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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

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
Henry A. Wallace age 68
Isaias Afwerki age 11
Meles Zenawi age 1
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 19
Jan Peter Balkenende age 9 months
Filip Vujanović age 2
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 5
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 8
Ion Iliescu age 27
Bülent Ecevit age 31
Kim Young-sam age 29
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 7
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 4 months
Fidel Ramos age 28
Wallis Simpson age 60
Hua Guofeng age 36
Agostinho Neto age 34
Alpha Condé age 18
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 35
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 13
Mary McAleese age 5
Ehud Barak age 15
Giuliano Amato age 18
Ayub Khan age 49
Ma Ying-jeou age 6
Emilio Aguinaldo age 87
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 36
Chester W. Nimitz age 72
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 60
Rafiq Hariri age 12
Pridi Banomyong age 56
Milton Obote age 31
Horacio Cartes age 7 months
Yun Po-sun age 59
Gustav Heinemann age 57
Shigeru Ishiba age 0 months
Lionel Jospin age 19
Abolhassan Banisadr age 23
Blaise Compaoré age 6
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 6
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 38
Bettino Craxi age 23
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
Édouard Daladier age 72
Thomas Bach age 3
Raúl Alfonsín age 29
Thomas Boni Yayi age 4
Paul Martin age 18
Mwai Kibaki age 25
Chang Myon age 57
Chun Doo-hwan age 26
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 12
Janez Drnovšek age 6
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 12
Ivan Konev age 59
Karl Carstens age 42
Jacques Delors age 31
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 40
Ivan Gašparovič age 15
Cevdet Sunay age 58
Necmettin Erbakan age 30
Morgan Tsvangirai age 4
Felipe González age 14
Alexei Kosygin age 53
George F. Kennan age 53
Itamar Franco age 26
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 25
Farouk of Egypt age 37
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 9
Desi Bouterse age 11
Xanana Gusmão age 10
Armand Fallières age 115
Pierre Mauroy age 28
Laurent Fabius age 10
Édith Cresson age 23
Michel Barnier age 6
Enda Kenny age 5
Robert McNamara age 40
Omar Bradley age 64
Soong Ching-ling age 64
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 16
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 1
Ivo Sanader age 3
Mohamed Naguib age 56
Andrus Ansip age 4 months
Loukas Papademos age 9
Mátyás Rákosi age 65
László Sólyom age 15
Charan Singh age 54
Valdis Zatlers age 1
Bingu wa Mutharika age 23
Violeta Chamorro age 27
Bola Tinubu age 4
Egor Gajdar age 11 months
Göran Persson age 8
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 2
Brian Mulroney age 17
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 4
Matti Vanhanen age 1
R. Venkataraman age 46
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 19
Mohamed Agha age 1
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 2 months
Nicolae Timofti age 8
Evgeny Primakov age 27
Danilo Türk age 5
Mykola Azarov age 9
Edgar Lungu age 3 months
Siad Barre age 37
Yoshirō Mori age 19
Hjalmar Schacht age 80
Rodion Malinovsky age 58