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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
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Malagasy Uprising 1947-03-29 - 1949-02
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-1948 1947-10-22 - 1949-01-01
Siege of Skardu 1948-02-11 - 1948-08-14
Marshall Plan 1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Battle of Jerusalem (1948) 1948-05-15 - 1948-07-18
Siege of Changchun 1948-05-23 - 1948-10-19
Battles of Latrun 1948-05-24 - 1948-07-18
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Operation Pleshet 1948-05-29 - 1948-06-03

People

William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood age 82
Atsuko Ikeda age 17
Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia age 42
Prince Gabriel Constantinovich of Russia age 60
Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia age 50
Princess Xenia Georgievna of Russia age 44
Prince Feodor Alexandrovich of Russia age 49
Prince Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia age 40
Prince Nicholas Romanov age 25
Şehzade Osman Fuad age 53
Yi Un age 50
Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg age 69
Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg age 35
Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria (1879–1962) age 68
Prince Ernst of Hohenberg age 44
Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria (1918–2007) age 30
Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria (1922–1993) age 26
Archduchess Charlotte of Austria age 27
Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 29
James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife age 18
Andreas Prinz von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha age 5
Friedrich Wilhelm Prinz von Hohenzollern age 24
Paul Cellucci age 1 month
Harry F. Byrd age 61
Bill Clements age 31
Winthrop Rockefeller age 36
Douglas Wilder age 17
Chuck Robb age 8
A. A. K. Niazi age 33
İbrahim Edhem Pasha
Akira Mutō age 55
Abd al-Hamid Ibrahimi age 12
Muhammad ibn Ahmad Abd al-Ghani age 21
Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie age 75
Hasan Hasanov age 7
Lloyd Erskine Sandiford age 11
Hugo Ballivián age 47
Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum age 42
Gabriel París Gordillo age 38
Justin Marie Bomboko age 19
Vernon Shaw age 18
Zakaria Mohieddin age 29
Mustafa Khalil age 27
Kamal Hassan Ali age 15
Konstantinos Logothetopoulos age 69
Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas age 55
Konstantinos Dovas age 49
Konstantinos Georgakopoulos age 57
Juan Federico Ponce Vaides age 58
Gustavo Adolfo Espina Salguero age 1
Hérard Abraham age 7
Élie Lescot age 64
Policarpo Paz García age 15
Julio Lozano Díaz age 63
Mohammed Hamza Zubeidi age 10
Zaid al-Rifai age 11
Ahmad Obeidat age 9
Ali Abu al-Ragheb age 2
Abdul Majid Kubar age 39
Abdul Qadir al-Badri age 26
Muhammad Osman Said age 23
Jonas Žemaitis age 39
Adolfas Šleževičius age 4 months
Roger Kolo age 4
Veerasamy Ringadoo age 27
Mbarek Bekkay age 41
Mohamed Benhima age 23
Ba U age 61
Lagumot Harris age 9
Kinza Clodumar age 3
Derog Gioura age 15
Kennan Adeang age 5
Michael Hardie Boys age 16
Walter Nash age 66
Alfonso Oiterong age 23
Augusto de Vasconcelos age 80
Alfred Raoul age 9
Jozef Moravčík age 3
Ezekiel Alebua age 1
Peter Kenilorea age 5
Willi Ritschard age 29
Karl Kobelt age 56
Willy Spühler age 46
Rudolf Minger age 66
Nello Celio age 34
Paul Chaudet age 43
Eduard von Steiger age 66
Friedrich Traugott Wahlen age 49
Hans Streuli age 55
Felix Calonder age 84
Khalid al-Azm age 53
Yu Shyi-kun age 1 month
Arthur Dion Hanna age 20
Naim Talu age 28
Tomasi Puapua age 9
Alberto Héber Usher age 30
Maxime Carlot Korman age 7
Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro Jované age 65
Raimundo Rolón age 45
Zenón Noriega Agüero age 47
Abdullahi Issa age 25
Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein age 37
Hasan Muratović age 8
Beatriz Merino age 6 months
Sebastiano Baggio age 35
Tang Enbo age 48
Harry Hines Woodring age 61
Robert P. Patterson age 57
Hiroshi Nakajima age 20
Griffin Bell age 29
Edwin Meese age 16
Frederick C. Weyand age 31
Abdul Hamid al-Sarraj age 22
G. William Miller age 23
Reginald Maudling age 31
William B. Saxbe age 31
Gerhard von Schwerin age 48
Hugo Österman age 55
Walter Short age 68
Keith Park age 56
Maximilian Fretter-Pico age 56
Donald A. Henderson age 19
Robert L. Eichelberger age 62
José Moscardó Ituarte age 69
Annibale Bergonzoli age 63
Ali Sayyad Shirazi age 3
Adnan Khairallah age 6
Setsuko, Princess Chichibu age 38
Prince Dimitri Romanov age 22
David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven age 29
Ayşe Sultan (daughter of Abdul Hamid II) age 61
Sabiha Sultan age 54
Ahmad Nami age 75
Necla Sultan age 22
Şehzade Ali Vasib age 44
Harun Osman age 16
Hoàng Văn Thái age 33
Prince Sigismund of Prussia (born 1896) age 51
Archduchess Maria Henrietta of Austria age 65
Archduchess Isabella of Austria age 59
Archduke Karl Albrecht of Austria age 59
Princess Auguste of Bavaria (1875–1964) age 73
Robert Hugo, Duke of Parma age 38
Prince Konrad of Bavaria age 64
Angus Ogilvy age 19
Francis Pym age 26
Maurice Strong age 19
Patrick Steptoe age 35
Ahmed Cevat Şakir Pasha
Kingorō Hashimoto age 58
Lee Yuan-tsu age 24
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 42
Benyoucef Benkhedda age 28
Josep Pintat-Solans age 23
Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury age 19
Muhammad Mansur Ali age 29
Tom Adams age 16
Pencho Zlatev age 64
Konstantin Muraviev age 55
Pen Sovan age 12
Long Boret age 15
Simon Achidi Achu age 13
Carlos Dávila age 60
Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde age 14
Zlatko Tomčić age 2
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin age 22
Andrés Ignacio Menéndez age 69
Daniel Ona Ondo age 2
Paulin Obame-Nguema age 13
Léon Mébiame age 13
Bessarion Gugushvili age 3
Dimitrios Kiousopoulos age 56
Petros Voulgaris age 64
Ioannis Theotokis age 67
Ioannis Paraskevopoulos age 47
Nicholas Brathwaite age 22
Carlos Enrique Díaz de León age 33
Eugène Camara age 6
Victor Saúde Maria age 9
Mamadu Ture Kuruma age 1
Joseph Nemours Pierre-Louis age 47
Stenio Vincent age 74
Rosny Smarth age 7
Soekiman Wirjosandjojo age 50
Tahir Yahya age 32
Taha al-Hashimi age 60
Rachid Solh age 21
Alfred Naqqache age 60
Abdul Hamid al-Bakkoush age 14
Gerard Batliner age 19
Django Sissoko age 5 months
Mandé Sidibé age 8
Ba Mamadou Mbaré age 2
Cassam Uteem age 7
Kenos Aroi age 6
Ruben Kun age 6
Sidney Holland age 54
Domingos Oliveira age 74
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 56
Arthur Văitoianu age 84