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Chinese Civil War
1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Guatemalan Revolution
1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Chinese Communist Revolution
1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
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
Fair Housing Act
1968-04-11
Poor People's Campaign
1968-05-12 - 1968-06-24
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
1968-06-06
Apollo 11
1969-07-16 - 1969-07-24
Corrective Movement (Syria)
1970-11-13
Bangladesh genocide
1971-03-25 - 1971-12-16
1971 Dhaka University massacre
1971-03-25
Bangladesh War of Independence
1971-03-26 - 1971-12-16
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
1971-12-03 - 1971-12-16
Yom Kippur War
1973-10-06 - 1973-10-25
Lebanese Civil War
1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Cambodian genocide
1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
Islamist uprising in Syria
1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Iranian Revolution
1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11
Cambodian–Vietnamese War
1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Sino-Vietnamese War
1979-02-17 - 1979-03-16
Taiwan Relations Act
1979-04-10
Iran hostage crisis
1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20
Soviet–Afghan War
1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Iran–Iraq War
1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut
1983-04-18
United States invasion of Grenada
1983-10-25 - 1983-10-29
Battle of Tripoli (1983)
1983-11-03 - 1983-12-20
People
Anthony Eden
age 49
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Ho Chi Minh
age 56
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Richard Nixon
age 33
President
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United States
Pol Pot
age 21
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea
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Cambodia
Charles de Gaulle
age 55
President
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France
Leonid Brezhnev
age 39
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Jacques Chirac
age 13
Prime Minister
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France
Saddam Hussein
age 9
President
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Iraq
Hu Yaobang
age 30
General Secretary
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Communist Party of China
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 57
President
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Vietnam
Fidel Castro
age 19
President
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Cuba
Jimmy Carter
age 21
President
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United States
Nikita Khrushchev
age 52
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Chiang Kai-shek
age 58
President
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Republic of China
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 37
President
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United States
Harry S. Truman
age 62
President
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United States
Joseph Stalin
age 67
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Hirohito
age 45
Emperor
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Japan
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 15
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
John F. Kennedy
age 29
President
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United States
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 36
President
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Republic of China
Winston Churchill
age 71
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Carlos Castillo Armas
age 31
President
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Guatemala
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 55
President
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United States
Gerald Ford
age 32
President
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United States
Ronald Reagan
age 35
President
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United States
Hafez al-Assad
age 15
President
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Syria
Lê Duẩn
age 39
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Konstantin Chernenko
age 34
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Jacobo Árbenz
age 32
President
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Guatemala
Souvanna Phouma
age 44
Prime Minister
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Laos
Margaret Thatcher
age 20
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Clement Attlee
age 63
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 28
President
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Egypt
Walter Mondale
age 18
Vice President
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United States
Mao Zedong
age 52
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
George VI
age 50
King
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United Kingdom
Sun Yun-suan
age 32
Premier
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Republic of China
Deng Xiaoping
age 41
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Hua Guofeng
age 25
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
George H. W. Bush
age 22
Vice President
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United States
Liu Shaoqi
age 47
Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu
age 60
Acting Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Li Xiannian
age 37
President
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People's Republic of China
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 43
Supreme Leader
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Iran
Kim Il-sung
age 34
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Lee Teng-hui
age 23
Vice President
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Republic of China
Alben W. Barkley
age 68
Vice President
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United States
Elizabeth II
age 20
Queen
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United Kingdom
Hubert Humphrey
age 35
Vice President
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United States
Konrad Adenauer
age 70
Chancellor
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Germany
Spiro Agnew
age 27
Vice President
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United States
Joe Biden
age 3
Senate
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United States
Al Gore
born 1948-03-31
Senate
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United States
Zhou Enlai
age 48
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Daniel Inouye
age 21
Senate
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United States
Zhao Ziyang
age 26
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Dan Quayle
born 1947-02-04
Senate
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United States
Robert F. Kennedy
age 20
Senate
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United States
Dick Cheney
age 5
House of Representatives
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United States
George C. Marshall
age 65
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Zhu De
age 59
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Soong Ching-ling
age 53
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
George Shultz
age 25
Secretary Of State
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United States
Henry Kissinger
age 23
Secretary Of State
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United States
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 40
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
John Connally
age 29
Secretary Of The Treasury
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United States
James Baker
age 16
Secretary Of The Treasury
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United States
Robert McNamara
age 30
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Warren E. Burger
age 38
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 24
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
Ramsey Clark
age 18
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
Earl Warren
age 55
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Fred M. Vinson
age 56
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
James R. Schlesinger
age 17
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Melvin Laird
age 23
Secretary Of Defense
-
United States
Robert A. Lovett
age 50
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
John Foster Dulles
age 58
Secretary Of State
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United States
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 40
Secretary Of The Treasury
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United States
Clark Clifford
age 39
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Omar Bradley
age 53
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff
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United States
William H. Webster
age 22
Director of the FBI
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Department of Justice
Clarence M. Kelley
age 34
Director of the FBI
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Department of Justice
Thurgood Marshall
age 38
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Potter Stewart
age 31
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 40
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Arthur Goldberg
age 37
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Byron White
age 29
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II
age 47
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Abe Fortas
age 36
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens
age 26
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
William Rehnquist
age 21
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 38
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 16
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Nelson Rockefeller
age 37
Governor of New York
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United States
Bill Clinton
born 1946-08-19
Governor of Arkansas
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United States
Yang Shangkun
age 38
Communist Party of China
Liz Cheney
born 1966-07-28
Republican Party (United States)
Hu Jintao
age 3
Communist Party of China
Douglas MacArthur
age 66
United States Army
Kurt Daluege
age 48
Nazi Party
Colin Powell
age 9
United States Army
Condoleezza Rice
born 1954-11-14
Republican Party (United States)
John Lewis
age 6
Democratic Party (United States)
George Wallace
age 26
Democratic Party (United States)
Wilhelm Frick
age 69
Nazi Party
Karl Dönitz
age 54
Nazi Party
Jiang Zemin
age 19
Communist Party of China
Herbert Hoover
age 71
Republican Party (United States)
Rudolf Hess
age 52
Nazi Party
Hermann Göring
age 53
Nazi Party
Barack Obama
born 1961-08-04
Democratic Party (United States)
Lien Chan
age 9
Kuomintang
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 22
Kuomintang
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 13
US Court Of Appeals
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US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer
age 7
United States Army
David Souter
age 6
Republican Party (United States)
Anthony Kennedy
age 9
United States Army
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 61
United States Navy
Antonin Scalia
age 10
US Court Of Appeals
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US Judiciary
Li Keqiang
born 1955-07-01
Communist Party of China
Wen Jiabao
age 3
Communist Party of China
Archibald Cox
age 34
Democratic Party (United States)
Hillary Clinton
born 1947-10-26
Democratic Party (United States)
John Kerry
age 2
United States Navy
J. Edgar Hoover
age 51
Republican Party (United States)
Li Peng
age 17
Communist Party of China
Rong Yiren
age 30
Communist Party of China
Raymond A. Spruance
age 60
United States Navy
Wang Zhen (general)
age 38
Communist Party of China
Courtney Hodges
age 59
United States Army
Mike Pence
born 1959-06-07
Republican Party (United States)
Kamala Harris
born 1964-10-20
Democratic Party (United States)
Martin Luther King Jr.
age 17
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
George W. Bush
born 1946-07-06
Air National Guard
Akira Mutō
age 53
He Yingqin
age 56
Hubert Gough
age 75
Semyon Timoshenko
age 51
Kliment Voroshilov
age 65
Doihara Kenji
age 62
Kōki Hirota
age 68
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
age 42
Wilhelm Keitel
age 63
Hideki Tōjō
age 61
Naoki Hoshino
age 54
Seishirō Itagaki
age 61
Yoshijirō Umezu
age 64
Kingorō Hashimoto
age 56
Heitarō Kimura
age 57
Rodion Malinovsky
age 47
Souphanouvong
age 36
Franz von Papen
age 66
Kiichirō Hiranuma
age 78
Hjalmar Schacht
age 69
Baldur von Schirach
age 39
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
age 53
Fritz Sauckel
age 51
Rosa Parks
age 33
Alfred Rosenberg
age 53
Erich Raeder
age 70
Hans Fritzsche
age 46
Francisco Franco
age 53
Walther Funk
age 55
Iwane Matsui
age 67
Albert Einstein
age 67
Mahatma Gandhi
age 76
Nelson Mandela
age 27
Kim Jong-il
age 5
Kim Jong-un
born 1982-01-08
Nicolas Sarkozy
born 1955-01-28
François Hollande
born 1954-08-12
Tim Berners-Lee
born 1955-06-08
Boris Yeltsin
age 15
Muhammad Ali
age 4
Aung San Suu Kyi
age 1
Jo Ann Robinson
age 34
Malcolm X
age 21
Thomas Gage
age 228
Charles III
born 1948-11-14
Juan José Arévalo
age 41
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 38
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 30
John Major
age 3
Tony Blair
born 1953-05-06
Gordon Brown
born 1951-02-20
David Cameron
born 1966-10-09
Theresa May
born 1956-10-01
Boris Johnson
born 1964-06-19
Liz Truss
born 1975-07-26
Rishi Sunak
born 1980-05-12
Keir Starmer
born 1962-09-02
Gennady Yanayev
age 8
Narendra Modi
born 1950-09-17
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 27
Chester W. Nimitz
age 61
Hans Frank
age 46
Otto Rasch
age 54
Otto Hofmann
age 50
Alfred Jodl
age 56
Julius Streicher
age 61
Yuri Andropov
age 32
Donald Trump
age 0 months
Albert Speer
age 41
Charles Evans Hughes
age 84
John Roberts
born 1955-01-27
Peng Dehuai
age 47
Henry A. Wallace
age 57
John Nance Garner
age 77
Charles G. Dawes
age 80
Xi Jinping
born 1953-06-15
Erich von Manstein
age 58
Gerd von Rundstedt
age 70
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 66
John J. Pershing
age 85
Puyi
age 40
Zeng Qinghong
age 6
Zhu Rongji
age 17
Ronald McNair
born 1950-10-21
Ellison Onizuka
born 1946-06-24
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 15
Warren Christopher
age 20
Edward VIII
age 52
Yasser Arafat
age 16
Clarence Thomas
born 1948-06-23