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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
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12

People

Elizabeth II age 26
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 59
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 65
President - Republic of China
Haile Selassie age 60
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 33
Shah - Iran
Fulgencio Batista age 52
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
King - Belgium
Vincent Auriol age 68
President - France
Jacobo Árbenz age 39
President - Guatemala
Fuad II of Egypt age 12 months
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 62
President - Mexico
Fawzi Selu age 48
President - Syria
Joseph Stalin age 74
Chairman - Soviet Union
Winston Churchill age 78
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Jawaharlal Nehru age 63
Prime Minister - India
Konrad Adenauer age 77
Chancellor - Germany
David Ben-Gurion age 66
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 70
Taoiseach - Ireland
Alcide De Gasperi age 71
Prime Minister - Italy
Mohamed Naguib age 51
Prime Minister - Egypt
Bolesław Bierut age 60
Prime Minister - Poland
Shigeru Yoshida age 74
Prime Minister - Japan
Avery Brundage age 65
President - International Olympic Committee
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 65
Secretary General - NATO
Souvanna Phouma age 51
Prime Minister - Laos
Chen Cheng age 56
Premier - Republic of China
Brock Chisholm age 56
Director-General - World Health Organization
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 63
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Alben W. Barkley age 75
Vice President - United States
Li Tsung-jen age 64
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 50
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 49
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 58
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clement Attlee age 70
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Robert H. Jackson age 60
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Tom C. Clark age 53
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clement Davies age 68
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Albert Luthuli age 55
President - African National Congress
Tomás Ó Dubhghaill age 36
President - Sinn Féin
John F. Kennedy age 35
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 44
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 41
Senate - United States
Gerald Ford age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Melvin Laird age 30
House of Representatives - United States
Earl Warren age 61
Governor of California - United States
Christian Herter age 57
Governor Of Massachusetts - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 25
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 60
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 51
President - Indonesia
Pius XII age 76
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 77
King - Saudi Arabia
Juan Perón age 57
President - Argentina
Norodom Sihanouk age 30
King - Cambodia
Syngman Rhee age 77
President - South Korea
Rajendra Prasad age 68
President - India
Hussein I of Jordan age 17
King - Jordan
Celâl Bayar age 69
President - Turkey
Haakon VII of Norway age 80
King - Norway
Juliana of the Netherlands age 43
Queen - Netherlands
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 82
President - Finland
Frederik IX of Denmark age 53
King - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 70
King - Sweden
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 29
Prince - Monaco
Luigi Einaudi age 78
President - Italy
Mohammed V of Morocco age 43
Sultan - Morocco
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 23
King - Bhutan
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 68
President - Israel
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 57
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 53
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 58
President - Iceland
Elpidio Quirino age 62
President - Philippines
Anastasio Somoza García age 56
President - Nicaragua
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 45
President - Bolivia
William Tubman age 57
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
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 75
President - Chile
Camille Chamoun age 52
President - Lebanon
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 52
Queen - Tonga
Manuel Odría age 55
President - Peru
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 58
President - Portugal
Aleksander Zawadzki age 53
President - Poland
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 58
Emir - Kuwait
Omer Nishani age 65
President - Albania
Otilio Ulate Blanco age 61
President - Costa Rica
Federico Chávez age 71
President - Paraguay
Mohamed Amin Didi age 42
President - Maldives
Philipp Etter age 61
President - Switzerland
Paul Magloire age 45
President - Haiti
Josip Vidmar age 57
President - Slovenia
Juan Manuel Gálvez age 65
President - Honduras
Jonas Žemaitis age 43
President - Lithuania
Ba U age 65
President - Myanmar
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 51
Regent - Lesotho
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 61
Emir - Qatar
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 71
President - Mongolia
Enver Hoxha age 44
Prime Minister - Albania
António de Oliveira Salazar age 63
Prime Minister - Portugal
Urho Kekkonen age 52
Prime Minister - Finland
Adnan Menderes age 54
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 51
Prime Minister - Romania
Robert Menzies age 58
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 36
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Leopold Figl age 50
Chancellor - Austria
Alexandros Papagos age 69
Prime Minister - Greece
Oscar Torp age 59
Prime Minister - Norway
Erik Eriksen age 50
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 68
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
George Borg Olivier age 41
Prime Minister - Malta
Jigme Palden Dorji age 33
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Zenón Noriega Agüero age 52
Prime Minister - Peru
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 61
Prime Minister - Jordan
Sidney Holland age 59
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Wilopo age 43
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
Nureddin Mahmud age 54
Prime Minister - Iraq
Blažo Jovanović age 45
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Archibald Currie age 64
Prime Minister - Suriname
Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie age 59
Governor-General - New Zealand
Bill McKell age 61
Governor-General - Australia
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 71
Governor-General - Madagascar
Donald Trump age 6
Albert Einstein age 73
Vladimir Putin age 3 months
Ronald Reagan age 41
Nelson Mandela age 34
George W. Bush age 6
Joe Biden age 10
Pablo Picasso age 71
Charlie Chaplin age 63
Martin Luther King Jr. age 24
Pope Francis age 16
Che Guevara age 24
Bill Clinton age 6
Charles de Gaulle age 62
Neil Armstrong age 22
Walt Disney age 51
Elvis Presley age 18
John Paul II age 32
Margaret Thatcher age 27
Ernest Hemingway age 53
Gabriel García Márquez age 25
Fidel Castro age 26
Yuri Gagarin age 18
Mikhail Gorbachev age 21
Stephen Hawking age 11
Jean-Paul Sartre age 47
Jimmy Carter age 28
Benedict XVI age 25
Mother Teresa age 42
Hillary Clinton age 5
George H. W. Bush age 28
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 62
Richard Nixon age 40
Alan Turing age 40
Simone de Beauvoir age 45
Niels Bohr age 67
Muammar Gaddafi age 10
John Lennon age 12
Muhammad Ali age 10
Kofi Annan age 14
Charles III age 4
Lech Wałęsa age 9
Narendra Modi age 2
Indira Gandhi age 35