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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
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
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25

People

Mamadou Dia age 50
Prime Minister - Senegal
Jigme Palden Dorji age 40
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Norman Manley age 67
Premier - Jamaica
Abdul Majid Kubar age 51
Prime Minister - Libya
Walter Nash age 78
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Herbert Blaize age 42
Prime Minister - Grenada
Abebe Aregai age 57
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Hazza' al-Majali age 41
Prime Minister - Jordan
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 39
Prime Minister - Samoa
Alexander Frick age 50
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Pedro Beltrán age 63
Prime Minister - Peru
Pho Proeung age 57
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Charles Assalé age 48
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Paul Southwell age 47
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
George Charles age 44
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Severinus Desiré Emanuels age 50
Prime Minister - Suriname
Filip Bajković age 50
Prime Minister - Montenegro
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 67
Governor-General - Australia
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 79
Governor-General - Madagascar
Martin Luther King Jr. age 31
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Donald Trump age 14
Michael Jackson age 1
Vladimir Putin age 7
Ronald Reagan age 49
Nelson Mandela age 42
George W. Bush age 14
Joe Biden age 17
Pablo Picasso age 78
Charlie Chaplin age 71
Bill Gates age 4
Pope Francis age 23
Steve Jobs age 5
Che Guevara age 32
Bill Clinton age 14
Angela Merkel age 6
Neil Armstrong age 30
François Hollande age 6
Walt Disney age 58
Elvis Presley age 25
John Paul II age 40
Ernest Hemingway age 61
Gabriel García Márquez age 33
Yuri Gagarin age 26
Mikhail Gorbachev age 29
Stephen Hawking age 18
Jean-Paul Sartre age 55
Jimmy Carter age 35
Benedict XVI age 33
Mother Teresa age 50
Harry S. Truman age 76
Hillary Clinton age 12
George H. W. Bush age 36
Nicolas Sarkozy age 5
Xi Jinping age 7
Naruhito age 5 months
Hugo Chávez age 6
Simone de Beauvoir age 52
Niels Bohr age 74
Muammar Gaddafi age 18
John Lennon age 19
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 6
Muhammad Ali age 18
Kofi Annan age 22
Charles III age 11
Osama bin Laden age 3
Lech Wałęsa age 16
Leo XIV age 4
Narendra Modi age 9
Indira Gandhi age 42
Saddam Hussein age 23
Aung San Suu Kyi age 15
Benjamin Netanyahu age 10
14th Dalai Lama age 25
Silvio Berlusconi age 23
Shinzo Abe age 5
Bob Marley age 15
Herbert Hoover age 86
Tim Berners-Lee age 5
Mahathir Mohamad age 35
Boris Yeltsin age 29
Ali Khamenei age 21
Jacques Chirac age 27
Guillermo Lasso age 4
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 41
Alexander Lukashenko age 5
Tony Blair age 7
Yasser Arafat age 31
Ban Ki-moon age 16
Benazir Bhutto age 7
Jair Bolsonaro age 5
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 14
Theresa May age 3
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 3
Henry Kissinger age 37
Václav Havel age 23
Georges Pompidou age 49
Leonid Brezhnev age 53
Robert Mugabe age 36
Hosni Mubarak age 32
Golda Meir age 62
Dilma Rousseff age 12
Ferdinand Marcos age 42
Al Gore age 12
Malcolm X age 35
François Mitterrand age 43
Milton Friedman age 48
Ruhollah Khomeini age 57
Valentina Tereshkova age 23
Pol Pot age 35
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 21
António Guterres age 11
Akihito age 26
Helmut Kohl age 30
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 56
Rosa Parks age 47
Gordon Brown age 9
Shimon Peres age 37
John Paul I age 47
Olaf Scholz age 2
Anwar Sadat age 41
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 22
Paul VI age 62
Willy Brandt age 46
Gerhard Schröder age 16
Hassan Rouhani age 11
Salvador Allende age 52
Hu Jintao age 17
Evo Morales age 9 months
Augusto Pinochet age 44
Ursula von der Leyen age 1
Mike Pence age 1
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 7
Michelle Bachelet age 8
Suharto age 39
Ariel Sharon age 32
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 42
Desmond Tutu age 28
Viktor Yanukovych age 10
Mohamed Morsi age 9
Sergio Mattarella age 19
Manmohan Singh age 27
Pervez Musharraf age 17
Yuri Andropov age 46
Abdullah Gül age 9
Lech Kaczyński age 11
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 4
Buzz Aldrin age 30
Mohammad Khatami age 16
Yitzhak Rabin age 38
Tsai Ing-wen age 3
Mariano Rajoy age 5
Andrei Sakharov age 39
Dick Cheney age 19
Douglas MacArthur age 80
Condoleezza Rice age 5
Raúl Castro age 29
Sheikh Hasina age 12
Giorgio Napolitano age 35
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 20
Idi Amin age 35
Rodrigo Duterte age 15
Helmut Schmidt age 41
Stephen Harper age 1
Margrethe II of Denmark age 20
Donald Tusk age 3
Rachel Carson age 53
Corazon Aquino age 27
Edward VIII age 66
John Kerry age 16
Madeleine Albright age 23
Hamid Karzai age 2
José Mujica age 25
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 36
Yoshihide Suga age 11
Rajiv Gandhi age 16
Thabo Mbeki age 18
Wernher von Braun age 48
Clement Attlee age 77
Harald V of Norway age 23
Viktor Yushchenko age 6
John Major age 17
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 5
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 23
Jens Stoltenberg age 1
Slobodan Milošević age 19
Enver Hoxha age 51
Jacob Zuma age 18
Park Geun-hye age 8
Martti Ahtisaari age 23
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 14
Moon Jae-in age 7
Juan Manuel Santos age 9
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 24
Konstantin Chernenko age 48
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 28
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 22
Jiang Zemin age 34
Friedrich Merz age 4
Sauli Niinistö age 11
Eduard Shevardnadze age 32