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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
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
Great Leap Forward 1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Great Chinese Famine 1959-01-01 - 1961-12-31
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964-01-01

People

Elizabeth II age 33
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 66
Chairman of the Communist Party of China - Communist Party of China
Charles de Gaulle age 69
President - France
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 69
President - United States
Nikita Khrushchev age 65
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hirohito age 58
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 69
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek age 72
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 67
President - Yugoslavia
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 42
President - Egypt
Haile Selassie age 67
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 40
Shah - Iran
Walter Ulbricht age 66
First Secretary - East Germany
Juscelino Kubitschek age 57
President - Brazil
Baudouin of Belgium age 29
Monarch - Belgium
Heinrich Lübke age 65
President - Germany
Liu Shaoqi age 61
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Adolfo López Mateos age 49
President - Mexico
Osvaldo Dorticós age 40
President - Cuba
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 55
President - Iraq
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 64
President - Guatemala
Dag Hammarskjöld age 54
Secretary-General - United Nations
Fidel Castro age 33
Prime Minister - Cuba
Jawaharlal Nehru age 70
Prime Minister - India
Konrad Adenauer age 84
Chancellor - Germany
David Ben-Gurion age 73
Prime Minister - Israel
Zhou Enlai age 62
Premier - People's Republic of China
Harold Macmillan age 66
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Antonio Segni age 69
Prime Minister - Italy
Paul-Henri Spaak age 61
Secretary General - NATO
Nobusuke Kishi age 63
Prime Minister - Japan
Hendrik Verwoerd age 58
Prime Minister - South Africa
Michel Debré age 48
Prime Minister - France
Avery Brundage age 72
President - International Olympic Committee
Walter Hallstein age 58
President - European Commission
Phạm Văn Đồng age 54
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 48
Prime Minister - Poland
Chen Cheng age 63
Premier - Republic of China
Seán Lemass age 60
Taoiseach - Ireland
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 48
Director-General - World Health Organization
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 61
President - World Bank
Nur al-Din Kahala age 50
Prime Minister - Syria
Kim Il-sung age 47
Chairman Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Earl Warren age 69
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Richard Nixon age 47
Vice President - United States
Soong Ching-ling age 67
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 74
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Nathan F. Twining age 62
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 40
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Christian Herter age 65
Secretary Of State - United States
William P. Rogers age 46
Attorney General - United States
Rab Butler age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Lyman Lemnitzer age 60
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 53
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Iain Macleod age 46
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Robert B. Anderson age 49
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Christopher Soames age 39
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 60
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 65
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Deng Xiaoping age 55
Secretariat - Communist Party of China
Hugh Gaitskell age 53
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
William J. Brennan Jr. age 53
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Potter Stewart age 45
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II age 60
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Tom C. Clark age 60
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Jo Grimond age 46
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Albert Luthuli age 62
President - African National Congress
Paddy McLogan age 61
President - Sinn Féin
William H. Webster age 36
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
John F. Kennedy age 42
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 51
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 48
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 85
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Thatcher age 34
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gerald Ford age 46
House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Inouye age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Melvin Laird age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Nelson Rockefeller age 51
Governor of New York - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 32
King - Thailand
John XXIII age 78
Pope - Vatican City
Francisco Franco age 67
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 58
President - Indonesia
Syngman Rhee age 85
President - South Korea
Rajendra Prasad age 75
President - India
Hussein I of Jordan age 24
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 56
President - Tunisia
Celâl Bayar age 76
President - Turkey
Urho Kekkonen age 59
President - Finland
Éamon de Valera age 77
President - Ireland
Olav V of Norway age 56
Monarch - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 47
President - Paraguay
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 38
President - Guinea
Ayub Khan age 52
President - Pakistan
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 58
King - Saudi Arabia
Juliana of the Netherlands age 50
King - Netherlands
Frederik IX of Denmark age 61
Monarch - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 77
Monarch - Sweden
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 36
Prince - Monaco
François Duvalier age 52
President - Haiti
Mohammed V of Morocco age 50
King - Morocco
Giovanni Gronchi age 72
President - Italy
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 30
King - Bhutan
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 75
President - Israel
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 64
Monarch - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 60
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 65
President - Iceland
Rómulo Betancourt age 52
President - Venezuela
Philibert Tsiranana age 47
President - Madagascar
Arturo Frondizi age 51
President - Argentina
William Tubman age 64
President - Liberia
Carlos P. Garcia age 63
President - Philippines
Adolf Schärf age 69
President - Austria
Jorge Alessandri age 63
President - Chile
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 49
Sultan - Oman
Ibrahim Abboud age 59
President - Sudan
Américo Tomás age 65
President - Portugal
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 53
President - Colombia
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 70
President - Peru
Haxhi Lleshi age 46
President - Albania
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 60
Monarch - Tonga
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 46
President - Bolivia
Norodom Suramarit age 64
King - Cambodia
Fouad Chehab age 58
President - Lebanon
Aleksander Zawadzki age 60
President - Poland
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 44
President - Costa Rica
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 65
Emir - Kuwait
Luis Somoza Debayle age 37
President - Nicaragua
Ramón Villeda Morales age 50
President - Honduras
Camilo Ponce Enríquez age 48
President - Ecuador
Max Petitpierre age 61
President - Switzerland
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 68
Emir - Qatar
Win Maung age 43
President - Myanmar
Benito Nardone age 53
President - Uruguay
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 64
President - Mongolia
Giuseppe Forcellini age 59
Captain Regent - San Marino
Ferruccio Piva age 36
Captain Regent - San Marino
Kwame Nkrumah age 50
Prime Minister - Ghana
Kuan Yew Lee age 36
Prime Minister - Singapore
António de Oliveira Salazar age 70
Prime Minister - Portugal
Norodom Sihanouk age 37
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 57
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Adnan Menderes age 61
Prime Minister - Turkey
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 35
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 53
Prime Minister - Greece
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 50
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
John Diefenbaker age 64
Prime Minister - Canada
Robert Menzies age 65
Prime Minister - Australia
Abd al-Karim Qasim age 45
Prime Minister - Iraq
Ne Win age 48
Prime Minister - Myanmar
David Dacko age 30
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Einar Gerhardsen age 62
Prime Minister - Norway
Tage Erlander age 58
Prime Minister - Sweden
Hubert Maga age 43
Prime Minister - Benin
Léon M'ba age 58
Prime Minister - Gabon
François Tombalbaye age 41
Prime Minister - Chad
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 41
Prime Minister - Tonga
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 43
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Sarit Thanarat age 51
Prime Minister - Thailand
Mehmet Shehu age 47
Prime Minister - Albania
Chivu Stoica age 51
Prime Minister - Romania
Gaston Eyskens age 55
Prime Minister - Belgium
Pierre Werner age 46
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Julius Raab age 68
Chancellor - Austria
Ferenc Münnich age 73
Prime Minister - Hungary
V. J. Sukselainen age 53
Prime Minister - Finland
Ólafur Thors age 68
Prime Minister - Iceland
Viggo Kampmann age 49
Prime Minister - Denmark
Jan Eduard de Quay age 58
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Rashid Karami age 38
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Mamadou Dia age 49
Prime Minister - Senegal
Jigme Palden Dorji age 40
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Norman Manley age 66
Premier - Jamaica
Abdallah Ibrahim age 41
Prime Minister - Morocco
Abdul Majid Kubar age 50
Prime Minister - Libya
Walter Nash age 78
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Abdullahi Issa age 37
Prime Minister - Somalia
Wijeyananda Dahanayake age 57
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Herbert Blaize age 42
Prime Minister - Grenada
Abebe Aregai age 56
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Hazza' al-Majali age 41
Prime Minister - Jordan
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 38
Prime Minister - Samoa
Alexander Frick age 50
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Pedro Beltrán age 63
Prime Minister - Peru
Paul Southwell age 46
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
George Charles age 43
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Severinus Desiré Emanuels age 50
Prime Minister - Suriname
Filip Bajković age 49
Prime Minister - Montenegro
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 66
Governor-General - Australia
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 78
Governor-General - Madagascar
Martin Luther King Jr. age 31
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Donald Trump age 13
Michael Jackson age 1
Vladimir Putin age 7
Ronald Reagan age 49
Nelson Mandela age 41
George W. Bush age 13
Joe Biden age 17
Pablo Picasso age 78
Charlie Chaplin age 70
Bill Gates age 4