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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
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01

People

Nicolae Timofti age 5
Evgeny Primakov age 24
Danilo Türk age 2
Mykola Azarov age 6
Siad Barre age 34
Yoshirō Mori age 17
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 31
Aleksandr Vasilevsky age 58
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 10
Hjalmar Schacht age 77
Rodion Malinovsky age 55
Lázaro Cárdenas age 59
Bob Hawke age 24
Sandra Mason age 5
Jadranka Kosor age 1
Makarios III age 41
Gulzarilal Nanda age 56
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 14
Joaquim Chissano age 14
Sam Nujoma age 25
Sani Abacha age 10
Juvénal Habyarimana age 17
Abdoulaye Wade age 28
Chen Shui-bian age 3
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 36
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 27
P. W. Botha age 38
Lazar Kaganovich age 60
Jiang Qing age 40
Queen Sonja of Norway age 17
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood age 89
Semyon Timoshenko age 59
Lee Teng-hui age 31
Paul Keating age 10
Thomas Klestil age 21
Paul-Henri Spaak age 55
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 30
Konstantin Päts age 80
Jerry Rawlings age 7
Manuel Zelaya age 1
Pál Schmitt age 12
Zail Singh age 38
Amintore Fanfani age 46
Sushila Karki age 2
Mahamadou Issoufou age 2
Arif Alvi age 5
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 2
Viktor Zubkov age 12
Vojislav Koštunica age 10
Maithripala Sirisena age 2
Tomiichi Murayama age 30
Nikolai Bulganin age 59
João Goulart age 35
Jean Monnet age 65
Soong Mei-ling age 56
Li Peng age 25
Ferhat Abbas age 54
Brigitte Bierlein age 5
Tassos Papadopoulos age 20
Antonis Samaras age 3
João Bernardo Vieira age 15
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 35
Chaim Herzog age 35
Giuseppe Saragat age 55
Lamberto Dini age 23
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 17
Askar Akayev age 9
Algirdas Brazauskas age 21
Mohammed V of Morocco age 45
Prem Tinsulanonda age 33
Roh Tae-woo age 21
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 5
Lin Biao age 46
François Bayrou age 3
Egon Krenz age 17
Fernando Collor de Mello age 4
Paul of Greece age 52
Jacobo Árbenz age 40
Robert Mueller age 10
Ramiz Alia age 28
Leopoldo Galtieri age 28
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 9
Bruno Kreisky age 43
Festus Mogae age 14
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 1
Seretse Khama age 33
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 29
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 3
Lennart Meri age 25
Risto Ryti age 65
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 41
Giovanni Gronchi age 66
Wim Kok age 15
Charles Taylor age 6
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 16
Agatha Barbara age 31
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 49
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 54
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 3
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 18
Moncef Marzouki age 9
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 0 months
Bolesław Bierut age 62
Joseph Estrada age 17
Jean Casimir-Perier age 106
Alain Juppé age 8
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 30
Robert Gates age 10
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini age 59
Baldur von Schirach age 47
Sandra Day O'Connor age 24
Dean Acheson age 61
Andreas Papandreou age 35
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 3
Chandra Shekhar age 27
Fuad Masum age 16
Hage Geingob age 13
Mikhhail Fradkov age 3
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 14
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 9
Jerzy Buzek age 14
Kakuei Tanaka age 36
Bertie Ahern age 2
René Cassin age 67
Tariq Aziz age 18
Bob Geldof age 2
James Baker age 24
Chiang Ching-kuo age 44
Antonin Scalia age 18
Babrak Karmal age 25
Hafizullah Amin age 25
Alfred Moisiu age 24
Kurt Schuschnigg age 56
Zillur Rahman age 25
François Bozizé age 7
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 47
Inder Kumar Gujral age 34
V. P. Singh age 23
Masoud Barzani age 7
Thein Sein age 9
Than Shwe age 21
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 1
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb age 77
Albert Kesselring age 68
Joseph Wirth age 74
Hans Luther age 75
Édouard Herriot age 82
Javier Solana age 12
Jim Mattis age 3
Fernando de la Rúa age 16
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 29
Lansana Conté age 19
René Préval age 11
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 40
Talal I of Jordan age 45
Ruud Lubbers age 15
Bounnhang Vorachit age 16
Andris Bērziņš age 9
Hilda Heine age 3
Vladimir Voronin age 13
Kiro Gligorov age 37
Thorbjørn Jagland age 3
Jorge Sampaio age 14
George Tupou V of Tonga age 6
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 11
Franz Halder age 70
Nobusuke Kishi age 57
Toshiki Kaifu age 23
Kiichi Miyazawa age 34
Tsutomu Hata age 18
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 6
Édouard Balladur age 25
David Petraeus age 1
Konstantin von Neurath age 81
Daniel Cohn-Bendit age 9
Rick Perry age 4
Zhu De age 67
Eduardo Duhalde age 12
Malcolm Fraser age 24
Wolfgang Schüssel age 9
Artur Rasizade age 19
John Diefenbaker age 58
Ricardo Lagos age 16
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 27
Gyula Horn age 22
Fatmir Sejdiu age 2
Modibo Keïta age 39
Ernesto Zedillo age 2
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 28
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 1
Goh Chok Tong age 13
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 4
Michael Sata age 17
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 15
Diosdado Macapagal age 43
Heinrich Brüning age 68
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 67
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 17
José Sarney age 24
Stanislav Shushkevich age 19