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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
Marco Polo Bridge Incident
1937-07-07 - 1937-07-09
Second Sino-Japanese War
1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
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
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
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
Herbert Hoover
age 54
President
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United States
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 20
President
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United States
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 2
President
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Cuba
Raymond Poincaré
age 68
Prime Minister
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France
Chiang Kai-shek
age 41
President
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Republic of China
Leonid Brezhnev
age 22
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 18
President
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Republic of China
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 11
President
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Egypt
Nikita Khrushchev
age 34
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 40
President
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Vietnam
Barack Obama
born 1961-08-04
President
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United States
Bill Clinton
born 1946-08-19
President
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United States
Ronald Reagan
age 18
President
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United States
Jacques Chirac
born 1932-11-29
President
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France
Nicolas Sarkozy
born 1955-01-28
President
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France
Jiang Zemin
age 2
General Secretary
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Communist Party of China
Souvanna Phouma
age 27
Prime Minister
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Laos
Hafez al-Assad
born 1930-10-06
President
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Syria
Harry S. Truman
age 44
President
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United States
Joseph Stalin
age 50
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt
age 47
President
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United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 38
President
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United States
Margaret Thatcher
age 3
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Hirohito
age 27
Emperor
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Japan
Winston Churchill
age 54
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Lee Teng-hui
age 6
President
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Republic of China
Mikhail Gorbachev
born 1931-03-02
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Gerald Ford
age 15
President
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United States
John F. Kennedy
age 11
President
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United States
Clement Attlee
age 46
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Anthony Eden
age 31
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Adolf Hitler
age 39
Führer
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Germany
François Hollande
born 1954-08-12
President
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France
George W. Bush
born 1946-07-06
President
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United States
Jimmy Carter
age 4
President
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United States
Neville Chamberlain
age 59
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Jacobo Árbenz
age 15
President
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Guatemala
Saddam Hussein
born 1937-04-28
President
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Iraq
Carlos Castillo Armas
age 14
President
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Guatemala
John Major
born 1943-03-29
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Tony Blair
born 1953-05-06
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Gordon Brown
born 1951-02-20
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
David Cameron
born 1966-10-09
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Calvin Coolidge
age 56
President
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United States
Pol Pot
age 3
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea
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Cambodia
Richard Nixon
age 16
President
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United States
Boris Yeltsin
born 1931-02-01
President
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Russia
Charles de Gaulle
age 38
President
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France
George H. W. Bush
age 4
President
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United States
Konstantin Chernenko
age 17
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Lê Duẩn
age 21
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
age 38
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Deng Xiaoping
age 24
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Edward VIII
age 34
King
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United Kingdom
Joseph Goebbels
age 31
Chancellor
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Germany
Dan Quayle
born 1947-02-04
Vice President
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United States
Kurt von Schleicher
age 46
Chancellor
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Germany
Hua Guofeng
age 8
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Kim Il-sung
age 16
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Elizabeth II
age 2
Queen
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United Kingdom
Dong Biwu
age 42
Acting Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Yang Shangkun
age 21
President
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People's Republic of China
Li Xiannian
age 19
President
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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
Charles G. Dawes
age 63
Vice President
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United States
Charles Curtis
age 69
Vice President
-
United States
John Nance Garner
age 60
Vice President
-
United States
Henry A. Wallace
age 40
Vice President
-
United States
Alben W. Barkley
age 51
Vice President
-
United States
Hubert Humphrey
age 17
Vice President
-
United States
Spiro Agnew
age 10
Vice President
-
United States
Liu Shaoqi
age 30
Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Walter Mondale
age 1
Vice President
-
United States
Al Gore
born 1948-03-31
Vice President
-
United States
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 26
Supreme Leader
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Iran
George V
age 63
King
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United Kingdom
Mao Zedong
age 35
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
George VI
age 33
King
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United Kingdom
Konrad Adenauer
age 53
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
Lien Chan
born 1936-08-27
Vice President
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Republic of China
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 5
Vice President
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Republic of China
Sun Yun-suan
age 15
Premier
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Republic of China
Joe Biden
born 1942-11-20
Vice President
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United States
Robert F. Kennedy
age 3
Senate
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United States
Zhou Enlai
age 30
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Daniel Inouye
age 4
Senate
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United States
Li Peng
age 3 months
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Zhu Rongji
age 3 months
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
Dick Cheney
born 1941-01-30
House of Representatives
-
United States
Hermann Göring
age 36
President of the Reichstag
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Germany
Colin Powell
born 1937-04-05
Secretary Of State
-
United States
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 23
Secretary Of The Treasury
-
United States
William Rehnquist
age 4
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
John Foster Dulles
age 41
Secretary Of State
-
United States
George C. Marshall
age 48
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 22
Secretary Of Defense
-
United States
Robert McNamara
age 12
Secretary Of Defense
-
United States
Robert A. Lovett
age 33
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 7
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
Ramsey Clark
age 1
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
Charles Evans Hughes
age 66
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Harlan F. Stone
age 56
Chief Justice
-
US Judiciary
George Shultz
age 8
Secretary Of State
-
United States
Fred M. Vinson
age 39
Chief Justice
-
US Judiciary
Earl Warren
age 37
Chief Justice
-
US Judiciary
Warren E. Burger
age 21
Chief Justice
-
US Judiciary
William Howard Taft
age 71
Chief Justice
-
US Judiciary
John Connally
age 11
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
Wang Zhen (general)
age 20
Vice President
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People's Republic of China
Rong Yiren
age 12
Vice President
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People's Republic of China
James Baker
born 1930-04-28
Secretary Of State
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United States
James R. Schlesinger
born 1929-02-15
Secretary Of Defense
-
United States
Lawrence Eagleburger
born 1930-08-01
Secretary Of State
-
United States
Melvin Laird
age 6
Secretary Of Defense
-
United States
Clark Clifford
age 22
Secretary Of Defense
-
United States
Condoleezza Rice
born 1954-11-14
Secretary Of State
-
United States
Hillary Clinton
born 1947-10-26
Secretary Of State
-
United States
Warren Christopher
age 3
Secretary Of State
-
United States
Clarence M. Kelley
age 17
Director of the FBI
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Department of Justice
Douglas MacArthur
age 49
Chief of Staff of the Army
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United States
William H. Webster
age 4
Director of the FBI
-
Department of Justice
David Lloyd George
age 66
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Omar Bradley
age 36
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff
-
United States
Xi Jinping
born 1953-06-15
Secretariat
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Communist Party of China
Zeng Qinghong
born 1939-07-30
Secretariat
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Communist Party of China
Potter Stewart
age 14
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Arthur Goldberg
age 20
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Abe Fortas
age 18
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 22
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II
age 29
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Byron White
age 11
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall
age 20
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 21
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
John Paul Stevens
age 8
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
Mike Pence
born 1959-06-07
Governor Of Indiana
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United States
Nelson Rockefeller
age 20
Governor of New York
-
United States
Li Keqiang
born 1955-07-01
Communist Party of China
Raymond A. Spruance
age 42
United States Navy
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 43
United States Navy
Rudolf Hess
age 34
Nazi Party
Liz Cheney
born 1966-07-28
Republican Party (United States)
Aung San Suu Kyi
born 1945-06-19
House Of Representatives
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Myanmar
John Lewis
born 1940-02-21
Democratic Party (United States)
Courtney Hodges
age 42
United States Army
Wilhelm Frick
age 51
Nazi Party
Henry Kissinger
age 5
United States Army
Kamala Harris
born 1964-10-20
Democratic Party (United States)
George Wallace
age 9
United States Army
John Kerry
born 1943-12-11
United States Navy
Karl Dönitz
age 37
Nazi Party
Heinrich Himmler
age 28
Nazi Party
Reinhard Heydrich
age 24
Nazi Party
Yoshijirō Umezu
age 47
Imperial Japanese Army
Iwane Matsui
age 50
Imperial Japanese Army
Martin Bormann
age 28
Nazi Party
George S. Patton
age 43
United States Army
Archibald Cox
age 16
Democratic Party (United States)
Kurt Daluege
age 31
Nazi Party
J. Edgar Hoover
age 34
Republican Party (United States)
Martin Luther King Jr.
age 1 month
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Souphanouvong
age 19
Hubert Gough
age 58
Naoki Hoshino
age 36
Kōki Hirota
age 51
Doihara Kenji
age 45
Akira Mutō
age 36
He Yingqin
age 38
Semyon Timoshenko
age 34
Kliment Voroshilov
age 48
Józef Piłsudski
age 61
Friedrich Jeckeln
age 34
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
age 25
Wilhelm Keitel
age 46
Walther Funk
age 38
Hans Fritzsche
age 28
Erich Raeder
age 52
Alfred Rosenberg
age 36
Fritz Sauckel
age 34
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
age 36
Baldur von Schirach
age 21
Hjalmar Schacht
age 52
Kyösti Kallio
age 55
Kiichirō Hiranuma
age 61
Franz von Papen
age 49
Rodion Malinovsky
age 30
Heitarō Kimura
age 40
Kingorō Hashimoto
age 39
Seishirō Itagaki
age 44
Rosa Parks
age 16
Hideki Tōjō
age 44
Claus von Stauffenberg
age 21
John J. Pershing
age 68
Ferdinand Foch
age 77
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 49
Mahatma Gandhi
age 59
Nelson Mandela
age 10
Kim Jong-un
born 1982-01-08
Nikola Tesla
age 72
Tim Berners-Lee
born 1955-06-08
Muhammad Ali
born 1942-01-17
Jo Ann Robinson
age 16
Malcolm X
age 3
Thomas Gage
age 211
Charles III
born 1948-11-14
Juan José Arévalo
age 24
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 20
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 13
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 10
Benito Mussolini
age 45
Paul von Hindenburg
age 81
Erich Ludendorff
age 63
Wilhelm Groener
age 61
Francisco Franco
age 36
Manuel Azaña
age 49
Chester W. Nimitz
age 44
Isoroku Yamamoto
age 44
Ernst Röhm
age 41
Eva Braun
age 17
Hans Frank
age 28
Otto Rasch
age 37
Fritz Todt
age 37
Otto Hofmann
age 32
Alfred Jodl
age 38
Julius Streicher
age 44
Yuri Andropov
age 14
Donald Trump
born 1946-06-14
Albert Speer
age 23
Emilio De Bono
age 62
Joseph Joffre
age 77
John Roberts
born 1955-01-27
Peng Dehuai
age 30
Leon Trotsky
age 49
Wilhelm II
age 70
Georges Clemenceau
age 87
Erich von Manstein
age 41
Gerd von Rundstedt
age 53
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 49