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Roaring Twenties
1920-01-01 - 1929-12-31
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
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
Jiang Zemin
born 1926-08-17
General Secretary
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Communist Party of China
Souvanna Phouma
age 23
Prime Minister
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Laos
Hafez al-Assad
born 1930-10-06
President
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Syria
Charles de Gaulle
age 33
President
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France
Boris Yeltsin
born 1931-02-01
President
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Russia
Saddam Hussein
born 1937-04-28
President
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Iraq
Jimmy Carter
born 1924-10-01
President
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United States
Adolf Hitler
age 35
Führer
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Germany
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 33
President
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United States
Jacques Chirac
born 1932-11-29
President
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France
Nikita Khrushchev
age 30
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Chiang Kai-shek
age 36
President
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Republic of China
Winston Churchill
age 49
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Lee Teng-hui
age 1
President
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Republic of China
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 16
President
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United States
Gerald Ford
age 11
President
-
United States
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 36
President
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Vietnam
Harry S. Truman
age 40
President
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United States
Raymond Poincaré
age 64
Prime Minister
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France
Joseph Stalin
age 45
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt
age 42
President
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United States
Clement Attlee
age 41
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Anthony Eden
age 27
Prime Minister
-
United Kingdom
John F. Kennedy
age 7
President
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United States
Fidel Castro
born 1926-08-13
President
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Cuba
Mikhail Gorbachev
born 1931-03-02
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Hu Yaobang
age 8
General Secretary
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Communist Party of China
Hirohito
age 23
Emperor
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Japan
Calvin Coolidge
age 52
President
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United States
Ho Chi Minh
age 34
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Konstantin Chernenko
age 13
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Emperor Taishō
age 45
Emperor
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Japan
Richard Nixon
age 11
President
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United States
George W. Bush
born 1946-07-06
President
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United States
Lê Duẩn
age 17
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
George H. W. Bush
age 3 months
President
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United States
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 14
President
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Republic of China
Ronald Reagan
age 13
President
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United States
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
Bill Clinton
born 1946-08-19
President
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United States
Carlos Castillo Armas
age 9
President
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Guatemala
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 6
President
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Egypt
Zhao Ziyang
age 4
General Secretary
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Communist Party of China
Margaret Thatcher
born 1925-10-13
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Herbert Hoover
age 50
President
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United States
Pol Pot
born 1925-05-19
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea
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Cambodia
Neville Chamberlain
age 55
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Jacobo Árbenz
age 11
President
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Guatemala
Leonid Brezhnev
age 17
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Dong Biwu
age 38
Acting Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Li Xiannian
age 15
President
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People's Republic of China
Henry A. Wallace
age 36
Vice President
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United States
Hu Jintao
born 1942-12-21
President
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People's Republic of China
John Nance Garner
age 55
Vice President
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United States
Spiro Agnew
age 5
Vice President
-
United States
Hubert Humphrey
age 13
Vice President
-
United States
Lien Chan
born 1936-08-27
Vice President
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Republic of China
Sun Yun-suan
age 10
Premier
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Republic of China
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 1
Vice President
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Republic of China
Alben W. Barkley
age 46
Vice President
-
United States
Charles Curtis
age 64
Vice President
-
United States
Charles G. Dawes
age 59
Vice President
-
United States
Yang Shangkun
age 17
President
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People's Republic of China
Mao Zedong
age 30
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Edward VIII
age 30
King
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United Kingdom
Elizabeth II
born 1926-04-21
Queen
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United Kingdom
Walter Mondale
born 1928-01-05
Vice President
-
United States
George VI
age 28
King
-
United Kingdom
Józef Piłsudski
age 56
Prime Minister
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Poland
Dan Quayle
born 1947-02-04
Vice President
-
United States
Joseph Goebbels
age 26
Chancellor
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Germany
Kurt von Schleicher
age 42
Chancellor
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Germany
Kim Il-sung
age 12
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Liu Shaoqi
age 25
Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 22
Supreme Leader
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Iran
Konrad Adenauer
age 48
Chancellor
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Germany
Deng Xiaoping
age 20
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
-
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
George V
age 59
King
-
United Kingdom
Hua Guofeng
age 3
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Al Gore
born 1948-03-31
Vice President
-
United States
Li Peng
born 1928-10-20
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Daniel Inouye
age 0 months
Senate
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United States
Zhu Rongji
born 1928-10-23
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Wen Jiabao
born 1942-09-15
Premier
-
People's Republic of China
Barack Obama
born 1961-08-04
Senate
-
United States
Zhou Enlai
age 26
Premier
-
People's Republic of China
Joe Biden
born 1942-11-20
Senate
-
United States
Robert F. Kennedy
born 1925-11-20
Senate
-
United States
Hillary Clinton
born 1947-10-26
Senate
-
United States
Hermann Göring
age 31
President of the Reichstag
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Germany
Dick Cheney
born 1941-01-30
House of Representatives
-
United States
Mike Pence
born 1959-06-07
House of Representatives
-
United States
Robert McNamara
age 8
Secretary Of Defense
-
United States
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 18
Secretary Of Defense
-
United States
Fred M. Vinson
age 34
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Harlan F. Stone
age 52
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
George C. Marshall
age 43
Secretary Of Defense
-
United States
Charles Evans Hughes
age 62
Secretary Of State
-
United States
Earl Warren
age 33
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Warren E. Burger
age 17
Chief Justice
-
US Judiciary
George Shultz
age 3
Secretary Of State
-
United States
William Rehnquist
born 1924-10-01
Chief Justice
-
US Judiciary
Melvin Laird
age 2
Secretary Of Defense
-
United States
James R. Schlesinger
born 1929-02-15
Secretary Of Defense
-
United States
William Howard Taft
age 67
Chief Justice
-
US Judiciary
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 19
Secretary Of The Treasury
-
United States
John Foster Dulles
age 36
Secretary Of State
-
United States
Ramsey Clark
born 1927-12-18
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 2
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
Warren Christopher
born 1925-10-27
Secretary Of State
-
United States
Lawrence Eagleburger
born 1930-08-01
Secretary Of State
-
United States
James Baker
born 1930-04-28
Secretary Of State
-
United States
John Connally
age 7
Secretary Of The Treasury
-
United States
Robert A. Lovett
age 29
Secretary Of Defense
-
United States
Colin Powell
born 1937-04-05
Secretary Of State
-
United States
Soong Ching-ling
age 31
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Zhu De
age 37
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Wang Zhen (general)
age 16
Vice President
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People's Republic of China
Condoleezza Rice
born 1954-11-14
Secretary Of State
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United States
Clark Clifford
age 17
Secretary Of Defense
-
United States
Rong Yiren
age 8
Vice President
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People's Republic of China
Clarence M. Kelley
age 12
Director of the FBI
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Department of Justice
William H. Webster
age 6 months
Director of the FBI
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Department of Justice
David Lloyd George
age 61
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Omar Bradley
age 31
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff
-
United States
Douglas MacArthur
age 44
Chief of Staff of the Army
-
United States
Zeng Qinghong
born 1939-07-30
Secretariat
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Communist Party of China
Thurgood Marshall
age 16
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens
age 4
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 17
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor
born 1930-03-26
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia
born 1936-03-11
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy
born 1936-07-23
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
David Souter
born 1939-09-17
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer
born 1938-08-15
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
born 1933-03-15
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Byron White
age 7
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Abe Fortas
age 14
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II
age 25
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Arthur Goldberg
age 16
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Potter Stewart
age 9
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 18
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Nelson Rockefeller
age 16
Governor of New York
-
United States
John Kerry
born 1943-12-11
United States Navy
Heinrich Himmler
age 24
Nazi Party
Liz Cheney
born 1966-07-28
Republican Party (United States)
Karl Dönitz
age 33
Nazi Party
Wilhelm Frick
age 47
Nazi Party
Henry Kissinger
age 1
United States Army
Rudolf Hess
age 30
Nazi Party
John Lewis
born 1940-02-21
Democratic Party (United States)
George Wallace
age 5
United States Army
Martin Bormann
age 24
Nazi Party
Reinhard Heydrich
age 20
Nazi Party
Li Keqiang
born 1955-07-01
Communist Party of China
Iwane Matsui
age 46
Imperial Japanese Army
Kamala Harris
born 1964-10-20
Democratic Party (United States)
George S. Patton
age 38
United States Army
Courtney Hodges
age 37
United States Army
Yoshijirō Umezu
age 42
Imperial Japanese Army
Raymond A. Spruance
age 38
United States Navy
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 39
United States Navy
Kurt Daluege
age 27
Nazi Party
Sun Yat-sen
age 57
Kuomintang
Archibald Cox
age 12
Democratic Party (United States)
J. Edgar Hoover
age 29
Republican Party (United States)
Thomas R. Marshall
age 70
Democratic Party (United States)
Martin Luther King Jr.
born 1929-01-15
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Hubert Gough
age 54
Souphanouvong
age 15
Naoki Hoshino
age 32
Kōki Hirota
age 46
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
age 21
Doihara Kenji
age 41
Paul von Hindenburg
age 77
Benito Mussolini
age 41
Friedrich Jeckeln
age 29
Kliment Voroshilov
age 43
Semyon Timoshenko
age 29
Akira Mutō
age 31
He Yingqin
age 34
Kingorō Hashimoto
age 34
Seishirō Itagaki
age 39
Rosa Parks
age 11
Hideki Tōjō
age 39
Heitarō Kimura
age 36
Rodion Malinovsky
age 25
Franz von Papen
age 44
Claus von Stauffenberg
age 16
Kiichirō Hiranuma
age 57
Kyösti Kallio
age 51
Hjalmar Schacht
age 47
Baldur von Schirach
age 17
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
age 32
Fritz Sauckel
age 29
Alfred Rosenberg
age 31
Erich Raeder
age 48
Hans Fritzsche
age 24
Walther Funk
age 34
Wilhelm Keitel
age 42
Puyi
age 18
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 45
Mahatma Gandhi
age 55
Nelson Mandela
age 6
Kim Jong-un
born 1982-01-08
Nicolas Sarkozy
born 1955-01-28
François Hollande
born 1954-08-12
Nikola Tesla
age 68
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 12
Malcolm X
born 1925-05-19
Thomas Gage
age 206
Charles III
born 1948-11-14
Juan José Arévalo
age 20
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 16
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 8
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
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 6
Erich Ludendorff
age 59
Wilhelm Groener
age 56
Francisco Franco
age 31
Manuel Azaña
age 44
Chester W. Nimitz
age 39
Isoroku Yamamoto
age 40
Ernst Röhm
age 36
Eva Braun
age 12
Hans Frank
age 24
Otto Rasch
age 32
Fritz Todt
age 33
Otto Hofmann
age 28
Alfred Jodl
age 34
Julius Streicher
age 39
Yuri Andropov
age 10
Donald Trump
born 1946-06-14
Albert Speer
age 19
Emilio De Bono
age 58
Mehmed VI
age 63
Joseph Joffre
age 72
John Roberts
born 1955-01-27
Peng Dehuai
age 25
Leon Trotsky
age 44
Xi Jinping
born 1953-06-15
Wilhelm II
age 65
Georges Clemenceau
age 83
Erich von Manstein
age 36
H. H. Asquith
age 72
Gerd von Rundstedt
age 48
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 44
John J. Pershing
age 64
Ferdinand Foch
age 73