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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

Levy Mwanawasa age 5
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 4
Michel Rocard age 23
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 56
Paul Wolfowitz age 9
Alain Poher age 44
Empress Michiko age 19
Prince Henrik of Denmark age 19
Abulfaz Elchibey age 15
Zhelyu Zhelev age 18
Hissène Habré age 11
Adly Mansour age 7
Georgios Papadopoulos age 34
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 3 months
Ferenc Mádl age 22
Árpád Göncz age 31
Laimdota Straujuma age 2
Ingvar Carlsson age 19
Rómulo Gallegos age 69
Frederick Chiluba age 10
Alejandro Toledo age 8
Maurice Gamelin age 81
Hayato Ikeda age 53
Noboru Takeshita age 29
Keizō Obuchi age 16
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 5
Jeff Sessions age 6
Gerry Adams age 5
Kirill Meretskov age 56
Oswald Mosley age 57
Hu Yaobang age 37
Clarence Thomas age 5
Iajuddin Ahmed age 22
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 3
Jan Fischer age 2
Danilo Medina age 1
Costas Simitis age 17
Abdul Salam Arif age 32
Abd al-Karim Qasim age 38
Ezer Weizman age 29
Isaac Navon age 32
Dries van Agt age 22
Thongloun Sisoulith age 8
Émile Lahoud age 17
Samuel Doe age 2
Jacques Santer age 16
Marc Ravalomanana age 3
Luis Echeverría age 31
Miguel de la Madrid age 18
Ne Win age 42
Ram Chandra Poudel age 9
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 7
Ueli Maurer age 2
Benjamin Mkapa age 15
Ricardo Martinelli age 1
Haris Silajdžić age 8
C. Rajagopalachari age 74
Ichirō Hatoyama age 70
Takeo Fukuda age 48
Morihiro Hosokawa age 15
Hendrik Verwoerd age 52
João Figueiredo age 35
Allen Dulles age 60
Andrey Vyshinsky age 69
Zita of Bourbon-Parma age 61
Princess Märtha of Sweden age 52
Jerry Brown age 15
Alice Paul age 68
Warren Christopher age 28
Rexhep Meidani age 9
Reynaldo Bignone age 25
Ayaz Mutallibov age 15
Quett Masire age 28
John Turner age 24
David Dacko age 23
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 43
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 9
H. D. Deve Gowda age 20
Abdul Rahman Arif age 37
Portia Simpson-Miller age 7
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 32
George William Vella age 11
Win Myint age 2
Jenny Shipley age 1
Mamadou Tandja age 15
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 6
S. R. Nathan age 29
Fouad Mebazaa age 20
Rupiah Banda age 16
Canaan Banana age 17
Han Duck-soo age 4
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio age 51
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 24
Raymond Barre age 29
Ernesto Geisel age 46
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 19
Ingrid of Sweden age 43
John Lewis age 13
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 56
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 17
Lon Nol age 40
Alfredo Palacio age 14
Siim Kallas age 5
Rose Francine Rogombe age 11
Otto Pérez Molina age 2
Álvaro Colom age 2
Mohammad Hatta age 51
Mariano Rumor age 38
Ciriaco De Mita age 25
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 10
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 7
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 1
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 38
Marcelo Caetano age 47
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 1
Trần Đức Lương age 16
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 44
Choi Kyu-hah age 34
Zenkō Suzuki age 42
Paul Reynaud age 75
Leon Panetta age 15
Mario Cuomo age 21
Lê Duẩn age 46
Li Xiannian age 44
George Wallace age 34
Alexander Haig age 28
Fatos Nano age 1
Franz Jonas age 54
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 38
Carlos Mesa age 2 months
Petar Stoyanov age 1
Patricio Aylwin age 34
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 37
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 35
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 5
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 6
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 13
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 12
Rómulo Betancourt age 45
José Paciano Laurel age 62
Sergio Osmeña age 75
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 27
Luis Carrero Blanco age 49
Harold Alexander age 61
Rodolfo Graziani age 71
Masayoshi Ōhira age 43
Sōsuke Uno age 31
Pierre Mendès France age 46
Oliver Tambo age 36
Gennady Yanayev age 16
Chadli Bendjedid age 24
Franz Vranitzky age 16
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 13
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 2
Muhyiddin Yassin age 6
Moussa Traoré age 17
Eddie Fenech Adami age 19
Adolfo López Mateos age 43
Ibrahim Babangida age 12
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 24
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 41
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 72
Takeo Miki age 46
William Westmoreland age 39
Venceslau Brás age 85
Georges Bidault age 54
Vasily Sokolovsky age 56
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 4
Marcel Lefebvre age 47
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 7
Craig Venter age 7
Francis Collins age 3
Yang Shangkun age 46
Stephen Breyer age 15
Thurgood Marshall age 45