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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
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Marshall Plan 1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Yangtze River Crossing campaign 1949-04-20 - 1949-06-02
Shanghai Campaign 1949-05-12 - 1949-06-02

People

Paulias Matane age 17
José Patricio Guggiari age 65
Ricardo Leoncio Elías Arias age 74
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 8
Borislav Paravac age 6
Yasuji Okamura age 65
Leon Brittan age 9
Joseph Grew age 69
W. Michael Blumenthal age 23
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 69
Peter Pace age 3
Norman Lamont age 7
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 2
Harry Crerar age 61
Fernando Romeo Lucas García age 24
Zhang Guotao age 51
Józef Haller age 75
Dragoljub Ojdanić age 7
Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven age 53
Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia age 52
Erhard Raus age 60
Raoul Salan age 49
Prince George William of Hanover age 34
Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg age 46
Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke age 62
Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia age 42
Infanta María Cristina of Spain age 37
Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia age 21
Infante Alfonso of Spain age 7
Maximilian, Margrave of Baden age 15
James L. Jones age 5
José Serrato age 80
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 33
John N. Mitchell age 35
Òscar Ribas Reig age 12
França Van-Dúnem age 14
James Carlisle age 11
Vere Bird age 38
Arturo Rawson age 64
Ninian Stephen age 25
Abdus Sattar age 43
Uladzimier Yarmoshyn age 6
Dimitar Iliev Popov age 21
Gérard Kango Ouédraogo age 23
Sisowath Sirik Matak age 35
Abel Goumba age 22
Saleh Kebzabo age 2
Anselmo Alliegro y Milá age 50
Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy age 29
Isidro Ayora age 69
Otto Arosemena age 23
Arturo Armando Molina age 21
Bailey Olter age 17
Emil Jónsson age 46
Steingrímur Steinþórsson age 56
Seydou Diarra age 15
Mustafa Ben Halim age 28
Bronislovas Lubys age 10
Mohamed Amin Didi age 38
Modibo Keita age 6
Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici age 15
Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly age 6
Ion Ciubuc age 5
Azzeddine Laraki age 20
Ahmed Laraki age 17
Kirti Nidhi Bista age 22
Man Mohan Adhikari age 28
Adolfo Díaz age 73
Ivar Lykke age 77
Thomas Remengesau age 17
Carlos Mota Pinto age 12
Nicolae Rădescu age 75
Dominique Mbonyumutwa age 28
Habib Thiam age 16
Mamadou Dia age 38
Frank Kabui age 3
Ramsewak Shankar age 11
Fred Ramdat Misier age 22
Kurt Furgler age 24
René Felber age 16
Philipp Etter age 57
Hau Pei-tsun age 29
Salim Ahmed Salim age 7
Bonfoh Abass age 5 months
Rachid Sfar age 15
Valentyn Symonenko age 8
Juan José de Amézaga age 68
Alberto Demicheli age 52
Walter Lini age 7
Isaías Medina Angarita age 51
Edward Babiuch age 21
Eric Arturo Delvalle age 12
Higinio Morínigo age 52
Manuel Portela Valladares age 82
Jeremy Thorpe age 20
Sultan al-Atrash age 58
Jonathan M. Wainwright age 65
Du Yuesheng age 60
Walter Weiß age 58
John Peters Humphrey age 44
Vicente Rojo Lluch age 54
Walter Krueger age 68
Juan Yagüe Blanco age 57
Nikolaos Trikoupis age 81
Mahmoud Taleghani age 38
Théoneste Bagosora age 7
Pauline Nyiramasuhuko age 3
Yoshihito, Prince Katsura age 1
Hanako, Princess Hitachi age 8
Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia age 57
Lennart Bernadotte age 40
Walther Nehring age 56
Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin age 57
Soong Ai-ling age 59
Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (born 1891) age 57
Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg age 62
Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt age 50
Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria age 78
Albert, 8th Prince of Thurn and Taxis age 82
Philipp Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg age 55
Lady Pamela Hicks age 20
Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz age 13
Johan Ferner age 21
Princess Marie Louise of Bulgaria age 16
Richard Russell Jr. age 51
Ted Strickland age 7
Phil Bredesen age 5
Norman Tebbit age 18
Jim Guy Tucker age 5
Mika Špiljak age 32
Arthur Goldberg age 40
Potter Stewart age 34
Clark Clifford age 42
Robert A. Lovett age 53
Ylli Bufi age 12 months
Mehdi Frashëri age 77
Ali ibn Flais age 4
Youssef Yousfi age 7
Simon Vratsian age 67
Carl Vaugoin age 75
A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury age 16
Abu Sayeed Chowdhury age 28
Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem age 33
Moudud Ahmed age 8
Errol Barrow age 29
Hyenadz Navitski age 4 months
Juan Pereda age 17
Mamerto Urriolagoitía age 53
Stoyan Danev age 91
Penn Nouth age 43
Miguel Mariano Gómez age 59
Carlos Arroyo age 55
Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno age 89
Tesfaye Genre Kidan age 12
Timoci Bavadra age 14
Penaia Ganilau age 30
Urho Castrén age 62
Casimir Oyé-Mba age 7
Otar Patsatsia age 20
Hudson Austin age 11
Paul Magloire age 41
Jacques-Édouard Alexis age 1
Lajos Dinnyés age 48
Björn Þórðarson age 70
Hugh Shearer age 26
Adnan Badran age 13
Mudar Badran age 15
Phoumi Vongvichit age 40
Mamohato of Lesotho age 8
Mustafa Ould Salek age 13
Mohammed Ben Aarafa age 63
Mário da Graça Machungo age 8
Norman Kirk age 26
Hong Song-nam age 19
António Maria da Silva age 77
Ján Čarnogurský age 5
Johan Kraag age 35
Marcel Pilet-Golaz age 59
Alphons Egli age 24
Leon Schlumpf age 24
Sami al-Henaaui age 51
Rashidi Kawawa age 23
Hédi Baccouche age 19
Sadi Irmak age 45
Filoimea Telito age 4
Andrés Martínez Trueba age 65
Utkir Tukhtamurodovich Sultonov age 9
Harmodio Arias Madrid age 62
Natalicio González age 51
Rafael Franco age 52
Abdirizak Haji Hussein age 24
Babiker Awadalla age 32
César Villanueva age 2
Xu Xiangqian age 47
Seán Lester age 60
Donald Regan age 30
Lyman Lemnitzer age 49
Nicholas F. Brady age 19
Otozō Yamada age 67
Nebojša Pavković age 3