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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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966

People

Burhanuddin Harahap age 39
Prime Minister - Indonesia
Grantley Herbert Adams age 57
Prime Minister - Barbados
Oum Cheang Sun age 55
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Leng Ngeth age 56
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Alexander Frick age 45
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Makonnen Endelkachew age 66
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Filip Bajković age 45
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Roque A. Saldías age 63
Prime Minister - Peru
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 64
Governor-General - Australia
Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie age 62
Governor-General - New Zealand
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 74
Governor-General - Madagascar
Donald Trump age 9
Vladimir Putin age 3
Ronald Reagan age 45
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 27
Bill Gates age 3 months
Pope Francis age 19
Steve Jobs age 11 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 21
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 14
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 1
Xi Jinping age 2
Hugo Chávez age 1
Simone de Beauvoir age 48
Niels Bohr age 70
Muammar Gaddafi age 13
John Lennon age 15
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 1
Muhammad Ali age 14
Kofi Annan age 17
Charles III age 7
Lech Wałęsa age 12
Leo XIV age 4 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 11
Herbert Hoover age 81
Tim Berners-Lee age 8 months
Mahathir Mohamad age 30
Boris Yeltsin age 25
Ali Khamenei age 16
Jacques Chirac age 23
Guillermo Lasso age 2 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
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 8
Benazir Bhutto age 2
Jair Bolsonaro age 10 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 8
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 22
Helmut Kohl age 25
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 51
Rosa Parks age 43
Gordon Brown age 4
Shimon Peres age 32
John Paul I age 43
Anwar Sadat age 37
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 18
Paul VI age 58
Willy Brandt age 42
Gerhard Schröder age 11
Hassan Rouhani age 7
Salvador Allende age 47
Hu Jintao age 13
John von Neumann age 52
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 38
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
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 1 month
Buzz Aldrin age 26
Mohammad Khatami age 12
Patrice Lumumba age 30
Yitzhak Rabin age 33
Mariano Rajoy age 10 months
Rosalind Franklin age 35
Andrei Sakharov age 34
Dick Cheney age 15
Douglas MacArthur age 76
Condoleezza Rice age 1
Raúl Castro age 24
Sheikh Hasina age 8
Giorgio Napolitano age 30
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 15
Idi Amin age 31
Rodrigo Duterte age 10
Helmut Schmidt age 37
Margrethe II of Denmark age 15
Rachel Carson age 48
Corazon Aquino age 23
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
Clement Attlee age 73
Harald V of Norway age 18
Viktor Yushchenko age 1
George C. Marshall age 75
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 4
Martti Ahtisaari age 18
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 9
Moon Jae-in age 3
Mitt Romney age 8
Juan Manuel Santos age 4
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 20
Konstantin Chernenko age 44
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 24
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 18
Jiang Zemin age 29
Friedrich Merz age 2 months
Sauli Niinistö age 7
Eduard Shevardnadze age 28
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 16
Thomas Sankara age 6
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 9