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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
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10

People

James Watson age 33
Edward VIII age 66
John Kerry age 17
Madeleine Albright age 24
Hamid Karzai age 3
José Mujica age 26
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 36
Yoshihide Suga age 12
Rajiv Gandhi age 16
Thabo Mbeki age 18
Georgy Zhukov age 64
Wernher von Braun age 49
Clement Attlee age 78
Harald V of Norway age 24
Viktor Yushchenko age 7
John Major age 18
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 6
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 24
Jens Stoltenberg age 2
Slobodan Milošević age 19
Vajiralongkorn age 8
Enver Hoxha age 52
Jacob Zuma age 19
Park Geun-hye age 9
Martti Ahtisaari age 23
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 15
Moon Jae-in age 8
Mitt Romney age 14
Juan Manuel Santos age 9
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 25
Konstantin Chernenko age 49
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 29
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 23
Jiang Zemin age 34
Friedrich Merz age 5
Sauli Niinistö age 12
Eduard Shevardnadze age 33
Romano Prodi age 21
Imran Khan age 8
Ebrahim Raisi age 5 months
Cyril Ramaphosa age 8
Serzh Sargsyan age 6
Pranab Mukherjee age 25
Park Chung-hee age 43
Vyacheslav Molotov age 71
Joachim Gauck age 21
Anthony Eden age 64
Thomas Sankara age 11
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 14
Menachem Begin age 47
Jean-Claude Juncker age 6
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 3
Erich Honecker age 48
Francis Crick age 45
Hafez al-Assad age 30
Li Keqiang age 5
Muhammadu Buhari age 18
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 10 months
Horst Köhler age 18
Fumio Kishida age 3
Sanae Takaichi age 3 months
Peter Higgs age 32
Kevin Rudd age 3
Sebastián Piñera age 11
Tarja Halonen age 17
Daniel Ortega age 15
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 22
Islam Karimov age 23
Dan Quayle age 14
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 41
Paul Kagame age 3
Omar al-Bashir age 17
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 296
Naoto Kan age 14
Philippe of Belgium age 1
Adolf Eichmann age 55
Pratibha Patil age 26
Droupadi Murmu age 2
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 11
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 33
Juan Perón age 65
Heydar Aliyev age 38
Herman Van Rompuy age 13
Hassanal Bolkiah age 14
Norodom Sihanouk age 38
Mario Draghi age 13
Kim Dae-jung age 37
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon age 60
Christian Wulff age 1
Radovan Karadžić age 15
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 38
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 36
Aldo Moro age 44
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 20
Asif Ali Zardari age 5
Yoon Suk Yeol age 5 months
F. W. de Klerk age 25
Ludwig Erhard age 64
Ashraf Ghani age 12
Kurt Waldheim age 42
Alexander Van der Bellen age 17
Miloš Zeman age 16
Mobutu Sese Seko age 30
Salome Zourabichvili age 9
Jomo Kenyatta age 67
Andrés Manuel López Obrador age 7
Emomali Rahmon age 8
Julius Nyerere age 39
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 3
Saparmurat Niyazov age 21
Yoweri Museveni age 16
Leonid Kuchma age 22
Donald Rumsfeld age 28
Masoud Pezeshkian age 6
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 8
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 3
Klaus Iohannis age 1
Olof Palme age 34
Süleyman Demirel age 36
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 2
Queen Camilla age 13
Jonas Salk age 46
Karl Dönitz age 69
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 28
Pierre Trudeau age 41
Fulgencio Batista age 60
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 72
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 37
Bronisław Komorowski age 9
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 14
Syngman Rhee age 86
Junichiro Koizumi age 19
Tarō Asō age 20
U Thant age 52
Rudolf Hess age 67
Colin Powell age 24
Norodom Sihamoni age 8
Giulio Andreotti age 42
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 8
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 24
Alexander Dubček age 39
Wen Jiabao age 18
Václav Klaus age 19
Ehud Olmert age 15
Francesco Cossiga age 32
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 5
José Manuel Barroso age 5
İsmet İnönü age 76
Leonid Kravchuk age 27
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 14
Puyi age 55
Ahmed Ben Bella age 44
Tony Abbott age 3
Heinz Fischer age 22
Michael D. Higgins age 20
Paolo Gentiloni age 6
Mario Monti age 18
Alberto Fujimori age 22
Roh Moo-hyun age 14
Bernard Montgomery age 73
Richard von Weizsäcker age 41
Albert Speer age 56
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 1
Ram Nath Kovind age 15
Nawaz Sharif age 11
François Fillon age 7
Võ Nguyên Giáp age 49
Albert II of Belgium age 27
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 26
José Eduardo dos Santos age 18
Néstor Kirchner age 11
John Howard age 21
Idriss Déby age 8
Alexander Kerensky age 80
Turgut Özal age 33
Eisaku Satō age 60
Yukio Hatoyama age 14
Georgy Malenkov age 59
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 40
Sahle-Work Zewde age 11
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 41
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 55
Michel Temer age 20
Sergei Korolev age 54
Mauricio Macri age 2
Erna Solberg age 3 months
Traian Băsescu age 9
Walter Mondale age 33
Paul Biya age 28
Lester B. Pearson age 64
Tansu Çiller age 15
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 12
Ratko Mladić age 19
Dzhokhar Dudayev age 17
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 15
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 30
Teodoro Obiang age 19
B. J. Habibie age 24
Mary Robinson age 17
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 40