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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
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis 1958-08-23 - 1958-12-02
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06

People

Mathieu Kérékou age 25
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 10
Arnold Rüütel age 30
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 53
Nouri al-Maliki age 8
Moshe Katsav age 12
Luigi Einaudi age 84
Enrico de Nicola age 81
Ibrahim Rugova age 13
Amadou Toumani Touré age 9
Ram Baran Yadav age 10
Desi Bouterse age 13
Xanana Gusmão age 12
Armand Fallières age 117
Pierre Mauroy age 30
Laurent Fabius age 12
Édith Cresson age 24
Michel Barnier age 7
Lê Đức Thọ age 47
Enda Kenny age 7
Queen Sofía of Spain age 19
Robert McNamara age 42
Omar Bradley age 65
Soong Ching-ling age 65
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 18
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 2
Ivo Sanader age 5
Mohamed Naguib age 57
Andrus Ansip age 2
Loukas Papademos age 11
Mátyás Rákosi age 66
László Sólyom age 16
Charan Singh age 55
Valdis Zatlers age 3
Bingu wa Mutharika age 24
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 6
Violeta Chamorro age 29
Bola Tinubu age 6
Egor Gajdar age 2
Göran Persson age 9
Carl Bildt age 9
Prayut Chanocha age 4
Semyon Budyonny age 75
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 121
Lloyd Austin age 5
Erich Raeder age 82
John Roberts age 3
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré age 1
Brian Mulroney age 19
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 6
Matti Vanhanen age 2
R. Venkataraman age 47
Antonio Segni age 67
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 20
Mohamed Agha age 2
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 1
Nicolae Timofti age 9
Evgeny Primakov age 29
Danilo Türk age 6
Mykola Azarov age 10
Edgar Lungu age 1
Siad Barre age 39
Yoshirō Mori age 21
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 35
Aleksandr Vasilevsky age 63
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 14
Hjalmar Schacht age 81
Rodion Malinovsky age 59
Lázaro Cárdenas age 63
Bob Hawke age 28
Sandra Mason age 9
Jadranka Kosor age 5
Makarios III age 45
Gulzarilal Nanda age 60
Moshe Sharett age 64
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 18
Joaquim Chissano age 19
Sam Nujoma age 29
Sani Abacha age 15
Haitham bin Tarik Al Said age 3
Juvénal Habyarimana age 21
Abdoulaye Wade age 32
Iveta Radičová age 1
Chen Shui-bian age 8
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 40
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 31
P. W. Botha age 42
Lazar Kaganovich age 64
Jiang Qing age 44
Queen Sonja of Norway age 21
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood age 94
Semyon Timoshenko age 63
Lee Teng-hui age 35
Paul Keating age 14
Thomas Klestil age 25
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 34
Bidzina Ivanishvili age 2
Jerry Rawlings age 11
Manuel Zelaya age 6
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 17
Vojislav Koštunica age 14
Ewa Kopacz age 1
Maithripala Sirisena age 7
Tomiichi Murayama age 34
Nikolai Bulganin age 63
João Goulart age 39
Jean Monnet age 69
Soong Mei-ling age 60
Li Peng age 30
Ferhat Abbas age 59
Brigitte Bierlein age 9
Tassos Papadopoulos age 24
Antonis Samaras age 7
João Bernardo Vieira age 19
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 40
Chaim Herzog age 40
Giuseppe Saragat age 60
Lamberto Dini age 27
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 21
Askar Akayev age 13
Algirdas Brazauskas age 26
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 3
José Sócrates age 1
Prem Tinsulanonda age 38
Roh Tae-woo age 25
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 9
François Bayrou age 7
Egon Krenz age 21
Fernando Collor de Mello age 9
Paul of Greece age 56
Jacobo Árbenz age 45
Robert Mueller age 14
Ramiz Alia age 33
Leopoldo Galtieri age 32
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 13
Bruno Kreisky age 47
Festus Mogae age 19
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 5
Seretse Khama age 37
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 34
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 8
Lennart Meri age 29
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 45
Wim Kok age 20
Charles Taylor age 10
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 20
Agatha Barbara age 35
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 53
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 8
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 22
Moncef Marzouki age 13
Kais Saied age 8 months
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 4
Joseph Estrada age 21
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 2
Jean Casimir-Perier age 111
Alain Juppé age 13
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 35
Robert Gates age 15
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini age 63
Baldur von Schirach age 51
Sandra Day O'Connor age 28
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 8
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 18
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 13
Jerzy Buzek age 18
Shigeru Yoshida age 80
Kakuei Tanaka age 40
Bertie Ahern age 7
René Cassin age 71
Tariq Aziz age 22
Andrew Cuomo age 10 months
Bob Geldof age 7
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 12
Mirek Topolánek age 2
Tamás Sulyok age 2
Inder Kumar Gujral age 38