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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Manhattan Project 1942-08-13 - 1947-01-01
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
Iran crisis of 1946 1945-11-01 - 1946-12-15
Nuremberg trials 1945-11-20 - 1946-10-01
International Military Tribunal for the Far East 1946-04-29 - 1948-11-12

People

Joseph Stalin age 67
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Mao Zedong age 52
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Harry S. Truman age 62
President - United States
Hirohito age 45
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 56
President - Vietnam
George VI age 50
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 54
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 26
Shah - Iran
Leopold III of Belgium age 44
King - Belgium
Farouk of Egypt age 26
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 49
President - Mexico
Georges Bidault age 46
President - France
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 63
President - Brazil
Trường Chinh age 39
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Shukri al-Quwatli age 54
President - Syria
Juan José Arévalo age 42
President - Guatemala
Trygve Lie age 50
Secretary-General - United Nations
Josip Broz Tito age 54
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Clement Attlee age 63
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Éamon de Valera age 63
Taoiseach - Ireland
Alcide De Gasperi age 65
Prime Minister - Italy
Shigeru Yoshida age 67
Prime Minister - Japan
Jan Smuts age 76
Prime Minister - South Africa
J. Sigfrid Edström age 75
President - International Olympic Committee
T. V. Soong age 54
Premier - Republic of China
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 43
Prime Minister - Cuba
Eugene Meyer age 70
President - World Bank
Ismaʿil Sidqi age 71
Prime Minister - Egypt
Saadallah al-Jabiri age 53
Prime Minister - Syria
Huynh Thuc Khang age 70
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Fred M. Vinson age 56
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Deng Xiaoping age 42
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 47
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 60
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 45
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
William D. Leahy age 71
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
He Long age 50
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 46
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 55
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
James F. Byrnes age 64
Secretary of State - United States
Tom C. Clark age 46
Attorney General - United States
Robert P. Patterson age 55
Secretary of War - United States
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 61
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
John Wesley Snyder age 51
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 69
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 64
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 51
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Winston Churchill age 71
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Chiang Kai-shek age 58
Chairman - Kuomintang
Robert H. Jackson age 54
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stafford Cripps age 57
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Frank Murphy age 56
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Hynd age 44
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 62
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 53
President - African National Congress
Margaret Buckley age 67
President - Sinn Féin
Alben W. Barkley age 68
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Anthony Eden age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Wilson age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Callaghan age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Christian Herter age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Gaitskell age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 28
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 51
House of Representatives - United States
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Frank Soskice age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Brown age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Foot age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ernest Bevin age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Earl Warren age 55
Governor of California - United States
Thomas E. Dewey age 44
Governor of New York - United States
Frank Lausche age 50
Governor of Ohio - United States
Walter E. Edge age 72
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Coke R. Stevenson age 58
Governor of Texas - United States
Maurice J. Tobin age 45
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Herbert O'Conor age 49
Governor of Maryland - United States
Benjamin T. Laney age 49
Governor of Arkansas - United States
William M. Tuck age 49
Governor of Virginia - United States
Ralph F. Gates age 53
Governor of Indiana - United States
Barber Conable age 23
New York State Senate - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 18
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 53
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 45
President - Indonesia
Pius XII age 70
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 70
King - Saudi Arabia
Juan Perón age 50
President - Argentina
Norodom Sihanouk age 23
King - Cambodia
İsmet İnönü age 61
President - Turkey
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 66
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 74
King - Norway
Abdullah I of Jordan age 64
King - Jordan
Gustaf V of Sweden age 88
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 75
King - Denmark
Michael I of Romania age 24
King - Kingdom of Romania
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 75
President - Finland
Karl Renner age 75
President - Austria
Rafael Trujillo age 54
President - Dominican Republic
Mohammed V of Morocco age 37
Sultan - Morocco
Bolesław Bierut age 54
President - Poland
Sveinn Björnsson age 65
President - Iceland
Manuel Roxas age 54
President - Philippines
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 50
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 47
King - Eswatini
Rómulo Betancourt age 38
President - Venezuela
Anastasio Somoza García age 50
President - Nicaragua
William Tubman age 50
President - Liberia
Óscar Carmona age 76
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 76
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 36
Sultan - Oman
Władysław Raczkiewicz age 61
President - Poland
Jigme Wangchuck age 41
King - Bhutan
Seán T. O'Kelly age 64
President - Ireland
Bechara El Khoury age 56
President - Lebanon
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 46
Queen - Tonga
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 52
President - Peru
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 54
President - Colombia
Tiburcio Carías age 70
President - Honduras
Omer Nishani age 59
President - Albania
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 61
Emir - Kuwait
Dumarsais Estimé age 46
President - Haiti
Juan José de Amézaga age 65
President - Uruguay
Higinio Morínigo age 49
President - Paraguay
Josip Vidmar age 50
President - Slovenia
Teodoro Picado Michalski age 46
President - Costa Rica
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 91
Emir - Qatar
Tomás Monje age 61
President - Bolivia
Karl Kobelt age 55
President - Switzerland
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 44
Regent - Lesotho
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 58
President - Panama
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 65
President - Mongolia
Miha Marinko age 46
President - Slovenia
Giuseppe Forcellini age 45
Captain Regent - San Marino
Vincenzo Pedini age 26
Captain Regent - San Marino
Archibald Wavell age 63
Viceroy - British Raj
Enver Hoxha age 37
Prime Minister - Albania
António de Oliveira Salazar age 57
Prime Minister - Portugal
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 71
Prime Minister - Canada
Einar Gerhardsen age 49
Prime Minister - Norway
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 51
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Per Albin Hansson age 60
Prime Minister - Sweden
Ben Chifley age 60
Prime Minister - Australia
Petru Groza age 61
Prime Minister - Romania
Leopold Figl age 43
Chancellor - Austria
Mauno Pekkala age 56
Prime Minister - Finland
Kimon Georgiev age 64
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Ólafur Thors age 54
Prime Minister - Iceland
Louis Beel age 44
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Camille Huysmans age 75
Prime Minister - Belgium
Sutan Sjahrir age 37
Prime Minister - Indonesia
Ferenc Nagy age 42
Prime Minister - Hungary
Konstantinos Tsaldaris age 62
Prime Minister - Greece
Knud Kristensen age 65
Prime Minister - Denmark
Recep Peker age 57
Prime Minister - Turkey
Otto Tief age 57
Prime Minister - Estonia
Vladimir Bakarić age 34
Prime Minister - Croatia
Pierre Dupong age 61
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Peter Fraser age 62
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Thawan Thamrongnawasawat age 44
Prime Minister - Thailand
Sisowath Monireth age 36
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Alexander Frick age 36
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Prince Shah Mahmud Khan of Afghanistan age 59
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Makonnen Endelkachew age 56
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Arshad al-Umari age 58
Prime Minister - Iraq
Blažo Jovanović age 39
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Solomone Ula Ata age 63
Prime Minister - Tonga
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 46
Governor-General - Australia
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 57
Governor-General - New Zealand
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 65
Governor-General - Madagascar
Donald Trump age 2 months
Albert Einstein age 67
Ronald Reagan age 35
Nelson Mandela age 28
Mahatma Gandhi age 76
George W. Bush age 2 months
Joe Biden age 3
Pablo Picasso age 64
Charlie Chaplin age 57
Elizabeth II age 20
John F. Kennedy age 29
Martin Luther King Jr. age 17
Pope Francis age 9
Che Guevara age 18
Bill Clinton age 0 months
Charles de Gaulle age 55
Neil Armstrong age 16