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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
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
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961

People

Kurt Schuschnigg age 61
Zillur Rahman age 29
François Bozizé age 12
Mirek Topolánek age 2
Tamás Sulyok age 2
Inder Kumar Gujral age 39
V. P. Singh age 27
Masoud Barzani age 12
Thein Sein age 13
Than Shwe age 25
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 6
Bakir Izetbegović age 2
Albert Kesselring age 73
Hans Luther age 79
Javier Solana age 16
Jim Mattis age 8
Fernando de la Rúa age 21
Ali Asadov age 2
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 34
Lansana Conté age 24
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 14
Hilda Heine age 7
Vladimir Voronin age 17
Kiro Gligorov age 41
Thorbjørn Jagland age 8
Jorge Sampaio age 19
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 61
George Tupou V of Tonga age 10
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 16
Franz Halder age 74
Toshiki Kaifu age 28
Kiichi Miyazawa age 39
Tsutomu Hata age 23
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 10
Édouard Balladur age 29
David Petraeus age 6
Daniel Cohn-Bendit age 13
Mike Huckabee age 3
Rick Perry age 8
Greg Abbott age 1
Eduardo Duhalde age 17
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 7
Modibo Keïta age 43
Ernesto Zedillo age 7
Luísa Diogo age 9 months
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 33
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 5
Goh Chok Tong age 17
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 9
Tô Lâm age 1
Michael Sata age 21
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 20
Diosdado Macapagal age 48
Heinrich Brüning age 73
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 71
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 21
José Sarney age 28
Stanislav Shushkevich age 24
Princess Alice of Battenberg age 73
Walther Funk age 68
George Shultz age 38
Harold Holt age 50
Ziaur Rahman age 22
Kostas Karamanlis age 2
Haider Al-Abadi age 6
Catherine Connolly age 3
Emilio Colombo age 38
Choummaly Sayasone age 22
Michel Suleiman age 10
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 23
Ernest Bai Koroma age 5
Milan Kučan age 18
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 17
Levy Mwanawasa age 10
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 9
Michel Rocard age 28
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 61
Paul Wolfowitz age 15
Alain Poher age 49
Empress Michiko age 24
Prince Henrik of Denmark age 24
Abulfaz Elchibey age 20
Zhelyu Zhelev age 23
Hissène Habré age 16
Adly Mansour age 13
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 57
Tharman Shanmugaratnam age 1
Ingvar Carlsson age 24
Francisco Guterres age 4
Rómulo Gallegos age 74
Frederick Chiluba age 15
Alejandro Toledo age 13
Hwang Kyo-ahn age 1
Hayato Ikeda age 59
Noboru Takeshita age 34
Keizō Obuchi age 21
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 10
Jeff Sessions age 12
Gerry Adams age 10
Kirill Meretskov age 61
Oswald Mosley age 62
Tim Kaine age 10 months
Hu Yaobang age 43
Clarence Thomas age 10
Iajuddin Ahmed age 27
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 9
Luis Guillermo Solís age 8 months
Jan Fischer age 8
Danilo Medina age 7
Costas Simitis age 22
Abdul Salam Arif age 38
Ezer Weizman age 34
Isaac Navon age 37
Dries van Agt age 27
Thongloun Sisoulith age 13
Émile Lahoud age 23
Samuel Doe age 7
Jacques Santer age 21
Marc Ravalomanana age 9
Hery Rajaonarimampianina age 2 months
Lazarus Chakwera age 3
Luis Echeverría age 37
Miguel de la Madrid age 24
Ram Chandra Poudel age 14
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 12
Ueli Maurer age 8
Benjamin Mkapa age 20
Ricardo Martinelli age 6
Haris Silajdžić age 13
C. Rajagopalachari age 80
Ichirō Hatoyama age 76
Takeo Fukuda age 54
Morihiro Hosokawa age 21
João Figueiredo age 41
Allen Dulles age 65
Zita of Bourbon-Parma age 66
Jerry Brown age 20
Alice Paul age 74
Warren Christopher age 33
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 49
Leonel Fernández age 5
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 14
H. D. Deve Gowda age 25
Abdul Rahman Arif age 42
Portia Simpson-Miller age 13
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 38
George William Vella age 16
Win Myint age 7
Jenny Shipley age 6
Mamadou Tandja age 20
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 11
S. R. Nathan age 34
Taur Matan Ruak age 2
Fouad Mebazaa age 25
Rupiah Banda age 21
Canaan Banana age 22
Han Duck-soo age 9
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio age 56
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 29
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 23
Lon Nol age 45
Azali Assoumani age 0 months
Alfredo Palacio age 19
Siim Kallas age 10
Frank Bainimarama age 4