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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
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25

People

János Áder age 1
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 30
Abdurrahman Wahid age 19
Alassane Ouattara age 18
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 80
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 16
Stefan Löfven age 3
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 5
Johannes Rau age 29
Yasuo Fukuda age 24
Dominique de Villepin age 6
Jeremy Corbyn age 11
Franz von Papen age 80
Malcolm Turnbull age 5
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 18
Omar Bongo age 24
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 4
Najib Razak age 7
Helen Clark age 10
Lee Hsien Loong age 8
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 6 months
Celâl Bayar age 77
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 17
Lee Myung-bak age 18
Alija Izetbegović age 35
Franjo Tuđman age 38
Jorge Rafael Videla age 35
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 21
Nana Akufo-Addo age 16
Prabowo Subianto age 8
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 5
Tomislav Nikolić age 8
Boris Tadić age 2
José Ramos-Horta age 10
Adolfo Suárez age 27
François Englert age 27
Alec Douglas-Home age 57
Gustavo Petro age 4 months
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 6
John Evans Atta Mills age 16
Reuven Rivlin age 20
Almazbek Atambaev age 3
Roza Otunbayeva age 10
Hassan II age 31
Trương Tấn Sang age 11
Kenneth Kaunda age 36
Alan García age 11
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 8
Robert Schuman age 74
Janet Yellen age 14
Lee Harvey Oswald age 20
Anne, Princess Royal age 10
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor age 6 months
Armen Sarkissian age 7
Boyko Borissov age 1
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 51
Constantine II of Greece age 20
Robert G. Edwards age 34
Kliment Voroshilov age 79
Spiro Agnew age 41
Carlos Menem age 30
Robert Kocharyan age 5
Laura Chinchilla age 1
Nikos Anastasiades age 13
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 17
Lal Bahadur Shastri age 55
Laurent Gbagbo age 15
Shehbaz Sharif age 8
Kenan Evren age 43
Benigno Aquino III age 6 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 36
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 21
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 11
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 14
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 42
Umberto II of Italy age 55
Ngo Dinh Diem age 59
Katalin Karikó age 5
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 9
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 13
Gjorge Ivanov age 3 months
Tabaré Vázquez age 20
Theodor Heuss age 76
Walter Scheel age 41
Mohammed Omar age 7 months
Jalal Talabani age 26
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 31
Vicente Fox age 18
Olusegun Obasanjo age 23
Beji Caid Essebsi age 33
Trần Đại Quang age 3
Fidel Ramos age 32
Wallis Simpson age 64
Mohammad Mosaddegh age 78
Aslan Maskhadov age 8
Hua Guofeng age 39
Agostinho Neto age 37
Alpha Condé age 22
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 17
Morarji Desai age 64
Mary McAleese age 9
Ehud Barak age 18
Giuliano Amato age 22
Ma Ying-jeou age 10
Emilio Aguinaldo age 91
Bongbong Marcos age 2
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 40
Anastas Mikoyan age 64
Otto von Habsburg age 47
Chester W. Nimitz age 75
Abdul Hamid age 16
Hun Sen age 8
Kim Campbell age 13
Andrej Babiš age 5
Lenín Moreno age 7
Mauno Koivisto age 36
Giorgos Papandreou age 8
Karolos Papoulias age 31
Zakir Husain age 63
Rafiq Hariri age 15
Lai Ching-te age 10 months
John Magufuli age 9 months
Pridi Banomyong age 60
Milton Obote age 34
Horacio Cartes age 4
Konstantin Rokossovsky age 63
Gustav Heinemann age 61
Shigeru Ishiba age 3
Lionel Jospin age 23
Abolhassan Banisadr age 27
Patrice Talon age 2
Blaise Compaoré age 9
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 10
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 57
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 14
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 15
Michael I of Romania age 38
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 47
Édouard Daladier age 76
Thomas Bach age 6
Manuel Noriega age 26
Raúl Alfonsín age 33
Khaleda Zia age 14
Thomas Boni Yayi age 8
Georgi Parvanov age 3
Paul Martin age 21
Mwai Kibaki age 28
Chang Myon age 61
Chun Doo-hwan age 29
Lord Mountbatten age 60
Zhao Ziyang age 40
Rex Tillerson age 8
Elio Di Rupo age 9
Jean Chrétien age 26
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 3
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 20
John Kufuor age 21
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 39
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 15
Janez Drnovšek age 10
Adnan Menderes age 61
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 16
Ivan Konev age 62
Karl Carstens age 45
Jacques Delors age 35
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 30