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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 1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis 1958-08-23 - 1958-12-02

People

George H. W. Bush age 34
Nicolas Sarkozy age 3
Xi Jinping age 5
Hugo Chávez age 4
Simone de Beauvoir age 50
Niels Bohr age 72
Muammar Gaddafi age 16
John Lennon age 17
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 4
Muhammad Ali age 16
Kofi Annan age 20
Charles III age 9
Osama bin Laden age 1
Lech Wałęsa age 14
Leo XIV age 2
Narendra Modi age 7
Indira Gandhi age 40
Saddam Hussein age 21
Aung San Suu Kyi age 13
Benjamin Netanyahu age 8
14th Dalai Lama age 23
Silvio Berlusconi age 21
Shinzo Abe age 3
Bob Marley age 13
Herbert Hoover age 84
Tim Berners-Lee age 3
Mahathir Mohamad age 33
Boris Yeltsin age 27
Ali Khamenei age 19
Jacques Chirac age 25
Guillermo Lasso age 2
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 39
Alexander Lukashenko age 4
Tony Blair age 5
Yasser Arafat age 29
Ban Ki-moon age 14
Benazir Bhutto age 5
Jair Bolsonaro age 3
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 12
Theresa May age 1
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 1
Henry Kissinger age 35
Václav Havel age 21
Georges Pompidou age 47
Leonid Brezhnev age 51
Robert Mugabe age 34
Hosni Mubarak age 30
Golda Meir age 60
John XXIII age 76
Dilma Rousseff age 10
Ferdinand Marcos age 40
Al Gore age 10
Malcolm X age 33
François Mitterrand age 41
Milton Friedman age 46
Ruhollah Khomeini age 55
Valentina Tereshkova age 21
Pol Pot age 33
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 19
António Guterres age 9
Akihito age 24
Helmut Kohl age 28
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 54
Rosa Parks age 45
Gordon Brown age 7
Shimon Peres age 35
John Paul I age 45
Olaf Scholz age 2 months
Anwar Sadat age 39
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 20
Paul VI age 60
Willy Brandt age 44
Gerhard Schröder age 14
Hassan Rouhani age 9
Salvador Allende age 50
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 37
Ariel Sharon age 30
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 40
Desmond Tutu age 26
Viktor Yanukovych age 8
Mohamed Morsi age 7
Sergio Mattarella age 17
Manmohan Singh age 25
Pervez Musharraf age 15
Yuri Andropov age 44
Abdullah Gül age 7
Lech Kaczyński age 9
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 2
Buzz Aldrin age 28
Mohammad Khatami age 14
Patrice Lumumba age 33
Yitzhak Rabin age 36
Tsai Ing-wen age 1
Mariano Rajoy age 3
Andrei Sakharov age 37
Dick Cheney age 17
Douglas MacArthur age 78
Condoleezza Rice age 3
Raúl Castro age 27
Sheikh Hasina age 10
Giorgio Napolitano age 33
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 18
Idi Amin age 33
Rodrigo Duterte age 13
Helmut Schmidt age 39
Margrethe II of Denmark age 18
Donald Tusk age 1
Rachel Carson age 51
Corazon Aquino age 25
Edward VIII age 64
John Kerry age 14
Madeleine Albright age 21
Hamid Karzai age 8 months
José Mujica age 23
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 34
Yoshihide Suga age 9
Rajiv Gandhi age 14
Thabo Mbeki age 16
Wernher von Braun age 46
Clement Attlee age 75
Harald V of Norway age 21
Viktor Yushchenko age 4
George C. Marshall age 77
John Major age 15
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 3
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 21
Slobodan Milošević age 17
Enver Hoxha age 49
Jacob Zuma age 16
Park Geun-hye age 6
Martti Ahtisaari age 21
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 12
Moon Jae-in age 5
Juan Manuel Santos age 7
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 32
Friedrich Merz age 2
Sauli Niinistö age 10
Eduard Shevardnadze age 30
Romano Prodi age 19
Cyril Ramaphosa age 5
Robert F. Kennedy age 32
Serzh Sargsyan age 4
Pranab Mukherjee age 22
Park Chung-hee age 40
Vyacheslav Molotov age 68
Joachim Gauck age 18
Anthony Eden age 61
Thomas Sankara age 8
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 11
Menachem Begin age 45
Jean-Claude Juncker age 3
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 1
Erich Honecker age 46
Hafez al-Assad age 27
Li Keqiang age 3
Muhammadu Buhari age 15
Horst Köhler age 15
Fumio Kishida age 1
Kevin Rudd age 11 months
Sebastián Piñera age 8
Tarja Halonen age 14
Daniel Ortega age 12
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 19
Islam Karimov age 20
Dan Quayle age 11
Harold Wilson age 42
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 38
Paul Kagame age 10 months
Omar al-Bashir age 14
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 293
Naoto Kan age 11
James Callaghan age 46
Pratibha Patil age 23
Droupadi Murmu age 2 months
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 8
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 30
Juan Perón age 62
Heydar Aliyev age 35
Hassanal Bolkiah age 12
Norodom Sihanouk age 35
Mario Draghi age 10
Kim Dae-jung age 34
Radovan Karadžić age 13
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 35
Aldo Moro age 41
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 17
Asif Ali Zardari age 3
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 51
F. W. de Klerk age 22
Ludwig Erhard age 61
Ashraf Ghani age 9