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Events

Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
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
Korean War 1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27

People

Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone age 68
Elisabeth of Romania age 56
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark age 37
Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen age 21
Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler age 16
Margareta of Romania age 2
Princess Michael of Kent age 6
Ann Richards age 17
David Souter age 11
Carlos Castillo Armas age 36
William P. Rogers age 38
Owen Arthur age 1
George Cadle Price age 32
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 35
André Kolingba age 15
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 68
Edgar Savisaar age 1
Epeli Nailatikau age 10
Karl-August Fagerholm age 49
Leslie Manigat age 21
Miklós Németh age 3
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 59
Robert Guéï age 10
Bah Ndaw age 1
Dioncounda Traoré age 9
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 9
Lars Korvald age 35
John Lyng age 46
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 47
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 7
Américo Tomás age 56
James Mancham age 12
Siaka Stevens age 46
Benjamin Sheares age 44
Chuan Leekpai age 13
Perry Christie age 8
Mari Alkatiri age 1
Yıldırım Akbulut age 15
Jan Olszewski age 21
José María Balcázar age 8
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 16
Ho Chong age 55
Hugh Dowding age 69
Creighton Abrams age 36
Charles Haughey age 25
Joseph Luns age 40
Nereu Ramos age 63
William J. Perry age 23
Matvei Zakharov age 53
Juan Almeida Bosque age 24
Shapour Bakhtiar age 37
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst age 66
Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta age 47
Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (1943–2021) age 7
Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark age 46
Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies age 40
Anne of Romania age 27
Lamar Alexander age 11
Ian Wilmut age 7
John McEwen age 51
Novruz Mammadov age 4
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 24
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 73
Alfonso López Michelsen age 38
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 45
Ahmed Abdallah age 32
Ivica Račan age 7
Manny Mori age 2
Ahti Karjalainen age 28
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 65
Martti Miettunen age 44
Maurice Bishop age 7
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 3
Ricardo Maduro age 5
Mátyás Szűrös age 17
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 23
Adone Zoli age 63
H. C. Hansen age 44
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 21
Thongsing Thammavong age 7
Camille Chamoun age 51
Ruth Perry age 12
Abelardo L. Rodríguez age 62
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 74
Driss Jettou age 6
Rosario Murillo age 2 months
Kim Yong-il age 7
Oscar Torp age 58
Per Borten age 38
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 13
Jules Wijdenbosch age 10
Rickard Sandler age 67
Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp age 68
Hjalmar Hammarskjöld age 89
Shukri al-Quwatli age 59
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 18
A. N. R. Robinson age 24
Nihat Erim age 39
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 31
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 2
Jaime Lusinchi age 27
Phan Văn Khải age 17
Józef Oleksy age 5
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 62
Nebojša Radmanović age 1
Giuseppe Bertello age 8
Giovanni Lajolo age 16
Giovanni Messe age 67
Zhang Xueliang age 50
José Linhares age 65
Geoffrey Howe age 24
Carlos Luz age 57
Maxwell D. Taylor age 50
William D. Leahy age 76
William Cohen age 10
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 80
Caspar Weinberger age 34
Viktor Chernov age 77
Lothar Rendulic age 63
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu age 17
Pavel Grachev age 3
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 9
Yuriko, Princess Mikasa age 28
Şehzade Ertuğrul Osman age 39
Princess Patricia of Connaught age 65
Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick age 63
Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1906–1969) age 45
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook age 72
George Pataki age 6
Leonard Kleinrock age 17
Warren E. Burger age 43
Haxhi Lleshi age 37
Rodney Williams age 3
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 60
Julius Raab age 59
Achille Van Acker age 53
Jaime Paz Zamora age 12
Philémon Yang age 4
Julio César Turbay age 35
Spiros Cyprianou age 18
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 16
Ibrahim Mahlab age 2
Kamisese Mara age 31
Mauno Pekkala age 61
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 19
Henrique Rosa age 5
Donald Ramotar age 10 months
Oswaldo López Arellano age 30
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 47
Poul Hartling age 37
Barend Biesheuvel age 31
Felix Kulov age 2
Tom Thabane age 12
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 13
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 45
Kailash Purryag age 3
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 50
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 1
Choe Yong-rim age 20
Grégoire Kayibanda age 27
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 1 month
Lojze Peterle age 3
Samuel Schmid age 4
Joseph Deiss age 5
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 19
T. V. Soong age 59
Hamadi Jebali age 2
Tito Okello age 36
Vitold Fokin age 18
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 25
Do Muoi age 34
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke age 32
Chung Il-kwon age 33
Jung Hong-won age 6
Ismail al-Azhari age 50
Raif Dizdarević age 24
Vo Chi Cong age 39
J. G. Strijdom age 58
W. T. Cosgrave age 71
Jean Rey age 49
Choe Yong-gon age 51
Jisaburō Ozawa age 64
Ralph Abernathy age 25
David Elazar age 26
Sylvia Rivera age 1 month
Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 64
Mamoru Shigemitsu age 64
Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark age 38
Mark Phillips (born 1948) age 2
Wang Zhen (general) age 43
Frank Jack Fletcher age 66
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 64
Tajuddin Ahmad age 26
Luis García Meza Tejada age 22
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 37
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 2
Norodom Suramarit age 55
Jamil Mahuad age 2
Hazem Al Beblawi age 14
José Napoleón Duarte age 25