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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
Malagasy Uprising 1947-03-29 - 1949-02

People

Joseph Stalin age 68
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Mao Zedong age 53
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Harry S. Truman age 63
President - United States
Hirohito age 46
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 57
President - Vietnam
George VI age 51
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 54
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 27
Shah - Iran
Leopold III of Belgium age 45
King - Belgium
Vincent Auriol age 62
President - France
Farouk of Egypt age 27
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 46
President - Mexico
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 64
President - Brazil
Trường Chinh age 40
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Shukri al-Quwatli age 55
President - Syria
Juan José Arévalo age 42
President - Guatemala
Trygve Lie age 50
Secretary-General - United Nations
Josip Broz Tito age 55
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Clement Attlee age 64
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Éamon de Valera age 64
Taoiseach - Ireland
Alcide De Gasperi age 66
Prime Minister - Italy
Jan Smuts age 77
Prime Minister - South Africa
Tetsu Katayama age 59
Prime Minister - Japan
J. Sigfrid Edström age 76
President - International Olympic Committee
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 36
Prime Minister - Poland
Zhang Qun age 58
Premier - Republic of China
John J. McCloy age 52
President - World Bank
Mahmud Fahmi al-Nuqrashi age 59
Prime Minister - Egypt
Raúl López del Castillo age 54
Prime Minister - Cuba
Fred M. Vinson age 57
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 48
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 61
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 72
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
He Long age 51
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 47
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 56
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
George C. Marshall age 66
Secretary of State - United States
Tom C. Clark age 47
Attorney General - United States
Robert P. Patterson age 56
Secretary of War - United States
John Wesley Snyder age 51
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 65
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 64
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 52
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Winston Churchill age 72
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Chiang Kai-shek age 59
Chairman - Kuomintang
Robert H. Jackson age 55
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stafford Cripps age 58
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Frank Murphy age 57
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford age 41
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 63
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 54
President - African National Congress
Margaret Buckley age 67
President - Sinn Féin
Alben W. Barkley age 69
Senate - United States
J. Howard McGrath age 43
Senate - United States
John F. Kennedy age 30
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Nixon age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Anthony Eden age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Wilson age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Callaghan age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Christian Herter age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Gaitskell age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 29
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Frank Soskice age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 43
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 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Earl Warren age 56
Governor of California - United States
Thomas E. Dewey age 45
Governor of New York - United States
Beauford H. Jester age 54
Governor of Texas - United States
Thomas J. Herbert age 52
Governor of Ohio - United States
Benjamin T. Laney age 50
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Robert F. Bradford age 44
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
William M. Tuck age 50
Governor of Virginia - United States
William Preston Lane Jr. age 55
Governor of Maryland - United States
Alfred E. Driscoll age 44
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Ralph F. Gates age 54
Governor of Indiana - United States
Barber Conable age 24
New York State Senate - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 19
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 54
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 46
President - Indonesia
Pius XII age 71
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 71
King - Saudi Arabia
Juan Perón age 51
President - Argentina
Norodom Sihanouk age 24
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 65
King - Jordan
Gustaf V of Sweden age 89
King - Sweden
Michael I of Romania age 25
King - Kingdom of Romania
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 76
President - Finland
Frederik IX of Denmark age 48
King - Denmark
Karl Renner age 76
President - Austria
Rafael Trujillo age 55
President - Dominican Republic
Mohammed V of Morocco age 37
Sultan - Morocco
Bolesław Bierut age 55
President - Poland
Sveinn Björnsson age 66
President - Iceland
Manuel Roxas age 55
President - Philippines
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 51
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 47
King - Eswatini
Rómulo Betancourt age 39
President - Venezuela
William Tubman age 51
President - Liberia
Óscar Carmona age 77
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 76
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 36
Sultan - Oman
Jigme Wangchuck age 42
King - Bhutan
Seán T. O'Kelly age 64
President - Ireland
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 48
President - Chile
Bechara El Khoury age 56
President - Lebanon
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 47
Queen - Tonga
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 53
President - Peru
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 55
President - Colombia
Tiburcio Carías age 71
President - Honduras
Omer Nishani age 60
President - Albania
Enrique Hertzog age 49
President - Bolivia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 62
Emir - Kuwait
Dumarsais Estimé age 47
President - Haiti
Philipp Etter age 55
President - Switzerland
Higinio Morínigo age 50
President - Paraguay
Josip Vidmar age 51
President - Slovenia
Teodoro Picado Michalski age 47
President - Costa Rica
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 92
Emir - Qatar
Tomás Berreta age 71
President - Uruguay
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 45
Regent - Lesotho
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 59
President - Panama
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 65
President - Mongolia
Miha Marinko age 46
President - Slovenia
Benjamín Lacayo Sacasa age 53
President - Nicaragua
Lord Mountbatten age 46
Viceroy - British Raj
Enver Hoxha age 38
Prime Minister - Albania
António de Oliveira Salazar age 58
Prime Minister - Portugal
Georgi Dimitrov age 64
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Paul-Henri Spaak age 48
Prime Minister - Belgium
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 72
Prime Minister - Canada
Einar Gerhardsen age 50
Prime Minister - Norway
Tage Erlander age 46
Prime Minister - Sweden
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 52
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Ben Chifley age 61
Prime Minister - Australia
Petru Groza age 62
Prime Minister - Romania
Leopold Figl age 44
Chancellor - Austria
Mauno Pekkala age 57
Prime Minister - Finland
Louis Beel age 45
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Sutan Sjahrir age 38
Prime Minister - Indonesia
Riad Al Solh age 54
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Knud Kristensen age 66
Prime Minister - Denmark
Recep Peker age 58
Prime Minister - Turkey
Otto Tief age 57
Prime Minister - Estonia
Vladimir Bakarić age 35
Prime Minister - Croatia
Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson age 52
Prime Minister - Iceland
Pierre Dupong age 62
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Lajos Dinnyés age 46
Prime Minister - Hungary
Peter Fraser age 62
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Dimitrios Maximos age 73
Prime Minister - Greece
Thawan Thamrongnawasawat age 45
Prime Minister - Thailand
Sisowath Youtevong age 34
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Sayyid Salih Jabr age 51
Prime Minister - Iraq
Alexander Frick age 37
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Prince Shah Mahmud Khan of Afghanistan age 60
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Makonnen Endelkachew age 57
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Blažo Jovanović age 40
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Solomone Ula Ata age 64
Prime Minister - Tonga
Rodolfo Llopis age 52
Prime Minister - Spain
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 58
Governor-General - New Zealand
Bill McKell age 55
Governor-General - Australia
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 66
Governor-General - Madagascar
Donald Trump age 11 months
Albert Einstein age 68
Ronald Reagan age 36
Nelson Mandela age 28
Mahatma Gandhi age 77
George W. Bush age 11 months
Joe Biden age 4
Pablo Picasso age 65
Charlie Chaplin age 58
Elizabeth II age 21
Martin Luther King Jr. age 18
Pope Francis age 10
Che Guevara age 19
Bill Clinton age 9 months
Charles de Gaulle age 56
Neil Armstrong age 16