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Events

Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Marshall Plan 1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Korean War 1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27
Battle of the Pusan Perimeter 1950-08-04 - 1950-09-18

People

Chaim Herzog age 31
Giuseppe Saragat age 51
Lamberto Dini age 19
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 13
Askar Akayev age 5
Algirdas Brazauskas age 17
Prem Tinsulanonda age 29
Roh Tae-woo age 17
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 1
Lin Biao age 42
Egon Krenz age 13
Fernando Collor de Mello age 1
Paul of Greece age 48
Jacobo Árbenz age 36
Robert Mueller age 6
Ramiz Alia age 24
Leopoldo Galtieri age 24
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 5
Bruno Kreisky age 39
Festus Mogae age 11
Seretse Khama age 29
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 26
Lennart Meri age 21
Risto Ryti age 61
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 37
Giovanni Gronchi age 62
Wim Kok age 11
Charles Taylor age 2
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 12
Agatha Barbara age 27
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 45
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 50
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 14
Moncef Marzouki age 5
Joseph Estrada age 13
Jean Casimir-Perier age 102
Alain Juppé age 5
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 26
Robert Gates age 6
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini age 55
Baldur von Schirach age 43
Sandra Day O'Connor age 20
Andreas Papandreou age 31
Chandra Shekhar age 23
Fuad Masum age 12
Hage Geingob age 9
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 10
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 5
Jerzy Buzek age 10
Kakuei Tanaka age 32
René Cassin age 63
Tariq Aziz age 14
James Baker age 20
Chiang Ching-kuo age 40
Antonin Scalia age 14
Babrak Karmal age 21
Hafizullah Amin age 21
Alfred Moisiu age 20
Kurt Schuschnigg age 52
Zillur Rahman age 21
François Bozizé age 3
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 43
Inder Kumar Gujral age 30
V. P. Singh age 19
Masoud Barzani age 4
Thein Sein age 5
Than Shwe age 17
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb age 73
Albert Kesselring age 64
Joseph Wirth age 70
Hans Luther age 71
Édouard Herriot age 78
Javier Solana age 8
Fernando de la Rúa age 12
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 25
Lansana Conté age 15
René Préval age 7
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 36
Talal I of Jordan age 41
Ruud Lubbers age 11
Bounnhang Vorachit age 13
Andris Bērziņš age 5
Vladimir Voronin age 9
Kiro Gligorov age 33
Jorge Sampaio age 10
George Tupou V of Tonga age 2
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 7
Franz Halder age 66
Nobusuke Kishi age 53
Toshiki Kaifu age 19
Kiichi Miyazawa age 30
Tsutomu Hata age 14
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 2
Édouard Balladur age 21
Konstantin von Neurath age 77
Daniel Cohn-Bendit age 5
Rick Perry age 5 months
Zhu De age 63
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 41
Eduardo Duhalde age 8
Malcolm Fraser age 20
Wolfgang Schüssel age 5
Artur Rasizade age 15
John Diefenbaker age 54
Ricardo Lagos age 12
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 24
Gyula Horn age 18
Modibo Keïta age 35
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 24
Goh Chok Tong age 9
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 9 months
Michael Sata age 13
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 11
Diosdado Macapagal age 39
Ramon Magsaysay age 42
Heinrich Brüning age 64
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 63
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 13
José Sarney age 20
Stanislav Shushkevich age 15
Princess Alice of Battenberg age 65
Walther Funk age 60
George Shultz age 29
Billy Hughes age 87
Harold Holt age 42
Ziaur Rahman age 14
Emilio Colombo age 30
Choummaly Sayasone age 14
Michel Suleiman age 1
George Abela age 2
José López Portillo age 30
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 2
Milovan Đilas age 39
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 15
Girija Prasad Koirala age 26
Abdou Diouf age 14
Milan Kučan age 9
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 9
Levy Mwanawasa age 1
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 1
Carol II of Romania age 56
Michel Rocard age 20
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 52
Paul Wolfowitz age 6
Alain Poher age 41
Empress Michiko age 15
Prince Henrik of Denmark age 16
Abulfaz Elchibey age 12
Zhelyu Zhelev age 15
Hissène Habré age 8
Adly Mansour age 4
Georgios Papadopoulos age 31
Ferenc Mádl age 19
Árpád Göncz age 28
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 48
Ingvar Carlsson age 15
Rómulo Gallegos age 66
Frederick Chiluba age 7
Alejandro Toledo age 5
Maurice Gamelin age 77
Hayato Ikeda age 50
Noboru Takeshita age 26
Keizō Obuchi age 13
Jan Smuts age 80
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 2
Jeff Sessions age 3
Gerry Adams age 1
Kirill Meretskov age 53
Oswald Mosley age 53
Hu Yaobang age 34
Clarence Thomas age 2
Iajuddin Ahmed age 19
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 8 months
Costas Simitis age 14
Abdul Salam Arif age 29
Abd al-Karim Qasim age 35
Ezer Weizman age 26
Isaac Navon age 29
Dries van Agt age 19
Thongloun Sisoulith age 4
Émile Lahoud age 14
Jacques Santer age 13
Marc Ravalomanana age 8 months
Luis Echeverría age 28
Miguel de la Madrid age 15
Ne Win age 39
Ram Chandra Poudel age 5
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 4
Benjamin Mkapa age 11
Haris Silajdžić age 4
C. Rajagopalachari age 71
Ichirō Hatoyama age 67
Takeo Fukuda age 45
Morihiro Hosokawa age 12
Ivanoe Bonomi age 76
Hendrik Verwoerd age 48
João Figueiredo age 32
Allen Dulles age 57
Andrey Vyshinsky age 66
Zita of Bourbon-Parma age 58