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Chinese Civil War
1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Great Depression
1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
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
Fukushima nuclear disaster
2011-03-11
People
Lee Teng-hui
age 9
President
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Republic of China
Winston Churchill
age 58
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 1
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 42
President
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United States
Hirohito
age 31
Emperor
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Japan
Joseph Stalin
age 53
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 44
President
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Vietnam
Ronald Reagan
age 21
President
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United States
George H. W. Bush
age 8
President
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United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
age 50
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
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
Nikita Khrushchev
age 38
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Boris Yeltsin
age 1
President
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Russia
Charles de Gaulle
age 42
President
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France
Zhao Ziyang
age 13
General Secretary
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Communist Party of China
Hu Yaobang
age 17
General Secretary
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Communist Party of China
Fidel Castro
age 6
President
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Cuba
Harry S. Truman
age 48
President
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United States
Leonid Brezhnev
age 25
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 24
President
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United States
Chiang Kai-shek
age 45
President
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Republic of China
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 22
President
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Republic of China
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 14
President
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Egypt
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
Anthony Eden
age 35
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Clement Attlee
age 49
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Adolf Hitler
age 43
Führer
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Germany
Donald Trump
born 1946-06-14
President
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United States
Gerald Ford
age 19
President
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United States
Herbert Hoover
age 58
President
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United States
Pol Pot
age 7
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea
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Cambodia
Konstantin Chernenko
age 21
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Richard Nixon
age 19
President
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United States
Lê Duẩn
age 25
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
age 42
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Theresa May
born 1956-10-01
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
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
Carlos Castillo Armas
age 18
President
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Guatemala
Margaret Thatcher
age 7
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Jacobo Árbenz
age 19
President
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Guatemala
Saddam Hussein
born 1937-04-28
President
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Iraq
Neville Chamberlain
age 63
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Jimmy Carter
age 8
President
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United States
Hafez al-Assad
age 2
President
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Syria
John F. Kennedy
age 15
President
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United States
Jiang Zemin
age 6
General Secretary
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Communist Party of China
Souvanna Phouma
age 31
Prime Minister
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Laos
Mike Pence
born 1959-06-07
Vice President
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United States
Edward VIII
age 38
King
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United Kingdom
Al Gore
born 1948-03-31
Vice President
-
United States
Joe Biden
born 1942-11-20
Vice President
-
United States
Aung San Suu Kyi
born 1945-06-19
State Counsellor
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Myanmar
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 30
Supreme Leader
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Iran
Dan Quayle
born 1947-02-04
Vice President
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United States
Joseph Goebbels
age 35
Chancellor
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Germany
Kurt von Schleicher
age 50
Chancellor
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Germany
Walter Mondale
age 4
Vice President
-
United States
Liu Shaoqi
age 34
Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Kim Il-sung
age 20
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Hua Guofeng
age 11
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Konrad Adenauer
age 56
Chancellor
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Germany
Dong Biwu
age 46
Acting Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Yang Shangkun
age 25
President
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People's Republic of China
Li Xiannian
age 23
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
Spiro Agnew
age 14
Vice President
-
United States
Charles Curtis
age 72
Vice President
-
United States
John Nance Garner
age 64
Vice President
-
United States
Henry A. Wallace
age 44
Vice President
-
United States
Alben W. Barkley
age 55
Vice President
-
United States
George V
age 67
King
-
United Kingdom
Deng Xiaoping
age 28
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Mao Zedong
age 38
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
-
People's Republic of China
Elizabeth II
age 6
Queen
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United Kingdom
George VI
age 36
King
-
United Kingdom
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 9
Vice President
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Republic of China
Sun Yun-suan
age 19
Premier
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Republic of China
Hubert Humphrey
age 21
Vice President
-
United States
Kamala Harris
born 1964-10-20
Senate
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United States
Wen Jiabao
born 1942-09-15
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Zhu Rongji
age 4
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Robert F. Kennedy
age 7
Senate
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United States
Zhou Enlai
age 34
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Li Peng
age 4
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Daniel Inouye
age 8
Senate
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United States
Dick Cheney
born 1941-01-30
House of Representatives
-
United States
Hermann Göring
age 39
President of the Reichstag
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Germany
George Shultz
age 11
Secretary Of State
-
United States
Charles Evans Hughes
age 70
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Colin Powell
born 1937-04-05
Secretary Of State
-
United States
George C. Marshall
age 51
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 26
Secretary Of Defense
-
United States
Robert McNamara
age 16
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
William Rehnquist
age 8
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 27
Secretary Of The Treasury
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United States
John Foster Dulles
age 44
Secretary Of State
-
United States
Condoleezza Rice
born 1954-11-14
Secretary Of State
-
United States
James R. Schlesinger
age 3
Secretary Of Defense
-
United States
Melvin Laird
age 10
Secretary Of Defense
-
United States
Clark Clifford
age 25
Secretary Of Defense
-
United States
Robert A. Lovett
age 37
Secretary Of Defense
-
United States
Warren Christopher
age 7
Secretary Of State
-
United States
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 2
Secretary Of State
-
United States
James Baker
age 2
Secretary Of State
-
United States
John Connally
age 15
Secretary Of The Treasury
-
United States
Earl Warren
age 41
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Warren E. Burger
age 25
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Soong Ching-ling
age 39
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Zhu De
age 46
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Wang Zhen (general)
age 24
Vice President
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People's Republic of China
Rong Yiren
age 16
Vice President
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People's Republic of China
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 10
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
Ramsey Clark
age 4
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
Fred M. Vinson
age 42
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Harlan F. Stone
age 60
Chief Justice
-
US Judiciary
Hillary Clinton
born 1947-10-26
Secretary Of State
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United States
Clarence M. Kelley
age 21
Director of the FBI
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Department of Justice
William H. Webster
age 8
Director of the FBI
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Department of Justice
Douglas MacArthur
age 52
Chief of Staff of the Army
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United States
Omar Bradley
age 39
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff
-
United States
David Lloyd George
age 69
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
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
Abe Fortas
age 22
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Arthur Goldberg
age 24
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall
age 24
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 25
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 2
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Potter Stewart
age 17
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr.
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 12
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
John Marshall Harlan II
age 33
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Byron White
age 15
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Nelson Rockefeller
age 24
Governor of New York
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United States
John Kerry
born 1943-12-11
United States Navy
Liz Cheney
born 1966-07-28
Republican Party (United States)
Wilhelm Frick
age 55
Nazi Party
Iwane Matsui
age 54
Imperial Japanese Army
Karl Dönitz
age 41
Nazi Party
Henry Kissinger
age 9
United States Army
John Lewis
born 1940-02-21
Democratic Party (United States)
George Wallace
age 13
United States Army
Calvin Coolidge
age 60
Republican Party (United States)
J. Edgar Hoover
age 37
Republican Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
age 20
Democratic Party (United States)
Heinrich Himmler
age 32
Nazi Party
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 47
United States Navy
Raymond A. Spruance
age 46
United States Navy
Courtney Hodges
age 45
United States Army
Martin Bormann
age 32
Nazi Party
Li Keqiang
born 1955-07-01
Communist Party of China
Rudolf Hess
age 38
Nazi Party
Kurt Daluege
age 35
Nazi Party
Yoshijirō Umezu
age 50
Imperial Japanese Army
George S. Patton
age 47
United States Army
Reinhard Heydrich
age 28
Nazi Party
Martin Luther King Jr.
age 3
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Souphanouvong
age 23
Hubert Gough
age 62
Naoki Hoshino
age 40
Kōki Hirota
age 54
Doihara Kenji
age 49
Akira Mutō
age 39
He Yingqin
age 42
Semyon Timoshenko
age 37
Kliment Voroshilov
age 51
Józef Piłsudski
age 65
Friedrich Jeckeln
age 37
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
age 29
Wilhelm Keitel
age 50
Walther Funk
age 42
Hans Fritzsche
age 32
Erich Raeder
age 56
Alfred Rosenberg
age 39
Fritz Sauckel
age 38
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
age 40
Baldur von Schirach
age 25
Hjalmar Schacht
age 55
Kyösti Kallio
age 59
Kiichirō Hiranuma
age 65
Franz von Papen
age 53
Rodion Malinovsky
age 34
Heitarō Kimura
age 44
Kingorō Hashimoto
age 42
Seishirō Itagaki
age 47
Rosa Parks
age 19
Hideki Tōjō
age 47
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 52
John J. Pershing
age 72
Puyi
age 26
Ronald McNair
born 1950-10-21
Ellison Onizuka
born 1946-06-24
Yasser Arafat
age 3
Clarence Thomas
born 1948-06-23
Albert Einstein
age 53
Mahatma Gandhi
age 63
Nelson Mandela
age 14
Kim Jong-un
born 1982-01-08
Nikola Tesla
age 76
Tim Berners-Lee
born 1955-06-08
Muhammad Ali
born 1942-01-17
Jo Ann Robinson
age 20
Malcolm X
age 7
Thomas Gage
age 214
Charles III
born 1948-11-14
Juan José Arévalo
age 28
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 24
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 17
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 14
Claus von Stauffenberg
age 25
Benito Mussolini
age 49
Paul von Hindenburg
age 85
Erich Ludendorff
age 67
Wilhelm Groener
age 65
Francisco Franco
age 40
Manuel Azaña
age 52
Chester W. Nimitz
age 47
Isoroku Yamamoto
age 48
Ernst Röhm
age 45
Eva Braun
age 20
Hans Frank
age 32
Otto Rasch
age 41
Fritz Todt
age 41
Otto Hofmann
age 36
Alfred Jodl
age 42
Julius Streicher
age 47
Yuri Andropov
age 18
Albert Speer
age 27
Emilio De Bono
age 66
John Roberts
born 1955-01-27
Peng Dehuai
age 34
Leon Trotsky
age 53
Charles G. Dawes
age 67
Wilhelm II
age 73
Raymond Poincaré
age 72
Erich von Manstein
age 45
Gerd von Rundstedt
age 57