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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

Joaquim Chissano age 13
Sam Nujoma age 24
Sani Abacha age 9
Juvénal Habyarimana age 16
Abdoulaye Wade age 27
Chen Shui-bian age 2
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 35
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 26
P. W. Botha age 37
Lazar Kaganovich age 59
Jiang Qing age 39
Queen Sonja of Norway age 16
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood age 89
Semyon Timoshenko age 58
Lee Teng-hui age 30
Paul Keating age 9
Thomas Klestil age 20
Paul-Henri Spaak age 54
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 29
Konstantin Päts age 79
Jerry Rawlings age 6
Manuel Zelaya age 11 months
Pál Schmitt age 11
Zail Singh age 37
Amintore Fanfani age 45
Sushila Karki age 1
Mahamadou Issoufou age 1
Arif Alvi age 4
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 1
Viktor Zubkov age 11
Vojislav Koštunica age 9
Maithripala Sirisena age 2
Tomiichi Murayama age 29
Nikolai Bulganin age 58
João Goulart age 34
Jean Monnet age 64
Soong Mei-ling age 55
Li Peng age 24
Ferhat Abbas age 54
Brigitte Bierlein age 4
Tassos Papadopoulos age 19
Antonis Samaras age 2
João Bernardo Vieira age 14
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 35
Chaim Herzog age 34
Giuseppe Saragat age 54
Lamberto Dini age 22
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 16
Askar Akayev age 8
Algirdas Brazauskas age 20
Mohammed V of Morocco age 44
Prem Tinsulanonda age 33
Roh Tae-woo age 20
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 4
Lin Biao age 45
François Bayrou age 2
Egon Krenz age 16
Fernando Collor de Mello age 4
Paul of Greece age 51
Robert Mueller age 9
Ramiz Alia age 27
Leopoldo Galtieri age 27
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 8
Bruno Kreisky age 42
Festus Mogae age 14
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 6 months
Seretse Khama age 32
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 29
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 2
Lennart Meri age 24
Risto Ryti age 64
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 40
Giovanni Gronchi age 66
Wim Kok age 14
Charles Taylor age 5
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 15
Agatha Barbara age 30
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 48
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 53
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 2
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 17
Moncef Marzouki age 8
Joseph Estrada age 16
Jean Casimir-Perier age 105
Alain Juppé age 8
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 30
Robert Gates age 9
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini age 58
Baldur von Schirach age 46
Sandra Day O'Connor age 23
Dean Acheson age 60
Andreas Papandreou age 34
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 2
Chandra Shekhar age 26
Fuad Masum age 15
Hage Geingob age 12
Mikhhail Fradkov age 3
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 13
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 8
Jerzy Buzek age 13
Kakuei Tanaka age 35
Bertie Ahern age 1
René Cassin age 66
Tariq Aziz age 17
Bob Geldof age 1
James Baker age 23
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 7
Thein Sein age 8
Than Shwe age 20
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 10 months
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb age 77
Albert Kesselring age 67
Joseph Wirth age 74
Hans Luther age 74
Édouard Herriot age 81
Javier Solana age 11
Jim Mattis age 2
Fernando de la Rúa age 15
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 16
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 18
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 5
Édouard Balladur age 24
David Petraeus age 10 months
Konstantin von Neurath age 80
Daniel Cohn-Bendit age 8
Rick Perry age 3
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 58
Ricardo Lagos age 15
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 27
Gyula Horn age 21
Fatmir Sejdiu age 1
Modibo Keïta age 38
Ernesto Zedillo age 1
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 27
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 3 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 46
Heinrich Brüning age 67
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 66
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 16
José Sarney age 23
Stanislav Shushkevich age 18
Princess Alice of Battenberg age 68
Walther Funk age 63
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
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 5
Milovan Đilas age 42
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 18
Girija Prasad Koirala age 29
Abdou Diouf age 18
Milan Kučan age 12
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 12
Levy Mwanawasa age 5