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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
First Taiwan Strait Crisis 1954-09-03 - 1955-05-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19

People

Bettino Craxi age 21
Valdas Adamkus age 28
Samora Moisés Machel age 21
Mamnoon Hussain age 14
Fahri Korutürk age 51
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 9
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 9
Michael I of Romania age 33
Édouard Daladier age 70
Thomas Bach age 1
Cordell Hull age 83
Raúl Alfonsín age 28
Thomas Boni Yayi age 2
Paul Martin age 16
Mwai Kibaki age 23
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 52
Chang Myon age 55
Chun Doo-hwan age 24
Zhao Ziyang age 35
Rex Tillerson age 2
Elio Di Rupo age 3
Jean Chrétien age 21
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 15
John Kufuor age 16
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 33
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 10
Janez Drnovšek age 4
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 10
Ivan Konev age 57
Karl Carstens age 40
Jacques Delors age 29
John Nance Garner age 86
Vincent Auriol age 70
Mohammad Najibullah age 7
Zog I of Albania age 59
João Lourenço age 1
Guy Verhofstadt age 1
Dimitris Christofias age 8
Rafael Trujillo age 63
V. V. Giri age 60
Giovanni Leone age 46
Yahya Khan age 38
Ivan Gašparovič age 13
Cevdet Sunay age 56
Necmettin Erbakan age 28
Morgan Tsvangirai age 3
Felipe González age 13
Alexei Kosygin age 51
George F. Kennan age 51
Itamar Franco age 24
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 23
Farouk of Egypt age 35
Jacques Rogge age 12
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 17
K. R. Narayanan age 34
Levi Eshkol age 59
Massimo D'Alema age 5
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 49
Daniel arap Moi age 30
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 5
Peter Mutharika age 14
Mário Soares age 30
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 3
Zoran Đinđić age 2
Fernando Lugo age 3
Kgalema Motlanthe age 5
Heinrich Lübke age 60
Liu Shaoqi age 56
Zhu Rongji age 26
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 21
Houari Boumédiène age 22
Gough Whitlam age 38
Mathieu Kérékou age 21
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 7
Arnold Rüütel age 26
François Duvalier age 47
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 49
Nouri al-Maliki age 4
Moshe Katsav age 9
Enrico de Nicola age 77
Ibrahim Rugova age 10
Amadou Toumani Touré age 6
Ram Baran Yadav age 7
Desi Bouterse age 9
Xanana Gusmão age 8
Armand Fallières age 113
Pierre Mauroy age 26
Laurent Fabius age 8
Édith Cresson age 21
Michel Barnier age 4
Enda Kenny age 3
Robert McNamara age 38
Omar Bradley age 62
Soong Ching-ling age 62
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 14
Ivo Sanader age 1
Mohamed Naguib age 54
Loukas Papademos age 7
Mátyás Rákosi age 63
László Sólyom age 13
Charan Singh age 52
Bingu wa Mutharika age 21
Violeta Chamorro age 25
Bola Tinubu age 2
Göran Persson age 6
Carl Bildt age 5
Prayut Chanocha age 12 months
Semyon Budyonny age 71
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 117
Lloyd Austin age 1
Erich Raeder age 78
John Roberts age 1 month
Brian Mulroney age 16
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 2
R. Venkataraman age 44
Antonio Segni age 64
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 17
Nicolae Timofti age 6
Evgeny Primakov age 25
Danilo Türk age 3
Mykola Azarov age 7
Siad Barre age 35
Yoshirō Mori age 17
Hjalmar Schacht age 78
Rodion Malinovsky age 56
Lázaro Cárdenas age 59
Bob Hawke age 25
Sandra Mason age 6
Jadranka Kosor age 1
Makarios III age 41
Gulzarilal Nanda age 56
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 15
Joaquim Chissano age 15
Sam Nujoma age 25
Sani Abacha age 11
Juvénal Habyarimana age 18
Abdoulaye Wade age 28
Chen Shui-bian age 4
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 36
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 27
P. W. Botha age 39
Semyon Timoshenko age 60
Lee Teng-hui age 32
Paul Keating age 11
Thomas Klestil age 22
Paul-Henri Spaak age 56
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 31
Konstantin Päts age 81
Jerry Rawlings age 7
Manuel Zelaya age 2
Pál Schmitt age 12
Zail Singh age 38
Amintore Fanfani age 47
Sushila Karki age 2
Mahamadou Issoufou age 3
Arif Alvi age 5
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 2
Viktor Zubkov age 13
Vojislav Koštunica age 10
Maithripala Sirisena age 3
Tomiichi Murayama age 31
João Goulart age 36
Jean Monnet age 66
Li Peng age 26
Ferhat Abbas age 55
Brigitte Bierlein age 5
Tassos Papadopoulos age 21
Antonis Samaras age 3
João Bernardo Vieira age 15
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 36
Chaim Herzog age 36
Giuseppe Saragat age 56
Lamberto Dini age 24
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 17
Askar Akayev age 10
Algirdas Brazauskas age 22
Mohammed V of Morocco age 45
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 3 months
Prem Tinsulanonda age 34
Roh Tae-woo age 22
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 5
Lin Biao age 47
François Bayrou age 3
Egon Krenz age 18
Fernando Collor de Mello age 5
Jacobo Árbenz age 41
Robert Mueller age 10
Ramiz Alia age 29
Leopoldo Galtieri age 28
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 10
Bruno Kreisky age 44
Festus Mogae age 15
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 2
Seretse Khama age 33
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 30
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 4
Lennart Meri age 25
Risto Ryti age 66
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 41
Giovanni Gronchi age 67