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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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08

People

Laurent Fabius age 10
Édith Cresson age 23
Michel Barnier age 6
Lê Đức Thọ age 45
Enda Kenny age 5
Queen Sofía of Spain age 18
Robert McNamara age 40
Omar Bradley age 64
Soong Ching-ling age 64
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 16
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 1
Ivo Sanader age 3
Mohamed Naguib age 55
Andrus Ansip age 4 months
Loukas Papademos age 9
Mátyás Rákosi age 64
László Sólyom age 15
Charan Singh age 54
Valdis Zatlers age 1
Bingu wa Mutharika age 22
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 4
Violeta Chamorro age 27
Bola Tinubu age 4
Egor Gajdar age 10 months
Göran Persson age 8
Carl Bildt age 7
Prayut Chanocha age 2
Semyon Budyonny age 73
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 119
Lloyd Austin age 3
Erich Raeder age 80
John Roberts age 2
Brian Mulroney age 17
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 4
Matti Vanhanen age 1
R. Venkataraman age 46
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 19
Mohamed Agha age 1
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 1 month
Nicolae Timofti age 8
Evgeny Primakov age 27
Danilo Türk age 4
Mykola Azarov age 9
Edgar Lungu age 2 months
Siad Barre age 37
Yoshirō Mori age 19
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 33
Aleksandr Vasilevsky age 61
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 13
Hjalmar Schacht age 80
Rodion Malinovsky age 58
Lázaro Cárdenas age 61
Bob Hawke age 27
Sandra Mason age 8
Jadranka Kosor age 3
Makarios III age 43
Gulzarilal Nanda age 58
Moshe Sharett age 62
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 17
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
Iveta Radičová age 1 month
Chen Shui-bian age 6
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 38
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 29
P. W. Botha age 41
Lazar Kaganovich age 63
Jiang Qing age 42
Queen Sonja of Norway age 19
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood age 92
Semyon Timoshenko age 61
Lee Teng-hui age 34
Paul Keating age 13
Thomas Klestil age 24
Paul-Henri Spaak age 58
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 33
Bidzina Ivanishvili age 11 months
Jerry Rawlings age 9
Manuel Zelaya age 4
Pál Schmitt age 14
Zail Singh age 40
Amintore Fanfani age 49
Egils Levits age 1
Sushila Karki age 4
Mahamadou Issoufou age 5
Arif Alvi age 7
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 4
Viktor Zubkov age 15
Vojislav Koštunica age 12
Ewa Kopacz age 1 month
Maithripala Sirisena age 5
Tomiichi Murayama age 32
João Goulart age 37
Jean Monnet age 68
Soong Mei-ling age 58
Li Peng age 28
Ferhat Abbas age 57
Brigitte Bierlein age 7
Tassos Papadopoulos age 23
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 12
Algirdas Brazauskas age 24
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 2
Prem Tinsulanonda age 36
Roh Tae-woo age 24
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 7
François Bayrou age 5
Egon Krenz age 19
Fernando Collor de Mello age 7
Paul of Greece age 55
Jacobo Árbenz age 43
Robert Mueller age 12
Ramiz Alia age 31
Leopoldo Galtieri age 30
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 12
Bruno Kreisky age 46
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
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 43
Wim Kok age 18
Charles Taylor age 9
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 19
Agatha Barbara age 33
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 52
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 6
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 21
Moncef Marzouki age 11
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 2
Joseph Estrada age 19
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 1
Jean Casimir-Perier age 109
Alain Juppé age 11
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 33
Robert Gates age 13
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini age 62
Baldur von Schirach age 49
Sandra Day O'Connor age 26
Dean Acheson age 63
Mulatu Teshome age 0 months
Andreas Papandreou age 38
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 5
Chandra Shekhar age 29
Fuad Masum age 19
Andrius Kubilius age 1 month
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
René Cassin age 70
Tariq Aziz age 20
Bob Geldof age 5
James Baker age 26
Chiang Ching-kuo age 46
Antonin Scalia age 20
Babrak Karmal age 28
Hafizullah Amin age 27
Alfred Moisiu age 27
Kurt Schuschnigg age 59
Zillur Rahman age 27
François Bozizé age 10
Mirek Topolánek age 8 months
Tamás Sulyok age 10 months
Inder Kumar Gujral age 37
V. P. Singh age 25
Masoud Barzani age 10
Thein Sein age 11
Than Shwe age 24
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 4
Bakir Izetbegović age 7 months
Albert Kesselring age 71
Hans Luther age 77
Édouard Herriot age 84
Javier Solana age 14
Jim Mattis age 6
Fernando de la Rúa age 19
Ali Asadov age 2 months
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 32
Lansana Conté age 22
René Préval age 14
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 42
Talal I of Jordan age 47
Ruud Lubbers age 17