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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
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966

People

Isaac Shamir age 41
Michel Aoun age 23
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 32
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 17
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 7
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 10
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 38
Umberto II of Italy age 52
Ngo Dinh Diem age 55
Henry A. Wallace age 68
Isaias Afwerki age 10
Meles Zenawi age 1
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 19
Jan Peter Balkenende age 5 months
Filip Vujanović age 2
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 5
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 7
Ion Iliescu age 26
Bülent Ecevit age 31
Kim Young-sam age 28
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 6
Leopold III of Belgium age 55
Erich von Manstein age 68
Sandro Pertini age 60
Anwar Ibrahim age 9
Tabaré Vázquez age 16
Walter Scheel age 37
Jalal Talabani age 22
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 27
Vicente Fox age 14
Olusegun Obasanjo age 19
Olav V of Norway age 53
Beji Caid Essebsi age 29
Trần Đại Quang age 0 months
Fidel Ramos age 28
Wallis Simpson age 60
Hua Guofeng age 35
Agostinho Neto age 34
Alpha Condé age 18
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 34
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 13
Mary McAleese age 5
Ehud Barak age 14
Giuliano Amato age 18
Ayub Khan age 49
Ma Ying-jeou age 6
Emilio Aguinaldo age 87
Pietro Badoglio age 85
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 36
Chester W. Nimitz age 71
Abdul Hamid age 12
Hun Sen age 4
Kim Campbell age 9
Andrej Babiš age 2
Lenín Moreno age 3
Mauno Koivisto age 32
Giorgos Papandreou age 4
Karolos Papoulias age 27
Zakir Husain age 59
Rafiq Hariri age 11
Pridi Banomyong age 56
Milton Obote age 30
Horacio Cartes age 3 months
Yun Po-sun age 59
Gustav Heinemann age 57
Lionel Jospin age 19
Abolhassan Banisadr age 23
Blaise Compaoré age 5
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 6
János Kádár age 44
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 38
Bettino Craxi age 22
Valdas Adamkus age 29
Samora Moisés Machel age 23
Mamnoon Hussain age 15
Fahri Korutürk age 53
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 11
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 11
Michael I of Romania age 35
Édouard Daladier age 72
Thomas Bach age 2
Raúl Alfonsín age 29
Thomas Boni Yayi age 4
Paul Martin age 18
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 85
Mwai Kibaki age 24
Chang Myon age 57
Chun Doo-hwan age 25
Zhao Ziyang age 37
Rex Tillerson age 4
Elio Di Rupo age 5
Jean Chrétien age 22
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 16
John Kufuor age 17
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 35
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 11
Janez Drnovšek age 6
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 12
Ivan Konev age 58
Karl Carstens age 41
Jacques Delors age 31
John Nance Garner age 87
Vincent Auriol age 72
Mohammad Najibullah age 9
Zog I of Albania age 61
João Lourenço age 2
Guy Verhofstadt age 3
Dimitris Christofias age 10
Rafael Trujillo age 65
V. V. Giri age 62
Giovanni Leone age 47
Yahya Khan age 39
Ivan Gašparovič age 15
Cevdet Sunay age 57
Necmettin Erbakan age 30
Morgan Tsvangirai age 4
Felipe González age 14
Alexei Kosygin age 52
George F. Kennan age 52
Itamar Franco age 26
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 25
Farouk of Egypt age 36
Jacques Rogge age 14
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 19
K. R. Narayanan age 36
Levi Eshkol age 61
Massimo D'Alema age 7
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 51
Daniel arap Moi age 32
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 7
Peter Mutharika age 16
Mário Soares age 31
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 4
Zoran Đinđić age 4
Fernando Lugo age 5
Kgalema Motlanthe age 7
Heinrich Lübke age 62
Liu Shaoqi age 57
Zhu Rongji age 28
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 23
Houari Boumédiène age 24
Gough Whitlam age 40
Mathieu Kérékou age 23
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 8
Arnold Rüütel age 28
François Duvalier age 49
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 51
Nouri al-Maliki age 6
Moshe Katsav age 10
Luigi Einaudi age 82
Enrico de Nicola age 79
Ibrahim Rugova age 11
Amadou Toumani Touré age 7
Ram Baran Yadav age 8
Desi Bouterse age 11
Xanana Gusmão age 10
Armand Fallières age 115
Pierre Mauroy age 28
Laurent Fabius age 10
Édith Cresson age 22
Michel Barnier age 5
Enda Kenny age 5
Robert McNamara age 40
Omar Bradley age 63
Soong Ching-ling age 63
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 16
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 11 months
Ivo Sanader age 3
Mohamed Naguib age 55
Andrus Ansip age 0 months
Loukas Papademos age 9
Mátyás Rákosi age 64
László Sólyom age 14
Charan Singh age 53
Valdis Zatlers age 1
Bingu wa Mutharika age 22
Violeta Chamorro age 27
Bola Tinubu age 4
Egor Gajdar age 7 months
Göran Persson age 7
Carl Bildt age 7
Prayut Chanocha age 2
Semyon Budyonny age 73
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 119
Lloyd Austin age 3
Erich Raeder age 80
John Roberts age 1
Brian Mulroney age 17
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 4
Matti Vanhanen age 11 months
R. Venkataraman age 45
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 18
Mohamed Agha age 11 months
Nicolae Timofti age 7
Evgeny Primakov age 26
Danilo Türk age 4
Mykola Azarov age 8
Siad Barre age 37
Yoshirō Mori age 19
Hjalmar Schacht age 79