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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
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
Chicago Freedom Movement 1965 - 1967

People

Alvaro Casali age 69
Captain Regent - San Marino
C. R. Swart age 70
State President - South Africa
Lee Kuan Yew age 42
Prime Minister - Singapore
António de Oliveira Salazar age 76
Prime Minister - Portugal
Süleyman Demirel age 41
Prime Minister - Turkey
Lester B. Pearson age 68
Prime Minister - Canada
Hastings Banda age 75
Prime Minister - Malawi
Milton Obote age 39
Prime Minister - Uganda
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 62
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Seretse Khama age 44
Prime Minister - Botswana
Robert Menzies age 70
Prime Minister - Australia
Tage Erlander age 64
Prime Minister - Sweden
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 41
Prime Minister - The Gambia
Pascal Lissouba age 34
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 47
Prime Minister - Tonga
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 49
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Mehmet Shehu age 52
Prime Minister - Albania
Bjarni Benediktsson age 57
Prime Minister - Iceland
Jens Otto Krag age 51
Prime Minister - Denmark
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 48
Prime Minister - Benin
Thanom Kittikachorn age 54
Prime Minister - Thailand
Pierre Werner age 51
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 63
Prime Minister - Romania
Per Borten age 52
Prime Minister - Norway
Chung Il-kwon age 48
Prime Minister - South Korea
Johannes Virolainen age 51
Prime Minister - Finland
Pierre Harmel age 54
Prime Minister - Belgium
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 52
Prime Minister - Iraq
Josef Klaus age 55
Chancellor - Austria
Eric Williams age 54
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Gyula Kállai age 55
Prime Minister - Hungary
Alexander Bustamante age 81
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Rashid Karami age 43
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Keith Holyoake age 61
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Jo Cals age 51
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Dudley Senanayake age 54
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Stefanos Stefanopoulos age 67
Prime Minister - Greece
Wasfi Tal age 46
Prime Minister - Jordan
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 52
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Abdirizak Haji Hussein age 40
Prime Minister - Somalia
George Borg Olivier age 54
Prime Minister - Malta
Gerard Batliner age 36
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Veselin Đuranović age 40
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal age 44
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Herbert Blaize age 47
Prime Minister - Grenada
Hussein Maziq age 47
Prime Minister - Libya
Norodom Kantol age 45
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Évariste Kimba age 39
Prime Minister - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 53
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 44
Prime Minister - Samoa
Johan Adolf Pengel age 49
Prime Minister - Suriname
Paul Southwell age 52
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Roland Theodore Symonette age 66
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Léopold Biha age 46
Prime Minister - Burundi
Vincent de Paul Ahanda age 47
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa age 53
Prime Minister - Nigeria
Daniel Becerra de la Flor age 59
Prime Minister - Peru
Richard Casey, Baron Casey age 75
Governor-General - Australia
Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae age 54
Governor-General - New Zealand
Clifford Campbell age 73
Governor-General - Jamaica
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 84
Governor-General - Madagascar
Martin Luther King Jr. age 36
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Jimmy Carter age 41
Georgia State Senate
Barack Obama age 4
Donald Trump age 19
Michael Jackson age 7
Vladimir Putin age 13
Ronald Reagan age 54
Nelson Mandela age 47
George W. Bush age 19
Joe Biden age 22
Pablo Picasso age 84
Charlie Chaplin age 76
Bill Gates age 10
Pope Francis age 28
Steve Jobs age 10
Che Guevara age 37
Bill Clinton age 19
Angela Merkel age 11
Neil Armstrong age 35
François Hollande age 11
Walt Disney age 63
Elvis Presley age 30
John Paul II age 45
Gabriel García Márquez age 38
Yuri Gagarin age 31
Mikhail Gorbachev age 34
Stephen Hawking age 23
Jean-Paul Sartre age 60
Benedict XVI age 38
Mother Teresa age 55
Harry S. Truman age 81
Hillary Clinton age 18
George H. W. Bush age 41
Kamala Harris age 1
Nicolas Sarkozy age 10
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 75
Richard Nixon age 52
Xi Jinping age 12
Naruhito age 5
Hugo Chávez age 11
Simone de Beauvoir age 57
Muammar Gaddafi age 23
John Lennon age 25
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 11
Muhammad Ali age 23
Kofi Annan age 27
Charles III age 17
Osama bin Laden age 8
Lech Wałęsa age 22
Leo XIV age 10
Diego Maradona age 5
Narendra Modi age 15
Rafael Correa age 2
Indira Gandhi age 48
Saddam Hussein age 28
Aung San Suu Kyi age 20
Nikita Khrushchev age 71
Benjamin Netanyahu age 16
Dmitry Medvedev age 1 month
14th Dalai Lama age 30
Silvio Berlusconi age 29
Shinzo Abe age 11
Bob Marley age 20
Tim Berners-Lee age 10
Mahathir Mohamad age 40
Boris Yeltsin age 34
Ali Khamenei age 26
Jacques Chirac age 32
Guillermo Lasso age 9
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 46
Alexander Lukashenko age 11
Tony Blair age 12
Yasser Arafat age 36
Ban Ki-moon age 21
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 18
Boris Johnson age 1
Diana, Princess of Wales age 4
Bashar al-Assad age 2 months
Benazir Bhutto age 12
Jair Bolsonaro age 10
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 20
Konrad Adenauer age 89
Theresa May age 9
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 9
Henry Kissinger age 42
Václav Havel age 29
Nicolás Maduro age 2
Robert Mugabe age 41
Hosni Mubarak age 37
Golda Meir age 67
Dilma Rousseff age 17
Ferdinand Marcos age 48
Al Gore age 17
François Mitterrand age 49
David Ben-Gurion age 79
Milton Friedman age 53
Ruhollah Khomeini age 63
Valentina Tereshkova age 28
Ilham Aliyev age 3
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 27
António Guterres age 16
Akihito age 31
Helmut Kohl age 35
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 61
Rosa Parks age 52
Gordon Brown age 14
Shimon Peres age 42
John Paul I age 53
Olaf Scholz age 7
Anwar Sadat age 46
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 27
Keir Starmer age 3
Willy Brandt age 51
Gerhard Schröder age 21
Hassan Rouhani age 17
Salvador Allende age 57
Hu Jintao age 22
Evo Morales age 6
Joko Widodo age 4
Petro Poroshenko age 1 month
Augusto Pinochet age 50
Ursula von der Leyen age 7
Mike Pence age 6
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 12
Michelle Bachelet age 14
Suharto age 44
Ariel Sharon age 37
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 47
Desmond Tutu age 34
Viktor Yanukovych age 15
Mohamed Morsi age 14
Viktor Orbán age 2
Sergio Mattarella age 24
Manmohan Singh age 33
Pervez Musharraf age 22
Yuri Andropov age 51
Julia Gillard age 4
Abdullah Gül age 15
Lech Kaczyński age 16