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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

People

Jean Rey age 44
Lloyd Bentsen age 26
Iwane Matsui age 68
Wang Zhen (general) age 39
Frank Jack Fletcher age 62
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 60
Tajuddin Ahmad age 21
Luis García Meza Tejada age 17
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 33
Norodom Suramarit age 51
Hazem Al Beblawi age 10
José Napoleón Duarte age 21
Tiit Vähi age 4 months
Mart Siimann age 8 months
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 5
Negasso Gidada age 3
Rafael Paasio age 43
Johannes Virolainen age 33
Noe Zhordania age 79
Georgios Rallis age 28
Forbes Burnham age 24
István Dobi age 48
Ferenc Münnich age 60
Charles Konan Banny age 4
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 3
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 62
Joseph Bech age 60
Ċensu Tabone age 34
Nahas Angula age 3
Hammer DeRoburt age 24
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 19
Jim Bolger age 11
Daouda Malam Wanké age 1
Ernest Shonekan age 11
Muhammad Junejo age 14
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 5
Vasco Gonçalves age 26
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 26
Ong Teng Cheong age 11
Chen Cheng age 50
Thanin Kraiwichian age 20
Luis Herrera Campins age 22
Manuel Odría age 49
Nur Hassan Hussein age 9
Goh Kun age 9
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 22
Marais Viljoen age 31
Sicco Mansholt age 38
François-Xavier Ortoli age 22
Louise Lake-Tack age 2
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 30
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 27
José María Guido age 36
Pierre Harmel age 36
Said Musa age 3
Kimon Georgiev age 64
Norodom Ranariddh age 3
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 47
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 45
Jaime Roldos Aquilera age 6
Kamal Ganzouri age 14
Andres Tarand age 7
V. J. Sukselainen age 40
Edward Akufo-Addo age 40
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 33
Michael Stasinopoulos age 43
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 11
András Hegedüs age 24
Géza Lakatos age 57
Ólafur Thors age 55
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 34
Ahmed Chalabi age 2
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 27
Viggo Kampmann age 36
Jelle Zijlstra age 28
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 6
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 1
Arnoldo Alemán age 1
Wasim Sajjad age 6
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 53
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 8
Theodor Stolojan age 3
Manea Mănescu age 30
Nureddin al-Atassi age 18
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 35
Miguel Trovoada age 10
Yen Chia-kan age 41
Khuang Aphaiwong age 45
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 14
Şükrü Saracoğlu age 59
Nguyen Huu Tho age 36
Mieczysław Rakowski age 20
Alejandro Lerroux age 83
Ali Saibou age 6
John A. Costello age 55
Jack Lynch age 29
Willy Claes age 8
Rauf Orbay age 65
Nigel Lawson age 15
Harold Brown age 19
Seishirō Itagaki age 62
Melvin Laird age 24
Thomas Gage age 229
Ali Kafi age 18
Eduardo Camaño age 11 months
Michael Jeffery age 9
Hubert Pierlot age 63
Jean Duvieusart age 47
Camille Huysmans age 76
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 28
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 29
Guillermo León Valencia age 38
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 39
Akwasi Afrifa age 11
Fred Akuffo age 10
Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou age 56
Phaedon Gizikis age 29
Béla Miklós age 56
Edward Seaga age 16
Hans Hedtoft age 44
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 5
Fouad Chehab age 45
René Moawad age 22
Hussein Onn age 25
Ibrahim Nasir age 20
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 14
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 53
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 23
Pak Pong-ju age 8
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 41
Haruo Remeliik age 13
Ivan Stambolić age 10
Hashim al-Atassi age 71
Seni Pramoj age 42
Kukrit Pramoj age 36
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 7 months
Anand Panyarachun age 14
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 10
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 6
Mohamed Ennaceur age 13
Apolo Nsibambi age 6
Godfrey Binaisa age 26
Vitalii Masol age 18
Raúl Leoni age 42
Ramón José Velásquez age 30
Vo Van Kiet age 24
Mohammed Basindawa age 12
Arnulfo Arias age 45
Francisco Sagasti age 2
Momčilo Krajišnik age 2
Andrés Rodríguez age 23
Liu Bocheng age 54
Claire Lee Chennault age 53
Albert Reynolds age 14
Lee Jong-wook age 2
Dušan Simović age 64
Kenneth Clarke age 6
Ramsey Clark age 19
Courtney Hodges age 60
Bainbridge Colby age 77
Albert Pintat age 3
Carlos Lacoste age 18
Josef Klaus age 36
Juan José Torres age 27
Saye Zerbo age 14
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 4
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 23
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 7
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 23
Sufi Abu Taleb age 22
Tosiwo Nakayama age 15
Edwin Linkomies age 52
Theodoros Pangalos age 69
Nikolaos Plastiras age 63
Xenophon Zolotas age 43
Tillman Thomas age 1
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 3
Gérard Latortue age 12
Jenő Fock age 31
Miklós Kállay age 60
P. J. Patterson age 12
Abdullah Ensour age 8
Erik Eriksen age 44
Dirk Jan de Geer age 76
Victor Marijnen age 30
Charles D. B. King age 72
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 9
Anand Satyanand age 2
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 63
Gheorghe Tătărescu age 60
Constantin Dăscălescu age 23
Frederick Ballantyne age 10
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 10
Andrej Bajuk age 3
Adib Shishakli age 38
Qahhor Mahkamov age 15
Cleopa Msuya age 16
Yevhen Marchuk age 6
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 34
Aparicio Méndez age 42