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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
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Albany Movement 1961-11 - 1962

People

Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 45
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
İsmet İnönü age 77
Prime Minister - Turkey
János Kádár age 49
Prime Minister - Hungary
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 58
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 54
Prime Minister - Greece
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 52
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
John Diefenbaker age 66
Prime Minister - Canada
Robert Menzies age 66
Prime Minister - Australia
Abd al-Karim Qasim age 47
Prime Minister - Iraq
Einar Gerhardsen age 64
Prime Minister - Norway
Tage Erlander age 60
Prime Minister - Sweden
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 43
Prime Minister - Tonga
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 45
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Sarit Thanarat age 53
Prime Minister - Thailand
Mehmet Shehu age 48
Prime Minister - Albania
Bjarni Benediktsson age 53
Prime Minister - Iceland
Pierre Werner age 47
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 59
Prime Minister - Romania
Martti Miettunen age 54
Prime Minister - Finland
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke age 42
Prime Minister - Somalia
Viggo Kampmann age 51
Prime Minister - Denmark
Alfons Gorbach age 63
Chancellor - Austria
Jan Eduard de Quay age 60
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Rashid Karami age 39
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Théo Lefèvre age 47
Prime Minister - Belgium
Keith Holyoake age 57
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Cyrille Adoula age 40
Prime Minister - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mamadou Dia age 51
Prime Minister - Senegal
Eric Gairy age 39
Prime Minister - Grenada
Jigme Palden Dorji age 41
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Norman Manley age 68
Premier - Jamaica
Muhammad Osman Said age 37
Prime Minister - Libya
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 49
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 40
Prime Minister - Samoa
Alexander Frick age 51
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
André Muhirwa age 41
Prime Minister - Burundi
Charles Assalé age 50
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Paul Southwell age 48
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
George Charles age 45
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Carlos Moreyra y Paz Soldán age 63
Prime Minister - Peru
Severinus Desiré Emanuels age 51
Prime Minister - Suriname
Filip Bajković age 51
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa age 49
Prime Minister - Nigeria
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 52
Governor-General - Australia
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 80
Governor-General - Madagascar
Martin Luther King Jr. age 32
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Barack Obama age 3 months
Donald Trump age 15
Michael Jackson age 3
Vladimir Putin age 9
Ronald Reagan age 50
Nelson Mandela age 43
George W. Bush age 15
Joe Biden age 19
Pablo Picasso age 80
Charlie Chaplin age 72
Bill Gates age 6
Pope Francis age 24
Steve Jobs age 6
Che Guevara age 33
Bill Clinton age 15
Angela Merkel age 7
Neil Armstrong age 31
François Hollande age 7
Walt Disney age 60
Elvis Presley age 26
John Paul II age 41
Gabriel García Márquez age 34
Yuri Gagarin age 27
Mikhail Gorbachev age 30
Stephen Hawking age 19
Jean-Paul Sartre age 56
Jimmy Carter age 37
Benedict XVI age 34
Mother Teresa age 51
Harry S. Truman age 77
Hillary Clinton age 14
George H. W. Bush age 37
Nicolas Sarkozy age 6
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 71
Richard Nixon age 48
Xi Jinping age 8
Naruhito age 1
Hugo Chávez age 7
Simone de Beauvoir age 53
Niels Bohr age 76
Muammar Gaddafi age 19
John Lennon age 21
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 7
Muhammad Ali age 19
Kofi Annan age 23
Charles III age 13
Osama bin Laden age 4
Lech Wałęsa age 18
Leo XIV age 6
Diego Maradona age 1
Narendra Modi age 11
Indira Gandhi age 44
Saddam Hussein age 24
Aung San Suu Kyi age 16
Benjamin Netanyahu age 12
14th Dalai Lama age 26
Silvio Berlusconi age 25
Shinzo Abe age 7
Bob Marley age 16
Herbert Hoover age 87
Tim Berners-Lee age 6
Mahathir Mohamad age 36
Boris Yeltsin age 30
Ali Khamenei age 22
Jacques Chirac age 29
Guillermo Lasso age 6
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 43
Alexander Lukashenko age 7
Tony Blair age 8
Yasser Arafat age 32
Ban Ki-moon age 17
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 14
Diana, Princess of Wales age 5 months
Benazir Bhutto age 8
Jair Bolsonaro age 6
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 16
Theresa May age 5
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 5
Henry Kissinger age 38
Václav Havel age 25
Georges Pompidou age 50
Leonid Brezhnev age 54
Robert Mugabe age 37
Hosni Mubarak age 33
Golda Meir age 63
Dilma Rousseff age 13
Ferdinand Marcos age 44
Al Gore age 13
Malcolm X age 36
François Mitterrand age 45
Milton Friedman age 49
Ruhollah Khomeini age 59
Valentina Tereshkova age 24
Pol Pot age 36
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 23
António Guterres age 12
Akihito age 27
Helmut Kohl age 31
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 57
Rosa Parks age 48
Gordon Brown age 10
Shimon Peres age 38
John Paul I age 49
Olaf Scholz age 3
Anwar Sadat age 42
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 23
Paul VI age 64
Willy Brandt age 47
Gerhard Schröder age 17
Hassan Rouhani age 13
Salvador Allende age 53
Hu Jintao age 18
Evo Morales age 2
Joko Widodo age 5 months
Augusto Pinochet age 46
Ursula von der Leyen age 3
Mike Pence age 2
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 8
Michelle Bachelet age 10
Suharto age 40
Ariel Sharon age 33
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 43
Desmond Tutu age 30
Viktor Yanukovych age 11
Mohamed Morsi age 10
Sergio Mattarella age 20
Manmohan Singh age 29
Pervez Musharraf age 18
Yuri Andropov age 47
Julia Gillard age 2 months
Abdullah Gül age 11
Lech Kaczyński age 12
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 5
Buzz Aldrin age 31
Mohammad Khatami age 18
Yitzhak Rabin age 39
Tsai Ing-wen age 5
Mariano Rajoy age 6
Andrei Sakharov age 40
Dick Cheney age 20
Douglas MacArthur age 81
Condoleezza Rice age 7
Raúl Castro age 30
Sheikh Hasina age 14
Giorgio Napolitano age 36
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 21
Idi Amin age 36
Yulia Tymoshenko age 1
Rodrigo Duterte age 16
Helmut Schmidt age 42
Stephen Harper age 2
Margrethe II of Denmark age 21
Donald Tusk age 4
Rachel Carson age 54