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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 1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis 1958-08-23 - 1958-12-02

People

Kurt Waldheim age 39
Alexander Van der Bellen age 14
Miloš Zeman age 13
Mobutu Sese Seko age 27
Salome Zourabichvili age 6
Jomo Kenyatta age 64
Emomali Rahmon age 5
Julius Nyerere age 36
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 1
Saparmurat Niyazov age 18
Yoweri Museveni age 13
Leonid Kuchma age 20
Donald Rumsfeld age 26
Masoud Pezeshkian age 3
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 5
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 5 months
Olof Palme age 31
Süleyman Demirel age 33
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 42
Queen Camilla age 11
Jonas Salk age 43
Karl Dönitz age 66
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 25
Pierre Trudeau age 38
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 70
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 35
Bronisław Komorowski age 6
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 11
Junichiro Koizumi age 16
Tarō Asō age 17
U Thant age 49
Rudolf Hess age 64
Colin Powell age 21
Norodom Sihamoni age 5
Giulio Andreotti age 39
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 5
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 22
Alexander Dubček age 36
Wen Jiabao age 15
Václav Klaus age 17
Ehud Olmert age 12
Francesco Cossiga age 30
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 2
İsmet İnönü age 73
Leonid Kravchuk age 24
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 11
Puyi age 52
Ahmed Ben Bella age 41
Tony Abbott age 9 months
Heinz Fischer age 19
Michael D. Higgins age 17
Paolo Gentiloni age 3
Mario Monti age 15
Alberto Fujimori age 20
Roh Moo-hyun age 12
Bernard Montgomery age 70
Richard von Weizsäcker age 38
Albert Speer age 53
Ram Nath Kovind age 12
Nawaz Sharif age 8
François Fillon age 4
Albert II of Belgium age 24
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 24
José Eduardo dos Santos age 16
Néstor Kirchner age 8
John Howard age 19
Idriss Déby age 6
Alexander Kerensky age 77
Turgut Özal age 30
Eisaku Satō age 57
Yukio Hatoyama age 11
Georgy Malenkov age 56
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 37
Sahle-Work Zewde age 8
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 38
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 52
Michel Temer age 17
Sergei Korolev age 51
Edward Heath age 42
Traian Băsescu age 6
Walter Mondale age 30
Paul Biya age 25
Lester B. Pearson age 61
Tansu Çiller age 12
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 9
Ratko Mladić age 16
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 12
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 27
Teodoro Obiang age 16
B. J. Habibie age 22
Mary Robinson age 14
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 37
Hastings Banda age 68
Thaksin Shinawatra age 9
Jarosław Kaczyński age 9
Moshe Dayan age 43
Yoshihiko Noda age 1
Trygve Lie age 62
Hamad II of Bahrain age 8
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 28
Abdurrahman Wahid age 17
Alassane Ouattara age 16
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 78
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 14
Stefan Löfven age 1
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 3
Johannes Rau age 27
Yasuo Fukuda age 22
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 2
Najib Razak age 5
Helen Clark age 8
Lee Hsien Loong age 6
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 15
Lee Myung-bak age 16
Alija Izetbegović age 33
Franjo Tuđman age 36
Jorge Rafael Videla age 33
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 19
Nana Akufo-Addo age 14
Prabowo Subianto age 6
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 3
Tomislav Nikolić age 6
Boris Tadić age 7 months
José Ramos-Horta age 8
Nelson Rockefeller age 50
Alec Douglas-Home age 55
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 4
John Evans Atta Mills age 14
Reuven Rivlin age 18
Almazbek Atambaev age 1
Roza Otunbayeva age 8
Hassan II age 29
Cemal Gürsel age 62
Trương Tấn Sang age 9
Kenneth Kaunda age 34
Alan García age 9
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 6
Robert Schuman age 72
Janet Yellen age 12
Armen Sarkissian age 5
Joyce Banda age 8
Goodluck Jonathan age 9 months
Victor Chernomyrdin age 20
Halimah Yacob age 4
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 16
Binali Yıldırım age 2
José María Aznar age 5
Andrei Gromyko age 49
Kliment Voroshilov age 77
Spiro Agnew age 39
Carlos Menem age 28
Robert Kocharyan age 3
Nikos Anastasiades age 11
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 15
Laurent Gbagbo age 13
Shehbaz Sharif age 6
Kenan Evren age 41
Roman Herzog age 24
Sali Berisha age 13
Stjepan Mesić age 23
Isaac Shamir age 42
Michel Aoun age 24
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 34
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 19
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 9
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 12
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 40
Umberto II of Italy age 53
Ngo Dinh Diem age 57
Henry A. Wallace age 69
Ivo Josipović age 1
Isaias Afwerki age 12
Meles Zenawi age 3
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 21
Jan Peter Balkenende age 2
Filip Vujanović age 3
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 7
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 9
Ion Iliescu age 28
Bülent Ecevit age 33
Kim Young-sam age 30
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 8
Leopold III of Belgium age 56
Erich von Manstein age 70
Sandro Pertini age 61
Anwar Ibrahim age 11
Tabaré Vázquez age 18
Walter Scheel age 39
Jalal Talabani age 24
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 29
Vicente Fox age 16
Olusegun Obasanjo age 21
Beji Caid Essebsi age 31
Trần Đại Quang age 1
Fidel Ramos age 30