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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
Great Leap Forward 1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Great Chinese Famine 1959-01-01 - 1961-12-31
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01

People

Keizō Obuchi age 21
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 10
Jeff Sessions age 12
Hu Yaobang age 43
Clarence Thomas age 10
Iajuddin Ahmed age 28
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 9
Luis Guillermo Solís age 9 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 28
Thongloun Sisoulith age 13
Émile Lahoud age 23
Samuel Doe age 7
Jacques Santer age 21
Marc Ravalomanana age 9
Hery Rajaonarimampianina age 3 months
Lazarus Chakwera age 3
Luis Echeverría age 37
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
Warren Christopher age 33
Rexhep Meidani age 14
Reynaldo Bignone age 31
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
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 7
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
John Lewis age 18
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 23
Lon Nol age 45
Azali Assoumani age 1 month
Alfredo Palacio age 20
Frank Bainimarama age 4
Rose Francine Rogombe age 16
Otto Pérez Molina age 8
Álvaro Colom age 7
Mohammad Hatta age 56
Mariano Rumor age 43
Ciriaco De Mita age 31
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 15
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 13
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 6
Zdravko Krivokapić age 5 months
Boris Trajkovski age 2
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 44
Marcelo Caetano age 52
Mikhail Kasianov age 1
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 6
Trần Đức Lương age 21
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 50
Choi Kyu-hah age 39
Zenkō Suzuki age 48
Paul Reynaud age 80
Leon Panetta age 20
Philip Hammond age 3
Lê Duẩn age 51
Li Xiannian age 49
George Wallace age 39
Alexander Haig age 34
Fatos Nano age 6
Franz Jonas age 59
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 43
Carlos Mesa age 5
Petar Stoyanov age 6
Patricio Aylwin age 40
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 42
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 3
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 40
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 11
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 11
Davíð Oddsson age 11
Giovanni Spadolini age 33
Arnaldo Forlani age 33
Raila A Odinga age 14
Anote Tong age 6
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 18
Anerood Jugnauth age 28
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 47
Zinaida Greceanîi age 3
Armando Guebuza age 16
Farooq Leghari age 18
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 7
Emil Constantinescu age 19
Evaristo Carvalho age 17
Rómulo Betancourt age 50
José Paciano Laurel age 67
Sergio Osmeña age 80
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 32
Luis Carrero Blanco age 54
Masayoshi Ōhira age 48
Sōsuke Uno age 36
Pierre Mendès France age 52
Peng Dehuai age 60
Gennady Yanayev age 21
Chadli Bendjedid age 29
Franz Vranitzky age 21
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 18
Wilfried Martens age 22
Dean Barrow age 7
Louis St. Laurent age 77
Aristides Pereira age 35
Pedro Pires age 24
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 48
Sherif Ismail age 3
Geir Haarde age 7
Ephraim Katzir age 42
Giovanni Goria age 15
Rolandas Paksas age 2
Algirdas Butkevičius age 2 months
Gediminas Kirkilas age 7
Muhyiddin Yassin age 11
Moussa Traoré age 22
Eddie Fenech Adami age 25
U Nu age 51
Ibrahim Babangida age 17
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 29
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 29
Vladimír Mečiar age 16
Ronald Venetiaan age 22
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 2
Rafael Caldera age 43
Hanna Suchocka age 12
Fernando Belaúnde age 46
Abdalla Hamdok age 3
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 77
Takeo Miki age 51
William Westmoreland age 44
Venceslau Brás age 91
Georges Bidault age 59
Yang Shangkun age 51
Stephen Breyer age 20
Thurgood Marshall age 50
James F. Byrnes age 76
Hubert Maga age 42
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 37
Sylvie Kinigi age 6
Arthur Meighen age 84
Jioji Konrote age 11
Paavo Lipponen age 17
Georgios Papandreou age 71
Alejandro Giammattei age 2
Bernardo Arévalo de León age 4 months
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 11
Zalman Shazar age 69
Piet de Jong age 43
Guntis Ulmanis age 19
Philibert Tsiranana age 46
Abdul Razak Hussein age 36
Lawrence Gonzi age 5
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani age 2
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 58
Mircea Snegur age 19
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 8 months
Shaukat Aziz age 9
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 2
Sergei Stepashin age 6
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 34
Paula-Mae Weekes age 1 month
Najla Bouden age 7 months
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 36
Nicanor Duarte age 2
Maxime Weygand age 92
Nikolai Tikhonov age 53