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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
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
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961

People

Kliment Voroshilov age 77
Spiro Agnew age 40
Carlos Menem age 28
Robert Kocharyan age 4
Nikos Anastasiades age 12
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 16
Laurent Gbagbo age 13
Shehbaz Sharif age 7
Kenan Evren age 41
Roman Herzog age 24
Sali Berisha age 14
Stjepan Mesić age 24
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 13
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 40
Umberto II of Italy age 54
Ngo Dinh Diem age 58
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 10
Ion Iliescu age 28
Janez Janša age 3 months
Bülent Ecevit age 33
Kim Young-sam age 31
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 8
Leopold III of Belgium age 57
Erich von Manstein age 71
Sandro Pertini age 62
Anwar Ibrahim age 11
Tabaré Vázquez age 18
Walter Scheel age 39
Jalal Talabani age 25
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 29
Vicente Fox age 16
Olusegun Obasanjo age 21
Beji Caid Essebsi age 32
Trần Đại Quang age 2
Fidel Ramos age 30
Wallis Simpson age 62
Hua Guofeng age 37
Agostinho Neto age 36
Alpha Condé age 20
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 15
Mary McAleese age 7
Ehud Barak age 16
Giuliano Amato age 20
Ma Ying-jeou age 8
Emilio Aguinaldo age 89
Bongbong Marcos age 1
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 38
Chester W. Nimitz age 73
Abdul Hamid age 15
Hun Sen age 6
Kim Campbell age 11
Andrej Babiš age 4
Lenín Moreno age 5
Mauno Koivisto age 35
Giorgos Papandreou age 6
Karolos Papoulias age 29
Zakir Husain age 61
Rafiq Hariri age 14
Pridi Banomyong age 58
Milton Obote age 33
Horacio Cartes age 2
Yun Po-sun age 61
Gustav Heinemann age 59
Shigeru Ishiba age 1
Lionel Jospin age 21
Abolhassan Banisadr age 25
Patrice Talon age 8 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 32
Samora Moisés Machel age 25
Mamnoon Hussain age 18
Fahri Korutürk age 55
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 13
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 13
Michael I of Romania age 37
Édouard Daladier age 74
Thomas Bach age 5
Raúl Alfonsín age 31
Thomas Boni Yayi age 6
Georgi Parvanov age 1
Paul Martin age 20
Mwai Kibaki age 27
Chang Myon age 59
Chun Doo-hwan age 28
Zhao Ziyang age 39
Rex Tillerson age 6
Elio Di Rupo age 7
Jean Chrétien age 25
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 1
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 19
John Kufuor age 20
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 37
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 13
Janez Drnovšek age 8
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 14
Ivan Konev age 61
Karl Carstens age 44
Jacques Delors age 33
John Nance Garner age 90
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 9 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 34
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 7
Zoran Đinđić age 6
Fernando Lugo age 7
Kgalema Motlanthe age 9
Heinrich Lübke age 64
Liu Shaoqi age 60
Zhu Rongji age 30
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 25
Houari Boumédiène age 26
Gough Whitlam age 42
Mathieu Kérékou age 25
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 11
Arnold Rüütel age 30
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 53
Nouri al-Maliki age 8
Moshe Katsav age 13
Luigi Einaudi age 84
Enrico de Nicola age 81
Ibrahim Rugova age 14
Amadou Toumani Touré age 10
Ram Baran Yadav age 10
Desi Bouterse age 13
Xanana Gusmão age 12
Armand Fallières age 117
Pierre Mauroy age 30
Laurent Fabius age 12
Édith Cresson age 24
Michel Barnier age 8
Enda Kenny age 7
Robert McNamara age 42
Omar Bradley age 65
Soong Ching-ling age 65
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 18
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 3
Ivo Sanader age 5
Mohamed Naguib age 57
Andrus Ansip age 2
Loukas Papademos age 11
Mátyás Rákosi age 66
László Sólyom age 17
Charan Singh age 56
Valdis Zatlers age 3
Bingu wa Mutharika age 24
Violeta Chamorro age 29
Bola Tinubu age 6
Egor Gajdar age 2
Göran Persson age 9
Carl Bildt age 9
Prayut Chanocha age 4
Semyon Budyonny age 75
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 121