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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
Korean War 1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27

People

Joseph Stalin age 72
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Mao Zedong age 57
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Harry S. Truman age 66
President - United States
Hirohito age 49
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 60
President - Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek age 63
President - Republic of China
George VI age 55
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 58
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 31
Shah - Iran
Getúlio Vargas age 68
President - Brazil
Walter Ulbricht age 57
First Secretary - East Germany
Leopold III of Belgium age 49
King - Belgium
Theodor Heuss age 67
President - Germany
Vincent Auriol age 66
President - France
Farouk of Egypt age 30
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 50
President - Mexico
Trường Chinh age 44
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Juan José Arévalo age 46
President - Guatemala
Hashim al-Atassi age 75
President - Syria
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 47
President - Cuba
Trygve Lie age 54
Secretary-General - United Nations
Jawaharlal Nehru age 61
Prime Minister - India
Konrad Adenauer age 75
Chancellor - Germany
David Ben-Gurion age 64
Prime Minister - Israel
Josip Broz Tito age 58
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Clement Attlee age 68
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 72
Prime Minister - Japan
J. Sigfrid Edström age 80
President - International Olympic Committee
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 39
Prime Minister - Poland
Chen Cheng age 54
Premier - Republic of China
John A. Costello age 59
Taoiseach - Ireland
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 71
Prime Minister - Egypt
Brock Chisholm age 54
Director-General - World Health Organization
Félix Lancís Sánchez age 50
Prime Minister - Cuba
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 52
President - World Bank
Kim Il-sung age 38
Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
D. F. Malan age 76
Prime Minister - South Africa
Fred M. Vinson age 61
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Alben W. Barkley age 73
Vice President - United States
Li Zongren age 60
Vice President - Republic of China
Deng Xiaoping age 46
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Omar Bradley age 58
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Peng Dehuai age 52
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 49
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 51
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
George C. Marshall age 70
Secretary of Defense - United States
Dean Acheson age 57
Secretary of State - United States
J. Lawton Collins age 54
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Hugh Gaitskell age 44
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
J. Howard McGrath age 47
Attorney General - United States
John Wesley Snyder age 55
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 69
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 60
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 68
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 56
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Winston Churchill age 76
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Harold Wilson age 34
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Robert H. Jackson age 59
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Tom C. Clark age 51
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 65
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 52
President - Sinn Féin
Richard Nixon age 38
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 42
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 39
Senate - United States
John F. Kennedy age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Gerald Ford age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Anthony Eden age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Callaghan age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Heath age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roy Jenkins age 30
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 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Iain Macleod age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Reginald Maudling age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Christopher Soames age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Carr age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 55
House of Representatives - United States
Frank Soskice age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Brown age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Foot age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jo Grimond age 37
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 37
Governor of Georgia - United States
Frank Lausche age 55
Governor of Ohio - United States
Allan Shivers age 43
Governor of Texas - United States
Sid McMath age 38
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John S. Battle age 60
Governor of Virginia - United States
Paul A. Dever age 48
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Alfred E. Driscoll age 48
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Theodore McKeldin age 50
Governor of Maryland - United States
Henry F. Schricker age 67
Governor of Indiana - United States
Barber Conable age 28
New York State Senate - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 23
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 58
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 49
President - Indonesia
Pius XII age 74
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 75
King - Saudi Arabia
Juan Perón age 55
President - Argentina
Norodom Sihanouk age 28
King - Cambodia
Syngman Rhee age 75
President - South Korea
Rajendra Prasad age 66
President - India
Celâl Bayar age 67
President - Turkey
Haakon VII of Norway age 78
King - Norway
Abdullah I of Jordan age 69
King - Jordan
Chaim Weizmann age 76
President - Israel
Juliana of the Netherlands age 41
Queen - Netherlands
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 80
President - Finland
Frederik IX of Denmark age 51
King - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 68
King - Sweden
Rafael Trujillo age 59
President - Dominican Republic
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 27
Prince - Monaco
Luigi Einaudi age 76
President - Italy
Mohammed V of Morocco age 41
Sultan - Morocco
Bolesław Bierut age 58
President - Poland
Sveinn Björnsson age 69
President - Iceland
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 55
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 51
King - Eswatini
Elpidio Quirino age 60
President - Philippines
Anastasio Somoza García age 55
President - Nicaragua
William Tubman age 55
President - Liberia
Óscar Carmona age 81
President - Portugal
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 40
Sultan - Oman
Jigme Wangchuck age 46
King - Bhutan
Seán T. O'Kelly age 68
President - Ireland
Leopold Figl age 48
President - Austria
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 52
President - Chile
Laureano Gómez age 61
President - Colombia
Bechara El Khoury age 60
President - Lebanon
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 50
Queen - Tonga
Manuel Odría age 53
President - Peru
Arnulfo Arias age 49
President - Panama
Galo Plaza age 44
President - Ecuador
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 56
Emir - Kuwait
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 43
President - Venezuela
Omer Nishani age 64
President - Albania
Otilio Ulate Blanco age 59
President - Costa Rica
Federico Chávez age 70
President - Paraguay
Mamerto Urriolagoitía age 55
President - Bolivia
Paul Magloire age 43
President - Haiti
Josip Vidmar age 55
President - Slovenia
Luis Batlle Berres Pérez age 53
President - Uruguay
Juan Manuel Gálvez age 63
President - Honduras
Sao Shwe Thaik age 54
President - Myanmar
Jonas Žemaitis age 41
President - Lithuania
Eduard von Steiger age 69
President - Switzerland
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 49
Regent - Lesotho
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 59
Emir - Qatar
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 69
President - Mongolia
Miha Marinko age 50
President - Slovenia
Enver Hoxha age 42
Prime Minister - Albania
António de Oliveira Salazar age 61
Prime Minister - Portugal
Urho Kekkonen age 50
Prime Minister - Finland
Chang Myon age 51
Prime Minister - South Korea
Adnan Menderes age 52
Prime Minister - Turkey
Liaquat Ali Khan age 55
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Willem Drees age 64
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 53
Prime Minister - Thailand
Robert Menzies age 56
Prime Minister - Australia
Einar Gerhardsen age 53
Prime Minister - Norway
Tage Erlander age 49
Prime Minister - Sweden
Louis St. Laurent age 69
Prime Minister - Canada
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 56
Prime Minister - Mongolia
U Nu age 43
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 32
Prime Minister - Tonga
Petru Groza age 66
Prime Minister - Romania
Nuri as-Said age 63
Prime Minister - Iraq
István Dobi age 52
Prime Minister - Hungary
Erik Eriksen age 48
Prime Minister - Denmark
Don Stephen Senanayake age 66
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Riad Al Solh age 58
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Sofoklis Venizelos age 56
Prime Minister - Greece
Mohammad Natsir age 42
Prime Minister - Indonesia
Joseph Pholien age 66
Prime Minister - Belgium
Otto Tief age 61
Prime Minister - Estonia
Vladimir Bakarić age 38
Prime Minister - Croatia
Steingrímur Steinþórsson age 58
Prime Minister - Iceland
Pierre Dupong age 66
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
George Borg Olivier age 39
Prime Minister - Malta