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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 27
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 59
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 62
President - United States
Hirohito age 52
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 63
President - Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek age 65
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 61
President - Yugoslavia
Haile Selassie age 60
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 33
Shah - Iran
Fulgencio Batista age 52
President - Cuba
Getúlio Vargas age 71
President - Brazil
Walter Ulbricht age 60
First Secretary - East Germany
Theodor Heuss age 69
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 1
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 62
President - Mexico
Fawzi Selu age 48
President - Syria
Dag Hammarskjöld age 47
Secretary-General - United Nations
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
Zhou Enlai age 55
Premier - People's Republic of China
Georgy Malenkov age 51
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Éamon de Valera age 70
Taoiseach - Ireland
Alcide De Gasperi age 72
Prime Minister - Italy
Mohamed Naguib age 52
Prime Minister - Egypt
Bolesław Bierut age 61
Prime Minister - Poland
Shigeru Yoshida age 74
Prime Minister - Japan
Avery Brundage age 65
President - International Olympic Committee
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 66
Secretary General - NATO
Souvanna Phouma age 51
Prime Minister - Laos
Chen Cheng age 56
Premier - Republic of China
Brock Chisholm age 57
Director-General - World Health Organization
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 55
President - World Bank
Kim Il-sung age 41
Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
D. F. Malan age 79
Prime Minister - South Africa
Fred M. Vinson age 63
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Richard Nixon age 40
Vice President - United States
Li Zongren age 62
Vice President - Republic of China
Omar Bradley age 60
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
John Foster Dulles age 65
Secretary of State - United States
J. Lawton Collins age 57
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Rab Butler age 50
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Charles Erwin Wilson age 62
Secretary of Defense - United States
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 49
Attorney General - United States
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
George M. Humphrey age 63
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 44
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
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 61
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Tom C. Clark age 53
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clement Davies age 69
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Albert Luthuli age 55
President - African National Congress
Tomás Ó Dubhghaill age 36
President - Sinn Féin
John F. Kennedy age 36
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 44
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 42
Senate - United States
Gerald Ford age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Melvin Laird age 30
House of Representatives - United States
Earl Warren age 62
Governor of California - United States
Christian Herter age 58
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 25
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 60
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 52
President - Indonesia
Pius XII age 77
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 78
President - South Korea
Rajendra Prasad age 68
President - India
Hussein I of Jordan age 17
King - Jordan
Celâl Bayar age 70
President - Turkey
Haakon VII of Norway age 80
King - Norway
Juliana of the Netherlands age 44
Queen - Netherlands
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 82
President - Finland
Frederik IX of Denmark age 54
King - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 70
King - Sweden
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 30
Prince - Monaco
Luigi Einaudi age 79
President - Italy
Mohammed V of Morocco age 43
Sultan - Morocco
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 24
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 59
President - Iceland
Elpidio Quirino age 62
President - Philippines
Anastasio Somoza García age 57
President - Nicaragua
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 45
President - Bolivia
William Tubman age 57
President - Liberia
Theodor Körner age 80
President - Austria
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 42
Sultan - Oman
Seán T. O'Kelly age 70
President - Ireland
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 39
President - Venezuela
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 75
President - Chile
Camille Chamoun age 53
President - Lebanon
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 53
Queen - Tonga
Manuel Odría age 55
President - Peru
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 53
President - Colombia
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 59
President - Portugal
Aleksander Zawadzki age 53
President - Poland
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 58
Emir - Kuwait
Omer Nishani age 66
President - Albania
Federico Chávez age 72
President - Paraguay
Mohamed Amin Didi age 42
President - Maldives
Philipp Etter age 61
President - Switzerland
Paul Magloire age 45
President - Haiti
Juan Manuel Gálvez age 66
President - Honduras
Jonas Žemaitis age 44
President - Lithuania
Ba U age 66
President - Myanmar
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 51
Regent - Lesotho
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 61
Emir - Qatar
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 71
President - Mongolia
Vincenzo Pedini age 32
Captain Regent - San Marino
Enver Hoxha age 44
Prime Minister - Albania
António de Oliveira Salazar age 64
Prime Minister - Portugal
Urho Kekkonen age 52
Prime Minister - Finland
Adnan Menderes age 54
Prime Minister - Turkey
Mátyás Rákosi age 61
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 52
Prime Minister - Sweden
Louis St. Laurent age 71
Prime Minister - Canada
U Nu age 46
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 34
Prime Minister - Tonga
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 36
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Muhammad Ali Bogra age 43
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Alexandros Papagos age 69
Prime Minister - Greece
Oscar Torp age 60
Prime Minister - Norway
Julius Raab age 61
Chancellor - Austria
Erik Eriksen age 50
Prime Minister - Denmark
Alexander Bustamante age 69
Premier - Jamaica
Jean Van Houtte age 46
Prime Minister - Belgium
Dudley Senanayake age 42
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Vladimir Bakarić age 41
Prime Minister - Croatia
Steingrímur Steinþórsson age 60
Prime Minister - Iceland
Pierre Dupong age 68
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Penn Nouth age 47
Prime Minister - Cambodia
George Borg Olivier age 41
Prime Minister - Malta
Jigme Palden Dorji age 33
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Matrika Prasad Koirala age 41
Prime Minister - Nepal
Zenón Noriega Agüero age 52
Prime Minister - Peru
Sidney Holland age 59
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Jamil al-Midfai age 63
Prime Minister - Iraq
Abdallah El-Yafi age 51
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Grantley Herbert Adams age 55
Prime Minister - Barbados
Wilopo age 43
Prime Minister - Indonesia
Alexander Frick age 43
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Prince Shah Mahmud Khan of Afghanistan age 66
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Makonnen Endelkachew age 63
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Blažo Jovanović age 46
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Archibald Currie age 65
Prime Minister - Suriname
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 61
Governor-General - Australia
Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie age 59
Governor-General - New Zealand
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 72
Governor-General - Madagascar
Donald Trump age 7
Albert Einstein age 74
Vladimir Putin age 8 months
Ronald Reagan age 42
Nelson Mandela age 34
George W. Bush age 6
Joe Biden age 10
Pablo Picasso age 71
Charlie Chaplin age 64
Martin Luther King Jr. age 24
Pope Francis age 16
Che Guevara age 25
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 33
Margaret Thatcher age 27
Ernest Hemingway age 53
Gabriel García Márquez age 26
Fidel Castro age 26
Yuri Gagarin age 19
Mikhail Gorbachev age 22
Stephen Hawking age 11
Jean-Paul Sartre age 48
Jimmy Carter age 28
Benedict XVI age 26
Mother Teresa age 42
Harry S. Truman age 69
Hillary Clinton age 5
George H. W. Bush age 29
Xi Jinping age 0 months
Alan Turing age 41
Simone de Beauvoir age 45
Niels Bohr age 67
Muammar Gaddafi age 11
John Lennon age 12
Muhammad Ali age 11