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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
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Korean War 1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11

People

Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 60
Prime Minister - Jordan
Sidney Holland age 58
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Huy Kanthoul age 43
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Alexander Frick age 42
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Prince Shah Mahmud Khan of Afghanistan age 64
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Makonnen Endelkachew age 62
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Blažo Jovanović age 44
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Jan Buiskool age 52
Prime Minister - Suriname
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 62
Governor-General - New Zealand
Bill McKell age 60
Governor-General - Australia
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 70
Governor-General - Madagascar
Donald Trump age 5
Albert Einstein age 73
Ronald Reagan age 41
Nelson Mandela age 33
George W. Bush age 5
Joe Biden age 9
Pablo Picasso age 70
Charlie Chaplin age 62
Martin Luther King Jr. age 23
Pope Francis age 15
Che Guevara age 23
Bill Clinton age 5
Charles de Gaulle age 61
Neil Armstrong age 21
Walt Disney age 50
Elvis Presley age 17
John Paul II age 31
Margaret Thatcher age 26
Ernest Hemingway age 52
Gabriel García Márquez age 24
Fidel Castro age 25
Yuri Gagarin age 17
Mikhail Gorbachev age 21
Stephen Hawking age 10
Jean-Paul Sartre age 46
Jimmy Carter age 27
Benedict XVI age 24
Mother Teresa age 41
Hillary Clinton age 4
George H. W. Bush age 27
Alan Turing age 39
Simone de Beauvoir age 44
Niels Bohr age 66
Muammar Gaddafi age 9
John Lennon age 11
Muhammad Ali age 10
Kofi Annan age 13
Charles III age 3
Lech Wałęsa age 8
Narendra Modi age 1
Indira Gandhi age 34
Saddam Hussein age 14
Aung San Suu Kyi age 6
Enrico Fermi age 50
Nikita Khrushchev age 57
Benjamin Netanyahu age 2
14th Dalai Lama age 16
Silvio Berlusconi age 15
Bob Marley age 7
Herbert Hoover age 77
Mahathir Mohamad age 26
Boris Yeltsin age 21
Ali Khamenei age 12
Jacques Chirac age 19
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 33
Kwame Nkrumah age 42
Yasser Arafat age 22
Ban Ki-moon age 7
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 4
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 6
Henry Kissinger age 28
Václav Havel age 15
Georges Pompidou age 40
Leonid Brezhnev age 45
Robert Mugabe age 28
Hosni Mubarak age 23
Golda Meir age 53
John XXIII age 70
Dilma Rousseff age 4
Ferdinand Marcos age 34
Al Gore age 3
Malcolm X age 26
François Mitterrand age 35
Alexander Fleming age 70
Milton Friedman age 39
Ruhollah Khomeini age 49
Valentina Tereshkova age 14
Pol Pot age 26
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 13
António Guterres age 2
Akihito age 18
Helmut Kohl age 21
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 47
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 34
Rosa Parks age 39
Gordon Brown age 1
Shimon Peres age 28
John Paul I age 39
Anwar Sadat age 33
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 14
Paul VI age 54
Willy Brandt age 38
Gerhard Schröder age 7
Dag Hammarskjöld age 46
Hassan Rouhani age 3
Salvador Allende age 43
Hu Jintao age 9
John von Neumann age 48
Augusto Pinochet age 36
Lee Kuan Yew age 28
Michelle Bachelet age 5 months
Suharto age 30
Ariel Sharon age 24
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 34
Desmond Tutu age 20
Viktor Yanukovych age 1
Mohamed Morsi age 6 months
Sergio Mattarella age 10
Manmohan Singh age 19
Pervez Musharraf age 8
Yuri Andropov age 37
Abdullah Gül age 1
Lech Kaczyński age 2
Buzz Aldrin age 22
Mohammad Khatami age 8
Patrice Lumumba age 26
Yitzhak Rabin age 30
Rosalind Franklin age 31
Andrei Sakharov age 30
Dick Cheney age 11
Douglas MacArthur age 72
Raúl Castro age 20
Sheikh Hasina age 4
Giorgio Napolitano age 26
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 11
Idi Amin age 27
Rodrigo Duterte age 6
Helmut Schmidt age 33
Margrethe II of Denmark age 11
Rachel Carson age 44
Corazon Aquino age 19
Edward VIII age 57
John Kerry age 8
Madeleine Albright age 14
José Mujica age 16
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 27
Yoshihide Suga age 3
Rajiv Gandhi age 7
Thabo Mbeki age 9
Wernher von Braun age 39
Eva Perón age 32
Harald V of Norway age 15
George C. Marshall age 71
John Major age 8
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 14
Slobodan Milošević age 10
Jacob Zuma age 9
Park Geun-hye age 0 months
Martti Ahtisaari age 14
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 5
Mitt Romney age 4
Juan Manuel Santos age 6 months
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 16
Konstantin Chernenko age 40
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 20
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 14
Jiang Zemin age 25
Sauli Niinistö age 3
Eduard Shevardnadze age 24
Romano Prodi age 12
Robert F. Kennedy age 26
Pranab Mukherjee age 16
Park Chung-hee age 34
Vyacheslav Molotov age 62
Joachim Gauck age 12
Thomas Sankara age 2
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 5
Menachem Begin age 38
Erich Honecker age 39
Hafez al-Assad age 21
Muhammadu Buhari age 9
Horst Köhler age 9
Sebastián Piñera age 2
Tarja Halonen age 8
Daniel Ortega age 6
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 12
Islam Karimov age 14
Dan Quayle age 5
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 31
Omar al-Bashir age 8
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 287
Naoto Kan age 5
Pratibha Patil age 17
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 2
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 24
Heydar Aliyev age 28
Hassanal Bolkiah age 5
Mario Draghi age 4
Kim Dae-jung age 28