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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
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 68
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
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 47
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
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 56
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
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 62
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 76
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 61
Prime Minister - Australia
Petru Groza age 61
Prime Minister - Romania
Leopold Figl age 44
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 3 months
Albert Einstein age 67
Ronald Reagan age 35
Nelson Mandela age 28
Mahatma Gandhi age 77
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 1 month
Charles de Gaulle age 55
Neil Armstrong age 16
Walt Disney age 44
Elvis Presley age 11
George Orwell age 43
John Paul II age 26
Margaret Thatcher age 20
Ernest Hemingway age 47
Gabriel García Márquez age 19
Fidel Castro age 20
Yuri Gagarin age 12
Mikhail Gorbachev age 15
Henry Ford age 83