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Events

Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Korean War 1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11

People

Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 16
Lon Nol age 38
Alfredo Palacio age 13
Rose Francine Rogombe age 9
Otto Pérez Molina age 1
Álvaro Colom age 1
Mohammad Hatta age 50
Mariano Rumor age 37
Ciriaco De Mita age 24
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 9
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 6
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 37
Marcelo Caetano age 45
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 3 months
Trần Đức Lương age 15
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 43
Choi Kyu-hah age 33
Zenkō Suzuki age 41
Paul Reynaud age 73
Leon Panetta age 14
Mario Cuomo age 20
Lê Duẩn age 45
Li Xiannian age 43
George Wallace age 32
Alexander Haig age 27
Franz Jonas age 52
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 37
Petar Stoyanov age 2 months
Patricio Aylwin age 33
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 35
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 33
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 4
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 4
Davíð Oddsson age 4
Giovanni Spadolini age 27
Arnaldo Forlani age 26
Raila A Odinga age 7
Anote Tong age 1 month
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 11
Anerood Jugnauth age 22
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 41
Armando Guebuza age 9
Einar Gerhardsen age 55
Farooq Leghari age 12
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 6 months
Emil Constantinescu age 12
Evaristo Carvalho age 10
Rómulo Betancourt age 44
José Paciano Laurel age 61
Sergio Osmeña age 73
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 26
Luis Carrero Blanco age 48
Rodolfo Graziani age 70
Masayoshi Ōhira age 42
Sōsuke Uno age 29
Pierre Mendès France age 45
Gennady Yanayev age 14
Chadli Bendjedid age 23
Franz Vranitzky age 14
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 11
Wilfried Martens age 16
Dean Barrow age 1
Aristides Pereira age 28
Pedro Pires age 18
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 41
Geir Haarde age 1
Ephraim Katzir age 36
Giovanni Goria age 9
Gediminas Kirkilas age 11 months
Muhyiddin Yassin age 5
Moussa Traoré age 15
Eddie Fenech Adami age 18
Adolfo López Mateos age 42
Ibrahim Babangida age 10
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 22
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 22
Vladimír Mečiar age 10
Ronald Venetiaan age 16
Rafael Caldera age 36
Hanna Suchocka age 6
Fernando Belaúnde age 39
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 71
Takeo Miki age 45
William Westmoreland age 38
Venceslau Brás age 84
Georges Bidault age 52
Hans Fritzsche age 52
Yang Shangkun age 45
Stephen Breyer age 13
Thurgood Marshall age 44
James F. Byrnes age 70
Hubert Maga age 36
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 30
Arthur Meighen age 78
Jioji Konrote age 4
Paavo Lipponen age 11
Léon M'ba age 50
Georgios Papandreou age 64
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 5
Zalman Shazar age 62
Piet de Jong age 37
Guntis Ulmanis age 12
Philibert Tsiranana age 39
Abdul Razak Hussein age 30
Mircea Snegur age 12
Shaukat Aziz age 3
Sergei Stepashin age 5 months
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 28
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 29
Maxime Weygand age 85
Nikolai Tikhonov age 47
Jânio Quadros age 35
Michael Dukakis age 18
Daniel Inouye age 27
Ronald McNair age 1
Lawrence Eagleburger age 22
Anthony Kennedy age 16
Dean Rusk age 43
Cyrus Vance age 35
Arturo Umberto Illia age 52
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 5
Arturo Frondizi age 43
William McMahon age 44
Earle Page age 72
Joe Clark age 13
François Tombalbaye age 34
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 10
Tshombé Moïse age 32
Harri Holkeri age 15
Efraín Ríos Montt age 26
Kristján Eldjárn age 35
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 39
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 46
Yigal Allon age 33
Henri Konan Bédié age 18
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 26
Gaston Thorn age 23
Htin Kyaw age 6
Yakubu Gowon age 17
Shehu Shagari age 27
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 7
Mirko Cvetković age 1
Rudolf Schuster age 18
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 9
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 27
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 32
Michael Somare age 16
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 69
Chuck Hagel age 5
Milka Planinc age 27
John Kasich age 2 months
Souphanouvong age 43
John Ashcroft age 10
S. M. Bruce age 69
John Gorton age 40
César Gaviria age 5
José Figueres Ferrer age 45
Osvaldo Dorticós age 33
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 31
Péter Medgyessy age 9
Poul Schlüter age 23
Fouad Siniora age 9
Diori Hamani age 36
James Michel age 7
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 26
Mesut Yılmaz age 4
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 24
Julio María Sanguinetti age 16
Iolu Abil age 10
Marek Belka age 6 months
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 57
Mireya Moscoso age 6
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 17
Tanzan Ishibashi age 67
Michel Debré age 40
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 37
Washington Luís age 82
Margaret Chan age 4
Ahmad Uyahya age 1 month
Leo Tindemans age 30
Barthélemy Boganda age 42
Vladimír Špidla age 1
Antoine Gizenga age 26
Eugenia Charles age 33
Nicholas Liverpool age 17
Mario Scelba age 50
Anker Jørgensen age 30
William Richard Tolbert age 39
Didier Ratsiraka age 15
Sushil Koirala age 12
Kåre Willoch age 23
Pascal Lissouba age 20
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 8
Adrian Năstase age 2
Michal Kováč age 22
Pascal Couchepin age 10
Wellington Koo age 64
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 42
Carlos P. Garcia age 55
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike age 53