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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 1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01

People

Mohammad Shahabuddin age 8
Luis Guillermo Solís age 3 months
Jan Fischer age 7
Danilo Medina age 6
Costas Simitis age 22
Abdul Salam Arif age 37
Ezer Weizman age 34
Isaac Navon age 37
Dries van Agt age 27
Thongloun Sisoulith age 12
Émile Lahoud age 22
Samuel Doe age 7
Jacques Santer age 21
Marc Ravalomanana age 8
Lazarus Chakwera age 3
Luis Echeverría age 36
Ne Win age 47
Ram Chandra Poudel age 13
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 12
Ueli Maurer age 7
Benjamin Mkapa age 19
Ricardo Martinelli age 6
Haris Silajdžić age 12
C. Rajagopalachari age 79
Ichirō Hatoyama age 75
Takeo Fukuda age 53
Morihiro Hosokawa age 20
Hendrik Verwoerd age 56
João Figueiredo age 40
Warren Christopher age 32
Rexhep Meidani age 13
Reynaldo Bignone age 30
Ayaz Mutallibov age 20
Quett Masire age 33
John Turner age 29
David Dacko age 28
Catherine Samba-Panza age 4
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 48
Leonel Fernández age 4
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 14
Abdul Rahman Arif age 42
Portia Simpson-Miller age 12
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 37
George William Vella age 16
Win Myint age 6
Jenny Shipley age 6
Mamadou Tandja age 20
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 10
S. R. Nathan age 34
Taur Matan Ruak age 1
Fouad Mebazaa age 25
Rupiah Banda age 21
Canaan Banana age 22
Han Duck-soo age 9
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio age 55
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 28
Raymond Barre age 34
Ernesto Geisel age 51
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 23
John Lewis age 18
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 22
Lon Nol age 44
Alfredo Palacio age 19
Frank Bainimarama age 4
Rose Francine Rogombe age 15
Otto Pérez Molina age 7
Álvaro Colom age 7
Mohammad Hatta age 56
Mariano Rumor age 43
Ciriaco De Mita age 30
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 15
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 12
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 5
Boris Trajkovski age 2
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 43
Marcelo Caetano age 51
Mikhail Kasianov age 7 months
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 6
Trần Đức Lương age 21
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 49
Choi Kyu-hah age 39
Zenkō Suzuki age 47
Paul Reynaud age 79
Leon Panetta age 20
Philip Hammond age 2
Lê Duẩn age 51
Li Xiannian age 49
George Wallace age 38
Alexander Haig age 33
Fatos Nano age 5
Franz Jonas age 58
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 43
Carlos Mesa age 4
Petar Stoyanov age 6
Patricio Aylwin age 39
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 41
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 3
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 39
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 10
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 10
Davíð Oddsson age 10
Giovanni Spadolini age 33
Arnaldo Forlani age 32
Raila A Odinga age 13
Anote Tong age 6
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 17
Anerood Jugnauth age 28
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 47
Zinaida Greceanîi age 2
Armando Guebuza age 15
Farooq Leghari age 18
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 6
Emil Constantinescu age 18
Evaristo Carvalho age 16
Rómulo Betancourt age 50
José Paciano Laurel age 67
Sergio Osmeña age 79
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 32
Luis Carrero Blanco age 54
Masayoshi Ōhira age 48
Sōsuke Uno age 35
Pierre Mendès France age 51
Peng Dehuai age 59
Gennady Yanayev age 20
Chadli Bendjedid age 29
Franz Vranitzky age 20
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 17
Wilfried Martens age 22
Dean Barrow age 7
Louis St. Laurent age 76
Aristides Pereira age 34
Pedro Pires age 24
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 47
Sherif Ismail age 3
Geir Haarde age 7
Ephraim Katzir age 42
Giovanni Goria age 15
Rolandas Paksas age 2
Gediminas Kirkilas age 6
Muhyiddin Yassin age 11
Moussa Traoré age 21
Eddie Fenech Adami age 24
Adolfo López Mateos age 48
U Nu age 51
Ibrahim Babangida age 16
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 28
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 28
Vladimír Mečiar age 16
Ronald Venetiaan age 22
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 2
Rafael Caldera age 42
Hanna Suchocka age 12
Fernando Belaúnde age 45
Abdalla Hamdok age 2
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 77
Takeo Miki age 51
William Westmoreland age 44
Venceslau Brás age 90
Georges Bidault age 58
Yang Shangkun age 51
Stephen Breyer age 19
Thurgood Marshall age 50
James F. Byrnes age 76
Hubert Maga age 42
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 36
Sylvie Kinigi age 5
Arthur Meighen age 84
Jioji Konrote age 10
Paavo Lipponen age 17
Georgios Papandreou age 70
Alejandro Giammattei age 2
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 11
Zalman Shazar age 68
Piet de Jong age 43
Guntis Ulmanis age 18
Philibert Tsiranana age 45
Abdul Razak Hussein age 36
Lawrence Gonzi age 5
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani age 1
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 57
Mircea Snegur age 18
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 2 months
Shaukat Aziz age 9
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 2
Sergei Stepashin age 6
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 34
Najla Bouden age 1 month
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 35
Nicanor Duarte age 1
Maxime Weygand age 91
Nikolai Tikhonov age 53
Jânio Quadros age 41
Ash Carter age 3
Daniel Inouye age 33
Ronald McNair age 7
Lawrence Eagleburger age 28
Anthony Kennedy age 22
Dean Rusk age 49
Cyrus Vance age 41
Arturo Umberto Illia age 58