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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
Taiyuan Campaign 1948-10-05 - 1949-04-24

People

Hassanal Bolkiah age 2
Mario Draghi age 1
Kim Dae-jung age 25
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon age 48
Radovan Karadžić age 3
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 26
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 24
Aldo Moro age 32
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 8
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 42
F. W. de Klerk age 13
Ludwig Erhard age 52
Kurt Waldheim age 30
Alexander Van der Bellen age 5
Miloš Zeman age 4
Mobutu Sese Seko age 18
Jomo Kenyatta age 55
Julius Nyerere age 26
Saparmurat Niyazov age 9
Yoweri Museveni age 4
Leonid Kuchma age 10
Donald Rumsfeld age 16
Olof Palme age 22
Süleyman Demirel age 24
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 32
Queen Camilla age 1
Jonas Salk age 34
Karl Dönitz age 57
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 16
Pierre Trudeau age 29
Fulgencio Batista age 48
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 81
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 60
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 25
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 1
Junichiro Koizumi age 7
Tarō Asō age 8
U Thant age 40
Rudolf Hess age 54
Colin Powell age 11
Giulio Andreotti age 30
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 12
Alexander Dubček age 27
Wen Jiabao age 6
Václav Klaus age 7
Ehud Olmert age 3
Francesco Cossiga age 20
Leonid Kravchuk age 15
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 2
Puyi age 43
Ahmed Ben Bella age 32
Heinz Fischer age 10
Michael D. Higgins age 7
Mario Monti age 6
Alberto Fujimori age 10
Roh Moo-hyun age 2
Bernard Montgomery age 61
Richard von Weizsäcker age 28
Albert Speer age 44
Ram Nath Kovind age 3
Võ Nguyên Giáp age 37
Albert II of Belgium age 14
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 14
José Eduardo dos Santos age 6
John Howard age 9
Rajendra Prasad age 64
Alexander Kerensky age 67
Turgut Özal age 21
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 73
Eisaku Satō age 48
Yukio Hatoyama age 2
Georgy Malenkov age 47
Getúlio Vargas age 66
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 28
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 29
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 43
Michel Temer age 8
Sergei Korolev age 42
Edward Heath age 32
Lavrentiy Beria age 50
Walter Mondale age 21
Paul Biya age 16
Lester B. Pearson age 51
Hussein I of Jordan age 13
Habib Bourguiba age 45
Tansu Çiller age 2
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 6 months
Ratko Mladić age 7
Dzhokhar Dudayev age 5
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 3
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 18
Teodoro Obiang age 6
B. J. Habibie age 12
Mary Robinson age 4
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 28
Hastings Banda age 59
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 28
Moshe Dayan age 33
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 44
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 18
Abdurrahman Wahid age 8
Alassane Ouattara age 7
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 68
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 5
Johannes Rau age 18
Yasuo Fukuda age 12
Franz von Papen age 69
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 7
Omar Bongo age 13
Celâl Bayar age 65
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 6
Lee Myung-bak age 7
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
Adolfo Suárez age 16
Walter Ulbricht age 55
François Englert age 16
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
Trương Tấn Sang age 1 month
Kenneth Kaunda age 24
Léon Blum age 76
Robert Schuman age 62
Janet Yellen age 2
Lee Harvey Oswald age 9
Imre Nagy age 52
Victor Chernomyrdin age 10
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 7
Andrei Gromyko age 39
Constantine II of Greece age 8
Robert G. Edwards age 23
Kliment Voroshilov age 68
Spiro Agnew age 30
Carlos Menem age 18
Nikos Anastasiades age 2
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 6
Lal Bahadur Shastri age 44
Laurent Gbagbo age 3
Kenan Evren age 31
Roman Herzog age 14
Sali Berisha age 4
Stjepan Mesić age 14
Isaac Shamir age 33
Michel Aoun age 15
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 24
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 9
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 3
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 30
Umberto II of Italy age 44
Ngo Dinh Diem age 48
Henry A. Wallace age 60
Isaias Afwerki age 3
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 11
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 3 months
Ion Iliescu age 19
Bülent Ecevit age 23
Kim Young-sam age 21
Erich von Manstein age 61
Sandro Pertini age 52
Anwar Ibrahim age 1
Tabaré Vázquez age 9
Theodor Heuss age 65
Walter Scheel age 29
Jalal Talabani age 15
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 19
Vicente Fox age 6
Olusegun Obasanjo age 12
Olav V of Norway age 45
Beji Caid Essebsi age 22
Alfredo Stroessner age 36
Fidel Ramos age 21
Wallis Simpson age 52
Juscelino Kubitschek age 46
Baudouin of Belgium age 18
Mohammad Mosaddegh age 66
Hua Guofeng age 28
Agostinho Neto age 26
Alpha Condé age 11
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 27
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 5
Morarji Desai age 53
Ehud Barak age 7
Giuliano Amato age 10
Ayub Khan age 41
Emilio Aguinaldo age 80
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 47
Pietro Badoglio age 77
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 28
Anastas Mikoyan age 53
Otto von Habsburg age 36