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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
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Chicago Freedom Movement 1965 - 1967
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
Battle of Long Tan 1966-08-18 - 1966-08-18

People

António de Oliveira Salazar age 77
Prime Minister - Portugal
Süleyman Demirel age 41
Prime Minister - Turkey
Lester B. Pearson age 69
Prime Minister - Canada
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 63
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Seretse Khama age 45
Prime Minister - Botswana
Harold Holt age 58
Prime Minister - Australia
Tage Erlander age 65
Prime Minister - Sweden
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 42
Prime Minister - The Gambia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 40
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 49
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Mehmet Shehu age 53
Prime Minister - Albania
Michel Micombero age 25
Prime Minister - Burundi
Bjarni Benediktsson age 58
Prime Minister - Iceland
Jens Otto Krag age 51
Prime Minister - Denmark
Thanom Kittikachorn age 55
Prime Minister - Thailand
Pierre Werner age 52
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 63
Prime Minister - Romania
Per Borten age 53
Prime Minister - Norway
Chung Il-kwon age 48
Prime Minister - South Korea
Rafael Paasio age 63
Prime Minister - Finland
Forbes Burnham age 43
Prime Minister - Guyana
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 47
Prime Minister - Belgium
Josef Klaus age 56
Chancellor - Austria
Eric Williams age 54
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Gyula Kállai age 56
Prime Minister - Hungary
Alexander Bustamante age 82
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Rashid Karami age 44
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Keith Holyoake age 62
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Jo Cals age 52
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Dudley Senanayake age 55
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Sadiq al-Mahdi age 30
Prime Minister - Sudan
Stefanos Stefanopoulos age 68
Prime Minister - Greece
Wasfi Tal age 47
Prime Minister - Jordan
Abdirizak Haji Hussein age 41
Prime Minister - Somalia
George Borg Olivier age 55
Prime Minister - Malta
Gerard Batliner age 37
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Naji Talib age 49
Prime Minister - Iraq
Veselin Đuranović age 41
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal age 45
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Herbert Blaize age 48
Prime Minister - Grenada
Hussein Maziq age 48
Prime Minister - Libya
Norodom Kantol age 45
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Léonard Mulamba age 38
Prime Minister - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 54
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Abdallah El-Yafi age 64
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Tu'i Pelehake age 44
Prime Minister - Tonga
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 45
Prime Minister - Samoa
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 49
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Johan Adolf Pengel age 50
Prime Minister - Suriname
Roland Theodore Symonette age 67
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Daniel Becerra de la Flor age 60
Prime Minister - Peru
Richard Casey, Baron Casey age 76
Governor-General - Australia
Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae age 55
Governor-General - New Zealand
Clifford Campbell age 74
Governor-General - Jamaica
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 85
Governor-General - Madagascar
Martin Luther King Jr. age 37
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Jimmy Carter age 41
Georgia State Senate
Barack Obama age 5
Donald Trump age 20
Michael Jackson age 7
Vladimir Putin age 13
Ronald Reagan age 55
Nelson Mandela age 48
George W. Bush age 20
Joe Biden age 23
Pablo Picasso age 84
Charlie Chaplin age 77
Bill Gates age 10
Pope Francis age 29
Steve Jobs age 11
Che Guevara age 38
Bill Clinton age 20
Angela Merkel age 12
Neil Armstrong age 36
François Hollande age 12
Walt Disney age 64
Elvis Presley age 31
John Paul II age 46
Gabriel García Márquez age 39
Yuri Gagarin age 32
Mikhail Gorbachev age 35
Stephen Hawking age 24
Jean-Paul Sartre age 61
Benedict XVI age 39
Mother Teresa age 56
Harry S. Truman age 82
Hillary Clinton age 18
George H. W. Bush age 42
Kamala Harris age 1
Nicolas Sarkozy age 11
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 75
Richard Nixon age 53
Xi Jinping age 13
Naruhito age 6
Hugo Chávez age 12
Simone de Beauvoir age 58
Muammar Gaddafi age 24
John Lennon age 25
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 12
Muhammad Ali age 24
Kofi Annan age 28
Charles III age 17
Osama bin Laden age 9
Lech Wałęsa age 22
Leo XIV age 10
Diego Maradona age 5
Narendra Modi age 15
Rafael Correa age 3
Saddam Hussein age 29
Aung San Suu Kyi age 21
Nikita Khrushchev age 72
Benjamin Netanyahu age 16
Dmitry Medvedev age 11 months
14th Dalai Lama age 31
Silvio Berlusconi age 29
Shinzo Abe age 11
Bob Marley age 21
Tim Berners-Lee age 11
Mahathir Mohamad age 41
Boris Yeltsin age 35
Ali Khamenei age 27
Jacques Chirac age 33
Guillermo Lasso age 10
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 47
Kwame Nkrumah age 56
Alexander Lukashenko age 11
Tony Blair age 13
Yasser Arafat age 37
Ban Ki-moon age 22
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 19
Boris Johnson age 2
Diana, Princess of Wales age 5
Bashar al-Assad age 11 months
Benazir Bhutto age 13
Jair Bolsonaro age 11
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 20
Konrad Adenauer age 90
Theresa May age 9
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 9
Henry Kissinger age 43
Václav Havel age 29
Nicolás Maduro age 3
Robert Mugabe age 42
Hosni Mubarak age 38
Golda Meir age 68
Dilma Rousseff age 18
Al Gore age 18
François Mitterrand age 49
David Ben-Gurion age 79
Milton Friedman age 54
Ruhollah Khomeini age 63
Valentina Tereshkova age 29
Ilham Aliyev age 4
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 27
António Guterres age 17
Akihito age 32
Helmut Kohl age 36
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 62
Rosa Parks age 53
Gordon Brown age 15
Shimon Peres age 43
John Paul I age 53
Olaf Scholz age 8
Anwar Sadat age 47
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 28
Keir Starmer age 3
Willy Brandt age 52
Gerhard Schröder age 22
Hassan Rouhani age 17
Salvador Allende age 58
Hu Jintao age 23
Evo Morales age 6
Joko Widodo age 5
Petro Poroshenko age 10 months
Augusto Pinochet age 50
Ursula von der Leyen age 7
Mike Pence age 7
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 13
Michelle Bachelet age 14
Suharto age 45
Ariel Sharon age 38
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 48
Desmond Tutu age 34
Viktor Yanukovych age 16
Mohamed Morsi age 15
Viktor Orbán age 3
Sergio Mattarella age 25
Manmohan Singh age 33
Pervez Musharraf age 23
Yuri Andropov age 52
Julia Gillard age 4
Abdullah Gül age 15
Lech Kaczyński age 17
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 10
Jeff Bezos age 2
Buzz Aldrin age 36
Mohammad Khatami age 22
Yitzhak Rabin age 44
Tsai Ing-wen age 9
Mariano Rajoy age 11