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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
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02

People

Konstantin Chernenko age 47
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 27
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 21
Jiang Zemin age 32
Friedrich Merz age 3
Sauli Niinistö age 10
Eduard Shevardnadze age 31
Romano Prodi age 20
Cyril Ramaphosa age 6
Robert F. Kennedy age 33
Serzh Sargsyan age 5
Pranab Mukherjee age 23
Park Chung-hee age 41
Vyacheslav Molotov age 69
Joachim Gauck age 19
Anthony Eden age 62
Thomas Sankara age 9
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 12
Menachem Begin age 46
Jean-Claude Juncker age 4
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 2
Erich Honecker age 46
Hafez al-Assad age 28
Li Keqiang age 4
Muhammadu Buhari age 16
Horst Köhler age 16
Fumio Kishida age 2
Kevin Rudd age 1
Sebastián Piñera age 9
Tarja Halonen age 15
Daniel Ortega age 13
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 20
Islam Karimov age 21
Dan Quayle age 12
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 39
Paul Kagame age 1
Omar al-Bashir age 15
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 294
Naoto Kan age 12
Pratibha Patil age 24
Droupadi Murmu age 1
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 9
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 31
Juan Perón age 63
Heydar Aliyev age 36
Hassanal Bolkiah age 13
Mario Draghi age 11
Kim Dae-jung age 35
Christian Wulff age 1 month
Radovan Karadžić age 14
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 36
Aldo Moro age 42
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 18
Asif Ali Zardari age 4
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 52
F. W. de Klerk age 23
Ludwig Erhard age 62
Ashraf Ghani age 10
Kurt Waldheim age 40
Alexander Van der Bellen age 15
Miloš Zeman age 14
Mobutu Sese Seko age 28
Salome Zourabichvili age 7
Jomo Kenyatta age 65
Emomali Rahmon age 6
Julius Nyerere age 37
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 2
Saparmurat Niyazov age 19
Yoweri Museveni age 14
Leonid Kuchma age 21
Donald Rumsfeld age 27
Masoud Pezeshkian age 4
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 6
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 1
Klaus Iohannis age 1 month
Olof Palme age 32
Süleyman Demirel age 34
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 5 months
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 43
Queen Camilla age 12
Jonas Salk age 44
Karl Dönitz age 67
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 26
Pierre Trudeau age 39
Fulgencio Batista age 58
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 70
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 36
Bronisław Komorowski age 7
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 12
Junichiro Koizumi age 17
Tarō Asō age 18
U Thant age 50
Rudolf Hess age 65
Colin Powell age 22
Norodom Sihamoni age 6
Giulio Andreotti age 40
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 6
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 22
Alexander Dubček age 37
Wen Jiabao age 16
Václav Klaus age 18
Ehud Olmert age 13
Francesco Cossiga age 31
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 3
İsmet İnönü age 74
Leonid Kravchuk age 25
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 12
Puyi age 53
Ahmed Ben Bella age 42
Tony Abbott age 1
Heinz Fischer age 20
Michael D. Higgins age 18
Paolo Gentiloni age 4
Mario Monti age 16
Alberto Fujimori age 21
Roh Moo-hyun age 12
Bernard Montgomery age 71
Richard von Weizsäcker age 39
Albert Speer age 54
Ram Nath Kovind age 13
Nawaz Sharif age 9
François Fillon age 5
Albert II of Belgium age 25
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 24
José Eduardo dos Santos age 16
Néstor Kirchner age 9
John Howard age 20
Idriss Déby age 7
Alexander Kerensky age 78
Turgut Özal age 31
Eisaku Satō age 58
Yukio Hatoyama age 12
Georgy Malenkov age 57
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 38
Sahle-Work Zewde age 9
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 39
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 53
Michel Temer age 18
Sergei Korolev age 52
Mauricio Macri age 5 months
Traian Băsescu age 7
Walter Mondale age 31
Paul Biya age 26
Lester B. Pearson age 62
Tansu Çiller age 13
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 10
Ratko Mladić age 17
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 13
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 28
Teodoro Obiang age 17
B. J. Habibie age 23
Mary Robinson age 15
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 38
Hastings Banda age 69
Thaksin Shinawatra age 10
Jarosław Kaczyński age 10
Moshe Dayan age 44
Yoshihiko Noda age 2
Trygve Lie age 63
Alberto Fernández age 4 months
Hamad II of Bahrain age 9
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 5 months
John Mahama age 8 months
János Áder age 2 months
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 29
Abdurrahman Wahid age 18
Alassane Ouattara age 17
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 78
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 15
Stefan Löfven age 2
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 4
Johannes Rau age 28
Yasuo Fukuda age 23
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 3
Najib Razak age 6
Helen Clark age 9
Lee Hsien Loong age 7
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 16
Lee Myung-bak age 17
Alija Izetbegović age 34
Franjo Tuđman age 37
Jorge Rafael Videla age 34
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 20
Nana Akufo-Addo age 15
Prabowo Subianto age 7
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 4
Tomislav Nikolić age 7
Boris Tadić age 1
José Ramos-Horta age 9
Alec Douglas-Home age 56
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 5
John Evans Atta Mills age 15
Reuven Rivlin age 19
Almazbek Atambaev age 2
Roza Otunbayeva age 8