
Emperor
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Japan
Mao Zedong
age 54
Chairman of the Communist Party of China
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Communist Party of China
Ho Chi Minh
age 58
President
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Vietnam
Alben W. Barkley
age 70
Vice President
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United States
George VI
age 52
King
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United Kingdom
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 39
Senate
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United States
Kim Il-sung
age 36
Premier
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North Korea
Hubert Humphrey
age 37
Senate
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United States
John F. Kennedy
age 31
House of Representatives
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United States
Richard Nixon
age 35
House of Representatives
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United States
Gerald Ford
age 34
House of Representatives
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United States
Fred M. Vinson
age 58
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
George C. Marshall
age 67
Secretary Of State
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United States
Winston Churchill
age 73
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Omar Bradley
age 55
Chief of Staff of the Army
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United States
Earl Warren
age 57
Governor of California
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United States
Wang Zhen (general)
age 40
Communist Party of China
Wen Jiabao
age 5
Communist Party of China
Douglas MacArthur
age 68
United States Army
Zhou Enlai
age 50
Communist Party of China
James Baker
age 18
Democratic Party (United States)
Byron White
age 31
Democratic Party (United States)
Dick Cheney
age 7
Republican Party (United States)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 57
Republican Party (United States)
Deng Xiaoping
age 43
Communist Party of China
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 38
Kuomintang
Jimmy Carter
age 23
United States Navy
Courtney Hodges
age 61
United States Army
Sun Yun-suan
age 34
Kuomintang
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 24
Kuomintang
Hu Jintao
age 5
Communist Party of China
Li Xiannian
age 39
Communist Party of China
Yang Shangkun
age 40
Communist Party of China
Dong Biwu
age 62
Communist Party of China
Zhao Ziyang
age 28
Communist Party of China
Hu Yaobang
age 32
Communist Party of China
Hua Guofeng
age 27
Communist Party of China
Jiang Zemin
age 21
Communist Party of China
Herbert Hoover
age 73
Republican Party (United States)
Rudolf Hess
age 54
Nazi Party
Joe Biden
age 5
Democratic Party (United States)
Bill Clinton
age 1
Democratic Party (United States)
Ronald Reagan
age 37
Republican Party (United States)
Henry Kissinger
age 25
Republican Party (United States)
Daniel Inouye
age 23
Democratic Party (United States)
George H. W. Bush
age 24
Republican Party (United States)
Li Peng
age 19
Communist Party of China
Rong Yiren
age 32
Communist Party of China
Lien Chan
age 11
Kuomintang
Karl Dönitz
age 56
Nazi Party
John Foster Dulles
age 60
Republican Party (United States)
John Kerry
age 4
Democratic Party (United States)
Hillary Clinton
age 8 months
Democratic Party (United States)
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 42
Democratic Party (United States)
Potter Stewart
age 33
Republican Party (United States)
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 59
Communist Party of Vietnam
Clark Clifford
age 41
Democratic Party (United States)
Arthur Goldberg
age 39
Democratic Party (United States)
William H. Webster
age 24
Republican Party (United States)
Liu Shaoqi
age 49
Communist Party of China
J. Edgar Hoover
age 53
Republican Party (United States)
Walter Mondale
age 20
Democratic Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
age 36
Democratic Party (United States)
George Wallace
age 28
Democratic Party (United States)
Thurgood Marshall
age 40
Democratic Party (United States)
John Lewis
age 8
Democratic Party (United States)
James R. Schlesinger
age 19
Republican Party (United States)
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 40
Democratic Party (United States)
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 18
Republican Party (United States)
David Souter
age 8
Republican Party (United States)
John Paul Stevens
age 28
Republican Party (United States)
Hafez al-Assad
age 17
Kliment Voroshilov
age 67
George Shultz
age 27
Walther Funk
age 57
Souvanna Phouma
age 46
Hans Fritzsche
age 48
Erich Raeder
age 72
Baldur von Schirach
age 41
Hjalmar Schacht
age 71
Semyon Timoshenko
age 53
Otto Rasch
age 56
He Yingqin
age 58
Otto Hofmann
age 52
Lê Duẩn
age 41
Akira Mutō
age 55
Doihara Kenji
age 64
Kōki Hirota
age 70
Lee Teng-hui
age 25
Naoki Hoshino
age 56
Yuri Andropov
age 34
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 17
Chiang Kai-shek
age 60
Nikita Khrushchev
age 54
Robert F. Kennedy
age 22
Saddam Hussein
age 11
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 45
Souphanouvong
age 38
Pol Pot
age 23
Martin Luther King Jr.
age 19
Elizabeth II
age 22
Francisco Franco
age 55
Iwane Matsui
age 69
George W. Bush
age 1
Hideki Tōjō
age 63
Rosa Parks
age 35
Seishirō Itagaki
age 63
Yoshijirō Umezu
age 66
Chester W. Nimitz
age 63
Kingorō Hashimoto
age 58
Heitarō Kimura
age 59
Rodion Malinovsky
age 49
Leonid Brezhnev
age 41
Margaret Thatcher
age 22
Franz von Papen
age 68
Kiichirō Hiranuma
age 80
Hubert Gough
age 77
Konrad Adenauer
age 72
Charles de Gaulle
age 57
Boris Yeltsin
age 17
Jacques Chirac
age 15
Kim Jong-il
age 7
Nelson Mandela
age 29
Albert Einstein
age 69
Melvin Laird
age 25
John Marshall Harlan II
age 49
Abe Fortas
age 38
Clarence M. Kelley
age 36
Antonin Scalia
age 12
Anthony Kennedy
age 11
Clarence Thomas
age 0 months
Stephen Breyer
age 9
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 15
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 63
Raymond A. Spruance
age 62
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 29
Gennady Yanayev
age 10
Konstantin Chernenko
age 36
John Major
age 5
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 42
Carlos Castillo Armas
age 33
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 32
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 40
Jacobo Árbenz
age 34
Juan José Arévalo
age 43
Robert A. Lovett
age 52
Charles III
born 1948-11-14
Thomas Gage
age 230
Malcolm X
age 23
Jo Ann Robinson
age 36
Colin Powell
age 11
Aung San Suu Kyi
age 3
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 68
Gerd von Rundstedt
age 72
Erich von Manstein
age 60
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 42
Robert McNamara
age 32
Fidel Castro
age 21
Charles G. Dawes
age 82
John Nance Garner
age 79
Henry A. Wallace
age 59
Spiro Agnew
age 29
Peng Dehuai
age 49
Al Gore
age 2 months
William Rehnquist
age 23
Warren E. Burger
age 40
Charles Evans Hughes
age 86
Anthony Eden
age 51
Albert Speer
age 43
Donald Trump
age 2
Muhammad Ali
age 6
Yasser Arafat
age 18
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 30
Edward VIII
age 54
Ramsey Clark
age 20
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 26
Warren Christopher
age 22
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 17
John Connally
age 31
Ellison Onizuka
age 2
Zhu Rongji
age 19
Zeng Qinghong
age 8
Soong Ching-ling
age 55
Zhu De
age 61
Puyi
age 42
Nelson Rockefeller
age 39
Dan Quayle
age 1
John J. Pershing
age 87