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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
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
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961

People

F. W. de Klerk age 22
Ludwig Erhard age 61
Ashraf Ghani age 9
Kurt Waldheim age 40
Alexander Van der Bellen age 15
Miloš Zeman age 14
Mobutu Sese Seko age 28
Salome Zourabichvili age 6
Jomo Kenyatta age 65
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 10 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
Fulgencio Batista age 58
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 70
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 35
Bronisław Komorowski age 6
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 11
Junichiro Koizumi age 17
Tarō Asō age 18
U Thant age 50
Rudolf Hess age 64
Colin Powell age 21
Norodom Sihamoni age 5
Giulio Andreotti age 40
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 5
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 22
Alexander Dubček age 37
Wen Jiabao age 16
Václav Klaus age 17
Ehud Olmert age 13
Francesco Cossiga age 30
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 2
İsmet İnönü age 74
Leonid Kravchuk age 25
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 11
Puyi age 52
Ahmed Ben Bella age 42
Tony Abbott age 1
Heinz Fischer age 20
Michael D. Higgins age 17
Paolo Gentiloni age 4
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 9
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 31
Eisaku Satō age 57
Yukio Hatoyama age 11
Georgy Malenkov age 57
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 37
Sahle-Work Zewde age 8
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 39
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 53
Michel Temer age 18
Sergei Korolev age 52
Edward Heath age 42
Traian Băsescu age 7
Walter Mondale age 31
Paul Biya age 25
Lester B. Pearson age 61
Tansu Çiller age 12
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 10
Ratko Mladić age 16
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 38
Hastings Banda age 69
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
John Mahama age 1 month
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 28
Abdurrahman Wahid age 18
Alassane Ouattara age 17
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 78
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 15
Stefan Löfven age 1
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 4
Johannes Rau age 28
Yasuo Fukuda age 22
Dominique de Villepin age 5
Franz von Papen age 79
Malcolm Turnbull age 4
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 17
Omar Bongo age 23
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 17
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 1
José Ramos-Horta age 9
Alec Douglas-Home age 55
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 5
John Evans Atta Mills age 14
Reuven Rivlin age 19
Almazbek Atambaev age 2
Roza Otunbayeva age 8
Hassan II age 29
Cemal Gürsel age 63
Trương Tấn Sang age 9
Kenneth Kaunda age 34
Alan García age 9
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 7
Robert Schuman age 72
Janet Yellen age 12
Armen Sarkissian age 5
Joyce Banda age 8
Goodluck Jonathan age 1
Victor Chernomyrdin age 20
Halimah Yacob age 4
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 17
Binali Yıldırım age 3
José María Aznar age 5
Andrei Gromyko age 49
Kliment Voroshilov age 78
Spiro Agnew age 40
Carlos Menem age 28
Robert Kocharyan age 4
Nikos Anastasiades age 12
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 16
Laurent Gbagbo age 13
Shehbaz Sharif age 7
Kenan Evren age 41
Roman Herzog age 24
Sali Berisha age 14
Stjepan Mesić age 24
Isaac Shamir age 43
Michel Aoun age 25
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 34
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 19
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 9
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 13
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 40
Umberto II of Italy age 54
Ngo Dinh Diem age 58
Henry A. Wallace age 70
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 4
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 7
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 10
Ion Iliescu age 28
Janez Janša age 4 months
Bülent Ecevit age 33
Kim Young-sam age 31
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 8
Leopold III of Belgium age 57
Erich von Manstein age 71
Sandro Pertini age 62
Anwar Ibrahim age 11
Tabaré Vázquez age 19
Walter Scheel age 39
Jalal Talabani age 25
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 29