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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
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
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Nigerian Civil War 1967-07-06 - 1970-01-15

People

Eric Gairy age 45
Prime Minister - Grenada
George Borg Olivier age 56
Prime Minister - Malta
Mohamed Benhima age 43
Prime Minister - Morocco
Tahir Yahya age 52
Prime Minister - Iraq
Abdul Hamid al-Bakkoush age 34
Prime Minister - Libya
Gerard Batliner age 39
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Wanis al-Qaddafi age 43
Prime Minister - Libya
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 55
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Tu'i Pelehake age 46
Prime Minister - Tonga
Makhosini Dlamini age 54
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 46
Prime Minister - Samoa
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 51
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Ksente Bogoev age 48
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Johan Adolf Pengel age 51
Prime Minister - Suriname
Edward Oliver LeBlanc age 44
Premier - Dominica
Vidoje Žarković age 40
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Raúl Ferrero Rebagliati age 56
Prime Minister - Peru
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt age 67
Governor-General - New Zealand
Richard Casey, Baron Casey age 77
Governor-General - Australia
Clifford Campbell age 75
Governor-General - Jamaica
Arleigh Winston Scott age 67
Governor-General - Barbados
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 86
Governor-General - Madagascar
Martin Luther King Jr. age 38
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Barack Obama age 6
Donald Trump age 21
Michael Jackson age 9
Vladimir Putin age 15
Nelson Mandela age 49
George W. Bush age 21
Joe Biden age 25
Pablo Picasso age 86
Charlie Chaplin age 78
Bill Gates age 12
Pope Francis age 31
Steve Jobs age 12
Bill Clinton age 21
Angela Merkel age 13
Neil Armstrong age 37
François Hollande age 13
Elvis Presley age 33
John Paul II age 47
Gabriel García Márquez age 40
Yuri Gagarin age 33
Mikhail Gorbachev age 36
Stephen Hawking age 26
Jean-Paul Sartre age 62
Jimmy Carter age 43
Benedict XVI age 40
Mother Teresa age 57
Harry S. Truman age 83
Hillary Clinton age 20
Kamala Harris age 3
Nicolas Sarkozy age 12
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 77
Richard Nixon age 55
Xi Jinping age 14
Naruhito age 7
Hugo Chávez age 13
Simone de Beauvoir age 60
Muammar Gaddafi age 25
John Lennon age 27
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 13
Muhammad Ali age 25
Kofi Annan age 29
Charles III age 19
Osama bin Laden age 10
Lech Wałęsa age 24
Leo XIV age 12
Diego Maradona age 7
Narendra Modi age 17
Rafael Correa age 4
Saddam Hussein age 30
Aung San Suu Kyi age 22
Nikita Khrushchev age 73
Benjamin Netanyahu age 18
Dmitry Medvedev age 2
14th Dalai Lama age 32
Silvio Berlusconi age 31
Shinzo Abe age 13
Bob Marley age 22
Tim Berners-Lee age 12
Mahathir Mohamad age 42
Boris Yeltsin age 36
Ali Khamenei age 28
Jacques Chirac age 35
Guillermo Lasso age 12
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 49
Kwame Nkrumah age 58
Alexander Lukashenko age 13
Tony Blair age 14
Yasser Arafat age 38
David Cameron age 1
Ban Ki-moon age 23
Boris Johnson age 3
Diana, Princess of Wales age 6
Bashar al-Assad age 2
Benazir Bhutto age 14
Jair Bolsonaro age 12
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 22
Theresa May age 11
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 11
Henry Kissinger age 44
Václav Havel age 31
Nicolás Maduro age 5
Robert Mugabe age 43
Hosni Mubarak age 39
Golda Meir age 69
Dilma Rousseff age 20
Deng Xiaoping age 63
Al Gore age 19
François Mitterrand age 51
David Ben-Gurion age 81
Milton Friedman age 55
Ruhollah Khomeini age 65
Valentina Tereshkova age 30
Ilham Aliyev age 6
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 29
António Guterres age 18
Akihito age 34
Helmut Kohl age 37
Rosa Parks age 54
Gordon Brown age 16
Shimon Peres age 44
Sukarno age 66
John Paul I age 55
Olaf Scholz age 9
Anwar Sadat age 49
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 30
Keir Starmer age 5
Willy Brandt age 54
Gerhard Schröder age 23
Hassan Rouhani age 19
Salvador Allende age 59
Hu Jintao age 25
Evo Morales age 8
Joko Widodo age 6
Petro Poroshenko age 2
Mikheil Saakashvili age 0 months
Augusto Pinochet age 52
Ursula von der Leyen age 9
Mike Pence age 8
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 14
Michelle Bachelet age 16
Ariel Sharon age 39
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 49
Desmond Tutu age 36
Viktor Yanukovych age 17
Mohamed Morsi age 16
Viktor Orbán age 4
Sergio Mattarella age 26
Manmohan Singh age 35
Pervez Musharraf age 24
Yuri Andropov age 53
Julia Gillard age 6
Abdullah Gül age 17
Lech Kaczyński age 18
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 12
Jeff Bezos age 3
Buzz Aldrin age 37
Mohammad Khatami age 24
Yitzhak Rabin age 45
Tsai Ing-wen age 11
Mariano Rajoy age 12
Andrei Sakharov age 46
Dick Cheney age 26
Condoleezza Rice age 13
Raúl Castro age 36
Sheikh Hasina age 20
Giorgio Napolitano age 42
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 27
Mark Rutte age 10 months
Idi Amin age 43
Yulia Tymoshenko age 7
Rodrigo Duterte age 22
Abdullah II of Jordan age 5
Helmut Schmidt age 49
Stephen Harper age 8
Margrethe II of Denmark age 27
Donald Tusk age 10
Corazon Aquino age 34
Edward VIII age 73
John Kerry age 24
Madeleine Albright age 30
Hamid Karzai age 10
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 8 months
José Mujica age 32
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 43
Yoshihide Suga age 19
Rajiv Gandhi age 23
Thabo Mbeki age 25
Wernher von Braun age 55
Harald V of Norway age 30
Viktor Yushchenko age 13
John Major age 24
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 13
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 30
Jens Stoltenberg age 8
Slobodan Milošević age 26
Enver Hoxha age 59
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 4