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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
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01

People

Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 34
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 5
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 5
Davíð Oddsson age 5
Giovanni Spadolini age 28
Arnaldo Forlani age 27
Raila A Odinga age 8
Anote Tong age 1
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 12
Anerood Jugnauth age 23
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 42
Armando Guebuza age 10
Einar Gerhardsen age 56
Farooq Leghari age 13
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 1
Emil Constantinescu age 13
Evaristo Carvalho age 11
Rómulo Betancourt age 45
José Paciano Laurel age 62
Sergio Osmeña age 74
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 27
Luis Carrero Blanco age 49
Rodolfo Graziani age 71
Masayoshi Ōhira age 43
Sōsuke Uno age 30
Pierre Mendès France age 46
Peng Dehuai age 54
Gennady Yanayev age 15
Chadli Bendjedid age 24
Franz Vranitzky age 15
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 12
Wilfried Martens age 17
Dean Barrow age 2
Aristides Pereira age 29
Pedro Pires age 19
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 42
Geir Haarde age 2
Ephraim Katzir age 37
Giovanni Goria age 10
Gediminas Kirkilas age 1
Muhyiddin Yassin age 6
Moussa Traoré age 16
Eddie Fenech Adami age 19
Adolfo López Mateos age 43
Ibrahim Babangida age 11
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 23
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 23
Vladimír Mečiar age 11
Ronald Venetiaan age 17
Rafael Caldera age 37
Hanna Suchocka age 7
Fernando Belaúnde age 40
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 72
Takeo Miki age 46
William Westmoreland age 39
Venceslau Brás age 85
Georges Bidault age 53
Hans Fritzsche age 53
Yang Shangkun age 46
Stephen Breyer age 14
Thurgood Marshall age 45
James F. Byrnes age 71
Hubert Maga age 37
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 31
Sylvie Kinigi age 8 months
Arthur Meighen age 79
Jioji Konrote age 5
Paavo Lipponen age 12
Léon M'ba age 51
Georgios Papandreou age 65
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 6
Zalman Shazar age 63
Piet de Jong age 38
Guntis Ulmanis age 13
Philibert Tsiranana age 40
Abdul Razak Hussein age 31
Lawrence Gonzi age 1 month
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 52
Mircea Snegur age 13
Shaukat Aziz age 4
Sergei Stepashin age 1
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 29
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 30
Maxime Weygand age 86
Nikolai Tikhonov age 48
Jânio Quadros age 36
Daniel Inouye age 28
Ronald McNair age 2
Lawrence Eagleburger age 23
Anthony Kennedy age 17
Dean Rusk age 44
Cyrus Vance age 36
Arturo Umberto Illia age 53
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 6
Arturo Frondizi age 44
William McMahon age 45
Earle Page age 73
Joe Clark age 14
François Tombalbaye age 35
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 11
Tshombé Moïse age 33
Harri Holkeri age 16
Efraín Ríos Montt age 27
Kristján Eldjárn age 36
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 40
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 47
Yigal Allon age 34
Henri Konan Bédié age 19
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 27
Gaston Thorn age 24
Htin Kyaw age 7
Yakubu Gowon age 18
Shehu Shagari age 28
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 8
Mirko Cvetković age 2
Rudolf Schuster age 19
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 10
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 28
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 33
Michael Somare age 17
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 70
Fuad II of Egypt age 1
Chuck Hagel age 6
Milka Planinc age 28
Souphanouvong age 44
John Ashcroft age 11
S. M. Bruce age 70
John Gorton age 41
César Gaviria age 6
José Figueres Ferrer age 46
Osvaldo Dorticós age 34
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 32
Péter Medgyessy age 10
Poul Schlüter age 24
Fouad Siniora age 10
Diori Hamani age 37
James Michel age 8
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 27
Mesut Yılmaz age 5
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 25
Julio María Sanguinetti age 17
Iolu Abil age 11
Marek Belka age 1
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 58
Mireya Moscoso age 7
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 18
Tanzan Ishibashi age 68
Michel Debré age 41
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 38
Washington Luís age 83
Margaret Chan age 5
Ahmad Uyahya age 1
Leo Tindemans age 31
Melchior Ndadaye age 7 months
Barthélemy Boganda age 43
Vladimír Špidla age 2
Antoine Gizenga age 27
Eugenia Charles age 34
Nicholas Liverpool age 18
Mario Scelba age 51
Anker Jørgensen age 31
William Richard Tolbert age 40
Didier Ratsiraka age 16
Sushil Koirala age 13
Kåre Willoch age 24
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 59
Pascal Lissouba age 21
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 9
Adrian Năstase age 3
Michal Kováč age 23
Pascal Couchepin age 11
Wellington Koo age 65
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 43
Carlos P. Garcia age 56
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike age 54
Gaafar Nimeiry age 22
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 100
Nobuyuki Abe age 77
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 65
Tetsu Katayama age 66
Hitoshi Ashida age 65
Pierre Messmer age 37
Artur Bernardes age 78
Janet Reno age 15
Edmund Muskie age 39
Fan S. Noli age 71
Mohamed Boudiaf age 34
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 28
Arthur Fadden age 59
Quentin Bryce age 10
Adolf Schärf age 63
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 3
Hugo Banzer age 27
Nuon Chea age 27
Ange-Félix Patassé age 16
Glafcos Clerides age 34
Joaquín Balaguer age 46
Josefa Iloilo age 32
Luís Cabral age 22
Sam Hinds age 9