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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
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962

People

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 52
Nouri al-Maliki age 7
Moshe Katsav age 12
Luigi Einaudi age 83
Enrico de Nicola age 80
Ibrahim Rugova age 13
Amadou Toumani Touré age 9
Ram Baran Yadav age 9
Desi Bouterse age 12
Xanana Gusmão age 11
Armand Fallières age 116
Pierre Mauroy age 29
Laurent Fabius age 11
Édith Cresson age 23
Michel Barnier age 6
Lê Đức Thọ age 46
Enda Kenny age 6
Queen Sofía of Spain age 19
Robert McNamara age 41
Omar Bradley age 64
Soong Ching-ling age 64
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 17
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 2
Ivo Sanader age 4
Mohamed Naguib age 56
Andrus Ansip age 1
Loukas Papademos age 10
Mátyás Rákosi age 65
László Sólyom age 16
Charan Singh age 55
Valdis Zatlers age 2
Bingu wa Mutharika age 23
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 5
Violeta Chamorro age 28
Bola Tinubu age 5
Egor Gajdar age 1
Göran Persson age 8
Carl Bildt age 8
Prayut Chanocha age 3
Semyon Budyonny age 74
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 120
Lloyd Austin age 4
Erich Raeder age 81
John Roberts age 2
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré age 8 months
Brian Mulroney age 18
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 5
Matti Vanhanen age 2
R. Venkataraman age 47
Antonio Segni age 66
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 20
Mohamed Agha age 2
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 1
Nicolae Timofti age 9
Evgeny Primakov age 28
Danilo Türk age 5
Mykola Azarov age 10
Edgar Lungu age 1
Siad Barre age 38
Yoshirō Mori age 20
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 34
Aleksandr Vasilevsky age 62
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 14
Hjalmar Schacht age 80
Rodion Malinovsky age 59
Lázaro Cárdenas age 62
Bob Hawke age 28
Sandra Mason age 8
Jadranka Kosor age 4
Makarios III age 44
Gulzarilal Nanda age 59
Moshe Sharett age 63
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 18
Joaquim Chissano age 18
Sam Nujoma age 28
Sani Abacha age 14
Haitham bin Tarik Al Said age 2
Juvénal Habyarimana age 20
Abdoulaye Wade age 31
Iveta Radičová age 1
Chen Shui-bian age 7
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 39
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 30
P. W. Botha age 42
Lazar Kaganovich age 64
Jiang Qing age 43
Queen Sonja of Norway age 20
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood age 93
Semyon Timoshenko age 62
Lee Teng-hui age 34
Paul Keating age 13
Thomas Klestil age 25
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 34
Bidzina Ivanishvili age 1
Jerry Rawlings age 10
Manuel Zelaya age 5
Pál Schmitt age 15
Zail Singh age 41
Amintore Fanfani age 49
Egils Levits age 2
Sushila Karki age 5
Mahamadou Issoufou age 6
Arif Alvi age 8
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 5
Viktor Zubkov age 16
Vojislav Koštunica age 13
Ewa Kopacz age 1
Maithripala Sirisena age 6
Tomiichi Murayama age 33
João Goulart age 38
Jean Monnet age 69
Soong Mei-ling age 59
Li Peng age 29
Ferhat Abbas age 58
Brigitte Bierlein age 8
Tassos Papadopoulos age 24
Antonis Samaras age 6
João Bernardo Vieira age 18
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 39
Chaim Herzog age 39
Giuseppe Saragat age 59
Lamberto Dini age 26
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 20
Askar Akayev age 13
Algirdas Brazauskas age 25
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 3
José Sócrates age 3 months
Prem Tinsulanonda age 37
Roh Tae-woo age 25
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 8
François Bayrou age 6
Egon Krenz age 20
Fernando Collor de Mello age 8
Paul of Greece age 56
Jacobo Árbenz age 44
Robert Mueller age 13
Ramiz Alia age 32
Leopoldo Galtieri age 31
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 12
Bruno Kreisky age 46
Festus Mogae age 18
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 4
Seretse Khama age 36
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 33
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 7
Lennart Meri age 28
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 44
Wim Kok age 19
Charles Taylor age 9
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 20
Agatha Barbara age 34
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 53
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 7
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 22
Moncef Marzouki age 12
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 3
Joseph Estrada age 20
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 2
Jean Casimir-Perier age 110
Alain Juppé age 12
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 34
Robert Gates age 14
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini age 63
Baldur von Schirach age 50
Sandra Day O'Connor age 27
Dean Acheson age 64
Mulatu Teshome age 11 months
Andreas Papandreou age 38
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 6
Chandra Shekhar age 30
Fuad Masum age 20
Andrius Kubilius age 1
Hage Geingob age 16
Mikhhail Fradkov age 7
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 17
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 12
Jerzy Buzek age 17
Shigeru Yoshida age 79
Kakuei Tanaka age 39
Bertie Ahern age 6
René Cassin age 70
Tariq Aziz age 21
Andrew Cuomo age 0 months
Bob Geldof age 6
James Baker age 27
Chiang Ching-kuo age 47
Antonin Scalia age 21
Babrak Karmal age 29
Hafizullah Amin age 28
Alfred Moisiu age 28
Kurt Schuschnigg age 60
Zillur Rahman age 28
François Bozizé age 11
Mirek Topolánek age 1
Tamás Sulyok age 1
Inder Kumar Gujral age 38
V. P. Singh age 26
Masoud Barzani age 11
Thein Sein age 12
Than Shwe age 24