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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
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis 1958-08-23 - 1958-12-02
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06

People

Abebe Aregai age 55
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Alexander Frick age 48
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Jacques Opangault age 50
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Severinus Desiré Emanuels age 48
Prime Minister - Suriname
Luis Gallo Porras age 63
Prime Minister - Peru
Filip Bajković age 48
Prime Minister - Montenegro
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 67
Governor-General - Australia
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 77
Governor-General - Madagascar
Martin Luther King Jr. age 29
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Donald Trump age 12
Michael Jackson age 0 months
Vladimir Putin age 5
Ronald Reagan age 47
Nelson Mandela age 40
George W. Bush age 12
Joe Biden age 15
Pablo Picasso age 76
Charlie Chaplin age 69
Bill Gates age 2
Pope Francis age 21
Steve Jobs age 3
Che Guevara age 30
Bill Clinton age 12
Angela Merkel age 4
Neil Armstrong age 28
François Hollande age 4
Walt Disney age 56
Elvis Presley age 23
John Paul II age 38
Margaret Thatcher age 32
Ernest Hemingway age 59
Gabriel García Márquez age 31
Fidel Castro age 32
Yuri Gagarin age 24
Mikhail Gorbachev age 27
Stephen Hawking age 16
Jean-Paul Sartre age 53
Jimmy Carter age 33
Benedict XVI age 31
Mother Teresa age 48
Harry S. Truman age 74
Hillary Clinton age 10
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
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 11
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 41
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 2
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
Mitt Romney age 11
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