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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
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis 1958-08-23 - 1958-12-02
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06

People

Alec Douglas-Home age 55
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 4
John Evans Atta Mills age 14
Reuven Rivlin age 19
Almazbek Atambaev age 2
Roza Otunbayeva age 8
Hassan II age 29
Cemal Gürsel age 63
Trương Tấn Sang age 9
Kenneth Kaunda age 34
Alan García age 9
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 7
Robert Schuman age 72
Janet Yellen age 12
Lee Harvey Oswald age 19
Anne, Princess Royal age 8
Armen Sarkissian age 5
Joyce Banda age 8
Goodluck Jonathan age 11 months
Victor Chernomyrdin age 20
Halimah Yacob age 4
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 17
Binali Yıldırım age 2
José María Aznar age 5
Andrei Gromyko age 49
Constantine II of Greece age 18
Robert G. Edwards age 33
Kliment Voroshilov age 77
Spiro Agnew age 39
Carlos Menem age 28
Robert Kocharyan age 4
Nikos Anastasiades age 12
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 16
Lal Bahadur Shastri age 54
Laurent Gbagbo age 13
Shehbaz Sharif age 7
Kenan Evren age 41
Roman Herzog age 24
Sali Berisha age 14
Stjepan Mesić age 23
Isaac Shamir age 43
Michel Aoun age 25
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 34
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 19
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 9
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 12
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 40
Umberto II of Italy age 54
Ngo Dinh Diem age 57
Katalin Karikó age 3
Henry A. Wallace age 70
Ivo Josipović age 1
Isaias Afwerki age 12
Meles Zenawi age 3
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 21
Jan Peter Balkenende age 2
Filip Vujanović age 4
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 7
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 9
Ion Iliescu age 28
Janez Janša age 1 month
Bülent Ecevit age 33
Kim Young-sam age 30
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 8
Leopold III of Belgium age 57
Erich von Manstein age 70
Sandro Pertini age 62
Anwar Ibrahim age 11
Tabaré Vázquez age 18
Walter Scheel age 39
Jalal Talabani age 24
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 29
Vicente Fox age 16
Olusegun Obasanjo age 21
Beji Caid Essebsi age 31
Trần Đại Quang age 2
Fidel Ramos age 30
Wallis Simpson age 62
Mohammad Mosaddegh age 76
Aslan Maskhadov age 7
Hua Guofeng age 37
Agostinho Neto age 36
Alpha Condé age 20
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 15
Morarji Desai age 62
Mary McAleese age 7
Ehud Barak age 16
Giuliano Amato age 20
Ayub Khan age 51
Ma Ying-jeou age 8
Emilio Aguinaldo age 89
Bongbong Marcos age 1
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 38
Anastas Mikoyan age 62
Otto von Habsburg age 45
Chester W. Nimitz age 73
Abdul Hamid age 14
Hun Sen age 6
Kim Campbell age 11
Andrej Babiš age 4
Lenín Moreno age 5
Mauno Koivisto age 34
Giorgos Papandreou age 6
Karolos Papoulias age 29
Zakir Husain age 61
Rafiq Hariri age 13
Pridi Banomyong age 58
Milton Obote age 32
Horacio Cartes age 2
Yun Po-sun age 61
Konstantin Rokossovsky age 61
Gustav Heinemann age 59
Shigeru Ishiba age 1
Lionel Jospin age 21
Abolhassan Banisadr age 25
Patrice Talon age 5 months
Blaise Compaoré age 7
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 8
János Kádár age 46
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 40
Bettino Craxi age 24
Valdas Adamkus age 31
Samora Moisés Machel age 25
Mamnoon Hussain age 17
Fahri Korutürk age 55
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 13
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 13
Michael I of Romania age 37
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 45
Édouard Daladier age 74
Thomas Bach age 4
Manuel Noriega age 24
Raúl Alfonsín age 31
Khaleda Zia age 12
Thomas Boni Yayi age 6
Georgi Parvanov age 1
Paul Martin age 20
Mwai Kibaki age 26
Chang Myon age 59
Chun Doo-hwan age 27
Lord Mountbatten age 58
Zhao Ziyang age 39
Rex Tillerson age 6
Elio Di Rupo age 7
Jean Chrétien age 24
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 1
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 18
John Kufuor age 19
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 37
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 13
Janez Drnovšek age 8
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 14
Ivan Konev age 60
Karl Carstens age 43
Jacques Delors age 33
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 28
John Nance Garner age 89
Vincent Auriol age 74
Mohammad Najibullah age 11
Zog I of Albania age 63
João Lourenço age 4
Guy Verhofstadt age 5
Dimitris Christofias age 12
Rafael Trujillo age 67
Alar Karis age 7 months
V. V. Giri age 64
Giovanni Leone age 50
Yahya Khan age 41
Ivan Gašparovič age 17
Cevdet Sunay age 59
Necmettin Erbakan age 32
Morgan Tsvangirai age 6
Felipe González age 16
Alexei Kosygin age 54
George F. Kennan age 54
Itamar Franco age 28
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 27
Farouk of Egypt age 38
Jacques Rogge age 16
Bamir Topi age 1
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 21
K. R. Narayanan age 38
Levi Eshkol age 63
Massimo D'Alema age 9
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 53
Daniel arap Moi age 34
Dick Schoof age 1
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 9
Peter Mutharika age 18
Mário Soares age 33
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 6
Zoran Đinđić age 6
Fernando Lugo age 7
Kgalema Motlanthe age 9
Heinrich Lübke age 64
Liu Shaoqi age 59
Zhu Rongji age 30
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 25
Houari Boumédiène age 26
Gough Whitlam age 42