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Chinese Civil War
1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Second Sino-Japanese War
1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
World War II
1939-09-01 - 1945-09-20
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
Manila massacre
1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Battle of Manila (1945)
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
Fukushima nuclear disaster
2011-03-11
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Jimmy Carter
age 16
President
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United States
Nikita Khrushchev
age 46
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 50
President
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United States
Charles de Gaulle
age 50
President
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France
Boris Yeltsin
age 10
President
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Russia
Chiang Kai-shek
age 53
President
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Republic of China
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 32
President
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United States
Nicolas Sarkozy
born 1955-01-28
President
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France
Jacques Chirac
age 8
President
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France
Winston Churchill
age 66
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Lee Teng-hui
age 18
President
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Republic of China
Harry S. Truman
age 56
President
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United States
Gerald Ford
age 27
President
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United States
Joseph Stalin
age 62
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt
age 59
President
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United States
Clement Attlee
age 58
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 52
President
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Vietnam
Anthony Eden
age 43
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Hirohito
age 39
Emperor
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Japan
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 9
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
John F. Kennedy
age 23
President
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United States
Zhao Ziyang
age 21
General Secretary
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Communist Party of China
Hu Yaobang
age 25
General Secretary
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Communist Party of China
Fidel Castro
age 14
President
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Cuba
Leonid Brezhnev
age 34
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Adolf Hitler
age 51
Führer
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Germany
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 30
President
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Republic of China
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 23
President
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Egypt
Richard Nixon
age 28
President
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United States
Ho Chi Minh
age 50
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Konstantin Chernenko
age 29
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Pol Pot
age 15
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea
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Cambodia
George W. Bush
born 1946-07-06
President
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United States
Lê Duẩn
age 33
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
George H. W. Bush
age 16
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
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 30
President
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United States
Carlos Castillo Armas
age 26
President
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Guatemala
Bill Clinton
born 1946-08-19
President
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United States
Saddam Hussein
age 3
President
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Iraq
Hafez al-Assad
age 10
President
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Syria
Souvanna Phouma
age 39
Prime Minister
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Laos
Jiang Zemin
age 14
General Secretary
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Communist Party of China
Margaret Thatcher
age 15
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Barack Obama
born 1961-08-04
President
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United States
Jacobo Árbenz
age 27
President
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Guatemala
Dan Quayle
born 1947-02-04
Vice President
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United States
Sun Yun-suan
age 27
Premier
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Republic of China
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 17
Vice President
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Republic of China
Lien Chan
age 4
Vice President
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Republic of China
Liu Shaoqi
age 42
Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Elizabeth II
age 14
Queen
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United Kingdom
Walter Mondale
age 13
Vice President
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United States
Kim Jong-il
born 1941-02-16
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Hua Guofeng
age 20
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Joe Biden
born 1942-11-20
Vice President
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United States
Konrad Adenauer
age 65
Chancellor
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Germany
Dong Biwu
age 54
Acting Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Yang Shangkun
age 33
President
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People's Republic of China
Joseph Goebbels
age 43
Chancellor
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Germany
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 38
Supreme Leader
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Iran
Deng Xiaoping
age 36
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
George VI
age 45
King
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United Kingdom
Al Gore
born 1948-03-31
Vice President
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United States
Kim Il-sung
age 28
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Spiro Agnew
age 22
Vice President
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United States
Hubert Humphrey
age 29
Vice President
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United States
Alben W. Barkley
age 63
Vice President
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United States
Henry A. Wallace
age 52
Vice President
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United States
Mao Zedong
age 47
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Hu Jintao
born 1942-12-21
President
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People's Republic of China
Li Xiannian
age 31
President
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People's Republic of China
Zhou Enlai
age 42
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Daniel Inouye
age 16
Senate
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United States
Li Peng
age 12
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Zhu Rongji
age 12
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
Robert F. Kennedy
age 15
Senate
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United States
Hermann Göring
age 48
President of the Reichstag
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Germany
Mike Pence
born 1959-06-07
House of Representatives
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United States
Dick Cheney
age 0 months
House of Representatives
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United States
Robert A. Lovett
age 45
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Condoleezza Rice
born 1954-11-14
Secretary Of State
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United States
Colin Powell
age 3
Secretary Of State
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United States
George C. Marshall
age 60
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 34
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Robert McNamara
age 24
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
John Foster Dulles
age 53
Secretary Of State
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United States
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 35
Secretary Of The Treasury
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United States
James R. Schlesinger
age 12
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Melvin Laird
age 18
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Hillary Clinton
born 1947-10-26
Secretary Of State
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United States
William Rehnquist
age 16
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Warren E. Burger
age 33
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Earl Warren
age 49
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Fred M. Vinson
age 51
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Harlan F. Stone
age 68
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Charles Evans Hughes
age 78
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Clark Clifford
age 34
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 19
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
Ramsey Clark
age 13
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
Warren Christopher
age 15
Secretary Of State
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United States
Soong Ching-ling
age 48
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Zhu De
age 54
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Wang Zhen (general)
age 32
Vice President
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People's Republic of China
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 10
Secretary Of State
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United States
Rong Yiren
age 24
Vice President
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People's Republic of China
George Shultz
age 20
Secretary Of State
-
United States
James Baker
age 10
Secretary Of State
-
United States
John Connally
age 23
Secretary Of The Treasury
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United States
David Lloyd George
age 78
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Omar Bradley
age 48
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff
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United States
William H. Webster
age 16
Director of the FBI
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Department of Justice
Clarence M. Kelley
age 29
Director of the FBI
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Department of Justice
Zeng Qinghong
age 1
Secretariat
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Communist Party of China
Xi Jinping
born 1953-06-15
Secretariat
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Communist Party of China
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 34
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II
age 41
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Potter Stewart
age 26
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Arthur Goldberg
age 32
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Abe Fortas
age 30
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Byron White
age 23
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall
age 32
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 33
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 10
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia
age 4
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy
age 4
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
David Souter
age 1
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens
age 20
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer
age 2
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 7
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Nelson Rockefeller
age 32
Governor of New York
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United States
Herbert Hoover
age 66
Republican Party (United States)
Martin Bormann
age 40
Nazi Party
Reinhard Heydrich
age 36
Nazi Party
Heinrich Himmler
age 40
Nazi Party
George Wallace
age 21
United States Army
John Lewis
age 12 months
Democratic Party (United States)
Henry Kissinger
age 17
United States Army
Karl Dönitz
age 49
Nazi Party
Wilhelm Frick
age 63
Nazi Party
Rudolf Hess
age 46
Nazi Party
Liz Cheney
born 1966-07-28
Republican Party (United States)
Yoshijirō Umezu
age 59
Imperial Japanese Army
John Kerry
born 1943-12-11
United States Navy
Kurt Daluege
age 43
Nazi Party
Douglas MacArthur
age 61
United States Army
Li Keqiang
born 1955-07-01
Communist Party of China
J. Edgar Hoover
age 46
Republican Party (United States)
George S. Patton
age 55
United States Army
Kamala Harris
born 1964-10-20
Democratic Party (United States)
Courtney Hodges
age 54
United States Army
Raymond A. Spruance
age 54
United States Navy
Archibald Cox
age 28
Democratic Party (United States)
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 55
United States Navy
Martin Luther King Jr.
age 12
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Akira Mutō
age 48
Doihara Kenji
age 57
Souphanouvong
age 31
Benito Mussolini
age 57
Friedrich Jeckeln
age 46
Kliment Voroshilov
age 60
Semyon Timoshenko
age 46
He Yingqin
age 50
Kōki Hirota
age 63
Naoki Hoshino
age 48
Hubert Gough
age 70
Heitarō Kimura
age 52
Rodion Malinovsky
age 42
Kingorō Hashimoto
age 51
Seishirō Itagaki
age 56
Rosa Parks
age 28
Hideki Tōjō
age 56
Claus von Stauffenberg
age 33
Franz von Papen
age 61
Kiichirō Hiranuma
age 73
Hjalmar Schacht
age 64
Baldur von Schirach
age 33
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
age 48
Fritz Sauckel
age 46
Alfred Rosenberg
age 48
Erich Raeder
age 64
Hans Fritzsche
age 40
Walther Funk
age 50
Wilhelm Keitel
age 58
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
age 37
Edward VIII
age 46
Yasser Arafat
age 11
Clarence Thomas
born 1948-06-23
Albert Einstein
age 61
Mahatma Gandhi
age 71
Nelson Mandela
age 22
Kim Jong-un
born 1982-01-08
François Hollande
born 1954-08-12
Nikola Tesla
age 84
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 28
Malcolm X
age 15
Thomas Gage
age 223
Charles III
born 1948-11-14
Juan José Arévalo
age 36
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 32
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 25
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 3
Narendra Modi
born 1950-09-17
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 22
Francisco Franco
age 48
Iwane Matsui
age 62
Chester W. Nimitz
age 56
Isoroku Yamamoto
age 56
Eva Braun
age 29
Hans Frank
age 40
Otto Rasch
age 49
Fritz Todt
age 49
Otto Hofmann
age 44
Alfred Jodl
age 50
Julius Streicher
age 56
Yuri Andropov
age 26
Donald Trump
born 1946-06-14
Albert Speer
age 35
Emilio De Bono
age 74
John Roberts
born 1955-01-27
Peng Dehuai
age 42
John Nance Garner
age 72
Charles G. Dawes
age 75
Wilhelm II
age 82
Erich von Manstein
age 53
Gerd von Rundstedt
age 65
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 61
John J. Pershing
age 80
Puyi
age 35
Ronald McNair
born 1950-10-21
Ellison Onizuka
born 1946-06-24