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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
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12

People

Adolf Eichmann age 46
Pratibha Patil age 18
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 3
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 24
Heydar Aliyev age 29
Herman Van Rompuy age 5
Hassanal Bolkiah age 6
Mario Draghi age 5
Kim Dae-jung age 28
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon age 52
Radovan Karadžić age 7
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 30
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 27
Aldo Moro age 36
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 12
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 46
F. W. de Klerk age 16
Ludwig Erhard age 55
Ashraf Ghani age 3
Kurt Waldheim age 34
Alexander Van der Bellen age 8
Miloš Zeman age 8
Mobutu Sese Seko age 22
Salome Zourabichvili age 9 months
Jomo Kenyatta age 59
Emomali Rahmon age 2 months
Julius Nyerere age 30
Saparmurat Niyazov age 12
Yoweri Museveni age 8
Leonid Kuchma age 14
Donald Rumsfeld age 20
Olof Palme age 25
Süleyman Demirel age 28
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 36
Queen Camilla age 5
Jonas Salk age 38
Karl Dönitz age 61
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 19
Pierre Trudeau age 33
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 64
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 29
Bronisław Komorowski age 6 months
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 5
Junichiro Koizumi age 10
Tarō Asō age 12
U Thant age 43
Rudolf Hess age 58
Colin Powell age 15
Giulio Andreotti age 33
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 16
Alexander Dubček age 31
Wen Jiabao age 10
Václav Klaus age 11
Ehud Olmert age 7
Francesco Cossiga age 24
İsmet İnönü age 68
Leonid Kravchuk age 18
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 5
Puyi age 46
Ahmed Ben Bella age 35
Heinz Fischer age 14
Michael D. Higgins age 11
Mario Monti age 9
Alberto Fujimori age 14
Roh Moo-hyun age 6
Bernard Montgomery age 65
Richard von Weizsäcker age 32
Albert Speer age 47
Ram Nath Kovind age 7
Nawaz Sharif age 2
Võ Nguyên Giáp age 41
Albert II of Belgium age 18
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 18
José Eduardo dos Santos age 10
Néstor Kirchner age 2
John Howard age 13
Idriss Déby age 6 months
Alexander Kerensky age 71
Turgut Özal age 25
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 12
Sergei Korolev age 45
Traian Băsescu age 1
Lavrentiy Beria age 53
Walter Mondale age 24
Paul Biya age 19
Lester B. Pearson age 55
Habib Bourguiba age 49
Tansu Çiller age 6
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 4
Ratko Mladić age 10
Dzhokhar Dudayev age 8
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 7
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 21
Teodoro Obiang age 10
B. J. Habibie age 16
Mary Robinson age 8
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 32
Hastings Banda age 62
Thaksin Shinawatra age 3
Jarosław Kaczyński age 3
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 31
Moshe Dayan age 37
Trygve Lie age 56
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 48
Hamad II of Bahrain age 2
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 22
Abdurrahman Wahid age 12
Alassane Ouattara age 10
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 72
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 9
Johannes Rau age 21
Yasuo Fukuda age 16
Jeremy Corbyn age 3
Franz von Papen age 73
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 11
Omar Bongo age 16
Helen Clark age 2
Lee Hsien Loong age 10 months
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 10
Lee Myung-bak age 10
Alija Izetbegović age 27
Franjo Tuđman age 30
Jorge Rafael Videla age 27
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 13
Nana Akufo-Addo age 8
Prabowo Subianto age 1
Tomislav Nikolić age 10 months
José Ramos-Horta age 2
Adolfo Suárez age 20
François Englert age 20
Nelson Rockefeller age 44
Alec Douglas-Home age 49
John Evans Atta Mills age 8
Reuven Rivlin age 13
Roza Otunbayeva age 2
Hassan II age 23
Cemal Gürsel age 57
Trương Tấn Sang age 3
Kenneth Kaunda age 28
Alan García age 3
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 1
Robert Schuman age 66
Janet Yellen age 6
Lee Harvey Oswald age 13
Anne, Princess Royal age 2
Imre Nagy age 56
Joyce Banda age 2
Victor Chernomyrdin age 14
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 11
Andrei Gromyko age 43
Constantine II of Greece age 12
Robert G. Edwards age 27
Kliment Voroshilov age 71
Spiro Agnew age 34
Carlos Menem age 22
Nikos Anastasiades age 6
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 10
Lal Bahadur Shastri age 48
Laurent Gbagbo age 7
Shehbaz Sharif age 1
Kenan Evren age 35
Roman Herzog age 18
Sali Berisha age 8
Stjepan Mesić age 17
Isaac Shamir age 37
Michel Aoun age 19
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 28
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 13
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 3
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 7
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 34
Umberto II of Italy age 48
Ngo Dinh Diem age 51
Henry A. Wallace age 64
Isaias Afwerki age 6
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 15
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 1
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 4
Ion Iliescu age 22
Bülent Ecevit age 27
Kim Young-sam age 25
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 2
Leopold III of Belgium age 51
Erich von Manstein age 65
Sandro Pertini age 56
Anwar Ibrahim age 5
Tabaré Vázquez age 12
Walter Scheel age 33
Jalal Talabani age 19
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 23
Vicente Fox age 10
Olusegun Obasanjo age 15
Olav V of Norway age 49