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Events

Treaty of Bardo 1881-05-12 - 1956-03-20
Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1922-12-29 - 1991-12-12
Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Lateran Treaty 1929-02-11 - 1985-06-03
Soviet repressions of Polish citizens (1939–1946) 1939 - 1946
Occupation of the Baltic states 1940 - 1991
Eastern Front (World War II) 1941-06-22 - 1955-01-21
Moscow Conference (1943) 1941-10-01 - 1947-03-10
Manhattan Project 1942-08-13 - 1947-01-01
Alsos Mission 1943 - 1945-10-15
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Operation Paperclip 1945 - 1959
Chinese Communist Revolution 1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
Indonesian National Revolution 1945-08-17 - 1949-12-27
Shangdang Campaign 1945-09-10 - 1945-10-12

People

Joseph Stalin age 66
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Mao Zedong age 51
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Harry S. Truman age 61
President - United States
Hirohito age 44
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 55
President - Vietnam
George VI age 49
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 53
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 25
Shah - Iran
Getúlio Vargas age 63
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 75
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 43
King - Belgium
Farouk of Egypt age 25
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 22
King - Yugoslavia
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 48
President - Mexico
Trường Chinh age 38
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Juan José Arévalo age 41
President - Guatemala
Charles de Gaulle age 54
Chairman of the Provisional Government - France
Josip Broz Tito age 53
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Clement Attlee age 62
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Éamon de Valera age 62
Taoiseach - Ireland
Jan Smuts age 75
Prime Minister - South Africa
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 57
Prime Minister - Japan
J. Sigfrid Edström age 74
President - International Olympic Committee
Ferruccio Parri age 55
Prime Minister - Italy
T. V. Soong age 53
Premier - Republic of China
Seán Lester age 57
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Mahmud Fahmi al-Nuqrashi age 57
Prime Minister - Egypt
Faris al-Khoury age 67
Prime Minister - Syria
Félix Lancís Sánchez age 44
Prime Minister - Cuba
Harlan F. Stone age 73
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Deng Xiaoping age 41
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 46
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 59
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 44
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
William D. Leahy age 70
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
He Long age 49
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 45
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
George C. Marshall age 64
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
James F. Byrnes age 63
Secretary of State - United States
Fred M. Vinson age 55
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Tom C. Clark age 46
Attorney General - United States
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 60
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 63
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 68
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 63
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 50
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Winston Churchill age 70
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Chiang Kai-shek age 57
Chairman - Kuomintang
Robert H. Jackson age 53
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stafford Cripps age 56
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Frank Murphy age 55
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 52
President - African National Congress
Clement Davies age 61
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
John Hynd age 43
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Margaret Buckley age 66
President - Sinn Féin
J. Howard McGrath age 41
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
H. Struve Hensel age 44
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 67
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 87
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Anthony Eden age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Wilson age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Callaghan age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ernest Bevin age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Christian Herter age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Michael Foot age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Rab Butler age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Gaitskell age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 27
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Brown age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Frank Soskice age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Earl Warren age 54
Governor of California - United States
Thomas E. Dewey age 43
Governor of New York - United States
Frank Lausche age 49
Governor of Ohio - United States
Walter E. Edge age 71
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Coke R. Stevenson age 57
Governor of Texas - United States
Maurice J. Tobin age 44
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Herbert O'Conor age 48
Governor of Maryland - United States
Colgate Darden age 48
Governor of Virginia - United States
Benjamin T. Laney age 48
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Jim Nance McCord age 66
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Ralph F. Gates age 52
Governor of Indiana - United States
Barber Conable age 22
New York State Senate - United States
Francisco Franco age 52
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 44
President - Indonesia
Pius XII age 69
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 69
King - Saudi Arabia
Norodom Sihanouk age 22
King - Cambodia
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 78
President - Finland
İsmet İnönü age 61
President - Turkey
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 65
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 73
King - Norway
Edvard Beneš age 61
President - Czechoslovakia
Gustaf V of Sweden age 87
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 75
King - Denmark
Michael I of Romania age 23
King - Kingdom of Romania
Rafael Trujillo age 53
President - Dominican Republic
Ananda Mahidol age 20
King - Thailand
Mohammed V of Morocco age 36
Sultan - Morocco
Bolesław Bierut age 53
President - Poland
Sveinn Björnsson age 64
President - Iceland
Archibald Wavell age 62
Viceroy - British Raj
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 49
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 46
King - Eswatini
Sergio Osmeña age 67
President - Philippines
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
Bechara El Khoury age 55
President - Lebanon
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 45
Queen - Tonga
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 58
President - Argentina
Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din age 76
King-Imam of Yemen - Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 51
President - Peru
Tiburcio Carías age 69
President - Honduras
Gualberto Villarroel age 36
President - Bolivia
Zdeněk Fierlinger age 54
Prime Minister - Czechoslovakia
Juan Antonio Rios age 56
President - Chile
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 59
President - Colombia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 60
Emir - Kuwait
Mwambutsa IV of Burundi age 33
Mwami - Kingdom of Burundi
Juan José de Amézaga age 64
President - Uruguay
Isaías Medina Angarita age 48
President - Venezuela
Higinio Morínigo age 48
President - Paraguay
Josip Vidmar age 49
President - Slovenia
Teodoro Picado Michalski age 45
President - Costa Rica
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 90
Emir - Qatar
Khalifa bin Harub age 66
Sultan of Zanzibar - Sultanate of Zanzibar
Mutara III Rudahigwa age 34
Mwami - Kingdom of Rwanda
Élie Lescot age 61
President - Haiti
Eduard von Steiger age 64
President - Switzerland
Charles Vyner Brooke age 71
Rajah of Sarawak - Raj of Sarawak
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 43
Regent - Lesotho
Salvador Castaneda Castro age 58
President - El Salvador
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 57
President - Panama
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 64
President - Mongolia
Alvaro Casali age 49
Captain Regent - San Marino
Mir Osman Ali Khan age 59
Nizam of Hyderabad - Hyderabad State
Enver Hoxha age 36
Prime Minister - Albania
António de Oliveira Salazar age 56
Prime Minister - Portugal
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 74
Prime Minister - Finland
Karl Renner age 74
Chancellor - Austria
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 70
Prime Minister - Canada
Einar Gerhardsen age 48
Prime Minister - Norway
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 50
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Per Albin Hansson age 59
Prime Minister - Sweden
Ben Chifley age 60
Prime Minister - Australia
Petru Groza age 60
Prime Minister - Romania
Achille Van Acker age 47
Prime Minister - Belgium
Kimon Georgiev age 63
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Ólafur Thors age 53
Prime Minister - Iceland
Şükrü Saracoğlu age 58
Prime Minister - Turkey
Béla Miklós age 55
Prime Minister - Hungary
Wim Schermerhorn age 50
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Son Ngoc Thanh age 36
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Otto Tief age 56
Prime Minister - Estonia
Vilhelm Buhl age 63
Prime Minister - Denmark
Vladimir Bakarić age 33
Prime Minister - Croatia
Pierre Dupong age 60
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Peter Fraser age 61
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Petros Voulgaris age 62
Prime Minister - Greece
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 60
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Hamdi Pachachi age 59
Prime Minister - Iraq
Alexander Frick age 35
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Makonnen Endelkachew age 55
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Blažo Jovanović age 38
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Solomone Ula Ata age 62
Prime Minister - Tonga
Juddha Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 70
Prime Minister - Nepal
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 45
Governor-General - Australia
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 59
Governor-General - New Zealand
Pierre de Saint-Mart age 60
Governor-General - Madagascar
Albert Einstein age 66
Ronald Reagan age 34
Nelson Mandela age 27
Mahatma Gandhi age 76
Joe Biden age 2
Pablo Picasso age 63
Charlie Chaplin age 56
Elizabeth II age 19
John F. Kennedy age 28
Martin Luther King Jr. age 16
Pope Francis age 8