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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
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02

People

Gaston Eyskens age 54
Prime Minister - Belgium
Pierre Werner age 45
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
H. C. Hansen age 52
Prime Minister - Denmark
Julius Raab age 67
Chancellor - Austria
Ferenc Münnich age 72
Prime Minister - Hungary
V. J. Sukselainen age 52
Prime Minister - Finland
Jan Eduard de Quay age 57
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Rashid Karami age 37
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Emil Jónsson age 56
Prime Minister - Iceland
Mamadou Dia age 49
Prime Minister - Senegal
Jigme Palden Dorji age 39
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Abdallah Ibrahim age 40
Prime Minister - Morocco
Abdul Majid Kubar age 50
Prime Minister - Libya
Walter Nash age 77
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Abdullahi Issa age 36
Prime Minister - Somalia
Abebe Aregai age 55
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Hazza' al-Majali age 40
Prime Minister - Jordan
Alexander Frick age 49
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Severinus Desiré Emanuels age 49
Prime Minister - Suriname
Luis Gallo Porras age 64
Prime Minister - Peru
Filip Bajković age 49
Prime Minister - Montenegro
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 67
Governor-General - Australia
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 78
Governor-General - Madagascar
Martin Luther King Jr. age 30
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Donald Trump age 13
Michael Jackson age 10 months
Vladimir Putin age 6
Ronald Reagan age 48
Nelson Mandela age 41
George W. Bush age 13
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 31
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 39
Margaret Thatcher age 33
Ernest Hemingway age 60
Gabriel García Márquez age 32
Yuri Gagarin age 25
Mikhail Gorbachev age 28
Stephen Hawking age 17
Jean-Paul Sartre age 54
Jimmy Carter age 34
Benedict XVI age 32
Mother Teresa age 48
Harry S. Truman age 75
Hillary Clinton age 11
George H. W. Bush age 35
Nicolas Sarkozy age 4
Xi Jinping age 6
Hugo Chávez age 4
Simone de Beauvoir age 51
Niels Bohr age 73
Muammar Gaddafi age 17
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 22
Aung San Suu Kyi age 14
Benjamin Netanyahu age 9
14th Dalai Lama age 24
Silvio Berlusconi age 22
Shinzo Abe age 4
Bob Marley age 14
Herbert Hoover age 84
Tim Berners-Lee age 4
Mahathir Mohamad age 34
Boris Yeltsin age 28
Ali Khamenei age 20
Jacques Chirac age 26
Guillermo Lasso age 3
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 40
Alexander Lukashenko age 4
Tony Blair age 6
Yasser Arafat age 29
Ban Ki-moon age 15
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 11
Benazir Bhutto age 6
Jair Bolsonaro age 4
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 13
Theresa May age 2
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 2
Henry Kissinger age 36
Václav Havel age 22
Georges Pompidou age 48
Leonid Brezhnev age 52
Robert Mugabe age 35
Hosni Mubarak age 31
Golda Meir age 61
Dilma Rousseff age 11
Ferdinand Marcos age 41
Al Gore age 11
Malcolm X age 34
François Mitterrand age 42
Milton Friedman age 46
Ruhollah Khomeini age 56
Valentina Tereshkova age 22
Pol Pot age 34
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 20
António Guterres age 10
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 1
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 51
Hu Jintao age 16
Augusto Pinochet age 43
Ursula von der Leyen age 9 months
Mike Pence age 1 month
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 6
Michelle Bachelet age 7
Suharto age 38
Ariel Sharon age 31
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 41
Desmond Tutu age 27
Viktor Yanukovych age 9
Mohamed Morsi age 7
Sergio Mattarella age 17
Manmohan Singh age 26
Pervez Musharraf age 15
Yuri Andropov age 45
Abdullah Gül age 8
Lech Kaczyński age 10
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 3
Buzz Aldrin age 29
Mohammad Khatami age 15
Patrice Lumumba age 34
Yitzhak Rabin age 37
Tsai Ing-wen age 2
Mariano Rajoy age 4
Andrei Sakharov age 38
Dick Cheney age 18
Douglas MacArthur age 79
Condoleezza Rice age 4
Raúl Castro age 28
Sheikh Hasina age 11
Giorgio Napolitano age 34
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 19
Idi Amin age 34
Rodrigo Duterte age 14
Helmut Schmidt age 40
Stephen Harper age 2 months
Margrethe II of Denmark age 19
Donald Tusk age 2
Rachel Carson age 52
Corazon Aquino age 26
Edward VIII age 65
John Kerry age 15
Madeleine Albright age 22
Hamid Karzai age 1
José Mujica age 24
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 34
Yoshihide Suga age 10
Rajiv Gandhi age 14
Thabo Mbeki age 17
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 3 months
Slobodan Milošević age 17
Enver Hoxha age 50
Jacob Zuma age 17
Park Geun-hye age 7
Martti Ahtisaari age 22
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 13
Moon Jae-in age 6
Mitt Romney age 12
Juan Manuel Santos age 7
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 23