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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
World War II 1939-09-01 - 1945-09-02
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01 - 1945-08-21
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Chinese Communist Revolution 1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
Soviet–Japanese War 1945-08-09 - 1945-09-03
Indonesian National Revolution 1945-08-17 - 1949-12-27
Surrender of Japan 1945-09-02 - 1945-09-02
Shangdang Campaign 1945-09-10 - 1945-10-12
Iran crisis of 1946 1945-11-01 - 1946-12-15
Nuremberg trials 1945-11-20 - 1946-10-01
Second Battle of Siping 1946-04-17 - 1946-05-19
International Military Tribunal for the Far East 1946-04-29 - 1948-11-12
Direct Action Day 1946-08-16
Linjiang Campaign 1946-12-17 - 1947-04-01
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Battle of Yan'an 1947-03-13 - 1947-03-19
Malagasy Uprising 1947-03-29 - 1949-02
Menglianggu Campaign 1947-05-13 - 1947-05-16
Indian Independence Act 1947-07-18
Partition of India 1947-08-15
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-1948 1947-10-22 - 1949-01-01
Battle of Badgam 1947-11-03 - 1947-11-03
Battle of Shalateng 1947-11-07 - 1947-11-07
UN Partition Plan for Palestine 1947-11-29 - 1947-11-29
Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi 1948-01-30
Siege of Skardu 1948-02-11 - 1948-08-14
Marshall Plan 1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel 1948-05-14
Battles of the Kinarot Valley 1948-05-15 - 1948-05-21
1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Battle of Jerusalem (1948) 1948-05-15 - 1948-07-18
Siege of Changchun 1948-05-23 - 1948-10-19
Battles of Latrun 1948-05-24 - 1948-07-18
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Operation Pleshet 1948-05-29 - 1948-06-03
Berlin Blockade 1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12
Liaoshen Campaign 1948-09-12 - 1948-11-02
Taiyuan Campaign 1948-10-05 - 1949-04-24
Operation Yoav 1948-10-15 - 1948-10-22
Operation Hiram 1948-10-29 - 1948-10-31
Huaihai Campaign 1948-11-06 - 1949-01-10
Pingjin Campaign 1948-11-29 - 1949-01-31
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948-12-10
Operation Horev 1948-12-22 - 1949-01-07
Operation Uvda 1949-03-05 - 1949-03-10
1949 Syrian coup d'état 1949-03-29
North Atlantic Treaty 1949-04-04 - 1949-04-04
Yangtze River Crossing campaign 1949-04-20 - 1949-06-02
Shanghai Campaign 1949-05-12 - 1949-06-02
Proclamation of the People's Republic of China 1949-10-01 - 1949-10-01
Battle of Guningtou 1949-10-25 - 1949-10-27
Battle of Dengbu Island 1949-11-03 - 1949-11-05
Chengdu Campaign 1949-12-11 - 1949-12-27

People

Ananda Mahidol age 19
King - Thailand
Mohammed V of Morocco age 36
Sultan - Morocco
Bolesław Bierut age 53
President - Poland
Sveinn Björnsson age 64
President - Iceland
Rómulo Gallegos age 61
President - Venezuela
Manuel Roxas age 53
President - Philippines
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 49
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 46
King - Eswatini
Rómulo Betancourt age 37
President - Venezuela
José Paciano Laurel age 54
President - Philippines
Sergio Osmeña age 66
President - Philippines
Elpidio Quirino age 54
President - Philippines
José Figueres Ferrer age 38
President - Costa Rica
Anastasio Somoza García age 49
President - Nicaragua
William Tubman age 49
President - Liberia
Óscar Carmona age 75
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 75
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 35
Sultan - Oman
Władysław Raczkiewicz age 60
President - Poland
Jigme Wangchuck age 40
King - Bhutan
Seán T. O'Kelly age 63
President - Ireland
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 46
President - Chile
Bechara El Khoury age 55
President - Lebanon
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 45
Queen - Tonga
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 58
President - Argentina
Manuel Odría age 47
President - Peru
Arnulfo Arias age 44
President - Panama
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 51
President - Peru
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 53
President - Colombia
Galo Plaza age 39
President - Ecuador
Tiburcio Carías age 69
President - Honduras
Omer Nishani age 58
President - Albania
Gualberto Villarroel age 36
President - Bolivia
Carlos Delgado Chalbaud age 36
President - Venezuela
Otilio Ulate Blanco age 54
President - Costa Rica
Enrique Hertzog age 47
President - Bolivia
Juan Antonio Rios age 56
President - Chile
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 59
President - Colombia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 60
Emir - Kuwait
Federico Chávez age 64
President - Paraguay
Dumarsais Estimé age 45
President - Haiti
Philipp Etter age 53
President - Switzerland
Juan José de Amézaga age 64
President - Uruguay
Isaías Medina Angarita age 48
President - Venezuela
Higinio Morínigo age 48
President - Paraguay
Mamerto Urriolagoitía age 49
President - Bolivia
Josip Vidmar age 49
President - Slovenia
Luis Batlle Berres Pérez age 47
President - Uruguay
Natalicio González age 47
President - Paraguay
Teodoro Picado Michalski age 45
President - Costa Rica
Juan Manuel Gálvez age 58
President - Honduras
Sao Shwe Thaik age 48
President - Myanmar
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 90
Emir - Qatar
Tomás Berreta age 69
President - Uruguay
Néstor Guillén age 55
President - Bolivia
Tomás Monje age 60
President - Bolivia
Ernst Nobs age 59
President - Switzerland
Juan Manuel Frutos age 66
President - Paraguay
Felipe Molas López age 44
President - Paraguay
Élie Lescot age 61
President - Haiti
Jonas Žemaitis age 36
President - Lithuania
Karl Kobelt age 54
President - Switzerland
Eduard von Steiger age 64
President - Switzerland
Enrico Celio age 56
President - Switzerland
Raimundo Rolón age 42
President - Paraguay
Zenón Noriega Agüero age 45
President - Peru
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 43
Regent - Lesotho
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 53
Emir - Qatar
Franck Lavaud age 42
President - Haiti
Sjafruddin Prawiranegara age 34
President - Indonesia
Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes age 72
President - Nicaragua
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 57
President - Panama
Domingo Díaz Arosemena age 70
President - Panama
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 63
President - Mongolia
Leonardo Argüello Barreto age 70
President - Nicaragua
Daniel Chanis Pinzón age 52
President - Panama
Assaat age 40
President - Indonesia
Miha Marinko age 44
President - Slovenia
Benjamín Lacayo Sacasa age 52
President - Nicaragua
Giuseppe Forcellini age 44
Captain Regent - San Marino
Vincenzo Pedini age 25
Captain Regent - San Marino
Alvaro Casali age 49
Captain Regent - San Marino
Lord Mountbatten age 45
Viceroy - British Raj
Archibald Wavell age 62
Viceroy - British Raj
Enver Hoxha age 36
Prime Minister - Albania
António de Oliveira Salazar age 56
Prime Minister - Portugal
Georgi Dimitrov age 63
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Pridi Banomyong age 45
Prime Minister - Thailand
Liaquat Ali Khan age 49
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Paul-Henri Spaak age 46
Prime Minister - Belgium
Willem Drees age 59
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 48
Prime Minister - Thailand
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 70
Prime Minister - Canada
Robert Menzies age 50
Prime Minister - Australia
Mohammad Hatta age 43
Prime Minister - Indonesia
Einar Gerhardsen age 48
Prime Minister - Norway
Tage Erlander age 44
Prime Minister - Sweden
Louis St. Laurent age 63
Prime Minister - Canada
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 50
Prime Minister - Mongolia
U Nu age 38
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Per Albin Hansson age 59
Prime Minister - Sweden
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 27
Prime Minister - Tonga
Ben Chifley age 59
Prime Minister - Australia
Petru Groza age 60
Prime Minister - Romania
Leopold Figl age 42
Chancellor - Austria
Gaston Eyskens age 40
Prime Minister - Belgium
Zoltán Tildy age 55
Prime Minister - Hungary
Karl-August Fagerholm age 43
Prime Minister - Finland
Achille Van Acker age 47
Prime Minister - Belgium
Mauno Pekkala age 55
Prime Minister - Finland
Nuri as-Said age 57
Prime Minister - Iraq
István Dobi age 46
Prime Minister - Hungary
Kimon Georgiev age 63
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Ólafur Thors age 53
Prime Minister - Iceland
Louis Beel age 43
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Khuang Aphaiwong age 43
Prime Minister - Thailand
Şükrü Saracoğlu age 58
Prime Minister - Turkey
Camille Huysmans age 74
Prime Minister - Belgium
Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou age 54
Prime Minister - Greece
Béla Miklós age 55
Prime Minister - Hungary
Hans Hedtoft age 42
Prime Minister - Denmark
Sutan Sjahrir age 36
Prime Minister - Indonesia
Don Stephen Senanayake age 60
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 42
Prime Minister - Greece
Riad Al Solh age 52
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Ferenc Nagy age 41
Prime Minister - Hungary
Wim Schermerhorn age 50
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Konstantinos Tsaldaris age 61
Prime Minister - Greece
Knud Kristensen age 64
Prime Minister - Denmark
Recep Peker age 56
Prime Minister - Turkey
Son Ngoc Thanh age 36
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Otto Tief age 56
Prime Minister - Estonia
Alexandros Diomidis age 69
Prime Minister - Greece
Vilhelm Buhl age 63
Prime Minister - Denmark
Şemsettin Günaltay age 62
Prime Minister - Turkey
Vladimir Bakarić age 33
Prime Minister - Croatia
Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson age 51
Prime Minister - Iceland
Pierre Dupong age 60
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Penn Nouth age 39
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Lajos Dinnyés age 44
Prime Minister - Hungary
Paul Boffa age 55
Prime Minister - Malta
Peter Fraser age 61
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Lee Beom-seok age 44
Prime Minister - South Korea
Dimitrios Maximos age 72
Prime Minister - Greece
Amir Sjarifuddin age 38
Prime Minister - Indonesia
Östen Undén age 59
Prime Minister - Sweden
Hasan Saka age 60
Prime Minister - Turkey
Themistoklis Sofoulis age 85
Prime Minister - Greece
Panagiotis Poulitsas age 63
Prime Minister - Greece
Thawan Thamrongnawasawat age 43
Prime Minister - Thailand
Petros Voulgaris age 61
Prime Minister - Greece
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 53
Prime Minister - Jordan
Sidney Holland age 51
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 60
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Sisowath Monireth age 35
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Tawfiq al-Suwaidi age 53
Prime Minister - Iraq
Mohan Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 59
Prime Minister - Nepal
Yem Sambaur age 32
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Chhean Vam age 29
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Sisowath Watchayavong age 54
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Josef Hoop age 49
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Sisowath Youtevong age 32
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Hamdi Pachachi age 59
Prime Minister - Iraq
Ieu Koeus age 40
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Muzahim Pachachi age 54
Prime Minister - Iraq
Sayyid Salih Jabr age 49
Prime Minister - Iraq
Alexander Frick age 35
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Prince Shah Mahmud Khan of Afghanistan age 58
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Makonnen Endelkachew age 55
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Susanto Tirtoprodjo age 45
Prime Minister - Indonesia
Mohammed al-Sadr age 63
Prime Minister - Iraq
Arshad al-Umari age 57
Prime Minister - Iraq
Blažo Jovanović age 38
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi age 59
Prime Minister - Iraq
Julius Caesar de Miranda age 39
Prime Minister - Suriname
Solomone Ula Ata age 62
Prime Minister - Tonga
Rodolfo Llopis age 50
Prime Minister - Spain
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 45
Governor-General - Australia
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 56
Governor-General - New Zealand
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 59
Governor-General - New Zealand
Bill McKell age 53
Governor-General - Australia
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 64
Governor-General - Madagascar
Robert Boudry age 52
Governor-General - Madagascar
Donald Trump born 1946-06-14
Albert Einstein age 66
Ronald Reagan age 34
Nelson Mandela age 27
Mahatma Gandhi age 75
George W. Bush born 1946-07-06
Joe Biden age 2
Pablo Picasso age 63
Charlie Chaplin age 56
Elizabeth II age 19
Martin Luther King Jr. age 16
Pope Francis age 8
Che Guevara age 17
Bill Clinton born 1946-08-19
Neil Armstrong age 15
Walt Disney age 43
Elvis Presley age 10