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Cold War
1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Civil rights movement
1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
Algerian War of Independence
1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Space Race
1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War
1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Montgomery bus boycott
1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
People
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 37
President
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Egypt
Hirohito
age 54
Emperor
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Japan
Chiang Kai-shek
age 68
President
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Republic of China
Nikita Khrushchev
age 61
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 65
President
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United States
Anthony Eden
age 58
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Carlos Castillo Armas
age 41
President
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Guatemala
Ho Chi Minh
age 65
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Souvanna Phouma
age 54
Prime Minister
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Laos
Kim Il-sung
age 43
Chairman Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Mao Zedong
age 61
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Konrad Adenauer
age 79
Chancellor
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Germany
Richard Nixon
age 42
Vice President
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United States
Elizabeth II
age 29
Queen
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United Kingdom
Hubert Humphrey
age 44
Senate
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United States
Alben W. Barkley
age 78
Senate
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United States
John F. Kennedy
age 38
Senate
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United States
Zhou Enlai
age 57
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 47
Senate
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United States
Melvin Laird
age 33
House of Representatives
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United States
Gerald Ford
age 42
House of Representatives
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United States
Earl Warren
age 64
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
John Foster Dulles
age 67
Secretary Of State
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United States
Zhu De
age 69
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Clement Attlee
age 72
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Winston Churchill
age 81
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Deng Xiaoping
age 51
Secretariat
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Communist Party of China
John Marshall Harlan II
age 56
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 49
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Henry Kissinger
age 32
Republican Party (United States)
John Paul Stevens
age 35
Republican Party (United States)
David Souter
age 16
Republican Party (United States)
Daniel Inouye
age 31
Democratic Party (United States)
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 25
Republican Party (United States)
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 48
Democratic Party (United States)
Thurgood Marshall
age 47
Democratic Party (United States)
Lien Chan
age 19
Kuomintang
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 32
Kuomintang
Sun Yun-suan
age 42
Kuomintang
George H. W. Bush
age 31
Republican Party (United States)
Ronald Reagan
age 44
Republican Party (United States)
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 45
Kuomintang
Bill Clinton
age 9
Democratic Party (United States)
Joe Biden
age 13
Democratic Party (United States)
Byron White
age 38
Democratic Party (United States)
Rudolf Hess
age 61
Nazi Party
James Baker
age 25
Democratic Party (United States)
Herbert Hoover
age 81
Republican Party (United States)
Jiang Zemin
age 29
Communist Party of China
Li Keqiang
age 5 months
Communist Party of China
Wen Jiabao
age 13
Communist Party of China
Dick Cheney
age 14
Republican Party (United States)
Walter Mondale
age 27
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Peng
age 27
Communist Party of China
Douglas MacArthur
age 75
United States Army
Rong Yiren
age 39
Communist Party of China
Karl Dönitz
age 64
Nazi Party
Hu Jintao
age 12
Communist Party of China
Li Xiannian
age 46
Communist Party of China
Yang Shangkun
age 48
Communist Party of China
Liu Shaoqi
age 57
Communist Party of China
George Wallace
age 36
Democratic Party (United States)
John Lewis
age 15
Democratic Party (United States)
Dong Biwu
age 69
Communist Party of China
Zhao Ziyang
age 36
Communist Party of China
Condoleezza Rice
age 1
Republican Party (United States)
Hu Yaobang
age 40
Communist Party of China
Hua Guofeng
age 34
Communist Party of China
Jacques Chirac
age 23
French Army
Wang Zhen (general)
age 47
Communist Party of China
Jimmy Carter
age 31
Democratic Party (United States)
James R. Schlesinger
age 26
Republican Party (United States)
Clark Clifford
age 48
Democratic Party (United States)
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 67
Communist Party of Vietnam
Hillary Clinton
age 8
Democratic Party (United States)
John Kerry
age 11
Democratic Party (United States)
Potter Stewart
age 40
Republican Party (United States)
Arthur Goldberg
age 47
Democratic Party (United States)
William H. Webster
age 31
Republican Party (United States)
J. Edgar Hoover
age 60
Republican Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
age 43
Democratic Party (United States)
Hafez al-Assad
age 25
Otto Hofmann
age 59
Lee Teng-hui
age 32
Yuri Andropov
age 41
Donald Trump
age 9
Albert Speer
age 50
Warren E. Burger
age 48
William Rehnquist
age 31
Hubert Gough
age 85
Naoki Hoshino
age 63
Lê Duẩn
age 48
He Yingqin
age 65
Semyon Timoshenko
age 60
Kliment Voroshilov
age 74
Walther Funk
age 65
Erich Raeder
age 79
Baldur von Schirach
age 48
Hjalmar Schacht
age 78
Franz von Papen
age 76
Leonid Brezhnev
age 48
Rodion Malinovsky
age 57
Kingorō Hashimoto
age 65
Rosa Parks
age 42
Martin Luther King Jr.
age 26
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 24
Harry S. Truman
age 71
Robert F. Kennedy
age 30
Saddam Hussein
age 18
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 53
Souphanouvong
age 46
Pol Pot
age 30
Francisco Franco
age 63
George W. Bush
age 9
Chester W. Nimitz
age 70
Margaret Thatcher
age 30
George Shultz
age 35
John Roberts
age 10 months
Malcolm X
age 30
Jo Ann Robinson
age 43
Colin Powell
age 18
Aung San Suu Kyi
age 10
Muhammad Ali
age 13
Charles de Gaulle
age 65
Boris Yeltsin
age 24
Tim Berners-Lee
age 6 months
François Hollande
age 1
Nicolas Sarkozy
age 10 months
Kim Jong-il
age 14
Nelson Mandela
age 37
Abe Fortas
age 45
Clarence M. Kelley
age 44
Antonin Scalia
age 19
Anthony Kennedy
age 19
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 37
Narendra Modi
age 5
Gennady Yanayev
age 18
Konstantin Chernenko
age 44
Theresa May
born 1956-10-01
Gordon Brown
age 4
Tony Blair
age 2
John Major
age 12
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 50
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 40
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 47
Jacobo Árbenz
age 42
Juan José Arévalo
age 51
Robert A. Lovett
age 60
Charles III
age 7
Thomas Gage
age 237
Clarence Thomas
age 7
Soong Ching-ling
age 62
Puyi
age 49
Nelson Rockefeller
age 47
Dan Quayle
age 8
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 76
Omar Bradley
age 62
Erich von Manstein
age 68
George C. Marshall
age 74
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 49
Robert McNamara
age 39
Fidel Castro
age 29
Xi Jinping
age 2
John Nance Garner
age 87
Henry A. Wallace
age 67
Spiro Agnew
age 37
Peng Dehuai
age 57
Stephen Breyer
age 17
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 22
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 70
Raymond A. Spruance
age 69
Courtney Hodges
age 68
Yasser Arafat
age 26
Edward VIII
age 61
Ramsey Clark
age 27
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 33
Warren Christopher
age 30
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 25
John Connally
age 38
Ellison Onizuka
age 9
Ronald McNair
age 5
Zhu Rongji
age 27
Zeng Qinghong
age 16
Al Gore
age 7