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Events

Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Korean War 1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11

People

Beji Caid Essebsi age 25
Alfredo Stroessner age 39
Fidel Ramos age 23
Wallis Simpson age 55
Juscelino Kubitschek age 49
Mohammad Mosaddegh age 69
Aslan Maskhadov age 5 months
Hua Guofeng age 31
Agostinho Neto age 29
Alpha Condé age 13
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 30
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 8
Morarji Desai age 56
Mary McAleese age 8 months
Ehud Barak age 10
Giuliano Amato age 13
Ayub Khan age 44
Ma Ying-jeou age 1
Emilio Aguinaldo age 82
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 50
Pietro Badoglio age 80
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 31
Anastas Mikoyan age 56
Otto von Habsburg age 39
Chester W. Nimitz age 67
Abdul Hamid age 8
Kim Campbell age 4
Mauno Koivisto age 28
Karolos Papoulias age 22
Zakir Husain age 55
Rafiq Hariri age 7
Pridi Banomyong age 51
Milton Obote age 26
Yun Po-sun age 54
Konstantin Rokossovsky age 55
Gustav Heinemann age 52
Lionel Jospin age 14
Abolhassan Banisadr age 18
Blaise Compaoré age 1
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 1
János Kádár age 39
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 33
Bettino Craxi age 18
Valdas Adamkus age 25
Samora Moisés Machel age 18
Mamnoon Hussain age 11
Fahri Korutürk age 48
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 6
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 6
Michael I of Romania age 30
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 39
Édouard Daladier age 67
Manuel Noriega age 18
Cordell Hull age 80
Raúl Alfonsín age 24
Khaleda Zia age 5
Paul Martin age 13
Mwai Kibaki age 20
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 49
Chun Doo-hwan age 21
Lord Mountbatten age 51
Zhao Ziyang age 32
Gerd von Rundstedt age 76
Elio Di Rupo age 7 months
Jean Chrétien age 18
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 12
John Kufuor age 13
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 30
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 7
Janez Drnovšek age 1
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 7
Ivan Konev age 54
Karl Carstens age 37
Jacques Delors age 26
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 21
John Nance Garner age 83
Mohammad Najibullah age 4
Zog I of Albania age 56
Dimitris Christofias age 5
V. V. Giri age 57
Giovanni Leone age 43
Yahya Khan age 35
Ivan Gašparovič age 10
Cevdet Sunay age 53
Necmettin Erbakan age 25
Felipe González age 9
Alexei Kosygin age 48
George F. Kennan age 48
Itamar Franco age 21
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 20
Jacques Rogge age 9
Albert Luthuli age 54
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 14
K. R. Narayanan age 31
Levi Eshkol age 56
Massimo D'Alema age 2
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 46
Daniel arap Moi age 27
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 2
Peter Mutharika age 11
Mário Soares age 27
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 1 month
Fernando Lugo age 9 months
Kgalema Motlanthe age 2
Heinrich Lübke age 57
Liu Shaoqi age 53
Zhu Rongji age 23
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 18
Houari Boumédiène age 19
Gough Whitlam age 35
Mathieu Kérékou age 18
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 4
Arnold Rüütel age 23
François Duvalier age 44
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 46
Nouri al-Maliki age 1
Moshe Katsav age 6
Enrico de Nicola age 74
Ibrahim Rugova age 7
Amadou Toumani Touré age 3
Ram Baran Yadav age 4
Desi Bouterse age 6
Xanana Gusmão age 5
Armand Fallières age 110
Pierre Mauroy age 23
Laurent Fabius age 5
Édith Cresson age 18
Michel Barnier age 1
Lê Đức Thọ age 40
Enda Kenny age 10 months
Queen Sofía of Spain age 13
Robert McNamara age 35
Soong Ching-ling age 59
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 11
Mohamed Naguib age 51
Loukas Papademos age 4
Mátyás Rákosi age 60
László Sólyom age 10
Charan Singh age 49
Bingu wa Mutharika age 18
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 0 months
Violeta Chamorro age 22
Göran Persson age 3
Carl Bildt age 2
Semyon Budyonny age 68
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 114
Erich Raeder age 75
René Coty age 69
Brian Mulroney age 12
R. Venkataraman age 41
Antonio Segni age 61
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 14
Nicolae Timofti age 3
Evgeny Primakov age 22
Danilo Türk age 0 months
Mykola Azarov age 4
Siad Barre age 32
Mary of Teck age 84
Yoshirō Mori age 14
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 28
Aleksandr Vasilevsky age 56
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 8
Hjalmar Schacht age 75
Rodion Malinovsky age 53
Lázaro Cárdenas age 56
Bob Hawke age 22
Sandra Mason age 3
Makarios III age 38
Gulzarilal Nanda age 53
Moshe Sharett age 57
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 12
Joaquim Chissano age 12
Sam Nujoma age 22
Sani Abacha age 8
Juvénal Habyarimana age 14
Abdoulaye Wade age 25
Chen Shui-bian age 1
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 33
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 24
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando age 91
P. W. Botha age 36
Lazar Kaganovich age 58
Jiang Qing age 38
Queen Sonja of Norway age 14
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood age 87
Semyon Timoshenko age 57
Lee Teng-hui age 29
Paul Keating age 8
Thomas Klestil age 19
Paul-Henri Spaak age 53
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 28
Konstantin Päts age 78
Jerry Rawlings age 4
Pál Schmitt age 9
Zail Singh age 35
Amintore Fanfani age 44
Mahamadou Issoufou age 1 month
Arif Alvi age 2
Viktor Zubkov age 10
Vojislav Koštunica age 7