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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
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962

People

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 5
Bakir Izetbegović age 1
Albert Kesselring age 72
Hans Luther age 78
Javier Solana age 15
Jim Mattis age 7
Fernando de la Rúa age 20
Ali Asadov age 1
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 33
Lansana Conté age 23
René Préval age 14
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 43
Talal I of Jordan age 48
Ruud Lubbers age 18
Bounnhang Vorachit age 20
Andris Bērziņš age 13
Hilda Heine age 6
Vladimir Voronin age 16
Kiro Gligorov age 40
Thorbjørn Jagland age 7
Jorge Sampaio age 18
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 60
George Tupou V of Tonga age 9
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 15
Franz Halder age 73
Toshiki Kaifu age 27
Kiichi Miyazawa age 38
Tsutomu Hata age 22
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 9
Édouard Balladur age 28
David Petraeus age 5
Daniel Cohn-Bendit age 12
Mike Huckabee age 2
Rick Perry age 7
Greg Abbott age 1 month
Eduardo Duhalde age 16
Malcolm Fraser age 27
Wolfgang Schüssel age 12
Artur Rasizade age 22
Ricardo Lagos age 19
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 31
Gyula Horn age 25
Fatmir Sejdiu age 6
Modibo Keïta age 42
Ernesto Zedillo age 6
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 32
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 4
Goh Chok Tong age 16
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 8
Tô Lâm age 5 months
Michael Sata age 20
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 19
Diosdado Macapagal age 47
Heinrich Brüning age 72
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 70
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 20
José Sarney age 27
Stanislav Shushkevich age 23
Princess Alice of Battenberg age 72
Walther Funk age 67
George Shultz age 37
Harold Holt age 49
Ziaur Rahman age 21
Kostas Karamanlis age 1
Haider Al-Abadi age 5
Catherine Connolly age 2
Emilio Colombo age 37
Choummaly Sayasone age 21
Michel Suleiman age 9
George Abela age 9
José López Portillo age 37
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 9
Milovan Đilas age 46
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 22
Girija Prasad Koirala age 33
Abdou Diouf age 22
Ernest Bai Koroma age 4
Milan Kučan age 16
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 16
Levy Mwanawasa age 9
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 8
Michel Rocard age 27
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 60
Paul Wolfowitz age 14
Alain Poher age 48
Empress Michiko age 23
Prince Henrik of Denmark age 23
Abulfaz Elchibey age 19
Zhelyu Zhelev age 22
Hissène Habré age 15
Adly Mansour age 12
Georgios Papadopoulos age 38
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 4
Ferenc Mádl age 26
Árpád Göncz age 35
Laimdota Straujuma age 6
Min Aung Hlaing age 1
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 56
Tharman Shanmugaratnam age 11 months
Ingvar Carlsson age 23
Francisco Guterres age 3
Rómulo Gallegos age 73
Frederick Chiluba age 14
Alejandro Toledo age 12
Hwang Kyo-ahn age 8 months
Maurice Gamelin age 85
Hayato Ikeda age 58
Noboru Takeshita age 33
Keizō Obuchi age 20
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 9
Jeff Sessions age 11
Gerry Adams age 9
Kirill Meretskov age 60
Oswald Mosley age 61
Hu Yaobang age 42
Clarence Thomas age 9
Iajuddin Ahmed age 26
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 8
Jan Fischer age 7
Danilo Medina age 6
Costas Simitis age 21
Abdul Salam Arif age 37
Abd al-Karim Qasim age 43
Ezer Weizman age 33
Isaac Navon age 36
Dries van Agt age 26
Thongloun Sisoulith age 12
Émile Lahoud age 21
Samuel Doe age 6
Jacques Santer age 20
Marc Ravalomanana age 8
Lazarus Chakwera age 2
Luis Echeverría age 35
Miguel de la Madrid age 23
Ne Win age 46
Ram Chandra Poudel age 13
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 11
Ueli Maurer age 7
Benjamin Mkapa age 19
Ricardo Martinelli age 5
Haris Silajdžić age 12
C. Rajagopalachari age 79
Ichirō Hatoyama age 75
Takeo Fukuda age 53
Morihiro Hosokawa age 19
Hendrik Verwoerd age 56
João Figueiredo age 39
Allen Dulles age 64
Zita of Bourbon-Parma age 65
Jerry Brown age 19
Alice Paul age 73
Warren Christopher age 32
Rexhep Meidani age 13
Reynaldo Bignone age 29
Ayaz Mutallibov age 19
Quett Masire age 32
John Turner age 28
David Dacko age 27
Catherine Samba-Panza age 3
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 48
Leonel Fernández age 4
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 13
H. D. Deve Gowda age 24
Abdul Rahman Arif age 41
Portia Simpson-Miller age 12
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 37
George William Vella age 15
Win Myint age 6
Jenny Shipley age 5
Mamadou Tandja age 19
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 10
S. R. Nathan age 33
Taur Matan Ruak age 1
Fouad Mebazaa age 24
Rupiah Banda age 20
Canaan Banana age 21
Han Duck-soo age 8
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio age 55
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 28
Raymond Barre age 33
Ernesto Geisel age 50
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 23
Ingrid of Sweden age 47
John Lewis age 17
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 22
Lon Nol age 44
Alfredo Palacio age 18
Siim Kallas age 9
Frank Bainimarama age 3
Rose Francine Rogombe age 15
Otto Pérez Molina age 7
Álvaro Colom age 6
Mohammad Hatta age 55
Mariano Rumor age 42
Ciriaco De Mita age 29
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 14
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 11
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 5
Boris Trajkovski age 1
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 42