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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
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962

People

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 8
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 12
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 39
Umberto II of Italy age 53
Ngo Dinh Diem age 57
Henry A. Wallace age 69
Ivo Josipović age 7 months
Isaias Afwerki age 12
Meles Zenawi age 2
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 20
Jan Peter Balkenende age 1
Filip Vujanović age 3
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 6
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 9
Ion Iliescu age 28
Bülent Ecevit age 32
Kim Young-sam age 30
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 8
Leopold III of Belgium age 56
Erich von Manstein age 70
Sandro Pertini age 61
Anwar Ibrahim age 10
Tabaré Vázquez age 18
Walter Scheel age 38
Jalal Talabani age 24
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 28
Vicente Fox age 15
Olusegun Obasanjo age 21
Beji Caid Essebsi age 31
Trần Đại Quang age 1
Fidel Ramos age 30
Wallis Simpson age 61
Hua Guofeng age 37
Agostinho Neto age 35
Alpha Condé age 20
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 14
Mary McAleese age 6
Ehud Barak age 16
Giuliano Amato age 19
Ayub Khan age 50
Ma Ying-jeou age 7
Emilio Aguinaldo age 89
Bongbong Marcos age 7 months
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 37
Chester W. Nimitz age 73
Abdul Hamid age 14
Hun Sen age 5
Kim Campbell age 11
Andrej Babiš age 3
Lenín Moreno age 5
Mauno Koivisto age 34
Giorgos Papandreou age 5
Karolos Papoulias age 28
Zakir Husain age 61
Rafiq Hariri age 13
Pridi Banomyong age 57
Milton Obote age 32
Horacio Cartes age 1
Yun Po-sun age 60
Gustav Heinemann age 58
Shigeru Ishiba age 1
Lionel Jospin age 20
Abolhassan Banisadr age 25
Blaise Compaoré age 7
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 7
János Kádár age 45
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 39
Bettino Craxi age 24
Valdas Adamkus age 31
Samora Moisés Machel age 24
Mamnoon Hussain age 17
Fahri Korutürk age 54
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 12
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 12
Michael I of Romania age 36
Édouard Daladier age 73
Thomas Bach age 4
Raúl Alfonsín age 31
Thomas Boni Yayi age 5
Georgi Parvanov age 9 months
Paul Martin age 19
Mwai Kibaki age 26
Chang Myon age 58
Chun Doo-hwan age 27
Zhao Ziyang age 38
Rex Tillerson age 6
Elio Di Rupo age 6
Jean Chrétien age 24
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 12 months
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 18
John Kufuor age 19
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 36
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 13
Janez Drnovšek age 7
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 14
Ivan Konev age 60
Karl Carstens age 43
Jacques Delors age 32
John Nance Garner age 89
Vincent Auriol age 73
Mohammad Najibullah age 10
Zog I of Albania age 62
João Lourenço age 4
Guy Verhofstadt age 5
Dimitris Christofias age 11
Rafael Trujillo age 66
Alar Karis age 0 months
V. V. Giri age 63
Giovanni Leone age 49
Yahya Khan age 41
Ivan Gašparovič age 17
Cevdet Sunay age 59
Necmettin Erbakan age 31
Morgan Tsvangirai age 6
Felipe González age 16
Alexei Kosygin age 54
George F. Kennan age 54
Itamar Franco age 27
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 26
Farouk of Egypt age 38
Jacques Rogge age 15
Bamir Topi age 11 months
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 20
K. R. Narayanan age 37
Levi Eshkol age 62
Massimo D'Alema age 8
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 52
Daniel arap Moi age 33
Dick Schoof age 1
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 8
Peter Mutharika age 17
Mário Soares age 33
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 6
Zoran Đinđić age 5
Fernando Lugo age 6
Kgalema Motlanthe age 8
Heinrich Lübke age 63
Liu Shaoqi age 59
Zhu Rongji age 29
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 24
Houari Boumédiène age 25
Gough Whitlam age 41
Mathieu Kérékou age 24
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 10
Arnold Rüütel age 29
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 52
Nouri al-Maliki age 7
Moshe Katsav age 12
Luigi Einaudi age 84
Enrico de Nicola age 80
Ibrahim Rugova age 13
Amadou Toumani Touré age 9
Ram Baran Yadav age 10
Desi Bouterse age 12
Xanana Gusmão age 11
Armand Fallières age 116
Pierre Mauroy age 29
Laurent Fabius age 11
Édith Cresson age 24
Michel Barnier age 7
Enda Kenny age 6
Robert McNamara age 41
Omar Bradley age 65
Soong Ching-ling age 65
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 17
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 2
Ivo Sanader age 4
Mohamed Naguib age 57
Andrus Ansip age 1
Loukas Papademos age 10
Mátyás Rákosi age 66
László Sólyom age 16
Charan Singh age 55
Valdis Zatlers age 3
Bingu wa Mutharika age 24
Violeta Chamorro age 28
Bola Tinubu age 6
Egor Gajdar age 2
Göran Persson age 9
Carl Bildt age 8
Prayut Chanocha age 4
Semyon Budyonny age 75
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 120
Lloyd Austin age 4
Erich Raeder age 82
John Roberts age 3
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré age 11 months
Brian Mulroney age 19
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 5
Matti Vanhanen age 2
R. Venkataraman age 47
Antonio Segni age 67
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 20
Mohamed Agha age 2
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 1
Nicolae Timofti age 9
Evgeny Primakov age 28
Danilo Türk age 6
Mykola Azarov age 10
Edgar Lungu age 1