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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
Marshall Plan 1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Berlin Blockade 1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12
Taiyuan Campaign 1948-10-05 - 1949-04-24
Huaihai Campaign 1948-11-06 - 1949-01-10

People

Getúlio Vargas age 66
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 27
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 28
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 42
Michel Temer age 8
Sergei Korolev age 41
Edward Heath age 32
Walter Mondale age 20
Paul Biya age 15
Lester B. Pearson age 51
Hussein I of Jordan age 12
Habib Bourguiba age 45
Tansu Çiller age 2
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 2 months
Ratko Mladić age 6
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 2
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 17
Teodoro Obiang age 6
B. J. Habibie age 12
Mary Robinson age 4
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 27
Hastings Banda age 58
Moshe Dayan age 33
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 18
Abdurrahman Wahid age 8
Alassane Ouattara age 6
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 68
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 4
Johannes Rau age 17
Yasuo Fukuda age 12
Franz von Papen age 69
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 7
Omar Bongo age 12
Celâl Bayar age 65
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 6
Lee Myung-bak age 6
Alija Izetbegović age 23
Franjo Tuđman age 26
Jorge Rafael Videla age 23
Urho Kekkonen age 48
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 9
Nana Akufo-Addo age 4
Walter Ulbricht age 55
Hubert Humphrey age 37
Charles G. Dawes age 83
Nelson Rockefeller age 40
Alec Douglas-Home age 45
John Evans Atta Mills age 4
Éamon de Valera age 66
Reuven Rivlin age 9
Hassan II age 19
Cemal Gürsel age 53
Kenneth Kaunda age 24
Léon Blum age 76
Robert Schuman age 62
Janet Yellen age 2
Imre Nagy age 52
Victor Chernomyrdin age 10
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 7
Andrei Gromyko age 39
Kliment Voroshilov age 67
Spiro Agnew age 30
Carlos Menem age 18
Nikos Anastasiades age 2
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 6
Laurent Gbagbo age 3
Kenan Evren age 31
Roman Herzog age 14
Sali Berisha age 4
Stjepan Mesić age 13
Isaac Shamir age 33
Michel Aoun age 15
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 24
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 9
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 2
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 30
Umberto II of Italy age 44
Ngo Dinh Diem age 47
Henry A. Wallace age 60
Isaias Afwerki age 2
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 11
Abdullah I of Jordan age 66
Ion Iliescu age 18
Bülent Ecevit age 23
Kim Young-sam age 20
Erich von Manstein age 60
Chaim Weizmann age 73
Sandro Pertini age 52
Anwar Ibrahim age 1
Tabaré Vázquez age 8
Theodor Heuss age 64
Walter Scheel age 29
Jalal Talabani age 15
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 19
Vicente Fox age 6
Olusegun Obasanjo age 11
Olav V of Norway age 45
Beji Caid Essebsi age 21
Alfredo Stroessner age 36
Fidel Ramos age 20
Wallis Simpson age 52
Juscelino Kubitschek age 46
Baudouin of Belgium age 18
Hua Guofeng age 27
Agostinho Neto age 26
Alpha Condé age 10
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 26
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 5
Ehud Barak age 6
Giuliano Amato age 10
Ayub Khan age 41
Emilio Aguinaldo age 79
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 46
Pietro Badoglio age 77
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 28
Chester W. Nimitz age 63
Abdul Hamid age 4
Kim Campbell age 1
Mauno Koivisto age 24
Karolos Papoulias age 19
Zakir Husain age 51
Rafiq Hariri age 4
Pridi Banomyong age 48
Milton Obote age 22
Yun Po-sun age 51
Gustav Heinemann age 49
Lionel Jospin age 11
Abolhassan Banisadr age 15
János Kádár age 36
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 30
Bettino Craxi age 14
Valdas Adamkus age 22
Samora Moisés Machel age 15
Mamnoon Hussain age 7
Fahri Korutürk age 45
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 3
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 3
Michael I of Romania age 27
Édouard Daladier age 64
Cordell Hull age 77
Raúl Alfonsín age 21
Paul Martin age 10
Mwai Kibaki age 16
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 45
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 66
Chang Myon age 49
Chun Doo-hwan age 17
Zhao Ziyang age 29
Gerd von Rundstedt age 72
Jean Chrétien age 14
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 8
John Kufuor age 9
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 27
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 3
Adnan Menderes age 49
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 4
Ivan Konev age 50
Karl Carstens age 33
Jacques Delors age 23
John Nance Garner age 80
Mohammad Najibullah age 1
Zog I of Albania age 53
Dimitris Christofias age 2
V. V. Giri age 54
Giovanni Leone age 40
Yahya Khan age 31
Ivan Gašparovič age 7
Cevdet Sunay age 49
Necmettin Erbakan age 22
Felipe González age 6
Alexei Kosygin age 44
George F. Kennan age 44
Itamar Franco age 18
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 17
Jacques Rogge age 6
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 11
K. R. Narayanan age 28
Levi Eshkol age 53
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 43
Daniel arap Moi age 24
Peter Mutharika age 8
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 25
Mário Soares age 23
Heinrich Lübke age 54
Liu Shaoqi age 49
Zhu Rongji age 20
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 15
Houari Boumédiène age 16
Gough Whitlam age 32
Mathieu Kérékou age 15
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 11 months
Arnold Rüütel age 20
François Duvalier age 41
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 43
Moshe Katsav age 2
Enrico de Nicola age 71
Ibrahim Rugova age 3
Amadou Toumani Touré age 0 months
Ram Baran Yadav age 9 months
Desi Bouterse age 3