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Events

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
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01

People

Roque A. Saldías age 62
Prime Minister - Peru
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 63
Governor-General - Australia
Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie age 60
Governor-General - New Zealand
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 73
Governor-General - Madagascar
Donald Trump age 8
Albert Einstein age 75
Vladimir Putin age 1
Ronald Reagan age 43
Nelson Mandela age 36
George W. Bush age 8
Joe Biden age 11
Pablo Picasso age 72
Charlie Chaplin age 65
Martin Luther King Jr. age 25
Pope Francis age 17
Che Guevara age 26
Bill Clinton age 8
Charles de Gaulle age 63
Angela Merkel age 1 month
Neil Armstrong age 24
François Hollande age 0 months
Walt Disney age 52
Elvis Presley age 19
John Paul II age 34
Margaret Thatcher age 28
Ernest Hemingway age 55
Gabriel García Márquez age 27
Fidel Castro age 28
Yuri Gagarin age 20
Mikhail Gorbachev age 23
Stephen Hawking age 12
Jean-Paul Sartre age 49
Jimmy Carter age 29
Benedict XVI age 27
Mother Teresa age 44
Harry S. Truman age 70
Hillary Clinton age 6
George H. W. Bush age 30
Xi Jinping age 1
Hugo Chávez age 0 months
Simone de Beauvoir age 46
Niels Bohr age 68
Muammar Gaddafi age 12
John Lennon age 13
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 5 months
Muhammad Ali age 12
Kofi Annan age 16
Charles III age 5
Lech Wałęsa age 10
Narendra Modi age 3
Indira Gandhi age 36
Saddam Hussein age 17
Aung San Suu Kyi age 9
Enrico Fermi age 52
Benjamin Netanyahu age 4
14th Dalai Lama age 19
Silvio Berlusconi age 17
Bob Marley age 9
Herbert Hoover age 80
Mahathir Mohamad age 29
Boris Yeltsin age 23
Ali Khamenei age 15
Jacques Chirac age 21
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 35
Kwame Nkrumah age 44
Tony Blair age 1
Yasser Arafat age 25
Ban Ki-moon age 10
Benazir Bhutto age 1
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 8
Henry Kissinger age 31
Václav Havel age 17
Georges Pompidou age 43
Leonid Brezhnev age 47
Robert Mugabe age 30
Hosni Mubarak age 26
Golda Meir age 56
John XXIII age 72
Dilma Rousseff age 6
Ferdinand Marcos age 36
Al Gore age 6
Malcolm X age 29
François Mitterrand age 37
Alexander Fleming age 73
David Ben-Gurion age 67
Milton Friedman age 42
Ruhollah Khomeini age 51
Valentina Tereshkova age 17
Pol Pot age 29
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 15
António Guterres age 5
Akihito age 20
Helmut Kohl age 24
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 50
Rosa Parks age 41
Gordon Brown age 3
Shimon Peres age 31
John Paul I age 41
Anwar Sadat age 35
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 16
Paul VI age 56
Willy Brandt age 40
Gerhard Schröder age 10
Hassan Rouhani age 5
Salvador Allende age 46
Hu Jintao age 11
John von Neumann age 50
Augusto Pinochet age 38
Lee Kuan Yew age 30
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 1
Michelle Bachelet age 2
Suharto age 33
Ariel Sharon age 26
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 36
Desmond Tutu age 22
Viktor Yanukovych age 4
Mohamed Morsi age 3
Sergio Mattarella age 13
Manmohan Singh age 21
Pervez Musharraf age 11
Yuri Andropov age 40
Abdullah Gül age 3
Lech Kaczyński age 5
Buzz Aldrin age 24
Mohammad Khatami age 10
Patrice Lumumba age 29
Yitzhak Rabin age 32
Rosalind Franklin age 34
Andrei Sakharov age 33
Dick Cheney age 13
Douglas MacArthur age 74
Raúl Castro age 23
Sheikh Hasina age 6
Giorgio Napolitano age 29
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 14
Idi Amin age 29
Rodrigo Duterte age 9
Helmut Schmidt age 35
Margrethe II of Denmark age 14
Rachel Carson age 47
Corazon Aquino age 21
Edward VIII age 60
John Kerry age 10
Madeleine Albright age 17
José Mujica age 19
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 30
Yoshihide Suga age 5
Rajiv Gandhi age 10
Thabo Mbeki age 12
Wernher von Braun age 42
Harald V of Norway age 17
Viktor Yushchenko age 5 months
George C. Marshall age 73
John Major age 11
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 17
Slobodan Milošević age 13
Enver Hoxha age 45
Jacob Zuma age 12
Park Geun-hye age 2
Martti Ahtisaari age 17
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 8
Moon Jae-in age 1
Juan Manuel Santos age 3
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 18
Konstantin Chernenko age 42
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 22
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 16
Jiang Zemin age 28
Sauli Niinistö age 5
Eduard Shevardnadze age 26
Romano Prodi age 15
Cyril Ramaphosa age 1
Robert F. Kennedy age 28
Serzh Sargsyan age 1 month
Pranab Mukherjee age 18
Park Chung-hee age 36
Vyacheslav Molotov age 64
Joachim Gauck age 14
Thomas Sankara age 4
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 7
Menachem Begin age 41
Erich Honecker age 42
Hafez al-Assad age 23
Muhammadu Buhari age 11
Horst Köhler age 11
Sebastián Piñera age 4
Tarja Halonen age 10
Daniel Ortega age 8
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 15
Islam Karimov age 16
Dan Quayle age 7
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 34
Omar al-Bashir age 10
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 289
Naoto Kan age 7
Pratibha Patil age 19
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 4
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 26
Heydar Aliyev age 31
Hassanal Bolkiah age 8