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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
Battle of Dien Bien Phu 1954-03-13 - 1954-05-07

People

Agostinho Neto age 31
Alpha Condé age 16
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 32
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 10
Mary McAleese age 2
Ehud Barak age 12
Giuliano Amato age 15
Ayub Khan age 47
Ma Ying-jeou age 3
Emilio Aguinaldo age 85
Pietro Badoglio age 82
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 33
Chester W. Nimitz age 69
Abdul Hamid age 10
Hun Sen age 1
Kim Campbell age 7
Lenín Moreno age 1
Mauno Koivisto age 30
Giorgos Papandreou age 1
Karolos Papoulias age 24
Zakir Husain age 57
Rafiq Hariri age 9
Pridi Banomyong age 54
Milton Obote age 28
Yun Po-sun age 56
Gustav Heinemann age 54
Lionel Jospin age 16
Abolhassan Banisadr age 21
Blaise Compaoré age 3
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 3
János Kádár age 41
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 35
Bettino Craxi age 20
Valdas Adamkus age 27
Samora Moisés Machel age 20
Mamnoon Hussain age 13
Fahri Korutürk age 50
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 8
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 8
Michael I of Romania age 32
Édouard Daladier age 69
Thomas Bach age 4 months
Cordell Hull age 82
Raúl Alfonsín age 27
Thomas Boni Yayi age 1
Paul Martin age 15
Mwai Kibaki age 22
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 51
Chang Myon age 54
Chun Doo-hwan age 23
Alben W. Barkley age 76
Zhao Ziyang age 34
Rex Tillerson age 2
Elio Di Rupo age 2
Jean Chrétien age 20
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 14
John Kufuor age 15
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 32
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 9
Janez Drnovšek age 3
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 10
Ivan Konev age 56
Karl Carstens age 39
Jacques Delors age 28
John Nance Garner age 85
Vincent Auriol age 69
Mohammad Najibullah age 6
Zog I of Albania age 58
João Lourenço age 2 months
Guy Verhofstadt age 1
Dimitris Christofias age 7
Rafael Trujillo age 62
V. V. Giri age 59
Giovanni Leone age 45
Yahya Khan age 37
Ivan Gašparovič age 13
Cevdet Sunay age 55
Necmettin Erbakan age 27
Morgan Tsvangirai age 2
Felipe González age 12
Alexei Kosygin age 50
George F. Kennan age 50
Itamar Franco age 23
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 22
Farouk of Egypt age 34
Jacques Rogge age 12
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 16
K. R. Narayanan age 33
Levi Eshkol age 58
Massimo D'Alema age 5
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 2
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 26
François Duvalier age 47
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 49
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 6
Desi Bouterse age 8
Xanana Gusmão age 7
Armand Fallières age 112
Pierre Mauroy age 25
Laurent Fabius age 7
Édith Cresson age 20
Michel Barnier age 3
Enda Kenny age 3
Robert McNamara age 37
Omar Bradley age 61
Soong Ching-ling age 61
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 13
Ivo Sanader age 11 months
Loukas Papademos age 6
Mátyás Rákosi age 62
László Sólyom age 12
Charan Singh age 51
Bingu wa Mutharika age 20
Violeta Chamorro age 24
Bola Tinubu age 2
Göran Persson age 5
Carl Bildt age 4
Prayut Chanocha age 1 month
Semyon Budyonny age 71
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 116
Lloyd Austin age 9 months
Erich Raeder age 78
Brian Mulroney age 15
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 1
R. Venkataraman age 43
Antonio Segni age 63
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 16
Nicolae Timofti age 5
Evgeny Primakov age 24
Danilo Türk age 2
Mykola Azarov age 6
Siad Barre age 34
Yoshirō Mori age 16
Hjalmar Schacht age 77
Rodion Malinovsky age 55
Lázaro Cárdenas age 59
Bob Hawke age 24
Sandra Mason age 5
Jadranka Kosor age 10 months
Makarios III age 40
Gulzarilal Nanda age 55
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 14
Joaquim Chissano age 14
Sam Nujoma age 25
Sani Abacha age 10
Juvénal Habyarimana age 17
Abdoulaye Wade age 27
Chen Shui-bian age 3
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 36
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 27
P. W. Botha age 38
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood age 89
Semyon Timoshenko age 59
Lee Teng-hui age 31
Paul Keating age 10
Thomas Klestil age 21
Paul-Henri Spaak age 55
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 30
Konstantin Päts age 80
Jerry Rawlings age 6
Manuel Zelaya age 1
Pál Schmitt age 11
Zail Singh age 38
Amintore Fanfani age 46
Sushila Karki age 1
Mahamadou Issoufou age 2
Arif Alvi age 4
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 1
Viktor Zubkov age 12
Vojislav Koštunica age 10
Maithripala Sirisena age 2
Tomiichi Murayama age 30
Nikolai Bulganin age 58
João Goulart age 35
Jean Monnet age 65
Li Peng age 25
Ferhat Abbas age 54
Brigitte Bierlein age 4
Tassos Papadopoulos age 20