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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
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01

People

Saud of Saudi Arabia age 51
Pietro Badoglio age 82
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 33
Chester W. Nimitz age 68
Abdul Hamid age 9
Hun Sen age 1
Kim Campbell age 6
Lenín Moreno age 7 months
Mauno Koivisto age 29
Giorgos Papandreou age 1
Karolos Papoulias age 24
Zakir Husain age 56
Rafiq Hariri age 9
Pridi Banomyong age 53
Milton Obote age 27
Yun Po-sun age 56
Gustav Heinemann age 54
Lionel Jospin age 16
Abolhassan Banisadr age 20
Blaise Compaoré age 2
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 3
János Kádár age 41
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 35
Bettino Craxi age 19
Valdas Adamkus age 27
Samora Moisés Machel age 20
Mamnoon Hussain age 12
Fahri Korutürk age 50
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 8
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 8
Michael I of Romania age 32
Édouard Daladier age 69
Cordell Hull age 82
Raúl Alfonsín age 26
Thomas Boni Yayi age 1
Paul Martin age 15
Mwai Kibaki age 21
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 50
Chang Myon age 54
Chun Doo-hwan age 22
Alben W. Barkley age 76
Zhao Ziyang age 34
Rex Tillerson age 1
Elio Di Rupo age 2
Jean Chrétien age 19
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 13
John Kufuor age 14
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 32
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 8
Janez Drnovšek age 3
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 9
Ivan Konev age 55
Karl Carstens age 38
Jacques Delors age 28
John Nance Garner age 85
Mohammad Najibullah age 6
Zog I of Albania age 58
Guy Verhofstadt age 7 months
Dimitris Christofias age 7
Rafael Trujillo age 62
V. V. Giri age 59
Giovanni Leone age 45
Yahya Khan age 36
Ivan Gašparovič age 12
Cevdet Sunay age 54
Necmettin Erbakan age 27
Morgan Tsvangirai age 1
Felipe González age 11
Alexei Kosygin age 49
George F. Kennan age 49
Itamar Franco age 23
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 22
Farouk of Egypt age 33
Jacques Rogge age 11
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 16
K. R. Narayanan age 33
Levi Eshkol age 58
Massimo D'Alema age 4
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 48
Daniel arap Moi age 29
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 4
Peter Mutharika age 13
Mário Soares age 28
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 1
Zoran Đinđić age 1
Fernando Lugo age 2
Kgalema Motlanthe age 4
Heinrich Lübke age 59
Liu Shaoqi age 54
Zhu Rongji age 25
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 20
Houari Boumédiène age 21
Gough Whitlam age 37
Mathieu Kérékou age 20
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 5
Arnold Rüütel age 25
François Duvalier age 46
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 48
Nouri al-Maliki age 3
Moshe Katsav age 7
Enrico de Nicola age 76
Ibrahim Rugova age 8
Amadou Toumani Touré age 5
Ram Baran Yadav age 5
Desi Bouterse age 8
Xanana Gusmão age 7
Armand Fallières age 112
Pierre Mauroy age 25
Laurent Fabius age 7
Édith Cresson age 19
Michel Barnier age 2
Enda Kenny age 2
Robert McNamara age 37
Omar Bradley age 60
Soong Ching-ling age 60
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 13
Ivo Sanader age 5 months
Loukas Papademos age 6
Mátyás Rákosi age 61
László Sólyom age 11
Charan Singh age 50
Bingu wa Mutharika age 19
Violeta Chamorro age 24
Bola Tinubu age 1
Göran Persson age 4
Carl Bildt age 4
Semyon Budyonny age 70
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 116
Lloyd Austin age 3 months
Erich Raeder age 77
René Coty age 71
Brian Mulroney age 14
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 1
R. Venkataraman age 42
Antonio Segni age 62
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 15
Nicolae Timofti age 4
Evgeny Primakov age 24
Danilo Türk age 1
Mykola Azarov age 5
Siad Barre age 34
Yoshirō Mori age 16
Hjalmar Schacht age 76
Rodion Malinovsky age 54
Lázaro Cárdenas age 58
Bob Hawke age 23
Sandra Mason age 4
Jadranka Kosor age 4 months
Makarios III age 40
Gulzarilal Nanda age 55
Moshe Sharett age 59
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 13
Joaquim Chissano age 14
Sam Nujoma age 24
Sani Abacha age 10
Juvénal Habyarimana age 16
Abdoulaye Wade age 27
Chen Shui-bian age 3
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 35
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 26
P. W. Botha age 37
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood age 89
Semyon Timoshenko age 58
Lee Teng-hui age 30
Paul Keating age 9
Thomas Klestil age 21
Paul-Henri Spaak age 54
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 29
Konstantin Päts age 79
Jerry Rawlings age 6
Manuel Zelaya age 1
Pál Schmitt age 11
Zail Singh age 37
Amintore Fanfani age 45
Sushila Karki age 1
Mahamadou Issoufou age 1
Arif Alvi age 4
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 1
Viktor Zubkov age 12
Vojislav Koštunica age 9
Maithripala Sirisena age 2
Tomiichi Murayama age 29
Nikolai Bulganin age 58
João Goulart age 34
Jean Monnet age 65
Li Peng age 25
Ferhat Abbas age 54
Brigitte Bierlein age 4
Tassos Papadopoulos age 19
Antonis Samaras age 2
João Bernardo Vieira age 14
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 35
Chaim Herzog age 35
Giuseppe Saragat age 55
Lamberto Dini age 22
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 16
Askar Akayev age 9
Algirdas Brazauskas age 21
Mohammed V of Morocco age 44
Prem Tinsulanonda age 33