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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

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 7 months
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 5
Junichiro Koizumi age 11
Tarō Asō age 12
U Thant age 44
Rudolf Hess age 58
Colin Powell age 15
Giulio Andreotti age 34
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 19
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 5
Puyi age 46
Ahmed Ben Bella age 36
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 3
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 51
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 31
Sahle-Work Zewde age 2
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 33
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 47
Michel Temer age 12
Sergei Korolev age 46
Traian Băsescu age 1
Walter Mondale age 25
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
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 63
Thaksin Shinawatra age 3
Jarosław Kaczyński age 3
Moshe Dayan age 37
Trygve Lie age 56
Hamad II of Bahrain age 2
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 22
Abdurrahman Wahid age 12
Alassane Ouattara age 11
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 72
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 9
Johannes Rau age 22
Yasuo Fukuda age 16
Franz von Papen age 73
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 11
Omar Bongo age 17
Helen Clark age 2
Lee Hsien Loong age 11 months
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 10
Lee Myung-bak age 11
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 11 months
José Ramos-Horta age 3
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
Imre Nagy age 56
Joyce Banda age 2
Victor Chernomyrdin age 14
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 11
Andrei Gromyko age 43
Kliment Voroshilov age 71
Spiro Agnew age 34
Carlos Menem age 22
Nikos Anastasiades age 6
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 10
Laurent Gbagbo age 7
Shehbaz Sharif age 1
Kenan Evren age 35
Roman Herzog age 18
Sali Berisha age 8
Stjepan Mesić age 18
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 52
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
Beji Caid Essebsi age 26
Alfredo Stroessner age 40
Fidel Ramos age 24
Wallis Simpson age 56
Juscelino Kubitschek age 50
Hua Guofeng age 31
Agostinho Neto age 30
Alpha Condé age 14
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 31
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 9
Mary McAleese age 1
Ehud Barak age 10
Giuliano Amato age 14
Ayub Khan age 45
Ma Ying-jeou age 2
Emilio Aguinaldo age 83
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 51
Pietro Badoglio age 81
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 32
Chester W. Nimitz age 67
Abdul Hamid age 9
Hun Sen age 5 months
Kim Campbell age 5
Mauno Koivisto age 29
Giorgos Papandreou age 6 months
Karolos Papoulias age 23
Zakir Husain age 55
Rafiq Hariri age 8
Pridi Banomyong age 52
Milton Obote age 27
Yun Po-sun age 55
Gustav Heinemann age 53
Lionel Jospin age 15
Abolhassan Banisadr age 19
Blaise Compaoré age 1
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 2
János Kádár age 40
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 34
Bettino Craxi age 18
Valdas Adamkus age 26