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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
Vostok 1
1961-04-12
Bay of Pigs Invasion
1961-04-17 - 1961-04-20
Freedom Riders
1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10
1961 Syrian coup d'état
1961-09-28
Apollo Program
1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962-10-16 - 1962-10-29
Sino-Indian War
1962-10-20 - 1962-11-21
People
Charles de Gaulle
age 70
President
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France
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 42
President
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Egypt
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 70
President
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United States
Souvanna Phouma
age 59
Prime Minister
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Laos
Ho Chi Minh
age 70
President
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Vietnam
Nikita Khrushchev
age 66
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
Hirohito
age 59
Emperor
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Japan
John F. Kennedy
age 43
President
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United States
Lê Duẩn
age 53
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Konrad Adenauer
age 85
Chancellor
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Germany
Fidel Castro
age 34
Prime Minister
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Cuba
Elizabeth II
age 34
Queen
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United Kingdom
Richard Nixon
age 48
Vice President
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United States
Kim Il-sung
age 48
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
Mao Zedong
age 67
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Liu Shaoqi
age 62
Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Hubert Humphrey
age 49
Senate
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United States
Zhou Enlai
age 62
Premier
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People's Republic of China
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 67
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 54
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Robert McNamara
age 44
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Dong Biwu
age 74
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Earl Warren
age 69
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Robert F. Kennedy
age 35
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
Winston Churchill
age 86
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Margaret Thatcher
age 35
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 54
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Potter Stewart
age 45
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Arthur Goldberg
age 52
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Byron White
age 43
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
George Wallace
age 41
Democratic Party (United States)
John Lewis
age 20
Democratic Party (United States)
Condoleezza Rice
age 6
Republican Party (United States)
Colin Powell
age 23
United States Army
James R. Schlesinger
age 31
Republican Party (United States)
Clark Clifford
age 54
Democratic Party (United States)
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 72
Communist Party of Vietnam
Hillary Clinton
age 13
Democratic Party (United States)
John Kerry
age 17
Democratic Party (United States)
William H. Webster
age 36
Republican Party (United States)
J. Edgar Hoover
age 66
Republican Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
age 48
Democratic Party (United States)
Thurgood Marshall
age 52
Democratic Party (United States)
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 53
Democratic Party (United States)
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 30
Republican Party (United States)
Anthony Kennedy
age 24
United States Army
David Souter
age 21
Republican Party (United States)
John Paul Stevens
age 40
Republican Party (United States)
Stephen Breyer
age 22
United States Army
Lien Chan
age 24
Kuomintang
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 37
Kuomintang
Sun Yun-suan
age 47
Kuomintang
Mike Pence
age 1
Republican Party (United States)
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 50
Kuomintang
James Baker
age 30
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Keqiang
age 5
Communist Party of China
Wen Jiabao
age 18
Communist Party of China
Wang Zhen (general)
age 52
Communist Party of China
Rong Yiren
age 44
Communist Party of China
Li Peng
age 32
Communist Party of China
Walter Mondale
age 33
Democratic Party (United States)
Hua Guofeng
age 39
Communist Party of China
Hu Yaobang
age 45
Communist Party of China
Zhao Ziyang
age 41
Communist Party of China
Yang Shangkun
age 53
Communist Party of China
Li Xiannian
age 51
Communist Party of China
Hu Jintao
age 18
Communist Party of China
Douglas MacArthur
age 80
United States Army
Dick Cheney
age 19
Republican Party (United States)
Henry Kissinger
age 37
Republican Party (United States)
Jiang Zemin
age 34
Communist Party of China
Herbert Hoover
age 86
Republican Party (United States)
Rudolf Hess
age 66
Nazi Party
Joe Biden
age 18
Democratic Party (United States)
Barack Obama
born 1961-08-04
Democratic Party (United States)
Bill Clinton
age 14
Democratic Party (United States)
Ronald Reagan
age 49
Republican Party (United States)
George H. W. Bush
age 36
Republican Party (United States)
Jimmy Carter
age 36
Democratic Party (United States)
Karl Dönitz
age 69
Nazi Party
Martin Luther King Jr.
age 31
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 55
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 42
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 45
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 52
Jacobo Árbenz
age 47
Juan José Arévalo
age 56
Robert A. Lovett
age 65
Charles III
age 12
Thomas Gage
age 242
Malcolm X
age 35
Jo Ann Robinson
age 48
Aung San Suu Kyi
age 15
Muhammad Ali
age 18
Boris Yeltsin
age 29
Tim Berners-Lee
age 5
François Hollande
age 6
Nicolas Sarkozy
age 5
Jacques Chirac
age 28
Narendra Modi
age 10
Kim Jong-il
age 19
Nelson Mandela
age 42
Abe Fortas
age 50
Clarence M. Kelley
age 49
Antonin Scalia
age 24
Clarence Thomas
age 12
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 27
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 75
Raymond A. Spruance
age 74
Courtney Hodges
age 74
Yasser Arafat
age 31
Edward VIII
age 66
Gennady Yanayev
age 23
Ramsey Clark
age 33
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 38
Warren Christopher
age 35
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 30
John Connally
age 43
Ellison Onizuka
age 14
Ronald McNair
age 10
Zhu Rongji
age 32
Zhu De
age 74
Zeng Qinghong
age 21
Puyi
age 54
Dan Quayle
age 13
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 81
Omar Bradley
age 67
Erich von Manstein
age 73
Xi Jinping
age 7
John Nance Garner
age 92
Henry A. Wallace
age 72
Spiro Agnew
age 42
Peng Dehuai
age 62
Al Gore
age 12
John Roberts
age 5
William Rehnquist
age 36
Warren E. Burger
age 53
Anthony Eden
age 63
Clement Attlee
age 78
Albert Speer
age 55
Donald Trump
age 14
Otto Hofmann
age 64
Hafez al-Assad
age 30
George Shultz
age 40
Yuri Andropov
age 46
Lee Teng-hui
age 37
Konstantin Chernenko
age 49
Chester W. Nimitz
age 75
George W. Bush
age 14
Francisco Franco
age 68
Pol Pot
age 35
Souphanouvong
age 51
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 58
Saddam Hussein
age 23
Harry S. Truman
age 76
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 29
Rosa Parks
age 47
Rodion Malinovsky
age 62
Leonid Brezhnev
age 54
Franz von Papen
age 81
Hjalmar Schacht
age 83
Baldur von Schirach
age 53
Kliment Voroshilov
age 79
Semyon Timoshenko
age 65
He Yingqin
age 70
Naoki Hoshino
age 68
Hubert Gough
age 90