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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
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966

People

Sauli Niinistö age 7
Eduard Shevardnadze age 28
Romano Prodi age 16
Imran Khan age 3
Cyril Ramaphosa age 3
Robert F. Kennedy age 30
Serzh Sargsyan age 1
Pranab Mukherjee age 20
Park Chung-hee age 38
Vyacheslav Molotov age 66
Joachim Gauck age 16
Thomas Sankara age 6
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 9
Menachem Begin age 42
Jean-Claude Juncker age 1
Erich Honecker age 43
Francis Crick age 39
Hafez al-Assad age 25
Li Keqiang age 8 months
Muhammadu Buhari age 13
Horst Köhler age 13
Peter Higgs age 26
Sebastián Piñera age 6
Tarja Halonen age 12
Daniel Ortega age 10
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 16
Islam Karimov age 18
Dan Quayle age 9
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 35
Omar al-Bashir age 12
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 291
Naoto Kan age 9
Adolf Eichmann age 49
Pratibha Patil age 21
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 6
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 28
Juan Perón age 60
Heydar Aliyev age 32
Herman Van Rompuy age 8
Hassanal Bolkiah age 9
Mario Draghi age 8
Kim Dae-jung age 32
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon age 55
Radovan Karadžić age 10
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 33
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 31
Aldo Moro age 39
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 15
Asif Ali Zardari age 7 months
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 49
F. W. de Klerk age 19
Ludwig Erhard age 59
Ashraf Ghani age 6
Kurt Waldheim age 37
Alexander Van der Bellen age 12
Miloš Zeman age 11
Mobutu Sese Seko age 25
Salome Zourabichvili age 3
Jomo Kenyatta age 62
Andrés Manuel López Obrador age 2
Emomali Rahmon age 3
Julius Nyerere age 33
Saparmurat Niyazov age 16
Yoweri Museveni age 11
Leonid Kuchma age 17
Donald Rumsfeld age 23
Masoud Pezeshkian age 1
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 2
Olof Palme age 29
Süleyman Demirel age 31
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 39
Queen Camilla age 8
Jonas Salk age 41
Karl Dönitz age 64
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 22
Pierre Trudeau age 36
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 67
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 32
Bronisław Komorowski age 3
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 8
Junichiro Koizumi age 14
Tarō Asō age 15
U Thant age 47
Rudolf Hess age 61
Colin Powell age 18
Norodom Sihamoni age 2
Giulio Andreotti age 37
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 3
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 19
Alexander Dubček age 34
Wen Jiabao age 13
Václav Klaus age 14
Ehud Olmert age 10
Francesco Cossiga age 27
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 0 months
İsmet İnönü age 71
Leonid Kravchuk age 22
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 8
Puyi age 50
Ahmed Ben Bella age 39
Heinz Fischer age 17
Michael D. Higgins age 14
Paolo Gentiloni age 1
Mario Monti age 12
Alberto Fujimori age 17
Roh Moo-hyun age 9
Bernard Montgomery age 68
Richard von Weizsäcker age 35
Albert Speer age 50
Ram Nath Kovind age 10
Nawaz Sharif age 6
François Fillon age 2
Võ Nguyên Giáp age 44
Albert II of Belgium age 21
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 21
José Eduardo dos Santos age 13
Néstor Kirchner age 6
John Howard age 16
Idriss Déby age 3
Alexander Kerensky age 74
Turgut Özal age 28
Eisaku Satō age 54
Yukio Hatoyama age 9
Georgy Malenkov age 54
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 35
Sahle-Work Zewde age 6
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 36
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 50
Michel Temer age 15
Sergei Korolev age 49
Traian Băsescu age 4
Walter Mondale age 28
Paul Biya age 23
Lester B. Pearson age 58
Habib Bourguiba age 52
Tansu Çiller age 9
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 7
Ratko Mladić age 13
Dzhokhar Dudayev age 12
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 10
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 25
Teodoro Obiang age 13
B. J. Habibie age 19
Mary Robinson age 11
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 35
Hastings Banda age 66
Thaksin Shinawatra age 6
Jarosław Kaczyński age 6
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 34
Moshe Dayan age 40
Trygve Lie age 59
Ahmad Shah Massoud age 2
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 51
Hamad II of Bahrain age 6
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 25
Abdurrahman Wahid age 15
Alassane Ouattara age 14
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 75
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 12
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 1
Johannes Rau age 25
Yasuo Fukuda age 19
Dominique de Villepin age 2
Jeremy Corbyn age 6
Franz von Papen age 76
Malcolm Turnbull age 1
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 14
Omar Bongo age 20
Najib Razak age 2
Helen Clark age 6
Lee Hsien Loong age 4
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 13
Lee Myung-bak age 14
Alija Izetbegović age 30
Franjo Tuđman age 33
Jorge Rafael Videla age 30
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 16
Nana Akufo-Addo age 11
Prabowo Subianto age 4
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 10 months
Tomislav Nikolić age 4
José Ramos-Horta age 6
Adolfo Suárez age 23
François Englert age 23
Nelson Rockefeller age 47
Alec Douglas-Home age 52
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 2
John Evans Atta Mills age 11
Éamon de Valera age 73
Reuven Rivlin age 16
Roza Otunbayeva age 5
Hassan II age 26
Cemal Gürsel age 60
Trương Tấn Sang age 7
Kenneth Kaunda age 31
Alan García age 6
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 4
Robert Schuman age 69
Janet Yellen age 9
Lee Harvey Oswald age 16