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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
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01

People

Lech Wałęsa age 10
Narendra Modi age 3
Indira Gandhi age 35
Saddam Hussein age 16
Aung San Suu Kyi age 8
Enrico Fermi age 52
Benjamin Netanyahu age 4
14th Dalai Lama age 18
Silvio Berlusconi age 17
Bob Marley age 8
Herbert Hoover age 79
Mahathir Mohamad age 28
Boris Yeltsin age 22
Ali Khamenei age 14
Jacques Chirac age 20
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 34
Kwame Nkrumah age 44
Tony Blair age 6 months
Yasser Arafat age 24
Ban Ki-moon age 9
Benazir Bhutto age 4 months
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 8
Henry Kissinger age 30
Václav Havel age 17
Georges Pompidou age 42
Leonid Brezhnev age 46
Robert Mugabe age 29
Hosni Mubarak age 25
Golda Meir age 55
John XXIII age 72
Dilma Rousseff age 5
Deng Xiaoping age 49
Ferdinand Marcos age 36
Al Gore age 5
Malcolm X age 28
François Mitterrand age 37
Alexander Fleming age 72
Milton Friedman age 41
Ruhollah Khomeini age 51
Valentina Tereshkova age 16
Pol Pot age 28
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 15
António Guterres age 4
Akihito age 19
Helmut Kohl age 23
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 49
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 35
Rosa Parks age 40
Gordon Brown age 2
Shimon Peres age 30
John Paul I age 41
Anwar Sadat age 34
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 15
Paul VI age 56
Willy Brandt age 39
Gerhard Schröder age 9
Hassan Rouhani age 4
Salvador Allende age 45
Hu Jintao age 10
John von Neumann age 49
Augusto Pinochet age 37
Lee Kuan Yew age 30
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 8 months
Michelle Bachelet age 2
Suharto age 32
Ariel Sharon age 25
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 35
Desmond Tutu age 22
Viktor Yanukovych age 3
Mohamed Morsi age 2
Sergio Mattarella age 12
Manmohan Singh age 21
Pervez Musharraf age 10
Yuri Andropov age 39
Abdullah Gül age 3
Lech Kaczyński age 4
Buzz Aldrin age 23
Mohammad Khatami age 10
Patrice Lumumba age 28
Yitzhak Rabin age 31
Rosalind Franklin age 33
Andrei Sakharov age 32
Dick Cheney age 12
Douglas MacArthur age 73
Raúl Castro age 22
Sheikh Hasina age 6
Giorgio Napolitano age 28
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 13
Idi Amin age 28
Rodrigo Duterte age 8
Helmut Schmidt age 34
Margrethe II of Denmark age 13
Rachel Carson age 46
Corazon Aquino age 20
Edward VIII age 59
John Kerry age 9
Madeleine Albright age 16
José Mujica age 18
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 29
Yoshihide Suga age 4
Rajiv Gandhi age 9
Thabo Mbeki age 11
Wernher von Braun age 41
Harald V of Norway age 16
George C. Marshall age 72
John Major age 10
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 16
Slobodan Milošević age 12
Jacob Zuma age 11
Park Geun-hye age 1
Martti Ahtisaari age 16
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 7
Moon Jae-in age 9 months
Juan Manuel Santos age 2
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 17
Konstantin Chernenko age 42
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 22
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 15
Jiang Zemin age 27
Sauli Niinistö age 5
Eduard Shevardnadze age 25
Romano Prodi age 14
Cyril Ramaphosa age 11 months
Robert F. Kennedy age 27
Pranab Mukherjee age 17
Park Chung-hee age 36
Vyacheslav Molotov age 63
Joachim Gauck age 13
Anthony Eden age 56
Thomas Sankara age 3
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 6
Menachem Begin age 40
Erich Honecker age 41
Hafez al-Assad age 23
Harold Macmillan age 59
Muhammadu Buhari age 10
Horst Köhler age 10
Sebastián Piñera age 3
Tarja Halonen age 9
Daniel Ortega age 7
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 14
Islam Karimov age 15
Dan Quayle age 6
Harold Wilson age 37
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 33
Omar al-Bashir age 9
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 288
Naoto Kan age 7
James Callaghan age 41
Pratibha Patil age 18
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 4
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 25
Heydar Aliyev age 30
Hassanal Bolkiah age 7
Mario Draghi age 6
Kim Dae-jung age 29
Radovan Karadžić age 8
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 31
Aldo Moro age 37
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 12
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 47
F. W. de Klerk age 17
Ludwig Erhard age 56
Ashraf Ghani age 4
Kurt Waldheim age 34
Alexander Van der Bellen age 9
Miloš Zeman age 9
Mobutu Sese Seko age 23
Salome Zourabichvili age 1
Jomo Kenyatta age 60
Emomali Rahmon age 1
Julius Nyerere age 31
Saparmurat Niyazov age 13
Yoweri Museveni age 9
Leonid Kuchma age 15
Donald Rumsfeld age 21
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 5 months
Olof Palme age 26
Süleyman Demirel age 29
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 37
Queen Camilla age 6
Jonas Salk age 39
Karl Dönitz age 62
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 20
Pierre Trudeau age 34
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 65
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 30
Bronisław Komorowski age 1
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 6
Junichiro Koizumi age 11
Tarō Asō age 13
U Thant age 44
Rudolf Hess age 59
Colin Powell age 16
Norodom Sihamoni age 5 months
Giulio Andreotti age 34
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 9 months
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 17
Alexander Dubček age 31
Wen Jiabao age 11