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Events

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
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01

People

Shehbaz Sharif age 2
Kenan Evren age 37
Roman Herzog age 20
Sali Berisha age 9
Stjepan Mesić age 19
Isaac Shamir age 38
Michel Aoun age 20
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 30
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 15
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 5
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 8
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 36
Umberto II of Italy age 49
Ngo Dinh Diem age 53
Henry A. Wallace age 65
Isaias Afwerki age 8
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 17
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 3
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 5
Ion Iliescu age 24
Bülent Ecevit age 29
Kim Young-sam age 26
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 4
Leopold III of Belgium age 52
Erich von Manstein age 66
Sandro Pertini age 57
Anwar Ibrahim age 7
Tabaré Vázquez age 14
Walter Scheel age 35
Jalal Talabani age 20
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 25
Vicente Fox age 12
Olusegun Obasanjo age 17
Olav V of Norway age 51
Beji Caid Essebsi age 27
Fidel Ramos age 26
Wallis Simpson age 58
Juscelino Kubitschek age 51
Mohammad Mosaddegh age 72
Aslan Maskhadov age 2
Hua Guofeng age 33
Agostinho Neto age 31
Alpha Condé age 16
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 32
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 11
Morarji Desai age 58
Mary McAleese age 3
Ehud Barak age 12
Giuliano Amato age 16
Ayub Khan age 47
Ma Ying-jeou age 4
Emilio Aguinaldo age 85
Pietro Badoglio age 82
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 34
Anastas Mikoyan age 58
Otto von Habsburg age 41
Chester W. Nimitz age 69
Abdul Hamid age 10
Hun Sen age 2
Kim Campbell age 7
Lenín Moreno age 1
Mauno Koivisto age 30
Giorgos Papandreou age 2
Karolos Papoulias age 25
Zakir Husain age 57
Rafiq Hariri age 9
Pridi Banomyong age 54
Milton Obote age 28
Yun Po-sun age 57
Konstantin Rokossovsky age 57
Gustav Heinemann age 55
Lionel Jospin age 17
Abolhassan Banisadr age 21
Blaise Compaoré age 3
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 4
János Kádár age 42
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 51
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 8
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 9
Michael I of Romania age 32
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 41
Édouard Daladier age 70
Thomas Bach age 7 months
Manuel Noriega age 20
Cordell Hull age 82
Raúl Alfonsín age 27
Khaleda Zia age 8
Thomas Boni Yayi age 2
Paul Martin age 16
Mwai Kibaki age 22
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 51
Chang Myon age 55
Chun Doo-hwan age 23
Lord Mountbatten age 54
Alben W. Barkley age 76
Zhao Ziyang age 34
Rex Tillerson age 2
Elio Di Rupo age 3
Jean Chrétien age 20
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 14
John Kufuor age 15
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 33
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 9
Janez Drnovšek age 4
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 10
Ivan Konev age 56
Karl Carstens age 39
Jacques Delors age 29
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 24
John Nance Garner age 85
Vincent Auriol age 70
Mohammad Najibullah age 7
Zog I of Albania age 58
João Lourenço age 5 months
Guy Verhofstadt age 1
Dimitris Christofias age 7
Rafael Trujillo age 62
V. V. Giri age 60
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 24
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 23
Farouk of Egypt age 34
Jacques Rogge age 12
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 17
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 5
Peter Mutharika age 14
Mário Soares age 29
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 2
Zoran Đinđić age 2
Fernando Lugo age 3
Kgalema Motlanthe age 5
Heinrich Lübke age 59
Liu Shaoqi age 55
Zhu Rongji age 25
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 21
Houari Boumédiène age 22
Gough Whitlam age 38
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 4
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 8
Armand Fallières age 112
Pierre Mauroy age 26
Laurent Fabius age 8
Édith Cresson age 20
Michel Barnier age 3
Lê Đức Thọ age 42
Enda Kenny age 3
Queen Sofía of Spain age 15
Robert McNamara age 38
Omar Bradley age 61
Soong Ching-ling age 61
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 13
Ivo Sanader age 1
Loukas Papademos age 6
Mátyás Rákosi age 62
László Sólyom age 12
Charan Singh age 51
Bingu wa Mutharika age 20
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 2
Violeta Chamorro age 24
Bola Tinubu age 2
Göran Persson age 5
Carl Bildt age 5
Prayut Chanocha age 5 months
Semyon Budyonny age 71
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 117
Lloyd Austin age 1
Erich Raeder age 78
Brian Mulroney age 15
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 2
R. Venkataraman age 43
Antonio Segni age 63