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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
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
Huaihai Campaign 1948-11-06 - 1949-01-10

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 61
President - Republic of China
George VI age 52
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 56
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 29
Shah - Iran
Leopold III of Belgium age 47
Monarch - Belgium
Vincent Auriol age 64
President - France
Farouk of Egypt age 28
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 48
President - Mexico
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 65
President - Brazil
Shukri al-Quwatli age 57
President - Syria
Juan José Arévalo age 44
President - Guatemala
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 45
President - Cuba
Trygve Lie age 52
Secretary-General - United Nations
Jawaharlal Nehru age 59
Prime Minister - India
David Ben-Gurion age 62
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
Shigeru Yoshida age 70
Prime Minister - Japan
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 53
Prime Minister - Poland
J. Sigfrid Edström age 78
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
Manuel Antonio de Varona age 39
Prime Minister - Cuba
Kim Il-sung age 36
Premier - North Korea
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 49
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 71
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 40
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 53
President - Argentina
Norodom Sihanouk age 26
King - Cambodia
Syngman Rhee age 73
President - South Korea
İsmet İnönü age 64
President - Turkey
Haakon VII of Norway age 76
Monarch - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 90
Monarch - Sweden
Juliana of the Netherlands age 39
King - Netherlands
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 78
President - Finland
Frederik IX of Denmark age 49
Monarch - Denmark
Karl Renner age 77
President - Austria
Rafael Trujillo age 57
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 58
President - Philippines
José Figueres Ferrer age 42
President - Costa Rica
William Tubman age 52
President - Liberia
Óscar Carmona age 79
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 78
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 38
Sultan - Oman
Jigme Wangchuck age 43
King - Bhutan
Seán T. O'Kelly age 66
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
Manuel Odría age 50
President - Peru
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 56
President - Colombia
Galo Plaza age 42
President - Ecuador
Tiburcio Carías age 72
President - Honduras
Omer Nishani age 61
President - Albania
Enrique Hertzog age 51
President - Bolivia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 63
Emir - Kuwait
Dumarsais Estimé age 48
President - Haiti
Josip Vidmar age 53
President - Slovenia
Luis Batlle Berres Pérez age 50
President - Uruguay
Natalicio González age 51
President - Paraguay
Sao Shwe Thaik age 52
President - Myanmar
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 93
Emir - Qatar
Enrico Celio age 59
President - Switzerland
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 46
King - Lesotho
Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes age 76
President - Nicaragua
Domingo Díaz Arosemena age 73
President - Panama
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 67
President - Mongolia
Miha Marinko age 48
President - Slovenia
Enver Hoxha age 40
Prime Minister - Albania
António de Oliveira Salazar age 59
Prime Minister - Portugal
Georgi Dimitrov age 66
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Liaquat Ali Khan age 53
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Paul-Henri Spaak age 49
Prime Minister - Belgium
Willem Drees age 62
Prime Minister - Netherlands
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 63
Prime Minister - Australia
Petru Groza age 63
Prime Minister - Romania
Leopold Figl age 46
Chancellor - Austria
Karl-August Fagerholm age 46
Prime Minister - Finland
Khuang Aphaiwong age 46
Prime Minister - Thailand
Hans Hedtoft age 45
Prime Minister - Denmark
Don Stephen Senanayake age 64
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
Penn Nouth age 42
Prime Minister - Cambodia
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 48
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
Muzahim Pachachi age 58
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 57
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 67
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 2
Charles de Gaulle age 58
Neil Armstrong age 18
Walt Disney age 46
Elvis Presley age 13
George Orwell age 45
John Paul II age 28
Margaret Thatcher age 23
Ernest Hemingway age 49
Gabriel García Márquez age 21
Fidel Castro age 22
Yuri Gagarin age 14
Mikhail Gorbachev age 17
Stephen Hawking age 6
Jean-Paul Sartre age 43
Jimmy Carter age 24
Benedict XVI age 21
Mother Teresa age 38
Hillary Clinton age 1
George H. W. Bush age 24
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 58
Alan Turing age 36
Simone de Beauvoir age 40
Niels Bohr age 63
Muammar Gaddafi age 6
John Lennon age 8
Muhammad Ali age 6
Kofi Annan age 10
Lech Wałęsa age 5
Gerald Ford age 35
Indira Gandhi age 30
Saddam Hussein age 11
Aung San Suu Kyi age 3
Enrico Fermi age 47
Nikita Khrushchev age 54
14th Dalai Lama age 13
Silvio Berlusconi age 12
Bob Marley age 3
Herbert Hoover age 74
Mahathir Mohamad age 23
Boris Yeltsin age 17