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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
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
Third Taiwan Strait Crisis
1995-07-21 - 1996-03-23
September 11 attacks
2001-09-11
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
2001-10-07 - 2021-08-30
People
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 19
President
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Republic of China
Hirohito
age 28
Emperor
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Japan
Charles de Gaulle
age 38
President
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France
Boris Yeltsin
born 1931-02-01
President
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Russia
Herbert Hoover
age 55
President
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United States
Margaret Thatcher
age 3
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Jiang Zemin
age 3
General Secretary
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Communist Party of China
Souvanna Phouma
age 27
Prime Minister
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Laos
Jacques Chirac
born 1932-11-29
President
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France
Mikhail Gorbachev
born 1931-03-02
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Hafez al-Assad
born 1930-10-06
President
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Syria
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 41
President
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Vietnam
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 11
President
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Egypt
Saddam Hussein
born 1937-04-28
President
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Iraq
John F. Kennedy
age 12
President
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United States
Jimmy Carter
age 4
President
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United States
Leonid Brezhnev
age 22
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Zhao Ziyang
age 9
General Secretary
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Communist Party of China
Hu Yaobang
age 13
General Secretary
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Communist Party of China
Fidel Castro
age 3
President
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Cuba
Gerald Ford
age 16
President
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United States
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 21
President
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United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 38
President
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United States
Lee Teng-hui
age 6
President
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Republic of China
Anthony Eden
age 32
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Nikita Khrushchev
age 35
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Chiang Kai-shek
age 41
President
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Republic of China
Tony Blair
born 1953-05-06
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
John Major
born 1943-03-29
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Ronald Reagan
age 18
President
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United States
Joseph Stalin
age 50
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Carlos Castillo Armas
age 14
President
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Guatemala
George H. W. Bush
age 5
President
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United States
Harry S. Truman
age 45
President
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United States
George W. Bush
born 1946-07-06
President
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United States
Lê Duẩn
age 22
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Neville Chamberlain
age 60
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Richard Nixon
age 16
President
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United States
Konstantin Chernenko
age 17
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Bill Clinton
born 1946-08-19
President
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United States
Jacobo Árbenz
age 15
President
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Guatemala
Winston Churchill
age 54
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Franklin D. Roosevelt
age 47
President
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United States
Pol Pot
age 4
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea
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Cambodia
Clement Attlee
age 46
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Adolf Hitler
age 40
Führer
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Germany
Ho Chi Minh
age 39
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Yang Shangkun
age 22
President
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People's Republic of China
Elizabeth II
age 3
Queen
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United Kingdom
Dong Biwu
age 43
Acting Chairman
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People's Republic of China
George VI
age 33
King
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United Kingdom
Deng Xiaoping
age 25
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Sun Yun-suan
age 15
Premier
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Republic of China
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 5
Vice President
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Republic of China
Hua Guofeng
age 8
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Dan Quayle
born 1947-02-04
Vice President
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United States
Lien Chan
born 1936-08-27
Vice President
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Republic of China
Walter Mondale
age 1
Vice President
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United States
Kurt von Schleicher
age 47
Chancellor
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Germany
Edward VIII
age 35
King
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United Kingdom
Kim Il-sung
age 17
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Konrad Adenauer
age 53
Chancellor
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Germany
Joseph Goebbels
age 31
Chancellor
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Germany
Al Gore
born 1948-03-31
Vice President
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United States
Liu Shaoqi
age 30
Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Kim Jong-il
born 1941-02-16
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Spiro Agnew
age 10
Vice President
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United States
Hubert Humphrey
age 18
Vice President
-
United States
Alben W. Barkley
age 51
Vice President
-
United States
Henry A. Wallace
age 40
Vice President
-
United States
John Nance Garner
age 60
Vice President
-
United States
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 26
Supreme Leader
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Iran
Charles Curtis
age 69
Vice President
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United States
Mao Zedong
age 35
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
George V
age 64
King
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United Kingdom
Hu Jintao
born 1942-12-21
President
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People's Republic of China
Li Xiannian
age 20
President
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People's Republic of China
Daniel Inouye
age 4
Senate
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United States
Robert F. Kennedy
age 3
Senate
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United States
Hillary Clinton
born 1947-10-26
Senate
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United States
Wen Jiabao
born 1942-09-15
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Zhou Enlai
age 31
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Joe Biden
born 1942-11-20
Senate
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United States
Zhu Rongji
age 10 months
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Li Peng
age 10 months
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Mike Pence
born 1959-06-07
House of Representatives
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United States
Dick Cheney
born 1941-01-30
House of Representatives
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United States
Hermann Göring
age 36
President of the Reichstag
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Germany
Rong Yiren
age 13
Vice President
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People's Republic of China
Wang Zhen (general)
age 21
Vice President
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People's Republic of China
George C. Marshall
age 48
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 23
Secretary Of Defense
-
United States
Robert McNamara
age 13
Secretary Of Defense
-
United States
Charles Evans Hughes
age 67
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Harlan F. Stone
age 56
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
William Rehnquist
age 4
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Warren E. Burger
age 21
Chief Justice
-
US Judiciary
Earl Warren
age 38
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Clark Clifford
age 22
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Melvin Laird
age 6
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
James R. Schlesinger
age 6 months
Secretary Of Defense
-
United States
William Howard Taft
age 71
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
George Shultz
age 8
Secretary Of State
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United States
Colin Powell
born 1937-04-05
Secretary Of State
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United States
Ramsey Clark
age 1
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 7
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
Robert A. Lovett
age 33
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Warren Christopher
age 3
Secretary Of State
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United States
Lawrence Eagleburger
born 1930-08-01
Secretary Of State
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United States
John Foster Dulles
age 41
Secretary Of State
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United States
James Baker
born 1930-04-28
Secretary Of State
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United States
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 24
Secretary Of The Treasury
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United States
John Connally
age 12
Secretary Of The Treasury
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United States
Soong Ching-ling
age 36
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Zhu De
age 42
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Fred M. Vinson
age 39
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Omar Bradley
age 36
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff
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United States
David Lloyd George
age 66
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Douglas MacArthur
age 49
Chief of Staff of the Army
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United States
William H. Webster
age 5
Director of the FBI
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Department of Justice
Clarence M. Kelley
age 17
Director of the FBI
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Department of Justice
Zeng Qinghong
born 1939-07-30
Secretariat
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Communist Party of China
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 23
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II
age 30
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Potter Stewart
age 14
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Byron White
age 12
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
born 1933-03-15
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer
born 1938-08-15
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens
age 9
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
David Souter
born 1939-09-17
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy
born 1936-07-23
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia
born 1936-03-11
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor
born 1930-03-26
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 21
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall
age 21
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Abe Fortas
age 19
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Arthur Goldberg
age 21
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Nelson Rockefeller
age 21
Governor of New York
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United States
Calvin Coolidge
age 57
Republican Party (United States)
Iwane Matsui
age 51
Imperial Japanese Army
Heinrich Himmler
age 28
Nazi Party
Barack Obama
born 1961-08-04
Democratic Party (United States)
Rudolf Hess
age 35
Nazi Party
Reinhard Heydrich
age 25
Nazi Party
Martin Bormann
age 29
Nazi Party
Henry Kissinger
age 6
United States Army
J. Edgar Hoover
age 34
Republican Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
age 17
Democratic Party (United States)
John Kerry
born 1943-12-11
United States Navy
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 44
United States Navy
Raymond A. Spruance
age 43
United States Navy
Courtney Hodges
age 42
United States Army
Kamala Harris
born 1964-10-20
Democratic Party (United States)
Liz Cheney
born 1966-07-28
Republican Party (United States)
Karl Dönitz
age 37
Nazi Party
Li Keqiang
born 1955-07-01
Communist Party of China
George Wallace
age 10
United States Army
Yoshijirō Umezu
age 47
Imperial Japanese Army
Wilhelm Frick
age 52
Nazi Party
Condoleezza Rice
born 1954-11-14
Republican Party (United States)
John Lewis
born 1940-02-21
Democratic Party (United States)
George S. Patton
age 43
United States Army
Kurt Daluege
age 31
Nazi Party
Martin Luther King Jr.
age 7 months
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Friedrich Jeckeln
age 34
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
age 25
Benito Mussolini
age 46
Wilhelm Keitel
age 46
Walther Funk
age 39
Józef Piłsudski
age 61
Kliment Voroshilov
age 48
Semyon Timoshenko
age 34
He Yingqin
age 39
Paul von Hindenburg
age 81
Akira Mutō
age 36
Doihara Kenji
age 46
Kōki Hirota
age 51
Naoki Hoshino
age 37
Hubert Gough
age 59
Claus von Stauffenberg
age 21
Hideki Tōjō
age 44
Rosa Parks
age 16
Seishirō Itagaki
age 44
Kingorō Hashimoto
age 39
Heitarō Kimura
age 40
Rodion Malinovsky
age 30
Franz von Papen
age 49
Kiichirō Hiranuma
age 61
Kyösti Kallio
age 56
Hjalmar Schacht
age 52
Baldur von Schirach
age 22
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
age 37
Fritz Sauckel
age 34
Alfred Rosenberg
age 36
Erich Raeder
age 53
Hans Fritzsche
age 29
Souphanouvong
age 20
Puyi
age 23
Ronald McNair
born 1950-10-21
Ellison Onizuka
born 1946-06-24
Yasser Arafat
born 1929-08-24
Clarence Thomas
born 1948-06-23
Albert Einstein
age 50
Mahatma Gandhi
age 59
Nelson Mandela
age 11
Kim Jong-un
born 1982-01-08
Nicolas Sarkozy
born 1955-01-28
François Hollande
born 1954-08-12
Nikola Tesla
age 73
Tim Berners-Lee
born 1955-06-08
Muhammad Ali
born 1942-01-17
Aung San Suu Kyi
born 1945-06-19
Jo Ann Robinson
age 17
Malcolm X
age 4
Thomas Gage
age 211
Charles III
born 1948-11-14
Juan José Arévalo
age 24
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 21
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 13
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
born 1937-08-26
Narendra Modi
born 1950-09-17
Erich Ludendorff
age 64
Wilhelm Groener
age 61
Francisco Franco
age 36
Manuel Azaña
age 49
Chester W. Nimitz
age 44
Isoroku Yamamoto
age 45
Ernst Röhm
age 41
Eva Braun
age 17
Hans Frank
age 29
Otto Rasch
age 37
Fritz Todt
age 37
Otto Hofmann
age 33
Alfred Jodl
age 39
Julius Streicher
age 44
Yuri Andropov
age 15
Donald Trump
born 1946-06-14
Albert Speer
age 24
Emilio De Bono
age 63
Joseph Joffre
age 77
John Roberts
born 1955-01-27
Peng Dehuai
age 30
Leon Trotsky
age 49
Charles G. Dawes
age 64
Xi Jinping
born 1953-06-15
Wilhelm II
age 70
Raymond Poincaré
age 69
Georges Clemenceau
age 87
Erich von Manstein
age 41
Gerd von Rundstedt
age 53
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 49
John J. Pershing
age 68
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 11