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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

Rodion Malinovsky age 57
Lázaro Cárdenas age 61
Bob Hawke age 26
Sandra Mason age 7
Jadranka Kosor age 3
Makarios III age 43
Gulzarilal Nanda age 58
Moshe Sharett age 62
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 16
Joaquim Chissano age 17
Sam Nujoma age 27
Sani Abacha age 13
Haitham bin Tarik Al Said age 1
Juvénal Habyarimana age 19
Abdoulaye Wade age 30
Chen Shui-bian age 6
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 38
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 29
P. W. Botha age 40
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood age 92
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 8 months
Jerry Rawlings age 9
Manuel Zelaya age 4
Pál Schmitt age 14
Zail Singh age 40
Amintore Fanfani age 48
Egils Levits age 1
Sushila Karki age 4
Mahamadou Issoufou age 4
Arif Alvi age 7
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 4
Viktor Zubkov age 15
Vojislav Koštunica age 12
Maithripala Sirisena age 5
Tomiichi Murayama age 32
João Goulart age 37
Jean Monnet age 67
Li Peng age 28
Ferhat Abbas age 57
Brigitte Bierlein age 7
Tassos Papadopoulos age 22
Antonis Samaras age 5
João Bernardo Vieira age 17
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 38
Chaim Herzog age 38
Giuseppe Saragat age 58
Lamberto Dini age 25
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 19
Askar Akayev age 11
Algirdas Brazauskas age 24
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 1
Prem Tinsulanonda age 36
Roh Tae-woo age 23
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 7
François Bayrou age 5
Egon Krenz age 19
Fernando Collor de Mello age 7
Jacobo Árbenz age 43
Robert Mueller age 12
Ramiz Alia age 31
Leopoldo Galtieri age 30
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 11
Bruno Kreisky age 45
Festus Mogae age 17
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 3
Seretse Khama age 35
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 32
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 6
Lennart Meri age 27
Risto Ryti age 67
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 43
Wim Kok age 18
Charles Taylor age 8
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 18
Agatha Barbara age 33
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 51
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 6
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 20
Moncef Marzouki age 11
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 2
Joseph Estrada age 19
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 10 months
Jean Casimir-Perier age 109
Alain Juppé age 11
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 33
Robert Gates age 13
Baldur von Schirach age 49
Dean Acheson age 63
Andreas Papandreou age 37
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 5
Chandra Shekhar age 29
Fuad Masum age 18
Hage Geingob age 15
Mikhhail Fradkov age 6
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 16
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 11
Jerzy Buzek age 16
Shigeru Yoshida age 78
Kakuei Tanaka age 38
Bertie Ahern age 5
James Baker age 26
Chiang Ching-kuo age 46
Antonin Scalia age 20
Babrak Karmal age 27
Hafizullah Amin age 27
Alfred Moisiu age 26
Kurt Schuschnigg age 58
Zillur Rahman age 27
François Bozizé age 10
Mirek Topolánek age 5 months
Tamás Sulyok age 7 months
Inder Kumar Gujral age 36
V. P. Singh age 25
Masoud Barzani age 10
Thein Sein age 11
Than Shwe age 23
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 3
Bakir Izetbegović age 3 months
Albert Kesselring age 70
Hans Luther age 77
Édouard Herriot age 84
Javier Solana age 14
Jim Mattis age 6
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 31
Lansana Conté age 21
René Préval age 13
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 42
Talal I of Jordan age 47
Ruud Lubbers age 17
Bounnhang Vorachit age 19
Andris Bērziņš age 11
Hilda Heine age 5
Vladimir Voronin age 15
Kiro Gligorov age 39
Thorbjørn Jagland age 5
Jorge Sampaio age 17
George Tupou V of Tonga age 8
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 14
Franz Halder age 72
Nobusuke Kishi age 59
Toshiki Kaifu age 25
Kiichi Miyazawa age 37
Tsutomu Hata age 21
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 8
Édouard Balladur age 27
Mike Huckabee age 1
Rick Perry age 6
Eduardo Duhalde age 15
Malcolm Fraser age 26
Wolfgang Schüssel age 11
Artur Rasizade age 21
John Diefenbaker age 61
Ricardo Lagos age 18
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 30
Gyula Horn age 24
Fatmir Sejdiu age 5
Modibo Keïta age 41
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 30
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 3
Goh Chok Tong age 15
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 6
Michael Sata age 19
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 18
Diosdado Macapagal age 46
Heinrich Brüning age 70
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 69
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 19
José Sarney age 26
Walther Funk age 66
George Shultz age 35
Harold Holt age 48
Ziaur Rahman age 20
Kostas Karamanlis age 1 month
Haider Al-Abadi age 4
Catherine Connolly age 11 months
Emilio Colombo age 36
Choummaly Sayasone age 20
Michel Suleiman age 7
George Abela age 8
José López Portillo age 36
Milovan Đilas age 45
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 21
Girija Prasad Koirala age 32
Abdou Diouf age 21
Ernest Bai Koroma age 3
Milan Kučan age 15
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 15
Levy Mwanawasa age 8
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 7
Michel Rocard age 26
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 59
Paul Wolfowitz age 12
Alain Poher age 47
Abulfaz Elchibey age 18