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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
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
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
Second Vatican Council 1962-10-11 - 1965-12-08
Socialist Education Movement 1963 - 1966

People

Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 42
Prime Minister - Samoa
Mohammad Yusuf age 47
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Johan Adolf Pengel age 48
Prime Minister - Suriname
Charles Assalé age 52
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Paul Southwell age 50
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Roland Theodore Symonette age 65
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Hussein ibn Nasser age 61
Prime Minister - Jordan
Fernando Schwalb López Aldana age 47
Prime Minister - Peru
Albin Nyamoya age 39
Prime Minister - Burundi
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa age 52
Prime Minister - Nigeria
Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae age 53
Governor-General - New Zealand
Clifford Campbell age 71
Governor-General - Jamaica
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 54
Governor-General - Australia
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 83
Governor-General - Madagascar
Martin Luther King Jr. age 35
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Jimmy Carter age 39
Georgia State Senate
Barack Obama age 2
Donald Trump age 17
Michael Jackson age 5
Vladimir Putin age 11
Ronald Reagan age 53
Nelson Mandela age 45
George W. Bush age 17
Joe Biden age 21
Pablo Picasso age 82
Charlie Chaplin age 75
Bill Gates age 8
Pope Francis age 27
Steve Jobs age 9
Che Guevara age 35
Bill Clinton age 17
Angela Merkel age 9
Neil Armstrong age 33
François Hollande age 9
Walt Disney age 62
Elvis Presley age 29
John Paul II age 43
Gabriel García Márquez age 37
Yuri Gagarin age 30
Mikhail Gorbachev age 33
Stephen Hawking age 22
Jean-Paul Sartre age 58
Benedict XVI age 37
Mother Teresa age 53
Harry S. Truman age 80
Hillary Clinton age 16
George H. W. Bush age 39
Nicolas Sarkozy age 9
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 73
Richard Nixon age 51
Xi Jinping age 10
Naruhito age 4
Hugo Chávez age 9
Simone de Beauvoir age 56
Muammar Gaddafi age 21
John Lennon age 23
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 10
Muhammad Ali age 22
Kofi Annan age 26
Charles III age 15
Osama bin Laden age 7
Lech Wałęsa age 20
Leo XIV age 8
Diego Maradona age 3
Narendra Modi age 13
Rafael Correa age 1
Indira Gandhi age 46
Saddam Hussein age 27
Aung San Suu Kyi age 18
Benjamin Netanyahu age 14
14th Dalai Lama age 28
Silvio Berlusconi age 27
Shinzo Abe age 9
Bob Marley age 19
Herbert Hoover age 89
Tim Berners-Lee age 8
Mahathir Mohamad age 38
Boris Yeltsin age 33
Ali Khamenei age 25
Jacques Chirac age 31
Guillermo Lasso age 8
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 45
Alexander Lukashenko age 9
Tony Blair age 10
Yasser Arafat age 34
Ban Ki-moon age 19
Diana, Princess of Wales age 2
Benazir Bhutto age 10
Jair Bolsonaro age 9
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 18
Konrad Adenauer age 88
Theresa May age 7
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 7
Henry Kissinger age 40
Václav Havel age 27
Nicolás Maduro age 1
Leonid Brezhnev age 57
Robert Mugabe age 40
Hosni Mubarak age 36
Golda Meir age 66
Dilma Rousseff age 16
Ferdinand Marcos age 46
Al Gore age 16
Malcolm X age 38
François Mitterrand age 47
David Ben-Gurion age 77
Milton Friedman age 51
Ruhollah Khomeini age 61
Valentina Tereshkova age 27
Ilham Aliyev age 2
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 25
António Guterres age 15
Akihito age 30
Helmut Kohl age 34
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 60
Rosa Parks age 51
Gordon Brown age 13
Shimon Peres age 40
John Paul I age 51
Olaf Scholz age 5
Anwar Sadat age 45
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 26
Keir Starmer age 1
Willy Brandt age 50
Gerhard Schröder age 20
Hassan Rouhani age 15
Salvador Allende age 55
Hu Jintao age 21
Evo Morales age 4
Joko Widodo age 2
Augusto Pinochet age 48
Ursula von der Leyen age 5
Mike Pence age 4
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 11
Michelle Bachelet age 12
Suharto age 42
Ariel Sharon age 36
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 46
Desmond Tutu age 32
Viktor Yanukovych age 13
Mohamed Morsi age 12
Viktor Orbán age 11 months
Sergio Mattarella age 22
Manmohan Singh age 31
Pervez Musharraf age 20
Yuri Andropov age 49
Julia Gillard age 2
Abdullah Gül age 13
Lech Kaczyński age 14
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 8
Jeff Bezos age 3 months
Buzz Aldrin age 34
Mohammad Khatami age 20
Yitzhak Rabin age 42
Tsai Ing-wen age 7
Mariano Rajoy age 9
Andrei Sakharov age 42
Dick Cheney age 23
Condoleezza Rice age 9
Raúl Castro age 32
Sheikh Hasina age 16
Giorgio Napolitano age 38
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 23
Idi Amin age 39
Yulia Tymoshenko age 3
Rodrigo Duterte age 19
Abdullah II of Jordan age 2
Helmut Schmidt age 45
Stephen Harper age 5
Margrethe II of Denmark age 24
Donald Tusk age 7
Corazon Aquino age 31
Edward VIII age 69
John Kerry age 20
Madeleine Albright age 26
Hamid Karzai age 6
José Mujica age 28
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 39
Yoshihide Suga age 15
Rajiv Gandhi age 19
Thabo Mbeki age 21
Wernher von Braun age 52
Clement Attlee age 81
Harald V of Norway age 27
Viktor Yushchenko age 10
John Major age 21
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 9
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 27
Jens Stoltenberg age 5
Slobodan Milošević age 22
Enver Hoxha age 55
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 8 months
Jacob Zuma age 22
Park Geun-hye age 12
Martti Ahtisaari age 26
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 18
Moon Jae-in age 11
Juan Manuel Santos age 12
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 28
Konstantin Chernenko age 52