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Roaring Twenties
1920-01-01 - 1929-12-31
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
World War II
1939-09-01 - 1945-09-20
Invasion of Poland
1939-09-01 - 1939-10-06
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
Pacific War
1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941-12-07
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
1971 Dhaka University massacre
1971-03-25
Bangladesh genocide
1971-03-25 - 1971-12-16
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
Fukushima nuclear disaster
2011-03-11
People
Jimmy Carter
age 1
President
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United States
Herbert Hoover
age 51
President
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United States
Margaret Thatcher
age 0 months
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Jiang Zemin
born 1926-08-17
General Secretary
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Communist Party of China
Hu Yaobang
age 9
General Secretary
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Communist Party of China
Charles de Gaulle
age 34
President
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France
Boris Yeltsin
born 1931-02-01
President
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Russia
Souvanna Phouma
age 24
Prime Minister
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Laos
Hafez al-Assad
born 1930-10-06
President
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Syria
Zhao Ziyang
age 6
General Secretary
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Communist Party of China
Nicolas Sarkozy
born 1955-01-28
President
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France
Jacques Chirac
born 1932-11-29
President
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France
Nikita Khrushchev
age 31
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Chiang Kai-shek
age 38
President
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Republic of China
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 17
President
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United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 35
President
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United States
Harry S. Truman
age 41
President
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United States
Joseph Stalin
age 46
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 37
President
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Vietnam
Winston Churchill
age 50
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Lee Teng-hui
age 2
President
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Republic of China
Franklin D. Roosevelt
age 43
President
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United States
Gerald Ford
age 12
President
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United States
Hirohito
age 24
Emperor
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Japan
Mikhail Gorbachev
born 1931-03-02
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Clement Attlee
age 42
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Anthony Eden
age 28
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
John F. Kennedy
age 8
President
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United States
Adolf Hitler
age 36
Führer
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Germany
Ho Chi Minh
age 35
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Leonid Brezhnev
age 18
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Konstantin Chernenko
age 14
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Emperor Taishō
age 46
Emperor
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Japan
Calvin Coolidge
age 53
President
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United States
Pol Pot
age 5 months
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea
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Cambodia
Lê Duẩn
age 18
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
George W. Bush
born 1946-07-06
President
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United States
George H. W. Bush
age 1
President
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United States
David Cameron
born 1966-10-09
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Gordon Brown
born 1951-02-20
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Richard Nixon
age 12
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
Saddam Hussein
born 1937-04-28
President
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Iraq
Carlos Castillo Armas
age 10
President
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Guatemala
Ronald Reagan
age 14
President
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United States
Bill Clinton
born 1946-08-19
President
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United States
Raymond Poincaré
age 65
Prime Minister
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France
Jacobo Árbenz
age 12
President
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Guatemala
Neville Chamberlain
age 56
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Barack Obama
born 1961-08-04
President
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United States
Fidel Castro
born 1926-08-13
President
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Cuba
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 15
President
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Republic of China
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 7
President
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Egypt
John Nance Garner
age 56
Vice President
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United States
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 2
Vice President
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Republic of China
Charles Curtis
age 65
Vice President
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United States
Lien Chan
born 1936-08-27
Vice President
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Republic of China
Charles G. Dawes
age 60
Vice President
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United States
Hu Jintao
born 1942-12-21
President
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People's Republic of China
Sun Yun-suan
age 11
Premier
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Republic of China
Dan Quayle
born 1947-02-04
Vice President
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United States
Li Xiannian
age 16
President
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People's Republic of China
Yang Shangkun
age 18
President
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People's Republic of China
Liu Shaoqi
age 26
Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu
age 39
Acting Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Edward VIII
age 31
King
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United Kingdom
Hua Guofeng
age 4
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Elizabeth II
born 1926-04-21
Queen
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United Kingdom
Walter Mondale
born 1928-01-05
Vice President
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United States
George VI
age 29
King
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United Kingdom
Józef Piłsudski
age 57
Prime Minister
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Poland
Joe Biden
born 1942-11-20
Vice President
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United States
Kim Il-sung
age 13
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 23
Supreme Leader
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Iran
Joseph Goebbels
age 28
Chancellor
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Germany
Kurt von Schleicher
age 43
Chancellor
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Germany
Konrad Adenauer
age 49
Chancellor
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Germany
Kim Jong-il
born 1941-02-16
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Deng Xiaoping
age 21
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
George V
age 60
King
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United Kingdom
Mao Zedong
age 31
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Al Gore
born 1948-03-31
Vice President
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United States
Spiro Agnew
age 6
Vice President
-
United States
Hubert Humphrey
age 14
Vice President
-
United States
Alben W. Barkley
age 47
Vice President
-
United States
Henry A. Wallace
age 37
Vice President
-
United States
Robert F. Kennedy
born 1925-11-20
Senate
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United States
Zhou Enlai
age 27
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Daniel Inouye
age 1
Senate
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United States
Li Peng
born 1928-10-20
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Zhu Rongji
born 1928-10-23
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Wen Jiabao
born 1942-09-15
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Hermann Göring
age 32
President of the Reichstag
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Germany
Dick Cheney
born 1941-01-30
House of Representatives
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United States
Mike Pence
born 1959-06-07
House of Representatives
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United States
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 3
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
George C. Marshall
age 44
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 19
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Robert McNamara
age 9
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Ramsey Clark
born 1927-12-18
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
William Howard Taft
age 68
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Condoleezza Rice
born 1954-11-14
Secretary Of State
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United States
Colin Powell
born 1937-04-05
Secretary Of State
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United States
George Shultz
age 4
Secretary Of State
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United States
James R. Schlesinger
born 1929-02-15
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Melvin Laird
age 3
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Clark Clifford
age 18
Secretary Of Defense
-
United States
Charles Evans Hughes
age 63
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
William Rehnquist
age 1
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Warren E. Burger
age 18
Chief Justice
-
US Judiciary
Earl Warren
age 34
Chief Justice
-
US Judiciary
Fred M. Vinson
age 35
Chief Justice
-
US Judiciary
Harlan F. Stone
age 53
Chief Justice
-
US Judiciary
James Baker
born 1930-04-28
Secretary Of State
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United States
John Connally
age 8
Secretary Of The Treasury
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United States
Lawrence Eagleburger
born 1930-08-01
Secretary Of State
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United States
Rong Yiren
age 9
Vice President
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People's Republic of China
Wang Zhen (general)
age 17
Vice President
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People's Republic of China
Warren Christopher
born 1925-10-27
Secretary Of State
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United States
Robert A. Lovett
age 30
Secretary Of Defense
-
United States
Zhu De
age 38
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Soong Ching-ling
age 32
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Hillary Clinton
born 1947-10-26
Secretary Of State
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United States
John Foster Dulles
age 37
Secretary Of State
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United States
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 20
Secretary Of The Treasury
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United States
Omar Bradley
age 32
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff
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United States
David Lloyd George
age 62
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
William H. Webster
age 1
Director of the FBI
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Department of Justice
Clarence M. Kelley
age 14
Director of the FBI
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Department of Justice
Douglas MacArthur
age 45
Chief of Staff of the Army
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United States
Zeng Qinghong
born 1939-07-30
Secretariat
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Communist Party of China
Xi Jinping
born 1953-06-15
Secretariat
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Communist Party of China
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 18
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor
born 1930-03-26
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall
age 17
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II
age 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
John Paul Stevens
age 5
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
Abe Fortas
age 15
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 19
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Arthur Goldberg
age 17
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Byron White
age 8
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Potter Stewart
age 10
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Nelson Rockefeller
age 17
Governor of New York
-
United States
John Kerry
born 1943-12-11
United States Navy
Liz Cheney
born 1966-07-28
Republican Party (United States)
Henry Kissinger
age 2
United States Army
Wilhelm Frick
age 48
Nazi Party
Martin Bormann
age 25
Nazi Party
Reinhard Heydrich
age 21
Nazi Party
Rudolf Hess
age 31
Nazi Party
John Lewis
born 1940-02-21
Democratic Party (United States)
George Wallace
age 6
United States Army
Karl Dönitz
age 34
Nazi Party
Iwane Matsui
age 47
Imperial Japanese Army
Yoshijirō Umezu
age 43
Imperial Japanese Army
Kamala Harris
born 1964-10-20
Democratic Party (United States)
Courtney Hodges
age 38
United States Army
Raymond A. Spruance
age 39
United States Navy
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 40
United States Navy
George S. Patton
age 39
United States Army
Li Keqiang
born 1955-07-01
Communist Party of China
Heinrich Himmler
age 25
Nazi Party
Kurt Daluege
age 28
Nazi Party
Archibald Cox
age 13
Democratic Party (United States)
J. Edgar Hoover
age 30
Republican Party (United States)
Martin Luther King Jr.
born 1929-01-15
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Heitarō Kimura
age 37
Friedrich Jeckeln
age 30
Rodion Malinovsky
age 26
Kliment Voroshilov
age 44
Kiichirō Hiranuma
age 58
Franz von Papen
age 46
Semyon Timoshenko
age 30
Hubert Gough
age 55
He Yingqin
age 35
Souphanouvong
age 16
Naoki Hoshino
age 33
Akira Mutō
age 32
Benito Mussolini
age 42
Paul von Hindenburg
age 78
Doihara Kenji
age 42
Claus von Stauffenberg
age 17
Hjalmar Schacht
age 48
Baldur von Schirach
age 18
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
age 33
Fritz Sauckel
age 31
Alfred Rosenberg
age 32
Erich Raeder
age 49
Kyösti Kallio
age 52
Hans Fritzsche
age 25
Walther Funk
age 35
Wilhelm Keitel
age 43
Hideki Tōjō
age 40
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
age 22
Rosa Parks
age 12
Seishirō Itagaki
age 40
Kingorō Hashimoto
age 35
Kōki Hirota
age 47
Ferdinand Foch
age 74
Puyi
age 19
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 46
Mahatma Gandhi
age 56
Nelson Mandela
age 7
Kim Jong-un
born 1982-01-08
François Hollande
born 1954-08-12
Nikola Tesla
age 69
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 13
Malcolm X
age 5 months
Thomas Gage
age 207
Charles III
born 1948-11-14
Juan José Arévalo
age 21
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 17
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 9
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 7
Erich Ludendorff
age 60
Wilhelm Groener
age 57
Francisco Franco
age 32
Manuel Azaña
age 45
Chester W. Nimitz
age 40
Isoroku Yamamoto
age 41
Ernst Röhm
age 37
Eva Braun
age 13
Hans Frank
age 25
Otto Rasch
age 33
Fritz Todt
age 34
Otto Hofmann
age 29
Alfred Jodl
age 35
Julius Streicher
age 40
Yuri Andropov
age 11
Donald Trump
born 1946-06-14
Albert Speer
age 20
Emilio De Bono
age 59
Mehmed VI
age 64
Joseph Joffre
age 73
John Roberts
born 1955-01-27
Peng Dehuai
age 27
Leon Trotsky
age 46
Wilhelm II
age 66
Georges Clemenceau
age 84
Erich von Manstein
age 37
H. H. Asquith
age 73
Gerd von Rundstedt
age 49
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 45
John J. Pershing
age 65