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Events

Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
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
Landing Operation on Hainan Island 1950-03-05 - 1950-05-01

People

Joseph Stalin age 71
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Mao Zedong age 56
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
Chiang Kai-shek age 62
President - Republic of China
George VI age 54
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 66
President - Germany
Vincent Auriol age 65
President - France
Farouk of Egypt age 30
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 49
President - Mexico
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 66
President - Brazil
Trường Chinh age 43
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Juan José Arévalo age 45
President - Guatemala
Hashim al-Atassi age 74
President - Syria
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 46
President - Cuba
Trygve Lie age 53
Secretary-General - United Nations
Jawaharlal Nehru age 60
Prime Minister - India
Konrad Adenauer age 74
Chancellor - Germany
David Ben-Gurion age 63
Prime Minister - Israel
Josip Broz Tito age 57
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Clement Attlee age 67
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Zhou Enlai age 52
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
Chen Cheng age 53
Premier - Republic of China
John A. Costello age 58
Taoiseach - Ireland
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 70
Prime Minister - Egypt
Brock Chisholm age 53
Director-General - World Health Organization
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 60
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Alben W. Barkley age 72
Vice President - United States
Li Zongren age 59
Vice President - Republic of China
Deng Xiaoping age 45
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Omar Bradley age 57
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Peng Dehuai age 51
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 64
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 48
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 54
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 50
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
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 59
Secretary of Defense - United States
J. Howard McGrath age 46
Attorney General - United States
John Wesley Snyder age 54
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 68
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 59
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 67
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 55
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Winston Churchill age 75
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Harold Wilson age 34
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Robert H. Jackson age 58
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Tom C. Clark age 50
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 64
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 66
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
James Moroka age 59
President - African National Congress
Paddy McLogan age 51
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 37
House of Representatives - United States
Gerald Ford age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Anthony Eden age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Callaghan age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Heath age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roy Jenkins age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Christian Herter age 55
House of Representatives - United States
Lloyd Bentsen age 29
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Gaitskell age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Iain Macleod age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Reginald Maudling age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Christopher Soames age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Carr age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 54
House of Representatives - United States
Frank Soskice age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Brown age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Foot age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jo Grimond age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ernest Bevin age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Earl Warren age 59
Governor of California - United States
Thomas E. Dewey age 48
Governor of New York - United States
Herman Talmadge age 36
Governor of Georgia - United States
Frank Lausche age 54
Governor of Ohio - United States
Allan Shivers age 42
Governor of Texas - United States
Sid McMath age 37
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John S. Battle age 59
Governor of Virginia - United States
Paul A. Dever age 47
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
William Preston Lane Jr. age 57
Governor of Maryland - United States
Alfred E. Driscoll age 47
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Henry F. Schricker age 66
Governor of Indiana - United States
Barber Conable age 27
New York State Senate - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 22
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 57
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 48
President - Indonesia
Pius XII age 74
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 74
King - Saudi Arabia
Juan Perón age 54
President - Argentina
Norodom Sihanouk age 27
King - Cambodia
Syngman Rhee age 75
President - South Korea
İsmet İnönü age 65
President - Turkey
Rajendra Prasad age 65
President - India
Haakon VII of Norway age 77
King - Norway
Abdullah I of Jordan age 68
King - Jordan
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 51
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 76
President - Italy
Mohammed V of Morocco age 40
Sultan - Morocco
Bolesław Bierut age 57
President - Poland
Sveinn Björnsson age 69
President - Iceland
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 54
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 45
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 50
Queen - Tonga
Manuel Odría age 52
President - Peru
Arnulfo Arias age 48
President - Panama
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 58
President - Colombia
Galo Plaza age 44
President - Ecuador
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 55
Emir - Kuwait
Omer Nishani age 63
President - Albania
Carlos Delgado Chalbaud age 41
President - Venezuela
Otilio Ulate Blanco age 58
President - Costa Rica
Federico Chávez age 69
President - Paraguay
Dumarsais Estimé age 49
President - Haiti
Max Petitpierre age 51
President - Switzerland
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
Jonas Žemaitis age 41
President - Lithuania
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 48
Regent - Lesotho
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 58
Emir - Qatar
Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes age 77
President - Nicaragua
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 68
President - Mongolia
Assaat age 45
President - Indonesia
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
Robert Menzies age 55
Prime Minister - Australia
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 68
Prime Minister - Canada
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 55
Prime Minister - Mongolia
U Nu age 42
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 31
Prime Minister - Tonga
Petru Groza age 65
Prime Minister - Romania
Leopold Figl age 47
Chancellor - Austria
Gaston Eyskens age 44
Prime Minister - Belgium
Karl-August Fagerholm age 48
Prime Minister - Finland
István Dobi age 51
Prime Minister - Hungary
Hans Hedtoft age 46
Prime Minister - Denmark
Don Stephen Senanayake age 65
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Riad Al Solh age 57
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Otto Tief age 60
Prime Minister - Estonia
Şemsettin Günaltay age 66
Prime Minister - Turkey
Vladimir Bakarić age 38
Prime Minister - Croatia
Steingrímur Steinþórsson age 57
Prime Minister - Iceland
Pierre Dupong age 65
Prime Minister - Luxembourg