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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
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
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
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Albany Movement 1961-11 - 1962

People

Abdurrahman Wahid age 21
Alassane Ouattara age 20
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 81
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 18
Stefan Löfven age 4
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 7
Johannes Rau age 31
Yasuo Fukuda age 25
Dominique de Villepin age 8
Franz von Papen age 82
Malcolm Turnbull age 7
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 20
Omar Bongo age 26
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 5
Najib Razak age 8
Helen Clark age 11
Lee Hsien Loong age 9
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 2
Celâl Bayar age 78
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 19
Lee Myung-bak age 20
Alija Izetbegović age 36
Franjo Tuđman age 39
Jorge Rafael Videla age 36
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 22
Nana Akufo-Addo age 17
Prabowo Subianto age 10
Isaac Herzog age 1
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 6
Tomislav Nikolić age 9
Boris Tadić age 4
José Ramos-Horta age 12
Alec Douglas-Home age 58
Gustavo Petro age 1
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 8
John Evans Atta Mills age 17
Reuven Rivlin age 22
Almazbek Atambaev age 5
Roza Otunbayeva age 11
Trương Tấn Sang age 13
Kenneth Kaunda age 37
Alan García age 12
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 10
Robert Schuman age 75
Janet Yellen age 15
Armen Sarkissian age 8
Boyko Borissov age 2
Joyce Banda age 11
John Key age 6 months
Goodluck Jonathan age 4
Victor Chernomyrdin age 23
Halimah Yacob age 7
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 20
Binali Yıldırım age 6
José María Aznar age 8
Andrei Gromyko age 52
Kliment Voroshilov age 81
Spiro Agnew age 43
Carlos Menem age 31
Robert Kocharyan age 7
Laura Chinchilla age 2
Nikos Anastasiades age 15
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 19
Laurent Gbagbo age 16
Shehbaz Sharif age 10
Macky Sall age 1 month
Kenan Evren age 44
Benigno Aquino III age 1
Roman Herzog age 27
Sali Berisha age 17
Stjepan Mesić age 27
Isaac Shamir age 46
Michel Aoun age 28
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 37
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 22
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 12
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 16
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 43
Umberto II of Italy age 57
Ngo Dinh Diem age 61
Henry A. Wallace age 73
Ivo Josipović age 4
Petr Pavel age 3 months
Isaias Afwerki age 16
Meles Zenawi age 6
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 24
Jan Peter Balkenende age 5
Filip Vujanović age 7
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 10
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 13
Ion Iliescu age 31
Janez Janša age 3
Bülent Ecevit age 36
Kim Young-sam age 34
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 12
Leopold III of Belgium age 60
Erich von Manstein age 74
Sandro Pertini age 65
Anwar Ibrahim age 14
Gjorge Ivanov age 1
Tabaré Vázquez age 22
Theodor Heuss age 78
Walter Scheel age 42
Mohammed Omar age 2
Jalal Talabani age 28
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 32
Vicente Fox age 19
Olusegun Obasanjo age 24
Beji Caid Essebsi age 35
Trần Đại Quang age 5
Fidel Ramos age 33
Wallis Simpson age 65
Juscelino Kubitschek age 59
Hua Guofeng age 41
Agostinho Neto age 39
Yves Leterme age 1
Alpha Condé age 23
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 18
Mary McAleese age 10
Ehud Barak age 19
Giuliano Amato age 23
Uhuru Kenyatta age 3 months
Ma Ying-jeou age 11
Emilio Aguinaldo age 92
Bongbong Marcos age 4
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 41
Chester W. Nimitz age 77
Abdul Hamid age 18
Hun Sen age 9
Kim Campbell age 14
Andrej Babiš age 7
Lenín Moreno age 8
Mauno Koivisto age 38
Giorgos Papandreou age 9
Karolos Papoulias age 32
Zakir Husain age 65
Rafiq Hariri age 17
Lai Ching-te age 2
John Magufuli age 2
Pridi Banomyong age 61
Milton Obote age 36
Horacio Cartes age 5
Gustav Heinemann age 62
Shigeru Ishiba age 5
Lionel Jospin age 24
Abolhassan Banisadr age 28
Patrice Talon age 3
Blaise Compaoré age 11
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 11
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 43
Bettino Craxi age 27
Valdas Adamkus age 35
Samora Moisés Machel age 28
Mamnoon Hussain age 21
Fahri Korutürk age 58
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 16
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 16
Michael I of Romania age 40
Élisabeth Borne age 9 months
Édouard Daladier age 77
Thomas Bach age 8
Raúl Alfonsín age 34
Thomas Boni Yayi age 9
Georgi Parvanov age 4
Paul Martin age 23
Mwai Kibaki age 30
Chang Myon age 62
Chun Doo-hwan age 31
Zhao Ziyang age 42
Rex Tillerson age 9
Elio Di Rupo age 10
Jean Chrétien age 28
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 4
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 22
John Kufuor age 23
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 40
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 17
Janez Drnovšek age 11
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 17
Ivan Konev age 64
Karl Carstens age 47
Jacques Delors age 36
John Nance Garner age 93
Vincent Auriol age 77
Mohammad Najibullah age 14
João Lourenço age 7
Werner Faymann age 1
Guy Verhofstadt age 8
Dimitris Christofias age 15
Alar Karis age 3
V. V. Giri age 67
Giovanni Leone age 53
Yahya Khan age 45
Ivan Gašparovič age 20
Cevdet Sunay age 63
Necmettin Erbakan age 35
Morgan Tsvangirai age 9
Felipe González age 19
Alexei Kosygin age 58
George F. Kennan age 58