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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

Alexei Kosygin age 55
George F. Kennan age 55
Itamar Franco age 29
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 28
Farouk of Egypt age 39
Jacques Rogge age 17
Bamir Topi age 2
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 22
K. R. Narayanan age 39
Levi Eshkol age 64
Massimo D'Alema age 10
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 54
Daniel arap Moi age 35
Dick Schoof age 2
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 10
Peter Mutharika age 19
Mário Soares age 34
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 7
Zoran Đinđić age 7
Fernando Lugo age 8
Kgalema Motlanthe age 10
Zhu Rongji age 31
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 26
Houari Boumédiène age 27
Gough Whitlam age 43
Mathieu Kérékou age 26
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 12
Arnold Rüütel age 31
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 54
Nouri al-Maliki age 9
Moshe Katsav age 13
Luigi Einaudi age 85
Ibrahim Rugova age 14
Amadou Toumani Touré age 11
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim age 1 month
Ram Baran Yadav age 11
Desi Bouterse age 14
Xanana Gusmão age 13
Armand Fallières age 118
Pierre Mauroy age 31
Laurent Fabius age 13
Édith Cresson age 25
Michel Barnier age 8
Lê Đức Thọ age 48
Enda Kenny age 8
Queen Sofía of Spain age 21
Robert McNamara age 43
Omar Bradley age 66
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 19
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 4
Ivo Sanader age 6
Mohamed Naguib age 58
Andrus Ansip age 3
Loukas Papademos age 12
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 30
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 6
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 4
R. Venkataraman age 49
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 21
Mohamed Agha age 4
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca age 11 months
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 2
Nicolae Timofti age 10
Evgeny Primakov age 30
Danilo Türk age 7
Tupou VI of Tonga age 4 months
Mykola Azarov age 11
Edgar Lungu age 3
Siad Barre age 40
Yoshirō Mori age 22
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 36
Aleksandr Vasilevsky age 64
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 15
Hjalmar Schacht age 82
Rodion Malinovsky age 61
Lázaro Cárdenas age 64
Vahagn Khachatryan age 7 months
Bob Hawke age 29
Sandra Mason age 10
Jadranka Kosor age 6
Makarios III age 46
Gulzarilal Nanda age 61
Moshe Sharett age 65
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 20
Joaquim Chissano age 20
Sam Nujoma age 30
Sani Abacha age 16
Haitham bin Tarik Al Said age 4
Juvénal Habyarimana age 22
Abdoulaye Wade age 33
Iveta Radičová age 2
Chen Shui-bian age 9
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 41
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 32
P. W. Botha age 43
Lazar Kaganovich age 66
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 27
Mauricio Funes age 1 month
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 35
Bidzina Ivanishvili age 3
Jerry Rawlings age 12
Manuel Zelaya age 7
Pál Schmitt age 17
Zail Singh age 43
Amintore Fanfani age 51
Willem Drees age 73
Sooronbay Jeenbekov age 1
Egils Levits age 4
Filipe Nyusi age 9 months
Sushila Karki age 7
Mahamadou Issoufou age 7
Arif Alvi age 10
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 7
Viktor Zubkov age 18
Vojislav Koštunica age 15
Ewa Kopacz age 2
Li Qiang age 4 months
Maithripala Sirisena age 8
Milorad Dodik age 8 months
Tomiichi Murayama age 35
Nikolai Bulganin age 64
João Goulart age 40
Jean Monnet age 71
Soong Mei-ling age 61
Sarah Ferguson age 1 month
Li Peng age 31
Ferhat Abbas age 60
Brigitte Bierlein age 10
Tassos Papadopoulos age 25
Antonis Samaras age 8
João Bernardo Vieira age 20
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 41
Chaim Herzog age 41
Giuseppe Saragat age 61
Lamberto Dini age 28
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 22
Askar Akayev age 15
Algirdas Brazauskas age 27
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 4
José Sócrates age 2
Prem Tinsulanonda age 39
Roh Tae-woo age 26
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 10
François Bayrou age 8
Egon Krenz age 22
Fernando Collor de Mello age 10
Paul of Greece age 57
Jacobo Árbenz age 46
Robert Mueller age 15
Ramiz Alia age 34
Leopoldo Galtieri age 33
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 14
Bruno Kreisky age 48
Festus Mogae age 20
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 6
Seretse Khama age 38
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 35
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 9
Lennart Meri age 30
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 46
Wim Kok age 21
Charles Taylor age 11
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 21
Agatha Barbara age 36
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 55
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 60
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 9
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 23
Moncef Marzouki age 14
Kais Saied age 1
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 5
Joseph Estrada age 22
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 3
Jean Casimir-Perier age 112
Alain Juppé age 14
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 36