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Guatemalan Revolution
1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
First Indochina War
1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War
1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
1953 Iranian coup d'état
1953-08-15 - 1953-08-19
People
Jacobo Árbenz
age 39
President
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Guatemala
Winston Churchill
age 78
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 62
President
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United States
Souvanna Phouma
age 51
Prime Minister
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Laos
Ho Chi Minh
age 63
President
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Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek
age 65
President
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Republic of China
Hirohito
age 52
Emperor
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Japan
Mao Zedong
age 59
Chairman of the Communist Party of China
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Communist Party of China
Konrad Adenauer
age 77
Chancellor
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Germany
Elizabeth II
age 27
Queen
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United Kingdom
Richard Nixon
age 40
Vice President
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United States
Kim Il-sung
age 41
Chairman Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Hubert Humphrey
age 42
Senate
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United States
Zhou Enlai
age 55
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 44
Senate
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United States
John F. Kennedy
age 36
Senate
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United States
Melvin Laird
age 30
House of Representatives
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United States
Gerald Ford
age 40
House of Representatives
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United States
John Foster Dulles
age 65
Secretary Of State
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United States
Fred M. Vinson
age 63
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Omar Bradley
age 60
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff
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United States
Clement Attlee
age 70
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Earl Warren
age 62
Governor of California
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United States
George Wallace
age 33
Democratic Party (United States)
John Lewis
age 13
Democratic Party (United States)
James R. Schlesinger
age 24
Republican Party (United States)
Clark Clifford
age 46
Democratic Party (United States)
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 65
Communist Party of Vietnam
Hillary Clinton
age 5
Democratic Party (United States)
John Kerry
age 9
Democratic Party (United States)
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 47
Democratic Party (United States)
Potter Stewart
age 38
Republican Party (United States)
Arthur Goldberg
age 45
Democratic Party (United States)
William H. Webster
age 29
Republican Party (United States)
J. Edgar Hoover
age 58
Republican Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
age 41
Democratic Party (United States)
Thurgood Marshall
age 45
Democratic Party (United States)
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 45
Democratic Party (United States)
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 23
Republican Party (United States)
David Souter
age 13
Republican Party (United States)
John Paul Stevens
age 33
Republican Party (United States)
Lien Chan
age 16
Kuomintang
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 29
Kuomintang
Sun Yun-suan
age 39
Kuomintang
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 43
Kuomintang
Byron White
age 36
Democratic Party (United States)
James Baker
age 23
Democratic Party (United States)
Wen Jiabao
age 10
Communist Party of China
Wang Zhen (general)
age 45
Communist Party of China
Rong Yiren
age 37
Communist Party of China
Li Peng
age 24
Communist Party of China
Daniel Inouye
age 28
Democratic Party (United States)
Walter Mondale
age 25
Democratic Party (United States)
Hua Guofeng
age 32
Communist Party of China
Hu Yaobang
age 37
Communist Party of China
Zhao Ziyang
age 33
Communist Party of China
Dong Biwu
age 67
Communist Party of China
Yang Shangkun
age 46
Communist Party of China
Li Xiannian
age 44
Communist Party of China
Hu Jintao
age 10
Communist Party of China
Douglas MacArthur
age 73
United States Army
Dick Cheney
age 12
Republican Party (United States)
Deng Xiaoping
age 49
Communist Party of China
Henry Kissinger
age 30
Republican Party (United States)
Jiang Zemin
age 27
Communist Party of China
Herbert Hoover
age 79
Republican Party (United States)
Rudolf Hess
age 59
Nazi Party
Joe Biden
age 10
Democratic Party (United States)
Bill Clinton
age 6
Democratic Party (United States)
Ronald Reagan
age 42
Republican Party (United States)
George H. W. Bush
age 29
Republican Party (United States)
Jimmy Carter
age 28
Democratic Party (United States)
Liu Shaoqi
age 54
Communist Party of China
Karl Dönitz
age 61
Nazi Party
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 48
Carlos Castillo Armas
age 38
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 35
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 37
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 45
Juan José Arévalo
age 48
Robert A. Lovett
age 57
Charles III
age 4
Thomas Gage
age 235
Malcolm X
age 28
Jo Ann Robinson
age 41
Colin Powell
age 16
Aung San Suu Kyi
age 8
Muhammad Ali
age 11
Charles de Gaulle
age 62
Boris Yeltsin
age 22
Jacques Chirac
age 20
Narendra Modi
age 2
Kim Jong-il
age 12
Nelson Mandela
age 35
Albert Einstein
age 74
John Marshall Harlan II
age 54
Abe Fortas
age 43
Clarence M. Kelley
age 41
Antonin Scalia
age 17
Anthony Kennedy
age 17
Clarence Thomas
age 5
Stephen Breyer
age 15
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 20
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 68
Raymond A. Spruance
age 67
Courtney Hodges
age 66
Yasser Arafat
age 23
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 35
Edward VIII
age 59
Gennady Yanayev
age 15
Ramsey Clark
age 25
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 31
Warren Christopher
age 27
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 23
John Connally
age 36
Ellison Onizuka
age 7
Ronald McNair
age 2
Zhu Rongji
age 24
Soong Ching-ling
age 60
Zhu De
age 66
Zeng Qinghong
age 14
Puyi
age 47
Nelson Rockefeller
age 45
Dan Quayle
age 6
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 73
Erich von Manstein
age 65
George C. Marshall
age 72
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 47
Robert McNamara
age 37
Fidel Castro
age 27
Xi Jinping
age 2 months
John Nance Garner
age 84
Henry A. Wallace
age 64
Alben W. Barkley
age 75
Spiro Agnew
age 34
Peng Dehuai
age 54
Al Gore
age 5
William Rehnquist
age 28
Warren E. Burger
age 45
Anthony Eden
age 56
Albert Speer
age 48
Donald Trump
age 7
Otto Hofmann
age 57
Hafez al-Assad
age 22
George Shultz
age 32
Yuri Andropov
age 39
Lee Teng-hui
age 30
Margaret Thatcher
age 27
Konstantin Chernenko
age 41
Chester W. Nimitz
age 68
George W. Bush
age 7
Francisco Franco
age 60
Pol Pot
age 28
Souphanouvong
age 44
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 50
Saddam Hussein
age 16
Robert F. Kennedy
age 27
Nikita Khrushchev
age 59
Harry S. Truman
age 69
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 22
Martin Luther King Jr.
age 24
Rosa Parks
age 40
Kingorō Hashimoto
age 63
Rodion Malinovsky
age 54
Leonid Brezhnev
age 46
Franz von Papen
age 73
Hjalmar Schacht
age 76
Baldur von Schirach
age 46
Erich Raeder
age 77
Hans Fritzsche
age 53
Walther Funk
age 63
Kliment Voroshilov
age 72
Semyon Timoshenko
age 58
He Yingqin
age 63
Lê Duẩn
age 46
Naoki Hoshino
age 61
Hubert Gough
age 83