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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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966

People

Michel Barnier age 5
Lê Đức Thọ age 44
Enda Kenny age 5
Queen Sofía of Spain age 17
Robert McNamara age 40
Omar Bradley age 63
Soong Ching-ling age 63
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 15
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 6 months
Ivo Sanader age 2
Mohamed Naguib age 55
Loukas Papademos age 8
Mátyás Rákosi age 64
László Sólyom age 14
Charan Singh age 53
Valdis Zatlers age 1
Bingu wa Mutharika age 22
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 4
Violeta Chamorro age 26
Bola Tinubu age 4
Egor Gajdar age 2 months
Göran Persson age 7
Carl Bildt age 6
Prayut Chanocha age 2
Semyon Budyonny age 73
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 118
Lloyd Austin age 2
Erich Raeder age 80
John Roberts age 1
Brian Mulroney age 17
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 3
Matti Vanhanen age 7 months
R. Venkataraman age 45
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 18
Mohamed Agha age 6 months
Nicolae Timofti age 7
Evgeny Primakov age 26
Danilo Türk age 4
Mykola Azarov age 8
Siad Barre age 36
Yoshirō Mori age 18
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 33
Aleksandr Vasilevsky age 60
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 12
Hjalmar Schacht age 79
Rodion Malinovsky age 57
Lázaro Cárdenas age 61
Bob Hawke age 26
Sandra Mason age 7
Jadranka Kosor age 2
Makarios III age 42
Gulzarilal Nanda age 57
Moshe Sharett age 61
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 16
Joaquim Chissano age 16
Sam Nujoma age 27
Sani Abacha age 12
Haitham bin Tarik Al Said age 7 months
Juvénal Habyarimana age 19
Abdoulaye Wade age 30
Chen Shui-bian age 5
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 38
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 29
P. W. Botha age 40
Lazar Kaganovich age 62
Jiang Qing age 42
Queen Sonja of Norway age 18
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood age 91
Semyon Timoshenko age 61
Lee Teng-hui age 33
Paul Keating age 12
Thomas Klestil age 23
Paul-Henri Spaak age 57
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 32
Bidzina Ivanishvili age 3 months
Jerry Rawlings age 8
Manuel Zelaya age 3
Pál Schmitt age 14
Zail Singh age 40
Amintore Fanfani age 48
Egils Levits age 11 months
Sushila Karki age 3
Mahamadou Issoufou age 4
Arif Alvi age 6
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 3
Viktor Zubkov age 14
Vojislav Koštunica age 12
Maithripala Sirisena age 4
Tomiichi Murayama age 32
João Goulart age 37
Jean Monnet age 67
Soong Mei-ling age 58
Li Peng age 27
Ferhat Abbas age 56
Brigitte Bierlein age 6
Tassos Papadopoulos age 22
Antonis Samaras age 5
João Bernardo Vieira age 17
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 37
Chaim Herzog age 37
Giuseppe Saragat age 57
Lamberto Dini age 25
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 18
Askar Akayev age 11
Algirdas Brazauskas age 23
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 1
Prem Tinsulanonda age 35
Roh Tae-woo age 23
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 7
François Bayrou age 5
Egon Krenz age 19
Fernando Collor de Mello age 6
Paul of Greece age 54
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 27
Risto Ryti age 67
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 43
Wim Kok age 17
Charles Taylor age 8
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 18
Agatha Barbara age 33
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 51
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 5
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 20
Moncef Marzouki age 10
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 1
Joseph Estrada age 19
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 6 months
Jean Casimir-Perier age 108
Alain Juppé age 10
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 32
Robert Gates age 12
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini age 61
Baldur von Schirach age 49
Sandra Day O'Connor age 26
Dean Acheson age 63
Andreas Papandreou age 37
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 4
Chandra Shekhar age 29
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 38
Bertie Ahern age 4
René Cassin age 69
Tariq Aziz age 20
Bob Geldof age 4
James Baker age 26
Chiang Ching-kuo age 46
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
Mirek Topolánek age 0 months
Tamás Sulyok age 2 months
Inder Kumar Gujral age 36
V. P. Singh age 24
Masoud Barzani age 9
Thein Sein age 11
Than Shwe age 23
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 3
Albert Kesselring age 70
Hans Luther age 77
Édouard Herriot age 83
Javier Solana age 13
Jim Mattis age 5
Fernando de la Rúa age 18
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 17
Bounnhang Vorachit age 18
Andris Bērziņš age 11
Hilda Heine age 5
Vladimir Voronin age 15
Kiro Gligorov age 39
Thorbjørn Jagland age 5
Jorge Sampaio age 16
George Tupou V of Tonga age 8
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 13
Franz Halder age 71