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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
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

People

Mamnoon Hussain age 18
Arif Alvi age 9
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 29
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 34
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 44
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 8
Yahya Khan age 42
Farooq Leghari age 18
Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan age 70
Nawaz Sharif age 9
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 15
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 6
Imran Khan age 6
Nurul Amin age 65
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 64
Muhammad Ali Bogra age 49
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 8
Muhammad Junejo age 26
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi age 4 months
Benazir Bhutto age 5
Shaukat Aziz age 10
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 53
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy age 66
Shehbaz Sharif age 7
Shujaat Hussain age 19
Alfonso Oiterong age 34
Lazarus Salii age 22
Ngiratkel Etpison age 34
Johnson Toribiong age 12
Kuniwo Nakamura age 15
Thomas Remengesau age 27
Haruo Remeliik age 25
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 3
Salam Fayyad age 7
Rami Hamdallah age 9 months
Mohammad Shtayyeh age 1
Mohammad Mustafa age 4
Jorge Sampaio age 19
Mário Soares age 34
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 65
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 75
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 19
António Ramalho Eanes age 24
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 10
António de Spínola age 49
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 44
José Manuel Barroso age 3
José Sócrates age 1
Francisco Cunha Leal age 70
Adelino da Palma Carlos age 54
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 24
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 21
Carlos Mota Pinto age 22
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 17
Vasco Gonçalves age 38
Alfredo Nobre da Costa age 35
José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo age 41
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 29
Pedro Santana Lopes age 2
Marcelo Caetano age 52
António Guterres age 10
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani age 39
Mohammed bin Jassim Al Thani age 78
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 7
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 26
Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani age 1
Pascal Lissouba age 27
Marien Ngouabi age 20
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 15
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 20
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 38
Augustin Poignet age 31
Alfred Raoul age 20
Isidore Mvouba age 5
Charles David Ganao age 31
Bernard Kolélas age 25
Jacques Opangault age 51
Clément Mouamba age 15
Ange Édouard Poungui age 17
Henri Lopès age 21
Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty age 18
Theodor Stolojan age 15
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 15
Alexandru Athanasiu age 4
Ion Gigurtu age 72
Radu Vasile age 16
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 56
Victor Ciorbea age 4
Manea Mănescu age 42
Constantin Dăscălescu age 35
Gavril Dejeu age 26
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 7
Mugur Isărescu age 9
Adrian Năstase age 8
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 57
Petre Roman age 12
Ilie Verdeț age 34
Ion Iliescu age 29
Traian Băsescu age 7
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 41
Emil Constantinescu age 19
Victor Chernomyrdin age 21
Viktor Zubkov age 17
Mikhhail Fradkov age 8
Andrei Belousov age 2 months
Alexander Kerensky age 78
Mikhail Kasianov age 1
Egor Gajdar age 3
Victor Khristenko age 1
Evgeny Primakov age 29
Sergei Stepashin age 7
Dismas Nsengiyaremye age 14
Sylvestre Nsanzimana age 23
Grégoire Kayibanda age 35
Jean Kambanda age 3
Faustin Twagiramungu age 13
Anastase Murekezi age 6
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 5
Pierre-Célestin Rwigema age 5
Juvénal Habyarimana age 22
Paul Kagame age 1
Pasteur Bizimungu age 9
Dominique Mbonyumutwa age 38
Théodore Sindikubwabo age 31
Paul Southwell age 45
Denzil Douglas age 6
Lee Moore age 20
Kennedy Simmonds age 23
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 42
Cuthbert Sebastian age 37
Edmund Lawrence age 27
Tapley Seaton age 8
Marcella Liburd age 5
Vaughan Lewis age 19
Michael Pilgrim age 12
George Charles age 42
Winston Cenac age 33
Kenny Anthony age 8
Stephenson King age 6 months
John Compton age 34
Allan Louisy age 42
Philip J. Pierre age 4
Milton Cato age 43
Arnhim Eustace age 14
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 28
Ralph Gonsalves age 12
Frederick Ballantyne age 22
Charles Antrobus age 26
Monica Dacon age 24
Susan Dougan age 4
Stanley John age 7
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 34
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 37
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 14
Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa age 2
Tupua Tamasese Lealofi IV age 37
Tufuga Efi age 21
Abdou Diouf age 23
Moustapha Niasse age 19
Abdoul Mbaye age 6
Habib Thiam age 26
Mame Madior Boye age 18
Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye age 9 months
Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré age 7
Mamadou Lamine Loum age 7
Abdoulaye Wade age 32
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 52
Vojislav Koštunica age 15
Zoran Đinđić age 6
Mirko Cvetković age 8
Žarko Korać age 12
Nikola Šainović age 10
Milan Milutinović age 16
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 7
Dragan Maršićanin age 9
Slobodan Milošević age 17
Tomislav Nikolić age 7
Ivan Stambolić age 22
Boris Tadić age 1
Dragan Tomić age 23
Vojislav Mihailović age 7
Predrag Marković age 3
France-Albert René age 23
James Mancham age 19
James Michel age 14
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 27
Ernest Bai Koroma age 5
Siaka Stevens age 53
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 22
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 19
Benjamin Sheares age 51
S. R. Nathan age 34
Yusof bin Ishak age 48
Wee Kim Wee age 43
Devan Nair age 35
Ong Teng Cheong age 23
Tharman Shanmugaratnam age 2
Halimah Yacob age 4
Yeoh Ghim Seng age 40
Punch Coomaraswamy age 34