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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
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08

People

Harry S. Truman age 73
Hillary Clinton age 9
George H. W. Bush age 33
Nicolas Sarkozy age 2
Xi Jinping age 4
Hugo Chávez age 3
Simone de Beauvoir age 49
Niels Bohr age 71
Muammar Gaddafi age 15
John Lennon age 16
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 3
Muhammad Ali age 15
Kofi Annan age 19
Charles III age 8
Osama bin Laden age 5 months
Lech Wałęsa age 13
Leo XIV age 1
Narendra Modi age 6
Indira Gandhi age 39
Saddam Hussein age 20
Aung San Suu Kyi age 12
Benjamin Netanyahu age 7
14th Dalai Lama age 22
Silvio Berlusconi age 20
Shinzo Abe age 2
Bob Marley age 12
Herbert Hoover age 83
Tim Berners-Lee age 2
Mahathir Mohamad age 32
Boris Yeltsin age 26
Ali Khamenei age 18
Jacques Chirac age 24
Guillermo Lasso age 1
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 38
Alexander Lukashenka age 2
Tony Blair age 4
Yasser Arafat age 27
Ban Ki-moon age 13
Benazir Bhutto age 4
Jair Bolsonaro age 2
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 11
Theresa May age 10 months
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 9 months
Henry Kissinger age 34
Václav Havel age 20
Georges Pompidou age 46
Leonid Brezhnev age 50
Robert Mugabe age 33
Hosni Mubarak age 29
Golda Meir age 59
John XXIII age 75
Dilma Rousseff age 9
Ferdinand Marcos age 39
Al Gore age 9
Malcolm X age 32
François Mitterrand age 40
Milton Friedman age 45
Ruhollah Khomeini age 54
Valentina Tereshkova age 20
Pol Pot age 32
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 18
António Guterres age 8
Akihito age 23
Helmut Kohl age 27
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 53
Rosa Parks age 44
Gordon Brown age 6
Shimon Peres age 34
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 13
Hassan Rouhani age 8
Salvador Allende age 49
Hu Jintao age 14
Augusto Pinochet age 41
Kuan Yew Lee age 33
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 4
Michelle Bachelet age 5
Suharto age 36
Ariel Sharon age 29
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 39
Desmond Tutu age 25
Viktor Yanukovych age 7
Mohamed Morsi age 6
Sergio Mattarella age 16
Manmohan Singh age 24
Pervez Musharraf age 14
Yuri Andropov age 43
Abdullah Gül age 6
Lech Kaczyński age 8
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 1
Buzz Aldrin age 27
Mohammad Khatami age 13
Patrice Lumumba age 32
Yitzhak Rabin age 35
Tsai Ing-wen age 11 months
Mariano Rajoy age 2
Rosalind Franklin age 37
Andrei Sakharov age 36
Dick Cheney age 16
Douglas MacArthur age 77
Condoleezza Rice age 2
Raúl Castro age 26
Sheikh Hasina age 9
Giorgio Napolitano age 32
Nūrsūltan Nazarbaev age 17
Idi Amin age 32
Rodrigo Duterte age 12
Helmut Schmidt age 38
Margrethe II of Denmark age 17
Donald Tusk age 3 months
Rachel Carson age 50
Corazon Aquino age 24
Edward VIII age 63
John Kerry age 13
Madeleine Albright age 20
José Mujica age 22
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 33
Yoshihide Suga age 8
Rajiv Gandhi age 12
Thabo Mbeki age 15
Wernher von Braun age 45
Clement Attlee age 74
Harald V of Norway age 20
Viktor Yushchenko age 3
George C. Marshall age 76
John Major age 14
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 2
Abd al-Aziz Boutafliqa age 20
Slobodan Milošević age 15
Enver Hoxha age 48
Jacob Zuma age 15
Park Geun-hye age 5
Martti Ahtisaari age 20
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 11
Moon Jae-in age 4
Juan Manuel Santos age 6
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 31
Friedrich Merz age 1
Sauli Niinistö age 8
Eduard Shevardnadze age 29
Romano Prodi age 18
Cyril Ramaphosa age 4
Robert F. Kennedy age 31
Serzh Sargsyan age 3
Pranab Mukherjee age 21
Park Chung-hee age 39
Vyacheslav Molotov age 67
Joachim Gauck age 17
Anthony Eden age 60
Thomas Sankara age 7
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 10
Menachem Begin age 44
Jean-Claude Juncker age 2
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 0 months
Erich Honecker age 44
Hafez al-Assad age 26
Li Keqiang age 2
Muhammadu Buhari age 14
Horst Köhler age 14
Fumio Kishida age 0 months
Sebastián Piñera age 7
Tarja Halonen age 13
Daniel Ortega age 11
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 18
Islam Karimov age 19
Dan Quayle age 10
Harold Wilson age 41
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 37
Omar al-Bashir age 13
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 292
Naoto Kan age 10
James Callaghan age 45
Pratibha Patil age 22
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 7
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 29
Juan Perón age 61
Heydar Aliyev age 34
Hassanal Bolkiah I of Brunei age 11
Norodom Sihanouk age 34
Mario Draghi age 9
Kim Dae-jung age 33
Radovan Karadžić age 12
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 34
Aldo Moro age 40
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 16
Asif Ali Zardari age 2
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 50
F. W. de Klerk age 21
Ludwig Erhard age 60
Ashraf Ghani age 8
Kurt Waldheim age 38
Alexander Van der Bellen age 13