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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

Abdallah Ibrahim age 41
Prime Minister - Morocco
Abdul Majid Kubar age 50
Prime Minister - Libya
Walter Nash age 77
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Abdullahi Issa age 37
Prime Minister - Somalia
Wijeyananda Dahanayake age 57
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Abebe Aregai age 56
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Hazza' al-Majali age 40
Prime Minister - Jordan
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 38
Prime Minister - Samoa
Alexander Frick age 49
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Pedro Beltrán age 62
Prime Minister - Peru
Severinus Desiré Emanuels age 49
Prime Minister - Suriname
Filip Bajković age 49
Prime Minister - Montenegro
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 68
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 1
Vladimir Putin age 7
Ronald Reagan age 48
Nelson Mandela age 41
George W. Bush age 13
Joe Biden age 17
Pablo Picasso age 78
Charlie Chaplin age 70
Bill Gates age 4
Pope Francis age 22
Steve Jobs age 4
Che Guevara age 31
Bill Clinton age 13
Angela Merkel age 5
Neil Armstrong age 29
François Hollande age 5
Walt Disney age 58
Elvis Presley age 24
John Paul II age 39
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 35
Benedict XVI age 32
Mother Teresa age 49
Harry S. Truman age 75
Hillary Clinton age 12
George H. W. Bush age 35
Nicolas Sarkozy age 4
Xi Jinping age 6
Hugo Chávez age 5
Simone de Beauvoir age 51
Niels Bohr age 74
Muammar Gaddafi age 17
John Lennon age 19
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 5
Muhammad Ali age 17
Kofi Annan age 21
Charles III age 11
Osama bin Laden age 2
Lech Wałęsa age 16
Leo XIV age 4
Narendra Modi age 9
Indira Gandhi age 42
Saddam Hussein age 22
Aung San Suu Kyi age 14
Benjamin Netanyahu age 10
14th Dalai Lama age 24
Silvio Berlusconi age 23
Shinzo Abe age 5
Bob Marley age 14
Herbert Hoover age 85
Tim Berners-Lee age 4
Mahathir Mohamad age 34
Boris Yeltsin age 28
Ali Khamenei age 20
Jacques Chirac age 27
Guillermo Lasso age 4
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 40
Alexander Lukashenko age 5
Tony Blair age 6
Yasser Arafat age 30
Ban Ki-moon age 15
Benazir Bhutto age 6
Jair Bolsonaro age 4
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 14
Theresa May age 3
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 3
Henry Kissinger age 36
Václav Havel age 23
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 42
Al Gore age 11
Malcolm X age 34
François Mitterrand age 43
Milton Friedman age 47
Ruhollah Khomeini age 57
Valentina Tereshkova age 22
Pol Pot age 34
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 21
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 36
John Paul I age 47
Olaf Scholz age 1
Anwar Sadat age 40
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 21
Paul VI age 62
Willy Brandt age 45
Gerhard Schröder age 15
Hassan Rouhani age 11
Salvador Allende age 51
Hu Jintao age 16
Evo Morales age 1 month
Augusto Pinochet age 44
Ursula von der Leyen age 1
Mike Pence age 5 months
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 6
Michelle Bachelet age 8
Suharto age 38
Ariel Sharon age 31
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 41
Desmond Tutu age 28
Viktor Yanukovych age 9
Mohamed Morsi age 8
Sergio Mattarella age 18
Manmohan Singh age 27
Pervez Musharraf age 16
Yuri Andropov age 45
Abdullah Gül age 9
Lech Kaczyński age 10
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 3
Buzz Aldrin age 29
Mohammad Khatami age 16
Patrice Lumumba age 34
Yitzhak Rabin age 37
Tsai Ing-wen age 3
Mariano Rajoy age 4
Andrei Sakharov age 38
Dick Cheney age 18
Douglas MacArthur age 79
Condoleezza Rice age 5
Raúl Castro age 28
Sheikh Hasina age 12
Giorgio Napolitano age 34
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 19
Idi Amin age 34
Rodrigo Duterte age 14
Helmut Schmidt age 40
Stephen Harper age 6 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 35
Yoshihide Suga age 10
Rajiv Gandhi age 15
Thabo Mbeki age 17
Wernher von Braun age 47
Clement Attlee age 76
Harald V of Norway age 22
Viktor Yushchenko age 5
John Major age 16
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 5
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 22
Jens Stoltenberg age 8 months
Slobodan Milošević age 18
Enver Hoxha age 51
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
Juan Manuel Santos age 8
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 23
Konstantin Chernenko age 48
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 28
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 21
Jiang Zemin age 33
Friedrich Merz age 4
Sauli Niinistö age 11
Eduard Shevardnadze age 31
Romano Prodi age 20
Cyril Ramaphosa age 7
Robert F. Kennedy age 34
Serzh Sargsyan age 5
Pranab Mukherjee age 23