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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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08

People

Alexander Frick age 46
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Makonnen Endelkachew age 67
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Sam Yun age 52
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Manuel Cisneros Sánchez age 52
Prime Minister - Peru
Ba Swe age 41
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Filip Bajković age 46
Prime Minister - Montenegro
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 65
Governor-General - Australia
Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie age 63
Governor-General - New Zealand
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 75
Governor-General - Madagascar
Martin Luther King Jr. age 28
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Donald Trump age 10
Vladimir Putin age 4
Ronald Reagan age 46
Nelson Mandela age 38
George W. Bush age 10
Joe Biden age 14
Pablo Picasso age 75
Charlie Chaplin age 67
Bill Gates age 1
Pope Francis age 20
Steve Jobs age 1
Che Guevara age 28
Bill Clinton age 10
Charles de Gaulle age 66
Angela Merkel age 2
Neil Armstrong age 26
François Hollande age 2
Walt Disney age 55
Elvis Presley age 22
John Paul II age 36
Margaret Thatcher age 31
Ernest Hemingway age 57
Gabriel García Márquez age 29
Fidel Castro age 30
Yuri Gagarin age 22
Mikhail Gorbachev age 25
Stephen Hawking age 15
Jean-Paul Sartre age 51
Jimmy Carter age 32
Benedict XVI age 29
Mother Teresa age 46
Harry S. Truman age 72
Hillary Clinton age 9
George H. W. Bush age 32
Nicolas Sarkozy age 2
Xi Jinping age 3
Hugo Chávez age 2
Simone de Beauvoir age 49
Niels Bohr age 71
Muammar Gaddafi age 14
John Lennon age 16
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 2
Muhammad Ali age 15
Kofi Annan age 18
Charles III age 8
Lech Wałęsa age 13
Leo XIV age 1
Narendra Modi age 6
Indira Gandhi age 39
Saddam Hussein age 19
Aung San Suu Kyi age 11
Benjamin Netanyahu age 7
14th Dalai Lama age 21
Silvio Berlusconi age 20
Shinzo Abe age 2
Bob Marley age 11
Herbert Hoover age 82
Tim Berners-Lee age 1
Mahathir Mohamad age 31
Boris Yeltsin age 26
Ali Khamenei age 17
Jacques Chirac age 24
Guillermo Lasso age 1
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 38
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 11
Theresa May age 4 months
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 3 months
Henry Kissinger age 33
Václav Havel age 20
Georges Pompidou age 45
Leonid Brezhnev age 50
Robert Mugabe age 32
Hosni Mubarak age 28
Golda Meir age 58
John XXIII age 75
Dilma Rousseff age 9
Ferdinand Marcos age 39
Al Gore age 8
Malcolm X age 31
François Mitterrand age 40
Milton Friedman age 44
Ruhollah Khomeini age 54
Valentina Tereshkova age 19
Pol Pot age 31
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 18
António Guterres age 7
Akihito age 23
Helmut Kohl age 26
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 52
Rosa Parks age 44
Gordon Brown age 5
Shimon Peres age 33
John Paul I age 44
Anwar Sadat age 38
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 19
Paul VI age 59
Willy Brandt age 43
Gerhard Schröder age 12
Hassan Rouhani age 8
Salvador Allende age 48
Hu Jintao age 14
John von Neumann age 53
Augusto Pinochet age 41
Lee Kuan Yew age 33
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 3
Michelle Bachelet age 5
Suharto age 35
Ariel Sharon age 28
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 39
Desmond Tutu age 25
Viktor Yanukovych age 6
Mohamed Morsi age 5
Sergio Mattarella age 15
Manmohan Singh age 24
Pervez Musharraf age 13
Yuri Andropov age 42
Abdullah Gül age 6
Lech Kaczyński age 7
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 1
Buzz Aldrin age 27
Mohammad Khatami age 13
Patrice Lumumba age 31
Yitzhak Rabin age 34
Tsai Ing-wen age 5 months
Mariano Rajoy age 1
Rosalind Franklin age 36
Andrei Sakharov age 35
Dick Cheney age 16
Douglas MacArthur age 77
Condoleezza Rice age 2
Raúl Castro age 25
Sheikh Hasina age 9
Giorgio Napolitano age 31
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 16
Idi Amin age 32
Rodrigo Duterte age 11
Helmut Schmidt age 38
Margrethe II of Denmark age 16
Rachel Carson age 49
Corazon Aquino age 24
Edward VIII age 62
John Kerry age 13
Madeleine Albright age 19
José Mujica age 21
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 32
Yoshihide Suga age 8
Rajiv Gandhi age 12
Thabo Mbeki age 14
Wernher von Braun age 44
Clement Attlee age 74
Harald V of Norway age 19
Viktor Yushchenko age 2
George C. Marshall age 76
John Major age 13
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 2
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 19
Slobodan Milošević age 15
Enver Hoxha age 48
Jacob Zuma age 14
Park Geun-hye age 5
Martti Ahtisaari age 19
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 10
Moon Jae-in age 4
Juan Manuel Santos age 5
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 21
Konstantin Chernenko age 45
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 25
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 19
Jiang Zemin age 30
Friedrich Merz age 1
Sauli Niinistö age 8
Eduard Shevardnadze age 29
Romano Prodi age 17
Cyril Ramaphosa age 4
Robert F. Kennedy age 31
Serzh Sargsyan age 2
Pranab Mukherjee age 21
Park Chung-hee age 39
Vyacheslav Molotov age 66
Joachim Gauck age 17
Anthony Eden age 59
Thomas Sankara age 7
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 10