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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

Efraín Goldenberg age 18
Luis Alva Castro age 6
Pedro Beltrán age 51
Víctor Joy Way age 3
Wei Lihuang age 51
George David Woods age 47
Charles Pelot Summerall age 81
Edward C. Meyer age 19
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 58
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk age 42
Earle Wheeler age 40
David E. Jeremiah age 14
Hardan al-Tikriti age 23
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 20
Kenneth Rush age 38
Jo Grimond age 35
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 16
Phoumi Nosavan age 28
Xu Shiyou age 43
James Bevel age 12
Ye Fei age 34
Zhang Zhen age 34
Tang Shengzhi age 59
William H. P. Blandy age 58
Yury Lomonosov age 72
Milutin Kukanjac age 13
Brian Robertson, 1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge age 52
Basilio Lami Dozo age 19
John Fieldhouse, Baron Fieldhouse age 20
Ngo Quang Truong age 18
Sadae Inoue age 61
Leighton W. Smith, Jr. age 9
Carlos Asensio Cabanillas age 51
Nguyen Van Toan age 16
Avigdor Ben-Gal age 12
Amir Drori age 11
Julian Thompson age 14
Jeremy Moore age 20
Teymuraz Bagration age 36
Irina Yusupova age 33
Prince Michael Feodorovich of Russia age 24
Mihrişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Izzeddin) age 32
Deng Hua age 38
Kristian Laake age 73
Friedrich Wiese age 55
Joseph J. Clark age 54
Frederick C. Sherman age 60
Yi Geon age 38
Kuzma Derevyanko age 43
Lu Muzhen age 81
Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg age 49
Archduchess Mechthildis of Austria age 57
Princess Rosemary of Salm-Salm age 44
Princess Franziska of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst age 51
Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg age 27
Charles Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk age 55
Fernando Schwartz age 10
Channing H. Cox age 69
Alvan T. Fuller age 70
Francis Cherry age 40
C. William O'Neill age 32
Endicott Peabody age 28
A. Harry Moore age 71
Jim Rhodes age 39
John N. Dalton age 17
George C. Peery age 75
Pat Morris Neff age 76
John William Brown age 34
Auckland Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes age 69
Colgate Darden age 51
Ned McWherter age 18
Frank G. Allen age 74
Ernest Vandiver age 30
Joe Purcell age 25
Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton age 64
Theodore Olson age 8
Benderli Ali Pasha
Gordon Browning age 58
Mostefa Ben Boulaïd age 31
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial age 68
Édouard Nzambimana age 2
Pho Proeung age 45
Sam Yun age 43
Salomon Tandeng Muna age 36
Charles Assalé age 36
Nassour Guelendouksia Ouaido age 1
Emilio Bello Codesido age 80
Ali Mroudjaé age 9
Jorge García Montes age 52
Raúl López del Castillo age 55
Oliver Seraphin age 5
Edward Oliver LeBlanc age 25
Abd El Aziz Muhammad Hegazi age 25
Andreas Fakudze age 3
Sishayi Nxumalo age 12
Mikael Imru age 18
Charles Arden-Clarke age 50
Susanto Tirtoprodjo age 48
Mohammed al-Sadr age 66
Nureddin Mahmud age 49
Arshad al-Umari age 60
Gabasheane Masupha age 44
Dragan Kujović age 9 months
Vidoje Žarković age 21
José Ramos Preto age 77
Ange Édouard Poungui age 6
Sylvestre Nsanzimana age 12
Paul Southwell age 35
Lee Moore age 9
Pretaap Radhakishun age 14
Husni al-Barazi age 53
Hassan al-Hakim age 62
Bashir al-Azma age 37
Wang Yun-wu age 60
Roland Theodore Symonette age 49
Paul Adderley age 20
Henry Milton Taylor age 44
Tekin Arıburun age 43
Muhammad Said al-Attar age 21
Faraj Said Bin Ghanem age 10
Nalumino Mundia age 20
Daniel Chanis Pinzón age 55
Tore Lokoloko age 18
Wiwa Korowi age 3 months
Jure Pelivan age 19
Ernesto Benedettini age 7 months
Jozo Križanović age 4
Armando Villanueva age 32
Manuel Cisneros Sánchez age 43
Manuel Ulloa Elias age 25
Pedro Richter Prada age 27
Sandro Mariátegui age 26
Kwassi Klutse age 3
Aurelius Marie age 43
Frank G. Wisner age 10
George Decker age 46
Carl E. Vuono age 14
Dennis Reimer age 9
Harold Keith Johnson age 36
John William Vessey Jr. age 26
Tomás Mac Giolla age 24
Munif Razzaz age 28
Jassem Alwan age 20
Melba Pattillo Beals age 6
Hakija Turajlić age 12
Lewis MacKenzie age 8
Takaji Wachi age 55
Kōtoku Satō age 55
Rupert Smith age 5
Philip Effiong age 22
Michael E. Ryan age 6
Robert Brooke-Popham age 70
Charles Macpherson Dobell age 79
Francisco de Borbón y de la Torre age 66
Bahram Afzali age 10
Ayad Futtayih al-Rawi age 6
Harbaksh Singh age 35
Colonel Amirouche age 21
Ernesto Horacio Crespo age 18
Ayako Sano age 35
Toshimichi Takatsukasa age 25
Şehzade Abdurrahim Hayri age 54
Mukbile Sultan age 37
Nemika Sultan age 60
Senije Zogu age 44
Francisco Galán age 46
Abdullah Al-Tell age 30
Han Xianchu age 35
Keizō Komura age 52
Julia Mullock age 25
Chiang Hsiao-yen age 6
Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt age 5
Duke Carl Alexander of Württemberg age 52
Prince Karl Alfred of Liechtenstein age 38
Archduchess Ilona of Austria age 21
Prince Otto of Windisch-Graetz age 75
Alexander Ramsay (Royal Navy officer) age 67
Richard Brandram age 37
Prince Heinrich of Hesse-Kassel age 20
Prince Karl of Leiningen age 20
Flora Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun age 18
Emmanuelle de Dampierre age 34
Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince of Civitella-Cesi age 36
Edelmira, Countess of Covadonga age 42
Sonja Bernadotte age 4
Alois-Konstantin, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg age 6
Chiang Pin-kung age 15
Homer Martin Adkins age 58
Francis Sargent age 33
John S. Battle age 58
Junius Marion Futrell age 78
Paul A. Dever age 45
William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill age 2
Michael DiSalle age 40
Roger Freeman, Baron Freeman age 6
Joseph B. Ely age 67
Richard J. Hughes age 39
Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton age 65
William Donald Schaefer age 26
Parris Glendening age 6