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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

Mohammed V of Morocco age 44
Prem Tinsulanonda age 33
Roh Tae-woo age 21
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 4
Lin Biao age 46
François Bayrou age 2
Egon Krenz age 16
Fernando Collor de Mello age 4
Robert Mueller age 9
Ramiz Alia age 28
Leopoldo Galtieri age 27
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 9
Bruno Kreisky age 43
Festus Mogae age 14
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 10 months
Seretse Khama age 32
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 29
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 3
Lennart Meri age 24
Risto Ryti age 64
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 40
Giovanni Gronchi age 66
Wim Kok age 15
Charles Taylor age 5
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 16
Agatha Barbara age 30
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 49
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 54
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 3
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 18
Moncef Marzouki age 8
Joseph Estrada age 16
Jean Casimir-Perier age 106
Alain Juppé age 8
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 30
Robert Gates age 10
Baldur von Schirach age 46
Dean Acheson age 60
Andreas Papandreou age 34
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 2
Chandra Shekhar age 26
Fuad Masum age 16
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 2
James Baker age 23
Chiang Ching-kuo age 43
Antonin Scalia age 17
Babrak Karmal age 25
Hafizullah Amin age 24
Alfred Moisiu age 24
Kurt Schuschnigg age 56
Zillur Rahman age 24
François Bozizé age 7
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 46
Inder Kumar Gujral age 34
V. P. Singh age 22
Masoud Barzani age 7
Thein Sein age 8
Than Shwe age 20
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 1
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb age 77
Albert Kesselring age 68
Joseph Wirth age 74
Hans Luther age 74
Édouard Herriot age 81
Javier Solana age 11
Jim Mattis age 3
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 29
Lansana Conté age 19
René Préval age 11
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 39
Talal I of Jordan age 44
Ruud Lubbers age 14
Bounnhang Vorachit age 16
Andris Bērziņš age 9
Hilda Heine age 2
Vladimir Voronin age 12
Kiro Gligorov age 36
Thorbjørn Jagland age 3
Jorge Sampaio age 14
George Tupou V of Tonga age 5
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 11
Franz Halder age 69
Nobusuke Kishi age 57
Toshiki Kaifu age 23
Kiichi Miyazawa age 34
Tsutomu Hata age 18
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 5
Édouard Balladur age 24
Rick Perry age 3
Zhu De age 67
Eduardo Duhalde age 12
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 2
Modibo Keïta age 38
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 28
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 8 months
Goh Chok Tong age 12
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 4
Michael Sata age 16
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 15
Diosdado Macapagal age 43
Heinrich Brüning age 68
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 66
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 16
José Sarney age 23
Walther Funk age 63
George Shultz age 33
Harold Holt age 45
Ziaur Rahman age 18
Haider Al-Abadi age 1
Emilio Colombo age 33
Choummaly Sayasone age 17
Michel Suleiman age 5
George Abela age 5
José López Portillo age 33
Milovan Đilas age 42
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 18
Girija Prasad Koirala age 29
Abdou Diouf age 18
Ernest Bai Koroma age 3 months
Milan Kučan age 13
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 12
Levy Mwanawasa age 5
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 4
Michel Rocard age 23
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 56
Paul Wolfowitz age 10
Alain Poher age 44
Abulfaz Elchibey age 15
Zhelyu Zhelev age 18
Hissène Habré age 11
Adly Mansour age 8
Georgios Papadopoulos age 34
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 6 months
Ferenc Mádl age 22
Árpád Göncz age 31
Laimdota Straujuma age 2
Ingvar Carlsson age 19
Rómulo Gallegos age 69
Frederick Chiluba age 10
Alejandro Toledo age 8
Maurice Gamelin age 81
Hayato Ikeda age 54
Noboru Takeshita age 29
Keizō Obuchi age 16
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 5
Jeff Sessions age 7
Oswald Mosley age 57
Hu Yaobang age 38
Clarence Thomas age 5
Iajuddin Ahmed age 22
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 4
Jan Fischer age 3
Danilo Medina age 2
Costas Simitis age 17
Abdul Salam Arif age 33
Abd al-Karim Qasim age 39
Ezer Weizman age 29
Isaac Navon age 32
Dries van Agt age 22
Thongloun Sisoulith age 8
Émile Lahoud age 18
Samuel Doe age 2
Jacques Santer age 16
Marc Ravalomanana age 4
Luis Echeverría age 32
Ne Win age 42
Ram Chandra Poudel age 9
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 7
Ueli Maurer age 3
Benjamin Mkapa age 15
Ricardo Martinelli age 1
Haris Silajdžić age 8
C. Rajagopalachari age 75
Ichirō Hatoyama age 71
Takeo Fukuda age 49
Morihiro Hosokawa age 16
Hendrik Verwoerd age 52
João Figueiredo age 36
Jerry Brown age 15
Warren Christopher age 28
Rexhep Meidani age 9
Reynaldo Bignone age 26
Ayaz Mutallibov age 15
Quett Masire age 28
John Turner age 24
David Dacko age 23
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 44