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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
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20

People

Jules Marcel de Coppet age 74
Governor-General - Madagascar
Donald Trump age 9
Vladimir Putin age 3
Ronald Reagan age 44
Nelson Mandela age 37
George W. Bush age 9
Joe Biden age 13
Pablo Picasso age 74
Charlie Chaplin age 66
Martin Luther King Jr. age 26
Bill Gates age 1 month
Pope Francis age 18
Steve Jobs age 9 months
Che Guevara age 27
Bill Clinton age 9
Charles de Gaulle age 65
Angela Merkel age 1
Neil Armstrong age 25
François Hollande age 1
Walt Disney age 54
Elvis Presley age 20
John Paul II age 35
Margaret Thatcher age 30
Ernest Hemingway age 56
Gabriel García Márquez age 28
Fidel Castro age 29
Yuri Gagarin age 21
Mikhail Gorbachev age 24
Stephen Hawking age 13
Jean-Paul Sartre age 50
Jimmy Carter age 31
Benedict XVI age 28
Mother Teresa age 45
Harry S. Truman age 71
Hillary Clinton age 8
George H. W. Bush age 31
Nicolas Sarkozy age 10 months
Xi Jinping age 2
Hugo Chávez age 1
Simone de Beauvoir age 47
Niels Bohr age 70
Muammar Gaddafi age 13
John Lennon age 15
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 1
Muhammad Ali age 13
Kofi Annan age 17
Charles III age 7
Lech Wałęsa age 12
Leo XIV age 2 months
Narendra Modi age 5
Indira Gandhi age 38
Saddam Hussein age 18
Aung San Suu Kyi age 10
Benjamin Netanyahu age 6
14th Dalai Lama age 20
Silvio Berlusconi age 19
Shinzo Abe age 1
Bob Marley age 10
Herbert Hoover age 81
Tim Berners-Lee age 6 months
Mahathir Mohamad age 30
Boris Yeltsin age 24
Ali Khamenei age 16
Jacques Chirac age 23
Guillermo Lasso age 0 months
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 37
Kwame Nkrumah age 46
Alexander Lukashenko age 1
Tony Blair age 2
Yasser Arafat age 26
Ban Ki-moon age 11
Benazir Bhutto age 2
Jair Bolsonaro age 8 months
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 10
Henry Kissinger age 32
Václav Havel age 19
Georges Pompidou age 44
Leonid Brezhnev age 49
Robert Mugabe age 31
Hosni Mubarak age 27
Golda Meir age 57
John XXIII age 74
Dilma Rousseff age 7
Ferdinand Marcos age 38
Al Gore age 7
Malcolm X age 30
François Mitterrand age 39
Milton Friedman age 43
Ruhollah Khomeini age 53
Valentina Tereshkova age 18
Pol Pot age 30
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 17
António Guterres age 6
Akihito age 21
Helmut Kohl age 25
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 51
Rosa Parks age 42
Gordon Brown age 4
Shimon Peres age 32
John Paul I age 43
Anwar Sadat age 36
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 17
Paul VI age 58
Willy Brandt age 42
Gerhard Schröder age 11
Hassan Rouhani age 7
Salvador Allende age 47
Hu Jintao age 12
John von Neumann age 51
Augusto Pinochet age 40
Lee Kuan Yew age 32
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 2
Michelle Bachelet age 4
Suharto age 34
Ariel Sharon age 27
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 37
Desmond Tutu age 24
Viktor Yanukovych age 5
Mohamed Morsi age 4
Sergio Mattarella age 14
Manmohan Singh age 23
Pervez Musharraf age 12
Yuri Andropov age 41
Abdullah Gül age 5
Lech Kaczyński age 6
Buzz Aldrin age 25
Mohammad Khatami age 12
Patrice Lumumba age 30
Yitzhak Rabin age 33
Mariano Rajoy age 8 months
Rosalind Franklin age 35
Andrei Sakharov age 34
Dick Cheney age 14
Douglas MacArthur age 75
Condoleezza Rice age 1
Raúl Castro age 24
Sheikh Hasina age 8
Giorgio Napolitano age 30
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 15
Idi Amin age 30
Rodrigo Duterte age 10
Helmut Schmidt age 36
Margrethe II of Denmark age 15
Rachel Carson age 48
Corazon Aquino age 22
Edward VIII age 61
John Kerry age 12
Madeleine Albright age 18
José Mujica age 20
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 31
Yoshihide Suga age 7
Rajiv Gandhi age 11
Thabo Mbeki age 13
Wernher von Braun age 43
Harald V of Norway age 18
Viktor Yushchenko age 1
George C. Marshall age 74
John Major age 12
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 1
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 18
Slobodan Milošević age 14
Enver Hoxha age 47
Jacob Zuma age 13
Park Geun-hye age 3
Martti Ahtisaari age 18
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 9
Moon Jae-in age 2
Juan Manuel Santos age 4
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 19
Konstantin Chernenko age 44
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 24
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 17
Jiang Zemin age 29
Friedrich Merz age 0 months
Sauli Niinistö age 7
Eduard Shevardnadze age 27
Romano Prodi age 16
Cyril Ramaphosa age 3
Robert F. Kennedy age 30
Serzh Sargsyan age 1
Pranab Mukherjee age 20
Park Chung-hee age 38
Vyacheslav Molotov age 65
Joachim Gauck age 15
Thomas Sankara age 5
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 8
Menachem Begin age 42
Jean-Claude Juncker age 12 months
Erich Honecker age 43
Hafez al-Assad age 25
Li Keqiang age 5 months
Muhammadu Buhari age 12
Horst Köhler age 12
Sebastián Piñera age 6
Tarja Halonen age 11
Daniel Ortega age 10
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 16
Islam Karimov age 17
Dan Quayle age 8
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 35