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Events

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
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01

People

Daniel Ortega age 8
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 15
Islam Karimov age 16
Dan Quayle age 7
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 34
Omar al-Bashir age 10
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 289
Naoto Kan age 7
Pratibha Patil age 19
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 4
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 26
Heydar Aliyev age 31
Hassanal Bolkiah age 8
Mario Draghi age 6
Kim Dae-jung age 30
Radovan Karadžić age 9
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 18
Ludwig Erhard age 57
Ashraf Ghani age 5
Kurt Waldheim age 35
Alexander Van der Bellen age 10
Miloš Zeman age 9
Mobutu Sese Seko age 23
Salome Zourabichvili age 2
Jomo Kenyatta age 60
Emomali Rahmon age 1
Julius Nyerere age 32
Saparmurat Niyazov age 14
Yoweri Museveni age 9
Leonid Kuchma age 16
Donald Rumsfeld age 22
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 1
Olof Palme age 27
Süleyman Demirel age 29
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 38
Queen Camilla age 7
Jonas Salk age 39
Karl Dönitz age 62
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 21
Pierre Trudeau age 34
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 65
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 31
Bronisław Komorowski age 2
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 7
Junichiro Koizumi age 12
Tarō Asō age 13
U Thant age 45
Rudolf Hess age 60
Colin Powell age 17
Norodom Sihamoni age 1
Giulio Andreotti age 35
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 1
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 17
Alexander Dubček age 32
Wen Jiabao age 11
Václav Klaus age 13
Ehud Olmert age 8
Francesco Cossiga age 26
İsmet İnönü age 69
Leonid Kravchuk age 20
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 7
Puyi age 48
Ahmed Ben Bella age 37
Heinz Fischer age 15
Michael D. Higgins age 13
Mario Monti age 11
Alberto Fujimori age 16
Roh Moo-hyun age 7
Bernard Montgomery age 66
Richard von Weizsäcker age 34
Albert Speer age 49
Ram Nath Kovind age 8
Nawaz Sharif age 4
François Fillon age 5 months
Albert II of Belgium age 20
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 20
José Eduardo dos Santos age 11
Néstor Kirchner age 4
John Howard age 15
Idriss Déby age 2
Alexander Kerensky age 73
Turgut Özal age 26
Eisaku Satō age 53
Yukio Hatoyama age 7
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 33
Sahle-Work Zewde age 4
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 34
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 48
Michel Temer age 13
Sergei Korolev age 47
Traian Băsescu age 2
Walter Mondale age 26
Paul Biya age 21
Lester B. Pearson age 57
Habib Bourguiba age 51
Tansu Çiller age 8
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 5
Ratko Mladić age 12
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 8
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 23
Teodoro Obiang age 12
B. J. Habibie age 18
Mary Robinson age 10
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 33
Hastings Banda age 64
Thaksin Shinawatra age 5
Jarosław Kaczyński age 5
Moshe Dayan age 39
Trygve Lie age 58
Hamad II of Bahrain age 4
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 24
Abdurrahman Wahid age 13
Alassane Ouattara age 12
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 74
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 10
Johannes Rau age 23
Yasuo Fukuda age 18
Dominique de Villepin age 9 months
Franz von Papen age 74
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 12
Omar Bongo age 18
Najib Razak age 1
Helen Clark age 4
Lee Hsien Loong age 2
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 11
Lee Myung-bak age 12
Alija Izetbegović age 29
Franjo Tuđman age 32
Jorge Rafael Videla age 29
Urho Kekkonen age 53
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 15
Nana Akufo-Addo age 10
Prabowo Subianto age 2
Tomislav Nikolić age 2
José Ramos-Horta age 4
Nelson Rockefeller age 46
Alec Douglas-Home age 51
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 7 months
John Evans Atta Mills age 10
Éamon de Valera age 71
Reuven Rivlin age 14
Roza Otunbayeva age 3
Hassan II age 25
Cemal Gürsel age 58
Trương Tấn Sang age 5
Kenneth Kaunda age 30
Alan García age 5
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 2
Robert Schuman age 68
Janet Yellen age 8
Armen Sarkissian age 1
Joyce Banda age 4
Victor Chernomyrdin age 16
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 12
José María Aznar age 1
Andrei Gromyko age 45
Kliment Voroshilov age 73
Spiro Agnew age 35
Carlos Menem age 24
Nikos Anastasiades age 7
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 11
Laurent Gbagbo age 9
Shehbaz Sharif age 2
Kenan Evren age 37
Roman Herzog age 20
Sali Berisha age 9
Stjepan Mesić age 19
Isaac Shamir age 38
Michel Aoun age 20
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 30
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 15
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 5
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 8
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 36
Umberto II of Italy age 49
Ngo Dinh Diem age 53
Henry A. Wallace age 65
Isaias Afwerki age 8
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 17
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 3
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 5
Ion Iliescu age 24
Bülent Ecevit age 29
Kim Young-sam age 26
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 4
Leopold III of Belgium age 52
Erich von Manstein age 66
Sandro Pertini age 57
Anwar Ibrahim age 7
Tabaré Vázquez age 14
Walter Scheel age 35
Jalal Talabani age 20
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 25
Vicente Fox age 12
Olusegun Obasanjo age 17
Olav V of Norway age 51