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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
Berlin Blockade 1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12
Yangtze River Crossing campaign 1949-04-20 - 1949-06-02

People

Paulin Obame-Nguema age 14
Léon Mébiame age 14
Bessarion Gugushvili age 4
Dimitrios Kiousopoulos age 57
Petros Voulgaris age 65
Ioannis Theotokis age 68
Ioannis Paraskevopoulos age 48
Nicholas Brathwaite age 23
Carlos Enrique Díaz de León age 34
Eugène Camara age 7
Victor Saúde Maria age 10
Mamadu Ture Kuruma age 2
Joseph Nemours Pierre-Louis age 48
Stenio Vincent age 75
Rosny Smarth age 8
Soekiman Wirjosandjojo age 51
Tahir Yahya age 33
Taha al-Hashimi age 61
Rachid Solh age 22
Alfred Naqqache age 61
Abdul Hamid al-Bakkoush age 15
Gerard Batliner age 20
Django Sissoko age 1
Mandé Sidibé age 9
Ba Mamadou Mbaré age 3
Cassam Uteem age 8
Kenos Aroi age 7
Ruben Kun age 7
Sidney Holland age 55
Domingos Oliveira age 75
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 57
Arthur Văitoianu age 85
Gheorghe Mironescu age 75
Milton Cato age 33
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 17
Nathaniel Waena age 3
Roger Bonvin age 41
Ernst Brugger age 35
Markus Feldmann age 51
Rodolphe Rubattel age 52
Jean-Marie Musy age 73
Walther Stampfli age 64
Fawzi Selu age 44
Muhammad Mustafa Mero age 8
Vincent Siew age 10
Kamuta Latasi age 12
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas age 10
Kazimierz Świtalski age 63
Manuel María Ponce Brousset age 75
Hassan Abshir Farah age 3
Umar Arteh Ghalib age 19
Yehude Simon age 1
Paik Sun-yup age 28
Xue Yue age 52
Halfdan T. Mahler age 26
Nam Il age 33
Nematollah Nassiri age 37
Renya Mutaguchi age 60
Daisy Bates age 34
Friedrich Schulz age 51
Blago Zadro age 5
Rudolf von Bünau age 58
P. C. Chang age 57
Marcel Maurice Bigeard age 33
Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai age 4
Trần Văn Trà age 31
Mario Benjamín Menéndez age 19
Kazuko Takatsukasa age 19
Prince Nikita Alexandrovich of Russia age 49
Behice Hanım age 66
Nevzad Hanım age 47
Şehzade Ömer Faruk age 51
Gastone Gambara age 58
Antoni Chruściel age 53
Valerian Frolov age 53
Wenxiu age 39
Hiro Saga age 35
Kanji Ishiwara age 60
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse-Kassel age 87
Prince Hubertus of Prussia age 39
Princess Alexandrine of Prussia (1915–1980) age 34
Princess Elisabeth Marie of Bavaria age 75
Archduchess Hedwig of Austria age 52
Princess Anna of Saxony (1903–1976) age 46
Infante Alfonso, Duke of Galliera age 62
Carol Lambrino age 29
Magda Lupescu age 53
Paul Philippe of Romania age 8 months
Hartley Shawcross age 47
Hugh Carey age 30
Preston Smith age 37
David Pryor age 14
Richard Codey age 2
Otis Bowen age 31
Bob Taft age 7
Hursid Pasha
İbrahim Hakkı Pasha
Hubert Gough age 78
Sun Yun-suan age 35
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 41
Archibald Cox age 37
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 45
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 64
Qasdi Mirbah age 11
Sayyid Ahmed Ghazali age 12
Ahmed ibn Bitour age 2
Mulud Hamroush age 6
Zelman Cowen age 29
Richard Casey, Baron Casey age 58
Hafiz Uddin Ahmad age 9
Joseph Conombo age 32
Pié Masumbuko age 17
Sisowath Monireth age 39
Sadou Hayatou age 7
Peter Mafany Musonge age 6
Alfredo González Flores age 71
Koyagialo Ngbase te Gerengo Louis Alphonse age 2
Ahmed Dini Ahmed age 19
Patrick John age 11
Federico Páez age 72
Aly Maher Pasha age 67
Jorge Meléndez Ramírez age 78
Cristino Seriche Bioko age 8
Jona Senilagakali age 19
Tevita Momoedonu age 3
Stilianos Mavromichalis age 50
Antonio Thrasybule Kébreau age 39
Franck Lavaud age 46
Franck Sylvain age 39
Yvon Neptune age 2
Smarck Michel age 12
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro age 18
Burhanuddin Harahap age 32
Naji Talib age 31
Ezzedine Salim age 6
Husayn al-Khalidi age 54
David D. Kpormakpor age 13
Abuzed Omar Dorda age 5
Mohieddin Fikini age 24
Walter Kieber age 18
Pierre Prüm age 62
Barlen Vyapoory age 4
Karl Offmann age 8
Veselin Đuranović age 23
Ahmed Balafrej age 41
Maung Maung age 24
Win Maung age 33
Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie age 55
René Schick age 39
Domingos Leite Pereira age 66
Duarte Leite age 84
Henri Lopès age 11
Kennedy Simmonds age 13
Moustapha Niasse age 9
Thomas Holenstein age 53
Faris al-Khoury age 71
Ata al-Ayyubi age 72
İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil age 41
Fiatau Penitala Teo age 37
Ionatana Ionatana age 10
Antoni Ponikowski age 70
Janusz Jędrzejewicz age 63
Mekere Morauta age 2
Cesar Virata age 18
Wijeyananda Dahanayake age 46
Bakri Hassan Saleh age 4 months
Gianfranco Terenzi age 8
Salomón Lerner Ghitis age 3
Oscar Valdés age 1 month
Carlos Ferrero age 8
Yawovi Agboyibo age 5
Du Yuming age 44
Su Yu age 41
William E. Simon age 21
Nathan F. Twining age 51
Richard Kleindienst age 25
Liu Huaqing age 33
Vivian Malone Jones age 6
Tikka Khan age 33
Jorge Anaya age 22
Zvonimir Červenko age 22
Života Panić age 15
Lucian Truscott age 54
Toshizō Nishio age 67
Ahmad Ismail Ali age 31
Moshe Carmel age 38
Sandy Woodward age 17
Halvard Lange age 46
Prince Dmitri Alexandrovich of Russia age 47
Natalia Brasova age 68
Şadiye Sultan age 62
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 32
Archduke Albrecht Franz, Duke of Teschen age 51
Franz Joseph, 9th Prince of Thurn and Taxis age 55
Karl August, 10th Prince of Thurn and Taxis age 50
Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria age 54