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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

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
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
Deng Xiaoping age 48
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 19
Helmut Kohl age 22
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 48
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 35
Rosa Parks age 39
Gordon Brown age 1
Shimon Peres age 29
John Paul I age 40
Anwar Sadat age 34
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 15
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 10
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 73
Raúl Castro age 21
Sheikh Hasina age 5
Giorgio Napolitano age 27
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 12
Idi Amin age 28
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 11 months
Martti Ahtisaari age 15
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 6
Juan Manuel Santos age 1
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 17
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 1 month
Robert F. Kennedy age 27
Pranab Mukherjee age 17
Park Chung-hee age 35
Vyacheslav Molotov age 62
Joachim Gauck age 12
Anthony Eden age 55
Thomas Sankara age 3
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 5
Menachem Begin age 39
Erich Honecker age 40
Hafez al-Assad age 22
Harold Macmillan age 58
Muhammadu Buhari age 10
Horst Köhler age 9
Sebastián Piñera age 3
Tarja Halonen age 9
Daniel Ortega age 7
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 13
Islam Karimov age 14
Dan Quayle age 5
Harold Wilson age 36
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 32
Omar al-Bashir age 9
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 288
Naoto Kan age 6
James Callaghan age 40
Pratibha Patil age 18
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 3
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 25
Heydar Aliyev age 29
Hassanal Bolkiah age 6
Mario Draghi age 5
Kim Dae-jung age 29
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
Ludwig Erhard age 55
Ashraf Ghani age 3
Kurt Waldheim age 34
Alexander Van der Bellen age 8
Miloš Zeman age 8
Mobutu Sese Seko age 22
Salome Zourabichvili age 9 months
Jomo Kenyatta age 59
Emomali Rahmon age 3 months
Julius Nyerere age 30
Saparmurat Niyazov age 12
Yoweri Museveni age 8
Leonid Kuchma age 14
Donald Rumsfeld age 20
Olof Palme age 25
Süleyman Demirel age 28
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 36
Queen Camilla age 5
Jonas Salk age 38
Karl Dönitz age 61
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 19
Pierre Trudeau age 33
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 64
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 29
Bronisław Komorowski age 7 months
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 5
Junichiro Koizumi age 11
Tarō Asō age 12
U Thant age 44
Rudolf Hess age 58
Colin Powell age 15
Giulio Andreotti age 34
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 16
Alexander Dubček age 31
Wen Jiabao age 10
Václav Klaus age 11
Ehud Olmert age 7
Francesco Cossiga age 24
İsmet İnönü age 68
Leonid Kravchuk age 19
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 5
Puyi age 46
Ahmed Ben Bella age 36