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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

Mengistu Haile Mariam age 16
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 2
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 4
Ion Iliescu age 23
Bülent Ecevit age 28
Kim Young-sam age 25
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 3
Leopold III of Belgium age 52
Erich von Manstein age 66
Sandro Pertini age 57
Anwar Ibrahim age 6
Tabaré Vázquez age 13
Walter Scheel age 34
Jalal Talabani age 20
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 24
Vicente Fox age 11
Olusegun Obasanjo age 16
Olav V of Norway age 50
Beji Caid Essebsi age 27
Alfredo Stroessner age 41
Fidel Ramos age 25
Wallis Simpson age 57
Juscelino Kubitschek age 51
Mohammad Mosaddegh age 71
Aslan Maskhadov age 2
Hua Guofeng age 32
Agostinho Neto age 31
Alpha Condé age 15
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 31
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 10
Morarji Desai age 57
Mary McAleese age 2
Ehud Barak age 11
Giuliano Amato age 15
Ayub Khan age 46
Ma Ying-jeou age 3
Emilio Aguinaldo age 84
Pietro Badoglio age 82
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 33
Anastas Mikoyan age 58
Otto von Habsburg age 41
Chester W. Nimitz age 68
Abdul Hamid age 9
Hun Sen age 1
Kim Campbell age 6
Lenín Moreno age 8 months
Mauno Koivisto age 30
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
Konstantin Rokossovsky 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
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 40
Édouard Daladier age 69
Manuel Noriega age 19
Cordell Hull age 82
Raúl Alfonsín age 26
Khaleda Zia age 7
Thomas Boni Yayi age 1
Paul Martin age 15
Mwai Kibaki age 22
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 50
Chang Myon age 54
Chun Doo-hwan age 22
Lord Mountbatten age 53
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 14
John Kufuor age 15
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 39
Jacques Delors age 28
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 23
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 29
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 55
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 6
Arnold Rüütel age 25
François Duvalier age 46
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 48
Nouri al-Maliki age 3
Moshe Katsav age 8
Enrico de Nicola age 76
Ibrahim Rugova age 9
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
Lê Đức Thọ age 42
Enda Kenny age 2
Queen Sofía of Spain age 15
Robert McNamara age 37
Omar Bradley age 60
Soong Ching-ling age 60
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 13
Ivo Sanader age 6 months
Loukas Papademos age 6
Mátyás Rákosi age 61
László Sólyom age 11
Charan Singh age 50
Bingu wa Mutharika age 19
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 1
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 43
Antonio Segni age 62
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 16
Nicolae Timofti age 4
Evgeny Primakov age 24
Danilo Türk age 1
Mykola Azarov age 5
Siad Barre age 34
Yoshirō Mori age 16
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 30
Aleksandr Vasilevsky age 58
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 9
Hjalmar Schacht age 76
Rodion Malinovsky age 55
Lázaro Cárdenas age 58
Bob Hawke age 24
Sandra Mason age 4
Jadranka Kosor age 5 months
Makarios III age 40
Gulzarilal Nanda age 55