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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

People

Cordell Hull age 77
Raúl Alfonsín age 22
Paul Martin age 10
Mwai Kibaki age 17
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 46
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 66
Chang Myon age 50
Chun Doo-hwan age 18
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 28
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 24
John Nance Garner age 80
Mohammad Najibullah age 2
Zog I of Albania age 53
Dimitris Christofias age 2
V. V. Giri age 55
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 19
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 18
Jacques Rogge age 7
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 12
K. R. Narayanan age 28
Levi Eshkol age 53
Massimo D'Alema age 4 months
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 43
Daniel arap Moi age 24
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 0 months
Peter Mutharika age 9
Mário Soares age 24
Kgalema Motlanthe age 1 month
Heinrich Lübke age 54
Liu Shaoqi age 50
Zhu Rongji age 20
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 16
Houari Boumédiène age 17
Gough Whitlam age 33
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 9 months
Ram Baran Yadav age 1
Desi Bouterse age 3
Xanana Gusmão age 3
Armand Fallières age 107
Pierre Mauroy age 21
Laurent Fabius age 3
Édith Cresson age 15
Robert McNamara age 33
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 7 months
Carl Bildt age 1 month
Semyon Budyonny age 66
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 112
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 8 months
Evgeny Primakov age 19
Mykola Azarov age 1
Siad Barre age 29
Mary of Teck age 82
Yoshirō Mori age 12
Hjalmar Schacht age 72
Rodion Malinovsky age 50
Lázaro Cárdenas age 54
Bob Hawke age 19
Sandra Mason age 7 months
Makarios III age 36
Gulzarilal Nanda age 51
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 23
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 31
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 22
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando age 89
P. W. Botha age 33
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
Paul-Henri Spaak age 50
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 25
Konstantin Päts age 75
Jerry Rawlings age 2
Pál Schmitt age 7
Zail Singh age 33
Amintore Fanfani age 41
Arif Alvi age 0 months
Viktor Zubkov age 7
Vojislav Koštunica age 5
Tomiichi Murayama age 25
Nikolai Bulganin age 54
João Goulart age 30
Jean Monnet age 60
Li Peng age 20
Ferhat Abbas age 50
Brigitte Bierlein age 1 month
Tassos Papadopoulos age 15
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 84
João Bernardo Vieira age 10
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 31
Chaim Herzog age 30
Giuseppe Saragat age 50
Lamberto Dini age 18
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 12
Askar Akayev age 4
Algirdas Brazauskas age 16
Prem Tinsulanonda age 29
Roh Tae-woo age 16
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 4 months
Lin Biao age 41
Egon Krenz age 12
Fernando Collor de Mello age 0 months
Jacobo Árbenz age 35
Robert Mueller age 5
Ramiz Alia age 23
Leopoldo Galtieri age 23
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 4
Bruno Kreisky age 38
Festus Mogae age 10
Seretse Khama age 28
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 25
Lennart Meri age 20
Risto Ryti age 60
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 36
Giovanni Gronchi age 61
Wim Kok age 10
Charles Taylor age 1
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 11
Agatha Barbara age 26
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 44
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 49
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 13
Moncef Marzouki age 4
Joseph Estrada age 12
Jean Casimir-Perier age 101
Alain Juppé age 4
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 25
Robert Gates age 5
Baldur von Schirach age 42
Andreas Papandreou age 30
Chandra Shekhar age 22
Fuad Masum age 11
Hage Geingob age 8
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 9
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 4
Jerzy Buzek age 9
Kakuei Tanaka age 31
James Baker age 19
Chiang Ching-kuo age 39
Antonin Scalia age 13
Babrak Karmal age 20
Hafizullah Amin age 20
Alfred Moisiu age 19
Kurt Schuschnigg age 51
Zillur Rahman age 20
François Bozizé age 2
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 42
Inder Kumar Gujral age 29
V. P. Singh age 18
Masoud Barzani age 3
Thein Sein age 4
Than Shwe age 16