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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
Indian Independence Act
1947-07-18
Partition of India
1947-08-15
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel
1948-05-14
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
Korean War
1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27
Second Battle of Seoul
1950-09-22 - 1950-09-28
Korean Armistice Agreement
1953-07-27
1953 Iranian coup d'état
1953-08-15 - 1953-08-19
1954 Syrian coup d'état
1954-02-01
Civil rights movement
1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
1954-06-18 - 1954-06-27
People
Ho Chi Minh
age 56
President
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Vietnam
Nikita Khrushchev
age 52
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Chiang Kai-shek
age 59
President
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Republic of China
Souvanna Phouma
age 45
Prime Minister
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Laos
Jacobo Árbenz
age 33
President
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Guatemala
Hirohito
age 45
Emperor
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Japan
Carlos Castillo Armas
age 32
President
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Guatemala
Mao Zedong
age 53
Chairman of the Communist Party of China
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Communist Party of China
Harry S. Truman
age 62
President
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United States
Clement Attlee
age 64
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 56
President
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United States
Joseph Stalin
age 68
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Winston Churchill
age 72
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Richard Nixon
age 33
Vice President
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United States
Konrad Adenauer
age 71
Chancellor
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Germany
Alben W. Barkley
age 69
Vice President
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United States
Kim Il-sung
age 34
Chairman Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 28
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Elizabeth II
age 20
Queen
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United Kingdom
George VI
age 51
King
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United Kingdom
John F. Kennedy
age 29
Senate
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United States
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 38
Senate
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United States
Zhou Enlai
age 48
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Hubert Humphrey
age 35
Senate
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United States
Melvin Laird
age 24
House of Representatives
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United States
Gerald Ford
age 33
House of Representatives
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United States
Robert A. Lovett
age 51
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Earl Warren
age 55
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Fred M. Vinson
age 56
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
John Foster Dulles
age 58
Secretary Of State
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United States
George C. Marshall
age 66
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Omar Bradley
age 53
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff
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United States
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 36
Kuomintang
Byron White
age 29
Democratic Party (United States)
Courtney Hodges
age 59
United States Army
Raymond A. Spruance
age 60
United States Navy
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 61
United States Navy
Sun Yun-suan
age 33
Kuomintang
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 23
Kuomintang
Lien Chan
age 10
Kuomintang
George H. W. Bush
age 22
Republican Party (United States)
Ronald Reagan
age 35
Republican Party (United States)
Bill Clinton
age 4 months
Democratic Party (United States)
Joe Biden
age 4
Democratic Party (United States)
Daniel Inouye
age 22
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Peng
age 18
Communist Party of China
Rong Yiren
age 30
Communist Party of China
Wang Zhen (general)
age 38
Communist Party of China
Hua Guofeng
age 25
Communist Party of China
Hu Yaobang
age 31
Communist Party of China
Wen Jiabao
age 4
Communist Party of China
Zhao Ziyang
age 27
Communist Party of China
Dong Biwu
age 60
Communist Party of China
Jimmy Carter
age 22
United States Navy
James Baker
age 16
Democratic Party (United States)
Yang Shangkun
age 39
Communist Party of China
John Kerry
age 3
Democratic Party (United States)
Hillary Clinton
born 1947-10-26
Democratic Party (United States)
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 58
Communist Party of Vietnam
Clark Clifford
age 40
Democratic Party (United States)
James R. Schlesinger
age 17
Republican Party (United States)
Liu Shaoqi
age 48
Communist Party of China
Herbert Hoover
age 72
Republican Party (United States)
Jacques Chirac
age 14
French Army
Jiang Zemin
age 20
Communist Party of China
Douglas MacArthur
age 66
United States Army
Dick Cheney
age 5
Republican Party (United States)
Henry Kissinger
age 23
Republican Party (United States)
John Lewis
age 6
Democratic Party (United States)
George Wallace
age 27
Democratic Party (United States)
Karl Dönitz
age 55
Nazi Party
Deng Xiaoping
age 42
Communist Party of China
Li Xiannian
age 37
Communist Party of China
John Paul Stevens
age 26
Republican Party (United States)
David Souter
age 7
Republican Party (United States)
Hu Jintao
age 3
Communist Party of China
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 16
Republican Party (United States)
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 39
Democratic Party (United States)
Thurgood Marshall
age 38
Democratic Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
age 34
Democratic Party (United States)
J. Edgar Hoover
age 51
Republican Party (United States)
William H. Webster
age 22
Republican Party (United States)
Rudolf Hess
age 52
Nazi Party
Arthur Goldberg
age 38
Democratic Party (United States)
Potter Stewart
age 31
Republican Party (United States)
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 40
Democratic Party (United States)
John Marshall Harlan II
age 47
US Court Of Appeals
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US Judiciary
Walter Mondale
age 18
United States Army
Chester W. Nimitz
age 61
Margaret Thatcher
age 21
George Shultz
age 26
Hafez al-Assad
age 16
Otto Rasch
age 55
Otto Hofmann
age 50
Lee Teng-hui
age 23
Leonid Brezhnev
age 40
Franz von Papen
age 67
Kiichirō Hiranuma
age 79
Hjalmar Schacht
age 69
Baldur von Schirach
age 39
Erich Raeder
age 70
Hans Fritzsche
age 46
Walther Funk
age 56
Kliment Voroshilov
age 65
Semyon Timoshenko
age 51
He Yingqin
age 56
Lê Duẩn
age 39
Akira Mutō
age 54
Doihara Kenji
age 63
Kōki Hirota
age 68
Naoki Hoshino
age 54
Hubert Gough
age 76
George W. Bush
age 5 months
Iwane Matsui
age 68
Francisco Franco
age 54
Pol Pot
age 21
Souphanouvong
age 37
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 44
Saddam Hussein
age 9
Robert F. Kennedy
age 21
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 15
Martin Luther King Jr.
age 17
Hideki Tōjō
age 62
Rosa Parks
age 33
Seishirō Itagaki
age 61
Yoshijirō Umezu
age 64
Kingorō Hashimoto
age 56
Heitarō Kimura
age 58
Muhammad Ali
age 4
Charles de Gaulle
age 56
Boris Yeltsin
age 15
Kim Jong-il
age 5
Nelson Mandela
age 28
Mahatma Gandhi
age 77
Albert Einstein
age 67
Abe Fortas
age 36
Clarence M. Kelley
age 35
Antonin Scalia
age 10
Anthony Kennedy
age 10
Clarence Thomas
born 1948-06-23
Stephen Breyer
age 8
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 13
Yasser Arafat
age 17
Edward VIII
age 52
Ramsey Clark
age 19
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 28
Narendra Modi
born 1950-09-17
Gennady Yanayev
age 9
Konstantin Chernenko
age 35
Gordon Brown
born 1951-02-20
Tony Blair
born 1953-05-06
John Major
age 3
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 41
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 31
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 38
Juan José Arévalo
age 42
Charles III
born 1948-11-14
Thomas Gage
age 228
Malcolm X
age 21
Jo Ann Robinson
age 34
Colin Powell
age 9
Aung San Suu Kyi
age 1
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 40
Robert McNamara
age 30
Fidel Castro
age 20
Xi Jinping
born 1953-06-15
Charles G. Dawes
age 81
John Nance Garner
age 78
Henry A. Wallace
age 58
Spiro Agnew
age 28
Peng Dehuai
age 48
Al Gore
born 1948-03-31
William Rehnquist
age 22
Warren E. Burger
age 39
Charles Evans Hughes
age 84
Anthony Eden
age 49
Albert Speer
age 41
Donald Trump
age 6 months
Yuri Andropov
age 32
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 24
Warren Christopher
age 21
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 16
John Connally
age 29
Ellison Onizuka
age 5 months
Ronald McNair
born 1950-10-21
Zhu Rongji
age 18
Zeng Qinghong
age 7
Soong Ching-ling
age 53
Zhu De
age 60
Puyi
age 40
Nelson Rockefeller
age 38
Dan Quayle
born 1947-02-04
John J. Pershing
age 86
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 67
Gerd von Rundstedt
age 71
Erich von Manstein
age 59
Rodion Malinovsky
age 48