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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

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
Princess Marie Melita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 50
Lady May Abel Smith age 43
Archduke Anton of Austria age 48
Leonida Bagration of Mukhrani age 34
Peter, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein age 27
Princess Claude of Orléans age 5
Erling Lorentzen age 26
Charles Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington age 3
Guillermo Tell Villegas Pulido age 94
Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield age 32
Thomas Kean age 14
Goodwin Knight age 52
Price Daniel age 38
Don Sundquist age 13
Charles Edison age 58
George Busbee age 21
Orval Faubus age 39
Brendan Byrne age 25
Jagjit Singh Aurora age 33
Mütercim Mehmed Rüşdi Pasha
Tunuslu Hayreddin Pasha
Avlonyalı Mehmed Ferid Pasha
Julio Adalberto Rivera Carballo age 27
Abe Fortas age 38
Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal age 28
Paul Hasluck age 44
Shah Azizur Rahman age 23
Chan Sy age 17
In Tam age 26
Sisowath Monipong age 36
Bartolomé Blanche age 69
Abdallah Mohamed Kamil age 13
Hussein Sirri Pasha age 57
Arturo Araujo age 71
Alfonso Quiñónez Molina age 75
Jean-Hilaire Aubame age 36
Alexandros Svolos age 57
Herbert Blaize age 31
Diarra Traoré age 14
Manuel Saturnino da Costa age 6
Edward Luckhoo age 36
Émile Jonassaint age 35
Vicente Mejía Colindres age 71
Adnan Pachachi age 26
Abd ar-Razzaq an-Naif age 16
Jamil al-Midfai age 59
Tawfiq al-Suwaidi age 57
Abdelraouf al-Rawabdeh age 10
Apas Jumagulov age 14
Wilton G. S. Sankawulo age 11
Wanis al-Qaddafi age 24
Hussein Maziq age 30
Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi age 10
Alfred Hilbe age 20
Ibrahim Muhammad Didi age 48
Ahmed Mohamed ag Hamani age 7
Kunio Lemari age 6
Andrei Sangheli age 4
Dumaagiin Sodnom age 15
Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae age 38
Yon Hyong-muk age 17
José Vicente de Freitas age 80
Allan Louisy age 32
Allan Kemakeza age 9 months
Solomon Mamaloni age 6
Jules Sedney age 26
Bahij al-Khatib age 54
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm age 17
Yusuf Zuayyin age 17
Sabri al-Asali age 46
Edward Sokoine age 10
John Malecela age 15
Orville Turnquest age 19
Clifford Darling age 27
Kléber Dadjo age 34
Tupua Leupena age 26
Koloa Talake age 14
Luis Giannattasio age 54
Frederick Karlomuana Timakata age 13
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani age 9
Artur Śliwiński age 71
Ricardo Arias Espinosa age 37
Muhammad Ali Samatar age 18
Giuliano Gozi age 54
Krešimir Zubak age 2
Antero Flores Aráoz age 7
Patrick J. Hurley age 66
Kenneth Claiborne Royall age 54
Hu Zongnan age 53
George M. Humphrey age 59
Duncan Sandys age 41
Homer Stille Cummings age 79
Henry H. Fowler age 40
Hugh Shelton age 7
William French Smith age 31
Thomas Hinman Moorer age 37
Peter Schoomaker age 3
Pixley ka Isaka Seme age 68
Ramiro Valdés Menéndez age 17
Masakazu Kawabe age 62
Robert L. Ghormley age 65
Chang Fa-kwei age 53
Clarence R. Huebner age 60
Franciszek Latinik age 84
Yury Drozdov age 23
Petar Stipetić age 11
Antonio Aranda age 60
Mehmet Esat Bülkat age 86
Paul Aussaresses age 30
Irina Paley age 45
Müveddet Kadın age 55
Nevvare Hanım age 48
Mehisti Hanım age 57
Muhammad Abdel Moneim age 50
Dov Joseph age 49
Yi Bangja age 47
Yi Hae-won age 30
Yi Ku age 17
Prince Frederick of Prussia (1911–1966) age 37
Michael Prinz von Preussen age 9
Princess Elisabeth Helene of Thurn and Taxis age 45
Edward J. King age 24
John A. Volpe age 40
Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey age 72
Marvin Mandel age 29
Winfield Dunn age 21
Charles Poletti age 45
Anthony Crosland age 30
Roy Barnes age 1
Nikola Uzunović age 76
José María Lemus age 37
William S. Sessions age 18
Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman age 74
Salman II of Bahrain age 55
Kazi Zafar Ahmed age 10
Nita Barrow age 32
Ung Huot age 4
Chhean Vam age 33
Sim Var age 43
Sisowath Watchayavong age 57
Norodom Kantol age 28
Nhiek Tioulong age 40
Djidingar Dono Ngardoum age 21
Pedro Opaso age 72
Évariste Kimba age 22
Léonard Mulamba age 21
Osborne Riviere age 17
Andrés F. Córdova age 57
Antonio Pons age 51
Julio Enrique Moreno age 70
Mamdouh Salem age 31
Ismaʿil Sidqi age 73
Ángel Serafín Seriche Dougan age 3
Obed Dlamini age 12
Mabandla Dlamini age 18
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 37
George Brizan age 6
Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre age 37
Francisco Javier Arana age 43
Sidya Touré age 4
Daniel Fignolé age 35
Robert Malval age 5
Arif Abd ar-Razzaq age 28
Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali age 46
Clifford Campbell age 56
Florizel Glasspole age 39
Suleiman al-Nabulsi age 41
Jumabek Ibraimov age 5
Nasirdin Isanov age 5
Adolph Bowler age 59