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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Indonesian National Revolution 1945-08-17 - 1949-12-27
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Marshall Plan 1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27

People

Joseph Stalin age 70
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Mao Zedong age 55
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Harry S. Truman age 65
President - United States
Hirohito age 48
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 59
President - Vietnam
George VI age 53
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 57
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 30
Shah - Iran
Leopold III of Belgium age 48
King - Belgium
Theodor Heuss age 65
President - Germany
Vincent Auriol age 65
President - France
Farouk of Egypt age 29
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 49
President - Mexico
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 66
President - Brazil
Li Zongren age 59
President - Republic of China
Juan José Arévalo age 45
President - Guatemala
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 46
President - Cuba
Sami al-Henaaui age 51
President - Syria
Trygve Lie age 53
Secretary-General - United Nations
Jawaharlal Nehru age 60
Prime Minister - India
Konrad Adenauer age 73
Chancellor - Germany
David Ben-Gurion age 63
Prime Minister - Israel
Josip Broz Tito age 57
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Clement Attlee age 66
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Zhou Enlai age 51
Premier - People's Republic of China
Alcide De Gasperi age 68
Prime Minister - Italy
Shigeru Yoshida age 71
Prime Minister - Japan
J. Sigfrid Edström age 79
President - International Olympic Committee
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 38
Prime Minister - Poland
John A. Costello age 58
Taoiseach - Ireland
Hashim al-Atassi age 74
Prime Minister - Syria
Yen Hsi-shan age 66
Premier - Republic of China
Brock Chisholm age 53
Director-General - World Health Organization
Hussein Sirri Pasha age 57
Prime Minister - Egypt
Manuel Antonio de Varona age 41
Prime Minister - Cuba
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 51
President - World Bank
Kim Il-sung age 37
Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
D. F. Malan age 75
Prime Minister - South Africa
Fred M. Vinson age 59
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Alben W. Barkley age 72
Vice President - United States
Omar Bradley age 56
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Dean Acheson age 56
Secretary of State - United States
Stafford Cripps age 60
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
J. Lawton Collins age 53
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Louis A. Johnson age 58
Secretary of Defense - United States
J. Howard McGrath age 46
Attorney General - United States
Manny Shinwell age 65
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
John Wesley Snyder age 54
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 67
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 67
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 54
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Winston Churchill age 75
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Chiang Kai-shek age 62
Chairman - Kuomintang
Harold Wilson age 33
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Robert H. Jackson age 57
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Tom C. Clark age 50
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clement Davies age 65
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 56
President - African National Congress
Margaret Buckley age 70
President - Sinn Féin
Lyndon B. Johnson age 41
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 38
Senate - United States
John F. Kennedy age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Nixon age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Gerald Ford age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Earl Warren age 58
Governor of California - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 21
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 57
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 48
President - Indonesia
Pius XII age 73
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 73
King - Saudi Arabia
Juan Perón age 54
President - Argentina
Norodom Sihanouk age 27
King - Cambodia
Syngman Rhee age 74
President - South Korea
İsmet İnönü age 65
President - Turkey
Haakon VII of Norway age 77
King - Norway
Chaim Weizmann age 75
President - Israel
Gustaf V of Sweden age 91
King - Sweden
Juliana of the Netherlands age 40
Queen - Netherlands
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 79
President - Finland
Frederik IX of Denmark age 50
King - Denmark
Karl Renner age 79
President - Austria
Rafael Trujillo age 58
President - Dominican Republic
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 26
Prince - Monaco
Luigi Einaudi age 75
President - Italy
Mohammed V of Morocco age 40
Sultan - Morocco
Bolesław Bierut age 57
President - Poland
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 53
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 50
King - Eswatini
Elpidio Quirino age 59
President - Philippines
William Tubman age 54
President - Liberia
Óscar Carmona age 80
President - Portugal
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 39
Sultan - Oman
Jigme Wangchuck age 44
King - Bhutan
Seán T. O'Kelly age 67
President - Ireland
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 51
President - Chile
Bechara El Khoury age 59
President - Lebanon
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 49
Queen - Tonga
Manuel Odría age 52
President - Peru
Arnulfo Arias age 48
President - Panama
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 58
President - Colombia
Galo Plaza age 43
President - Ecuador
Omer Nishani age 62
President - Albania
Carlos Delgado Chalbaud age 40
President - Venezuela
Otilio Ulate Blanco age 58
President - Costa Rica
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 64
Emir - Kuwait
Federico Chávez age 68
President - Paraguay
Dumarsais Estimé age 49
President - Haiti
Mamerto Urriolagoitía age 54
President - Bolivia
Josip Vidmar age 54
President - Slovenia
Luis Batlle Berres Pérez age 52
President - Uruguay
Juan Manuel Gálvez age 62
President - Honduras
Sao Shwe Thaik age 53
President - Myanmar
Ernst Nobs age 63
President - Switzerland
Jonas Žemaitis age 40
President - Lithuania
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 47
Regent - Lesotho
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 57
Emir - Qatar
Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes age 77
President - Nicaragua
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 68
President - Mongolia
Miha Marinko age 49
President - Slovenia
Vincenzo Pedini age 29
Captain Regent - San Marino
Enver Hoxha age 41
Prime Minister - Albania
António de Oliveira Salazar age 60
Prime Minister - Portugal
Liaquat Ali Khan age 54
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Willem Drees age 63
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 52
Prime Minister - Thailand
Mohammad Hatta age 47
Prime Minister - Indonesia
Einar Gerhardsen age 52
Prime Minister - Norway
Tage Erlander age 48
Prime Minister - Sweden
Louis St. Laurent age 67
Prime Minister - Canada
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 54
Prime Minister - Mongolia
U Nu age 42
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Ben Chifley age 64
Prime Minister - Australia
Petru Groza age 65
Prime Minister - Romania
Leopold Figl age 47
Chancellor - Austria
Gaston Eyskens age 44
Prime Minister - Belgium
Karl-August Fagerholm age 47
Prime Minister - Finland
Nuri as-Said age 61
Prime Minister - Iraq
István Dobi age 50
Prime Minister - Hungary
Hans Hedtoft age 46
Prime Minister - Denmark
Don Stephen Senanayake age 65
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Otto Tief age 60
Prime Minister - Estonia
Alexandros Diomidis age 73
Prime Minister - Greece
Şemsettin Günaltay age 66
Prime Minister - Turkey
Vladimir Bakarić age 37
Prime Minister - Croatia
Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson age 55
Prime Minister - Iceland
Pierre Dupong age 64
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Paul Boffa age 59
Prime Minister - Malta
Peter Fraser age 65
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Lee Beom-seok age 49
Prime Minister - South Korea
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 57
Prime Minister - Jordan
Mohan Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 63
Prime Minister - Nepal
Yem Sambaur age 36
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Alexander Frick age 39
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Prince Shah Mahmud Khan of Afghanistan age 62
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Makonnen Endelkachew age 59
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Blažo Jovanović age 42
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Julius Caesar de Miranda age 43
Prime Minister - Suriname
Solomone Ula Ata age 66
Prime Minister - Tonga
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 60
Governor-General - New Zealand
Bill McKell age 58
Governor-General - Australia
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 68
Governor-General - Madagascar
Donald Trump age 3
Albert Einstein age 70
Ronald Reagan age 38
Nelson Mandela age 31
George W. Bush age 3
Joe Biden age 7
Pablo Picasso age 68
Charlie Chaplin age 60
Elizabeth II age 23
Martin Luther King Jr. age 20
Pope Francis age 12
Che Guevara age 21
Bill Clinton age 3
Charles de Gaulle age 59
Neil Armstrong age 19
Walt Disney age 48
Elvis Presley age 14
George Orwell age 46
John Paul II age 29
Margaret Thatcher age 24
Ernest Hemingway age 50
Gabriel García Márquez age 22
Fidel Castro age 23
Yuri Gagarin age 15
Mikhail Gorbachev age 18
Stephen Hawking age 7
Jean-Paul Sartre age 44
Jimmy Carter age 25
Benedict XVI age 22
Mother Teresa age 39
Hillary Clinton age 2
George H. W. Bush age 25
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 59
Alan Turing age 37
Simone de Beauvoir age 41
Niels Bohr age 64
Muammar Gaddafi age 7
John Lennon age 9
Muhammad Ali age 7