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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
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12

People

Beji Caid Essebsi age 26
Alfredo Stroessner age 40
Fidel Ramos age 24
Wallis Simpson age 56
Juscelino Kubitschek age 50
Mohammad Mosaddegh age 70
Aslan Maskhadov age 1
Hua Guofeng age 31
Agostinho Neto age 30
Alpha Condé age 14
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 30
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 9
Morarji Desai age 56
Mary McAleese age 1
Ehud Barak age 10
Giuliano Amato age 14
Ayub Khan age 45
Ma Ying-jeou age 2
Emilio Aguinaldo age 83
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 50
Pietro Badoglio age 81
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 32
Anastas Mikoyan age 57
Otto von Habsburg age 40
Chester W. Nimitz age 67
Abdul Hamid age 8
Hun Sen age 4 months
Kim Campbell age 5
Mauno Koivisto age 29
Giorgos Papandreou age 6 months
Karolos Papoulias age 23
Zakir Husain age 55
Rafiq Hariri age 8
Pridi Banomyong age 52
Milton Obote age 26
Yun Po-sun age 55
Konstantin Rokossovsky age 56
Gustav Heinemann age 53
Lionel Jospin age 15
Abolhassan Banisadr age 19
Blaise Compaoré age 1
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 2
János Kádár age 40
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 34
Bettino Craxi age 18
Valdas Adamkus age 26
Samora Moisés Machel age 19
Mamnoon Hussain age 11
Fahri Korutürk age 49
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 7
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 7
Michael I of Romania age 31
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 39
Édouard Daladier age 68
Manuel Noriega age 18
Cordell Hull age 81
Raúl Alfonsín age 25
Khaleda Zia age 6
Thomas Boni Yayi age 5 months
Paul Martin age 14
Mwai Kibaki age 21
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 49
Chang Myon age 53
Chun Doo-hwan age 21
Lord Mountbatten age 52
Zhao Ziyang age 33
Gerd von Rundstedt age 77
Rex Tillerson age 8 months
Elio Di Rupo age 1
Jean Chrétien age 18
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 13
John Kufuor age 14
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 31
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 7
Janez Drnovšek age 2
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 8
Ivan Konev age 55
Karl Carstens age 38
Jacques Delors age 27
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 22
John Nance Garner age 84
Mohammad Najibullah age 5
Zog I of Albania age 57
Dimitris Christofias age 6
Rafael Trujillo age 61
V. V. Giri age 58
Giovanni Leone age 44
Yahya Khan age 35
Ivan Gašparovič age 11
Cevdet Sunay age 53
Necmettin Erbakan age 26
Morgan Tsvangirai age 9 months
Felipe González age 10
Alexei Kosygin age 48
George F. Kennan age 48
Itamar Franco age 22
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 21
Farouk of Egypt age 32
Jacques Rogge age 10
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 15
K. R. Narayanan age 32
Levi Eshkol age 57
Massimo D'Alema age 3
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 47
Daniel arap Moi age 28
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 3
Peter Mutharika age 12
Mário Soares age 28
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 11 months
Zoran Đinđić age 4 months
Fernando Lugo age 1
Kgalema Motlanthe age 3
Heinrich Lübke age 58
Liu Shaoqi age 54
Zhu Rongji age 24
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 19
Houari Boumédiène age 20
Gough Whitlam age 36
Mathieu Kérékou age 19
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 5
Arnold Rüütel age 24
François Duvalier age 45
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 47
Nouri al-Maliki age 2
Moshe Katsav age 7
Enrico de Nicola age 75
Ibrahim Rugova age 8
Amadou Toumani Touré age 4
Ram Baran Yadav age 4
Desi Bouterse age 7
Xanana Gusmão age 6
Armand Fallières age 111
Pierre Mauroy age 24
Laurent Fabius age 6
Édith Cresson age 18
Michel Barnier age 1
Lê Đức Thọ age 41
Enda Kenny age 1
Queen Sofía of Spain age 14
Robert McNamara age 36
Soong Ching-ling age 59
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 12
Loukas Papademos age 5
László Sólyom age 10
Charan Singh age 50
Bingu wa Mutharika age 18
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 9 months
Violeta Chamorro age 23
Bola Tinubu age 8 months
Göran Persson age 3
Carl Bildt age 3
Semyon Budyonny age 69
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 115
Erich Raeder age 76
René Coty age 70
Brian Mulroney age 13
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 5 months
R. Venkataraman age 42
Antonio Segni age 61
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 15
Nicolae Timofti age 3
Evgeny Primakov age 23
Danilo Türk age 10 months
Mykola Azarov age 5
Siad Barre age 33
Mary of Teck age 85
Yoshirō Mori age 15
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 29
Aleksandr Vasilevsky age 57
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 8
Hjalmar Schacht age 75
Rodion Malinovsky age 54
Lázaro Cárdenas age 57
Bob Hawke age 23
Sandra Mason age 3
Makarios III age 39
Gulzarilal Nanda age 54
Moshe Sharett age 58
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 13
Joaquim Chissano age 13
Sam Nujoma age 23
Sani Abacha age 9
Juvénal Habyarimana age 15
Abdoulaye Wade age 26
Chen Shui-bian age 2
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 34
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 25
P. W. Botha age 36
Lazar Kaganovich age 59
Jiang Qing age 38
Queen Sonja of Norway age 15
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood age 88
Semyon Timoshenko age 57
Lee Teng-hui age 29
Paul Keating age 8
Thomas Klestil age 20
Paul-Henri Spaak age 53
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 28
Konstantin Päts age 78
Jerry Rawlings age 5