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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
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
Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10

People

Thaksin Shinawatra age 11
Jarosław Kaczyński age 11
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 40
Moshe Dayan age 46
Yoshihiko Noda age 4
Trygve Lie age 64
Ahmad Shah Massoud age 7
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 57
Alberto Fernández age 2
Hamad II of Bahrain age 11
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 2
John Mahama age 2
János Áder age 2
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 31
Abdurrahman Wahid age 20
Alassane Ouattara age 19
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 80
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 17
Stefan Löfven age 3
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 6
Johannes Rau age 30
Yasuo Fukuda age 24
Dominique de Villepin age 7
Jeremy Corbyn age 12
Franz von Papen age 81
Malcolm Turnbull age 6
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 19
Omar Bongo age 25
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 5
Najib Razak age 7
Helen Clark age 11
Lee Hsien Loong age 9
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 1
Celâl Bayar age 78
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 18
Lee Myung-bak age 19
Alija Izetbegović age 35
Franjo Tuđman age 39
Jorge Rafael Videla age 35
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 22
Nana Akufo-Addo age 17
Prabowo Subianto age 9
Isaac Herzog age 8 months
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 6
Tomislav Nikolić age 9
Boris Tadić age 3
José Ramos-Horta age 11
Adolfo Suárez age 28
François Englert age 28
Alec Douglas-Home age 57
Gustavo Petro age 1
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 7
John Evans Atta Mills age 16
Reuven Rivlin age 21
Almazbek Atambaev age 4
Roza Otunbayeva age 10
Trương Tấn Sang age 12
Kenneth Kaunda age 37
Alan García age 12
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 9
Robert Schuman age 74
Janet Yellen age 14
Lee Harvey Oswald age 21
Anne, Princess Royal age 10
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor age 1
Armen Sarkissian age 7
Boyko Borissov age 1
Joyce Banda age 11
Goodluck Jonathan age 3
Victor Chernomyrdin age 23
Halimah Yacob age 6
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 19
Binali Yıldırım age 5
José María Aznar age 8
Andrei Gromyko age 51
Constantine II of Greece age 21
Robert G. Edwards age 35
Kliment Voroshilov age 80
Spiro Agnew age 42
Carlos Menem age 30
Robert Kocharyan age 6
Laura Chinchilla age 2
Nikos Anastasiades age 14
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 18
Lal Bahadur Shastri age 56
Laurent Gbagbo age 16
Shehbaz Sharif age 9
Kenan Evren age 43
Benigno Aquino III age 1
Roman Herzog age 27
Sali Berisha age 16
Stjepan Mesić age 26
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 43
Umberto II of Italy age 56
Ngo Dinh Diem age 60
Katalin Karikó age 6
Henry A. Wallace age 72
Ivo Josipović age 3
Isaias Afwerki age 15
Meles Zenawi age 6
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 24
Jan Peter Balkenende age 5
Filip Vujanović age 6
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 9
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 12
Ion Iliescu age 31
Janez Janša age 2
Bülent Ecevit age 36
Kim Young-sam age 33
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 11
Leopold III of Belgium age 59
Erich von Manstein age 73
Sandro Pertini age 64
Anwar Ibrahim age 13
Gjorge Ivanov age 1
Tabaré Vázquez age 21
Theodor Heuss age 77
Walter Scheel age 41
Mohammed Omar age 1
Jalal Talabani age 27
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 31
Vicente Fox age 18
Olusegun Obasanjo age 24
Beji Caid Essebsi age 34
Trần Đại Quang age 4
Fidel Ramos age 33
Wallis Simpson age 65
Juscelino Kubitschek age 58
Mohammad Mosaddegh age 79
Aslan Maskhadov age 9
Hua Guofeng age 40
Agostinho Neto age 38
Yves Leterme age 8 months
Alpha Condé age 23
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 18
Morarji Desai age 65
Mary McAleese age 9
Ehud Barak age 19
Giuliano Amato age 23
Ma Ying-jeou age 10
Emilio Aguinaldo age 92
Bongbong Marcos age 3
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 40
Anastas Mikoyan age 65
Otto von Habsburg age 48
Chester W. Nimitz age 76
Abdul Hamid age 17
Hun Sen age 8
Kim Campbell age 14
Andrej Babiš age 6
Lenín Moreno age 8
Mauno Koivisto age 37
Giorgos Papandreou age 8
Karolos Papoulias age 32
Zakir Husain age 64
Rafiq Hariri age 16
Lai Ching-te age 1
John Magufuli age 1
Pridi Banomyong age 61
Milton Obote age 35
Horacio Cartes age 4
Konstantin Rokossovsky age 64
Gustav Heinemann age 61
Shigeru Ishiba age 4
Lionel Jospin age 23
Abolhassan Banisadr age 28
Patrice Talon age 3
Blaise Compaoré age 10
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 10
János Kádár age 49
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 42
Bettino Craxi age 27
Valdas Adamkus age 34
Samora Moisés Machel age 27
Mamnoon Hussain age 20
Fahri Korutürk age 57
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 15
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 15
Michael I of Romania age 39
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 48
Élisabeth Borne age 1 month
Édouard Daladier age 77
Thomas Bach age 7
Manuel Noriega age 27
Raúl Alfonsín age 34
Khaleda Zia age 14
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 30
Lord Mountbatten age 60
Zhao Ziyang age 41