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Events

Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Marshall Plan 1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27

People

Leonid Kuchma age 11
Donald Rumsfeld age 17
Olof Palme age 23
Süleyman Demirel age 25
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 34
Queen Camilla age 2
Jonas Salk age 35
Karl Dönitz age 58
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 17
Pierre Trudeau age 30
Fulgencio Batista age 49
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 82
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 61
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 26
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 3
Junichiro Koizumi age 8
Tarō Asō age 9
U Thant age 41
Rudolf Hess age 56
Colin Powell age 13
Giulio Andreotti age 31
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 13
Alexander Dubček age 28
Wen Jiabao age 7
Václav Klaus age 8
Ehud Olmert age 4
Francesco Cossiga age 21
İsmet İnönü age 65
Leonid Kravchuk age 16
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 3
Puyi age 44
Ahmed Ben Bella age 33
Heinz Fischer age 11
Michael D. Higgins age 9
Mario Monti age 7
Alberto Fujimori age 11
Roh Moo-hyun age 3
Bernard Montgomery age 62
Richard von Weizsäcker age 30
Albert Speer age 45
Ram Nath Kovind age 4
Nawaz Sharif age 4 months
Albert II of Belgium age 15
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 15
José Eduardo dos Santos age 7
Néstor Kirchner age 2 months
John Howard age 10
Alexander Kerensky age 69
Turgut Özal age 22
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 74
Eisaku Satō age 49
Yukio Hatoyama age 3
Georgy Malenkov age 48
Getúlio Vargas age 68
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 29
Sahle-Work Zewde age 3 months
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 30
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 44
Michel Temer age 9
Sergei Korolev age 43
Walter Mondale age 22
Paul Biya age 17
Lester B. Pearson age 53
Hussein I of Jordan age 14
Habib Bourguiba age 46
Tansu Çiller age 4
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 1
Ratko Mladić age 8
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 4
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 19
Teodoro Obiang age 7
B. J. Habibie age 13
Mary Robinson age 6
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 29
Hastings Banda age 60
Thaksin Shinawatra age 10 months
Jarosław Kaczyński age 11 months
Moshe Dayan age 35
Hamad II of Bahrain age 3 months
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 20
Abdurrahman Wahid age 9
Alassane Ouattara age 8
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 69
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 6
Johannes Rau age 19
Yasuo Fukuda age 13
Franz von Papen age 70
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 8
Omar Bongo age 14
Helen Clark age 2 months
Celâl Bayar age 67
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 7
Lee Myung-bak age 8
Alija Izetbegović age 24
Franjo Tuđman age 28
Jorge Rafael Videla age 24
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 11
Nana Akufo-Addo age 6
José Ramos-Horta age 4 months
Walter Ulbricht age 56
Charles G. Dawes age 84
Nelson Rockefeller age 41
John Evans Atta Mills age 5
Éamon de Valera age 67
Reuven Rivlin age 10
Hassan II age 20
Cemal Gürsel age 54
Trương Tấn Sang age 1
Kenneth Kaunda age 26
Alan García age 1
Robert Schuman age 63
Janet Yellen age 3
Imre Nagy age 53
Joyce Banda age 1 month
Victor Chernomyrdin age 12
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 8
Andrei Gromyko age 40
Kliment Voroshilov age 69
Spiro Agnew age 31
Carlos Menem age 19
Nikos Anastasiades age 3
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 7
Laurent Gbagbo age 4
Kenan Evren age 32
Roman Herzog age 16
Sali Berisha age 5
Stjepan Mesić age 15
Isaac Shamir age 34
Michel Aoun age 16
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 25
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 10
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 10 months
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 4
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 32
Umberto II of Italy age 45
Ngo Dinh Diem age 49
Henry A. Wallace age 61
Isaias Afwerki age 4
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 13
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 1
Ion Iliescu age 20
Bülent Ecevit age 25
Kim Young-sam age 22
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 3 months
Erich von Manstein age 62
Sandro Pertini age 53
Anwar Ibrahim age 2
Tabaré Vázquez age 10
Walter Scheel age 30
Jalal Talabani age 16
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 20
Vicente Fox age 7
Olusegun Obasanjo age 13
Olav V of Norway age 46
Beji Caid Essebsi age 23
Alfredo Stroessner age 37
Fidel Ramos age 22
Wallis Simpson age 53
Juscelino Kubitschek age 47
Baudouin of Belgium age 19
Hua Guofeng age 29
Agostinho Neto age 27
Alpha Condé age 12
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 28
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 7
Ehud Barak age 8
Giuliano Amato age 12
Ayub Khan age 43
Emilio Aguinaldo age 81
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 48
Pietro Badoglio age 78
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 29
Chester W. Nimitz age 65
Abdul Hamid age 6
Kim Campbell age 3
Mauno Koivisto age 26
Karolos Papoulias age 20
Zakir Husain age 53
Rafiq Hariri age 5
Pridi Banomyong age 50
Milton Obote age 24
Yun Po-sun age 52
Gustav Heinemann age 50
Lionel Jospin age 12
Abolhassan Banisadr age 17
János Kádár age 38
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 31
Bettino Craxi age 16
Valdas Adamkus age 23
Samora Moisés Machel age 16
Mamnoon Hussain age 9
Fahri Korutürk age 46
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 4
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 4
Michael I of Romania age 28
Édouard Daladier age 65
Cordell Hull age 78
Raúl Alfonsín age 23
Paul Martin age 11
Mwai Kibaki age 18