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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
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
Siege of Changchun 1948-05-23 - 1948-10-19
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Berlin Blockade 1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12

People

Herbert Hoover age 74
Mahathir Mohamad age 23
Boris Yeltsin age 17
Ali Khamenei age 9
Jacques Chirac age 15
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 29
Kwame Nkrumah age 38
Yasser Arafat age 18
Ban Ki-moon age 4
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 2
Konrad Adenauer age 72
Henry Kissinger age 25
Václav Havel age 11
Georges Pompidou age 37
Leonid Brezhnev age 41
Robert Mugabe age 24
Hosni Mubarak age 20
Golda Meir age 50
John XXIII age 66
Dilma Rousseff age 7 months
Deng Xiaoping age 43
Ferdinand Marcos age 30
Al Gore age 4 months
Malcolm X age 23
François Mitterrand age 31
Alexander Fleming age 67
Milton Friedman age 36
Ruhollah Khomeini age 45
Valentina Tereshkova age 11
Pol Pot age 23
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 9
Akihito age 14
Helmut Kohl age 18
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 44
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 30
Rosa Parks age 35
Shimon Peres age 25
John Paul I age 35
Anwar Sadat age 29
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 10
Paul VI age 50
Willy Brandt age 34
Gerhard Schröder age 4
Dag Hammarskjöld age 43
Salvador Allende age 40
Hu Jintao age 5
John von Neumann age 44
Augusto Pinochet age 32
Lee Kuan Yew age 24
Suharto age 27
Ariel Sharon age 20
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 30
Desmond Tutu age 16
Sergio Mattarella age 7
Manmohan Singh age 15
Pervez Musharraf age 4
Yuri Andropov age 34
Buzz Aldrin age 18
Mohammad Khatami age 4
Patrice Lumumba age 23
Yitzhak Rabin age 26
Rosalind Franklin age 28
Andrei Sakharov age 27
Dick Cheney age 7
Douglas MacArthur age 68
Raúl Castro age 17
Sheikh Hasina age 10 months
Giorgio Napolitano age 23
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 8
Idi Amin age 23
Rodrigo Duterte age 3
Helmut Schmidt age 29
Margrethe II of Denmark age 8
Rachel Carson age 41
Corazon Aquino age 15
Edward VIII age 54
John Kerry age 4
Madeleine Albright age 11
José Mujica age 13
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 24
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 71
Rajiv Gandhi age 3
Thabo Mbeki age 6
Wernher von Braun age 36
Eva Perón age 29
Harald V of Norway age 11
John Major age 5
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 11
Slobodan Milošević age 6
Jacob Zuma age 6
Martti Ahtisaari age 11
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 2
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 12
Konstantin Chernenko age 36
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 16
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 10
Jiang Zemin age 21
Zhou Enlai age 50
Eduard Shevardnadze age 20
Romano Prodi age 8
Robert F. Kennedy age 22
Pranab Mukherjee age 12
Park Chung-hee age 30
Vyacheslav Molotov age 58
Joachim Gauck age 8
Anthony Eden age 51
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 1
Menachem Begin age 34
Philippe Pétain age 92
Erich Honecker age 35
Hafez al-Assad age 17
Harold Macmillan age 54
Muhammadu Buhari age 5
Horst Köhler age 5
Tarja Halonen age 4
Daniel Ortega age 2
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 9
Islam Karimov age 10
Dan Quayle age 1
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 28
Omar al-Bashir age 4
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 283
Naoto Kan age 1
James Callaghan age 36
Pratibha Patil age 13
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 20
Heydar Aliyev age 25
Hassanal Bolkiah I of Brunei age 2
Mario Draghi age 11 months
Kim Dae-jung age 24
Radovan Karadžić age 3
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 25
Aldo Moro age 31
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 7
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 41
F. W. de Klerk age 12
Ludwig Erhard age 51
Kurt Waldheim age 29
Alexander Van der Bellen age 4
Miloš Zeman age 3
Mobutu Sese Seko age 17
Jomo Kenyatta age 54
Julius Nyerere age 26
Saparmyrat Nyýazow age 8
Yoweri Museveni age 3
Leonid Kuchma age 9
Donald Rumsfeld age 16
Olof Palme age 21
Süleyman Demirel age 23
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 32
Queen Camilla age 1
Jonas Salk age 33
Karl Dönitz age 56
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 15
Pierre Trudeau age 28
Fulgencio Batista age 47
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 81
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 59
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 25
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 1
Junichiro Koizumi age 6
Tarō Asō age 7
U Thant age 39
Rudolf Hess age 54
Colin Powell age 11
Giulio Andreotti age 29
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 11
Hideki Tojo age 63
Alexander Dubček age 26
Wen Jiabao age 5
Václav Klaus age 7
Ehud Olmert age 2
Francesco Cossiga age 20
Leonid Kravchuk age 14
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 1
Puyi age 42
Ahmad ibn Billah age 31
Heinz Fischer age 9
Michael D. Higgins age 7
Mario Monti age 5
Alberto Fujimori age 10
Roh Moo-hyun age 1
Bernard Montgomery age 60
Richard von Weizsäcker age 28
Albert Speer age 43
Ram Nath Kovind age 2
Albert II of Belgium age 14
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 13
José Eduardo dos Santos age 5
John Howard age 9
Rajendra Prasad age 63
Alexander Kerensky age 67
Turgut Özal age 20
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 72
Eisaku Satō age 47
Yukio Hatoyama age 1
Georgy Malenkov age 46
Getúlio Vargas age 66
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 27
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 28