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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

Than Shwe age 25
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 5
Bakir Izetbegović age 2
Albert Kesselring age 72
Hans Luther age 79
Javier Solana age 16
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 15
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 44
Talal I of Jordan age 49
Ruud Lubbers age 19
Bounnhang Vorachit age 21
Andris Bērziņš age 13
Hilda Heine age 7
Vladimir Voronin age 17
Kiro Gligorov age 41
Thorbjørn Jagland age 7
Jorge Sampaio age 18
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 61
George Tupou V of Tonga age 10
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 15
Franz Halder age 74
Toshiki Kaifu age 27
Kiichi Miyazawa age 38
Tsutomu Hata age 23
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 10
Édouard Balladur age 29
David Petraeus age 5
Daniel Cohn-Bendit age 13
Mike Huckabee age 2
Rick Perry age 8
Greg Abbott age 9 months
Eduardo Duhalde age 16
Malcolm Fraser age 28
Wolfgang Schüssel age 13
Artur Rasizade age 23
Ricardo Lagos age 20
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 32
Gyula Horn age 26
Fatmir Sejdiu age 6
Modibo Keïta age 43
Ernesto Zedillo age 6
Luísa Diogo age 4 months
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 32
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 5
Goh Chok Tong age 17
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 8
Tô Lâm age 1
Michael Sata age 21
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 19
Diosdado Macapagal age 47
Heinrich Brüning age 72
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 71
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 21
José Sarney age 28
Stanislav Shushkevich age 23
Princess Alice of Battenberg age 73
Walther Funk age 68
George Shultz age 37
Harold Holt age 50
Ziaur Rahman age 22
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
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 10
Milovan Đilas age 47
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 23
Girija Prasad Koirala age 34
Abdou Diouf age 22
Ernest Bai Koroma age 4
Milan Kučan age 17
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 17
Levy Mwanawasa age 9
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 9
Michel Rocard age 28
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 60
Paul Wolfowitz age 14
Alain Poher age 49
Empress Michiko age 23
Prince Henrik of Denmark age 24
Abulfaz Elchibey age 20
Zhelyu Zhelev age 23
Hissène Habré age 16
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
Francisco Guterres age 3
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
Gerry Adams age 9
Kirill Meretskov age 61
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
Miguel de la Madrid age 23
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
Allen Dulles age 65
Zita of Bourbon-Parma age 66
Jerry Brown age 20
Alice Paul age 73
Warren Christopher age 32
Rexhep Meidani age 14
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
H. D. Deve Gowda age 25
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 24
Ingrid of Sweden age 48
John Lewis age 18
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 22
Lon Nol age 44
Alfredo Palacio age 19
Siim Kallas age 9
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