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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
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962

People

Stephen Hawking age 16
Jean-Paul Sartre age 52
Jimmy Carter age 33
Benedict XVI age 30
Mother Teresa age 47
Harry S. Truman age 73
Hillary Clinton age 10
George H. W. Bush age 33
Nicolas Sarkozy age 2
Xi Jinping age 4
Hugo Chávez age 3
Simone de Beauvoir age 50
Niels Bohr age 72
Muammar Gaddafi age 15
John Lennon age 17
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 3
Muhammad Ali age 15
Kofi Annan age 19
Charles III age 9
Osama bin Laden age 10 months
Lech Wałęsa age 14
Leo XIV age 2
Narendra Modi age 7
Indira Gandhi age 40
Saddam Hussein age 20
Aung San Suu Kyi age 12
Benjamin Netanyahu age 8
14th Dalai Lama age 22
Silvio Berlusconi age 21
Shinzo Abe age 3
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 25
Guillermo Lasso age 2
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 39
Alexander Lukashenko age 3
Tony Blair age 4
Yasser Arafat age 28
Ban Ki-moon age 13
Benazir Bhutto age 4
Jair Bolsonaro age 2
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 12
Theresa May age 1
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 1
Henry Kissinger age 34
Václav Havel age 21
Georges Pompidou age 46
Leonid Brezhnev age 51
Robert Mugabe age 33
Hosni Mubarak age 29
Golda Meir age 59
John XXIII age 76
Dilma Rousseff age 10
Ferdinand Marcos age 40
Al Gore age 9
Malcolm X age 32
François Mitterrand age 41
Milton Friedman age 45
Ruhollah Khomeini age 55
Valentina Tereshkova age 20
Pol Pot age 32
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 19
António Guterres age 8
Akihito age 24
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 45
Anwar Sadat age 39
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 20
Paul VI age 60
Willy Brandt age 44
Gerhard Schröder age 13
Hassan Rouhani age 9
Salvador Allende age 49
Hu Jintao age 15
Augusto Pinochet age 42
Lee Kuan Yew age 34
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 4
Michelle Bachelet age 6
Suharto age 36
Ariel Sharon age 29
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 39
Desmond Tutu age 26
Viktor Yanukovych age 7
Mohamed Morsi age 6
Sergio Mattarella age 16
Manmohan Singh age 25
Pervez Musharraf age 14
Yuri Andropov age 43
Abdullah Gül age 7
Lech Kaczyński age 8
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 2
Buzz Aldrin age 27
Mohammad Khatami age 14
Patrice Lumumba age 32
Yitzhak Rabin age 35
Tsai Ing-wen age 1
Mariano Rajoy age 2
Rosalind Franklin age 37
Andrei Sakharov age 36
Dick Cheney age 16
Douglas MacArthur age 78
Condoleezza Rice age 3
Raúl Castro age 26
Sheikh Hasina age 10
Giorgio Napolitano age 32
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 17
Idi Amin age 33
Rodrigo Duterte age 12
Helmut Schmidt age 39
Margrethe II of Denmark age 17
Donald Tusk age 8 months
Rachel Carson age 50
Corazon Aquino age 24
Edward VIII age 63
John Kerry age 14
Madeleine Albright age 20
Hamid Karzai age 0 months
José Mujica age 22
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 33
Yoshihide Suga age 9
Rajiv Gandhi age 13
Thabo Mbeki age 15
Wernher von Braun age 45
Clement Attlee age 75
Harald V of Norway age 20
Viktor Yushchenko age 3
George C. Marshall age 77
John Major age 14
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 3
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 20
Slobodan Milošević age 16
Enver Hoxha age 49
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 22
Konstantin Chernenko age 46
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 26
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 19
Jiang Zemin age 31
Friedrich Merz age 2
Sauli Niinistö age 9
Eduard Shevardnadze age 29
Romano Prodi age 18
Cyril Ramaphosa age 5
Robert F. Kennedy age 32
Serzh Sargsyan age 3
Pranab Mukherjee age 22
Park Chung-hee age 40
Vyacheslav Molotov age 67
Joachim Gauck age 17
Anthony Eden age 60
Thomas Sankara age 8
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 10
Menachem Begin age 44
Jean-Claude Juncker age 3
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 5 months
Erich Honecker age 45
Hafez al-Assad age 27
Li Keqiang age 2
Muhammadu Buhari age 15
Horst Köhler age 14
Fumio Kishida age 5 months
Kevin Rudd age 3 months
Sebastián Piñera age 8
Tarja Halonen age 14
Daniel Ortega age 12
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 18
Islam Karimov age 19
Dan Quayle age 10
Harold Wilson age 41
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 37
Paul Kagame age 2 months
Omar al-Bashir age 14
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 293
Naoto Kan age 11
James Callaghan age 45
Pratibha Patil age 23
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 8
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 30
Juan Perón age 62
Heydar Aliyev age 34
Hassanal Bolkiah age 11
Norodom Sihanouk age 35
Mario Draghi age 10
Kim Dae-jung age 34
Radovan Karadžić age 12
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 35
Aldo Moro age 41