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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

António Costa age 7 months
Tansu Çiller age 15
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 13
Ratko Mladić age 19
Dzhokhar Dudayev age 18
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 16
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 31
Teodoro Obiang age 19
B. J. Habibie age 25
Mary Robinson age 17
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 41
Hastings Banda age 72
Thaksin Shinawatra age 12
Jarosław Kaczyński age 12
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 40
Moshe Dayan age 46
Yoshihiko Noda age 4
Trygve Lie age 65
Ahmad Shah Massoud age 8
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 57
Alberto Fernández age 2
Hamad II of Bahrain age 12
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 3
John Mahama age 3
János Áder age 2
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 31
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
Jeremy Corbyn age 12
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 12
Lee Hsien Loong age 10
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 10
Boris Tadić age 4
José Ramos-Horta age 12
Adolfo Suárez age 29
François Englert age 29
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
Lee Harvey Oswald age 22
Anne, Princess Royal age 11
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor age 2
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 9
Andrei Gromyko age 52
Constantine II of Greece age 21
Robert G. Edwards age 36
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
Lal Bahadur Shastri age 57
Laurent Gbagbo age 16
Shehbaz Sharif age 10
Macky Sall age 2 months
Kenan Evren age 44
Benigno Aquino III age 2
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
Katalin Karikó age 7
Henry A. Wallace age 73
Ivo Josipović age 4
Petr Pavel age 4 months
Isaias Afwerki age 16
Meles Zenawi age 6
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 24
Jan Peter Balkenende age 5
Filip Vujanović age 7
Milo Đukanović age 0 months
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 10
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 13
Ion Iliescu age 32
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 25
Beji Caid Essebsi age 35
Trần Đại Quang age 5
Fidel Ramos age 33
Wallis Simpson age 65
Juscelino Kubitschek age 59
Mohammad Mosaddegh age 79
Aslan Maskhadov age 10
Hua Guofeng age 41
Agostinho Neto age 39
Yves Leterme age 1
Alpha Condé age 24
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 18
Morarji Desai age 66
Mary McAleese age 10
Ehud Barak age 20
Giuliano Amato age 23
Uhuru Kenyatta age 4 months
Ma Ying-jeou age 11
Emilio Aguinaldo age 93
Bongbong Marcos age 4
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 41
Anastas Mikoyan age 66
Otto von Habsburg age 49
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
Konstantin Rokossovsky age 65
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 28
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