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Roaring Twenties
1920-01-01 - 1929-12-31
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
Second Sino-Japanese War
1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Marco Polo Bridge Incident
1937-07-07 - 1937-07-09
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
Invasion of Poland
1939-09-01 - 1939-10-06
World War II
1939-09-01 - 1945-09-20
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
Civil Rights Act of 1964
1964-07-02
Harlem riot of 1964
1964-07-16 - 1964-07-22
Gulf of Tonkin incident
1964-08-02
Chicago Freedom Movement
1965-01-01 - 1967-01-01
Selma to Montgomery marches
1965-03-07 - 1965-03-25
Voting Rights Act of 1965
1965-08-06
1966 Syrian coup d'état
1966-02-21 - 1966-02-23
Cultural Revolution
1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
Cambodian Civil War
1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Six-Day War
1967-06-05 - 1967-06-10
Nigerian Civil War
1967-07-06 - 1970-01-15
1967 Plainfield riots
1967-07-14 - 1967-07-16
1967 Detroit riot
1967-07-23 - 1967-07-28
Orangeburg massacre
1968-02-08
Mỹ Lai massacre
1968-03-16
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
1968-04-04
People
Winston Churchill
age 54
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Charles de Gaulle
age 38
President
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France
Ho Chi Minh
age 38
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Pol Pot
age 3
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea
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Cambodia
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 38
President
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United States
Calvin Coolidge
age 56
President
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United States
Raymond Poincaré
age 68
Prime Minister
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France
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 20
President
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United States
Souvanna Phouma
age 27
Prime Minister
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Laos
Harry S. Truman
age 44
President
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United States
Clement Attlee
age 46
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Nikita Khrushchev
age 34
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Herbert Hoover
age 54
President
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United States
Jacobo Árbenz
age 15
President
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Guatemala
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 11
President
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Egypt
Joseph Stalin
age 50
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt
age 46
President
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United States
Adolf Hitler
age 39
Führer
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Germany
Chiang Kai-shek
age 41
President
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Republic of China
John F. Kennedy
age 11
President
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United States
Lê Duẩn
age 21
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Hirohito
age 27
Emperor
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Japan
Neville Chamberlain
age 59
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Carlos Castillo Armas
age 14
President
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Guatemala
Anthony Eden
age 31
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Leonid Brezhnev
age 22
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Kim Il-sung
age 16
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Mao Zedong
age 35
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Hubert Humphrey
age 17
Vice President
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United States
Alben W. Barkley
age 51
Vice President
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United States
Fidel Castro
age 2
Prime Minister
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Cuba
Henry A. Wallace
age 40
Vice President
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United States
John Nance Garner
age 60
Vice President
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United States
Richard Nixon
age 16
Vice President
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United States
Charles Curtis
age 69
Vice President
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United States
George V
age 63
King
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United Kingdom
Konrad Adenauer
age 53
Chancellor
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Germany
Elizabeth II
age 2
Queen
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United Kingdom
Charles G. Dawes
age 63
Vice President
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United States
Edward VIII
age 34
King
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United Kingdom
Kurt von Schleicher
age 46
Chancellor
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Germany
Liu Shaoqi
age 30
Chairman
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People's Republic of China
George VI
age 33
King
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United Kingdom
Joseph Goebbels
age 31
Chancellor
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Germany
Daniel Inouye
age 4
Senate
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United States
Zhou Enlai
age 30
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Walter Mondale
age 1
Senate
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United States
Robert F. Kennedy
age 3
Senate
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United States
Hermann Göring
age 36
President of the Reichstag
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Germany
George H. W. Bush
age 4
House of Representatives
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United States
Melvin Laird
age 6
House of Representatives
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United States
Gerald Ford
age 15
House of Representatives
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United States
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 7
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
Ramsey Clark
age 1
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
Dong Biwu
age 42
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
John Foster Dulles
age 40
Secretary Of State
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United States
Robert A. Lovett
age 33
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Zhu De
age 42
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
William Howard Taft
age 71
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Soong Ching-ling
age 35
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Charles Evans Hughes
age 66
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Clark Clifford
age 22
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Harlan F. Stone
age 56
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Fred M. Vinson
age 39
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Earl Warren
age 37
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
George C. Marshall
age 48
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 22
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Robert McNamara
age 12
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Douglas MacArthur
age 49
Chief of Staff of the Army
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United States
Margaret Thatcher
age 3
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
David Lloyd George
age 66
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Omar Bradley
age 35
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff
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United States
Deng Xiaoping
age 24
Secretariat
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Communist Party of China
Byron White
age 11
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II
age 29
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 22
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Potter Stewart
age 13
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Arthur Goldberg
age 20
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall
age 20
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Abe Fortas
age 18
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Ronald Reagan
age 17
Governor of California
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United States
Nelson Rockefeller
age 20
Governor of New York
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United States
Spiro Agnew
age 10
Governor Of Maryland
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United States
John Connally
age 11
Governor of Texas
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United States
Lee Teng-hui
age 6
Imperial Japanese Army
Iwane Matsui
age 50
Imperial Japanese Army
Henry Kissinger
age 5
United States Army
Jiang Zemin
age 2
Communist Party of China
Martin Bormann
age 28
Nazi Party
Reinhard Heydrich
age 24
Nazi Party
Rudolf Hess
age 34
Nazi Party
Joe Biden
born 1942-11-20
Democratic Party (United States)
Barack Obama
born 1961-08-04
Democratic Party (United States)
Bill Clinton
born 1946-08-19
Democratic Party (United States)
Heinrich Himmler
age 28
Nazi Party
William Rehnquist
age 4
United States Air Force
Dick Cheney
born 1941-01-30
Republican Party (United States)
Jimmy Carter
age 4
United States Navy
Hua Guofeng
age 7
Communist Party of China
Kurt Daluege
age 31
Nazi Party
Hu Yaobang
age 13
Communist Party of China
George S. Patton
age 43
United States Army
Hu Jintao
born 1942-12-21
Communist Party of China
Li Xiannian
age 19
Communist Party of China
Zhao Ziyang
age 9
Communist Party of China
Yang Shangkun
age 21
Communist Party of China
Stephen Breyer
born 1938-08-15
United States Army
Yoshijirō Umezu
age 47
Imperial Japanese Army
John Paul Stevens
age 8
United States Navy
David Souter
born 1939-09-17
Republican Party (United States)
Anthony Kennedy
born 1936-07-23
United States Army
Wilhelm Frick
age 51
Nazi Party
Sandra Day O'Connor
born 1930-03-26
Republican Party (United States)
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 21
Democratic Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
age 16
Democratic Party (United States)
J. Edgar Hoover
age 34
Republican Party (United States)
John Lewis
born 1940-02-21
Democratic Party (United States)
George Wallace
age 9
United States Army
William H. Webster
age 4
Republican Party (United States)
John Kerry
born 1943-12-11
United States Navy
Hillary Clinton
born 1947-10-26
Democratic Party (United States)
Liz Cheney
born 1966-07-28
Republican Party (United States)
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 40
Communist Party of Vietnam
James R. Schlesinger
born 1929-02-15
Republican Party (United States)
Karl Dönitz
age 37
Nazi Party
Jacques Chirac
born 1932-11-29
French Army
Li Peng
age 2 months
Communist Party of China
Rong Yiren
age 12
Communist Party of China
Wang Zhen (general)
age 20
Communist Party of China
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)
Condoleezza Rice
born 1954-11-14
Republican Party (United States)
Colin Powell
born 1937-04-05
United States Army
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 18
Kuomintang
Kamala Harris
born 1964-10-20
Democratic Party (United States)
Mike Pence
born 1959-06-07
Republican Party (United States)
Courtney Hodges
age 42
United States Army
Raymond A. Spruance
age 42
United States Navy
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 43
United States Navy
Sun Yun-suan
age 15
Kuomintang
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 5
Kuomintang
Lien Chan
born 1936-08-27
Kuomintang
George W. Bush
born 1946-07-06
Air National Guard
Martin Luther King Jr.
born 1929-01-15
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Walther Funk
age 38
Wilhelm Groener
age 61
Erich Ludendorff
age 63
Hans Fritzsche
age 28
Manuel Azaña
age 49
Francisco Franco
age 36
Wilhelm Keitel
age 46
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
age 25
Friedrich Jeckeln
age 33
Józef Piłsudski
age 61
Kliment Voroshilov
age 47
Semyon Timoshenko
age 33
He Yingqin
age 38
Akira Mutō
age 36
Doihara Kenji
age 45
Kōki Hirota
age 50
Naoki Hoshino
age 36
Claus von Stauffenberg
age 21
Mikhail Gorbachev
born 1931-03-02
Hideki Tōjō
age 44
Rosa Parks
age 15
Seishirō Itagaki
age 44
Kingorō Hashimoto
age 38
Heitarō Kimura
age 40
Saddam Hussein
born 1937-04-28
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 26
Souphanouvong
age 19
Rodion Malinovsky
age 30
Franz von Papen
age 49
Kiichirō Hiranuma
age 61
Benito Mussolini
age 45
Paul von Hindenburg
age 81
Kyösti Kallio
age 55
Hjalmar Schacht
age 52
Baldur von Schirach
age 21
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
age 36
Fritz Sauckel
age 34
Alfred Rosenberg
age 36
Erich Raeder
age 52
Hubert Gough
age 58
Jo Ann Robinson
age 16
Aung San Suu Kyi
born 1945-06-19
Muhammad Ali
born 1942-01-17
Boris Yeltsin
born 1931-02-01
Tim Berners-Lee
born 1955-06-08
Nikola Tesla
age 72
François Hollande
born 1954-08-12
Nicolas Sarkozy
born 1955-01-28
Kim Jong-il
born 1941-02-16
Nelson Mandela
age 10
Mahatma Gandhi
age 59
Albert Einstein
age 49
Clarence M. Kelley
age 17
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
Warren Christopher
age 3
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 10
Narendra Modi
born 1950-09-17
Gennady Yanayev
born 1937-08-26
Konstantin Chernenko
age 17
Keir Starmer
born 1962-09-02
Boris Johnson
born 1964-06-19
Theresa May
born 1956-10-01
David Cameron
born 1966-10-09
Gordon Brown
born 1951-02-20
Tony Blair
born 1953-05-06
John Major
born 1943-03-29
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 23
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 13
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 20
Juan José Arévalo
age 24
Charles III
born 1948-11-14
Thomas Gage
age 210
Malcolm X
age 3
John Roberts
born 1955-01-27
Warren E. Burger
age 21
Joseph Joffre
age 77
Emilio De Bono
age 62
Albert Speer
age 23
Donald Trump
born 1946-06-14
Yuri Andropov
age 14
Julius Streicher
age 43
Alfred Jodl
age 38
Otto Hofmann
age 32
Fritz Todt
age 37
Otto Rasch
age 37
Hans Frank
age 28
Hafez al-Assad
born 1930-10-06
George Shultz
age 8
Eva Braun
age 16
Ernst Röhm
age 41
Isoroku Yamamoto
age 44
Lawrence Eagleburger
born 1930-08-01
Ellison Onizuka
born 1946-06-24
Ronald McNair
born 1950-10-21
Zhu Rongji
age 2 months
Zeng Qinghong
born 1939-07-30
Puyi
age 22
Dan Quayle
born 1947-02-04
Ferdinand Foch
age 77
John J. Pershing
age 68
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 49
Gerd von Rundstedt
age 53
Erich von Manstein
age 41
Georges Clemenceau
age 87
Wilhelm II
age 70
Xi Jinping
born 1953-06-15
Leon Trotsky
age 49
Peng Dehuai
age 30
Al Gore
born 1948-03-31
Chester W. Nimitz
age 43