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Events

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
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Korean War 1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11

People

Joseph Stalin age 73
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Elizabeth II age 26
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 58
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Harry S. Truman age 68
President - United States
Hirohito age 51
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 62
President - Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek age 64
President - Republic of China
Haile Selassie age 60
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 32
Shah - Iran
Fulgencio Batista age 51
President - Cuba
Getúlio Vargas age 70
President - Brazil
Walter Ulbricht age 59
First Secretary - East Germany
Theodor Heuss age 68
President - Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 21
King - Belgium
Vincent Auriol age 67
President - France
Jacobo Árbenz age 38
President - Guatemala
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 51
President - Mexico
Fuad II of Egypt age 6 months
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Trường Chinh age 45
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Fawzi Selu age 47
President - Syria
Trygve Lie age 56
Secretary-General - United Nations
Winston Churchill age 77
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Jawaharlal Nehru age 62
Prime Minister - India
Konrad Adenauer age 76
Chancellor - Germany
David Ben-Gurion age 65
Prime Minister - Israel
Josip Broz Tito age 60
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Zhou Enlai age 54
Premier - People's Republic of China
Éamon de Valera age 69
Taoiseach - Ireland
Alcide De Gasperi age 71
Prime Minister - Italy
Shigeru Yoshida age 73
Prime Minister - Japan
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 65
Secretary General - NATO
Souvanna Phouma age 50
Prime Minister - Laos
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 41
Prime Minister - Poland
Chen Cheng age 55
Premier - Republic of China
Brock Chisholm age 56
Director-General - World Health Organization
Aly Maher Pasha age 70
Prime Minister - Egypt
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 54
President - World Bank
Kim Il-sung age 40
Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
D. F. Malan age 78
Prime Minister - South Africa
Fred M. Vinson age 62
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Alben W. Barkley age 74
Vice President - United States
Li Zongren age 62
Vice President - Republic of China
Deng Xiaoping age 47
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Omar Bradley age 59
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Peng Dehuai age 53
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 66
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 50
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 56
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 52
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dean Acheson age 59
Secretary of State - United States
J. Lawton Collins age 56
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Rab Butler age 49
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Robert A. Lovett age 56
Secretary of Defense - United States
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 52
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John Wesley Snyder age 57
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 43
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 57
Attorney General - United States
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 48
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 57
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clement Attlee age 69
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Robert H. Jackson age 60
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Tom C. Clark age 52
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton age 68
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 68
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
James Moroka age 61
President - African National Congress
Tomás Ó Dubhghaill age 35
President - Sinn Féin
Richard Nixon age 39
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 43
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 41
Senate - United States
John F. Kennedy age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Gerald Ford age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Anthony Eden age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Wilson age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Callaghan age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Heath age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roy Jenkins age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Christian Herter age 57
House of Representatives - United States
Lloyd Bentsen age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Denis Healey age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Gaitskell age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Iain Macleod age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Reginald Maudling age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Christopher Soames age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Carr age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Barber age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Frank Soskice age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Brown age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Foot age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jo Grimond age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Earl Warren age 61
Governor of California - United States
Thomas E. Dewey age 50
Governor of New York - United States
Herman Talmadge age 39
Governor of Georgia - United States
Frank Lausche age 56
Governor of Ohio - United States
Allan Shivers age 44
Governor of Texas - United States
Sid McMath age 40
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John S. Battle age 62
Governor of Virginia - United States
Paul A. Dever age 49
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Alfred E. Driscoll age 49
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Theodore McKeldin age 51
Governor of Maryland - United States
Henry F. Schricker age 68
Governor of Indiana - United States
Barber Conable age 29
New York State Senate - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 24
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 59
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 51
President - Indonesia
Pius XII age 76
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 76
King - Saudi Arabia
Juan Perón age 56
President - Argentina
Norodom Sihanouk age 29
King - Cambodia
Syngman Rhee age 77
President - South Korea
Rajendra Prasad age 67
President - India
Celâl Bayar age 69
President - Turkey
Haakon VII of Norway age 80
King - Norway
Chaim Weizmann age 77
President - Israel
Juliana of the Netherlands age 43
Queen - Netherlands
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 81
President - Finland
Frederik IX of Denmark age 53
King - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 69
King - Sweden
Rafael Trujillo age 60
President - Dominican Republic
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 29
Prince - Monaco
Luigi Einaudi age 78
President - Italy
Mohammed V of Morocco age 43
Sultan - Morocco
Bolesław Bierut age 60
President - Poland
Talal I of Jordan age 43
King - Jordan
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 56
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 53
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 58
President - Iceland
Elpidio Quirino age 61
President - Philippines
Anastasio Somoza García age 56
President - Nicaragua
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 44
President - Bolivia
William Tubman age 56
President - Liberia
Theodor Körner age 79
President - Austria
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 41
Sultan - Oman
Seán T. O'Kelly age 69
President - Ireland
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 53
President - Chile
Bechara El Khoury age 62
President - Lebanon
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 52
Queen - Tonga
Manuel Odría age 54
President - Peru
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 58
President - Portugal
Galo Plaza age 46
President - Ecuador
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 57
Emir - Kuwait
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 45
President - Venezuela
Omer Nishani age 65
President - Albania
Otilio Ulate Blanco age 60
President - Costa Rica
Federico Chávez age 71
President - Paraguay
Paul Magloire age 45
President - Haiti
Josip Vidmar age 56
President - Slovenia
Juan Manuel Gálvez age 65
President - Honduras
Jonas Žemaitis age 43
President - Lithuania
Ba U age 65
President - Myanmar
Karl Kobelt age 61
President - Switzerland
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 50
Regent - Lesotho
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 60
Emir - Qatar
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 70
President - Mongolia
Miha Marinko age 51
President - Slovenia
Enver Hoxha age 43
Prime Minister - Albania
António de Oliveira Salazar age 63
Prime Minister - Portugal
Urho Kekkonen age 51
Prime Minister - Finland
Adnan Menderes age 53
Prime Minister - Turkey
Willem Drees age 66
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 55
Prime Minister - Thailand
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 50
Prime Minister - Romania
Robert Menzies age 57
Prime Minister - Australia
Tage Erlander age 51
Prime Minister - Sweden
Louis St. Laurent age 70
Prime Minister - Canada
U Nu age 45
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 58
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 34
Prime Minister - Tonga
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 35
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Leopold Figl age 49
Chancellor - Austria
Oscar Torp age 59
Prime Minister - Norway
István Dobi age 53
Prime Minister - Hungary
Nikolaos Plastiras age 68
Prime Minister - Greece
Erik Eriksen age 49
Prime Minister - Denmark
Jean Van Houtte age 45
Prime Minister - Belgium
Dudley Senanayake age 41
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Otto Tief age 63
Prime Minister - Estonia
Vladimir Bakarić age 40
Prime Minister - Croatia
Steingrímur Steinþórsson age 59
Prime Minister - Iceland
Pierre Dupong age 67
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
George Borg Olivier age 41
Prime Minister - Malta
Jigme Palden Dorji age 32
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Matrika Prasad Koirala age 40
Prime Minister - Nepal
Zenón Noriega Agüero age 52
Prime Minister - Peru
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 60
Prime Minister - Jordan
Sidney Holland age 58
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Wilopo age 42
Prime Minister - Indonesia
Alexander Frick age 42
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Prince Shah Mahmud Khan of Afghanistan age 65
Prime Minister - Afghanistan