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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
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-1948 1947-10-22 - 1949-01-01

People

Joseph Stalin age 69
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Mao Zedong age 54
Chairman of the Communist Party of China - 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 52
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 55
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 28
Shah - Iran
Leopold III of Belgium age 46
Monarch - Belgium
Vincent Auriol age 63
President - France
Farouk of Egypt age 27
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 47
President - Mexico
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 64
President - Brazil
Shukri al-Quwatli age 56
President - Syria
Juan José Arévalo age 43
President - Guatemala
Trygve Lie age 51
Secretary-General - United Nations
Jawaharlal Nehru age 58
Prime Minister - India
Josip Broz Tito age 55
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Clement Attlee age 65
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Éamon de Valera age 65
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 77
President - International Olympic Committee
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 36
Prime Minister - Poland
Brock Chisholm age 51
Director-General - World Health Organization
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 55
Prime Minister - Cuba
Fred M. Vinson age 58
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
William D. Leahy age 72
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 57
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
George C. Marshall age 67
Secretary Of State - United States
Stafford Cripps age 58
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Tom C. Clark age 48
Attorney General - Department of Justice
John Wesley Snyder age 52
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 66
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 53
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Winston Churchill age 73
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Harold Wilson age 31
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Robert H. Jackson age 55
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Alben W. Barkley age 70
Senate - United States
John F. Kennedy age 30
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Nixon age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Earl Warren age 56
Governor of California - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 20
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 55
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 46
President - Indonesia
Pius XII age 71
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 72
- Saudi Arabia
Juan Perón age 52
President - Argentina
Norodom Sihanouk age 25
King - Cambodia
İsmet İnönü age 63
President - Turkey
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 67
King - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 75
Monarch - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 89
Monarch - Sweden
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 77
President - Finland
Frederik IX of Denmark age 48
Monarch - Denmark
Karl Renner age 77
President - Austria
Rafael Trujillo age 56
President - Dominican Republic
Enrico de Nicola age 70
President - Italy
Mohammed V of Morocco age 38
Sultan - Morocco
Bolesław Bierut age 55
President - Poland
Manuel Roxas age 56
President - Philippines
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 52
Monarch - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 48
King - Eswatini
Rómulo Betancourt age 39
President - Venezuela
William Tubman age 52
President - Liberia
Óscar Carmona age 78
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 77
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 37
Sultan - Oman
Jigme Wangchuck age 43
King - Bhutan
Seán T. O'Kelly age 65
President - Ireland
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 49
President - Chile
Bechara El Khoury age 57
President - Lebanon
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 47
Monarch - Tonga
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 54
President - Peru
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 56
President - Colombia
Tiburcio Carías age 71
President - Honduras
Omer Nishani age 60
President - Albania
Enrique Hertzog age 50
President - Bolivia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 63
Emir - Kuwait
Dumarsais Estimé age 47
President - Haiti
Higinio Morínigo age 51
President - Paraguay
Josip Vidmar age 52
President - Slovenia
Luis Batlle Berres Pérez age 50
President - Uruguay
Teodoro Picado Michalski age 48
President - Costa Rica
Sao Shwe Thaik age 51
President - Myanmar
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 93
Emir - Qatar
Enrico Celio age 58
President - Switzerland
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 46
King - Lesotho
Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes age 75
President - Nicaragua
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 59
President - Panama
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 66
President - Mongolia
Miha Marinko age 47
President - Slovenia
Enver Hoxha age 39
Prime Minister - Albania
António de Oliveira Salazar age 58
Prime Minister - Portugal
Georgi Dimitrov age 65
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Liaquat Ali Khan age 52
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Paul-Henri Spaak age 48
Prime Minister - Belgium
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 73
Prime Minister - Canada
Einar Gerhardsen age 50
Prime Minister - Norway
Tage Erlander age 46
Prime Minister - Sweden
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 52
Prime Minister - Mongolia
U Nu age 40
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Ben Chifley age 62
Prime Minister - Australia
Petru Groza age 63
Prime Minister - Romania
Leopold Figl age 45
Chancellor - Austria
Mauno Pekkala age 57
Prime Minister - Finland
Louis Beel age 45
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Khuang Aphaiwong age 45
Prime Minister - Thailand
Hans Hedtoft age 44
Prime Minister - Denmark
Don Stephen Senanayake age 63
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
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 63
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Lajos Dinnyés age 46
Prime Minister - Hungary
Paul Boffa age 57
Prime Minister - Malta
Peter Fraser age 63
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Amir Sjarifuddin age 40
Prime Minister - Indonesia
Hasan Saka age 63
Prime Minister - Turkey
Themistoklis Sofoulis age 88
Prime Minister - Greece
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 56
Prime Minister - Jordan
Sisowath Watchayavong age 56
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Sayyid Salih Jabr age 52
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 56
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 78
George W. Bush age 1
Joe Biden age 5
Pablo Picasso age 66
Charlie Chaplin age 58
Elizabeth II age 21
Martin Luther King Jr. age 19
Pope Francis age 11
Che Guevara age 19
Bill Clinton age 1
Charles de Gaulle age 57
Neil Armstrong age 17
Walt Disney age 46
Elvis Presley age 13
George Orwell age 44
John Paul II age 27
Margaret Thatcher age 22
Ernest Hemingway age 48
Gabriel García Márquez age 20
Fidel Castro age 21
Yuri Gagarin age 13
Mikhail Gorbachev age 16
Stephen Hawking age 6
Jean-Paul Sartre age 42
Jimmy Carter age 23
Benedict XVI age 20
Mother Teresa age 37
Hillary Clinton age 2 months
George H. W. Bush age 23
Alan Turing age 35
Simone de Beauvoir age 40
Niels Bohr age 62
Muammar Gaddafi age 5
John Lennon age 7
Muhammad Ali age 5
Kofi Annan age 9
Lech Wałęsa age 4
Gerald Ford age 34
Indira Gandhi age 30
Saddam Hussein age 10
Aung San Suu Kyi age 2
Enrico Fermi age 46
Nikita Khrushchev age 53
14th Dalai Lama age 12
Silvio Berlusconi age 11
Bob Marley age 2
Herbert Hoover age 73
Mahathir Mohamad age 22
Boris Yeltsin age 16
Ali Khamenei age 8
Jacques Chirac age 15
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 29
Kwame Nkrumah age 38
Yasser Arafat age 18
Ban Ki-moon age 3
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 2
Konrad Adenauer age 72
Henry Kissinger age 24
Václav Havel age 11