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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

Robert McNamara age 32
Soong Ching-ling age 55
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 7
Mohamed Naguib age 47
Loukas Papademos age 9 months
Mátyás Rákosi age 56
László Sólyom age 6
Charan Singh age 45
Bingu wa Mutharika age 14
Violeta Chamorro age 18
Semyon Budyonny age 65
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 111
Erich Raeder age 72
René Coty age 66
Brian Mulroney age 9
R. Venkataraman age 37
Antonio Segni age 57
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 10
Evgeny Primakov age 18
Mykola Azarov age 7 months
Siad Barre age 28
Mary of Teck age 81
Yoshirō Mori age 11
Hjalmar Schacht age 71
Rodion Malinovsky age 49
Lázaro Cárdenas age 53
Bob Hawke age 18
Makarios III age 34
Gulzarilal Nanda age 50
Moshe Sharett age 53
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 8
Joaquim Chissano age 8
Sam Nujoma age 19
Sani Abacha age 4
Juvénal Habyarimana age 11
Abdoulaye Wade age 22
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 30
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 21
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando age 88
P. W. Botha age 32
Semyon Timoshenko age 53
Lee Teng-hui age 25
Paul Keating age 4
Thomas Klestil age 15
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 24
Konstantin Päts age 74
Jerry Rawlings age 1
Pál Schmitt age 6
Zail Singh age 32
Amintore Fanfani age 40
Willem Drees age 62
Viktor Zubkov age 6
Vojislav Koštunica age 4
Tomiichi Murayama age 24
Nikolai Bulganin age 53
João Goulart age 29
Jean Monnet age 59
Li Peng age 19
John Foster Dulles age 60
Ferhat Abbas age 48
Tassos Papadopoulos age 14
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 83
João Bernardo Vieira age 9
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 29
Chaim Herzog age 29
Giuseppe Saragat age 49
Lamberto Dini age 17
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 11
Askar Akayev age 3
Algirdas Brazauskas age 15
Prem Tinsulanonda age 27
Roh Tae-woo age 15
Lin Biao age 40
Egon Krenz age 11
Jacobo Árbenz age 34
Robert Mueller age 3
Ramiz Alia age 22
Leopoldo Galtieri age 22
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 3
Bruno Kreisky age 37
Festus Mogae age 8
Seretse Khama age 27
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 23
Lennart Meri age 19
Risto Ryti age 59
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 35
Giovanni Gronchi age 60
Wim Kok age 9
Charles Taylor age 6 months
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 10
Agatha Barbara age 25
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 43
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 48
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 12
Moncef Marzouki age 3
Joseph Estrada age 11
Jean Casimir-Perier age 100
Alain Juppé age 2
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 24
Robert Gates age 4
Baldur von Schirach age 41
Dean Acheson age 55
Andreas Papandreou age 29
Chandra Shekhar age 21
Fuad Masum age 10
Douglas Hyde age 88
Hage Geingob age 7
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 8
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 3
Jerzy Buzek age 8
Shigeru Yoshida age 69
Kakuei Tanaka age 30
James Baker age 18
Chiang Ching-kuo age 38
Antonin Scalia age 12
Babrak Karmal age 19
Hafizullah Amin age 19
Alfred Moisiu age 18
Kurt Schuschnigg age 50
Zillur Rahman age 19
François Bozizé age 1
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 41
Inder Kumar Gujral age 28
V. P. Singh age 17
Masoud Barzani age 1
Thein Sein age 3
Than Shwe age 15
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb age 71
Albert Kesselring age 62
Joseph Wirth age 68
Hans Luther age 69
Édouard Herriot age 76
Javier Solana age 6
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 23
Lansana Conté age 13
René Préval age 5
Sveinn Björnsson age 67
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 34
Talal I of Jordan age 39
Ruud Lubbers age 9
Bounnhang Vorachit age 10
Andris Bērziņš age 3
Vladimir Voronin age 7
Kiro Gligorov age 31
Jorge Sampaio age 8
George Tupou V of Tonga age 2 months
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 5
Franz Halder age 64
Nobusuke Kishi age 51
Toshiki Kaifu age 17
Kiichi Miyazawa age 28
Tsutomu Hata age 12
Édouard Balladur age 19
Zhu De age 61
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 39
Eduardo Duhalde age 6
Malcolm Fraser age 18
Wolfgang Schüssel age 3
Artur Rasizade age 13
John Diefenbaker age 52
Ricardo Lagos age 10
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 21
Gyula Horn age 16
Modibo Keïta age 33
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 22
Goh Chok Tong age 7
Michael Sata age 11
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 9
Diosdado Macapagal age 37
Ramon Magsaysay age 40
Heinrich Brüning age 62
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 60
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 11
José Sarney age 18
Walther Funk age 57
George Shultz age 27
Billy Hughes age 85
Harold Holt age 40
Ziaur Rahman age 12
Emilio Colombo age 28
Choummaly Sayasone age 12
George Abela age 3 months
José López Portillo age 28
Milovan Đilas age 37
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 12
Girija Prasad Koirala age 24
Abdou Diouf age 12
Milan Kučan age 7
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 6
Carol II of Romania age 54
Michel Rocard age 17
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 50
Paul Wolfowitz age 4
Alain Poher age 39
Abulfaz Elchibey age 10
Zhelyu Zhelev age 13
Hissène Habré age 5
Adly Mansour age 2
Georgios Papadopoulos age 29
Ferenc Mádl age 17