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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
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964-01-01
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Albany Movement 1961-01-01 - 1962-12-01
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19

People

Pranab Mukherjee age 26
Vyacheslav Molotov age 72
Joachim Gauck age 22
Anthony Eden age 65
Thomas Sankara age 12
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 15
Menachem Begin age 49
Jean-Claude Juncker age 7
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 5
Erich Honecker age 49
Hafez al-Assad age 31
Li Keqiang age 7
Muhammadu Buhari age 19
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 2
Horst Köhler age 19
Fumio Kishida age 5
Sanae Takaichi age 1
Kevin Rudd age 4
Sebastián Piñera age 12
Tarja Halonen age 18
Daniel Ortega age 16
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 23
Islam Karimov age 24
Dan Quayle age 15
Harold Wilson age 46
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 42
Paul Kagame age 4
Omar al-Bashir age 18
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 297
Naoto Kan age 15
Philippe of Belgium age 2
James Callaghan age 50
Pratibha Patil age 27
Droupadi Murmu age 4
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 12
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 34
Juan Perón age 66
Heydar Aliyev age 39
Hassanal Bolkiah I of Brunei age 16
Norodom Sihanouk age 39
Mario Draghi age 14
Kim Dae-jung age 38
Christian Wulff age 3
Radovan Karadžić age 17
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 39
Aldo Moro age 45
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 21
Asif Ali Zardari age 7
Yoon Suk Yeol age 1
F. W. de Klerk age 26
Ludwig Erhard age 65
Ashraf Ghani age 13
Kurt Waldheim age 43
Alexander Van der Bellen age 18
Miloš Zeman age 17
Mobutu Sese Seko age 31
Salome Zourabichvili age 10
Jomo Kenyatta age 68
Emomali Rahmon age 9
Julius Nyerere age 40
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 5
Saparmyrat Nyýazow age 22
Yoweri Museveni age 17
Leonid Kuchma age 24
Donald Rumsfeld age 30
Masoud Pezeshkian age 7
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 9
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 4
Klaus Iohannis age 3
Olof Palme age 35
Süleyman Demirel age 37
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 3
Queen Camilla age 15
Jonas Salk age 47
Karl Dönitz age 70
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 29
Pierre Trudeau age 42
Fulgencio Batista age 61
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 39
Bronisław Komorowski age 10
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 15
Syngman Rhee age 87
Junichiro Koizumi age 20
Tarō Asō age 21
Rudolf Hess age 68
Colin Powell age 25
Norodom Sihamoni age 9
Giulio Andreotti age 43
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 9
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 25
Alexander Dubček age 40
Wen Jiabao age 19
Václav Klaus age 21
Ehud Olmert age 16
Francesco Cossiga age 34
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 6
Leonid Kravchuk age 28
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 15
Puyi age 56
Antony Blinken age 3 months
Ahmad ibn Billah age 45
Tony Abbott age 4
Heinz Fischer age 23
Michael D. Higgins age 21
Paolo Gentiloni age 7
Mario Monti age 19
Alberto Fujimori age 24
Roh Moo-hyun age 15
Bernard Montgomery age 74
Richard von Weizsäcker age 42
Albert Speer age 57
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 2
Ram Nath Kovind age 16
Nawaz Sharif age 12
François Fillon age 8
Albert II of Belgium age 28
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 27
José Eduardo dos Santos age 19
Néstor Kirchner age 12
John Howard age 23
Idriss Déby age 10
Rajendra Prasad age 77
Alexander Kerensky age 81
Turgut Özal age 34
Eisaku Satō age 61
Yukio Hatoyama age 15
Georgy Malenkov age 60
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 41
Sahle-Work Zewde age 12
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 1
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 42
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 56
Michel Temer age 21
Sergei Korolev age 55
Edward Heath age 46
Mauricio Macri age 3
Erna Solberg age 1
Traian Băsescu age 10
Walter Mondale age 34
Paul Biya age 29
Lester B. Pearson age 65
Tansu Çiller age 16
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 13
Ratko Mladić age 20
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 16
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 31
Teodoro Obiang age 20
B. J. Habibie age 26
Mary Robinson age 18
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 41
Hastings Banda age 72
Thaksin Shinawatra age 13
Jarosław Kaczyński age 13
Moshe Dayan age 47
Yoshihiko Noda age 5
Trygve Lie age 66
Alberto Fernández age 3
Hamad II of Bahrain age 12
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 3
John Mahama age 3
János Áder age 3
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 32
Abdurrahman Wahid age 21
Alassane Ouattara age 20
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 81
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 18
Stefan Löfven age 5
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 7
Johannes Rau age 31
Yasuo Fukuda age 26
Dominique de Villepin age 8
Franz von Papen age 82
Malcolm Turnbull age 7
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 20
Omar Bongo age 26
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 6
Najib Razak age 9
Helen Clark age 12
Lee Hsien Loong age 10
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 2
Celâl Bayar age 79
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 19
Lee Myung-bak age 20
Alija Izetbegović age 37
Franjo Tuđman age 40
Jorge Rafael Videla age 37
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 23
Nana Akufo-Addo age 18
Prabowo Subianto age 10
Isaac Herzog age 1
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 7
Tomislav Nikolić age 10
Boris Tadić age 4
José Ramos-Horta age 12
Alec Douglas-Home age 59
Gustavo Petro age 2
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 8
John Evans Atta Mills age 18
Reuven Rivlin age 22
Almazbek Atambaev age 5