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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

Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 29
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 1
Goh Chok Tong age 13
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 5
Michael Sata age 17
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 16
Diosdado Macapagal age 44
Heinrich Brüning age 69
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 67
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 17
José Sarney age 24
Stanislav Shushkevich age 20
Princess Alice of Battenberg age 70
Walther Funk age 64
George Shultz age 34
Harold Holt age 46
Ziaur Rahman age 19
Haider Al-Abadi age 2
Emilio Colombo age 35
Choummaly Sayasone age 19
Michel Suleiman age 6
George Abela age 6
José López Portillo age 34
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 7
Milovan Đilas age 43
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 19
Girija Prasad Koirala age 30
Abdou Diouf age 19
Ernest Bai Koroma age 1
Milan Kučan age 14
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 13
Levy Mwanawasa age 6
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 5
Michel Rocard age 24
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 57
Paul Wolfowitz age 11
Alain Poher age 46
Empress Michiko age 20
Prince Henrik of Denmark age 20
Abulfaz Elchibey age 16
Zhelyu Zhelev age 20
Hissène Habré age 12
Adly Mansour age 9
Georgios Papadopoulos age 35
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 1
Ferenc Mádl age 24
Árpád Göncz age 33
Laimdota Straujuma age 4
Ingvar Carlsson age 20
Francisco Guterres age 7 months
Rómulo Gallegos age 70
Frederick Chiluba age 11
Alejandro Toledo age 10
Maurice Gamelin age 82
Hayato Ikeda age 55
Noboru Takeshita age 31
Keizō Obuchi age 17
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 7
Jeff Sessions age 8
Gerry Adams age 6
Kirill Meretskov age 57
Oswald Mosley age 58
Hu Yaobang age 39
Clarence Thomas age 6
Iajuddin Ahmed age 24
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 5
Jan Fischer age 4
Danilo Medina age 3
Costas Simitis age 18
Abdul Salam Arif age 34
Abd al-Karim Qasim age 40
Ezer Weizman age 30
Isaac Navon age 34
Dries van Agt age 24
Thongloun Sisoulith age 9
Émile Lahoud age 19
Samuel Doe age 3
Jacques Santer age 17
Marc Ravalomanana age 5
Lazarus Chakwera age 0 months
Luis Echeverría age 33
Miguel de la Madrid age 20
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 3
Haris Silajdžić age 9
C. Rajagopalachari age 76
Takeo Fukuda age 50
Morihiro Hosokawa age 17
Hendrik Verwoerd age 53
João Figueiredo age 37
Allen Dulles age 62
Zita of Bourbon-Parma age 62
Jerry Brown age 17
Alice Paul age 70
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 25
Catherine Samba-Panza age 9 months
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 45
Leonel Fernández age 1
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 10
H. D. Deve Gowda age 21
Abdul Rahman Arif age 39
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 31
Ernesto Geisel age 47
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 20
Ingrid of Sweden age 45
John Lewis age 15
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 57
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 19
Lon Nol age 41
Alfredo Palacio age 16
Siim Kallas age 6
Frank Bainimarama age 11 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 48
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 1 month
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 25
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 29
Luis Carrero Blanco age 51
Harold Alexander age 63
Masayoshi Ōhira age 45
Sōsuke Uno age 32
Pierre Mendès France age 48
Oliver Tambo age 37
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