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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
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
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02

People

Farouk of Egypt age 39
Jacques Rogge age 17
Bamir Topi age 2
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 22
K. R. Narayanan age 38
Levi Eshkol age 63
Massimo D'Alema age 10
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 53
Daniel arap Moi age 34
Dick Schoof age 2
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 9
Peter Mutharika age 18
Mário Soares age 34
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 7
Zoran Đinđić age 6
Fernando Lugo age 8
Kgalema Motlanthe age 9
Heinrich Lübke age 64
Zhu Rongji age 30
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 26
Houari Boumédiène age 26
Gough Whitlam age 43
Mathieu Kérékou age 25
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 11
Arnold Rüütel age 31
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 54
Nouri al-Maliki age 9
Moshe Katsav age 13
Luigi Einaudi age 85
Enrico de Nicola age 81
Ibrahim Rugova age 14
Amadou Toumani Touré age 10
Ram Baran Yadav age 11
Desi Bouterse age 13
Xanana Gusmão age 13
Armand Fallières age 117
Pierre Mauroy age 31
Laurent Fabius age 12
Édith Cresson age 25
Michel Barnier age 8
Lê Đức Thọ age 47
Enda Kenny age 8
Queen Sofía of Spain age 20
Robert McNamara age 43
Omar Bradley age 66
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 18
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 3
Ivo Sanader age 6
Mohamed Naguib age 58
Andrus Ansip age 2
Loukas Papademos age 11
Mátyás Rákosi age 67
László Sólyom age 17
Charan Singh age 56
Valdis Zatlers age 4
Bingu wa Mutharika age 25
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 7
Violeta Chamorro age 29
Bola Tinubu age 7
Egor Gajdar age 3
Göran Persson age 10
Carl Bildt age 10
Prayut Chanocha age 5
Semyon Budyonny age 76
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 122
Lloyd Austin age 5
Erich Raeder age 83
John Roberts age 4
René Coty age 77
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré age 2
Brian Mulroney age 20
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 7
Matti Vanhanen age 3
R. Venkataraman age 48
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 21
Mohamed Agha age 3
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca age 7 months
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 2
Nicolae Timofti age 10
Evgeny Primakov age 29
Danilo Türk age 7
Tupou VI of Tonga age 0 months
Mykola Azarov age 11
Edgar Lungu age 2
Siad Barre age 39
Yoshirō Mori age 22
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 36
Aleksandr Vasilevsky age 63
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 15
Hjalmar Schacht age 82
Rodion Malinovsky age 60
Lázaro Cárdenas age 64
Vahagn Khachatryan age 2 months
Bob Hawke age 29
Sandra Mason age 10
Jadranka Kosor age 6
Makarios III age 45
Gulzarilal Nanda age 61
Moshe Sharett age 64
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 19
Joaquim Chissano age 19
Sam Nujoma age 30
Sani Abacha age 15
Haitham bin Tarik Al Said age 3
Juvénal Habyarimana age 22
Abdoulaye Wade age 33
Iveta Radičová age 2
Chen Shui-bian age 8
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 41
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 32
P. W. Botha age 43
Lazar Kaganovich age 65
Jiang Qing age 45
Queen Sonja of Norway age 22
Semyon Timoshenko age 64
Lee Teng-hui age 36
Paul Keating age 15
Thomas Klestil age 26
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 35
Bidzina Ivanishvili age 3
Jerry Rawlings age 12
Manuel Zelaya age 6
Pál Schmitt age 17
Zail Singh age 43
Amintore Fanfani age 51
Willem Drees age 73
Sooronbay Jeenbekov age 7 months
Egils Levits age 4
Filipe Nyusi age 5 months
Sushila Karki age 7
Mahamadou Issoufou age 7
Arif Alvi age 9
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 7
Viktor Zubkov age 17
Vojislav Koštunica age 15
Ewa Kopacz age 2
Maithripala Sirisena age 7
Milorad Dodik age 4 months
Tomiichi Murayama age 35
Nikolai Bulganin age 64
João Goulart age 40
Jean Monnet age 70
Soong Mei-ling age 61
Li Peng age 30
Ferhat Abbas age 59
Brigitte Bierlein age 10
Tassos Papadopoulos age 25
Antonis Samaras age 8
João Bernardo Vieira age 20
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 40
Chaim Herzog age 40
Giuseppe Saragat age 60
Lamberto Dini age 28
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 22
Askar Akayev age 14
Algirdas Brazauskas age 26
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 4
José Sócrates age 1
Prem Tinsulanonda age 38
Roh Tae-woo age 26
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 10
François Bayrou age 8
Egon Krenz age 22
Fernando Collor de Mello age 9
Paul of Greece age 57
Jacobo Árbenz age 45
Robert Mueller age 14
Ramiz Alia age 33
Leopoldo Galtieri age 33
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 14
Bruno Kreisky age 48
Festus Mogae age 19
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 6
Seretse Khama age 38
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 34
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 8
Lennart Meri age 30
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 46
Wim Kok age 20
Charles Taylor age 11
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 21
Agatha Barbara age 36
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 54
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 59
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 8
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 23
Moncef Marzouki age 14
Kais Saied age 1
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 4
Joseph Estrada age 22
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 3
Jean Casimir-Perier age 111
Alain Juppé age 13
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 35
Robert Gates age 15
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini age 64
Baldur von Schirach age 52
Sandra Day O'Connor age 29
Dean Acheson age 66
Mulatu Teshome age 2