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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

Claude Auchinleck age 64
Maximilian von Weichs age 67
Wilhelm List age 68
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 7
Frederica of Hanover age 32
Kim Jong-suk age 31
Louise Mountbatten age 59
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 13
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 12
Karl Seitz age 79
Leo Tindemans age 27
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 41
Barthélemy Boganda age 39
Antoine Gizenga age 23
Eugenia Charles age 29
Nicholas Liverpool age 14
Mario Scelba age 47
Anker Jørgensen age 26
William Richard Tolbert age 35
Didier Ratsiraka age 12
Pedro Lascuráin age 93
Sushil Koirala age 9
Kåre Willoch age 20
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 54
Pascal Lissouba age 17
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 5
Michal Kováč age 18
Pascal Couchepin age 7
Wellington Koo age 61
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 30
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 38
Carlos P. Garcia age 52
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike age 50
Gaafar Nimeiry age 18
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 96
Nobuyuki Abe age 73
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 61
Tetsu Katayama age 61
Hitoshi Ashida age 61
Pierre Messmer age 33
Artur Bernardes age 73
Avery Brundage age 61
Sirhan Sirhan age 5
Biljana Plavšić age 18
Karl Rahner age 45
Paul Tibbets age 34
Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 69
Felix Yusupov age 62
Maria of Yugoslavia age 49
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 28
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 33
Janet Reno age 10
Edmund Muskie age 35
Fan S. Noli age 67
Mohamed Boudiaf age 29
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 24
James Scullin age 72
Arthur Fadden age 55
Quentin Bryce age 6
Adolf Schärf age 59
Theodor Körner age 76
Hugo Banzer age 22
Nuon Chea age 22
Ange-Félix Patassé age 12
Glafcos Clerides age 30
Joaquín Balaguer age 42
Josefa Iloilo age 28
Luís Cabral age 18
Sam Hinds age 5
Janet Jagan age 28
Abdul Latif Rashid age 4
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 7
Giuseppe Pella age 47
Fernando Tambroni age 47
Joop den Uyl age 29
Kazys Grinius age 82
Bakili Muluzi age 6
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 32
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 6
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa age 37
António Ramalho Eanes age 14
António de Spínola age 39
Milan Milutinović age 6
France-Albert René age 13
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 17
Yusof bin Ishak age 38
Ruth Dreifuss age 9
Fradique de Menezes age 7
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 11
Samak Sundaravej age 13
George Maxwell Richards age 17
Yurii Yekhanurov age 7 months
Juan María Bordaberry age 20
Baldwin Lonsdale age 8 months
Juan Negrín age 57
Hugo Sperrle age 64
Maurice Couve de Murville age 42
Pierre Bérégovoy age 23
Francesco Saverio Nitti age 80
Mark W. Clark age 52
B. J. Vorster age 33
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 43
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 3
Walter Hallstein age 47
Margaret Beckett age 6
Paul Hausser age 68
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia age 74
Helen of Greece and Denmark age 52
Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein age 42
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood age 52
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark age 42
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner age 17
Katharine, Duchess of Kent age 16
William Rehnquist age 24
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 49
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 19
Jorge Alessandri age 52
Arturo Alessandri age 80
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 22
Väinö Tanner age 68
David A. Granger age 3
Mihály Károlyi age 74
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 43
Patrick Hillery age 25
Tammam Salam age 3
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 64
Kazimira Prunskienė age 6
Dom Mintoff age 32
Guido de Marco age 17
Moktar Ould Daddah age 24
Adolfo de la Huerta age 67
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 58
Muhammad Ali Bogra age 39
Ralph Gonsalves age 2
Ola Ullsten age 17
Moritz Leuenberger age 2
Oqil Oqilov age 5
Sarit Thanarat age 40
Somchai Wongsawat age 1
Café Filho age 50
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 61
Félix Gouin age 64
Ante Marković age 24
James Earl Ray age 21
Bachir Gemayel age 1
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny age 60
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia age 3
John Connally age 32
Mehmet Shehu age 36
Baldwin Spencer age 6 months
Peter Cosgrove age 1
Nicéphore Soglo age 14
Petar Mladenov age 12
Michel Micombero age 8
Belisario Betancur age 26
Sitiveni Rabuka age 7 months
Kalevi Sorsa age 18
Óscar Berger age 2
Kaysone Phomvihane age 28
Amine Gemayel age 7
Joseph Boakai age 4
Marien Ngouabi age 10
Devan Nair age 25
Johan Ferrier age 38
Surayud Chulanont age 5
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 5
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 7
Guy Scott age 4
Valentín Paniagua age 12
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 42
Ye Jianying age 52
Artur da Costa e Silva age 49
Jack Straw age 2
Gotthard Heinrici age 62
Jang Song-thaek age 3
Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 41
Princess Alexandra of Kent age 12
Prince Michael of Kent age 6
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld age 10
Wim Duisenberg age 13
Kiichirō Hiranuma age 81
Souvanna Phouma age 47
Ellison Onizuka age 2
Abd al-Malek Selal age 8 months
Liamine Zéroual age 7
Isa II of Bahrain age 15
René Emilio Barrientos Ortuño age 29
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 2
Khieu Samphan age 17
Abel Pacheco age 15
Giorgos Vasiliou age 17
Charles Savarin age 5
León Febres-Cordero age 18
Hilla Limann age 14
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 49
Carmen Pereira age 12
Roberto Micheletti age 5
József Antall age 17
Bjarni Benediktsson age 40
Ayad Allawi age 4