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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

Alexander Van der Bellen age 13
Miloš Zeman age 12
Mobutu Sese Seko age 26
Salome Zourabichvili age 5
Jomo Kenyatta age 63
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 29
Dalia Grybauskaitė 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 19
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
Albert II of Belgium age 23
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 22
José Eduardo dos Santos age 14
Néstor Kirchner age 7
John Howard age 18
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
Edward Heath age 41
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
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 8
Jarosław Kaczyński age 8
Moshe Dayan age 42
Yoshihiko Noda age 2 months
Trygve Lie age 61
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
Stefan Löfven age 0 months
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 2
Johannes Rau age 26
Yasuo Fukuda age 21
Dominique de Villepin age 3
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 4
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 32
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
Nelson Rockefeller age 49
Alec Douglas-Home age 54
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 3
John Evans Atta Mills age 13
Reuven Rivlin age 17
Almazbek Atambaev age 10 months
Roza Otunbayeva age 6
Hassan II age 28
Cemal Gürsel age 61
Trương Tấn Sang age 8
Kenneth Kaunda age 33
Alan García age 8
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 5
Robert Schuman age 71
Janet Yellen age 10
Armen Sarkissian age 4
Imre Nagy age 61
Joyce Banda age 7
Victor Chernomyrdin age 19
Halimah Yacob age 2
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 15
Binali Yıldırım age 1
José María Aznar age 4
Andrei Gromyko age 48
Kliment Voroshilov age 76
Spiro Agnew age 38
Carlos Menem age 27
Robert Kocharyan age 2
Nikos Anastasiades age 10
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 14
Laurent Gbagbo age 12
Shehbaz Sharif age 5
Kenan Evren age 40
Roman Herzog age 23
Sali Berisha age 12
Stjepan Mesić age 22
Isaac Shamir age 41
Michel Aoun age 23
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 32
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 18
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 8
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 11
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 39
Umberto II of Italy age 52
Ngo Dinh Diem age 56
Henry A. Wallace age 68
Isaias Afwerki age 11
Meles Zenawi age 2
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 20
Jan Peter Balkenende age 1
Filip Vujanović age 2
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 5
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 8
Ion Iliescu age 27
Bülent Ecevit age 32
Kim Young-sam age 29
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 7
Leopold III of Belgium age 55
Erich von Manstein age 69
Sandro Pertini age 60
Anwar Ibrahim age 9
Tabaré Vázquez age 17
Walter Scheel age 38
Jalal Talabani age 23
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 28
Vicente Fox age 15
Olusegun Obasanjo age 20
Olav V of Norway age 54
Beji Caid Essebsi age 30
Trần Đại Quang age 9 months
Fidel Ramos age 29
Wallis Simpson age 61
Hua Guofeng age 36
Agostinho Neto age 34
Alpha Condé age 19