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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
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Chicago Freedom Movement 1965 - 1967

People

Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 46
Michel Temer age 25
Mauricio Macri age 7
Erna Solberg age 5
Traian Băsescu age 14
Mike Pompeo age 2
Rumen Radev age 2
Paul Biya age 33
António Costa age 4
Borut Pahor age 2
Tansu Çiller age 19
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 17
Ratko Mladić age 24
Dzhokhar Dudayev age 22
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 20
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 35
Teodoro Obiang age 23
B. J. Habibie age 29
Mary Robinson age 21
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 45
Thaksin Shinawatra age 16
Jarosław Kaczyński age 16
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 45
Moshe Dayan age 51
Yoshihiko Noda age 8
Trygve Lie age 69
Ahmad Shah Massoud age 12
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 62
Alberto Fernández age 7
Hamad II of Bahrain age 16
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 7
John Mahama age 7
János Áder age 7
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 36
Abdurrahman Wahid age 25
Alassane Ouattara age 24
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 22
Stefan Löfven age 8
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 11
Johannes Rau age 35
Yasuo Fukuda age 29
Dominique de Villepin age 12
Manuel Valls age 3
Jeremy Corbyn age 16
Franz von Papen age 86
Malcolm Turnbull age 11
Pierre Nkurunziza age 1
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 24
Omar Bongo age 30
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 9
Najib Razak age 12
Helen Clark age 16
Lee Hsien Loong age 14
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 6
Celâl Bayar age 83
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 23
Lee Myung-bak age 24
Alija Izetbegović age 40
Franjo Tuđman age 44
Jorge Rafael Videla age 40
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 27
Nana Akufo-Addo age 22
Prabowo Subianto age 14
Isaac Herzog age 5
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 11
Tomislav Nikolić age 14
Boris Tadić age 8
José Ramos-Horta age 16
Adolfo Suárez age 33
François Englert age 33
Gustavo Petro age 6
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 12
John Evans Atta Mills age 21
Reuven Rivlin age 26
Almazbek Atambaev age 9
Roza Otunbayeva age 15
Cemal Gürsel age 70
Trương Tấn Sang age 17
Alan García age 16
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 14
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus age 1
Janet Yellen age 19
Anne, Princess Royal age 15
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor age 6
Armen Sarkissian age 12
Boyko Borissov age 6
Yair Lapid age 2
Joyce Banda age 16
Felipe Calderón age 3
John Key age 4
Goodluck Jonathan age 8
Victor Chernomyrdin age 28
Halimah Yacob age 11
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 24
Binali Yıldırım age 10
José María Aznar age 13
Andrei Gromyko age 56
Constantine II of Greece age 25
Robert G. Edwards age 40
Kliment Voroshilov age 85
Spiro Agnew age 47
Carlos Menem age 35
Robert Kocharyan age 11
Laura Chinchilla age 7
Nikos Anastasiades age 19
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 23
Laurent Gbagbo age 20
Shehbaz Sharif age 14
Macky Sall age 4
Fredrik Reinfeldt age 9 months
Kenan Evren age 48
Benigno Aquino III age 6
Roman Herzog age 32
Jean Castex age 10 months
Sali Berisha age 21
Stjepan Mesić age 31
Isaac Shamir age 50
Michel Aoun age 32
Letsie III of Lesotho age 2
Gitanas Nausėda age 1
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 41
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 26
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 16
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 20
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 47
Umberto II of Italy age 61
Katalin Karikó age 11
Ivo Josipović age 8
Petr Pavel age 4
Isaias Afwerki age 20
Meles Zenawi age 11
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 28
Jan Peter Balkenende age 10
Filip Vujanović age 11
Milo Đukanović age 4
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 14
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 17
Ion Iliescu age 36
Janez Janša age 7
Bülent Ecevit age 40
Beata Szydło age 3
Kim Young-sam age 38
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 16
Leopold III of Belgium age 64
Erich von Manstein age 78
Sandro Pertini age 69
Anwar Ibrahim age 18
Gjorge Ivanov age 6
Tabaré Vázquez age 26
Walter Scheel age 46
Mohammed Omar age 6
Félix Tshisekedi age 2
Jalal Talabani age 32
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 36
Vicente Fox age 23
Olusegun Obasanjo age 29
Yahya Jammeh age 11 months
Beji Caid Essebsi age 39
Trần Đại Quang age 9
Fidel Ramos age 38
Wallis Simpson age 69
Juscelino Kubitschek age 63
Mohammad Mosaddegh age 84
Aslan Maskhadov age 14
Hua Guofeng age 45
Agostinho Neto age 43
Yves Leterme age 5
Alpha Condé age 28
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 23
Morarji Desai age 70
Mary McAleese age 14
Ehud Barak age 24
Giuliano Amato age 28
Uhuru Kenyatta age 4
Lars Løkke Rasmussen age 1
Ma Ying-jeou age 15
Dina Boluarte age 3
Bongbong Marcos age 8
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 64
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 45
Anastas Mikoyan age 70
Otto von Habsburg age 53
Abdul Hamid age 22
Hun Sen age 13
Kim Campbell age 19
Andrej Babiš age 11
Lenín Moreno age 13
Mauno Koivisto age 42
Giorgos Papandreou age 13
Karolos Papoulias age 36
Zakir Husain age 69
Rafiq Hariri age 21
Ulf Kristersson age 2
Lai Ching-te age 6
John Magufuli age 6
Pridi Banomyong age 66
Horacio Cartes age 9
Yun Po-sun age 68
Konstantin Rokossovsky age 69
Gustav Heinemann age 66