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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

Kostas Karamanlis age 1
Haider Al-Abadi age 6
Catherine Connolly age 2
Emilio Colombo age 38
Choummaly Sayasone age 22
Michel Suleiman age 9
George Abela age 10
José López Portillo age 38
Milovan Đilas age 47
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 22
Girija Prasad Koirala age 34
Abdou Diouf age 22
Ernest Bai Koroma age 4
Milan Kučan age 17
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 16
Levy Mwanawasa age 9
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 9
Michel Rocard age 27
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 60
Paul Wolfowitz age 14
Alain Poher age 49
Abulfaz Elchibey age 20
Zhelyu Zhelev age 23
Hissène Habré age 15
Adly Mansour age 12
Georgios Papadopoulos age 39
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 5
Ferenc Mádl age 27
Árpád Göncz age 36
Laimdota Straujuma age 7
Min Aung Hlaing age 2
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 56
Tharman Shanmugaratnam age 1
Ingvar Carlsson age 23
Rómulo Gallegos age 74
Frederick Chiluba age 15
Alejandro Toledo age 13
Hwang Kyo-ahn age 1
Hayato Ikeda age 58
Noboru Takeshita age 34
Keizō Obuchi age 21
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 10
Jeff Sessions age 11
Oswald Mosley age 61
Tim Kaine age 5 months
Hu Yaobang age 42
Clarence Thomas age 10
Iajuddin Ahmed age 27
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
Jerry Brown age 20
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 52
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
Mario Cuomo age 26
Lê Duẩn age 51
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
Gennady Yanayev age 20
Chadli Bendjedid age 29
Franz Vranitzky age 20
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 18
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