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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
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
First Taiwan Strait Crisis 1954-09-03 - 1955-05-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19

People

Émile Lahoud age 19
Samuel Doe age 3
Jacques Santer age 17
Marc Ravalomanana age 5
Luis Echeverría age 33
Ne Win age 43
Ram Chandra Poudel age 10
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 8
Ueli Maurer age 4
Benjamin Mkapa age 16
Ricardo Martinelli age 2
Haris Silajdžić age 9
C. Rajagopalachari age 76
Takeo Fukuda age 50
Morihiro Hosokawa age 17
Hendrik Verwoerd age 53
João Figueiredo age 37
Jerry Brown age 16
Warren Christopher age 29
Rexhep Meidani age 10
Reynaldo Bignone age 27
Ayaz Mutallibov age 16
Quett Masire age 29
John Turner age 25
David Dacko age 24
Catherine Samba-Panza age 8 months
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 45
Leonel Fernández age 1
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 10
Abdul Rahman Arif age 38
Portia Simpson-Miller age 9
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 34
George William Vella age 12
Win Myint age 3
Jenny Shipley age 3
Mamadou Tandja age 16
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 7
S. R. Nathan age 30
Fouad Mebazaa age 21
Rupiah Banda age 18
Canaan Banana age 19
Han Duck-soo age 5
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio age 52
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 25
Raymond Barre age 30
Ernesto Geisel age 47
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 20
John Lewis age 15
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 57
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 19
Lon Nol age 41
Alfredo Palacio age 16
Frank Bainimarama age 10 months
Rose Francine Rogombe age 12
Otto Pérez Molina age 4
Álvaro Colom age 3
Mohammad Hatta age 52
Mariano Rumor age 39
Ciriaco De Mita age 27
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 11
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 9
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 2
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 40
Marcelo Caetano age 48
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 2
Trần Đức Lương age 17
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 46
Choi Kyu-hah age 35
Zenkō Suzuki age 44
Paul Reynaud age 76
Leon Panetta age 16
Mario Cuomo age 22
Lê Duẩn age 47
George Wallace age 35
Alexander Haig age 30
Fatos Nano age 2
Franz Jonas age 55
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 40
Carlos Mesa age 1
Petar Stoyanov age 2
Patricio Aylwin age 36
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 38
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 0 months
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 36
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 7
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 7
Davíð Oddsson age 7
Giovanni Spadolini age 29
Arnaldo Forlani age 29
Raila A Odinga age 10
Anote Tong age 2
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 14
Anerood Jugnauth age 24
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 44
Armando Guebuza age 12
Farooq Leghari age 14
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 3
Emil Constantinescu age 15
Evaristo Carvalho age 13
Rómulo Betancourt age 47
José Paciano Laurel age 64
Sergio Osmeña age 76
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 28
Luis Carrero Blanco age 51
Masayoshi Ōhira age 45
Sōsuke Uno age 32
Pierre Mendès France age 48
Gennady Yanayev age 17
Chadli Bendjedid age 25
Franz Vranitzky age 17
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 14
Wilfried Martens age 18
Dean Barrow age 4
Aristides Pereira age 31
Pedro Pires age 20
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 44
Geir Haarde age 3
Ephraim Katzir age 38
Giovanni Goria age 11
Gediminas Kirkilas age 3
Muhyiddin Yassin age 7
Moussa Traoré age 18
Eddie Fenech Adami age 21
Adolfo López Mateos age 44
Ibrahim Babangida age 13
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 25
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 25
Vladimír Mečiar age 12
Ronald Venetiaan age 18
Rafael Caldera age 39
Hanna Suchocka age 8
Fernando Belaúnde age 42
Elpidio Quirino age 64
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 73
Takeo Miki age 48
William Westmoreland age 40
Venceslau Brás age 87
Georges Bidault age 55
Yang Shangkun age 47
Stephen Breyer age 16
Thurgood Marshall age 46
James F. Byrnes age 72
Hubert Maga age 38
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 33
Sylvie Kinigi age 2
Arthur Meighen age 80
Jioji Konrote age 7
Paavo Lipponen age 13
Léon M'ba age 53
Georgios Papandreou age 67
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 7
Zalman Shazar age 65
Piet de Jong age 39
Guntis Ulmanis age 15
Philibert Tsiranana age 42
Abdul Razak Hussein age 33
Lawrence Gonzi age 1
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 54
Mircea Snegur age 15
Shaukat Aziz age 6
Sergei Stepashin age 3
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 30
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 32
Maxime Weygand age 88
Nikolai Tikhonov age 49
Jânio Quadros age 38
Ash Carter age 5 months
Michael Dukakis age 21
Daniel Inouye age 30
Ronald McNair age 4
Lawrence Eagleburger age 24
Anthony Kennedy age 18
Dean Rusk age 46
Cyrus Vance age 37
Arturo Umberto Illia age 54
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 7
Arturo Frondizi age 46
William McMahon age 47
Earle Page age 74
Joe Clark age 15
François Tombalbaye age 36
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 12
Tshombé Moïse age 35
Harri Holkeri age 18
Efraín Ríos Montt age 28
Kristján Eldjárn age 38
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 42
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 49
Yigal Allon age 36
Henri Konan Bédié age 20
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 28
Gaston Thorn age 26
Htin Kyaw age 8
Yakubu Gowon age 20
Shehu Shagari age 30
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 9
Mirko Cvetković age 4
Rudolf Schuster age 21
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 12
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 29