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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

Benedict XVI age 29
Mother Teresa age 46
Harry S. Truman age 72
Hillary Clinton age 8
George H. W. Bush age 32
Nicolas Sarkozy age 1
Xi Jinping age 3
Hugo Chávez age 2
Simone de Beauvoir age 48
Niels Bohr age 70
Muammar Gaddafi age 14
John Lennon age 15
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 2
Muhammad Ali age 14
Kofi Annan age 18
Charles III age 7
Lech Wałęsa age 12
Leo XIV age 12 months
Narendra Modi age 5
Indira Gandhi age 38
Saddam Hussein age 19
Aung San Suu Kyi age 11
Benjamin Netanyahu age 6
14th Dalai Lama age 21
Silvio Berlusconi age 19
Shinzo Abe age 1
Bob Marley age 11
Herbert Hoover age 82
Tim Berners-Lee age 1
Mahathir Mohamad age 31
Boris Yeltsin age 25
Ali Khamenei age 17
Jacques Chirac age 23
Guillermo Lasso age 9 months
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 37
Kwame Nkrumah age 47
Alexander Lukashenko age 2
Tony Blair age 3
Yasser Arafat age 27
Ban Ki-moon age 12
Benazir Bhutto age 3
Jair Bolsonaro age 1
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 10
Henry Kissinger age 33
Václav Havel age 19
Georges Pompidou age 45
Leonid Brezhnev age 49
Robert Mugabe age 32
Hosni Mubarak age 28
Golda Meir age 58
John XXIII age 74
Dilma Rousseff age 8
Deng Xiaoping age 52
Ferdinand Marcos age 39
Al Gore age 8
Malcolm X age 31
François Mitterrand age 39
Milton Friedman age 44
Ruhollah Khomeini age 54
Valentina Tereshkova age 19
Pol Pot age 31
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 17
António Guterres age 7
Akihito age 22
Helmut Kohl age 26
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 52
Rosa Parks age 43
Gordon Brown age 5
Shimon Peres age 33
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 12
Hassan Rouhani age 7
Salvador Allende age 48
Hu Jintao age 13
John von Neumann age 52
Augusto Pinochet age 40
Lee Kuan Yew age 33
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 3
Michelle Bachelet age 4
Suharto age 35
Ariel Sharon age 28
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 38
Desmond Tutu age 24
Viktor Yanukovych age 6
Mohamed Morsi age 5
Sergio Mattarella age 15
Manmohan Singh age 23
Pervez Musharraf age 13
Yuri Andropov age 42
Abdullah Gül age 5
Lech Kaczyński age 7
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 8 months
Buzz Aldrin age 26
Mohammad Khatami age 12
Patrice Lumumba age 31
Yitzhak Rabin age 34
Tsai Ing-wen age 0 months
Mariano Rajoy age 1
Rosalind Franklin age 36
Andrei Sakharov age 35
Dick Cheney age 15
Douglas MacArthur age 76
Condoleezza Rice age 1
Raúl Castro age 25
Sheikh Hasina age 8
Giorgio Napolitano age 31
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 16
Idi Amin age 31
Rodrigo Duterte age 11
Helmut Schmidt age 37
Margrethe II of Denmark age 16
Rachel Carson age 49
Corazon Aquino age 23
Edward VIII age 62
John Kerry age 12
Madeleine Albright age 19
José Mujica age 21
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 32
Yoshihide Suga age 7
Rajiv Gandhi age 12
Thabo Mbeki age 14
Wernher von Braun age 44
Clement Attlee age 73
Harald V of Norway age 19
Viktor Yushchenko age 2
George C. Marshall age 75
John Major age 13
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 1
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 19
Slobodan Milošević age 15
Enver Hoxha age 47
Jacob Zuma age 14
Park Geun-hye age 4
Martti Ahtisaari age 19
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 10
Moon Jae-in age 3
Juan Manuel Santos age 5
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 30
Friedrich Merz age 10 months
Sauli Niinistö age 8
Eduard Shevardnadze age 28
Romano Prodi age 17
Cyril Ramaphosa age 3
Robert F. Kennedy age 30
Serzh Sargsyan age 2
Pranab Mukherjee age 20
Park Chung-hee age 38
Vyacheslav Molotov age 66
Joachim Gauck age 16
Thomas Sankara age 6
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 9
Menachem Begin age 43
Jean-Claude Juncker age 1
Erich Honecker age 44
Hafez al-Assad age 25
Li Keqiang age 1
Muhammadu Buhari age 13
Horst Köhler age 13
Sebastián Piñera age 6
Tarja Halonen age 12
Daniel Ortega age 10
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 17
Islam Karimov age 18
Dan Quayle age 9
Harold Wilson age 40
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 36
Omar al-Bashir age 12
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 291
Naoto Kan age 9
James Callaghan age 44
Pratibha Patil age 21
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 7
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 28
Juan Perón age 60
Heydar Aliyev age 33
Hassanal Bolkiah age 10
Norodom Sihanouk age 33
Mario Draghi age 9
Kim Dae-jung age 32
Radovan Karadžić age 11
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 33
Aldo Moro age 39
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 15
Asif Ali Zardari age 1
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 49
F. W. de Klerk age 20
Ludwig Erhard age 59
Ashraf Ghani age 7
Kurt Waldheim age 37
Alexander Van der Bellen age 12
Miloš Zeman age 11
Mobutu Sese Seko age 25