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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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08

People

Cemal Gürsel age 61
Trương Tấn Sang age 7
Kenneth Kaunda age 32
Alan García age 7
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 5
Robert Schuman age 70
Janet Yellen age 10
Lee Harvey Oswald age 17
Anne, Princess Royal age 6
Armen Sarkissian age 3
Imre Nagy age 60
Joyce Banda age 6
Victor Chernomyrdin age 18
Halimah Yacob age 2
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 15
Binali Yıldırım age 1
José María Aznar age 3
Andrei Gromyko age 47
Constantine II of Greece age 16
Robert G. Edwards age 31
Kliment Voroshilov age 75
Spiro Agnew age 38
Carlos Menem age 26
Robert Kocharyan age 2
Nikos Anastasiades age 10
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 14
Lal Bahadur Shastri age 52
Laurent Gbagbo age 11
Shehbaz Sharif age 5
Kenan Evren age 39
Roman Herzog age 22
Sali Berisha age 12
Stjepan Mesić age 22
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 11
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 38
Umberto II of Italy age 52
Ngo Dinh Diem age 56
Katalin Karikó age 1
Henry A. Wallace age 68
Isaias Afwerki age 10
Meles Zenawi age 1
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 19
Jan Peter Balkenende age 8 months
Filip Vujanović age 2
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 5
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 8
Ion Iliescu age 26
Bülent Ecevit age 31
Kim Young-sam age 29
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 6
Leopold III of Belgium age 55
Erich von Manstein age 69
Sandro Pertini age 60
Anwar Ibrahim age 9
Tabaré Vázquez age 17
Walter Scheel age 37
Jalal Talabani age 23
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 30
Trần Đại Quang age 3 months
Fidel Ramos age 28
Wallis Simpson age 60
Mohammad Mosaddegh age 74
Aslan Maskhadov age 5
Hua Guofeng age 35
Agostinho Neto age 34
Alpha Condé age 18
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 35
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 13
Morarji Desai age 60
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
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 36
Anastas Mikoyan age 61
Otto von Habsburg age 44
Chester W. Nimitz age 71
Abdul Hamid age 13
Hun Sen age 4
Kim Campbell age 9
Andrej Babiš age 2
Lenín Moreno age 3
Mauno Koivisto age 33
Giorgos Papandreou age 4
Karolos Papoulias age 27
Zakir Husain age 59
Rafiq Hariri age 12
Pridi Banomyong age 56
Milton Obote age 31
Horacio Cartes age 6 months
Yun Po-sun age 59
Konstantin Rokossovsky age 60
Gustav Heinemann age 57
Lionel Jospin age 19
Abolhassan Banisadr age 23
Blaise Compaoré age 5
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 6
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 38
Bettino Craxi age 22
Valdas Adamkus age 30
Samora Moisés Machel age 23
Mamnoon Hussain age 16
Fahri Korutürk age 53
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 11
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 11
Michael I of Romania age 35
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 43
Édouard Daladier age 72
Thomas Bach age 3
Manuel Noriega age 22
Raúl Alfonsín age 29
Khaleda Zia age 10
Thomas Boni Yayi age 4
Paul Martin age 18
Mwai Kibaki age 25
Chang Myon age 57
Chun Doo-hwan age 26
Lord Mountbatten age 56
Zhao Ziyang age 37
Rex Tillerson age 4
Elio Di Rupo age 5
Jean Chrétien age 23
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 17
John Kufuor age 18
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 35
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 11
Janez Drnovšek age 6
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 12
Ivan Konev age 59
Karl Carstens age 42
Jacques Delors age 31
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 26
John Nance Garner age 88
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 48
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 32
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 5
Zoran Đinđić age 4
Fernando Lugo age 5
Kgalema Motlanthe age 7
Heinrich Lübke age 62
Liu Shaoqi age 58
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 9
Arnold Rüütel age 28
François Duvalier age 49
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 51
Nouri al-Maliki age 6
Moshe Katsav age 11
Luigi Einaudi age 82
Enrico de Nicola age 79
Ibrahim Rugova age 12
Amadou Toumani Touré age 8
Ram Baran Yadav age 8
Desi Bouterse age 11
Xanana Gusmão age 10
Armand Fallières age 115
Pierre Mauroy age 28