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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

Ram Baran Yadav age 9
Desi Bouterse age 11
Xanana Gusmão age 11
Armand Fallières age 115
Pierre Mauroy age 28
Laurent Fabius age 10
Édith Cresson age 23
Michel Barnier age 6
Lê Đức Thọ age 45
Enda Kenny age 6
Queen Sofía of Spain age 18
Robert McNamara age 41
Omar Bradley age 64
Soong Ching-ling age 64
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 16
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 1
Ivo Sanader age 4
Mohamed Naguib age 56
Andrus Ansip age 8 months
Loukas Papademos age 9
Mátyás Rákosi age 65
László Sólyom age 15
Charan Singh age 54
Valdis Zatlers age 2
Bingu wa Mutharika age 23
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 5
Violeta Chamorro age 27
Bola Tinubu age 5
Egor Gajdar age 1
Göran Persson age 8
Carl Bildt age 7
Prayut Chanocha age 3
Semyon Budyonny age 74
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 119
Lloyd Austin age 3
Erich Raeder age 81
John Roberts age 2
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré age 1 month
Brian Mulroney age 18
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 4
Matti Vanhanen age 1
R. Venkataraman age 46
Antonio Segni age 66
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 19
Mohamed Agha age 1
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 5 months
Nicolae Timofti age 8
Evgeny Primakov age 27
Danilo Türk age 5
Mykola Azarov age 9
Edgar Lungu age 7 months
Siad Barre age 37
Yoshirō Mori age 19
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 34
Aleksandr Vasilevsky age 61
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 13
Hjalmar Schacht age 80
Rodion Malinovsky age 58
Lázaro Cárdenas age 62
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 28
Sani Abacha age 13
Haitham bin Tarik Al Said age 1
Juvénal Habyarimana age 20
Abdoulaye Wade age 31
Iveta Radičová age 6 months
Chen Shui-bian age 6
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 39
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 30
P. W. Botha age 41
Lazar Kaganovich age 63
Jiang Qing age 43
Queen Sonja of Norway age 19
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood age 92
Semyon Timoshenko age 62
Lee Teng-hui age 34
Paul Keating age 13
Thomas Klestil age 24
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 33
Bidzina Ivanishvili age 1
Jerry Rawlings age 9
Manuel Zelaya age 4
Pál Schmitt age 15
Zail Singh age 41
Amintore Fanfani age 49
Egils Levits age 1
Sushila Karki age 5
Mahamadou Issoufou age 5
Arif Alvi age 7
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 5
Viktor Zubkov age 15
Vojislav Koštunica age 13
Ewa Kopacz age 6 months
Maithripala Sirisena age 5
Tomiichi Murayama age 33
João Goulart age 38
Jean Monnet age 68
Soong Mei-ling age 59
Li Peng age 28
Ferhat Abbas age 57
Brigitte Bierlein age 7
Tassos Papadopoulos age 23
Antonis Samaras age 6
João Bernardo Vieira age 18
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 38
Chaim Herzog age 38
Giuseppe Saragat age 58
Lamberto Dini age 26
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 8
François Bayrou age 6
Egon Krenz age 20
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 4
Seretse Khama age 35
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 32
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 6
Lennart Meri age 28
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 44
Wim Kok age 18
Charles Taylor age 9
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 19
Agatha Barbara age 34
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 20
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 50
Sandra Day O'Connor age 27
Dean Acheson age 64
Mulatu Teshome age 4 months
Andreas Papandreou age 38
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 5
Chandra Shekhar age 30
Fuad Masum age 19
Andrius Kubilius age 6 months
Hage Geingob age 15
Mikhhail Fradkov age 6
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 17
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 11
Jerzy Buzek age 16
Shigeru Yoshida age 78
Kakuei Tanaka age 39
Bertie Ahern age 5
René Cassin age 70
Tariq Aziz age 21
Bob Geldof age 5
James Baker age 27
Chiang Ching-kuo age 47
Antonin Scalia age 21
Babrak Karmal age 28
Hafizullah Amin age 27
Alfred Moisiu age 27
Kurt Schuschnigg age 59
Zillur Rahman age 28
François Bozizé age 10
Mirek Topolánek age 1
Tamás Sulyok age 1
Inder Kumar Gujral age 37
V. P. Singh age 25
Masoud Barzani age 10
Thein Sein age 12
Than Shwe age 24
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 4
Bakir Izetbegović age 11 months
Albert Kesselring age 71
Hans Luther age 78
Javier Solana age 14
Jim Mattis age 6
Fernando de la Rúa age 19
Ali Asadov age 6 months
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 32