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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
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08

People

Alain Poher age 47
Abulfaz Elchibey age 18
Zhelyu Zhelev age 22
Hissène Habré age 14
Adly Mansour age 11
Georgios Papadopoulos age 37
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 3
Ferenc Mádl age 26
Árpád Göncz age 35
Laimdota Straujuma age 6
Min Aung Hlaing age 7 months
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 55
Tharman Shanmugaratnam age 1 month
Ingvar Carlsson age 22
Rómulo Gallegos age 72
Frederick Chiluba age 13
Alejandro Toledo age 11
Maurice Gamelin age 84
Hayato Ikeda age 57
Noboru Takeshita age 33
Keizō Obuchi age 19
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 8
Jeff Sessions age 10
Oswald Mosley age 60
Hu Yaobang age 41
Clarence Thomas age 8
Iajuddin Ahmed age 26
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 7
Jan Fischer age 6
Danilo Medina age 5
Costas Simitis age 20
Abdul Salam Arif age 36
Abd al-Karim Qasim age 42
Ezer Weizman age 32
Isaac Navon age 35
Dries van Agt age 26
Thongloun Sisoulith age 11
Émile Lahoud age 21
Samuel Doe age 5
Jacques Santer age 19
Marc Ravalomanana age 7
Lazarus Chakwera age 1
Luis Echeverría age 35
Ne Win age 45
Ram Chandra Poudel age 12
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 10
Ueli Maurer age 6
Benjamin Mkapa age 18
Ricardo Martinelli age 4
Haris Silajdžić age 11
C. Rajagopalachari age 78
Ichirō Hatoyama age 74
Takeo Fukuda age 52
Morihiro Hosokawa age 19
Hendrik Verwoerd age 55
João Figueiredo age 39
Jerry Brown age 18
Warren Christopher age 31
Rexhep Meidani age 12
Reynaldo Bignone age 29
Ayaz Mutallibov age 18
Quett Masire age 31
John Turner age 27
David Dacko age 26
Catherine Samba-Panza age 2
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 47
Leonel Fernández age 3
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 12
Abdul Rahman Arif age 40
Portia Simpson-Miller age 11
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 36
George William Vella age 14
Win Myint age 5
Jenny Shipley age 5
Mamadou Tandja age 18
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 9
S. R. Nathan age 32
Taur Matan Ruak age 4 months
Fouad Mebazaa age 23
Rupiah Banda age 20
Canaan Banana age 20
Han Duck-soo age 7
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio age 54
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 27
Raymond Barre age 32
Ernesto Geisel age 49
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 22
John Lewis age 17
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 21
Lon Nol age 43
Alfredo Palacio age 18
Frank Bainimarama age 2
Rose Francine Rogombe age 14
Otto Pérez Molina age 6
Álvaro Colom age 5
Mohammad Hatta age 54
Mariano Rumor age 41
Ciriaco De Mita age 29
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 13
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 11
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 4
Boris Trajkovski age 8 months
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 42
Marcelo Caetano age 50
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 4
Trần Đức Lương age 19
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 48
Choi Kyu-hah age 37
Zenkō Suzuki age 46
Paul Reynaud age 78
Leon Panetta age 18
Philip Hammond age 1
Mario Cuomo age 24
Lê Duẩn age 49
George Wallace age 37
Alexander Haig age 32
Fatos Nano age 4
Franz Jonas age 57
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 41
Carlos Mesa age 3
Petar Stoyanov age 4
Patricio Aylwin age 38
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 40
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 2
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 38
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 9
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 9
Davíð Oddsson age 9
Giovanni Spadolini age 31
Arnaldo Forlani age 31
Raila A Odinga age 12
Anote Tong age 4
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 16
Anerood Jugnauth age 26
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 45
Zinaida Greceanîi age 1
Armando Guebuza age 14
Farooq Leghari age 16
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 5
Emil Constantinescu age 17
Evaristo Carvalho age 15
Rómulo Betancourt age 49
José Paciano Laurel age 66
Sergio Osmeña age 78
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 30
Luis Carrero Blanco age 53
Masayoshi Ōhira age 46
Sōsuke Uno age 34
Pierre Mendès France age 50
Gennady Yanayev age 19
Chadli Bendjedid age 27
Franz Vranitzky age 19
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 16
Wilfried Martens age 20
Dean Barrow age 5
Aristides Pereira age 33
Pedro Pires age 22
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 46
Sherif Ismail age 1
Geir Haarde age 5
Ephraim Katzir age 40
Giovanni Goria age 13
Rolandas Paksas age 8 months
Gediminas Kirkilas age 5
Muhyiddin Yassin age 9
Moussa Traoré age 20
Eddie Fenech Adami age 23
Adolfo López Mateos age 46
U Nu age 49
Ibrahim Babangida age 15
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 27
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 27
Vladimír Mečiar age 14
Ronald Venetiaan age 20
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 11 months
Rafael Caldera age 41
Hanna Suchocka age 10
Fernando Belaúnde age 44
Abdalla Hamdok age 1
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 75
Takeo Miki age 49
William Westmoreland age 42
Venceslau Brás age 89
Georges Bidault age 57
Yang Shangkun age 49
Stephen Breyer age 18
Thurgood Marshall age 48
James F. Byrnes age 74
Hubert Maga age 40
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 35
Sylvie Kinigi age 4
Arthur Meighen age 82
Jioji Konrote age 9
Paavo Lipponen age 15
Léon M'ba age 55
Georgios Papandreou age 69
Alejandro Giammattei age 11 months
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 9
Zalman Shazar age 67
Piet de Jong age 41