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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
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
Chernobyl disaster
1986-04-26
1987 Lieyu massacre
1987-03-07 - 1987-03-08
Fall of the Berlin Wall
1989-11-09
United States invasion of Panama
1989-12-20 - 1990-01-31
Gulf War
1990-08-02 - 1991-02-28
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
1991-08-24 - 1991-12-26
People
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 16
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 29
President
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Egypt
Hirohito
age 45
Emperor
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Japan
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 36
President
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Republic of China
Joseph Stalin
age 68
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Harry S. Truman
age 62
President
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United States
Leonid Brezhnev
age 40
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Ho Chi Minh
age 56
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Richard Nixon
age 34
President
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United States
Pol Pot
age 21
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea
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Cambodia
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 38
President
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United States
Chiang Kai-shek
age 59
President
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Republic of China
Charles de Gaulle
age 56
President
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France
Boris Yeltsin
age 16
President
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Russia
Nikita Khrushchev
age 52
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Jimmy Carter
age 22
President
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United States
Zhao Ziyang
age 27
General Secretary
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Communist Party of China
Jacques Chirac
age 14
Prime Minister
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France
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 58
President
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Vietnam
Hu Yaobang
age 31
General Secretary
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Communist Party of China
Saddam Hussein
age 9
President
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Iraq
John F. Kennedy
age 29
President
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United States
Margaret Thatcher
age 21
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Jiang Zemin
age 20
General Secretary
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Communist Party of China
Konstantin Chernenko
age 35
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Souvanna Phouma
age 45
Prime Minister
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Laos
Hafez al-Assad
age 16
President
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Syria
Lê Duẩn
age 39
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 56
President
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United States
Winston Churchill
age 72
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Lee Teng-hui
age 24
President
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Republic of China
Ronald Reagan
age 36
President
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United States
John Major
age 3
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Gerald Ford
age 33
President
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United States
Carlos Castillo Armas
age 32
President
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Guatemala
George H. W. Bush
age 22
President
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United States
Clement Attlee
age 64
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Jacobo Árbenz
age 33
President
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Guatemala
Anthony Eden
age 49
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Fidel Castro
age 20
President
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Cuba
Sun Yun-suan
age 33
Premier
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Republic of China
Mao Zedong
age 53
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Dan Quayle
age 1 month
Vice President
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United States
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 23
Vice President
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Republic of China
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 44
Supreme Leader
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Iran
Walter Mondale
age 19
Vice President
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United States
Deng Xiaoping
age 42
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
George VI
age 51
King
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United Kingdom
Spiro Agnew
age 28
Vice President
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United States
Hubert Humphrey
age 35
Vice President
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United States
Alben W. Barkley
age 69
Vice President
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United States
Elizabeth II
age 20
Queen
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United Kingdom
Li Xiannian
age 37
President
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People's Republic of China
Konrad Adenauer
age 71
Chancellor
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Germany
Yang Shangkun
age 39
President
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People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu
age 61
Acting Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Liu Shaoqi
age 48
Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Kim Jong-il
age 6
Supreme Commander, Korean People's Army
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North Korea
Hua Guofeng
age 26
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Kim Il-sung
age 34
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Robert F. Kennedy
age 21
Senate
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United States
Li Peng
age 18
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Daniel Inouye
age 22
Senate
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United States
Zhou Enlai
age 49
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Al Gore
born 1948-03-31
Senate
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United States
Joe Biden
age 4
Senate
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United States
Dick Cheney
age 6
House of Representatives
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United States
John Connally
age 30
Secretary Of The Treasury
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United States
James Baker
age 16
Secretary Of State
-
United States
Clark Clifford
age 40
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Wang Zhen (general)
age 38
Vice President
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People's Republic of China
Melvin Laird
age 24
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 25
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
Ramsey Clark
age 19
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
James R. Schlesinger
age 18
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Zhu De
age 60
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
George C. Marshall
age 66
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 40
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Robert McNamara
age 30
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Henry Kissinger
age 23
Secretary Of State
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United States
George Shultz
age 26
Secretary Of State
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United States
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 41
Secretary Of The Treasury
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United States
John Foster Dulles
age 59
Secretary Of State
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United States
Soong Ching-ling
age 54
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Fred M. Vinson
age 57
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Earl Warren
age 56
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Warren E. Burger
age 39
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Robert A. Lovett
age 51
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
William Rehnquist
age 22
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
William H. Webster
age 23
Director of the FBI
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Department of Justice
Clarence M. Kelley
age 35
Director of the FBI
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Department of Justice
Omar Bradley
age 54
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff
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United States
Colin Powell
age 9
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff
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United States
John Marshall Harlan II
age 47
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens
age 26
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
David Souter
age 7
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy
age 10
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia
age 11
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 16
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 39
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall
age 38
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Byron White
age 29
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Abe Fortas
age 36
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 40
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Potter Stewart
age 32
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Arthur Goldberg
age 38
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Nelson Rockefeller
age 38
Governor of New York
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United States
Bill Clinton
age 6 months
Governor of Arkansas
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United States
Stephen Breyer
age 8
United States Army
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 14
US Court Of Appeals
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US Judiciary
Lien Chan
age 10
Kuomintang
Douglas MacArthur
age 67
United States Army
Wen Jiabao
age 4
Communist Party of China
George Wallace
age 27
Democratic Party (United States)
John Lewis
age 7
Democratic Party (United States)
Condoleezza Rice
born 1954-11-14
Republican Party (United States)
Li Keqiang
born 1955-07-01
Communist Party of China
Rong Yiren
age 30
Communist Party of China
Hu Jintao
age 4
Communist Party of China
Raymond A. Spruance
age 60
United States Navy
Karl Dönitz
age 55
Nazi Party
Barack Obama
born 1961-08-04
Democratic Party (United States)
Courtney Hodges
age 60
United States Army
Mike Pence
born 1959-06-07
Republican Party (United States)
Herbert Hoover
age 72
Republican Party (United States)
Kamala Harris
born 1964-10-20
Democratic Party (United States)
John Kerry
age 3
United States Navy
Rudolf Hess
age 52
Nazi Party
Archibald Cox
age 34
Democratic Party (United States)
J. Edgar Hoover
age 52
Republican Party (United States)
Hillary Clinton
born 1947-10-26
Democratic Party (United States)
Liz Cheney
born 1966-07-28
Republican Party (United States)
George W. Bush
age 8 months
Air National Guard
Martin Luther King Jr.
age 18
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Hubert Gough
age 76
Souphanouvong
age 37
Naoki Hoshino
age 54
Kōki Hirota
age 69
Doihara Kenji
age 63
Hideki Tōjō
age 62
Rosa Parks
age 34
Akira Mutō
age 54
Seishirō Itagaki
age 62
Yoshijirō Umezu
age 65
He Yingqin
age 56
Semyon Timoshenko
age 52
Kliment Voroshilov
age 66
Kingorō Hashimoto
age 57
Walther Funk
age 56
Heitarō Kimura
age 58
Rodion Malinovsky
age 48
Hans Fritzsche
age 46
Erich Raeder
age 70
Baldur von Schirach
age 39
Franz von Papen
age 67
Kiichirō Hiranuma
age 79
Francisco Franco
age 54
Hjalmar Schacht
age 70
Iwane Matsui
age 68
Clarence Thomas
born 1948-06-23
Albert Einstein
age 68
Mahatma Gandhi
age 77
Nelson Mandela
age 28
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
Muhammad Ali
age 5
Aung San Suu Kyi
age 1
Jo Ann Robinson
age 34
Malcolm X
age 21
Thomas Gage
age 229
Charles III
born 1948-11-14
Juan José Arévalo
age 42
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 38
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 31
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 9
Narendra Modi
born 1950-09-17
Chester W. Nimitz
age 62
Otto Rasch
age 55
Otto Hofmann
age 51
Yuri Andropov
age 32
Donald Trump
age 9 months
Albert Speer
age 42
Charles Evans Hughes
age 84
John Roberts
born 1955-01-27
Peng Dehuai
age 48
Henry A. Wallace
age 58
John Nance Garner
age 78
Charles G. Dawes
age 81
Xi Jinping
born 1953-06-15
Erich von Manstein
age 59
Gerd von Rundstedt
age 71
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 67
John J. Pershing
age 86
Puyi
age 41
Zeng Qinghong
age 7
Zhu Rongji
age 18
Ronald McNair
born 1950-10-21
Ellison Onizuka
age 8 months
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 16
Warren Christopher
age 21
Edward VIII
age 52
Yasser Arafat
age 17
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 61
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 28