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Events

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
Indonesian National Revolution 1945-08-17 - 1949-12-27
International Military Tribunal for the Far East 1946-04-29 - 1948-11-12
Linjiang Campaign 1946-12-17 - 1947-04-01
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01

People

Joseph Stalin age 68
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Mao Zedong age 53
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Harry S. Truman age 62
President - United States
Hirohito age 45
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 56
President - Vietnam
George VI age 51
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 54
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 27
Shah - Iran
Leopold III of Belgium age 45
King - Belgium
Vincent Auriol age 62
President - France
Farouk of Egypt age 27
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 46
President - Mexico
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 63
President - Brazil
Trường Chinh age 40
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Shukri al-Quwatli age 55
President - Syria
Juan José Arévalo age 42
President - Guatemala
Trygve Lie age 50
Secretary-General - United Nations
Josip Broz Tito age 54
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Clement Attlee age 64
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Éamon de Valera age 64
Taoiseach - Ireland
Alcide De Gasperi age 65
Prime Minister - Italy
Shigeru Yoshida age 68
Prime Minister - Japan
Jan Smuts age 76
Prime Minister - South Africa
J. Sigfrid Edström age 76
President - International Olympic Committee
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 35
Prime Minister - Poland
T. V. Soong age 55
Premier - Republic of China
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 43
Prime Minister - Cuba
Mahmud Fahmi al-Nuqrashi age 58
Prime Minister - Egypt
Fred M. Vinson age 57
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Deng Xiaoping age 42
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 48
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 61
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 45
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
William D. Leahy age 71
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
He Long age 50
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 47
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 56
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
George C. Marshall age 66
Secretary of State - United States
Tom C. Clark age 47
Attorney General - United States
Robert P. Patterson age 56
Secretary of War - United States
John Wesley Snyder age 51
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 65
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 64
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 52
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Winston Churchill age 72
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Chiang Kai-shek age 59
Chairman - Kuomintang
Robert H. Jackson age 55
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stafford Cripps age 57
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Frank Murphy age 56
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Hynd age 44
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 63
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 54
President - African National Congress
Margaret Buckley age 67
President - Sinn Féin
Alben W. Barkley age 69
Senate - United States
J. Howard McGrath age 43
Senate - United States
John F. Kennedy age 29
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Nixon age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Anthony Eden age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Wilson age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Callaghan age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Christian Herter age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Gaitskell age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 29
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Frank Soskice age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Brown age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Foot age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ernest Bevin age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Earl Warren age 55
Governor of California - United States
Thomas E. Dewey age 44
Governor of New York - United States
Herman Talmadge age 33
Governor of Georgia - United States
Beauford H. Jester age 54
Governor of Texas - United States
Thomas J. Herbert age 52
Governor of Ohio - United States
Benjamin T. Laney age 50
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Robert F. Bradford age 44
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
William M. Tuck age 50
Governor of Virginia - United States
William Preston Lane Jr. age 54
Governor of Maryland - United States
Alfred E. Driscoll age 44
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Ralph F. Gates age 54
Governor of Indiana - United States
Barber Conable age 24
New York State Senate - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 19
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 54
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 45
President - Indonesia
Pius XII age 71
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 71
King - Saudi Arabia
Juan Perón age 51
President - Argentina
Norodom Sihanouk age 24
King - Cambodia
İsmet İnönü age 62
President - Turkey
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 66
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 74
King - Norway
Abdullah I of Jordan age 65
King - Jordan
Gustaf V of Sweden age 88
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 76
King - Denmark
Michael I of Romania age 25
King - Kingdom of Romania
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 76
President - Finland
Karl Renner age 76
President - Austria
Rafael Trujillo age 55
President - Dominican Republic
Mohammed V of Morocco age 37
Sultan - Morocco
Bolesław Bierut age 54
President - Poland
Sveinn Björnsson age 66
President - Iceland
Manuel Roxas age 55
President - Philippines
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 51
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 47
King - Eswatini
Rómulo Betancourt age 39
President - Venezuela
Anastasio Somoza García age 51
President - Nicaragua
William Tubman age 51
President - Liberia
Óscar Carmona age 77
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 76
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 36
Sultan - Oman
Władysław Raczkiewicz age 62
President - Poland
Jigme Wangchuck age 42
King - Bhutan
Seán T. O'Kelly age 64
President - Ireland
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 48
President - Chile
Bechara El Khoury age 56
President - Lebanon
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 46
Queen - Tonga
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 53
President - Peru
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 55
President - Colombia
Tiburcio Carías age 71
President - Honduras
Omer Nishani age 60
President - Albania
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 62
Emir - Kuwait
Dumarsais Estimé age 46
President - Haiti
Philipp Etter age 55
President - Switzerland
Juan José de Amézaga age 66
President - Uruguay
Higinio Morínigo age 50
President - Paraguay
Josip Vidmar age 51
President - Slovenia
Teodoro Picado Michalski age 47
President - Costa Rica
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 92
Emir - Qatar
Tomás Monje age 62
President - Bolivia
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 45
Regent - Lesotho
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 59
President - Panama
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 65
President - Mongolia
Miha Marinko age 46
President - Slovenia
Lord Mountbatten age 46
Viceroy - British Raj
Enver Hoxha age 38
Prime Minister - Albania
António de Oliveira Salazar age 57
Prime Minister - Portugal
Georgi Dimitrov age 64
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 72
Prime Minister - Canada
Einar Gerhardsen age 49
Prime Minister - Norway
Tage Erlander age 45
Prime Minister - Sweden
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 52
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Ben Chifley age 61
Prime Minister - Australia
Petru Groza age 62
Prime Minister - Romania
Leopold Figl age 44
Chancellor - Austria
Mauno Pekkala age 57
Prime Minister - Finland
Nuri as-Said age 59
Prime Minister - Iraq
Louis Beel age 44
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Camille Huysmans age 75
Prime Minister - Belgium
Sutan Sjahrir age 38
Prime Minister - Indonesia
Riad Al Solh age 54
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Ferenc Nagy age 43
Prime Minister - Hungary
Knud Kristensen age 66
Prime Minister - Denmark
Recep Peker age 58
Prime Minister - Turkey
Otto Tief age 57
Prime Minister - Estonia
Vladimir Bakarić age 34
Prime Minister - Croatia
Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson age 52
Prime Minister - Iceland
Pierre Dupong age 62
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Peter Fraser age 62
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Dimitrios Maximos age 73
Prime Minister - Greece
Thawan Thamrongnawasawat age 45
Prime Minister - Thailand
Sisowath Youtevong age 34
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Alexander Frick age 37
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Prince Shah Mahmud Khan of Afghanistan age 59
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Makonnen Endelkachew age 57
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Blažo Jovanović age 39
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Solomone Ula Ata age 63
Prime Minister - Tonga
Rodolfo Llopis age 52
Prime Minister - Spain
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 46
Governor-General - Australia
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 57
Governor-General - New Zealand
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 65
Governor-General - Madagascar
Donald Trump age 8 months
Albert Einstein age 68
Ronald Reagan age 36
Nelson Mandela age 28
Mahatma Gandhi age 77
George W. Bush age 7 months
Joe Biden age 4
Pablo Picasso age 65
Charlie Chaplin age 57
Elizabeth II age 20
Martin Luther King Jr. age 18
Pope Francis age 10
Che Guevara age 18
Bill Clinton age 6 months
Charles de Gaulle age 56