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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
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20

People

Ranil Wickremesinghe age 6
Lin Biao age 48
François Bayrou age 4
Egon Krenz age 19
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 11
Bruno Kreisky age 45
Festus Mogae age 16
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 3
Seretse Khama age 34
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 31
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 5
Lennart Meri age 26
Risto Ryti age 67
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 42
Wim Kok age 17
Charles Taylor age 8
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 18
Agatha Barbara age 33
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 51
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 56
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 5
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 20
Moncef Marzouki age 10
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 1
Joseph Estrada age 18
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 3 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 37
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 4
Chandra Shekhar age 28
Fuad Masum age 18
Hage Geingob age 14
Mikhhail Fradkov age 5
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 16
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 20
Babrak Karmal age 27
Hafizullah Amin age 26
Alfred Moisiu age 26
Kurt Schuschnigg age 58
Zillur Rahman age 27
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 23
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 3
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb age 79
Albert Kesselring age 70
Hans Luther age 77
Édouard Herriot age 83
Javier Solana age 13
Jim Mattis age 5
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 31
Lansana Conté age 21
René Préval age 13
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 41
Talal I of Jordan age 47
Ruud Lubbers age 16
Bounnhang Vorachit age 18
Andris Bērziņš age 11
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 25
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 21
John Diefenbaker age 60
Ricardo Lagos age 18
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 35
Harold Holt age 47
Ziaur Rahman age 20
Haider Al-Abadi age 3
Catherine Connolly age 4 months
Emilio Colombo age 35
Choummaly Sayasone age 20
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 15
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 12
Alain Poher age 46
Abulfaz Elchibey age 17
Zhelyu Zhelev age 21
Hissène Habré age 13
Adly Mansour age 10
Georgios Papadopoulos age 36
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 2
Ferenc Mádl age 25
Árpád Göncz age 34
Laimdota Straujuma age 5
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 32
Keizō Obuchi age 18
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 7
Jeff Sessions age 9
Hu Yaobang age 40
Clarence Thomas age 7
Iajuddin Ahmed age 25
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 6
Jan Fischer age 5
Danilo Medina age 4
Costas Simitis age 19
Abdul Salam Arif age 35
Abd al-Karim Qasim age 41
Ezer Weizman age 31
Isaac Navon age 34
Dries van Agt age 25
Thongloun Sisoulith age 10
Émile Lahoud age 20
Samuel Doe age 4
Jacques Santer age 18
Marc Ravalomanana age 6
Lazarus Chakwera age 11 months
Luis Echeverría age 34
Ne Win age 44
Ram Chandra Poudel age 11
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 9
Ueli Maurer age 5
Benjamin Mkapa age 17
Ricardo Martinelli age 3
Haris Silajdžić age 10
C. Rajagopalachari age 77
Takeo Fukuda age 51
Morihiro Hosokawa age 18
Hendrik Verwoerd age 54
João Figueiredo age 38
Warren Christopher age 30
Rexhep Meidani age 11
Reynaldo Bignone age 28
Ayaz Mutallibov age 17
Quett Masire age 30
John Turner age 26
David Dacko age 25
Catherine Samba-Panza age 1
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 46
Leonel Fernández age 2
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 11
Abdul Rahman Arif age 39