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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
Mau Mau uprising
1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Cuban Revolution
1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
Korean Armistice Agreement
1953-07-27
1953 Iranian coup d'état
1953-08-15 - 1953-08-19
1954 Syrian coup d'état
1954-02-01
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
1954-03-13 - 1954-05-07
Civil rights movement
1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
1954-06-18 - 1954-06-27
First Taiwan Strait Crisis
1954-09-03 - 1955-05-01
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
Suez Crisis
1956-10-29 - 1956-11-07
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
Great Chinese Famine
1959-01-01 - 1961-12-31
Laotian Civil War
1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
People
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 62
President
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United States
Mao Zedong
age 58
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Joseph Stalin
age 73
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Harry S. Truman
age 68
President
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United States
Chiang Kai-shek
age 64
President
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Republic of China
Nikita Khrushchev
age 58
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Hirohito
age 51
Emperor
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Japan
Ho Chi Minh
age 62
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Elizabeth II
age 26
Queen
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United Kingdom
Liu Shaoqi
age 53
Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 34
President
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Egypt
Charles de Gaulle
age 61
President
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France
Jacobo Árbenz
age 39
President
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Guatemala
Carlos Castillo Armas
age 37
President
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Guatemala
Vincent Auriol
age 68
President
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France
René Coty
age 70
President
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France
Osvaldo Dorticós
age 33
President
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Cuba
Manuel Urrutia Lleó
age 50
President
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Cuba
Fulgencio Batista
age 51
President
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Cuba
Carlos Manuel Piedra
age 57
Acting
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Cuba
Mohamed Naguib
age 51
President
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Egypt
Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre
age 40
President
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Guatemala
Óscar Mendoza Azurdia
age 35
President
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Guatemala
Guillermo Flores Avendaño
age 58
President
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Guatemala
Luis Arturo González López
age 51
President
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Guatemala
Carlos Enrique Díaz de León
age 37
President
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Guatemala
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes
age 57
President
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Guatemala
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy
age 48
President
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Iraq
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
age 61
President
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Mexico
Adolfo López Mateos
age 42
President
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Mexico
Miguel Alemán Valdés
age 52
President
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Mexico
Adib Shishakli
age 43
President
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Syria
Hashim al-Atassi
age 76
President
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Syria
Shukri al-Quwatli
age 61
President
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Syria
Fawzi Selu
age 47
President
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Syria
Maamun al-Kuzbari
age 38
President
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Syria
Theodor Heuss
age 68
President
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Germany
Heinrich Lübke
age 58
President
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Germany
Josip Broz Tito
age 60
Prime Minister
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Yugoslavia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
age 32
Shah
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Iran
Walter Ulbricht
age 59
First Secretary
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East Germany
Kim Il-sung
age 40
Chairman Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Winston Churchill
age 77
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Souvanna Phouma
age 51
Prime Minister
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Laos
Anthony Eden
age 55
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Zhou Enlai
age 54
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Fidel Castro
age 26
Prime Minister
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Cuba
Konrad Adenauer
age 76
Chancellor
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Germany
Harold Macmillan
age 58
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Jawaharlal Nehru
age 62
Prime Minister
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India
David Ben-Gurion
age 66
Prime Minister
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Israel
Gonzalo Güell
age 57
Prime Minister
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Cuba
Anselmo Alliegro y Milá
age 53
Prime Minister
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Cuba
Emilio Núñez Portuondo
age 54
Prime Minister
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Cuba
Jorge García Montes
age 56
Prime Minister
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Cuba
Moshe Sharett
age 58
Prime Minister
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Israel
Antonio Segni
age 61
Prime Minister
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Italy
Alcide De Gasperi
age 71
Prime Minister
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Italy
Giuseppe Pella
age 50
Prime Minister
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Italy
Adone Zoli
age 64
Prime Minister
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Italy
Mario Scelba
age 51
Prime Minister
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Italy
Amintore Fanfani
age 44
Prime Minister
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Italy
Sabri al-Asali
age 49
Prime Minister
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Syria
Nur al-Din Kahala
age 42
Prime Minister
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Syria
Chen Cheng
age 55
Premier
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Republic of China
Yu Hung-chun
age 54
Premier
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Republic of China
Phạm Văn Đồng
age 46
Prime Minister
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Vietnam
Bolesław Bierut
age 60
Prime Minister
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Poland
Stanisław Mackiewicz
age 55
Prime Minister
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Poland
Józef Cyrankiewicz
age 41
Prime Minister
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Poland
Shigeru Yoshida
age 74
Prime Minister
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Japan
Ichirō Hatoyama
age 69
Prime Minister
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Japan
Tanzan Ishibashi
age 68
Prime Minister
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Japan
Nobusuke Kishi
age 55
Prime Minister
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Japan
Georgy Malenkov
age 50
Chairman
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Soviet Union
Nikolai Bulganin
age 57
Chairman
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Soviet Union
Michel Debré
age 40
Prime Minister
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France
Pierre Mendès France
age 45
Prime Minister
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France
Guy Mollet
age 46
Prime Minister
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France
Hendrik Verwoerd
age 51
Prime Minister
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South Africa
D. F. Malan
age 78
Prime Minister
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South Africa
J. G. Strijdom
age 59
Prime Minister
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South Africa
Fred M. Vinson
age 62
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Earl Warren
age 61
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Richard Nixon
age 39
Vice President
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United States
Alben W. Barkley
age 74
Vice President
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United States
Dong Biwu
age 66
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Zhu De
age 65
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Soong Ching-ling
age 59
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Omar Bradley
age 59
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff
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United States
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 46
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Robert A. Lovett
age 57
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
John Foster Dulles
age 64
Secretary Of State
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United States
Herbert Brownell Jr.
age 48
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
Dean Acheson
age 59
Secretary Of State
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United States
Christian Herter
age 57
Secretary Of State
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United States
J. Edgar Hoover
age 57
Republican Party (United States)
Deng Xiaoping
age 48
Secretariat
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Communist Party of China
Potter Stewart
age 37
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 46
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II
age 53
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
William H. Webster
age 28
Republican Party (United States)
John F. Kennedy
age 35
Senate
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United States
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 44
Senate
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United States
Hubert Humphrey
age 41
Senate
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United States
Gerald Ford
age 39
House of Representatives
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United States
Margaret Thatcher
age 27
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Clement Attlee
age 69
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Daniel Inouye
age 28
House of Representatives
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United States
Melvin Laird
age 30
House of Representatives
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United States
Nelson Rockefeller
age 44
Governor of New York
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United States
Jimmy Carter
age 28
Democratic Party (United States)
Ronald Reagan
age 41
Republican Party (United States)
George H. W. Bush
age 28
Republican Party (United States)
Bill Clinton
age 6
Democratic Party (United States)
Joe Biden
age 9
Democratic Party (United States)
Rudolf Hess
age 58
Nazi Party
Karl Dönitz
age 61
Nazi Party
Jiang Zemin
age 26
Communist Party of China
Henry Kissinger
age 29
Republican Party (United States)
Herbert Hoover
age 78
Republican Party (United States)
Dick Cheney
age 11
Republican Party (United States)
Hu Jintao
age 9
Communist Party of China
Li Xiannian
age 43
Communist Party of China
Yang Shangkun
age 45
Communist Party of China
Zhao Ziyang
age 32
Communist Party of China
Hu Yaobang
age 36
Communist Party of China
Hua Guofeng
age 31
Communist Party of China
Walter Mondale
age 24
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Peng
age 23
Communist Party of China
Rong Yiren
age 36
Communist Party of China
Wang Zhen (general)
age 44
Communist Party of China
Wen Jiabao
age 10
Communist Party of China
Li Keqiang
born 1955-07-01
Communist Party of China
James Baker
age 22
Democratic Party (United States)
Byron White
age 35
Democratic Party (United States)
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 42
Kuomintang
Mike Pence
born 1959-06-07
Republican Party (United States)
Sun Yun-suan
age 38
Kuomintang
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 29
Kuomintang
Lien Chan
age 16
Kuomintang
John Paul Stevens
age 32
Republican Party (United States)
David Souter
age 13
Republican Party (United States)
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 22
Republican Party (United States)
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 45
Democratic Party (United States)
Thurgood Marshall
age 44
Democratic Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
age 40
Democratic Party (United States)
Arthur Goldberg
age 44
Democratic Party (United States)
John Kerry
age 8
Democratic Party (United States)
Hillary Clinton
age 4
Democratic Party (United States)
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 64
Communist Party of Vietnam
Clark Clifford
age 45
Democratic Party (United States)
James R. Schlesinger
age 23
Republican Party (United States)
Condoleezza Rice
born 1954-11-14
Republican Party (United States)
John Lewis
age 12
Democratic Party (United States)
George Wallace
age 33
Democratic Party (United States)
Douglas MacArthur
age 72
General of the Army
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United States Army
Stephen Breyer
age 14
Corporal
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United States Army
Jacques Chirac
age 19
Second lieutenant
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French Army
Colin Powell
age 15
General
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United States Army
Omer Nishani
age 65
President
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Albania
Haxhi Lleshi
age 38
President
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Albania
Arturo Frondizi
age 43
President
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Argentina
Juan Perón
age 57
President
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Argentina
Eduardo Lonardi
age 56
President
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Argentina
José Domingo Molina Gómez
age 56
President
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Argentina
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu
age 49
President
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Argentina
Adolf Schärf
age 62
President
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Austria
Theodor Körner
age 79
President
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Austria
Hernán Siles Zuazo
age 38
President
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Bolivia
Víctor Paz Estenssoro
age 45
President
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Bolivia
Jorge Alessandri
age 56
President
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Chile
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
age 74
President
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Chile
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla
age 53
President
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Chile
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla
age 52
President
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Colombia
Alberto Lleras Camargo
age 46
President
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Colombia
Gabriel París Gordillo
age 42
President
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Colombia
Mario Echandi Jiménez
age 37
President
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Costa Rica
Otilio Ulate Blanco
age 61
President
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Costa Rica
José Figueres Ferrer
age 46
President
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Costa Rica
Camilo Ponce Enríquez
age 40
President
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Ecuador
Urho Kekkonen
age 52
President
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Finland
Juho Kusti Paasikivi
age 81
President
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Finland
Charles Arden-Clarke
age 54
President
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Ghana
Ahmed Sékou Touré
age 30
President
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Guinea
Antonio Thrasybule Kébreau
age 42
President
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Haiti
Paul Magloire
age 45
President
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Haiti
François Duvalier
age 45
President
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Haiti
Joseph Nemours Pierre-Louis
age 51
President
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Haiti
Daniel Fignolé
age 38
President
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Haiti
Franck Sylvain
age 43
President
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Haiti
Ramón Villeda Morales
age 42
President
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Honduras
Juan Manuel Gálvez
age 65
President
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Honduras
Julio Lozano Díaz
age 67
President
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Honduras
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson
age 58
President
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Iceland
Rajendra Prasad
age 67
President
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India
Sukarno
age 51
President
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Indonesia
Éamon de Valera
age 70
President
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Ireland
Seán T. O'Kelly
age 70
President
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Ireland
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
age 67
President
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Israel
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