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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
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis 1958-08-23 - 1958-12-02
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06

People

Beatrix of the Netherlands age 20
Jiang Zemin age 32
Friedrich Merz age 3
Sauli Niinistö age 10
Eduard Shevardnadze age 30
Romano Prodi age 19
Imran Khan age 6
Cyril Ramaphosa age 5
Robert F. Kennedy age 33
Serzh Sargsyan age 4
Pranab Mukherjee age 22
Park Chung-hee age 41
Vyacheslav Molotov age 68
Joachim Gauck age 18
Anthony Eden age 61
Thomas Sankara age 8
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 11
Menachem Begin age 45
Jean-Claude Juncker age 3
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 1
Erich Honecker age 46
Francis Crick age 42
Hafez al-Assad age 28
Li Keqiang age 3
Muhammadu Buhari age 15
Horst Köhler age 15
Fumio Kishida age 1
Peter Higgs age 29
Kevin Rudd age 1
Sebastián Piñera age 8
Tarja Halonen age 14
Daniel Ortega age 13
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 19
Islam Karimov age 20
Dan Quayle age 11
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 38
Paul Kagame age 1
Omar al-Bashir age 14
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 293
Naoto Kan age 12
Adolf Eichmann age 52
Pratibha Patil age 23
Droupadi Murmu age 4 months
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 9
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 30
Juan Perón age 63
Heydar Aliyev age 35
Herman Van Rompuy age 11
Hassanal Bolkiah age 12
Norodom Sihanouk age 36
Mario Draghi age 11
Kim Dae-jung age 34
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon age 58
Radovan Karadžić age 13
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 36
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 33
Aldo Moro age 42
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 18
Asif Ali Zardari age 3
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 52
F. W. de Klerk age 22
Ludwig Erhard age 61
Ashraf Ghani age 9
Kurt Waldheim age 39
Alexander Van der Bellen age 14
Miloš Zeman age 14
Mobutu Sese Seko age 28
Salome Zourabichvili age 6
Jomo Kenyatta age 65
Andrés Manuel López Obrador age 5
Emomali Rahmon age 6
Julius Nyerere age 36
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 1
Saparmurat Niyazov age 18
Yoweri Museveni age 14
Leonid Kuchma age 20
Donald Rumsfeld age 26
Masoud Pezeshkian age 4
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 5
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 8 months
Olof Palme age 31
Süleyman Demirel age 34
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 42
Queen Camilla age 11
Jonas Salk age 44
Karl Dönitz age 67
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 25
Pierre Trudeau age 39
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 70
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 35
Bronisław Komorowski age 6
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 11
Junichiro Koizumi age 16
Tarō Asō age 18
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 16
Václav Klaus age 17
Ehud Olmert age 13
Francesco Cossiga age 30
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 2
José Manuel Barroso age 2
İsmet İnönü age 74
Leonid Kravchuk age 24
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 11
Puyi age 52
Ahmed Ben Bella age 41
Tony Abbott age 1
Heinz Fischer age 20
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 71
Richard von Weizsäcker age 38
Albert Speer age 53
Ram Nath Kovind age 13
Nawaz Sharif age 8
François Fillon age 4
Võ Nguyên Giáp age 47
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 31
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 18
Sergei Korolev age 51
Traian Băsescu age 7
Walter Mondale age 30
Paul Biya age 25
Lester B. Pearson age 61
Tansu Çiller age 12
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 10
Ratko Mladić age 16
Dzhokhar Dudayev age 14
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 13
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
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 37
Moshe Dayan age 43
Yoshihiko Noda age 1
Trygve Lie age 62
Ahmad Shah Massoud age 5
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 54
Hamad II of Bahrain age 8
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 28
Abdurrahman Wahid age 18
Alassane Ouattara age 16
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 78
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 14
Stefan Löfven age 1
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 4
Johannes Rau age 27
Yasuo Fukuda age 22
Dominique de Villepin age 5
Jeremy Corbyn age 9
Franz von Papen age 79
Malcolm Turnbull age 4
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 17
Omar Bongo age 22
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 2
Najib Razak age 5
Helen Clark age 8
Lee Hsien Loong age 6
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 16
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 7
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 3
Tomislav Nikolić age 6
Boris Tadić age 10 months
José Ramos-Horta age 8
Adolfo Suárez age 26