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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
Little Rock Nine
1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Sputnik 1
1957-10-04
Great Leap Forward
1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
1958-08-23 - 1958-12-02
People
Nikita Khrushchev
age 63
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 66
President
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United States
Ho Chi Minh
age 67
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek
age 69
President
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Republic of China
Souvanna Phouma
age 55
Prime Minister
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Laos
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 39
President
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Egypt
Charles de Gaulle
age 66
Prime Minister
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France
Hirohito
age 56
Emperor
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Japan
Konrad Adenauer
age 81
Chancellor
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Germany
Mao Zedong
age 63
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Elizabeth II
age 31
Queen
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United Kingdom
Kim Il-sung
age 45
Chairman Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Richard Nixon
age 44
Vice President
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United States
Hubert Humphrey
age 46
Senate
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United States
John F. Kennedy
age 40
Senate
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United States
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 49
Senate
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United States
Zhou Enlai
age 59
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Gerald Ford
age 44
House of Representatives
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United States
Melvin Laird
age 35
House of Representatives
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United States
John Foster Dulles
age 69
Secretary Of State
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United States
Earl Warren
age 66
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Zhu De
age 70
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Winston Churchill
age 82
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Deng Xiaoping
age 53
Secretariat
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Communist Party of China
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 51
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II
age 58
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer
age 19
United States Army
Henry Kissinger
age 34
Republican Party (United States)
John Paul Stevens
age 37
Republican Party (United States)
David Souter
age 17
Republican Party (United States)
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 27
Republican Party (United States)
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 49
Democratic Party (United States)
Thurgood Marshall
age 49
Democratic Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
age 45
Democratic Party (United States)
Lien Chan
age 21
Kuomintang
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 33
Kuomintang
Sun Yun-suan
age 43
Kuomintang
George H. W. Bush
age 33
Republican Party (United States)
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 47
Kuomintang
Ronald Reagan
age 46
Republican Party (United States)
Bill Clinton
age 11
Democratic Party (United States)
Byron White
age 40
Democratic Party (United States)
Joe Biden
age 14
Democratic Party (United States)
James Baker
age 27
Democratic Party (United States)
Rudolf Hess
age 63
Nazi Party
Herbert Hoover
age 83
Republican Party (United States)
Li Keqiang
age 2
Communist Party of China
Wen Jiabao
age 14
Communist Party of China
Jiang Zemin
age 31
Communist Party of China
Walter Mondale
age 29
Democratic Party (United States)
Dick Cheney
age 16
Republican Party (United States)
Douglas MacArthur
age 77
United States Army
Karl Dönitz
age 66
Nazi Party
Li Peng
age 28
Communist Party of China
Rong Yiren
age 41
Communist Party of China
Wang Zhen (general)
age 49
Communist Party of China
Hu Jintao
age 14
Communist Party of China
Li Xiannian
age 48
Communist Party of China
Liu Shaoqi
age 58
Communist Party of China
Yang Shangkun
age 50
Communist Party of China
George Wallace
age 38
Democratic Party (United States)
John Lewis
age 17
Democratic Party (United States)
Daniel Inouye
age 33
Democratic Party (United States)
Condoleezza Rice
age 2
Republican Party (United States)
Colin Powell
age 20
United States Army
Dong Biwu
age 71
Communist Party of China
Zhao Ziyang
age 37
Communist Party of China
Hu Yaobang
age 41
Communist Party of China
Jimmy Carter
age 32
Democratic Party (United States)
James R. Schlesinger
age 28
Republican Party (United States)
Clark Clifford
age 50
Democratic Party (United States)
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 69
Communist Party of Vietnam
Hillary Clinton
age 9
Democratic Party (United States)
John Kerry
age 13
Democratic Party (United States)
Potter Stewart
age 42
Republican Party (United States)
Arthur Goldberg
age 49
Democratic Party (United States)
Hua Guofeng
age 36
Communist Party of China
William H. Webster
age 33
Republican Party (United States)
J. Edgar Hoover
age 62
Republican Party (United States)
Martin Luther King Jr.
age 28
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Otto Hofmann
age 61
Hafez al-Assad
age 26
Lee Teng-hui
age 34
Yuri Andropov
age 43
Donald Trump
age 11
Albert Speer
age 52
Clement Attlee
age 74
Anthony Eden
age 60
Warren E. Burger
age 50
William Rehnquist
age 32
Hubert Gough
age 87
Naoki Hoshino
age 65
Lê Duẩn
age 50
He Yingqin
age 67
Semyon Timoshenko
age 62
Kliment Voroshilov
age 76
Walther Funk
age 67
Erich Raeder
age 81
Baldur von Schirach
age 50
Hjalmar Schacht
age 80
Franz von Papen
age 77
Leonid Brezhnev
age 50
Rodion Malinovsky
age 58
Rosa Parks
age 44
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 26
Harry S. Truman
age 73
Robert F. Kennedy
age 31
Saddam Hussein
age 20
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 54
Souphanouvong
age 48
Pol Pot
age 32
Francisco Franco
age 64
George W. Bush
age 11
Chester W. Nimitz
age 72
Margaret Thatcher
age 31
George Shultz
age 36
Malcolm X
age 32
Jo Ann Robinson
age 45
Aung San Suu Kyi
age 12
Muhammad Ali
age 15
Boris Yeltsin
age 26
Tim Berners-Lee
age 2
François Hollande
age 3
Nicolas Sarkozy
age 2
Jacques Chirac
age 24
Kim Jong-il
age 16
Nelson Mandela
age 39
Abe Fortas
age 47
Clarence M. Kelley
age 45
Antonin Scalia
age 21
Anthony Kennedy
age 21
Clarence Thomas
age 9
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 39
Narendra Modi
age 6
Gennady Yanayev
age 20
Konstantin Chernenko
age 45
Theresa May
age 11 months
Gordon Brown
age 6
Tony Blair
age 4
John Major
age 14
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 52
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 41
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 49
Jacobo Árbenz
age 44
Juan José Arévalo
age 53
Robert A. Lovett
age 62
Charles III
age 8
Thomas Gage
age 239
Puyi
age 51
Nelson Rockefeller
age 49
Dan Quayle
age 10
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 77
Omar Bradley
age 64
Erich von Manstein
age 69
George C. Marshall
age 76
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 51
Robert McNamara
age 41
Fidel Castro
age 31
Xi Jinping
age 4
John Nance Garner
age 88
Henry A. Wallace
age 68
Spiro Agnew
age 38
Peng Dehuai
age 58
Al Gore
age 9
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 24
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 72
Raymond A. Spruance
age 71
Courtney Hodges
age 70
Yasser Arafat
age 28
Edward VIII
age 63
Ramsey Clark
age 29
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 35
Warren Christopher
age 31
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 27
John Connally
age 40
Ellison Onizuka
age 11
Ronald McNair
age 6
Zhu Rongji
age 28
Zeng Qinghong
age 18
Soong Ching-ling
age 64
John Roberts
age 2