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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
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
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01

People

Luis Gallo Porras age 64
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 30
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Donald Trump age 12
Michael Jackson age 7 months
Vladimir Putin age 6
Ronald Reagan age 48
Nelson Mandela age 40
George W. Bush age 12
Joe Biden age 16
Pablo Picasso age 77
Charlie Chaplin age 70
Bill Gates age 3
Pope Francis age 22
Steve Jobs age 4
Che Guevara age 30
Bill Clinton age 12
Angela Merkel age 4
Neil Armstrong age 28
François Hollande age 4
Walt Disney age 57
Elvis Presley age 24
John Paul II age 38
Margaret Thatcher age 33
Ernest Hemingway age 59
Gabriel García Márquez age 32
Yuri Gagarin age 25
Mikhail Gorbachev age 28
Stephen Hawking age 17
Jean-Paul Sartre age 53
Jimmy Carter age 34
Benedict XVI age 32
Mother Teresa age 48
Harry S. Truman age 74
Hillary Clinton age 11
George H. W. Bush age 34
Nicolas Sarkozy age 4
Xi Jinping age 5
Hugo Chávez age 4
Simone de Beauvoir age 51
Niels Bohr age 73
Muammar Gaddafi age 16
John Lennon age 18
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 5
Muhammad Ali age 17
Kofi Annan age 21
Charles III age 10
Osama bin Laden age 2
Lech Wałęsa age 15
Leo XIV age 3
Narendra Modi age 8
Indira Gandhi age 41
Saddam Hussein age 21
Aung San Suu Kyi age 13
Benjamin Netanyahu age 9
14th Dalai Lama age 23
Silvio Berlusconi age 22
Shinzo Abe age 4
Bob Marley age 14
Herbert Hoover age 84
Tim Berners-Lee age 3
Mahathir Mohamad age 33
Boris Yeltsin age 28
Ali Khamenei age 19
Jacques Chirac age 26
Guillermo Lasso age 3
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 40
Alexander Lukashenko age 4
Tony Blair age 5
Yasser Arafat age 29
Ban Ki-moon age 14
Benazir Bhutto age 5
Jair Bolsonaro age 4
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 13
Theresa May age 2
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 2
Henry Kissinger age 35
Václav Havel age 22
Georges Pompidou age 47
Leonid Brezhnev age 52
Robert Mugabe age 35
Hosni Mubarak age 30
Golda Meir age 60
Dilma Rousseff age 11
Ferdinand Marcos age 41
Al Gore age 11
Malcolm X age 33
François Mitterrand age 42
Milton Friedman age 46
Ruhollah Khomeini age 56
Valentina Tereshkova age 22
Pol Pot age 33
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 20
António Guterres age 9
Akihito age 25
Helmut Kohl age 29
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 55
Rosa Parks age 46
Gordon Brown age 8
Shimon Peres age 35
John Paul I age 46
Olaf Scholz age 9 months
Anwar Sadat age 40
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 21
Paul VI age 61
Willy Brandt age 45
Gerhard Schröder age 15
Hassan Rouhani age 10
Salvador Allende age 50
Hu Jintao age 16
Augusto Pinochet age 43
Lee Kuan Yew age 35
Ursula von der Leyen age 6 months
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 6
Michelle Bachelet age 7
Suharto age 37
Ariel Sharon age 31
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 41
Desmond Tutu age 27
Viktor Yanukovych age 8
Mohamed Morsi age 7
Sergio Mattarella age 17
Manmohan Singh age 26
Pervez Musharraf age 15
Yuri Andropov age 44
Abdullah Gül age 8
Lech Kaczyński age 9
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 3
Buzz Aldrin age 29
Mohammad Khatami age 15
Patrice Lumumba age 33
Yitzhak Rabin age 37
Tsai Ing-wen age 2
Mariano Rajoy age 4
Andrei Sakharov age 37
Dick Cheney age 18
Douglas MacArthur age 79
Condoleezza Rice age 4
Raúl Castro age 27
Sheikh Hasina age 11
Giorgio Napolitano age 33
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 18
Idi Amin age 34
Rodrigo Duterte age 14
Helmut Schmidt age 40
Margrethe II of Denmark age 18
Donald Tusk age 1
Rachel Carson age 51
Corazon Aquino age 26
Edward VIII age 64
John Kerry age 15
Madeleine Albright age 21
Hamid Karzai age 1
José Mujica age 23
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 34
Yoshihide Suga age 10
Rajiv Gandhi age 14
Thabo Mbeki age 16
Wernher von Braun age 47
Clement Attlee age 76
Harald V of Norway age 22
Viktor Yushchenko age 5
George C. Marshall age 78
John Major age 16
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 4
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 22
Jens Stoltenberg age 0 months
Slobodan Milošević age 17
Enver Hoxha age 50
Jacob Zuma age 17
Park Geun-hye age 7
Martti Ahtisaari age 21
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 12
Moon Jae-in age 6
Juan Manuel Santos age 7
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 23
Konstantin Chernenko age 47
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 27
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 21
Jiang Zemin age 32
Friedrich Merz age 3
Sauli Niinistö age 10
Eduard Shevardnadze age 31
Romano Prodi age 19
Cyril Ramaphosa age 6
Robert F. Kennedy age 33
Serzh Sargsyan age 4
Pranab Mukherjee age 23
Park Chung-hee age 41
Vyacheslav Molotov age 69
Joachim Gauck age 19
Anthony Eden age 61
Thomas Sankara age 9
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 12
Menachem Begin age 45
Jean-Claude Juncker age 4
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 1
Erich Honecker age 46