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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
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Korean War 1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11

People

Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 11
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 45
F. W. de Klerk age 16
Ludwig Erhard age 55
Ashraf Ghani age 3
Kurt Waldheim age 33
Alexander Van der Bellen age 8
Miloš Zeman age 7
Mobutu Sese Seko age 21
Salome Zourabichvili age 2 months
Jomo Kenyatta age 58
Julius Nyerere age 30
Saparmurat Niyazov age 12
Yoweri Museveni age 7
Leonid Kuchma age 13
Donald Rumsfeld age 19
Olof Palme age 25
Süleyman Demirel age 27
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 36
Queen Camilla age 4
Jonas Salk age 37
Karl Dönitz age 60
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 19
Pierre Trudeau age 32
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 63
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 28
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 5
Junichiro Koizumi age 10
Tarō Asō age 11
U Thant age 43
Rudolf Hess age 58
Colin Powell age 15
Giulio Andreotti age 33
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 15
Alexander Dubček age 30
Wen Jiabao age 9
Václav Klaus age 10
Ehud Olmert age 6
Francesco Cossiga age 23
İsmet İnönü age 67
Leonid Kravchuk age 18
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 5
Puyi age 46
Ahmed Ben Bella age 35
Heinz Fischer age 13
Michael D. Higgins age 11
Mario Monti age 9
Alberto Fujimori age 13
Roh Moo-hyun age 5
Bernard Montgomery age 64
Richard von Weizsäcker age 32
Albert Speer age 47
Ram Nath Kovind age 6
Nawaz Sharif age 2
Albert II of Belgium age 17
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 17
José Eduardo dos Santos age 9
Néstor Kirchner age 2
John Howard age 12
Alexander Kerensky age 71
Turgut Özal age 24
Eisaku Satō age 51
Yukio Hatoyama age 5
Georgy Malenkov age 50
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 31
Sahle-Work Zewde age 2
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 32
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 46
Michel Temer age 11
Sergei Korolev age 45
Traian Băsescu age 6 months
Walter Mondale age 24
Paul Biya age 19
Lester B. Pearson age 55
Hussein I of Jordan age 16
Habib Bourguiba age 48
Tansu Çiller age 6
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 3
Ratko Mladić age 10
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 6
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 21
Teodoro Obiang age 9
B. J. Habibie age 15
Mary Robinson age 8
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 31
Hastings Banda age 62
Thaksin Shinawatra age 2
Jarosław Kaczyński age 2
Moshe Dayan age 37
Hamad II of Bahrain age 2
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 22
Abdurrahman Wahid age 11
Alassane Ouattara age 10
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 71
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 8
Johannes Rau age 21
Yasuo Fukuda age 15
Franz von Papen age 72
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 10
Omar Bongo age 16
Helen Clark age 2
Lee Hsien Loong age 3 months
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 9
Lee Myung-bak age 10
Alija Izetbegović age 26
Franjo Tuđman age 30
Jorge Rafael Videla age 26
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 13
Nana Akufo-Addo age 8
Prabowo Subianto age 7 months
Tomislav Nikolić age 3 months
José Ramos-Horta age 2
Nelson Rockefeller age 43
Alec Douglas-Home age 48
John Evans Atta Mills age 7
Reuven Rivlin age 12
Roza Otunbayeva age 1
Hassan II age 22
Cemal Gürsel age 56
Trương Tấn Sang age 3
Kenneth Kaunda age 28
Alan García age 3
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 8 months
Robert Schuman age 65
Janet Yellen age 5
Imre Nagy age 56
Joyce Banda age 2
Victor Chernomyrdin age 14
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 10
Andrei Gromyko age 42
Kliment Voroshilov age 71
Spiro Agnew age 33
Carlos Menem age 21
Nikos Anastasiades age 5
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 9
Laurent Gbagbo age 6
Shehbaz Sharif age 8 months
Kenan Evren age 34
Roman Herzog age 18
Sali Berisha age 7
Stjepan Mesić age 17
Isaac Shamir age 36
Michel Aoun age 18
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 27
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 12
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 2
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 6
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 34
Umberto II of Italy age 47
Ngo Dinh Diem age 51
Henry A. Wallace age 63
Isaias Afwerki age 6
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 15
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 9 months
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 3
Ion Iliescu age 22
Bülent Ecevit age 27
Kim Young-sam age 24
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 2
Leopold III of Belgium age 50
Erich von Manstein age 64
Sandro Pertini age 55
Anwar Ibrahim age 4
Tabaré Vázquez age 12
Walter Scheel age 32
Jalal Talabani age 18
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 22
Vicente Fox age 9
Olusegun Obasanjo age 15
Olav V of Norway age 48
Beji Caid Essebsi age 25
Alfredo Stroessner age 39
Fidel Ramos age 24
Wallis Simpson age 55
Juscelino Kubitschek age 49
Hua Guofeng age 31
Agostinho Neto age 29
Alpha Condé age 14
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 30
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 9
Mary McAleese age 11 months
Ehud Barak age 10
Giuliano Amato age 14
Ayub Khan age 45
Ma Ying-jeou age 1
Emilio Aguinaldo age 83
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 50
Pietro Badoglio age 80
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 31
Chester W. Nimitz age 67
Abdul Hamid age 8
Kim Campbell age 5
Mauno Koivisto age 28
Karolos Papoulias age 22
Zakir Husain age 55
Rafiq Hariri age 7
Pridi Banomyong age 52
Milton Obote age 26
Yun Po-sun age 54
Gustav Heinemann age 52