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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
Great Leap Forward
1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Great Chinese Famine
1959-01-01 - 1961-12-31
Laotian Civil War
1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement
1960-02-01 - 1964-01-01
Guatemalan Civil War
1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Albany Movement
1961-01-01 - 1962-12-01
Bay of Pigs Invasion
1961-04-17 - 1961-04-20
People
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 43
President
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Egypt
Lê Duẩn
age 54
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Nikita Khrushchev
age 67
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Chiang Kai-shek
age 73
President
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Republic of China
Charles de Gaulle
age 70
President
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France
Ho Chi Minh
age 70
President
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Vietnam
Hirohito
age 60
Emperor
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Japan
John F. Kennedy
age 43
President
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United States
Kim Il-sung
age 49
Chairman Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 52
Vice President
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United States
Konrad Adenauer
age 85
Chancellor
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Germany
Fidel Castro
age 34
Prime Minister
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Cuba
Mao Zedong
age 67
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Elizabeth II
age 35
Queen
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United Kingdom
Liu Shaoqi
age 62
Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Zhou Enlai
age 63
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Hubert Humphrey
age 49
Senate
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United States
Melvin Laird
age 38
House of Representatives
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United States
Daniel Inouye
age 36
House of Representatives
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United States
Gerald Ford
age 47
House of Representatives
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United States
Soong Ching-ling
age 68
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu
age 75
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Earl Warren
age 70
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Robert McNamara
age 44
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Robert F. Kennedy
age 35
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
Margaret Thatcher
age 35
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Winston Churchill
age 86
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Deng Xiaoping
age 56
Secretariat
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Communist Party of China
John Marshall Harlan II
age 61
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 55
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Potter Stewart
age 46
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Nelson Rockefeller
age 52
Governor of New York
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United States
Mike Pence
age 1
Republican Party (United States)
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 37
Kuomintang
George H. W. Bush
age 36
Republican Party (United States)
Sun Yun-suan
age 47
Kuomintang
Stephen Breyer
age 22
United States Army
Lien Chan
age 24
Kuomintang
Hua Guofeng
age 40
Communist Party of China
Hu Yaobang
age 45
Communist Party of China
Ronald Reagan
age 50
Republican Party (United States)
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 51
Kuomintang
Bill Clinton
age 14
Democratic Party (United States)
Joe Biden
age 18
Democratic Party (United States)
Byron White
age 43
Democratic Party (United States)
Rudolf Hess
age 67
Nazi Party
James Baker
age 30
Democratic Party (United States)
Herbert Hoover
age 86
Republican Party (United States)
Jiang Zemin
age 34
Communist Party of China
Li Keqiang
age 5
Communist Party of China
Wen Jiabao
age 18
Communist Party of China
Henry Kissinger
age 37
Republican Party (United States)
Wang Zhen (general)
age 53
Communist Party of China
Rong Yiren
age 44
Communist Party of China
Li Peng
age 32
Communist Party of China
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 70
Republican Party (United States)
Walter Mondale
age 33
Democratic Party (United States)
Dick Cheney
age 20
Republican Party (United States)
Karl Dönitz
age 69
Nazi Party
Douglas MacArthur
age 81
United States Army
George Wallace
age 41
Democratic Party (United States)
John Lewis
age 21
Democratic Party (United States)
Condoleezza Rice
age 6
Republican Party (United States)
Colin Powell
age 24
United States Army
Hu Jintao
age 18
Communist Party of China
Jimmy Carter
age 36
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Xiannian
age 51
Communist Party of China
Yang Shangkun
age 53
Communist Party of China
James R. Schlesinger
age 32
Republican Party (United States)
Clark Clifford
age 54
Democratic Party (United States)
John Paul Stevens
age 41
Republican Party (United States)
David Souter
age 21
Republican Party (United States)
Anthony Kennedy
age 24
United States Army
Zhao Ziyang
age 41
Communist Party of China
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 31
Republican Party (United States)
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 53
Democratic Party (United States)
Thurgood Marshall
age 52
Democratic Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
age 48
Democratic Party (United States)
J. Edgar Hoover
age 66
Republican Party (United States)
William H. Webster
age 37
Republican Party (United States)
Arthur Goldberg
age 52
Democratic Party (United States)
John Kerry
age 17
Democratic Party (United States)
Hillary Clinton
age 13
Democratic Party (United States)
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 72
Communist Party of Vietnam
Martin Luther King Jr.
age 32
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Yuri Andropov
age 46
Lee Teng-hui
age 38
Donald Trump
age 14
Albert Speer
age 56
Clement Attlee
age 78
Anthony Eden
age 63
Warren E. Burger
age 53
Hubert Gough
age 90
Naoki Hoshino
age 69
He Yingqin
age 71
Semyon Timoshenko
age 66
Kliment Voroshilov
age 80
Baldur von Schirach
age 53
Hjalmar Schacht
age 84
Franz von Papen
age 81
Leonid Brezhnev
age 54
Rodion Malinovsky
age 62
Rosa Parks
age 48
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 30
Harry S. Truman
age 76
Saddam Hussein
age 23
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 58
Souphanouvong
age 51
Pol Pot
age 35
Richard Nixon
age 48
Francisco Franco
age 68
George W. Bush
age 14
Chester W. Nimitz
age 76
Souvanna Phouma
age 59
George Shultz
age 40
Hafez al-Assad
age 30
Otto Hofmann
age 65
Clarence Thomas
age 12
Antonin Scalia
age 25
Clarence M. Kelley
age 49
Abe Fortas
age 50
Nelson Mandela
age 42
Kim Jong-il
age 20
Jacques Chirac
age 28
Nicolas Sarkozy
age 6
François Hollande
age 6
Tim Berners-Lee
age 5
Boris Yeltsin
age 30
Muhammad Ali
age 19
Aung San Suu Kyi
age 15
Jo Ann Robinson
age 49
Malcolm X
age 35
Thomas Gage
age 243
Charles III
age 12
Robert A. Lovett
age 65
Juan José Arévalo
age 56
Jacobo Árbenz
age 47
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 52
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 45
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 55
John Major
age 18
Tony Blair
age 7
Gordon Brown
age 10
Theresa May
age 4
Konstantin Chernenko
age 49
Gennady Yanayev
age 23
Narendra Modi
age 10
William Rehnquist
age 36
John Roberts
age 6
Al Gore
age 13
Peng Dehuai
age 62
Spiro Agnew
age 42
Henry A. Wallace
age 72
John Nance Garner
age 92
Xi Jinping
age 7
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 55
Erich von Manstein
age 73
Omar Bradley
age 68
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 81
Dan Quayle
age 14
Puyi
age 55
Zhu De
age 74
Zeng Qinghong
age 21
Zhu Rongji
age 32
Ronald McNair
age 10
Ellison Onizuka
age 14
John Connally
age 44
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 30
Warren Christopher
age 35
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 39
Ramsey Clark
age 33
Edward VIII
age 66
Yasser Arafat
age 31
Courtney Hodges
age 74
Raymond A. Spruance
age 74
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 76
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 28
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 42