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Mexican Revolution
1910-11-20 - 1920-12-01
World War I
1914-07-28 - 1918-11-11
Russian Revolution
1917-03-08 - 1923-06-16
Russian Civil War
1917-11-07 - 1923-06-16
Second Battle of the Marne
1918-07-15 - 1918-07-18
Meuse–Argonne offensive
1918-09-26 - 1918-11-11
German Revolution
1918-10-29 - 1919-08-11
Polish–Ukrainian War
1918-11-01 - 1919-07-18
Armistice of 11 November 1918
1918-11-11
Battle of Saint-Mihiel
1918-11-12 - 1918-09-15
Biennio Rosso
1919-01-01 - 1920-12-31
Polish–Soviet War
1919-02-14 - 1921-03-18
Polish–Lithuanian War
1919-05-03 - 1920-11-29
Treaty of Versailles
1919-06-28
Roaring Twenties
1920-01-01 - 1929-12-31
March on Rome
1922-10-27 - 1922-10-29
Declaration of the Creation of the USSR
1922-12-30
Beer Hall Putsch
1923-11-08 - 1923-11-09
Mein Kampf published
1925-07-18
Northern Expedition
1926-07-09 - 1928-12-29
Chinese Civil War
1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Central Plains War
1929-03-01 - 1930-11-01
Great Depression
1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
Black Tuesday
1929-10-29
Reichstag fire
1933-02-27
Reichstag Fire Decree
1933-02-28
Enabling Act of 1933
1933-03-23
Night of the Long Knives
1934-07-02 - 1934-07-05
Nuremberg Laws enacted
1935-09-15 - 1935-11-14
Second Italo-Ethiopian War
1935-10-03 - 1937-02-19
Remilitarization of the Rhineland
1936-03-07
Spanish Civil War
1936-07-17 - 1939-04-01
Marco Polo Bridge Incident
1937-07-07 - 1937-07-09
Second Sino-Japanese War
1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Battle of Nanking
1937-12-01 - 1937-12-13
Nanjing Massacre
1937-12-13 - 1938-02-07
Anschluss
1938-03-12 - 1938-04-10
Munich Agreement
1938-09-30
Kristallnacht
1938-11-09 - 1938-11-10
World War II
1939-09-01 - 1945-09-20
Invasion of Poland
1939-09-01 - 1939-10-06
Winter War
1939-11-30 - 1940-03-13
Battle of France
1940-05-10 - 1940-06-25
Battle of Dunkirk
1940-05-26 - 1940-06-04
Battle of Britain
1940-07-10 - 1940-10-31
The Holocaust
1941-01-01 - 1945-09-20
Invasion of Yugoslavia
1941-04-06 - 1941-04-18
Operation Barbarossa
1941-06-22 - 1942-01-07
Second Soviet-Finnish War
1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Babi Yar massacre
1941-09-29 - 1941-09-30
Battle of Moscow
1941-10-02 - 1942-01-07
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941-12-07
Pacific War
1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Solomon Islands campaign
1942-01-01 - 1945-08-21
Battle of Bataan
1942-01-07 - 1942-04-09
Wannsee Conference
1942-01-20
Bataan Death March
1942-04-09 - 1942-04-17
Battle of the Coral Sea
1942-05-04 - 1942-05-08
Battle of Midway
1942-06-04 - 1942-06-07
Lidice massacre
1942-06-10
Battle of Kursk
1943-07-05 - 1943-08-23
Operation Overlord
1944-06-06 - 1944-08-30
Battle of the Philippine Sea
1944-06-19 - 1944-06-20
20 July plot
1944-07-20
Battle of Leyte Gulf
1944-08-23 - 1944-10-26
Battle of Metz
1944-09-27 - 1944-12-13
Guatemalan Revolution
1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Battle of Aachen
1944-10-02 - 1944-10-21
Rescue of the Lost Battalion
1944-11-24 - 1944-10-30
Battle of the Bulge
1944-12-16 - 1945-01-25
Battle of Manila (1945)
1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Manila massacre
1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Battle of Iwo Jima
1945-02-19 - 1945-03-26
Chinese Communist Revolution
1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
Soviet–Japanese War
1945-08-09 - 1945-09-03
Iran crisis of 1946
1945-11-01 - 1946-12-15
Nuremberg trials
1945-11-20 - 1946-10-01
International Military Tribunal for the Far East
1946-04-29 - 1948-11-12
First Indochina War
1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War
1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Indian Independence Act
1947-07-18
Partition of India
1947-08-15
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel
1948-05-14
1948 Arab–Israeli War
1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Berlin Blockade
1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12
1949 Syrian coup d'état
1949-03-29
Korean War
1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27
Second Battle of Seoul
1950-09-22 - 1950-09-28
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
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
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
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
Socialist Education Movement
1963-01-01 - 1966-01-01
1963 Syrian coup d'état
1963-03-08
Birmingham campaign
1963-04-03 - 1963-05-10
Stand in the Schoolhouse Door
1963-06-11
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
1963-08-28
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
1963-11-22
People
Herbert Hoover
age 42
President
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United States
Raymond Poincaré
age 56
President
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France
Charles I of Austria
age 29
Emperor
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Austria-Hungary
Souvanna Phouma
age 15
Prime Minister
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Laos
Wilhelm II
age 58
Emperor
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German Empire
Calvin Coolidge
age 44
President
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United States
Ho Chi Minh
age 27
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 26
President
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United States
Charles de Gaulle
age 26
President
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France
Winston Churchill
age 42
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Pol Pot
born 1925-05-19
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea
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Cambodia
Mehmed V
age 72
Sultan
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Ottoman Empire
Mehmed VI
age 56
Sultan
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Ottoman Empire
Clement Attlee
age 34
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Anthony Eden
age 19
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
John F. Kennedy
born 1917-05-29
President
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United States
Adolf Hitler
age 28
Führer
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Germany
Gamal Abdel Nasser
born 1918-01-15
President
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Egypt
Harry S. Truman
age 33
President
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United States
Nikita Khrushchev
age 23
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Chiang Kai-shek
age 29
President
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Republic of China
David Lloyd George
age 54
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Franklin D. Roosevelt
age 35
President
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United States
Hirohito
age 16
Emperor
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Japan
Joseph Stalin
age 38
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Woodrow Wilson
age 60
President
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United States
Emperor Taishō
age 37
Emperor
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Japan
Lê Duẩn
age 10
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Warren G. Harding
age 51
President
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United States
Neville Chamberlain
age 48
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Jacobo Árbenz
age 3
President
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Guatemala
Puyi
age 11
Emperor
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Imperial China
Georges Clemenceau
age 75
Prime Minister
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France
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 8
President
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United States
Carlos Castillo Armas
age 2
President
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Guatemala
Henry A. Wallace
age 28
Vice President
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United States
John Nance Garner
age 48
Vice President
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United States
Charles Curtis
age 57
Vice President
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United States
Charles G. Dawes
age 51
Vice President
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United States
Alben W. Barkley
age 39
Vice President
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United States
George V
age 52
King
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United Kingdom
Edward VIII
age 22
King
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United Kingdom
Liu Shaoqi
age 18
Chairman
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People's Republic of China
George VI
age 21
King
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United Kingdom
Fidel Castro
born 1926-08-13
Prime Minister
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Cuba
Kurt von Schleicher
age 35
Chancellor
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Germany
Konrad Adenauer
age 41
Chancellor
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Germany
Józef Piłsudski
age 49
Prime Minister
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Poland
Elizabeth II
born 1926-04-21
Queen
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United Kingdom
Joseph Goebbels
age 19
Chancellor
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Germany
Kim Il-sung
age 5
Chairman Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Richard Nixon
age 4
Vice President
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United States
Mao Zedong
age 23
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Thomas R. Marshall
age 63
Vice President
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United States
Hubert Humphrey
age 6
Senate
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United States
Zhou Enlai
age 19
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Daniel Inouye
born 1924-09-07
Senate
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United States
Gerald Ford
age 3
House of Representatives
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United States
Melvin Laird
born 1922-09-01
House of Representatives
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United States
Hermann Göring
age 24
President of the Reichstag
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Germany
George C. Marshall
age 36
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Soong Ching-ling
age 24
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 11
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Dong Biwu
age 31
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Robert McNamara
age 11 months
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Zhu De
age 30
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
John Foster Dulles
age 29
Secretary Of State
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United States
Robert F. Kennedy
born 1925-11-20
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
William Howard Taft
age 59
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Edward Douglass White
age 71
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Charles Evans Hughes
age 55
Secretary Of State
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United States
Earl Warren
age 26
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Harlan F. Stone
age 44
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Fred M. Vinson
age 27
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Omar Bradley
age 24
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff
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United States
Margaret Thatcher
born 1925-10-13
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Douglas MacArthur
age 37
Chief of Staff of the Army
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United States
Deng Xiaoping
age 12
Secretariat
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Communist Party of China
Vladimir Lenin
age 47
Chairman
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Soviet Union
Arthur Goldberg
age 8
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Potter Stewart
age 2
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Byron White
born 1917-06-08
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II
age 18
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 11
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Nelson Rockefeller
age 8
Governor of New York
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United States
John Connally
age 3 months
Governor of Texas
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United States
George H. W. Bush
born 1924-06-12
Republican Party (United States)
Joe Biden
born 1942-11-20
Democratic Party (United States)
Rudolf Hess
age 23
Nazi Party
Barack Obama
born 1961-08-04
Democratic Party (United States)
Reinhard Heydrich
age 13
Nazi Party
Kurt Daluege
age 19
Nazi Party
Martin Bormann
age 16
Nazi Party
Bill Clinton
born 1946-08-19
Democratic Party (United States)
Ronald Reagan
age 6
Republican Party (United States)
Iwane Matsui
age 38
Imperial Japanese Army
Dick Cheney
born 1941-01-30
Republican Party (United States)
Jiang Zemin
born 1926-08-17
Communist Party of China
Henry Kissinger
born 1923-05-27
United States Army
Lee Teng-hui
born 1923-01-15
Imperial Japanese Army
Heinrich Himmler
age 16
Nazi Party
Jimmy Carter
born 1924-10-01
United States Navy
William Rehnquist
born 1924-10-01
United States Air Force
George S. Patton
age 31
United States Army
Hua Guofeng
born 1921-02-16
Communist Party of China
Hu Yaobang
age 1
Communist Party of China
Zhao Ziyang
born 1919-10-17
Communist Party of China
Hu Jintao
born 1942-12-21
Communist Party of China
Li Xiannian
age 7
Communist Party of China
Yang Shangkun
age 9
Communist Party of China
Lien Chan
born 1936-08-27
Kuomintang
Yoshijirō Umezu
age 35
Imperial Japanese Army
Stephen Breyer
born 1938-08-15
United States Army
Jacques Chirac
born 1932-11-29
French Army
John Paul Stevens
born 1920-04-20
United States Navy
David Souter
born 1939-09-17
Republican Party (United States)
Anthony Kennedy
born 1936-07-23
United States Army
Robert A. Lovett
age 21
United States Navy
Sandra Day O'Connor
born 1930-03-26
Republican Party (United States)
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 9
Democratic Party (United States)
Thurgood Marshall
age 8
Democratic Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
age 5
Democratic Party (United States)
J. Edgar Hoover
age 22
Republican Party (United States)
Karl Dönitz
age 25
Nazi Party
William H. Webster
born 1924-03-06
Republican Party (United States)
John Lewis
born 1940-02-21
Democratic Party (United States)
John Kerry
born 1943-12-11
Democratic Party (United States)
Hillary Clinton
born 1947-10-26
Democratic Party (United States)
George Wallace
born 1919-08-25
United States Army
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 28
Communist Party of Vietnam
Clark Clifford
age 10
United States Navy
James R. Schlesinger
born 1929-02-15
Republican Party (United States)
Franz von Papen
age 37
Imperial German Army
John J. Pershing
age 56
United States Army
Condoleezza Rice
born 1954-11-14
Republican Party (United States)
Sun Yat-sen
age 50
Kuomintang
Li Peng
born 1928-10-20
Communist Party of China
Rong Yiren
age 1
Communist Party of China
Wang Zhen (general)
age 9
Communist Party of China
Colin Powell
born 1937-04-05
United States Army
Wen Jiabao
born 1942-09-15
Communist Party of China
Li Keqiang
born 1955-07-01
Communist Party of China
James Baker
born 1930-04-28
Democratic Party (United States)
Walter Mondale
born 1928-01-05
United States Army
Wilhelm Frick
age 40
Nazi Party
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 7
Kuomintang
Theodore Roosevelt
age 58
Republican Party (United States)
Levi P. Morton
age 93
Republican Party (United States)
Mike Pence
born 1959-06-07
Republican Party (United States)
Courtney Hodges
age 30
United States Army
Raymond A. Spruance
age 30
United States Navy
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 32
United States Navy
Sun Yun-suan
age 3
Kuomintang
Lee Yuan-tsu
born 1923-09-24
Kuomintang
Martin Luther King Jr.
born 1929-01-15
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Wilhelm Keitel
age 34
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
age 13
Walther Funk
age 26
Francisco Franco
age 24
Wilhelm Groener
age 49
Erich Ludendorff
age 52
Hans Fritzsche
age 17
Friedrich Jeckeln
age 22
Kliment Voroshilov
age 36
Manuel Azaña
age 37
Semyon Timoshenko
age 22
He Yingqin
age 27
Akira Mutō
age 24
George W. Bush
born 1946-07-06
Doihara Kenji
age 33
Kōki Hirota
age 39
Naoki Hoshino
age 25
Claus von Stauffenberg
age 9
Nicholas II of Russia
age 49
Mikhail Gorbachev
born 1931-03-02
Hideki Tōjō
age 32
Rosa Parks
age 4
Seishirō Itagaki
age 32
Kingorō Hashimoto
age 27
Heitarō Kimura
age 28
Saddam Hussein
born 1937-04-28
Rodion Malinovsky
age 18
Leonid Brezhnev
age 10
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 14
Kiichirō Hiranuma
age 49
Souphanouvong
age 7
Kyösti Kallio
age 44
Hjalmar Schacht
age 40
Benito Mussolini
age 33
Baldur von Schirach
age 10
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
age 24
Fritz Sauckel
age 22
Paul von Hindenburg
age 69
Alfred Rosenberg
age 24
Erich Raeder
age 41
Hubert Gough
age 46
Muhammad Ali
born 1942-01-17
Boris Yeltsin
born 1931-02-01
Tim Berners-Lee
born 1955-06-08
Nikola Tesla
age 60
François Hollande
born 1954-08-12
Nicolas Sarkozy
born 1955-01-28
Kim Jong-il
born 1941-02-16
Nelson Mandela
born 1918-07-18
Mahatma Gandhi
age 47
Albert Einstein
age 38
Abe Fortas
age 6
Clarence M. Kelley
age 5
Antonin Scalia
born 1936-03-11
Clarence Thomas
born 1948-06-23
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
born 1933-03-15
Yasser Arafat
born 1929-08-24
Ramsey Clark
born 1927-12-18
Nicholas Katzenbach
born 1922-01-17
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
born 1918-07-17
Narendra Modi
born 1950-09-17
Gennady Yanayev
born 1937-08-26
Konstantin Chernenko
age 5
Keir Starmer
born 1962-09-02
Theresa May
born 1956-10-01
Gordon Brown
born 1951-02-20
Tony Blair
born 1953-05-06
John Major
born 1943-03-29
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 11
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 1
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 8
Juan José Arévalo
age 12
Charles III
born 1948-11-14
Thomas Gage
age 199
Malcolm X
born 1925-05-19
Jo Ann Robinson
age 5
Aung San Suu Kyi
born 1945-06-19
Warren Christopher
born 1925-10-27
John Roberts
born 1955-01-27
Warren E. Burger
age 9
Joseph Joffre
age 65
Emilio De Bono
age 51
Albert Speer
age 12
Donald Trump
born 1946-06-14
Yuri Andropov
age 2
Julius Streicher
age 32
Alfred Jodl
age 27
Otto Hofmann
age 21
Fritz Todt
age 25
Otto Rasch
age 25
Hans Frank
age 17
Hafez al-Assad
born 1930-10-06
George Shultz
born 1920-12-13
Eva Braun
age 5
Ernst Röhm
age 29
Isoroku Yamamoto
age 33
Lawrence Eagleburger
born 1930-08-01
Ellison Onizuka
born 1946-06-24
Ronald McNair
born 1950-10-21
Zhu Rongji
born 1928-10-23
Zeng Qinghong
born 1939-07-30
Charles W. Fairbanks
age 65
Dan Quayle
born 1947-02-04
Matthias Erzberger
age 41
Ferdinand Foch
age 65
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 37
Gerd von Rundstedt
age 41
H. H. Asquith
age 64
Erich von Manstein
age 29
Xi Jinping
born 1953-06-15
Spiro Agnew
born 1918-11-09
Leon Trotsky
age 37
Peng Dehuai
age 18
Al Gore
born 1948-03-31
Chester W. Nimitz
age 32