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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
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962

People

Horst Köhler age 14
Fumio Kishida age 5 months
Kevin Rudd age 3 months
Sebastián Piñera age 8
Tarja Halonen age 14
Daniel Ortega age 12
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 18
Islam Karimov age 19
Dan Quayle age 10
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 37
Paul Kagame age 2 months
Omar al-Bashir age 14
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 293
Naoto Kan age 11
Pratibha Patil age 23
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 8
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 30
Juan Perón age 62
Heydar Aliyev age 34
Hassanal Bolkiah age 11
Norodom Sihanouk age 35
Mario Draghi age 10
Kim Dae-jung age 34
Radovan Karadžić age 12
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 35
Aldo Moro age 41
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 17
Asif Ali Zardari age 2
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 51
F. W. de Klerk age 21
Ludwig Erhard age 60
Ashraf Ghani age 8
Kurt Waldheim age 39
Alexander Van der Bellen age 13
Miloš Zeman age 13
Mobutu Sese Seko age 27
Salome Zourabichvili age 5
Jomo Kenyatta age 64
Emomali Rahmon age 5
Julius Nyerere age 35
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 6 months
Saparmurat Niyazov age 17
Yoweri Museveni age 13
Leonid Kuchma age 19
Donald Rumsfeld age 25
Masoud Pezeshkian age 3
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 4
Olof Palme age 30
Süleyman Demirel age 33
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 41
Queen Camilla age 10
Jonas Salk age 43
Karl Dönitz age 66
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 24
Pierre Trudeau age 38
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 69
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 34
Bronisław Komorowski age 5
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 10
Junichiro Koizumi age 15
Tarō Asō age 17
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 21
Alexander Dubček age 36
Wen Jiabao age 15
Václav Klaus age 16
Ehud Olmert age 12
Francesco Cossiga age 29
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 1
İsmet İnönü age 73
Leonid Kravchuk age 23
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 10
Puyi age 51
Ahmed Ben Bella age 41
Tony Abbott age 1 month
Heinz Fischer age 19
Michael D. Higgins age 16
Paolo Gentiloni age 3
Mario Monti age 14
Alberto Fujimori age 19
Roh Moo-hyun age 11
Bernard Montgomery age 70
Richard von Weizsäcker age 37
Albert Speer age 52
Ram Nath Kovind age 12
Nawaz Sharif age 8
François Fillon age 3
Albert II of Belgium age 23
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 23
José Eduardo dos Santos age 15
Néstor Kirchner age 7
John Howard age 18
Idriss Déby age 5
Alexander Kerensky age 76
Turgut Özal age 30
Eisaku Satō age 56
Yukio Hatoyama age 10
Georgy Malenkov age 56
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 36
Sahle-Work Zewde age 7
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 37
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 52
Michel Temer age 17
Sergei Korolev age 51
Traian Băsescu age 6
Walter Mondale age 30
Paul Biya age 24
Lester B. Pearson age 60
Tansu Çiller age 11
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 9
Ratko Mladić age 15
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 12
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 26
Teodoro Obiang age 15
B. J. Habibie age 21
Mary Robinson age 13
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 37
Hastings Banda age 68
Thaksin Shinawatra age 8
Jarosław Kaczyński age 8
Moshe Dayan age 42
Yoshihiko Noda age 7 months
Trygve Lie age 61
Hamad II of Bahrain age 7
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 27
Abdurrahman Wahid age 17
Alassane Ouattara age 16
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 77
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 14
Stefan Löfven age 5 months
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 3
Johannes Rau age 26
Yasuo Fukuda age 21
Dominique de Villepin age 4
Franz von Papen age 78
Malcolm Turnbull age 3
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 16
Omar Bongo age 22
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 1
Najib Razak age 4
Helen Clark age 7
Lee Hsien Loong age 5
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 15
Lee Myung-bak age 16
Alija Izetbegović age 32
Franjo Tuđman age 35
Jorge Rafael Videla age 32
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 18
Nana Akufo-Addo age 13
Prabowo Subianto age 6
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 2
Tomislav Nikolić age 5
José Ramos-Horta age 8
Nelson Rockefeller age 49
Alec Douglas-Home age 54
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 4
John Evans Atta Mills age 13
Reuven Rivlin age 18
Almazbek Atambaev age 1
Roza Otunbayeva age 7
Hassan II age 28
Cemal Gürsel age 62
Trương Tấn Sang age 8
Kenneth Kaunda age 33
Alan García age 8
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 6
Robert Schuman age 71
Janet Yellen age 11
Armen Sarkissian age 4
Imre Nagy age 61
Joyce Banda age 7
Goodluck Jonathan age 1 month
Victor Chernomyrdin age 19
Halimah Yacob age 3
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 16
Binali Yıldırım age 2
José María Aznar age 4
Andrei Gromyko age 48
Kliment Voroshilov age 76
Spiro Agnew age 39
Carlos Menem age 27
Robert Kocharyan age 3
Nikos Anastasiades age 11
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 15
Laurent Gbagbo age 12
Shehbaz Sharif age 6
Kenan Evren age 40
Roman Herzog age 23
Sali Berisha age 13
Stjepan Mesić age 23
Isaac Shamir age 42
Michel Aoun age 24
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 33
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 18
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 8