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1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
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1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
International Military Tribunal for the Far East
1946-04-29 - 1948-11-12
First Indochina War
1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
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1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
1948 Arab–Israeli War
1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Berlin Blockade
1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12
People
Harry S. Truman
age 64
President
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United States
Clement Attlee
age 65
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Ho Chi Minh
age 58
President
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Vietnam
Joseph Stalin
age 69
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Mao Zedong
age 54
Chairman of the Communist Party of China
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Communist Party of China
Hirohito
age 47
Emperor
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Japan
George VI
age 52
King
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United Kingdom
Alben W. Barkley
age 70
Senate
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United States
John F. Kennedy
age 31
House of Representatives
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United States
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 40
House of Representatives
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United States
Richard Nixon
age 35
House of Representatives
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United States
George C. Marshall
age 67
Secretary Of State
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United States
Fred M. Vinson
age 58
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Winston Churchill
age 73
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Omar Bradley
age 55
Chief of Staff of the Army
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United States
Earl Warren
age 57
Governor of California
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United States
Rong Yiren
age 32
Communist Party of China
Liu Shaoqi
age 49
Communist Party of China
Deng Xiaoping
age 44
Communist Party of China
Byron White
age 31
Democratic Party (United States)
George Wallace
age 29
Democratic Party (United States)
Zhao Ziyang
age 28
Communist Party of China
John Paul Stevens
age 28
Republican Party (United States)
Hua Guofeng
age 27
Communist Party of China
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 60
Communist Party of Vietnam
John Foster Dulles
age 60
Republican Party (United States)
Henry Kissinger
age 25
Republican Party (United States)
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 24
Kuomintang
William H. Webster
age 24
Republican Party (United States)
George H. W. Bush
age 24
Republican Party (United States)
Daniel Inouye
age 23
Democratic Party (United States)
Jimmy Carter
age 23
United States Navy
Clark Clifford
age 41
Democratic Party (United States)
Yang Shangkun
age 41
Communist Party of China
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 40
Democratic Party (United States)
Wang Zhen (general)
age 40
Communist Party of China
J. Edgar Hoover
age 53
Republican Party (United States)
Thurgood Marshall
age 40
Democratic Party (United States)
Arthur Goldberg
age 40
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Xiannian
age 39
Communist Party of China
Rudolf Hess
age 54
Nazi Party
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 38
Kuomintang
Ronald Reagan
age 37
Republican Party (United States)
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 42
Democratic Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
age 36
Democratic Party (United States)
Karl Dönitz
age 56
Nazi Party
Zhou Enlai
age 50
Communist Party of China
Sun Yun-suan
age 34
Kuomintang
Potter Stewart
age 33
Republican Party (United States)
Hu Yaobang
age 32
Communist Party of China
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 57
Republican Party (United States)
Douglas MacArthur
age 68
United States Army
Herbert Hoover
age 74
Republican Party (United States)
John Kerry
age 4
Democratic Party (United States)
Hu Jintao
age 5
Communist Party of China
James Baker
age 18
Democratic Party (United States)
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 18
Republican Party (United States)
James R. Schlesinger
age 19
Republican Party (United States)
Joe Biden
age 5
Democratic Party (United States)
Lien Chan
age 12
Kuomintang
Bill Clinton
age 2
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Peng
age 19
Communist Party of China
Walter Mondale
age 20
Democratic Party (United States)
Wen Jiabao
age 5
Communist Party of China
Jiang Zemin
age 22
Communist Party of China
Dick Cheney
age 7
Republican Party (United States)
Hillary Clinton
age 10 months
Democratic Party (United States)
John Lewis
age 8
Democratic Party (United States)
Dong Biwu
age 62
Communist Party of China
David Souter
age 8
Republican Party (United States)
Courtney Hodges
age 61
United States Army
Gerd von Rundstedt
age 72
Edward VIII
age 54
Konrad Adenauer
age 72
Nikita Khrushchev
age 54
Erich Raeder
age 72
Semyon Timoshenko
age 53
Hubert Gough
age 78
Robert A. Lovett
age 52
John Nance Garner
age 79
Kiichirō Hiranuma
age 80
Otto Hofmann
age 52
Anthony Eden
age 51
Charles G. Dawes
age 83
Peng Dehuai
age 49
Rodion Malinovsky
age 49
Charles Evans Hughes
age 86
John Marshall Harlan II
age 49
Hans Fritzsche
age 48
Chiang Kai-shek
age 60
Zhu De
age 61
Raymond A. Spruance
age 62
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 63
Erich von Manstein
age 60
Chester W. Nimitz
age 63
Seishirō Itagaki
age 63
Heitarō Kimura
age 59
Hideki Tōjō
age 63
Henry A. Wallace
age 59
Doihara Kenji
age 65
Kingorō Hashimoto
age 58
He Yingqin
age 58
Walther Funk
age 58
Yoshijirō Umezu
age 66
Kliment Voroshilov
age 67
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 68
Charles de Gaulle
age 57
Franz von Papen
age 68
Albert Einstein
age 69
Otto Rasch
age 56
Naoki Hoshino
age 56
Iwane Matsui
age 70
Kōki Hirota
age 70
Francisco Franco
age 55
Akira Mutō
age 55
Soong Ching-ling
age 55
Hjalmar Schacht
age 71
Thomas Gage
age 230
Jacques Chirac
age 15
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 17
Boris Yeltsin
age 17
Hafez al-Assad
age 17
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 18
Yasser Arafat
age 19
Martin Luther King Jr.
age 19
Zhu Rongji
age 19
Ramsey Clark
age 20
Fidel Castro
age 22
Elizabeth II
age 22
Robert F. Kennedy
age 22
Warren Christopher
age 22
Margaret Thatcher
age 22
Malcolm X
age 23
Pol Pot
age 23
William Rehnquist
age 23
Lee Teng-hui
age 25
Clarence Thomas
age 2 months
Al Gore
age 4 months
Dan Quayle
age 1
George W. Bush
age 2
Ellison Onizuka
age 2
Donald Trump
age 2
Aung San Suu Kyi
age 3
John Major
age 5
Muhammad Ali
age 6
Kim Jong-il
age 7
Zeng Qinghong
age 9
Stephen Breyer
age 10
Gennady Yanayev
age 11
Saddam Hussein
age 11
Colin Powell
age 11
Anthony Kennedy
age 12
Antonin Scalia
age 12
Clarence M. Kelley
age 36
Konstantin Chernenko
age 36
Hubert Humphrey
age 37
Abe Fortas
age 38
Souphanouvong
age 39
Nelson Rockefeller
age 40
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 40
Warren E. Burger
age 40
Baldur von Schirach
age 41
Lê Duẩn
age 41
Leonid Brezhnev
age 41
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 42
Puyi
age 42
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 43
Albert Speer
age 43
Juan José Arévalo
age 43
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 45
Souvanna Phouma
age 46
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 15
Melvin Laird
age 26
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 26
George Shultz
age 27
Spiro Agnew
age 29
Nelson Mandela
age 30
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 30
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 30
John Connally
age 31
Robert McNamara
age 32
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 32
Carlos Castillo Armas
age 33
Yuri Andropov
age 34
Jacobo Árbenz
age 34
Gerald Ford
age 35
Rosa Parks
age 35
Jo Ann Robinson
age 36
Kim Il-sung
age 36