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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
Great Leap Forward 1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Great Chinese Famine 1959-01-01 - 1961-12-31
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964-01-01

People

Paul Kagame age 2
Omar al-Bashir age 16
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 295
Naoto Kan age 13
James Callaghan age 48
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
Hassanal Bolkiah I of Brunei age 13
Mario Draghi age 12
Kim Dae-jung age 36
Christian Wulff age 9 months
Radovan Karadžić age 14
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 37
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 24
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 8
Jomo Kenyatta age 66
Emomali Rahmon age 7
Julius Nyerere age 37
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 2
Saparmyrat Nyýazow 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 2
Klaus Iohannis age 9 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 27
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
İsmet İnönü age 75
Leonid Kravchuk age 26
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 13
Puyi age 54
Ahmad ibn Billah age 43
Tony Abbott age 2
Heinz Fischer age 21
Michael D. Higgins age 18
Paolo Gentiloni age 5
Mario Monti age 17
Alberto Fujimori age 21
Roh Moo-hyun age 13
Bernard Montgomery age 72
Richard von Weizsäcker age 39
Albert Speer age 55
Ram Nath Kovind age 14
Nawaz Sharif age 10
François Fillon age 6
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 59
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
Edward Heath age 43
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 18
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
Moshe Dayan age 44
Yoshihiko Noda age 2
Trygve Lie age 63
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
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 79
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 16
Stefan Löfven age 2
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 5
Johannes Rau age 29
Yasuo Fukuda age 23
Dominique de Villepin age 6
Franz von Papen age 80
Malcolm Turnbull age 5
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 18
Omar Bongo age 24
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 3
Najib Razak age 6
Helen Clark age 10
Lee Hsien Loong age 8
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 1 month
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 17
Lee Myung-bak age 18
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 8
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 4
Tomislav Nikolić age 8
Boris Tadić age 2
José Ramos-Horta age 10
Alec Douglas-Home age 56
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 6
John Evans Atta Mills age 15
Reuven Rivlin age 20
Almazbek Atambaev age 3
Roza Otunbayeva age 9
Hassan II age 30
Cemal Gürsel age 64
Trương Tấn Sang age 11
Kenneth Kaunda age 35
Alan García age 10
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 8
Robert Schuman age 73
Janet Yellen age 13
Armen Sarkissian age 6
Boyko Borissov age 9 months
Joyce Banda age 9
Goodluck Jonathan age 2
Victor Chernomyrdin age 21
Halimah Yacob age 5
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 18
Binali Yıldırım age 4
José María Aznar age 7
Andrei Gromyko age 50
Kliment Voroshilov age 79
Spiro Agnew age 41
Carlos Menem age 29
Robert Kocharyan age 5
Laura Chinchilla age 11 months
Nikos Anastasiades age 13
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 17
Laurent Gbagbo age 14
Shehbaz Sharif age 8
Kenan Evren age 42
Benigno Aquino III age 1 month
Roman Herzog age 25
Sali Berisha age 15
Stjepan Mesić age 25