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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
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01

People

Hassanal Bolkiah age 7
Mario Draghi age 6
Kim Dae-jung age 29
Radovan Karadžić age 8
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 31
Aldo Moro age 37
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 13
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 47
F. W. de Klerk age 17
Ludwig Erhard age 56
Ashraf Ghani age 4
Kurt Waldheim age 34
Alexander Van der Bellen age 9
Miloš Zeman age 9
Mobutu Sese Seko age 23
Salome Zourabichvili age 1
Jomo Kenyatta age 60
Emomali Rahmon age 1
Julius Nyerere age 31
Saparmurat Niyazov age 13
Yoweri Museveni age 9
Leonid Kuchma age 15
Donald Rumsfeld age 21
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 6 months
Olof Palme age 26
Süleyman Demirel age 29
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 37
Queen Camilla age 6
Jonas Salk age 39
Karl Dönitz age 62
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 20
Pierre Trudeau age 34
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 65
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 30
Bronisław Komorowski age 1
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 6
Junichiro Koizumi age 11
Tarō Asō age 13
U Thant age 44
Rudolf Hess age 59
Colin Powell age 16
Norodom Sihamoni age 6 months
Giulio Andreotti age 34
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 9 months
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 17
Alexander Dubček age 31
Wen Jiabao age 11
Václav Klaus age 12
Ehud Olmert age 8
Francesco Cossiga age 25
İsmet İnönü age 69
Leonid Kravchuk age 19
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 6
Puyi age 47
Ahmed Ben Bella age 36
Heinz Fischer age 15
Michael D. Higgins age 12
Mario Monti age 10
Alberto Fujimori age 15
Roh Moo-hyun age 7
Bernard Montgomery age 66
Richard von Weizsäcker age 33
Albert Speer age 48
Ram Nath Kovind age 8
Nawaz Sharif age 3
Albert II of Belgium age 19
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 19
José Eduardo dos Santos age 11
Néstor Kirchner age 3
John Howard age 14
Idriss Déby age 1
Alexander Kerensky age 72
Turgut Özal age 26
Eisaku Satō age 52
Yukio Hatoyama age 6
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 32
Sahle-Work Zewde age 3
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 33
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 47
Michel Temer age 13
Sergei Korolev age 46
Traian Băsescu age 2
Walter Mondale age 25
Paul Biya age 20
Lester B. Pearson age 56
Habib Bourguiba age 50
Tansu Çiller age 7
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 5
Ratko Mladić age 11
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 8
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 22
Teodoro Obiang age 11
B. J. Habibie age 17
Mary Robinson age 9
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 32
Hastings Banda age 63
Thaksin Shinawatra age 4
Jarosław Kaczyński age 4
Moshe Dayan age 38
Trygve Lie age 57
Hamad II of Bahrain age 3
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 23
Abdurrahman Wahid age 13
Alassane Ouattara age 11
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 73
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 9
Johannes Rau age 22
Yasuo Fukuda age 17
Dominique de Villepin age 0 months
Franz von Papen age 74
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 12
Omar Bongo age 17
Najib Razak age 3 months
Helen Clark age 3
Lee Hsien Loong age 1
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 11
Lee Myung-bak age 11
Alija Izetbegović age 28
Franjo Tuđman age 31
Jorge Rafael Videla age 28
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 14
Nana Akufo-Addo age 9
Prabowo Subianto age 2
Tomislav Nikolić age 1
José Ramos-Horta age 3
Nelson Rockefeller age 45
Alec Douglas-Home age 50
John Evans Atta Mills age 9
Reuven Rivlin age 14
Alcide De Gasperi age 72
Roza Otunbayeva age 3
Hassan II age 24
Cemal Gürsel age 58
Trương Tấn Sang age 4
Kenneth Kaunda age 29
Alan García age 4
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 2
Robert Schuman age 67
Janet Yellen age 7
Armen Sarkissian age 4 months
Joyce Banda age 3
Victor Chernomyrdin age 15
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 12
José María Aznar age 8 months
Andrei Gromyko age 44
Kliment Voroshilov age 72
Spiro Agnew age 35
Carlos Menem age 23
Nikos Anastasiades age 7
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 11
Laurent Gbagbo age 8
Shehbaz Sharif age 2
Kenan Evren age 36
Roman Herzog age 19
Sali Berisha age 9
Stjepan Mesić age 18
Isaac Shamir age 38
Michel Aoun age 20
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 29
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 14
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 4
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 7
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 35
Umberto II of Italy age 49
Ngo Dinh Diem age 52
Henry A. Wallace age 65
Isaias Afwerki age 7
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 16
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 2
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 4
Ion Iliescu age 23
Bülent Ecevit age 28
Kim Young-sam age 25
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 3
Leopold III of Belgium age 52
Erich von Manstein age 66
Sandro Pertini age 57
Anwar Ibrahim age 6
Tabaré Vázquez age 13
Walter Scheel age 34
Jalal Talabani age 20
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 24
Vicente Fox age 11
Olusegun Obasanjo age 16
Olav V of Norway age 50
Beji Caid Essebsi age 26
Alfredo Stroessner age 41
Fidel Ramos age 25
Wallis Simpson age 57
Juscelino Kubitschek age 51
Hua Guofeng age 32
Agostinho Neto age 31
Alpha Condé age 15
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 31
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 10
Mary McAleese age 2
Ehud Barak age 11
Giuliano Amato age 15
Ayub Khan age 46
Ma Ying-jeou age 3