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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

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
Thomas Cassin Kinkaid age 61
José Enrique Varela age 58
Saad el-Shazly age 27
Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu age 44
Takako Shimazu age 10
Dündar Ali Osman age 18
Luo Ronghuan age 46
Chiang Wei-kuo age 32
Franz Wilhelm Prinz von Preussen age 5
Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria age 31
Archduke Maximilian of Austria (1895–1952) age 54
Archduke Felix of Austria age 32
Song Hye-rim age 10
Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 52
Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse age 22
George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood age 26
Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein age 57
Marianne Bernadotte age 24
Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia age 49
Herbert H. Lehman age 71
Džemal Bijedić age 32
Branko Mikulić age 20
Viliam Široký age 47
Abdullah al-Sallal age 32
Zeng Qinghong age 9
Rong Yiren age 33
Nicholas Katzenbach age 27
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 40
Ibrahim Biçakçiu age 43
Redha Malek age 17
Abdelmalek Benhabyles age 28
Lúcio Lara age 20
Mohammad Mohammadullah age 27
Elliott Belgrave age 18
Mikhail Chyhir age 12 months
Syarhei Linh age 12
Celso Torrelio age 15
Alberto Natusch age 16
David Toro age 50
Lyuben Berov age 23
Prince Louis Rwagasore of Burundi age 17
Daniel Oduber Quirós age 27
Teodoro Picado Michalski age 49
Franjo Gregurić age 9
Hrvoje Šarinić age 14
Carlos Manuel Piedra age 54
Joseph Iléo age 27
Eliud Williams age 9 months
Antonio Imbert Barrera age 28
Atef Sedki age 18
Ali Lutfi Mahmud age 13
Álvaro Magaña age 23
Mahendra Chaudhry age 7
Nii Amaa Ollennu age 43
Dimitrios Maximos age 75
Konstantinos Kollias age 48
Panagiotis Pipinelis age 50
Eric Gairy age 27
Jean-Jacques Honorat age 18
Ali Sastroamidjojo age 46
Sa'dun Hammadi age 18
Howard Cooke age 33
Zeid bin Shaker age 14
Sisavath Keobounphanh age 21
Augusts Kirhenšteins age 76
Valdis Birkavs age 6
Abdul Ati al-Obeidi age 9
George Borg Olivier age 37
Ahmed Bahnini age 40
Mohammed Karim Lamrani age 30
Maati Bouabid age 21
Ahmed Osman age 19
Khin Nyunt age 9
San Yu age 31
Geoffrey Palmer age 7
Emiliano Chamorro Vargas age 78
Ngiratkel Etpison age 24
Adelino da Palma Carlos age 44
Ion Gigurtu age 62
Edmund Lawrence age 17
Nikola Šainović age 5 months
Dragan Tomić age 13
Östen Undén age 62
Rudolf Gnägi age 31
Hans-Peter Tschudi age 35
Pierre Aubert age 22
Albert Meyer age 79
Georges-André Chevallaz age 34
Johannes Baumann age 74
Pierre Graber age 40
Ahmad al-Khatib age 16
Jamil Mardam Bey age 56
Chang Chun-hsiung age 11
Cynthia A. Pratt age 3
Ellis Clarke age 31
Noor Hassanali age 30
Bahi Ladgham age 36
Hamed Karoui age 21
Ali Bozer age 23
Hasan Saka age 64
Toaripi Lauti age 20
Abdulhashim Mutalov age 2
Pedro Carmona age 7
Tomás Romero Pereira age 62
Luis Alberto Riart age 68
Ricardo Pérez Godoy age 43
Mohamed Osman Jawari age 3
Lee Hong-koo age 15
Fernando de Santiago y Díaz age 38
Joaquín Chapaprieta age 77
Aníbal Torres age 6
Rosalio Lara age 26
Fawzi al-Qawuqji age 59
C. Douglas Dillon age 39
Asaka Yasuhiko age 61
Mustafa Tlass age 17
Gojko Šušak age 4
Mile Mrkšić age 1
Krim Belkacem age 26
Jacques Massu age 41
Shigeko Higashikuni age 23
Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu age 37
Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia age 59
Princess Nina Georgievna of Russia age 47
Şükriye Sultan age 43
Bayezid Osman age 24
Nilufer Hanımsultan age 33
Richmond K. Turner age 64
Chiang Fang-liang age 33
Prince Wolfgang of Hesse age 52
Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg age 83
Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1919–2010) age 29
Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine age 40
Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 85
Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 42
Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma age 25
Princess Margarita of Baden age 16
Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern age 16
Katherine Karađorđević age 5
Mark White age 9
John W. Bricker age 55
Ali Nasir Muhammad age 8
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 43
Byron White age 31
John Marshall Harlan II age 50
Pjetër Arbnori age 14
Rexhep Mitrovica age 61
Pandeli Evangjeli age 90
Belaid Abdesselam age 20
Ismail Hamdani age 19
Lopo do Nascimento age 8
Yaqub Mammadov age 8
A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury age 33
Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar age 17
Aloys Van de Vyvere age 78
Adrien Houngbédji age 7
Jigme Palden Dorji age 29
Néstor Guillén age 59
Tomás Monje age 64
Carlos Quintanilla age 61
Nikola Mushanov age 77
Georgi Kʹoseivanov age 65
Said Mohamed Jaffar age 31
Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim age 13
Julio Acosta García age 77
Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich age 42
Ali Sabri age 28
Ilias Tsirimokos age 42
Panagiotis Poulitsas age 67
Alexandros Othonaios age 70
Jean-Marie Doré age 10
Prosper Avril age 11
Marc Bazin age 17
Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés age 46
Djuanda Kartawidjaja age 38