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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

Muhammadu Buhari age 13
Horst Köhler age 13
Sebastián Piñera age 6
Tarja Halonen age 12
Daniel Ortega age 10
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 17
Islam Karimov age 18
Dan Quayle age 9
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 36
Omar al-Bashir age 12
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 291
Naoto Kan age 10
Pratibha Patil age 21
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 7
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 28
Juan Perón age 61
Heydar Aliyev age 33
Hassanal Bolkiah age 10
Norodom Sihanouk age 33
Mario Draghi age 9
Kim Dae-jung age 32
Radovan Karadžić age 11
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 33
Aldo Moro age 40
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 15
Asif Ali Zardari age 1
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 50
F. W. de Klerk age 20
Ludwig Erhard age 59
Ashraf Ghani age 7
Kurt Waldheim age 37
Alexander Van der Bellen age 12
Miloš Zeman age 12
Mobutu Sese Seko age 26
Salome Zourabichvili age 4
Jomo Kenyatta age 63
Emomali Rahmon age 4
Julius Nyerere age 34
Saparmurat Niyazov age 16
Yoweri Museveni age 12
Leonid Kuchma age 18
Donald Rumsfeld age 24
Masoud Pezeshkian age 2
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 3
Olof Palme age 29
Süleyman Demirel age 31
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 40
Queen Camilla age 9
Jonas Salk age 42
Karl Dönitz age 65
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 23
Pierre Trudeau age 37
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 68
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 33
Bronisław Komorowski age 4
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 9
Junichiro Koizumi age 14
Tarō Asō age 16
U Thant age 47
Rudolf Hess age 62
Colin Powell age 19
Norodom Sihamoni age 3
Giulio Andreotti age 37
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 3
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 20
Alexander Dubček age 34
Wen Jiabao age 14
Václav Klaus age 15
Ehud Olmert age 11
Francesco Cossiga age 28
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 7 months
İsmet İnönü age 72
Leonid Kravchuk age 22
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 9
Puyi age 50
Ahmed Ben Bella age 39
Heinz Fischer age 18
Michael D. Higgins age 15
Paolo Gentiloni age 1
Mario Monti age 13
Alberto Fujimori age 18
Roh Moo-hyun age 10
Bernard Montgomery age 68
Richard von Weizsäcker age 36
Albert Speer age 51
Ram Nath Kovind age 11
Nawaz Sharif age 6
François Fillon age 2
Albert II of Belgium age 22
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 22
José Eduardo dos Santos age 14
Néstor Kirchner age 6
John Howard age 17
Idriss Déby age 4
Alexander Kerensky age 75
Turgut Özal age 29
Eisaku Satō age 55
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 16
Sergei Korolev age 49
Traian Băsescu age 4
Walter Mondale age 28
Paul Biya age 23
Lester B. Pearson age 59
Tansu Çiller age 10
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 8
Ratko Mladić age 14
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 10
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 25
Teodoro Obiang age 14
B. J. Habibie age 20
Mary Robinson age 12
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 35
Hastings Banda age 66
Thaksin Shinawatra age 7
Jarosław Kaczyński age 7
Moshe Dayan age 41
Trygve Lie age 60
Hamad II of Bahrain age 6
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 26
Abdurrahman Wahid age 16
Alassane Ouattara age 14
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 76
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 12
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 1
Johannes Rau age 25
Yasuo Fukuda age 20
Dominique de Villepin age 2
Franz von Papen age 77
Malcolm Turnbull age 1
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 15
Omar Bongo age 20
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 4 months
Najib Razak age 3
Helen Clark age 6
Lee Hsien Loong age 4
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 14
Lee Myung-bak age 14
Alija Izetbegović age 31
Franjo Tuđman age 34
Jorge Rafael Videla age 31
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 17
Nana Akufo-Addo age 12
Prabowo Subianto age 5
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 1
Tomislav Nikolić age 4
José Ramos-Horta age 6
Nelson Rockefeller age 48
Alec Douglas-Home age 53
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 2
John Evans Atta Mills age 12
Éamon de Valera age 74
Reuven Rivlin age 17
Almazbek Atambaev age 1 month
Roza Otunbayeva age 6
Hassan II age 27
Cemal Gürsel age 61
Trương Tấn Sang age 7
Kenneth Kaunda age 32
Alan García age 7
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 5
Robert Schuman age 70
Janet Yellen age 10
Armen Sarkissian age 3
Imre Nagy age 60
Joyce Banda age 6
Victor Chernomyrdin age 18
Halimah Yacob age 2
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 15
Binali Yıldırım age 10 months
José María Aznar age 3
Andrei Gromyko age 47
Kliment Voroshilov age 75
Spiro Agnew age 37
Carlos Menem age 26
Robert Kocharyan age 2
Nikos Anastasiades age 10
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 14
Laurent Gbagbo age 11
Shehbaz Sharif age 5
Kenan Evren age 39
Roman Herzog age 22
Sali Berisha age 12
Stjepan Mesić age 21
Isaac Shamir age 41
Michel Aoun age 23
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 32
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 17
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 7
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 10
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 38
Umberto II of Italy age 52
Ngo Dinh Diem age 55
Henry A. Wallace age 68
Isaias Afwerki age 10