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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
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
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
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Albany Movement 1961-11 - 1962

People

Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 46
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
İsmet İnönü age 78
Prime Minister - Turkey
Milton Obote age 36
Prime Minister - Uganda
János Kádár age 50
Prime Minister - Hungary
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 59
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 55
Prime Minister - Greece
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 53
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
John Diefenbaker age 67
Prime Minister - Canada
Robert Menzies age 67
Prime Minister - Australia
Abd al-Karim Qasim age 47
Prime Minister - Iraq
Einar Gerhardsen age 65
Prime Minister - Norway
Tage Erlander age 61
Prime Minister - Sweden
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 38
Prime Minister - The Gambia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 36
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 44
Prime Minister - Tonga
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 46
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa age 50
Prime Minister - Nigeria
Sarit Thanarat age 54
Prime Minister - Thailand
Mehmet Shehu age 49
Prime Minister - Albania
Jens Otto Krag age 48
Prime Minister - Denmark
Pierre Werner age 48
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 60
Prime Minister - Romania
Ahti Karjalainen age 39
Prime Minister - Finland
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke age 43
Prime Minister - Somalia
Ólafur Thors age 70
Prime Minister - Iceland
Alfons Gorbach age 64
Chancellor - Austria
Eric Williams age 51
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Alexander Bustamante age 78
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Jan Eduard de Quay age 61
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Rashid Karami age 40
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Théo Lefèvre age 48
Prime Minister - Belgium
Keith Holyoake age 58
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Nicolás Lindley López age 53
Prime Minister - Peru
Cyrille Adoula age 41
Prime Minister - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Wasfi Tal age 43
Prime Minister - Jordan
Mamadou Dia age 52
Prime Minister - Senegal
George Borg Olivier age 51
Prime Minister - Malta
Jigme Palden Dorji age 42
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum age 57
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Muhammad Osman Said age 37
Prime Minister - Libya
Gerard Batliner age 33
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Herbert Blaize age 44
Prime Minister - Grenada
Norodom Kantol age 42
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 50
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 41
Prime Minister - Samoa
André Muhirwa age 42
Prime Minister - Burundi
Charles Assalé age 50
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Paul Southwell age 49
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
George Charles age 46
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Severinus Desiré Emanuels age 52
Prime Minister - Suriname
Đorđije Pajković age 45
Prime Minister - Montenegro
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 53
Governor-General - Australia
Kenneth Blackburne age 54
Governor-General - Jamaica
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 81
Governor-General - Madagascar
Martin Luther King Jr. age 33
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Barack Obama age 1
Donald Trump age 16
Michael Jackson age 4
Vladimir Putin age 10
Ronald Reagan age 51
Nelson Mandela age 44
George W. Bush age 16
Joe Biden age 19
Pablo Picasso age 81
Charlie Chaplin age 73
Bill Gates age 6
Pope Francis age 25
Steve Jobs age 7
Che Guevara age 34
Bill Clinton age 16
Angela Merkel age 8
Neil Armstrong age 32
François Hollande age 8
Walt Disney age 60
Elvis Presley age 27
John Paul II age 42
Gabriel García Márquez age 35
Yuri Gagarin age 28
Mikhail Gorbachev age 31
Stephen Hawking age 20
Jean-Paul Sartre age 57
Jimmy Carter age 38
Benedict XVI age 35
Mother Teresa age 52
Harry S. Truman age 78
Hillary Clinton age 14
George H. W. Bush age 38
Nicolas Sarkozy age 7
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 72
Richard Nixon age 49
Xi Jinping age 9
Naruhito age 2
Hugo Chávez age 8
Simone de Beauvoir age 54
Niels Bohr age 77
Muammar Gaddafi age 20
John Lennon age 22
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 8
Muhammad Ali age 20
Kofi Annan age 24
Charles III age 13
Osama bin Laden age 5
Lech Wałęsa age 19
Leo XIV age 7
Diego Maradona age 1
Narendra Modi age 12
Indira Gandhi age 44
Saddam Hussein age 25
Aung San Suu Kyi age 17
Benjamin Netanyahu age 12
14th Dalai Lama age 27
Silvio Berlusconi age 26
Shinzo Abe age 8
Bob Marley age 17
Herbert Hoover age 88
Tim Berners-Lee age 7
Mahathir Mohamad age 37
Boris Yeltsin age 31
Ali Khamenei age 23
Jacques Chirac age 29
Guillermo Lasso age 6
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 43
Alexander Lukashenko age 8
Tony Blair age 9
Yasser Arafat age 33
Ban Ki-moon age 18
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 15
Diana, Princess of Wales age 1
Benazir Bhutto age 9
Jair Bolsonaro age 7
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 16
Eleanor Roosevelt age 78
Theresa May age 6
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 5
Henry Kissinger age 39
Václav Havel age 26
Leonid Brezhnev age 55
Robert Mugabe age 38
Hosni Mubarak age 34
Golda Meir age 64
Dilma Rousseff age 14
Kim Jong-il age 21
Ferdinand Marcos age 45
Al Gore age 14
Malcolm X age 37
François Mitterrand age 45
Milton Friedman age 50
Ruhollah Khomeini age 60
Valentina Tereshkova age 25
John McCain age 26
Pol Pot age 37
Ilham Aliyev age 9 months
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 23
António Guterres age 13
Akihito age 28
Helmut Kohl age 32
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 58
Rosa Parks age 49
Gordon Brown age 11
Shimon Peres age 39
Wangari Maathai age 22
John Paul I age 50
Prince Philip age 41
Olaf Scholz age 4
Anwar Sadat age 43
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 24
Keir Starmer age 1 month
Paul VI age 65
Willy Brandt age 48
Gerhard Schröder age 18
Hassan Rouhani age 13
Salvador Allende age 54
Hu Jintao age 19
Evo Morales age 2
Joko Widodo age 1
Augusto Pinochet age 46
Ursula von der Leyen age 3
Mike Pence age 3
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 9
Michelle Bachelet age 11
Suharto age 41
Ariel Sharon age 34
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 44
Desmond Tutu age 31
Viktor Yanukovych age 12
Mohamed Morsi age 11
Sergio Mattarella age 21
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 36
Manmohan Singh age 30
Pervez Musharraf age 19
Yuri Andropov age 48
Julia Gillard age 1
Abdullah Gül age 11
Lech Kaczyński age 13
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 6
Buzz Aldrin age 32
Mohammad Khatami age 18
Yitzhak Rabin age 40
Tsai Ing-wen age 6
Mariano Rajoy age 7