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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
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
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964

People

Boris Tadić age 2
José Ramos-Horta age 10
Alec Douglas-Home age 56
Gustavo Petro age 1 month
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 6
John Evans Atta Mills age 15
Reuven Rivlin age 20
Almazbek Atambaev age 3
Roza Otunbayeva age 9
Hassan II age 30
Cemal Gürsel age 64
Trương Tấn Sang age 11
Kenneth Kaunda age 36
Alan García age 11
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 8
Robert Schuman age 73
Janet Yellen age 13
Armen Sarkissian age 6
Boyko Borissov age 11 months
Joyce Banda age 10
Goodluck Jonathan age 2
Victor Chernomyrdin age 22
Halimah Yacob age 5
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 18
Binali Yıldırım age 4
José María Aznar age 7
Andrei Gromyko age 50
Kliment Voroshilov age 79
Spiro Agnew age 41
Carlos Menem age 29
Robert Kocharyan age 5
Laura Chinchilla age 1
Nikos Anastasiades age 13
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 17
Laurent Gbagbo age 14
Shehbaz Sharif age 8
Kenan Evren age 42
Benigno Aquino III age 3 months
Roman Herzog age 26
Sali Berisha age 15
Stjepan Mesić age 25
Isaac Shamir age 44
Michel Aoun age 26
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 35
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 20
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 10
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 14
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 42
Umberto II of Italy age 55
Ngo Dinh Diem age 59
Henry A. Wallace age 71
Ivo Josipović age 2
Isaias Afwerki age 14
Meles Zenawi age 5
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 23
Jan Peter Balkenende age 4
Filip Vujanović age 5
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 8
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 11
Ion Iliescu age 30
Janez Janša age 1
Bülent Ecevit age 35
Kim Young-sam age 32
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 10
Leopold III of Belgium age 58
Erich von Manstein age 72
Sandro Pertini age 63
Anwar Ibrahim age 12
Gjorge Ivanov age 0 months
Tabaré Vázquez age 20
Theodor Heuss age 76
Walter Scheel age 40
Mohammed Omar age 4 months
Jalal Talabani age 26
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 30
Vicente Fox age 17
Olusegun Obasanjo age 23
Beji Caid Essebsi age 33
Trần Đại Quang age 3
Fidel Ramos age 32
Wallis Simpson age 63
Hua Guofeng age 39
Agostinho Neto age 37
Alpha Condé age 22
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 17
Mary McAleese age 8
Ehud Barak age 18
Giuliano Amato age 22
Ma Ying-jeou age 9
Emilio Aguinaldo age 91
Bongbong Marcos age 2
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 39
Chester W. Nimitz age 75
Abdul Hamid age 16
Hun Sen age 7
Kim Campbell age 13
Andrej Babiš age 5
Lenín Moreno age 7
Mauno Koivisto age 36
Giorgos Papandreou age 7
Karolos Papoulias age 30
Zakir Husain age 63
Rafiq Hariri age 15
Lai Ching-te age 7 months
John Magufuli age 6 months
Pridi Banomyong age 60
Milton Obote age 34
Horacio Cartes age 3
Yun Po-sun age 62
Gustav Heinemann age 60
Shigeru Ishiba age 3
Lionel Jospin age 22
Abolhassan Banisadr age 27
Patrice Talon age 2
Blaise Compaoré age 9
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 9
János Kádár age 48
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 41
Bettino Craxi age 26
Valdas Adamkus age 33
Samora Moisés Machel age 26
Mamnoon Hussain age 19
Fahri Korutürk age 56
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 14
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 14
Michael I of Romania age 38
Édouard Daladier age 75
Thomas Bach age 6
Raúl Alfonsín age 33
Thomas Boni Yayi age 7
Georgi Parvanov age 2
Paul Martin age 21
Mwai Kibaki age 28
Chang Myon age 60
Chun Doo-hwan age 29
Zhao Ziyang age 40
Rex Tillerson age 8
Elio Di Rupo age 8
Jean Chrétien age 26
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 3
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 20
John Kufuor age 21
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 38
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 15
Janez Drnovšek age 10
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 16
Ivan Konev age 62
Karl Carstens age 45
Jacques Delors age 34
John Nance Garner age 91
Vincent Auriol age 75
Mohammad Najibullah age 12
Zog I of Albania age 64
João Lourenço age 6
Werner Faymann age 0 months
Guy Verhofstadt age 7
Dimitris Christofias age 13
Rafael Trujillo age 68
Alar Karis age 2
V. V. Giri age 65
Giovanni Leone age 51
Yahya Khan age 43
Ivan Gašparovič age 19
Cevdet Sunay age 61
Necmettin Erbakan age 33
Morgan Tsvangirai age 8
Felipe González age 18
Alexei Kosygin age 56
George F. Kennan age 56
Itamar Franco age 29
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 28
Farouk of Egypt age 40
Jacques Rogge age 18
Bamir Topi age 3
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 22
K. R. Narayanan age 39
Levi Eshkol age 64
Massimo D'Alema age 11
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 54
Daniel arap Moi age 35
Dick Schoof age 3
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 10
Peter Mutharika age 19
Mário Soares age 35
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 8
Zoran Đinđić age 7
Fernando Lugo age 8
Kgalema Motlanthe age 10
Zhu Rongji age 31
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 26
Houari Boumédiène age 27
Gough Whitlam age 43
Mathieu Kérékou age 26
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 12
Arnold Rüütel age 32
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 55
Nouri al-Maliki age 9
Moshe Katsav age 14
Luigi Einaudi age 86
Ibrahim Rugova age 15