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Events

Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
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

Saddam Hussein age 13
Aung San Suu Kyi age 4
Enrico Fermi age 48
Nikita Khrushchev age 56
Benjamin Netanyahu age 7 months
14th Dalai Lama age 14
Silvio Berlusconi age 13
Bob Marley age 5
Herbert Hoover age 75
Mahathir Mohamad age 24
Boris Yeltsin age 19
Ali Khamenei age 11
Jacques Chirac age 17
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 31
Kwame Nkrumah age 40
Yasser Arafat age 20
Ban Ki-moon age 5
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 4
Henry Kissinger age 27
Václav Havel age 13
Georges Pompidou age 38
Leonid Brezhnev age 43
Robert Mugabe age 26
Hosni Mubarak age 22
Golda Meir age 52
John XXIII age 68
Dilma Rousseff age 2
Deng Xiaoping age 45
Ferdinand Marcos age 32
Al Gore age 2
Malcolm X age 25
François Mitterrand age 33
Alexander Fleming age 68
Milton Friedman age 37
Ruhollah Khomeini age 47
Valentina Tereshkova age 13
Pol Pot age 25
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 11
António Guterres age 1
Akihito age 16
Helmut Kohl age 20
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 46
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 32
Rosa Parks age 37
Shimon Peres age 26
John Paul I age 37
Anwar Sadat age 31
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 12
Paul VI age 52
Willy Brandt age 36
Gerhard Schröder age 6
Dag Hammarskjöld age 44
Hassan Rouhani age 1
Salvador Allende age 41
Hu Jintao age 7
John von Neumann age 46
Augusto Pinochet age 34
Lee Kuan Yew age 26
Suharto age 28
Ariel Sharon age 22
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 32
Desmond Tutu age 18
Sergio Mattarella age 8
Manmohan Singh age 17
Pervez Musharraf age 6
Yuri Andropov age 35
Lech Kaczyński age 11 months
Buzz Aldrin age 20
Mohammad Khatami age 6
Patrice Lumumba age 24
Yitzhak Rabin age 28
Rosalind Franklin age 29
Andrei Sakharov age 29
Dick Cheney age 9
Douglas MacArthur age 70
Raúl Castro age 18
Sheikh Hasina age 2
Giorgio Napolitano age 24
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 9
Idi Amin age 25
Rodrigo Duterte age 5
Helmut Schmidt age 31
Margrethe II of Denmark age 10
Rachel Carson age 43
Corazon Aquino age 17
Edward VIII age 55
John Kerry age 6
Madeleine Albright age 13
José Mujica age 15
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 25
Yoshihide Suga age 1
Rajiv Gandhi age 5
Thabo Mbeki age 7
Wernher von Braun age 38
Eva Perón age 31
Harald V of Norway age 13
George C. Marshall age 69
John Major age 7
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 13
Slobodan Milošević age 8
Jacob Zuma age 8
Martti Ahtisaari age 12
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 4
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 14
Konstantin Chernenko age 38
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 18
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 12
Jiang Zemin age 23
Sauli Niinistö age 1
Eduard Shevardnadze age 22
Romano Prodi age 10
Robert F. Kennedy age 24
Pranab Mukherjee age 14
Park Chung-hee age 32
Vyacheslav Molotov age 60
Joachim Gauck age 10
Anthony Eden age 52
Thomas Sankara age 5 months
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 3
Menachem Begin age 36
Philippe Pétain age 94
Erich Honecker age 37
Hafez al-Assad age 19
Harold Macmillan age 56
Muhammadu Buhari age 7
Horst Köhler age 7
Sebastián Piñera age 5 months
Tarja Halonen age 6
Daniel Ortega age 4
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 11
Islam Karimov age 12
Dan Quayle age 3
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 30
Omar al-Bashir age 6
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 285
Naoto Kan age 3
James Callaghan age 38
Pratibha Patil age 15
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 8 months
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 22
Heydar Aliyev age 27
Hassanal Bolkiah age 3
Mario Draghi age 2
Kim Dae-jung age 26
Radovan Karadžić age 4
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 27
Aldo Moro age 33
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 9
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 43
F. W. de Klerk age 14
Ludwig Erhard age 53
Ashraf Ghani age 1
Kurt Waldheim age 31
Alexander Van der Bellen age 6
Miloš Zeman age 5
Mobutu Sese Seko age 19
Jomo Kenyatta age 56
Julius Nyerere age 28
Saparmurat Niyazov age 10
Yoweri Museveni age 5
Leonid Kuchma age 11
Donald Rumsfeld age 17
Olof Palme age 23
Süleyman Demirel age 25
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 34
Queen Camilla age 2
Jonas Salk age 35
Karl Dönitz age 58
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 17
Pierre Trudeau age 30
Fulgencio Batista age 49
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 82
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 61
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 26
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 3
Junichiro Koizumi age 8
Tarō Asō age 9
U Thant age 41
Rudolf Hess age 56
Colin Powell age 13
Giulio Andreotti age 31
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 13
Alexander Dubček age 28
Wen Jiabao age 7
Václav Klaus age 8
Ehud Olmert age 4
Francesco Cossiga age 21
İsmet İnönü age 65
Leonid Kravchuk age 16
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 3
Puyi age 44
Ahmed Ben Bella age 33
Heinz Fischer age 11
Michael D. Higgins age 9
Mario Monti age 7
Alberto Fujimori age 11
Roh Moo-hyun age 3
Bernard Montgomery age 62
Richard von Weizsäcker age 30
Albert Speer age 45