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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

People

Archduke Albrecht Franz, Duke of Teschen age 50
Franz Joseph, 9th Prince of Thurn and Taxis age 54
Karl August, 10th Prince of Thurn and Taxis age 49
Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria age 52
Princess Marie Melita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 49
Lady May Abel Smith age 42
Archduke Anton of Austria age 46
Leonida Bagration of Mukhrani age 33
Peter, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein age 25
Princess Claude of Orléans age 4
Erling Lorentzen age 25
Charles Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington age 2
Guillermo Tell Villegas Pulido age 93
Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield age 31
Thomas Kean age 12
Goodwin Knight age 51
Price Daniel age 37
Don Sundquist age 11
Charles Edison age 57
George Busbee age 20
Orval Faubus age 38
Brendan Byrne age 23
Jagjit Singh Aurora age 32
Mütercim Mehmed Rüşdi Pasha
Tunuslu Hayreddin Pasha
Avlonyalı Mehmed Ferid Pasha
Julio Adalberto Rivera Carballo age 26
Abe Fortas age 37
Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal age 26
Paul Hasluck age 42
Shah Azizur Rahman age 22
Chan Sy age 16
In Tam age 25
Sisowath Monipong age 35
Bartolomé Blanche age 68
Abdallah Mohamed Kamil age 12
Hussein Sirri Pasha age 56
Arturo Araujo age 70
Alfonso Quiñónez Molina age 74
Jean-Hilaire Aubame age 35
Alexandros Svolos age 56
Herbert Blaize age 30
Diarra Traoré age 13
Manuel Saturnino da Costa age 5
Edward Luckhoo age 35
Émile Jonassaint age 34
Vicente Mejía Colindres age 69
Adnan Pachachi age 24
Abd ar-Razzaq an-Naif age 15
Jamil al-Midfai age 58
Tawfiq al-Suwaidi age 56
Abdelraouf al-Rawabdeh age 9
Apas Jumagulov age 13
Wilton G. S. Sankawulo age 10
Wanis al-Qaddafi age 23
Hussein Maziq age 29
Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi age 9
Alfred Hilbe age 19
Ibrahim Muhammad Didi age 46
Ahmed Mohamed ag Hamani age 6
Kunio Lemari age 5
Andrei Sangheli age 3
Dumaagiin Sodnom age 14
Mohan Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 62
Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae age 36
Yon Hyong-muk age 16
José Vicente de Freitas age 79
João Tamagnini Barbosa age 64
Allan Louisy age 31
Solomon Mamaloni age 5
Jules Sedney age 25
Bahij al-Khatib age 53
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm age 16
Yusuf Zuayyin age 16
Sabri al-Asali age 45
Edward Sokoine age 9
John Malecela age 13
Orville Turnquest age 18
Clifford Darling age 26
Kléber Dadjo age 33
Tupua Leupena age 25
Koloa Talake age 13
Luis Giannattasio age 53
Frederick Karlomuana Timakata age 12
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani age 8
Artur Śliwiński age 70
Ricardo Arias Espinosa age 35
Muhammad Ali Samatar age 17
Giuliano Gozi age 53
Krešimir Zubak age 1
Antero Flores Aráoz age 5
Patrick J. Hurley age 65
Kenneth Claiborne Royall age 53
Hu Zongnan age 51
George M. Humphrey age 57
Duncan Sandys age 40
Homer Stille Cummings age 77
Henry H. Fowler age 39
Hugh Shelton age 6
William French Smith age 30
Thomas Hinman Moorer age 36
Peter Schoomaker age 2
Pixley ka Isaka Seme age 67
Ramiro Valdés Menéndez age 15
Masakazu Kawabe age 61
Robert L. Ghormley age 64
Chang Fa-kwei age 52
Clarence R. Huebner age 59
Franciszek Latinik age 83
Yury Drozdov age 22
Petar Stipetić age 10
Antonio Aranda age 59
Mehmet Esat Bülkat age 85
Paul Aussaresses age 29
Irina Paley age 44
Müveddet Kadın age 54
Nevvare Hanım age 46
Mehisti Hanım age 56
Muhammad Abdel Moneim age 49
Dov Joseph age 48
Yi Bangja age 46
Yi Hae-won age 28
Yi Ku age 16
Prince Frederick of Prussia (1911–1966) age 36
Michael Prinz von Preussen age 7
Princess Elisabeth Helene of Thurn and Taxis age 44
Edward J. King age 22
John A. Volpe age 39
Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey age 70
Marvin Mandel age 27
Winfield Dunn age 20
Charles Poletti age 44
Anthony Crosland age 29
Nikola Uzunović age 74
José María Lemus age 36
William S. Sessions age 17
Kostaq Kota age 59
Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman age 73
Salman II of Bahrain age 54
Kazi Zafar Ahmed age 9
Nita Barrow age 31
Yem Sambaur age 35
Ung Huot age 3
Sim Var age 42
Norodom Kantol age 27
Nhiek Tioulong age 39
Djidingar Dono Ngardoum age 20
Pedro Opaso age 71
Évariste Kimba age 21
Léonard Mulamba age 20
Osborne Riviere age 16
Andrés F. Córdova age 55
Antonio Pons age 50
Julio Enrique Moreno age 69
Mamdouh Salem age 30
Ismaʿil Sidqi age 72
Ángel Serafín Seriche Dougan age 2
Obed Dlamini age 10
Mabandla Dlamini age 17
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 35
George Brizan age 5
Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre age 35
Francisco Javier Arana age 42
Sidya Touré age 3
Daniel Fignolé age 34
Robert Malval age 4
Arif Abd ar-Razzaq age 27
Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali age 44
Clifford Campbell age 55
Florizel Glasspole age 38
Suleiman al-Nabulsi age 40
Jumabek Ibraimov age 4
Nasirdin Isanov age 4
Adolph Bowler age 58
Abdallah El-Yafi age 46
Amin al-Hafez age 22
Hae Phoofolo age 1
Josef Hoop age 52
Emmanuel Rakotovahiny age 9
Ruben Zackhras age 2 months
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 62
Jack Marshall age 35
Francisco Urcuyo age 32
Lorenzo Guerrero age 47
Boukary Adji age 9
Francisco Cunha Leal age 59
Victor Hugo de Azevedo Coutinho age 76
Alfredo de Sá Cardoso age 83
Bernard Kolélas age 14
Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty age 6
Arnhim Eustace age 3
Žarko Korać age 11 months
Milan Čič age 16
Viktor Avbelj age 34
Bartholomew Ulufa'alu age 8
Maamun al-Kuzbari age 34
Muhsin al-Barazi age 44
Lee Huan age 30
Tang Fei age 15
Tu'i Pelehake age 26