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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
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Marshall Plan 1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27

People

Blažo Jovanović age 42
Prime Minister - Montenegro
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Solomone Ula Ata age 66
Prime Minister - Tonga
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 60
Governor-General - New Zealand
Bill McKell age 57
Governor-General - Australia
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 68
Governor-General - Madagascar
Donald Trump age 3
Albert Einstein age 70
Ronald Reagan age 38
Nelson Mandela age 31
George W. Bush age 3
Joe Biden age 6
Pablo Picasso age 67
Charlie Chaplin age 60
Elizabeth II age 23
Martin Luther King Jr. age 20
Pope Francis age 12
Che Guevara age 21
Bill Clinton age 2
Charles de Gaulle age 58
Neil Armstrong age 19
Walt Disney age 47
Elvis Presley age 14
George Orwell age 46
John Paul II age 29
Margaret Thatcher age 23
Ernest Hemingway age 50
Gabriel García Márquez age 22
Fidel Castro age 23
Yuri Gagarin age 15
Mikhail Gorbachev age 18
Stephen Hawking age 7
Jean-Paul Sartre age 44
Jimmy Carter age 24
Benedict XVI age 22
Mother Teresa age 38
Hillary Clinton age 1
George H. W. Bush age 25
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 58
Alan Turing age 37
Simone de Beauvoir age 41
Niels Bohr age 63
Muammar Gaddafi age 7
John Lennon age 8
Muhammad Ali age 7
Kofi Annan age 11
Charles III age 9 months
Lech Wałęsa age 5
Indira Gandhi age 31
Saddam Hussein age 12
Aung San Suu Kyi age 4
Enrico Fermi age 47
Nikita Khrushchev age 55
14th Dalai Lama age 14
Silvio Berlusconi age 12
Bob Marley age 4
Herbert Hoover age 75
Mahathir Mohamad age 24
Boris Yeltsin age 18
Ali Khamenei age 10
Jacques Chirac age 16
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 30
Kwame Nkrumah age 39
Yasser Arafat age 19
Ban Ki-moon age 5
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 2
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 3
Konrad Adenauer age 73
Henry Kissinger age 26
Václav Havel age 12
Georges Pompidou age 38
Leonid Brezhnev age 42
Robert Mugabe age 25
Hosni Mubarak age 21
Golda Meir age 51
John XXIII age 67
Dilma Rousseff age 1
Ferdinand Marcos age 31
Al Gore age 1
Malcolm X age 24
François Mitterrand age 32
Alexander Fleming age 68
Milton Friedman age 37
Ruhollah Khomeini age 46
Valentina Tereshkova age 12
Pol Pot age 24
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 10
António Guterres age 3 months
Akihito age 15
Helmut Kohl age 19
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 45
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 31
Rosa Parks age 36
Shimon Peres age 26
John Paul I age 36
Anwar Sadat age 30
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 11
Paul VI age 51
Willy Brandt age 35
Gerhard Schröder age 5
Dag Hammarskjöld age 44
Hassan Rouhani age 9 months
Salvador Allende age 41
Hu Jintao age 6
John von Neumann age 45
Augusto Pinochet age 33
Lee Kuan Yew age 25
Suharto age 28
Ariel Sharon age 21
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 31
Desmond Tutu age 17
Sergio Mattarella age 8
Manmohan Singh age 16
Pervez Musharraf age 6
Yuri Andropov age 35
Lech Kaczyński age 1 month
Buzz Aldrin age 19
Mohammad Khatami age 5
Patrice Lumumba age 24
Yitzhak Rabin age 27
Rosalind Franklin age 29
Andrei Sakharov age 28
Dick Cheney age 8
Douglas MacArthur age 69
Raúl Castro age 18
Sheikh Hasina age 1
Giorgio Napolitano age 24
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 9
Idi Amin age 24
Rodrigo Duterte age 4
Helmut Schmidt age 30
Margrethe II of Denmark age 9
Rachel Carson age 42
Corazon Aquino age 16
Edward VIII age 55
John Kerry age 5
Madeleine Albright age 12
José Mujica age 14
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 25
Yoshihide Suga age 8 months
Rajiv Gandhi age 4
Thabo Mbeki age 7
Wernher von Braun age 37
Eva Perón age 30
Harald V of Norway age 12
George C. Marshall age 68
John Major age 6
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 12
Slobodan Milošević age 7
Jacob Zuma age 7
Martti Ahtisaari age 12
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 3
Mitt Romney age 2
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 13
Konstantin Chernenko age 37
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 17
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 11
Jiang Zemin age 23
Zhou Enlai age 51
Sauli Niinistö age 11 months
Eduard Shevardnadze age 21
Romano Prodi age 10
Robert F. Kennedy age 23
Pranab Mukherjee age 13
Park Chung-hee age 31
Vyacheslav Molotov age 59
Joachim Gauck age 9
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 2
Menachem Begin age 36
Philippe Pétain age 93
Erich Honecker age 36
Hafez al-Assad age 18
Muhammadu Buhari age 6
Horst Köhler age 6
Tarja Halonen age 5
Daniel Ortega age 3
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 10
Islam Karimov age 11
Dan Quayle age 2
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 29
Omar al-Bashir age 5
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 284
Naoto Kan age 2
Pratibha Patil age 14
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 21
Heydar Aliyev age 26
Hassanal Bolkiah age 3
Mario Draghi age 1
Kim Dae-jung age 25
Radovan Karadžić age 4
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 26
Aldo Moro age 32
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 8
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 42
F. W. de Klerk age 13
Ludwig Erhard age 52
Ashraf Ghani age 2 months
Kurt Waldheim age 30
Alexander Van der Bellen age 5
Miloš Zeman age 4