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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
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01

People

Chiang Ching-kuo age 43
Antonin Scalia age 17
Babrak Karmal age 24
Hafizullah Amin age 24
Alfred Moisiu age 23
Kurt Schuschnigg age 55
Zillur Rahman age 24
François Bozizé age 6
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 46
Inder Kumar Gujral age 33
V. P. Singh age 22
Masoud Barzani age 6
Thein Sein age 8
Than Shwe age 20
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 9 months
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb age 76
Albert Kesselring age 67
Joseph Wirth age 73
Hans Luther age 74
Édouard Herriot age 81
Javier Solana age 11
Jim Mattis age 2
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 28
Lansana Conté age 18
René Préval age 10
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 39
Talal I of Jordan age 44
Ruud Lubbers age 14
Bounnhang Vorachit age 15
Andris Bērziņš age 8
Hilda Heine age 2
Vladimir Voronin age 12
Kiro Gligorov age 36
Thorbjørn Jagland age 2
Jorge Sampaio age 13
George Tupou V of Tonga age 5
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 10
Franz Halder age 69
Nobusuke Kishi age 56
Toshiki Kaifu age 22
Kiichi Miyazawa age 33
Tsutomu Hata age 17
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 4
Édouard Balladur age 24
Zhu De age 66
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 44
Eduardo Duhalde age 11
Malcolm Fraser age 23
Wolfgang Schüssel age 8
Artur Rasizade age 18
John Diefenbaker age 57
Ricardo Lagos age 15
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 26
Gyula Horn age 21
Fatmir Sejdiu age 1
Modibo Keïta age 38
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 27
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 2 months
Goh Chok Tong age 12
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 3
Michael Sata age 16
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 14
Diosdado Macapagal age 42
Ramon Magsaysay age 45
Heinrich Brüning age 67
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 65
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 16
José Sarney age 23
Walther Funk age 62
George Shultz age 32
Harold Holt age 45
Ziaur Rahman age 17
Haider Al-Abadi age 1
Emilio Colombo age 33
Choummaly Sayasone age 17
Michel Suleiman age 4
George Abela age 5
José López Portillo age 33
Milovan Đilas age 42
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 17
Girija Prasad Koirala age 29
Abdou Diouf age 17
Milan Kučan age 12
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 11
Levy Mwanawasa age 4
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 4
Michel Rocard age 22
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 55
Paul Wolfowitz age 9
Alain Poher age 44
Abulfaz Elchibey age 15
Zhelyu Zhelev age 18
Hissène Habré age 10
Adly Mansour age 7
Georgios Papadopoulos age 34
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 0 months
Ferenc Mádl age 22
Árpád Göncz age 31
Laimdota Straujuma age 2
Ingvar Carlsson age 18
Rómulo Gallegos age 69
Frederick Chiluba age 10
Alejandro Toledo age 8
Maurice Gamelin age 80
Hayato Ikeda age 53
Noboru Takeshita age 29
Keizō Obuchi age 16
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 5
Jeff Sessions age 6
Hu Yaobang age 37
Clarence Thomas age 5
Iajuddin Ahmed age 22
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 3
Jan Fischer age 2
Danilo Medina age 1
Costas Simitis age 17
Abdul Salam Arif age 32
Abd al-Karim Qasim age 38
Ezer Weizman age 29
Isaac Navon age 32
Dries van Agt age 22
Thongloun Sisoulith age 7
Émile Lahoud age 17
Samuel Doe age 2
Jacques Santer age 16
Marc Ravalomanana age 3
Luis Echeverría age 31
Ne Win age 42
Ram Chandra Poudel age 8
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 7
Ueli Maurer age 2
Benjamin Mkapa age 14
Ricardo Martinelli age 1
Haris Silajdžić age 7
C. Rajagopalachari age 74
Ichirō Hatoyama age 70
Takeo Fukuda age 48
Morihiro Hosokawa age 15
Hendrik Verwoerd age 51
João Figueiredo age 35
Warren Christopher age 27
Rexhep Meidani age 8
Reynaldo Bignone age 25
Ayaz Mutallibov age 15
Quett Masire age 28
John Turner age 24
David Dacko age 23
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 43
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 9
Abdul Rahman Arif age 37
Portia Simpson-Miller age 7
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 32
George William Vella age 11
Win Myint age 1
Jenny Shipley age 1
Mamadou Tandja age 15
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 5
S. R. Nathan age 29
Fouad Mebazaa age 20
Rupiah Banda age 16
Canaan Banana age 17
Han Duck-soo age 4
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio age 50
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 23
Raymond Barre age 29
Ernesto Geisel age 46
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 18
John Lewis age 13
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 56
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 17
Lon Nol age 39
Alfredo Palacio age 14
Rose Francine Rogombe age 10
Otto Pérez Molina age 2
Álvaro Colom age 2
Mohammad Hatta age 51
Mariano Rumor age 38
Ciriaco De Mita age 25
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 10
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 7
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 9 months
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 38
Marcelo Caetano age 46
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 1
Trần Đức Lương age 16
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 44
Choi Kyu-hah age 34
Zenkō Suzuki age 42
Paul Reynaud age 74
Leon Panetta age 15
Lê Duẩn age 46
Li Xiannian age 44
George Wallace age 33
Alexander Haig age 28
Fatos Nano age 10 months
Franz Jonas age 53
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 38
Petar Stoyanov age 1
Patricio Aylwin age 34
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 36