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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
Marshall Plan 1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Siege of Changchun 1948-05-23 - 1948-10-19
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Berlin Blockade 1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12
Liaoshen Campaign 1948-09-12 - 1948-11-02
Taiyuan Campaign 1948-10-05 - 1949-04-24
Operation Yoav 1948-10-15 - 1948-10-22

People

Abdul Hamid al-Bakkoush age 15
Gerard Batliner age 19
Django Sissoko age 9 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 55
Domingos Oliveira age 75
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 56
Arthur Văitoianu age 84
Gheorghe Mironescu age 74
Milton Cato age 33
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 17
Nathaniel Waena age 2
Roger Bonvin age 41
Ernst Brugger age 34
Markus Feldmann age 51
Rodolphe Rubattel age 52
Jean-Marie Musy age 72
Walther Stampfli age 63
Fawzi Selu age 43
Muhammad Mustafa Mero age 7
Vincent Siew age 9
Kamuta Latasi age 12
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas age 9
Kazimierz Świtalski age 62
Manuel María Ponce Brousset age 74
Hassan Abshir Farah age 3
Umar Arteh Ghalib age 18
Yehude Simon age 1
Paik Sun-yup age 27
Xue Yue age 51
Halfdan T. Mahler age 25
Nam Il age 33
Nematollah Nassiri age 37
Renya Mutaguchi age 60
Daisy Bates age 33
Friedrich Schulz age 51
Blago Zadro age 4
Rudolf von Bünau age 58
P. C. Chang age 56
Marcel Maurice Bigeard age 32
Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai age 3
Trần Văn Trà age 30
Mario Benjamín Menéndez age 18
Kazuko Takatsukasa age 19
Prince Nikita Alexandrovich of Russia age 48
Behice Hanım age 66
Nevzad Hanım age 46
Şehzade Ömer Faruk age 50
Gastone Gambara age 57
Antoni Chruściel age 53
Valerian Frolov age 53
Wenxiu age 38
Hiro Saga age 34
Kanji Ishiwara age 59
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse-Kassel age 87
Prince Hubertus of Prussia age 39
Princess Alexandrine of Prussia (1915–1980) age 33
Princess Elisabeth Marie of Bavaria age 74
Archduchess Hedwig of Austria age 52
Princess Anna of Saxony (1903–1976) age 45
Infante Alfonso, Duke of Galliera age 61
Carol Lambrino age 28
Magda Lupescu age 53
Paul Philippe of Romania age 2 months
Hartley Shawcross age 46
Hugh Carey age 29
Preston Smith age 36
David Pryor age 14
Herman Talmadge age 35
Richard Codey age 1
Otis Bowen age 30
Bob Taft age 6
Hursid Pasha
İbrahim Hakkı Pasha
Heitarō Kimura age 60
Hubert Gough age 78
Sun Yun-suan age 34
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 41
Archibald Cox age 36
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 44
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 63
Qasdi Mirbah age 10
Sayyid Ahmed Ghazali age 11
Ahmed ibn Bitour age 2
Mulud Hamroush age 5
Zelman Cowen age 29
Richard Casey, Baron Casey age 58
Hafiz Uddin Ahmad age 8
Joseph Conombo age 31
Pié Masumbuko age 17
Sisowath Monireth age 38
Sadou Hayatou age 6
Peter Mafany Musonge age 5
Alfredo González Flores age 71
Koyagialo Ngbase te Gerengo Louis Alphonse age 1
Ahmed Dini Ahmed age 18
Patrick John age 10
Federico Páez age 72
Aly Maher Pasha age 66
Jorge Meléndez Ramírez age 77
Cristino Seriche Bioko age 8
Jona Senilagakali age 18
Tevita Momoedonu age 2
Stilianos Mavromichalis age 49
Antonio Thrasybule Kébreau age 38
Franck Lavaud age 45
Franck Sylvain age 39
Yvon Neptune age 1
Smarck Michel age 11
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro age 18
Sjafruddin Prawiranegara age 37
Burhanuddin Harahap age 31
Naji Talib age 31
Ezzedine Salim age 5
Husayn al-Khalidi age 54
David D. Kpormakpor age 13
Abuzed Omar Dorda age 4
Mohieddin Fikini age 23
Walter Kieber age 17
Pierre Prüm age 62
Barlen Vyapoory age 3
Karl Offmann age 7
Veselin Đuranović age 23
Ahmed Balafrej age 40
Maung Maung age 23
Win Maung age 32
Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie age 55
René Schick age 38
Domingos Leite Pereira age 66
Duarte Leite age 84
Henri Lopès age 11
Kennedy Simmonds age 12
Moustapha Niasse age 8
Thomas Holenstein age 52
Faris al-Khoury age 70
Ata al-Ayyubi age 71
İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil age 40
Fiatau Penitala Teo age 37
Ionatana Ionatana age 9
Antoni Ponikowski age 70
Janusz Jędrzejewicz age 63
Mekere Morauta age 2
Cesar Virata age 17
Wijeyananda Dahanayake age 46
Gianfranco Terenzi age 7
Salomón Lerner Ghitis age 2
Carlos Ferrero age 7
Yawovi Agboyibo age 4
Du Yuming age 43
Su Yu age 41
William E. Simon age 20
Nathan F. Twining age 51
Richard Kleindienst age 25
Liu Huaqing age 32
Vivian Malone Jones age 6
Tikka Khan age 33
Jorge Anaya age 22
Zvonimir Červenko age 21
Života Panić age 14
Lucian Truscott age 53
Toshizō Nishio age 67
Ahmad Ismail Ali age 31
Moshe Carmel age 37
Sandy Woodward age 16
Halvard Lange age 46
Prince Dmitri Alexandrovich of Russia age 47
Natalia Brasova age 68
Şadiye Sultan age 61
Ulviye Sultan age 56
Şehzade Mehmed Abdulaziz age 47
Hanzade Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk) age 25
Ronald Scobie age 55
Prince Karl Franz of Prussia age 31
Archduke Albrecht Franz, Duke of Teschen age 51
Franz Joseph, 9th Prince of Thurn and Taxis age 54
Karl August, 10th Prince of Thurn and Taxis age 50
Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria age 53
Princess Marie Melita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 49
Lady May Abel Smith age 42
Archduke Anton of Austria age 47
Leonida Bagration of Mukhrani age 34
Peter, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein age 26
Princess Claude of Orléans age 4
Erling Lorentzen age 25
Charles Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington age 3
Guillermo Tell Villegas Pulido age 94
Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield age 32
Thomas Kean age 13
Goodwin Knight age 51
Price Daniel age 38
Don Sundquist age 12
Charles Edison age 58
George Busbee age 21
Orval Faubus age 38
Brendan Byrne age 24
Jagjit Singh Aurora age 32