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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
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02

People

Malcolm Turnbull age 4
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 17
Omar Bongo age 23
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 3
Najib Razak age 6
Helen Clark age 9
Lee Hsien Loong age 7
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 16
Lee Myung-bak age 17
Alija Izetbegović age 34
Franjo Tuđman age 37
Jorge Rafael Videla age 34
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 20
Nana Akufo-Addo age 15
Prabowo Subianto age 7
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 4
Tomislav Nikolić age 7
Boris Tadić age 1
José Ramos-Horta age 9
Adolfo Suárez age 26
François Englert age 26
Alec Douglas-Home age 56
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 5
John Evans Atta Mills age 15
Reuven Rivlin age 19
Almazbek Atambaev age 2
Roza Otunbayeva age 8
Hassan II age 30
Cemal Gürsel age 63
Trương Tấn Sang age 10
Kenneth Kaunda age 35
Alan García age 10
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 7
Robert Schuman age 73
Janet Yellen age 12
Lee Harvey Oswald age 19
Anne, Princess Royal age 8
Armen Sarkissian age 6
Boyko Borissov age 1 month
Joyce Banda age 9
Goodluck Jonathan age 1
Victor Chernomyrdin age 21
Halimah Yacob age 4
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 17
Binali Yıldırım age 3
José María Aznar age 6
Andrei Gromyko age 50
Constantine II of Greece age 19
Robert G. Edwards age 33
Kliment Voroshilov age 78
Spiro Agnew age 40
Carlos Menem age 29
Robert Kocharyan age 4
Laura Chinchilla age 4 months
Nikos Anastasiades age 12
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 16
Lal Bahadur Shastri age 54
Laurent Gbagbo age 14
Shehbaz Sharif age 7
Kenan Evren age 42
Roman Herzog age 25
Sali Berisha age 14
Stjepan Mesić age 24
Isaac Shamir age 43
Michel Aoun age 25
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 35
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 20
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 10
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 13
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 41
Umberto II of Italy age 54
Ngo Dinh Diem age 58
Katalin Karikó age 4
Henry A. Wallace age 70
Ivo Josipović age 1
Isaias Afwerki age 13
Meles Zenawi age 4
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 22
Jan Peter Balkenende age 3
Filip Vujanović age 4
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 7
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 10
Ion Iliescu age 29
Janez Janša age 10 months
Bülent Ecevit age 34
Kim Young-sam age 31
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 9
Leopold III of Belgium age 57
Erich von Manstein age 71
Sandro Pertini age 62
Anwar Ibrahim age 11
Tabaré Vázquez age 19
Walter Scheel age 40
Jalal Talabani age 25
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 30
Vicente Fox age 17
Olusegun Obasanjo age 22
Beji Caid Essebsi age 32
Trần Đại Quang age 2
Fidel Ramos age 31
Wallis Simpson age 63
Mohammad Mosaddegh age 77
Aslan Maskhadov age 7
Hua Guofeng age 38
Agostinho Neto age 36
Alpha Condé age 21
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 16
Morarji Desai age 63
Mary McAleese age 8
Ehud Barak age 17
Giuliano Amato age 21
Ma Ying-jeou age 9
Emilio Aguinaldo age 90
Bongbong Marcos age 1
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 39
Anastas Mikoyan age 63
Otto von Habsburg age 46
Chester W. Nimitz age 74
Abdul Hamid age 15
Hun Sen age 7
Kim Campbell age 12
Andrej Babiš age 4
Lenín Moreno age 6
Mauno Koivisto age 35
Giorgos Papandreou age 7
Karolos Papoulias age 30
Zakir Husain age 62
Rafiq Hariri age 14
Pridi Banomyong age 59
Milton Obote age 33
Horacio Cartes age 3
Yun Po-sun age 61
Konstantin Rokossovsky age 62
Gustav Heinemann age 60
Shigeru Ishiba age 2
Lionel Jospin age 22
Abolhassan Banisadr age 26
Patrice Talon age 1
Blaise Compaoré age 8
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 9
János Kádár age 47
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 40
Bettino Craxi age 25
Valdas Adamkus age 32
Samora Moisés Machel age 25
Mamnoon Hussain age 18
Fahri Korutürk age 56
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 13
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 14
Michael I of Romania age 37
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 46
Édouard Daladier age 75
Thomas Bach age 5
Manuel Noriega age 25
Raúl Alfonsín age 32
Khaleda Zia age 12
Thomas Boni Yayi age 7
Georgi Parvanov age 2
Paul Martin age 20
Mwai Kibaki age 27
Chang Myon age 59
Chun Doo-hwan age 28
Lord Mountbatten age 59
Zhao Ziyang age 39
Rex Tillerson age 7
Elio Di Rupo age 8
Jean Chrétien age 25
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 2
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 19
John Kufuor age 20
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 38
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 14
Janez Drnovšek age 9
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 15
Ivan Konev age 61
Karl Carstens age 44
Jacques Delors age 34
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 28
John Nance Garner age 90
Vincent Auriol age 74
Mohammad Najibullah age 12
Zog I of Albania age 63
João Lourenço age 5
Guy Verhofstadt age 6
Dimitris Christofias age 12
Rafael Trujillo age 67
Alar Karis age 1
V. V. Giri age 65
Giovanni Leone age 50
Yahya Khan age 42
Ivan Gašparovič age 18
Cevdet Sunay age 60
Necmettin Erbakan age 32
Morgan Tsvangirai age 7
Felipe González age 17
Alexei Kosygin age 55
George F. Kennan age 55
Itamar Franco age 29
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 28
Farouk of Egypt age 39