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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
Yangtze River Crossing campaign 1949-04-20 - 1949-06-02

People

Abdul Hamid age 5
Kim Campbell age 2
Mauno Koivisto age 25
Karolos Papoulias age 19
Zakir Husain age 52
Rafiq Hariri age 4
Pridi Banomyong age 49
Milton Obote age 23
Yun Po-sun age 51
Konstantin Rokossovsky age 52
Gustav Heinemann age 49
Lionel Jospin age 11
Albert Lebrun age 77
Abolhassan Banisadr age 16
János Kádár age 36
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 30
Bettino Craxi age 15
Valdas Adamkus age 22
Samora Moisés Machel age 15
Mamnoon Hussain age 8
Fahri Korutürk age 45
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 3
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 3
Michael I of Romania age 27
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 36
Édouard Daladier age 64
Manuel Noriega age 15
Cordell Hull age 77
Raúl Alfonsín age 22
Khaleda Zia age 2
Paul Martin age 10
Mwai Kibaki age 17
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 46
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 66
Chang Myon age 49
Chun Doo-hwan age 18
Lord Mountbatten age 48
Zhao Ziyang age 29
Gerd von Rundstedt age 73
Jean Chrétien age 15
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 9
John Kufuor age 10
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 27
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 4
Adnan Menderes age 50
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 5
Ivan Konev age 51
Karl Carstens age 34
Jacques Delors age 23
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 18
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 32
Ivan Gašparovič age 8
Cevdet Sunay age 50
Necmettin Erbakan age 22
Felipe González age 7
Alexei Kosygin age 45
George F. Kennan age 45
Itamar Franco age 18
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 17
Jacques Rogge age 7
Albert Luthuli age 51
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 11
K. R. Narayanan age 28
Levi Eshkol age 53
Massimo D'Alema age 0 months
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 43
Daniel arap Moi age 24
Peter Mutharika age 8
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 25
Mário Soares age 24
Heinrich Lübke age 54
Liu Shaoqi age 50
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 1
Arnold Rüütel age 21
François Duvalier age 42
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 44
Moshe Katsav age 3
Enrico de Nicola age 71
Ibrahim Rugova age 4
Amadou Toumani Touré age 6 months
Ram Baran Yadav age 1
Desi Bouterse age 3
Xanana Gusmão age 2
Armand Fallières age 107
Pierre Mauroy age 20
Laurent Fabius age 2
Édith Cresson age 15
Lê Đức Thọ age 37
Queen Sofía of Spain age 10
Robert McNamara age 32
Soong Ching-ling age 56
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 8
Mohamed Naguib age 48
Loukas Papademos age 1
Mátyás Rákosi age 57
László Sólyom age 7
Charan Singh age 46
Bingu wa Mutharika age 15
Violeta Chamorro age 19
Göran Persson age 3 months
Semyon Budyonny age 66
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 111
Erich Raeder age 73
René Coty age 67
Brian Mulroney age 10
R. Venkataraman age 38
Antonio Segni age 58
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 11
Nicolae Timofti age 4 months
Evgeny Primakov age 19
Mykola Azarov age 1
Siad Barre age 29
Mary of Teck age 82
Yoshirō Mori age 11
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 26
Aleksandr Vasilevsky age 53
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 5
Hjalmar Schacht age 72
Rodion Malinovsky age 50
Lázaro Cárdenas age 53
Bob Hawke age 19
Sandra Mason age 3 months
Makarios III age 35
Gulzarilal Nanda age 50
Moshe Sharett age 54
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 9
Joaquim Chissano age 9
Sam Nujoma age 20
Sani Abacha age 5
Juvénal Habyarimana age 12
Abdoulaye Wade age 22
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 31
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 22
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando age 89
P. W. Botha age 33
Lazar Kaganovich age 55
Jiang Qing age 35
Queen Sonja of Norway age 11
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood age 84
Semyon Timoshenko age 54
Lee Teng-hui age 26
Paul Keating age 5
Thomas Klestil age 16
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 25
Konstantin Päts age 75
Jerry Rawlings age 1
Pál Schmitt age 6
Zail Singh age 33
Amintore Fanfani age 41
Viktor Zubkov age 7
Vojislav Koštunica age 5
Tomiichi Murayama age 25
Nikolai Bulganin age 53
João Goulart age 30
Jean Monnet age 60
Soong Mei-ling age 51
Li Peng age 20
John Foster Dulles age 61
Ferhat Abbas age 49
Tassos Papadopoulos age 15
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 84
João Bernardo Vieira age 10
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 30
Chaim Herzog age 30
Giuseppe Saragat age 50
Lamberto Dini age 18
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 11
Askar Akayev age 4
Algirdas Brazauskas age 16
Prem Tinsulanonda age 28
Roh Tae-woo age 16
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 1 month
Lin Biao age 41
Egon Krenz age 12
Paul of Greece age 47
Jacobo Árbenz age 35
Robert Mueller age 4
Ramiz Alia age 23
Leopoldo Galtieri age 22
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 4
Bruno Kreisky age 38
Festus Mogae age 9
Seretse Khama age 27
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 24
Lennart Meri age 20
Risto Ryti age 60
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 35
Giovanni Gronchi age 61
Wim Kok age 10