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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
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
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964

People

Ibrahim Rugova age 15
Amadou Toumani Touré age 11
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim age 7 months
Ram Baran Yadav age 12
Desi Bouterse age 14
Xanana Gusmão age 13
Armand Fallières age 118
Pierre Mauroy age 31
Laurent Fabius age 13
Édith Cresson age 26
Michel Barnier age 9
Enda Kenny age 9
Robert McNamara age 43
Omar Bradley age 67
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 19
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 4
Ivo Sanader age 6
Mohamed Naguib age 59
Andrus Ansip age 3
Loukas Papademos age 12
Mátyás Rákosi age 68
László Sólyom age 18
Charan Singh age 57
Valdis Zatlers age 5
Bingu wa Mutharika age 26
Violeta Chamorro age 30
Bola Tinubu age 8
Egor Gajdar age 4
Göran Persson age 11
Carl Bildt age 10
Prayut Chanocha age 6
Semyon Budyonny age 77
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 122
Lloyd Austin age 6
Erich Raeder age 84
John Roberts age 5
René Coty age 78
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré age 3
Brian Mulroney age 21
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 7
Matti Vanhanen age 4
R. Venkataraman age 49
Antonio Segni age 69
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 22
Mohamed Agha age 4
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca age 1
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 3
Nicolae Timofti age 11
Evgeny Primakov age 30
Danilo Türk age 8
Tupou VI of Tonga age 10 months
Mykola Azarov age 12
Edgar Lungu age 3
Siad Barre age 40
Yoshirō Mori age 22
Hjalmar Schacht age 83
Rodion Malinovsky age 61
Lázaro Cárdenas age 65
Vahagn Khachatryan age 1
Bob Hawke age 30
Sandra Mason age 11
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 31
Sani Abacha age 16
Haitham bin Tarik Al Said age 4
Juvénal Habyarimana age 23
Abdoulaye Wade age 34
Iveta Radičová age 3
Chen Shui-bian age 9
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 42
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 33
P. W. Botha age 44
Semyon Timoshenko age 65
Lee Teng-hui age 37
Paul Keating age 16
Thomas Klestil age 27
Mauricio Funes age 7 months
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 36
Bidzina Ivanishvili age 4
Jerry Rawlings age 12
Manuel Zelaya age 7
Pál Schmitt age 18
Zail Singh age 44
Amintore Fanfani age 52
Willem Drees age 73
Sooronbay Jeenbekov age 1
Egils Levits age 4
Filipe Nyusi age 1
Sushila Karki age 7
Mahamadou Issoufou age 8
Arif Alvi age 10
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 7
Viktor Zubkov age 18
Vojislav Koštunica age 16
Ewa Kopacz age 3
Li Qiang age 10 months
Maithripala Sirisena age 8
Milorad Dodik age 1
Tomiichi Murayama age 36
Nikolai Bulganin age 64
João Goulart age 41
Jean Monnet age 71
Li Peng age 31
Ferhat Abbas age 60
Brigitte Bierlein age 10
Tassos Papadopoulos age 26
Antonis Samaras age 9
João Bernardo Vieira age 21
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 41
Chaim Herzog age 41
Giuseppe Saragat age 61
Lamberto Dini age 29
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 22
Askar Akayev age 15
Algirdas Brazauskas age 27
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 5
José Sócrates age 2
Prem Tinsulanonda age 39
Roh Tae-woo age 27
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 11
François Bayrou age 9
Egon Krenz age 23
Fernando Collor de Mello age 10
Jacobo Árbenz age 46
Robert Mueller age 15
Ramiz Alia age 34
Leopoldo Galtieri age 33
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 15
Bruno Kreisky age 49
Festus Mogae age 20
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 7
Seretse Khama age 38
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 9
Lennart Meri age 31
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 47
Wim Kok age 21
Charles Taylor age 12
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 22
Agatha Barbara age 37
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 55
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 60
Simonetta Sommaruga age 0 months
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 9
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 24
Moncef Marzouki age 14
Kais Saied age 2
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 5
Joseph Estrada age 23
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 4
Jean Casimir-Perier age 112
Alain Juppé age 14
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 36
Robert Gates age 16
Baldur von Schirach age 53
Dean Acheson age 67
Mulatu Teshome age 3
Andreas Papandreou age 41
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 8
Xiomara Castro age 7 months
Chandra Shekhar age 33
Fuad Masum age 22
Andrius Kubilius age 3
Hage Geingob age 18
Mikhhail Fradkov age 9
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 20
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 14
Jerzy Buzek age 19
Shigeru Yoshida age 81
Kakuei Tanaka age 42
Bertie Ahern age 8
Andrew Cuomo age 2
James Baker age 30
Chiang Ching-kuo age 50
Antonin Scalia age 24
Babrak Karmal age 31
Hafizullah Amin age 30
Alfred Moisiu age 30
Kurt Schuschnigg age 62
Zillur Rahman age 31
François Bozizé age 13
Mirek Topolánek age 4
Tamás Sulyok age 4
Inder Kumar Gujral age 40
V. P. Singh age 28
Masoud Barzani age 13
Abdulla Yameen age 1
Thein Sein age 15
Than Shwe age 27
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 7
Bakir Izetbegović age 3
Albert Kesselring age 74
Hans Luther age 81
Javier Solana age 17
Jim Mattis age 9
Alfred Gusenbauer age 3 months