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1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
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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
Joseph Stalin
age 70
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Ho Chi Minh
age 58
President
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Vietnam
Harry S. Truman
age 64
President
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United States
Hirohito
age 47
Emperor
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Japan
Clement Attlee
age 66
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Mao Zedong
age 55
Chairman of the Communist Party of China
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Communist Party of China
George VI
age 53
King
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United Kingdom
Alben W. Barkley
age 71
Senate
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United States
Kim Il-sung
age 36
Premier
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North Korea
Hubert Humphrey
age 37
Senate
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United States
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 40
Senate
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United States
John F. Kennedy
age 31
House of Representatives
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United States
Richard Nixon
age 36
House of Representatives
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United States
Gerald Ford
age 35
House of Representatives
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United States
Fred M. Vinson
age 59
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
George C. Marshall
age 68
Secretary Of State
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United States
Winston Churchill
age 74
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
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 25
Kuomintang
Henry Kissinger
age 25
Republican Party (United States)
William H. Webster
age 24
Republican Party (United States)
George H. W. Bush
age 24
Republican Party (United States)
Daniel Inouye
age 24
Democratic Party (United States)
Jimmy Carter
age 24
United States Navy
Ronald Reagan
age 37
Republican Party (United States)
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 38
Kuomintang
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 60
Communist Party of Vietnam
John Foster Dulles
age 60
Republican Party (United States)
Li Xiannian
age 39
Communist Party of China
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 58
Republican Party (United States)
Hua Guofeng
age 27
Communist Party of China
John Paul Stevens
age 28
Republican Party (United States)
Zhao Ziyang
age 29
Communist Party of China
George Wallace
age 29
Democratic Party (United States)
Karl Dönitz
age 57
Nazi Party
Byron White
age 31
Democratic Party (United States)
Rong Yiren
age 32
Communist Party of China
Hu Yaobang
age 33
Communist Party of China
Potter Stewart
age 33
Republican Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
age 36
Democratic Party (United States)
Rudolf Hess
age 54
Nazi Party
Sun Yun-suan
age 35
Kuomintang
J. Edgar Hoover
age 54
Republican Party (United States)
Deng Xiaoping
age 44
Communist Party of China
Hillary Clinton
age 1
Democratic Party (United States)
Bill Clinton
age 2
Democratic Party (United States)
Herbert Hoover
age 74
Republican Party (United States)
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 42
Democratic Party (United States)
John Kerry
age 5
Democratic Party (United States)
Hu Jintao
age 6
Communist Party of China
Joe Biden
age 6
Democratic Party (United States)
Wen Jiabao
age 6
Communist Party of China
Clark Clifford
age 42
Democratic Party (United States)
Dick Cheney
age 7
Republican Party (United States)
John Lewis
age 8
Democratic Party (United States)
David Souter
age 9
Republican Party (United States)
Liu Shaoqi
age 50
Communist Party of China
Yang Shangkun
age 41
Communist Party of China
Lien Chan
age 12
Kuomintang
Jiang Zemin
age 22
Communist Party of China
Walter Mondale
age 21
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Peng
age 20
Communist Party of China
Arthur Goldberg
age 40
Democratic Party (United States)
Zhou Enlai
age 50
Communist Party of China
James R. Schlesinger
age 19
Republican Party (United States)
Dong Biwu
age 62
Communist Party of China
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 18
Republican Party (United States)
James Baker
age 18
Democratic Party (United States)
Thurgood Marshall
age 40
Democratic Party (United States)
Wang Zhen (general)
age 40
Communist Party of China
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 41
Democratic Party (United States)
Douglas MacArthur
age 68
United States Army
Robert A. Lovett
age 53
John Marshall Harlan II
age 49
Semyon Timoshenko
age 53
Otto Hofmann
age 52
Hans Fritzsche
age 48
Peng Dehuai
age 50
Rodion Malinovsky
age 50
Souvanna Phouma
age 47
Anthony Eden
age 51
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 46
Juan José Arévalo
age 44
Thomas Gage
age 230
Charles G. Dawes
age 83
Kiichirō Hiranuma
age 81
John Nance Garner
age 80
Hubert Gough
age 78
Gerd von Rundstedt
age 73
Konrad Adenauer
age 73
Erich Raeder
age 72
Hjalmar Schacht
age 72
Albert Einstein
age 69
Franz von Papen
age 69
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 69
Kliment Voroshilov
age 67
Yoshijirō Umezu
age 67
Chester W. Nimitz
age 63
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 63
Raymond A. Spruance
age 62
Zhu De
age 62
Courtney Hodges
age 62
Chiang Kai-shek
age 61
Erich von Manstein
age 61
Henry A. Wallace
age 60
Kingorō Hashimoto
age 58
He Yingqin
age 58
Walther Funk
age 58
Charles de Gaulle
age 58
Naoki Hoshino
age 56
Francisco Franco
age 56
Soong Ching-ling
age 55
Nikita Khrushchev
age 54
Antonin Scalia
age 12
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 15
Jacques Chirac
age 16
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 17
Boris Yeltsin
age 17
Hafez al-Assad
age 18
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 18
Yasser Arafat
age 19
Martin Luther King Jr.
age 19
Zhu Rongji
age 20
Ramsey Clark
age 21
Fidel Castro
age 22
Elizabeth II
age 22
Robert F. Kennedy
age 23
Warren Christopher
age 23
Margaret Thatcher
age 23
Malcolm X
age 23
Charles III
age 1 month
Clarence Thomas
age 6 months
Al Gore
age 9 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
Rosa Parks
age 35
Jo Ann Robinson
age 36
Clarence M. Kelley
age 37
Konstantin Chernenko
age 37
Abe Fortas
age 38
Souphanouvong
age 39
Nelson Rockefeller
age 40
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 40
Warren E. Burger
age 41
Baldur von Schirach
age 41
Lê Duẩn
age 41
Leonid Brezhnev
age 42
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 42
Puyi
age 42
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 43
Albert Speer
age 43
Edward VIII
age 54
Anthony Kennedy
age 12
Pol Pot
age 23
William Rehnquist
age 24
Lee Teng-hui
age 26
Melvin Laird
age 26
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 26
George Shultz
age 28
Spiro Agnew
age 30
Nelson Mandela
age 30
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 30
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 31
John Connally
age 31
Robert McNamara
age 32
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 33
Carlos Castillo Armas
age 34
Yuri Andropov
age 34
Jacobo Árbenz
age 35