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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Chinese Communist Revolution 1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
Indonesian National Revolution 1945-08-17 - 1949-12-27
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
Malagasy Uprising 1947-03-29 - 1949-02

People

Walt Disney age 45
Elvis Presley age 12
George Orwell age 44
John Paul II age 27
Margaret Thatcher age 21
Ernest Hemingway age 47
Gabriel García Márquez age 20
Fidel Castro age 20
Yuri Gagarin age 13
Mikhail Gorbachev age 16
Stephen Hawking age 5
Jean-Paul Sartre age 42
Jimmy Carter age 22
Benedict XVI age 20
Mother Teresa age 36
George H. W. Bush age 23
Jawaharlal Nehru age 57
Alan Turing age 35
Simone de Beauvoir age 39
Niels Bohr age 61
Muammar Gaddafi age 5
John Lennon age 6
Muhammad Ali age 5
Max Planck age 89
Kofi Annan age 9
Lech Wałęsa age 3
Gerald Ford age 33
Indira Gandhi age 29
Saddam Hussein age 10
Aung San Suu Kyi age 1
Enrico Fermi age 45
Nikita Khrushchev age 53
14th Dalai Lama age 11
Silvio Berlusconi age 10
Bob Marley age 2
Herbert Hoover age 72
Mahathir Mohamad age 21
Boris Yeltsin age 16
Ali Khamenei age 8
Jacques Chirac age 14
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 28
Kwame Nkrumah age 37
Yasser Arafat age 17
Ban Ki-moon age 3
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 1
Konrad Adenauer age 71
Henry Kissinger age 24
Václav Havel age 10
Georges Pompidou age 35
Leonid Brezhnev age 40
Robert Mugabe age 23
Hosni Mubarak age 19
Golda Meir age 49
John XXIII age 65
Ferdinand Marcos age 29
Malcolm X age 22
François Mitterrand age 30
Alexander Fleming age 65
David Ben-Gurion age 60
Milton Friedman age 34
Ruhollah Khomeini age 44
Valentina Tereshkova age 10
Pol Pot age 22
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 8
Akihito age 13
Helmut Kohl age 17
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 43
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 29
Rosa Parks age 34
Shimon Peres age 23
John Paul I age 34
Anwar Sadat age 28
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 9
Paul VI age 49
Willy Brandt age 33
Gerhard Schröder age 3
Dag Hammarskjöld age 41
Salvador Allende age 39
Hu Jintao age 4
John von Neumann age 43
Augusto Pinochet age 31
Lee Kuan Yew age 23
Suharto age 26
Ariel Sharon age 19
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 29
Desmond Tutu age 15
Sergio Mattarella age 5
Manmohan Singh age 14
Pervez Musharraf age 3
Yuri Andropov age 33
Buzz Aldrin age 17
Mohammad Khatami age 3
Patrice Lumumba age 21
Yitzhak Rabin age 25
Rosalind Franklin age 26
Andrei Sakharov age 26
Dick Cheney age 6
Douglas MacArthur age 67
Raúl Castro age 16
Giorgio Napolitano age 21
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 6
Idi Amin age 22
Rodrigo Duterte age 2
Helmut Schmidt age 28
Margrethe II of Denmark age 7
Rachel Carson age 40
Corazon Aquino age 14
Edward VIII age 53
John Kerry age 3
Madeleine Albright age 10
José Mujica age 12
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 22
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 70
Rajiv Gandhi age 2
Thabo Mbeki age 5
Wernher von Braun age 35
Eva Perón age 28
Harald V of Norway age 10
John Major age 4
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 10
Slobodan Milošević age 5
Jacob Zuma age 5
Martti Ahtisaari age 9
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 1
Mitt Romney age 3 months
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 11
Konstantin Chernenko age 35
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 15
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 9
Jiang Zemin age 20
Zhou Enlai age 49
Eduard Shevardnadze age 19
Romano Prodi age 7
Robert F. Kennedy age 21
Pranab Mukherjee age 11
Park Chung-hee age 29
Vyacheslav Molotov age 57
Joachim Gauck age 7
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 4 months
Menachem Begin age 33
Philippe Pétain age 91
Erich Honecker age 34
Hafez al-Assad age 16
Muhammadu Buhari age 4
Horst Köhler age 4
Tarja Halonen age 3
Daniel Ortega age 1
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 8
Islam Karimov age 9
Dan Quayle age 4 months
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 27
Omar al-Bashir age 3
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 282
Naoto Kan age 8 months
Pratibha Patil age 12
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 19
Heydar Aliyev age 24
Hassanal Bolkiah age 11 months
Kim Dae-jung age 23
Radovan Karadžić age 1
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 24
Aldo Moro age 30
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 6
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 40
F. W. de Klerk age 11
Ludwig Erhard age 50
Kurt Waldheim age 28
Alexander Van der Bellen age 3
Miloš Zeman age 2
Mobutu Sese Seko age 16
Jomo Kenyatta age 53
Julius Nyerere age 25
Saparmurat Niyazov age 7
Yoweri Museveni age 2
Leonid Kuchma age 8
Donald Rumsfeld age 14
Olof Palme age 20
Süleyman Demirel age 22
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 31
Jonas Salk age 32
Karl Dönitz age 55
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 14
Pierre Trudeau age 27
Fulgencio Batista age 46
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 80
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 58
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 23
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 2 months
Syngman Rhee age 72
Junichiro Koizumi age 5
Tarō Asō age 6
U Thant age 38
Rudolf Hess age 53
Colin Powell age 10
Giulio Andreotti age 28
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 10
Hideki Tojo age 62
Alexander Dubček age 25
Wen Jiabao age 4
Václav Klaus age 5