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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
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19

People

Islam Karimov age 17
Dan Quayle age 8
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 35
Omar al-Bashir age 11
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 290
Naoto Kan age 8
Pratibha Patil age 20
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 5
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 27
Heydar Aliyev age 32
Hassanal Bolkiah age 8
Norodom Sihanouk age 32
Mario Draghi age 7
Kim Dae-jung age 31
Radovan Karadžić age 9
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 32
Aldo Moro age 38
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 14
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 48
F. W. de Klerk age 19
Ludwig Erhard age 58
Ashraf Ghani age 5
Kurt Waldheim age 36
Alexander Van der Bellen age 11
Miloš Zeman age 10
Mobutu Sese Seko age 24
Salome Zourabichvili age 3
Jomo Kenyatta age 61
Emomali Rahmon age 2
Julius Nyerere age 33
Saparmurat Niyazov age 15
Yoweri Museveni age 10
Leonid Kuchma age 16
Donald Rumsfeld age 22
Masoud Pezeshkian age 7 months
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 1
Olof Palme age 28
Süleyman Demirel age 30
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 39
Queen Camilla age 7
Jonas Salk age 40
Karl Dönitz age 63
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 22
Pierre Trudeau age 35
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 66
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 31
Bronisław Komorowski age 2
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 8
Junichiro Koizumi age 13
Tarō Asō age 14
U Thant age 46
Rudolf Hess age 61
Colin Powell age 18
Norodom Sihamoni age 2
Giulio Andreotti age 36
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 2
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 18
Alexander Dubček age 33
Wen Jiabao age 12
Václav Klaus age 13
Ehud Olmert age 9
Francesco Cossiga age 26
İsmet İnönü age 70
Leonid Kravchuk age 21
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 8
Puyi age 49
Ahmed Ben Bella age 38
Heinz Fischer age 16
Michael D. Higgins age 14
Paolo Gentiloni age 5 months
Mario Monti age 12
Alberto Fujimori age 16
Roh Moo-hyun age 8
Bernard Montgomery age 67
Richard von Weizsäcker age 35
Albert Speer age 50
Ram Nath Kovind age 9
Nawaz Sharif age 5
François Fillon age 1
Albert II of Belgium age 20
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 20
José Eduardo dos Santos age 12
Néstor Kirchner age 5
John Howard age 15
Idriss Déby age 2
Alexander Kerensky age 74
Turgut Özal age 27
Eisaku Satō age 54
Yukio Hatoyama age 8
Georgy Malenkov age 53
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 34
Sahle-Work Zewde age 5
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 35
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 49
Michel Temer age 14
Sergei Korolev age 48
Traian Băsescu age 3
Walter Mondale age 27
Paul Biya age 22
Lester B. Pearson age 58
Habib Bourguiba age 51
Tansu Çiller age 8
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 6
Ratko Mladić age 13
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 9
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 24
Teodoro Obiang age 12
B. J. Habibie age 18
Mary Robinson age 10
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 34
Hastings Banda age 65
Thaksin Shinawatra age 5
Jarosław Kaczyński age 5
Moshe Dayan age 40
Trygve Lie age 58
Hamad II of Bahrain age 5
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 25
Abdurrahman Wahid age 14
Alassane Ouattara age 13
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 74
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 11
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 6 months
Johannes Rau age 24
Yasuo Fukuda age 18
Dominique de Villepin age 1
Franz von Papen age 75
Malcolm Turnbull age 6 months
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 13
Omar Bongo age 19
Najib Razak age 1
Helen Clark age 5
Lee Hsien Loong age 3
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 12
Lee Myung-bak age 13
Alija Izetbegović age 29
Franjo Tuđman age 33
Jorge Rafael Videla age 29
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 16
Nana Akufo-Addo age 11
Prabowo Subianto age 3
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 0 months
Tomislav Nikolić age 3
José Ramos-Horta age 5
Nelson Rockefeller age 46
Alec Douglas-Home age 51
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 1
John Evans Atta Mills age 10
Éamon de Valera age 72
Reuven Rivlin age 15
Roza Otunbayeva age 4
Hassan II age 25
Cemal Gürsel age 59
Trương Tấn Sang age 6
Kenneth Kaunda age 31
Alan García age 5
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 3
Robert Schuman age 68
Janet Yellen age 8
Armen Sarkissian age 1
Imre Nagy age 58
Joyce Banda age 5
Victor Chernomyrdin age 17
Halimah Yacob age 8 months
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 13
José María Aznar age 2
Andrei Gromyko age 45
Kliment Voroshilov age 74
Spiro Agnew age 36
Carlos Menem age 24
Robert Kocharyan age 8 months
Nikos Anastasiades age 8
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 12
Laurent Gbagbo age 9
Shehbaz Sharif age 3
Kenan Evren age 37
Roman Herzog age 21
Sali Berisha age 10
Stjepan Mesić age 20
Isaac Shamir age 39
Michel Aoun age 21
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 30
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 15
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 5
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 9
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 36
Umberto II of Italy age 50
Ngo Dinh Diem age 54
Henry A. Wallace age 66
Isaias Afwerki age 9
Meles Zenawi age 0 months
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 17
Filip Vujanović age 8 months
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 3
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 6
Ion Iliescu age 25
Bülent Ecevit age 29
Kim Young-sam age 27
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 5
Leopold III of Belgium age 53
Erich von Manstein age 67