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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
Yangtze River Crossing campaign 1949-04-20 - 1949-06-02
Shanghai Campaign 1949-05-12 - 1949-06-02

People

Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 12
Hubert Ingraham age 1
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 8
Mohamed Ennaceur age 15
Apolo Nsibambi age 8
Godfrey Binaisa age 28
Vitalii Masol age 20
Raúl Leoni age 44
Ramón José Velásquez age 32
Vo Van Kiet age 26
Mohammed Basindawa age 14
Arnulfo Arias age 47
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 55
Francisco Sagasti age 4
Momčilo Krajišnik age 4
Andrés Rodríguez age 25
Liu Bocheng age 56
Claire Lee Chennault age 55
Albert Reynolds age 16
Lee Jong-wook age 4
Dušan Simović age 66
Kenneth Clarke age 8
Ramsey Clark age 21
Courtney Hodges age 62
Bainbridge Colby age 79
Albert Pintat age 5
Carlos Lacoste age 20
Josef Klaus age 38
Juan José Torres age 29
Saye Zerbo age 16
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 6
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 25
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 9
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 25
Sufi Abu Taleb age 24
Tosiwo Nakayama age 17
Edwin Linkomies age 54
Theodoros Pangalos age 71
Nikolaos Plastiras age 65
Xenophon Zolotas age 45
Tillman Thomas age 3
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 5
Gérard Latortue age 14
Jenő Fock age 33
Miklós Kállay age 62
Sutan Sjahrir age 40
P. J. Patterson age 14
Bruce Golding age 1
Abdullah Ensour age 10
Erik Eriksen age 46
Dirk Jan de Geer age 78
Victor Marijnen age 32
Charles D. B. King age 74
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé age 1
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 11
Anand Satyanand age 4
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 65
Gheorghe Tătărescu age 62
Constantin Dăscălescu age 25
Frederick Ballantyne age 12
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 12
Andrej Bajuk age 5
Adib Shishakli age 40
Qahhor Mahkamov age 17
Mizengo Pinda age 9 months
Cleopa Msuya age 18
Yevhen Marchuk age 8
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 36
Aparicio Méndez age 44
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 39
Aleksander Zawadzki age 49
Guillermo Endara age 13
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 20
Kim Hwang-sik age 9 months
Chung Un-chan age 2
Kim Jong-pil age 23
William Gopallawa age 51
D. M. Jayaratne age 17
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 7
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones age 86
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 61
Matthew Ridgway age 54
He Long age 53
Manlio Brosio age 51
Franco Maria Malfatti age 21
Denis Healey age 31
David Blunkett age 1
Amin al-Hafiz age 27
Dragiša Cvetković age 56
J. Lawton Collins age 53
John W. Snow age 9
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 30
Elliot Richardson age 28
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 3
Lester Bird age 11
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 65
Eduardo Lonardi age 52
Bill Hayden age 16
Alfons Gorbach age 50
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 9
Georges Theunis age 76
Paul van Zeeland age 55
Colville Young age 16
Aleksandar Tsankov age 69
Goukouni Oueddei age 7
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 33
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 22
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 2
Osvaldo Hurtado age 9
Teuvo Aura age 36
Keijo Liinamaa age 20
Sakari Tuomioja age 37
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 54
Ioannis Grivas age 26
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 21
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 18
Vinicio Cerezo age 6
Desmond Hoyte age 20
Henri Namphy age 16
Claudette Werleigh age 2
Tiburcio Carías age 73
Péter Boross age 20
István Friedrich age 65
Károly Grósz age 18
Geir Hallgrímsson age 23
Erik Scavenius age 71
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 54
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 35
Salim al-Huss age 19
Edwin Barclay age 67
Moses Blah age 2
Antanas Merkys age 62
Anton Buttigieg age 37
Litokwa Tomeing age 9
Luis Somoza Debayle age 26
Iuliu Maniu age 76
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod age 77
Cuthbert Sebastian age 27
Flavio Cotti age 9
H. H. Kung age 67
Sanya Dharmasakti age 42
Kriangsak Chamanan age 31
Chatchai Chunhawan age 29
Arthur Foulkes age 21
Marguerite Pindling age 16
Eric Williams age 37
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 26
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 42
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 47
Julius Chan age 9
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 33
Diego Martínez Barrio age 65
Edem Kodjo age 11
Miles Dempsey age 52
Masayoshi Ito age 35
Dirk Stikker age 52
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 72
James Wolfensohn age 15
Eric Shinseki age 6
Frank Carlucci age 18
Les Aspin age 10
Rab Butler age 46
Michael Mullen age 2
Lien Chan age 12
William H. Webster age 25
Rabah Bitat age 23
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 22
William Deane age 18
Clifford Husbands age 22
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 2 months
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 38
Hipólito Mejía age 8
Atef Ebeid age 17
Jacob Nena age 7
Antti Tulenheimo age 69
Reino Kuuskoski age 42
Reino Ragnar Lehto age 51
Ralf Törngren age 50
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 46
Ramiro de León Carpio age 7
Jorge Serrano Elías age 4
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 25
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 2
Gyula Kállai age 38
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 24
Hermann Jónasson age 52
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 38
Alexander Bustamante age 65
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 0 months
Jan Eduard de Quay age 47
Rashid Karami age 27
Riad Al Solh age 56
Richard Ratsimandrava age 18
Abdellatif Filali age 21
René Harris age 1
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 9
Jens Hundseid age 66
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 63
Clément Mouamba age 5
Ilie Verdeț age 24