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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

People

Joseph Stalin age 71
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Mao Zedong age 56
Chairman of the Communist Party of China - 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
Monarch - 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
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 69
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 Tsung-jen age 61
Vice President - Republic of China
Omar Bradley age 57
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 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
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
Earl Warren age 59
Governor of California - 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
- 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
Monarch - Norway
Chaim Weizmann age 75
President - Israel
Gustaf V of Sweden age 91
Monarch - Sweden
Juliana of the Netherlands age 40
King - Netherlands
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 79
President - Finland
Frederik IX of Denmark age 51
Monarch - 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
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 54
Monarch - 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
Monarch - 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
King - 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
Urho Kekkonen age 49
Prime Minister - Finland
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
István Dobi age 51
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
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
Paul Boffa age 59
Prime Minister - Malta
Lee Beom-seok age 49
Prime Minister - South Korea
Ioannis Theotokis age 69
Prime Minister - Greece
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 58
Prime Minister - Jordan
Sidney Holland age 56
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Tawfiq al-Suwaidi age 58
Prime Minister - Iraq
Mohan Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 64
Prime Minister - Nepal
Yem Sambaur age 37
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Alexander Frick age 40
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Prince Shah Mahmud Khan of Afghanistan age 62
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Makonnen Endelkachew age 60
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Blažo Jovanović age 43
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Julius Caesar de Miranda age 43
Prime Minister - Suriname
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 61
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 71
Ronald Reagan age 39
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 21
Pope Francis age 13
Che Guevara age 21
Bill Clinton age 3
Charles de Gaulle age 59
Neil Armstrong age 19
Walt Disney age 48
Elvis Presley age 15
John Paul II age 29
Margaret Thatcher age 24
Ernest Hemingway age 50
Gabriel García Márquez age 23
Fidel Castro age 23
Yuri Gagarin age 16
Mikhail Gorbachev age 19
Stephen Hawking age 8
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 42
Niels Bohr age 64
Muammar Gaddafi age 7
John Lennon age 9
Muhammad Ali age 8