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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
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Korean War 1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11

People

Joseph Stalin age 73
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Elizabeth II age 26
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 58
Chairman of the Communist Party of China - Communist Party of China
Harry S. Truman age 68
President - United States
Hirohito age 51
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 62
President - Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek age 64
President - Republic of China
Haile Selassie age 60
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 32
Shah - Iran
Fulgencio Batista age 51
President - Cuba
Getúlio Vargas age 70
President - Brazil
Walter Ulbricht age 59
First Secretary - East Germany
Theodor Heuss age 68
President - Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 22
Monarch - Belgium
Vincent Auriol age 68
President - France
Jacobo Árbenz age 38
President - Guatemala
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 51
President - Mexico
Fuad II of Egypt age 7 months
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Fawzi Selu age 47
President - Syria
Trygve Lie age 56
Secretary-General - United Nations
Winston Churchill age 77
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Jawaharlal Nehru age 62
Prime Minister - India
Konrad Adenauer age 76
Chancellor - Germany
David Ben-Gurion age 65
Prime Minister - Israel
Josip Broz Tito age 60
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Zhou Enlai age 54
Premier - People's Republic of China
Éamon de Valera age 69
Taoiseach - Ireland
Alcide De Gasperi age 71
Prime Minister - Italy
Shigeru Yoshida age 73
Prime Minister - Japan
Avery Brundage age 64
President - International Olympic Committee
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 65
Secretary General - NATO
Souvanna Phouma age 50
Prime Minister - Laos
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 41
Prime Minister - Poland
Chen Cheng age 55
Premier - Republic of China
Brock Chisholm age 56
Director-General - World Health Organization
Aly Maher Pasha age 70
Prime Minister - Egypt
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 54
President - World Bank
Kim Il-sung age 40
Chairman Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
D. F. Malan age 78
Prime Minister - South Africa
Fred M. Vinson age 62
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Alben W. Barkley age 74
Vice President - United States
Li Tsung-jen age 63
Vice President - Republic of China
Omar Bradley age 59
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Dean Acheson age 59
Secretary Of State - United States
J. Lawton Collins age 56
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Rab Butler age 49
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Robert A. Lovett age 57
Secretary Of Defense - United States
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 52
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John Wesley Snyder age 57
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 43
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 57
Attorney General - United States
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 48
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 57
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clement Attlee age 69
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Robert H. Jackson age 60
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Tom C. Clark age 52
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clement Davies age 68
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
James Moroka age 61
President - African National Congress
Tomás Ó Dubhghaill age 35
President - Sinn Féin
Richard Nixon age 39
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 44
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 41
Senate - United States
John F. Kennedy age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Gerald Ford age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Earl Warren age 61
Governor of California - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 24
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 59
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 51
President - Indonesia
Pius XII age 76
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 76
- Saudi Arabia
Juan Perón age 56
President - Argentina
Norodom Sihanouk age 29
King - Cambodia
Syngman Rhee age 77
President - South Korea
Rajendra Prasad age 67
President - India
Hussein I of Jordan age 16
King - Jordan
Celâl Bayar age 69
President - Turkey
Haakon VII of Norway age 80
Monarch - Norway
Chaim Weizmann age 77
President - Israel
Juliana of the Netherlands age 43
King - Netherlands
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 81
President - Finland
Frederik IX of Denmark age 53
Monarch - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 69
Monarch - Sweden
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 29
Prince - Monaco
Luigi Einaudi age 78
President - Italy
Mohammed V of Morocco age 43
Sultan - Morocco
Bolesław Bierut age 60
President - Poland
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 56
Monarch - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 53
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 58
President - Iceland
Elpidio Quirino age 61
President - Philippines
Anastasio Somoza García age 56
President - Nicaragua
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 44
President - Bolivia
William Tubman age 56
President - Liberia
Theodor Körner age 79
President - Austria
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 42
Sultan - Oman
Seán T. O'Kelly age 70
President - Ireland
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 53
President - Chile
Bechara El Khoury age 62
President - Lebanon
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 52
Monarch - Tonga
Manuel Odría age 54
President - Peru
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 58
President - Portugal
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 57
Emir - Kuwait
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 45
President - Venezuela
Omer Nishani age 65
President - Albania
Otilio Ulate Blanco age 61
President - Costa Rica
Federico Chávez age 71
President - Paraguay
Paul Magloire age 45
President - Haiti
Josip Vidmar age 56
President - Slovenia
Juan Manuel Gálvez age 65
President - Honduras
Jonas Žemaitis age 43
President - Lithuania
Ba U age 65
President - Myanmar
Karl Kobelt age 61
President - Switzerland
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 50
King - Lesotho
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 60
Emir - Qatar
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 71
President - Mongolia
Miha Marinko age 52
President - Slovenia
Enver Hoxha age 43
Prime Minister - Albania
António de Oliveira Salazar age 63
Prime Minister - Portugal
Urho Kekkonen age 52
Prime Minister - Finland
Adnan Menderes age 53
Prime Minister - Turkey
Mátyás Rákosi age 60
Prime Minister - Hungary
Willem Drees age 66
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 55
Prime Minister - Thailand
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 50
Prime Minister - Romania
Robert Menzies age 57
Prime Minister - Australia
Tage Erlander age 51
Prime Minister - Sweden
Louis St. Laurent age 70
Prime Minister - Canada
U Nu age 45
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 58
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 34
Prime Minister - Tonga
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 35
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Leopold Figl age 49
Chancellor - Austria
Oscar Torp age 59
Prime Minister - Norway
Nikolaos Plastiras age 68
Prime Minister - Greece
Erik Eriksen age 49
Prime Minister - Denmark
Jean Van Houtte age 45
Prime Minister - Belgium
Dudley Senanayake age 41
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Otto Tief age 63
Prime Minister - Estonia
Vladimir Bakarić age 40
Prime Minister - Croatia
Steingrímur Steinþórsson age 59
Prime Minister - Iceland
Pierre Dupong age 67
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
George Borg Olivier age 41
Prime Minister - Malta
Jigme Palden Dorji age 32
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Zenón Noriega Agüero age 52
Prime Minister - Peru
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 60
Prime Minister - Jordan
Sidney Holland age 58
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Wilopo age 42
Prime Minister - Indonesia
Alexander Frick age 42
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Prince Shah Mahmud Khan of Afghanistan age 65
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Makonnen Endelkachew age 62
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Blažo Jovanović age 45
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Mustafa Mahmud al-Umari age 58
Prime Minister - Iraq
Jan Buiskool age 53
Prime Minister - Suriname
Bill McKell age 60
Governor-General - Australia
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 71
Governor-General - Madagascar
Donald Trump age 6
Albert Einstein age 73
Ronald Reagan age 41
Nelson Mandela age 34
George W. Bush age 6
Joe Biden age 9
Pablo Picasso age 70
Charlie Chaplin age 63
Martin Luther King Jr. age 23
Pope Francis age 15
Che Guevara age 24
Bill Clinton age 6
Charles de Gaulle age 61
Neil Armstrong age 22
Walt Disney age 50
Elvis Presley age 17
John Paul II age 32
Margaret Thatcher age 26
Ernest Hemingway age 53
Gabriel García Márquez age 25
Fidel Castro age 26
Yuri Gagarin age 18
Mikhail Gorbachev age 21
Stephen Hawking age 10
Jean-Paul Sartre age 47
Jimmy Carter age 27
Benedict XVI age 25
Mother Teresa age 42
Hillary Clinton age 4
George H. W. Bush age 28
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 61
Alan Turing age 40
Simone de Beauvoir age 44
Niels Bohr age 66
Muammar Gaddafi age 10
John Lennon age 11
Muhammad Ali age 10
Kofi Annan age 14
Charles III age 3
Lech Wałęsa age 8
Narendra Modi age 1
Indira Gandhi age 34
Saddam Hussein age 15
Aung San Suu Kyi age 7
Enrico Fermi age 50