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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
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
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964

People

Wernher von Braun age 47
Clement Attlee age 77
Harald V of Norway age 23
Viktor Yushchenko age 6
John Major age 16
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 5
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 23
Jens Stoltenberg age 11 months
Slobodan Milošević age 18
Vajiralongkorn age 7
Enver Hoxha age 51
Jacob Zuma age 17
Park Geun-hye age 8
Martti Ahtisaari age 22
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 13
Moon Jae-in age 7
Mitt Romney age 12
Juan Manuel Santos age 8
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 24
Konstantin Chernenko age 48
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 28
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 22
Jiang Zemin age 33
Friedrich Merz age 4
Sauli Niinistö age 11
Eduard Shevardnadze age 32
Romano Prodi age 20
Imran Khan age 7
Cyril Ramaphosa age 7
Robert F. Kennedy age 34
Serzh Sargsyan age 5
Pranab Mukherjee age 24
Park Chung-hee age 42
Vyacheslav Molotov age 70
Joachim Gauck age 20
Anthony Eden age 62
Thomas Sankara age 10
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 13
Menachem Begin age 46
Jean-Claude Juncker age 5
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 2
Erich Honecker age 47
Francis Crick age 43
Hafez al-Assad age 29
Li Keqiang age 4
Muhammadu Buhari age 17
Horst Köhler age 17
Fumio Kishida age 2
Peter Higgs age 30
Kevin Rudd age 2
Sebastián Piñera age 10
Tarja Halonen age 16
Daniel Ortega age 14
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 20
Islam Karimov age 22
Dan Quayle age 13
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 39
Paul Kagame age 2
Omar al-Bashir age 16
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 295
Naoto Kan age 13
Adolf Eichmann age 53
Pratibha Patil age 25
Droupadi Murmu age 1
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 10
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 32
Juan Perón age 64
Heydar Aliyev age 36
Herman Van Rompuy age 12
Hassanal Bolkiah age 13
Mario Draghi age 12
Kim Dae-jung age 36
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon age 59
Christian Wulff age 8 months
Radovan Karadžić age 14
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 37
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 35
Aldo Moro age 43
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 19
Asif Ali Zardari age 4
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 53
F. W. de Klerk age 23
Ludwig Erhard age 63
Ashraf Ghani age 10
Kurt Waldheim age 41
Alexander Van der Bellen age 16
Miloš Zeman age 15
Mobutu Sese Seko age 29
Salome Zourabichvili age 7
Jomo Kenyatta age 66
Andrés Manuel López Obrador age 6
Emomali Rahmon age 7
Julius Nyerere age 37
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 2
Saparmurat Niyazov age 20
Yoweri Museveni age 15
Leonid Kuchma age 21
Donald Rumsfeld age 27
Masoud Pezeshkian age 5
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 6
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 1
Klaus Iohannis age 8 months
Olof Palme age 33
Süleyman Demirel age 35
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 1
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 43
Queen Camilla age 12
Jonas Salk age 45
Karl Dönitz age 68
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 26
Pierre Trudeau age 40
Fulgencio Batista age 59
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 71
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 36
Bronisław Komorowski age 7
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 12
Junichiro Koizumi age 18
Tarō Asō age 19
U Thant age 51
Rudolf Hess age 65
Colin Powell age 22
Norodom Sihamoni age 6
Giulio Andreotti age 41
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 7
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 23
Alexander Dubček age 38
Wen Jiabao age 17
Václav Klaus age 18
Ehud Olmert age 14
Francesco Cossiga age 31
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 4
José Manuel Barroso age 3
İsmet İnönü age 75
Leonid Kravchuk age 26
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 12
Puyi age 54
Ahmed Ben Bella age 43
Tony Abbott age 2
Heinz Fischer age 21
Michael D. Higgins age 18
Paolo Gentiloni age 5
Mario Monti age 16
Alberto Fujimori age 21
Roh Moo-hyun age 13
Bernard Montgomery age 72
Richard von Weizsäcker age 39
Albert Speer age 54
Ram Nath Kovind age 14
Nawaz Sharif age 10
François Fillon age 6
Võ Nguyên Giáp age 48
Albert II of Belgium age 25
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 25
José Eduardo dos Santos age 17
Néstor Kirchner age 10
John Howard age 20
Idriss Déby age 7
Alexander Kerensky age 78
Turgut Özal age 32
Eisaku Satō age 58
Yukio Hatoyama age 13
Georgy Malenkov age 58
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 39
Sahle-Work Zewde age 10
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 40
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 54
Michel Temer age 19
Sergei Korolev age 53
Mauricio Macri age 1
Traian Băsescu age 8
Walter Mondale age 32
Paul Biya age 27
Lester B. Pearson age 62
Tansu Çiller age 13
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 11
Ratko Mladić age 17
Dzhokhar Dudayev age 16
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 14
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 29
Teodoro Obiang age 17
B. J. Habibie age 23
Mary Robinson age 15
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 39
Hastings Banda age 70
Thaksin Shinawatra age 10
Jarosław Kaczyński age 10
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 38
Moshe Dayan age 44
Yoshihiko Noda age 2
Trygve Lie age 63
Ahmad Shah Massoud age 6
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 55
Alberto Fernández age 11 months
Hamad II of Bahrain age 10
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 1
John Mahama age 1
János Áder age 10 months
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 29
Abdurrahman Wahid age 19
Alassane Ouattara age 18