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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
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29

People

Óscar Arias Sánchez age 19
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 10 months
Celâl Bayar age 77
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 18
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 9
Isaac Herzog age 2 months
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 5
Tomislav Nikolić age 8
Boris Tadić age 2
José Ramos-Horta age 10
Alec Douglas-Home age 57
Gustavo Petro age 7 months
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 6
John Evans Atta Mills age 16
Reuven Rivlin age 21
Almazbek Atambaev age 4
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 9
Robert Schuman age 74
Janet Yellen age 14
Armen Sarkissian age 7
Boyko Borissov age 1
Joyce Banda age 10
Goodluck Jonathan age 3
Victor Chernomyrdin age 22
Halimah Yacob age 6
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 19
Binali Yıldırım age 4
José María Aznar age 7
Andrei Gromyko age 51
Kliment Voroshilov age 79
Spiro Agnew age 42
Carlos Menem age 30
Robert Kocharyan age 6
Laura Chinchilla age 1
Nikos Anastasiades age 14
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 18
Laurent Gbagbo age 15
Shehbaz Sharif age 9
Kenan Evren age 43
Benigno Aquino III age 10 months
Roman Herzog age 26
Sali Berisha age 16
Stjepan Mesić age 25
Isaac Shamir age 45
Michel Aoun age 27
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 36
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 21
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 11
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 15
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 42
Umberto II of Italy age 56
Ngo Dinh Diem age 59
Henry A. Wallace age 72
Ivo Josipović age 3
Isaias Afwerki age 14
Meles Zenawi age 5
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 23
Jan Peter Balkenende age 4
Filip Vujanović age 6
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 9
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 11
Ion Iliescu age 30
Janez Janša age 2
Bülent Ecevit age 35
Kim Young-sam age 32
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 10
Leopold III of Belgium age 59
Erich von Manstein age 73
Sandro Pertini age 64
Anwar Ibrahim age 13
Gjorge Ivanov age 7 months
Tabaré Vázquez age 20
Theodor Heuss age 76
Walter Scheel age 41
Mohammed Omar age 11 months
Jalal Talabani age 27
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 31
Vicente Fox age 18
Olusegun Obasanjo age 23
Beji Caid Essebsi age 34
Trần Đại Quang age 4
Fidel Ramos age 32
Wallis Simpson age 64
Hua Guofeng age 39
Agostinho Neto age 38
Yves Leterme age 2 months
Alpha Condé age 22
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 17
Mary McAleese age 9
Ehud Barak age 18
Giuliano Amato age 22
Ma Ying-jeou age 10
Emilio Aguinaldo age 91
Bongbong Marcos age 3
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 40
Chester W. Nimitz age 75
Abdul Hamid age 16
Hun Sen age 8
Kim Campbell age 13
Andrej Babiš age 6
Lenín Moreno age 7
Mauno Koivisto age 37
Giorgos Papandreou age 8
Karolos Papoulias age 31
Zakir Husain age 63
Rafiq Hariri age 16
Lai Ching-te age 1
John Magufuli age 1
Pridi Banomyong age 60
Milton Obote age 34
Horacio Cartes age 4
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 42
Bettino Craxi age 26
Valdas Adamkus age 34
Samora Moisés Machel age 27
Mamnoon Hussain age 19
Fahri Korutürk age 57
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 15
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 15
Michael I of Romania age 39
Édouard Daladier age 76
Thomas Bach age 6
Raúl Alfonsín age 33
Thomas Boni Yayi age 8
Georgi Parvanov age 3
Paul Martin age 22
Mwai Kibaki age 29
Chang Myon age 61
Chun Doo-hwan age 29
Zhao Ziyang age 41
Rex Tillerson age 8
Elio Di Rupo age 9
Jean Chrétien age 26
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 3
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 21
John Kufuor age 22
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 46
Jacques Delors age 35
John Nance Garner age 92
Vincent Auriol age 76
Mohammad Najibullah age 13
Zog I of Albania age 65
João Lourenço age 6
Werner Faymann age 7 months
Guy Verhofstadt age 7
Dimitris Christofias age 14
Rafael Trujillo age 69
Alar Karis age 2
V. V. Giri age 66
Giovanni Leone age 52
Yahya Khan age 43
Ivan Gašparovič age 19
Cevdet Sunay age 61
Necmettin Erbakan age 34
Morgan Tsvangirai age 8
Felipe González age 18
Alexei Kosygin age 56
George F. Kennan age 56
Itamar Franco age 30
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 29
Farouk of Egypt age 40
Jacques Rogge age 18
Bamir Topi age 3
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 23
K. R. Narayanan age 40
Levi Eshkol age 65
Massimo D'Alema age 11
Daniel arap Moi age 36
Dick Schoof age 3
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 11