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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

Abdullahi Issa age 35
Prime Minister - Somalia
Abdallah El-Yafi age 56
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Grantley Herbert Adams age 59
Prime Minister - Barbados
Abebe Aregai age 54
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Alexander Frick age 48
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Manuel Cisneros Sánchez age 53
Prime Minister - Peru
Abdul-Wahab Mirjan age 49
Prime Minister - Iraq
Jacques Opangault age 50
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Filip Bajković age 47
Prime Minister - Montenegro
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 66
Governor-General - Australia
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 76
Governor-General - Madagascar
Martin Luther King Jr. age 29
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Donald Trump age 11
Vladimir Putin age 5
Ronald Reagan age 47
Nelson Mandela age 39
George W. Bush age 11
Joe Biden age 15
Pablo Picasso age 76
Charlie Chaplin age 68
Bill Gates age 2
Pope Francis age 21
Steve Jobs age 3
Che Guevara age 29
Bill Clinton age 11
Charles de Gaulle age 67
Angela Merkel age 3
Neil Armstrong age 27
François Hollande age 3
Walt Disney age 56
Elvis Presley age 23
John Paul II age 37
Margaret Thatcher age 32
Ernest Hemingway age 58
Gabriel García Márquez age 31
Fidel Castro age 31
Yuri Gagarin age 23
Mikhail Gorbachev age 27
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 3
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 4
Muhammad Ali age 16
Kofi Annan age 19
Charles III age 9
Osama bin Laden age 11 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 13
Herbert Hoover age 83
Tim Berners-Lee age 2
Mahathir Mohamad age 32
Boris Yeltsin age 27
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
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 10
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 34
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 45
Gordon Brown age 7
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 5
Michelle Bachelet age 6
Suharto age 36
Ariel Sharon age 30
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 40
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 28
Mohammad Khatami age 14
Patrice Lumumba age 32
Yitzhak Rabin age 36
Tsai Ing-wen age 1
Mariano Rajoy age 2
Rosalind Franklin age 37
Andrei Sakharov age 36
Dick Cheney age 17
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 10 months
Rachel Carson age 50
Corazon Aquino age 25
Edward VIII age 63
John Kerry age 14
Madeleine Albright age 20
Hamid Karzai age 2 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 21
Viktor Yushchenko age 4
George C. Marshall age 77
John Major age 14
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 3
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 21
Slobodan Milošević age 16
Enver Hoxha age 49
Jacob Zuma age 15
Park Geun-hye age 6
Martti Ahtisaari age 20
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 11
Moon Jae-in age 5
Mitt Romney age 10
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 20
Jiang Zemin age 31
Friedrich Merz age 2
Sauli Niinistö age 9
Eduard Shevardnadze age 30
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