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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
Malagasy Uprising 1947-03-29 - 1949-02
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
Siege of Changchun 1948-05-23 - 1948-10-19
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Berlin Blockade 1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12
Liaoshen Campaign 1948-09-12 - 1948-11-02

People

Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 39
Choi Kyu-hah age 29
Zenkō Suzuki age 37
Paul Reynaud age 69
Leon Panetta age 10
Mario Cuomo age 16
Lê Duẩn age 41
Li Xiannian age 39
George Wallace age 29
Henry L. Stimson age 81
Alexander Haig age 23
Franz Jonas age 48
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 33
Patricio Aylwin age 29
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 31
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 29
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 9 months
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 54
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 1
Davíð Oddsson age 8 months
Giovanni Spadolini age 23
Arnaldo Forlani age 22
Raila A Odinga age 3
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 7
Anerood Jugnauth age 18
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 37
Armando Guebuza age 5
Farooq Leghari age 8
Emil Constantinescu age 8
Evaristo Carvalho age 6
Rómulo Betancourt age 40
José Paciano Laurel age 57
Sergio Osmeña age 70
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 22
Luis Carrero Blanco age 44
Harold Alexander age 56
Rodolfo Graziani age 66
Masayoshi Ōhira age 38
Sōsuke Uno age 26
Pierre Mendès France age 41
Oliver Tambo age 30
Wilhelm, German Crown Prince age 66
Gennady Yanayev age 11
Chadli Bendjedid age 19
Franz Vranitzky age 10
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 8
Wilfried Martens age 12
Louis St. Laurent age 66
Aristides Pereira age 24
Pedro Pires age 14
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 37
Ephraim Katzir age 32
Giovanni Goria age 5
Muhyiddin Yassin age 1
Moussa Traoré age 11
Eddie Fenech Adami age 14
Adolfo López Mateos age 38
Ibrahim Babangida age 7
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 18
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 18
Vladimír Mečiar age 6
Ronald Venetiaan age 12
Rafael Caldera age 32
Hanna Suchocka age 2
Fernando Belaúnde age 35
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 67
Takeo Miki age 41
William Westmoreland age 34
Venceslau Brás age 80
Georges Bidault age 48
Vasily Sokolovsky age 51
Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin age 54
Marcel Lefebvre age 42
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 2
Craig Venter age 1
Hans Fritzsche age 48
Yang Shangkun age 41
Stephen Breyer age 10
Thurgood Marshall age 40
James F. Byrnes age 66
Hubert Maga age 32
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 27
Arthur Meighen age 74
Jioji Konrote age 9 months
Paavo Lipponen age 7
Léon M'ba age 46
Georgios Papandreou age 60
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 1
Zalman Shazar age 58
Piet de Jong age 33
Guntis Ulmanis age 9
Philibert Tsiranana age 35
Abdul Razak Hussein age 26
Mircea Snegur age 8
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 24
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 25
Maxime Weygand age 81
Kuniaki Koiso age 68
Kijūrō Shidehara age 76
Nikolai Tikhonov age 43
Jânio Quadros age 31
Michel Aflaq age 38
Ferdinand Schörner age 56
Marsha P. Johnson age 3
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia age 66
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine age 85
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 35
Michael Dukakis age 14
Dobrica Ćosić age 26
Daniel Inouye age 24
Lawrence Eagleburger age 18
Anthony Kennedy age 12
Dean Rusk age 39
Cyrus Vance age 31
Arturo Umberto Illia age 48
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 1
Arturo Frondizi age 39
William McMahon age 40
Earle Page age 68
Joe Clark age 9
François Tombalbaye age 30
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 6
Tshombé Moïse age 28
Harri Holkeri age 11
Efraín Ríos Montt age 22
Kristján Eldjárn age 31
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 36
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 42
Yigal Allon age 29
Henri Konan Bédié age 14
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 22
Gaston Thorn age 20
Htin Kyaw age 2
Yakubu Gowon age 13
Shehu Shagari age 23
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 3
Rudolf Schuster age 14
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 5
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 23
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 28
Michael Somare age 12
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora age 71
Chuck Hagel age 1
Milka Planinc age 23
Günter Schabowski age 19
Wesley Clark age 3
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck age 78
Kurt Student age 58
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg age 60
Souphanouvong age 39
John Ashcroft age 6
S. M. Bruce age 65
John Gorton age 37
César Gaviria age 1
Osvaldo Dorticós age 29
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 27
Péter Medgyessy age 5
Poul Schlüter age 19
Fouad Siniora age 5
Anastasio Somoza García age 52
Diori Hamani age 32
James Michel age 4
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 22
Mesut Yılmaz age 10 months
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 20
Julio María Sanguinetti age 12
Iolu Abil age 6
Mireya Moscoso age 2
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 13
Tanzan Ishibashi age 64
Michel Debré age 36
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 33
Washington Luís age 78
Margaret Chan age 1
Claude Auchinleck age 64
Maximilian von Weichs age 66
Wilhelm List age 68
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 6
Frederica of Hanover age 31
Kim Jong-suk age 30
Louise Mountbatten age 59
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 12
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 11
Karl Seitz age 79
Leo Tindemans age 26
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 41
Barthélemy Boganda age 38
Antoine Gizenga age 22
Eugenia Charles age 29
Nicholas Liverpool age 14
Mario Scelba age 47
Anker Jørgensen age 26
William Richard Tolbert age 35
Didier Ratsiraka age 11
Pedro Lascuráin age 92
Sushil Koirala age 9
Kåre Willoch age 19
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 54
Pascal Lissouba age 16
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 4