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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
First Taiwan Strait Crisis 1954-09-03 - 1955-05-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19

People

Niels Bohr age 69
Muammar Gaddafi age 12
John Lennon age 14
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 1
Muhammad Ali age 13
Kofi Annan age 16
Charles III age 6
Lech Wałęsa age 11
Narendra Modi age 4
Indira Gandhi age 37
Saddam Hussein age 17
Aung San Suu Kyi age 9
Benjamin Netanyahu age 5
14th Dalai Lama age 19
Silvio Berlusconi age 18
Shinzo Abe age 5 months
Bob Marley age 10
Herbert Hoover age 80
Mahathir Mohamad age 29
Boris Yeltsin age 24
Ali Khamenei age 15
Jacques Chirac age 22
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 36
Kwame Nkrumah age 45
Alexander Lukashenka age 6 months
Tony Blair age 1
Yasser Arafat age 25
Ban Ki-moon age 10
Benazir Bhutto age 1
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 9
Henry Kissinger age 31
Václav Havel age 18
Georges Pompidou age 43
Leonid Brezhnev age 48
Robert Mugabe age 31
Hosni Mubarak age 26
Golda Meir age 56
John XXIII age 73
Dilma Rousseff age 7
Deng Xiaoping age 50
Ferdinand Marcos age 37
Al Gore age 6
Malcolm X age 29
François Mitterrand age 38
David Ben-Gurion age 68
Milton Friedman age 42
Ruhollah Khomeini age 52
Valentina Tereshkova age 18
Pol Pot age 29
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 16
António Guterres age 5
Akihito age 21
Helmut Kohl age 24
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 50
Rosa Parks age 42
Gordon Brown age 4
Shimon Peres age 31
John Paul I age 42
Anwar Sadat age 36
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 17
Paul VI age 57
Willy Brandt age 41
Gerhard Schröder age 10
Hassan Rouhani age 6
Salvador Allende age 46
Hu Jintao age 12
John von Neumann age 51
Augusto Pinochet age 39
Kuan Yew Lee age 31
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 2
Michelle Bachelet age 3
Suharto age 33
Ariel Sharon age 27
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 37
Desmond Tutu age 23
Viktor Yanukovych age 4
Mohamed Morsi age 3
Sergio Mattarella age 13
Manmohan Singh age 22
Pervez Musharraf age 11
Yuri Andropov age 40
Abdullah Gül age 4
Lech Kaczyński age 5
Buzz Aldrin age 25
Mohammad Khatami age 11
Patrice Lumumba age 29
Yitzhak Rabin age 33
Rosalind Franklin age 34
Andrei Sakharov age 33
Dick Cheney age 14
Douglas MacArthur age 75
Condoleezza Rice age 4 months
Raúl Castro age 23
Sheikh Hasina age 7
Giorgio Napolitano age 29
Nūrsūltan Nazarbaev age 14
Idi Amin age 30
Rodrigo Duterte age 9
Helmut Schmidt age 36
Margrethe II of Denmark age 14
Rachel Carson age 47
Corazon Aquino age 22
Edward VIII age 60
John Kerry age 11
Madeleine Albright age 17
José Mujica age 19
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 30
Yoshihide Suga age 6
Rajiv Gandhi age 10
Thabo Mbeki age 12
Wernher von Braun age 43
Harald V of Norway age 18
Viktor Yushchenko age 1
George C. Marshall age 74
John Major age 11
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 3 months
Abd al-Aziz Boutafliqa age 18
Slobodan Milošević age 13
Enver Hoxha age 46
Jacob Zuma age 12
Park Geun-hye age 3
Martti Ahtisaari age 17
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 8
Moon Jae-in age 2
Juan Manuel Santos age 3
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 19
Konstantin Chernenko age 43
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 23
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 17
Jiang Zemin age 28
Sauli Niinistö age 6
Eduard Shevardnadze age 27
Romano Prodi age 15
Cyril Ramaphosa age 2
Robert F. Kennedy age 29
Serzh Sargsyan age 8 months
Pranab Mukherjee age 19
Park Chung-hee age 37
Vyacheslav Molotov age 65
Joachim Gauck age 15
Anthony Eden age 57
Thomas Sankara age 5
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 8
Menachem Begin age 41
Jean-Claude Juncker age 3 months
Erich Honecker age 42
Hafez al-Assad age 24
Muhammadu Buhari age 12
Horst Köhler age 12
Sebastián Piñera age 5
Tarja Halonen age 11
Daniel Ortega age 9
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 15
Islam Karimov age 17
Dan Quayle age 8
Harold Wilson age 39
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 35
Omar al-Bashir age 11
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 290
Naoto Kan age 8
James Callaghan age 43
Pratibha Patil age 20
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 5
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 27
Heydar Aliyev age 31
Hassanal Bolkiah I of Brunei age 8
Norodom Sihanouk age 32
Mario Draghi age 7
Kim Dae-jung age 31
Radovan Karadžić age 9
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 32
Aldo Moro age 38
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 14
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 48
F. W. de Klerk age 19
Ludwig Erhard age 58
Ashraf Ghani age 5
Kurt Waldheim age 36
Alexander Van der Bellen age 11
Miloš Zeman age 10
Mobutu Sese Seko age 24
Salome Zourabichvili age 3
Jomo Kenyatta age 61
Emomali Rahmon age 2
Julius Nyerere age 32
Saparmyrat Nyýazow age 15
Yoweri Museveni age 10
Leonid Kuchma age 16
Donald Rumsfeld age 22
Masoud Pezeshkian age 5 months
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 1
Olof Palme age 28
Süleyman Demirel age 30
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 38
Queen Camilla age 7
Jonas Salk age 40
Karl Dönitz age 63
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 22
Pierre Trudeau age 35
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 66