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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
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12

People

Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie age 59
Governor-General - New Zealand
Bill McKell age 61
Governor-General - Australia
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 71
Governor-General - Madagascar
Donald Trump age 6
Albert Einstein age 73
Vladimir Putin age 2 months
Ronald Reagan age 41
Nelson Mandela age 34
George W. Bush age 6
Joe Biden age 10
Pablo Picasso age 71
Charlie Chaplin age 63
Martin Luther King Jr. age 23
Pope Francis age 16
Che Guevara age 24
Bill Clinton age 6
Charles de Gaulle age 62
Neil Armstrong age 22
Walt Disney age 51
Elvis Presley age 17
John Paul II age 32
Margaret Thatcher age 27
Ernest Hemingway age 53
Gabriel García Márquez age 25
Fidel Castro age 26
Yuri Gagarin age 18
Mikhail Gorbachev age 21
Stephen Hawking age 10
Jean-Paul Sartre age 47
Jimmy Carter age 28
Benedict XVI age 25
Mother Teresa age 42
Hillary Clinton age 5
George H. W. Bush age 28
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 62
Alan Turing age 40
Simone de Beauvoir age 44
Niels Bohr age 67
Muammar Gaddafi age 10
John Lennon age 12
Muhammad Ali age 10
Kofi Annan age 14
Charles III age 4
Lech Wałęsa age 9
Narendra Modi age 2
Indira Gandhi age 35
Saddam Hussein age 15
Aung San Suu Kyi age 7
Enrico Fermi age 51
Nikita Khrushchev age 58
Benjamin Netanyahu age 3
14th Dalai Lama age 17
Silvio Berlusconi age 16
Bob Marley age 7
Herbert Hoover age 78
Mahathir Mohamad age 27
Boris Yeltsin age 21
Ali Khamenei age 13
Jacques Chirac age 20
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 34
Kwame Nkrumah age 43
Yasser Arafat age 23
Ban Ki-moon age 8
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 5
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 7
Henry Kissinger age 29
Václav Havel age 16
Georges Pompidou age 41
Leonid Brezhnev age 46
Robert Mugabe age 28
Hosni Mubarak age 24
Golda Meir age 54
John XXIII age 71
Dilma Rousseff age 5
Ferdinand Marcos age 35
Al Gore age 4
Malcolm X age 27
François Mitterrand age 36
Alexander Fleming age 71
Milton Friedman age 40
Ruhollah Khomeini age 50
Valentina Tereshkova age 15
Pol Pot age 27
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 14
António Guterres age 3
Akihito age 18
Helmut Kohl age 22
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 48
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 34
Rosa Parks age 39
Gordon Brown age 1
Shimon Peres age 29
John Paul I age 40
Anwar Sadat age 33
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 14
Paul VI age 55
Willy Brandt age 39
Gerhard Schröder age 8
Dag Hammarskjöld age 47
Hassan Rouhani age 4
Salvador Allende age 44
Hu Jintao age 9
John von Neumann age 49
Augusto Pinochet age 37
Lee Kuan Yew age 29
Michelle Bachelet age 1
Suharto age 31
Ariel Sharon age 24
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 34
Desmond Tutu age 21
Viktor Yanukovych age 2
Mohamed Morsi age 1
Sergio Mattarella age 11
Manmohan Singh age 20
Pervez Musharraf age 9
Yuri Andropov age 38
Abdullah Gül age 2
Lech Kaczyński age 3
Buzz Aldrin age 22
Mohammad Khatami age 9
Patrice Lumumba age 27
Yitzhak Rabin age 30
Rosalind Franklin age 32
Andrei Sakharov age 31
Dick Cheney age 11
Douglas MacArthur age 72
Raúl Castro age 21
Sheikh Hasina age 5
Giorgio Napolitano age 27
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 12
Idi Amin age 27
Rodrigo Duterte age 7
Helmut Schmidt age 34
Margrethe II of Denmark age 12
Rachel Carson age 45
Corazon Aquino age 19
Edward VIII age 58
John Kerry age 9
Madeleine Albright age 15
José Mujica age 17
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 28
Yoshihide Suga age 4
Rajiv Gandhi age 8
Thabo Mbeki age 10
Wernher von Braun age 40
Harald V of Norway age 15
George C. Marshall age 72
John Major age 9
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 15
Slobodan Milošević age 11
Jacob Zuma age 10
Park Geun-hye age 10 months
Martti Ahtisaari age 15
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 6
Mitt Romney age 5
Juan Manuel Santos age 1
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 16
Konstantin Chernenko age 41
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 21
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 14
Jiang Zemin age 26
Sauli Niinistö age 4
Eduard Shevardnadze age 24
Romano Prodi age 13
Cyril Ramaphosa age 0 months
Robert F. Kennedy age 27
Pranab Mukherjee age 17
Park Chung-hee age 35
Vyacheslav Molotov age 62
Joachim Gauck age 12
Thomas Sankara age 2
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 5
Menachem Begin age 39
Erich Honecker age 40
Hafez al-Assad age 22
Muhammadu Buhari age 10
Horst Köhler age 9
Sebastián Piñera age 3
Tarja Halonen age 8
Daniel Ortega age 7
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 13
Islam Karimov age 14
Dan Quayle age 5
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 32
Omar al-Bashir age 8
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 288
Naoto Kan age 6
Pratibha Patil age 18
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 3
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 24
Heydar Aliyev age 29
Hassanal Bolkiah age 6
Mario Draghi age 5
Kim Dae-jung age 28
Radovan Karadžić age 7
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 30
Aldo Moro age 36
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 12
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 46
F. W. de Klerk age 16