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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
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25

People

Vincent Auriol age 76
Mohammad Najibullah age 13
Zog I of Albania age 64
João Lourenço age 6
Werner Faymann age 3 months
Guy Verhofstadt age 7
Dimitris Christofias age 13
Rafael Trujillo age 68
Alar Karis age 2
V. V. Giri age 66
Giovanni Leone age 51
Yahya Khan age 43
Ivan Gašparovič age 19
Cevdet Sunay age 61
Necmettin Erbakan age 33
Morgan Tsvangirai age 8
Felipe González age 18
Alexei Kosygin age 56
George F. Kennan age 56
Itamar Franco age 30
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 29
Farouk of Egypt age 40
Jacques Rogge age 18
Bamir Topi age 3
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 23
K. R. Narayanan age 39
Levi Eshkol age 64
Massimo D'Alema age 11
Daniel arap Moi age 35
Dick Schoof age 3
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 11
Peter Mutharika age 20
Mário Soares age 35
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 8
Zoran Đinđić age 8
Fernando Lugo age 9
Kgalema Motlanthe age 11
Zhu Rongji age 31
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 27
Houari Boumédiène age 28
Gough Whitlam age 44
Mathieu Kérékou age 26
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 12
Arnold Rüütel age 32
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 55
Nouri al-Maliki age 10
Moshe Katsav age 14
Luigi Einaudi age 86
Ibrahim Rugova age 15
Amadou Toumani Touré age 11
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim age 10 months
Ram Baran Yadav age 12
Desi Bouterse age 14
Xanana Gusmão age 14
Armand Fallières age 118
Pierre Mauroy age 32
Laurent Fabius age 14
Édith Cresson age 26
Michel Barnier age 9
Lê Đức Thọ age 48
Enda Kenny age 9
Queen Sofía of Spain age 21
Robert McNamara age 44
Omar Bradley age 67
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 19
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 4
Ivo Sanader age 7
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
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 8
Violeta Chamorro age 30
Bola Tinubu age 8
Egor Gajdar age 4
Göran Persson age 11
Carl Bildt age 11
Prayut Chanocha age 6
Semyon Budyonny age 77
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 123
Lloyd Austin age 7
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 8
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 1
Mykola Azarov age 12
Edgar Lungu age 3
Siad Barre age 40
Yoshirō Mori age 23
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 37
Aleksandr Vasilevsky age 64
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 16
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 7
Gulzarilal Nanda age 62
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
Lazar Kaganovich age 66
Jiang Qing age 46
Queen Sonja of Norway age 23
Semyon Timoshenko age 65
Lee Teng-hui age 37
Paul Keating age 16
Thomas Klestil age 27
Mauricio Funes age 10 months
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 36
Bidzina Ivanishvili age 4
Jerry Rawlings age 13
Manuel Zelaya age 7
Pál Schmitt age 18
Zail Singh age 44
Willem Drees age 74
Sooronbay Jeenbekov age 1
Egils Levits age 5
Filipe Nyusi age 1
Sushila Karki age 8
Mahamadou Issoufou age 8
Arif Alvi age 11
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 8
Viktor Zubkov age 18
Vojislav Koštunica age 16
Ewa Kopacz age 3
Li Qiang age 1
Maithripala Sirisena age 8
Milorad Dodik age 1
Tomiichi Murayama age 36
Nikolai Bulganin age 65
João Goulart age 41
Micheál Martin age 0 months
Jean Monnet age 71
Soong Mei-ling age 62
Sarah Ferguson age 10 months
Li Peng age 31
Ferhat Abbas age 61
Brigitte Bierlein age 11
Tassos Papadopoulos age 26
Antonis Samaras age 9
João Bernardo Vieira age 21
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 42
Chaim Herzog age 41
Giuseppe Saragat age 61
Lamberto Dini age 29
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 23
Askar Akayev age 15
Algirdas Brazauskas age 27
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 5
José Sócrates age 2
Prem Tinsulanonda age 40
Roh Tae-woo age 27
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 11
François Bayrou age 9
Egon Krenz age 23
Fernando Collor de Mello age 11
Paul of Greece age 58
Jacobo Árbenz age 46
Robert Mueller age 16
Ramiz Alia age 34
Leopoldo Galtieri age 34
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 15
Bruno Kreisky age 49
Festus Mogae age 21
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 7
Seretse Khama age 39
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 9
Lennart Meri age 31
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 47
Wim Kok age 21