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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
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30

People

Amintore Fanfani age 47
Egils Levits age 5 months
Sushila Karki age 3
Mahamadou Issoufou age 3
Arif Alvi age 6
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 3
Viktor Zubkov age 14
Vojislav Koštunica age 11
Maithripala Sirisena age 4
Tomiichi Murayama age 31
João Goulart age 36
Jean Monnet age 67
Li Peng age 27
Ferhat Abbas age 56
Brigitte Bierlein age 6
Tassos Papadopoulos age 21
Antonis Samaras age 4
João Bernardo Vieira age 16
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 37
Chaim Herzog age 37
Giuseppe Saragat age 57
Lamberto Dini age 24
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 18
Askar Akayev age 11
Algirdas Brazauskas age 23
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 11 months
Prem Tinsulanonda age 35
Roh Tae-woo age 23
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 6
François Bayrou age 4
Egon Krenz age 18
Fernando Collor de Mello age 6
Jacobo Árbenz age 42
Robert Mueller age 11
Ramiz Alia age 30
Leopoldo Galtieri age 29
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 10
Bruno Kreisky age 44
Festus Mogae age 16
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 2
Seretse Khama age 34
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 31
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 5
Lennart Meri age 26
Risto Ryti age 66
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 42
Wim Kok age 17
Charles Taylor age 7
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 17
Agatha Barbara age 32
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 51
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 56
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 5
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 19
Moncef Marzouki age 10
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 1
Bolesław Bierut age 63
Joseph Estrada age 18
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 0 months
Jean Casimir-Perier age 108
Alain Juppé age 10
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 32
Robert Gates age 12
Baldur von Schirach age 48
Dean Acheson age 62
Andreas Papandreou age 36
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 4
Chandra Shekhar age 28
Fuad Masum age 17
Hage Geingob age 14
Mikhhail Fradkov age 5
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 15
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 10
Jerzy Buzek age 15
Shigeru Yoshida age 77
Kakuei Tanaka age 37
Bertie Ahern age 4
James Baker age 25
Chiang Ching-kuo age 45
Antonin Scalia age 19
Babrak Karmal age 26
Hafizullah Amin age 26
Alfred Moisiu age 26
Kurt Schuschnigg age 58
Zillur Rahman age 26
François Bozizé age 9
Inder Kumar Gujral age 36
V. P. Singh age 24
Masoud Barzani age 9
Thein Sein age 10
Than Shwe age 22
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 3
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb age 79
Albert Kesselring age 70
Joseph Wirth age 76
Hans Luther age 76
Édouard Herriot age 83
Javier Solana age 13
Jim Mattis age 5
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 30
Lansana Conté age 21
René Préval age 12
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 41
Talal I of Jordan age 46
Ruud Lubbers age 16
Bounnhang Vorachit age 18
Andris Bērziņš age 10
Hilda Heine age 4
Vladimir Voronin age 14
Kiro Gligorov age 38
Thorbjørn Jagland age 5
Jorge Sampaio age 16
George Tupou V of Tonga age 7
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 13
Franz Halder age 71
Nobusuke Kishi age 59
Toshiki Kaifu age 24
Kiichi Miyazawa age 36
Tsutomu Hata age 20
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 7
Édouard Balladur age 26
Eduardo Duhalde age 14
Malcolm Fraser age 25
Wolfgang Schüssel age 10
Artur Rasizade age 20
John Diefenbaker age 60
Ricardo Lagos age 17
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 29
Gyula Horn age 23
Fatmir Sejdiu age 4
Modibo Keïta age 40
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 30
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 2
Goh Chok Tong age 14
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 6
Michael Sata age 18
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 17
Diosdado Macapagal age 45
Heinrich Brüning age 70
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 68
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 18
José Sarney age 25
Walther Funk age 65
George Shultz age 34
Harold Holt age 47
Ziaur Rahman age 19
Haider Al-Abadi age 3
Catherine Connolly age 0 months
Emilio Colombo age 35
Choummaly Sayasone age 19
Michel Suleiman age 7
George Abela age 7
José López Portillo age 35
Milovan Đilas age 44
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 20
Girija Prasad Koirala age 31
Abdou Diouf age 20
Ernest Bai Koroma age 2
Milan Kučan age 14
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 14
Levy Mwanawasa age 7
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 6
Michel Rocard age 25
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 58
Paul Wolfowitz age 11
Alain Poher age 46
Abulfaz Elchibey age 17
Zhelyu Zhelev age 20
Hissène Habré age 13
Adly Mansour age 9
Georgios Papadopoulos age 36
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 2
Ferenc Mádl age 24
Árpád Göncz age 33
Laimdota Straujuma age 4
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 54
Ingvar Carlsson age 21
Rómulo Gallegos age 71
Frederick Chiluba age 12
Alejandro Toledo age 10
Maurice Gamelin age 83
Hayato Ikeda age 56
Noboru Takeshita age 31
Keizō Obuchi age 18
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 7
Jeff Sessions age 8
Hu Yaobang age 40
Clarence Thomas age 7
Iajuddin Ahmed age 24
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 5
Jan Fischer age 4
Danilo Medina age 4
Costas Simitis age 19
Abdul Salam Arif age 34
Abd al-Karim Qasim age 41
Ezer Weizman age 31
Isaac Navon age 34
Dries van Agt age 24
Thongloun Sisoulith age 10
Émile Lahoud age 19