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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 55
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 27
Shah - Iran
Leopold III of Belgium age 45
King - Belgium
Vincent Auriol age 63
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 43
President - Guatemala
Trygve Lie age 51
Secretary-General - United Nations
Jawaharlal Nehru age 57
Prime Minister - India
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
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 52
Prime Minister - Poland
Tetsu Katayama age 60
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 43
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 46
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
Kenneth Claiborne Royall age 53
Secretary of War - United States
John Wesley Snyder age 52
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 65
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 65
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 68
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 39
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 65
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 54
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 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Frank Soskice age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Brown age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Foot age 34
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 63
President - Turkey
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 67
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 75
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 38
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 48
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 77
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 37
Sultan - Oman
Jigme Wangchuck age 42
King - Bhutan
Seán T. O'Kelly age 65
President - Ireland
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 48
President - Chile
Bechara El Khoury age 57
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
Luis Batlle Berres Pérez age 49
President - Uruguay
Teodoro Picado Michalski age 47
President - Costa Rica
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 92
Emir - Qatar
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 45
Regent - Lesotho
Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes age 74
President - Nicaragua
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 59
President - Panama
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 66
President - Mongolia
Miha Marinko age 47
President - Slovenia
Enver Hoxha age 38
Prime Minister - Albania
António de Oliveira Salazar age 58
Prime Minister - Portugal
Georgi Dimitrov age 65
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Liaquat Ali Khan age 51
Prime Minister - Pakistan
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 62
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
Riad Al Solh age 54
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Knud Kristensen age 66
Prime Minister - Denmark
Otto Tief age 58
Prime Minister - Estonia
Vladimir Bakarić age 35
Prime Minister - Croatia
Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson age 53
Prime Minister - Iceland
Pierre Dupong age 62
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Lajos Dinnyés age 46
Prime Minister - Hungary
Peter Fraser age 63
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Hasan Saka age 62
Prime Minister - Turkey
Themistoklis Sofoulis age 87
Prime Minister - Greece
Thawan Thamrongnawasawat age 45
Prime Minister - Thailand
Sisowath Watchayavong age 56
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
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 1
Albert Einstein age 68
Ronald Reagan age 36
Nelson Mandela age 29
Mahatma Gandhi age 77
George W. Bush age 1
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 1
Charles de Gaulle age 56
Neil Armstrong age 17