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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
Siege of Skardu 1948-02-11 - 1948-08-14
Marshall Plan 1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Berlin Blockade 1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12

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 64
President - United States
Hirohito age 47
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 58
President - Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek age 60
President - Republic of China
George VI age 52
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 56
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 28
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 47
President - Mexico
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 65
President - Brazil
Shukri al-Quwatli age 56
President - Syria
Juan José Arévalo age 43
President - Guatemala
Trygve Lie age 52
Secretary-General - United Nations
Jawaharlal Nehru age 58
Prime Minister - India
David Ben-Gurion age 61
Prime Minister - Israel
Josip Broz Tito age 56
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Clement Attlee age 65
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Alcide De Gasperi age 67
Prime Minister - Italy
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 53
Prime Minister - Poland
Hitoshi Ashida age 60
Prime Minister - Japan
J. Sigfrid Edström age 77
President - International Olympic Committee
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 37
Prime Minister - Poland
John A. Costello age 57
Taoiseach - Ireland
Brock Chisholm age 52
Director-General - World Health Organization
John J. McCloy age 53
President - World Bank
Mahmud Fahmi al-Nuqrashi age 60
Prime Minister - Egypt
Weng Wenhao age 59
Premier - Republic of China
Raúl López del Castillo age 55
Prime Minister - Cuba
D. F. Malan age 74
Prime Minister - South Africa
Fred M. Vinson age 58
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Li Tsung-jen age 59
Vice President - Republic of China
William D. Leahy age 73
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
George C. Marshall age 67
Secretary Of State - United States
Omar Bradley age 55
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Stafford Cripps age 59
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Tom C. Clark age 48
Attorney General - Department of Justice
John Wesley Snyder age 53
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 32
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Robert H. Jackson age 56
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Alben W. Barkley age 70
Senate - United States
John F. Kennedy age 31
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 57
Governor of California - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 20
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 55
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 47
President - Indonesia
Pius XII age 72
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 72
- Saudi Arabia
Juan Perón age 52
President - Argentina
Norodom Sihanouk age 25
King - Cambodia
Syngman Rhee age 73
President - South Korea
İsmet İnönü age 63
President - Turkey
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 67
King - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 76
Monarch - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 90
Monarch - Sweden
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 77
President - Finland
Frederik IX of Denmark age 49
Monarch - Denmark
Karl Renner age 77
President - Austria
Rafael Trujillo age 56
President - Dominican Republic
Luigi Einaudi age 74
President - Italy
Mohammed V of Morocco age 39
Sultan - Morocco
Bolesław Bierut age 56
President - Poland
Rómulo Gallegos age 64
President - Venezuela
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 52
Monarch - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 49
King - Eswatini
Elpidio Quirino age 57
President - Philippines
José Figueres Ferrer age 41
President - Costa Rica
William Tubman age 52
President - Liberia
Óscar Carmona age 78
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 78
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 58
President - Lebanon
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 48
Monarch - Tonga
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 54
President - Peru
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 56
President - Colombia
Tiburcio Carías age 72
President - Honduras
Omer Nishani age 61
President - Albania
Enrique Hertzog age 50
President - Bolivia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 63
Emir - Kuwait
Dumarsais Estimé age 48
President - Haiti
Josip Vidmar age 52
President - Slovenia
Luis Batlle Berres Pérez age 50
President - Uruguay
Sao Shwe Thaik age 51
President - Myanmar
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 93
Emir - Qatar
Juan Manuel Frutos age 69
President - Paraguay
Enrico Celio age 59
President - Switzerland
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 46
King - Lesotho
Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes age 75
President - Nicaragua
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 60
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 59
Prime Minister - Portugal
Georgi Dimitrov age 66
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Liaquat Ali Khan age 52
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Paul-Henri Spaak age 49
Prime Minister - Belgium
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 51
Prime Minister - Thailand
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 73
Prime Minister - Canada
Mohammad Hatta age 46
Prime Minister - Indonesia
Einar Gerhardsen age 51
Prime Minister - Norway
Tage Erlander age 47
Prime Minister - Sweden
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 53
Prime Minister - Mongolia
U Nu age 41
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Ben Chifley age 62
Prime Minister - Australia
Petru Groza age 63
Prime Minister - Romania
Leopold Figl age 45
Chancellor - Austria
Karl-August Fagerholm age 46
Prime Minister - Finland
Louis Beel age 46
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Khuang Aphaiwong age 46
Prime Minister - Thailand
Hans Hedtoft age 45
Prime Minister - Denmark
Don Stephen Senanayake age 63
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Otto Tief age 59
Prime Minister - Estonia
Vladimir Bakarić age 36
Prime Minister - Croatia
Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson age 54
Prime Minister - Iceland
Pierre Dupong age 63
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Lajos Dinnyés age 47
Prime Minister - Hungary
Paul Boffa age 58
Prime Minister - Malta
Peter Fraser age 64
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Lee Beom-seok age 47
Prime Minister - South Korea
Hasan Saka age 63
Prime Minister - Turkey
Themistoklis Sofoulis age 88
Prime Minister - Greece
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 56
Prime Minister - Jordan
Mohan Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 62
Prime Minister - Nepal
Chhean Vam age 32
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Muzahim Pachachi age 57
Prime Minister - Iraq
Alexander Frick age 38
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Prince Shah Mahmud Khan of Afghanistan age 61
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Makonnen Endelkachew age 58
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Blažo Jovanović age 41
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Solomone Ula Ata age 65
Prime Minister - Tonga
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 59
Governor-General - New Zealand
Bill McKell age 56
Governor-General - Australia
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 67
Governor-General - Madagascar
Donald Trump age 2
Albert Einstein age 69
Ronald Reagan age 37
Nelson Mandela age 30
George W. Bush age 2
Joe Biden age 5
Pablo Picasso age 66
Charlie Chaplin age 59
Elizabeth II age 22
Martin Luther King Jr. age 19
Pope Francis age 11
Che Guevara age 20
Bill Clinton age 1
Charles de Gaulle age 57
Neil Armstrong age 18
Walt Disney age 46
Elvis Presley age 13
George Orwell age 45
John Paul II age 28
Margaret Thatcher age 22
Ernest Hemingway age 49
Gabriel García Márquez age 21
Fidel Castro age 21
Yuri Gagarin age 14
Mikhail Gorbachev age 17
Stephen Hawking age 6
Jean-Paul Sartre age 43
Jimmy Carter age 23
Benedict XVI age 21
Mother Teresa age 37
Hillary Clinton age 9 months
George H. W. Bush age 24
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 57
Alan Turing age 36
Simone de Beauvoir age 40
Niels Bohr age 62
Muammar Gaddafi age 6
John Lennon age 7
Muhammad Ali age 6
Kofi Annan age 10
Lech Wałęsa age 4
Gerald Ford age 35
Indira Gandhi age 30
Saddam Hussein age 11
Aung San Suu Kyi age 3
Enrico Fermi age 46
Nikita Khrushchev age 54
14th Dalai Lama age 13
Silvio Berlusconi age 11
Bob Marley age 3
Herbert Hoover age 74
Mahathir Mohamad age 23
Boris Yeltsin age 17
Ali Khamenei age 9
Jacques Chirac age 15
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 29