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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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08

People

Beatrix of the Netherlands age 19
Jiang Zemin age 30
Friedrich Merz age 1
Sauli Niinistö age 8
Eduard Shevardnadze age 29
Romano Prodi age 17
Imran Khan age 4
Cyril Ramaphosa age 4
Robert F. Kennedy age 31
Serzh Sargsyan age 3
Pranab Mukherjee age 21
Park Chung-hee age 39
Vyacheslav Molotov age 67
Joachim Gauck age 17
Anthony Eden age 60
Thomas Sankara age 7
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 10
Menachem Begin age 43
Jean-Claude Juncker age 2
Erich Honecker age 44
Francis Crick age 41
Hafez al-Assad age 26
Li Keqiang age 2
Muhammadu Buhari age 14
Horst Köhler age 14
Peter Higgs age 28
Sebastián Piñera age 7
Tarja Halonen age 13
Daniel Ortega age 11
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 18
Islam Karimov age 19
Dan Quayle age 10
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 37
Omar al-Bashir age 13
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 292
Naoto Kan age 10
Adolf Eichmann age 51
Pratibha Patil age 22
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 7
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 29
Juan Perón age 61
Heydar Aliyev age 34
Herman Van Rompuy age 9
Hassanal Bolkiah age 11
Mario Draghi age 9
Kim Dae-jung age 33
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon age 56
Radovan Karadžić age 12
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 34
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 32
Aldo Moro age 40
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 16
Asif Ali Zardari age 1
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 50
F. W. de Klerk age 21
Ludwig Erhard age 60
Ashraf Ghani age 8
Kurt Waldheim age 38
Alexander Van der Bellen age 13
Miloš Zeman age 12
Mobutu Sese Seko age 26
Salome Zourabichvili age 5
Jomo Kenyatta age 63
Andrés Manuel López Obrador age 3
Emomali Rahmon age 4
Julius Nyerere age 35
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 0 months
Saparmurat Niyazov age 17
Yoweri Museveni age 12
Leonid Kuchma age 18
Donald Rumsfeld age 25
Masoud Pezeshkian age 2
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 4
Olof Palme age 30
Süleyman Demirel age 32
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 41
Queen Camilla age 10
Jonas Salk age 42
Karl Dönitz age 65
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 24
Pierre Trudeau age 37
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 68
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 34
Bronisław Komorowski age 5
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 10
Junichiro Koizumi age 15
Tarō Asō age 16
U Thant age 48
Rudolf Hess age 63
Colin Powell age 20
Norodom Sihamoni age 4
Giulio Andreotti age 38
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 4
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 20
Alexander Dubček age 35
Wen Jiabao age 14
Václav Klaus age 16
Ehud Olmert age 11
Francesco Cossiga age 28
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 1
José Manuel Barroso age 1
İsmet İnönü age 72
Leonid Kravchuk age 23
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 10
Puyi age 51
Ahmed Ben Bella age 40
Heinz Fischer age 18
Michael D. Higgins age 16
Paolo Gentiloni age 2
Mario Monti age 14
Alberto Fujimori age 18
Roh Moo-hyun age 10
Bernard Montgomery age 69
Richard von Weizsäcker age 37
Albert Speer age 52
Ram Nath Kovind age 11
Nawaz Sharif age 7
François Fillon age 3
Võ Nguyên Giáp age 45
Albert II of Belgium age 23
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 22
José Eduardo dos Santos age 14
Néstor Kirchner age 7
John Howard age 17
Idriss Déby age 5
Alexander Kerensky age 76
Turgut Özal age 29
Eisaku Satō age 56
Yukio Hatoyama age 10
Georgy Malenkov age 55
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 36
Sahle-Work Zewde age 7
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 37
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 51
Michel Temer age 16
Sergei Korolev age 50
Traian Băsescu age 5
Walter Mondale age 29
Paul Biya age 24
Lester B. Pearson age 60
Tansu Çiller age 11
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 8
Ratko Mladić age 15
Dzhokhar Dudayev age 13
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 11
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 26
Teodoro Obiang age 15
B. J. Habibie age 21
Mary Robinson age 13
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 36
Hastings Banda age 67
Thaksin Shinawatra age 7
Jarosław Kaczyński age 8
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 36
Moshe Dayan age 42
Yoshihiko Noda age 1 month
Trygve Lie age 61
Ahmad Shah Massoud age 3
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 53
Hamad II of Bahrain age 7
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 27
Abdurrahman Wahid age 16
Alassane Ouattara age 15
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 76
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 13
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 2
Johannes Rau age 26
Yasuo Fukuda age 21
Dominique de Villepin age 3
Jeremy Corbyn age 8
Franz von Papen age 77
Malcolm Turnbull age 2
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 15
Omar Bongo age 21
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 1
Najib Razak age 3
Helen Clark age 7
Lee Hsien Loong age 5
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 14
Lee Myung-bak age 15
Alija Izetbegović age 31
Franjo Tuđman age 35
Jorge Rafael Videla age 31
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 18
Nana Akufo-Addo age 13
Prabowo Subianto age 5
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 2
Tomislav Nikolić age 5
José Ramos-Horta age 7
Adolfo Suárez age 24
François Englert age 24
Nelson Rockefeller age 49
Alec Douglas-Home age 54
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 3
John Evans Atta Mills age 12
Reuven Rivlin age 17
Almazbek Atambaev age 10 months
Roza Otunbayeva age 6
Hassan II age 28
Cemal Gürsel age 61