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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
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Great Leap Forward 1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01

People

Manuel Zelaya age 5
Pál Schmitt age 16
Zail Singh age 42
Egils Levits age 3
Sushila Karki age 6
Mahamadou Issoufou age 6
Arif Alvi age 9
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 6
Viktor Zubkov age 16
Vojislav Koštunica age 14
Ewa Kopacz age 1
Maithripala Sirisena age 6
Tomiichi Murayama age 34
Nikolai Bulganin age 63
João Goulart age 39
Jean Monnet age 69
Li Peng age 29
Ferhat Abbas age 58
Brigitte Bierlein age 9
Tassos Papadopoulos age 24
Antonis Samaras age 7
João Bernardo Vieira age 19
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 39
Chaim Herzog age 39
Giuseppe Saragat age 59
Lamberto Dini age 27
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 21
Askar Akayev age 13
Algirdas Brazauskas age 25
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 3
José Sócrates age 10 months
Prem Tinsulanonda age 37
Roh Tae-woo age 25
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 9
Lin Biao age 50
François Bayrou age 7
Egon Krenz age 21
Fernando Collor de Mello age 8
Jacobo Árbenz age 44
Robert Mueller age 13
Ramiz Alia age 32
Leopoldo Galtieri age 32
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 13
Bruno Kreisky age 47
Festus Mogae age 18
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 5
Seretse Khama age 37
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 33
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 7
Lennart Meri age 29
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 45
Wim Kok age 19
Charles Taylor age 10
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 20
Agatha Barbara age 35
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 53
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 7
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 22
Moncef Marzouki age 13
Kais Saied age 5 months
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 4
Joseph Estrada age 21
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 2
Jean Casimir-Perier age 110
Alain Juppé age 12
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 34
Robert Gates age 14
Baldur von Schirach age 51
Dean Acheson age 65
Mulatu Teshome age 1
Andreas Papandreou age 39
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 7
Chandra Shekhar age 31
Fuad Masum age 20
Andrius Kubilius age 1
Hage Geingob age 17
Mikhhail Fradkov age 7
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 18
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 13
Jerzy Buzek age 18
Shigeru Yoshida age 79
Kakuei Tanaka age 40
Bertie Ahern age 6
James Baker age 28
Chiang Ching-kuo age 48
Antonin Scalia age 22
Babrak Karmal age 29
Hafizullah Amin age 29
Alfred Moisiu age 28
Kurt Schuschnigg age 60
Zillur Rahman age 29
François Bozizé age 11
Mirek Topolánek age 2
Tamás Sulyok age 2
Inder Kumar Gujral age 38
V. P. Singh age 27
Masoud Barzani age 11
Thein Sein age 13
Than Shwe age 25
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 5
Bakir Izetbegović age 2
Albert Kesselring age 72
Hans Luther age 79
Javier Solana age 16
Jim Mattis age 7
Ali Asadov age 1
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 33
Lansana Conté age 23
René Préval age 15
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 44
Talal I of Jordan age 49
Ruud Lubbers age 19
Bounnhang Vorachit age 20
Andris Bērziņš age 13
Hilda Heine age 7
Vladimir Voronin age 17
Kiro Gligorov age 41
Thorbjørn Jagland age 7
Jorge Sampaio age 18
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 61
George Tupou V of Tonga age 10
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 15
Franz Halder age 74
Toshiki Kaifu age 27
Kiichi Miyazawa age 38
Tsutomu Hata age 22
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 10
Édouard Balladur age 29
Eduardo Duhalde age 16
Malcolm Fraser age 28
Wolfgang Schüssel age 13
Artur Rasizade age 23
Ricardo Lagos age 20
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 31
Gyula Horn age 26
Fatmir Sejdiu age 6
Modibo Keïta age 43
Luísa Diogo age 3 months
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 32
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 5
Goh Chok Tong age 17
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 8
Tô Lâm age 1
Michael Sata age 21
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 19
Diosdado Macapagal age 47
Heinrich Brüning age 72
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 70
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 21
José Sarney age 28
Walther Funk age 67
George Shultz age 37
Harold Holt age 50
Ziaur Rahman age 22
Kostas Karamanlis age 1
Haider Al-Abadi age 6
Catherine Connolly age 2
Emilio Colombo age 38
Choummaly Sayasone age 22
Michel Suleiman age 9
George Abela age 10
José López Portillo age 38
Milovan Đilas age 47
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 22
Girija Prasad Koirala age 34
Abdou Diouf age 22
Ernest Bai Koroma age 4
Milan Kučan age 17
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 16
Levy Mwanawasa age 9
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 9
Michel Rocard age 27
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 60
Paul Wolfowitz age 14
Alain Poher age 49
Abulfaz Elchibey age 20
Zhelyu Zhelev age 23
Hissène Habré age 15
Adly Mansour age 12
Georgios Papadopoulos age 39
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 5
Ferenc Mádl age 27
Árpád Göncz age 36
Laimdota Straujuma age 7
Min Aung Hlaing age 2
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 56
Tharman Shanmugaratnam age 1
Ingvar Carlsson age 23
Rómulo Gallegos age 74
Frederick Chiluba age 15
Alejandro Toledo age 13
Hwang Kyo-ahn age 1
Hayato Ikeda age 58
Noboru Takeshita age 34
Keizō Obuchi age 21
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 10
Jeff Sessions age 11
Hu Yaobang age 42
Clarence Thomas age 10
Iajuddin Ahmed age 27