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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 1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Great Chinese Famine 1959-01-01 - 1961-12-31
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02

People

Emilio Colombo age 39
Choummaly Sayasone age 23
Michel Suleiman age 11
George Abela age 11
José López Portillo age 39
Milovan Đilas age 48
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 24
Girija Prasad Koirala age 35
Abdou Diouf age 24
Ernest Bai Koroma age 6
Milan Kučan age 18
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 18
Levy Mwanawasa age 11
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 10
Michel Rocard age 29
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 62
Paul Wolfowitz age 15
Alain Poher age 50
Abulfaz Elchibey age 21
Zhelyu Zhelev age 24
Hissène Habré age 17
Adly Mansour age 13
Georgios Papadopoulos age 40
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 6
Ferenc Mádl age 28
Árpád Göncz age 37
Laimdota Straujuma age 8
Min Aung Hlaing age 3
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 58
Tharman Shanmugaratnam age 2
Ingvar Carlsson age 25
Rómulo Gallegos age 75
Frederick Chiluba age 16
Alejandro Toledo age 14
Hwang Kyo-ahn age 2
Hayato Ikeda age 60
Noboru Takeshita age 35
Keizō Obuchi age 22
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 11
Jeff Sessions age 12
Hu Yaobang age 44
Clarence Thomas age 11
Iajuddin Ahmed age 28
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 9
Luis Guillermo Solís age 1
Jan Fischer age 8
Danilo Medina age 8
Costas Simitis age 23
Abdul Salam Arif age 38
Ezer Weizman age 35
Isaac Navon age 38
Dries van Agt age 28
Thongloun Sisoulith age 14
Émile Lahoud age 23
Samuel Doe age 8
Jacques Santer age 22
Marc Ravalomanana age 9
Hery Rajaonarimampianina age 1
Lazarus Chakwera age 4
Luis Echeverría age 37
Ram Chandra Poudel age 15
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 13
Ueli Maurer age 9
Benjamin Mkapa age 21
Ricardo Martinelli age 7
Haris Silajdžić age 14
C. Rajagopalachari age 81
Takeo Fukuda age 54
Morihiro Hosokawa age 21
João Figueiredo age 41
Warren Christopher age 34
Rexhep Meidani age 15
Reynaldo Bignone age 31
Ayaz Mutallibov age 21
Quett Masire age 34
John Turner age 30
Catherine Samba-Panza age 5
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 49
Leonel Fernández age 5
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 15
Abdul Rahman Arif age 43
Portia Simpson-Miller age 13
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 38
George William Vella age 17
Win Myint age 8
Jenny Shipley age 7
Mamadou Tandja age 21
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 12
S. R. Nathan age 35
Taur Matan Ruak age 3
Fouad Mebazaa age 26
Rupiah Banda age 22
Canaan Banana age 23
Han Duck-soo age 10
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio age 57
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 30
Raymond Barre age 35
Ernesto Geisel age 52
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 25
John Lewis age 19
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 24
Lon Nol age 46
Azali Assoumani age 11 months
Alfredo Palacio age 20
Frank Bainimarama age 5
Rose Francine Rogombe age 17
Otto Pérez Molina age 9
Álvaro Colom age 8
Mohammad Hatta age 57
Mariano Rumor age 44
Ciriaco De Mita age 31
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 16
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 13
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 7
Zdravko Krivokapić age 1
Boris Trajkovski age 3
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 44
Marcelo Caetano age 53
Mikhail Kasianov age 1
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 7
Trần Đức Lương age 22
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 51
Choi Kyu-hah age 40
Zenkō Suzuki age 48
Paul Reynaud age 81
Leon Panetta age 21
Philip Hammond age 3
Lê Duẩn age 52
Li Xiannian age 50
George Wallace age 40
Alexander Haig age 35
Fatos Nano age 7
Franz Jonas age 60
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 44
Carlos Mesa age 6
Petar Stoyanov age 7
Patricio Aylwin age 41
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 43
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 4
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 41
Konstantinos Tasoulas age 4 months
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 11
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 12
Davíð Oddsson age 11
Giovanni Spadolini age 34
Arnaldo Forlani age 33
Raila A Odinga age 14
Anote Tong age 7
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 19
Anerood Jugnauth age 29
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 48
Zinaida Greceanîi age 3
Armando Guebuza age 16
Farooq Leghari age 19
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 7
Emil Constantinescu age 20
Evaristo Carvalho age 18
Sergio Osmeña age 81
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 33
Luis Carrero Blanco age 55
Masayoshi Ōhira age 49
Sōsuke Uno age 37
Pierre Mendès France age 52
Peng Dehuai age 61
Gennady Yanayev age 22
Chadli Bendjedid age 30
Franz Vranitzky age 22
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 19
Wilfried Martens age 23
Dean Barrow age 8
Louis St. Laurent age 77
Aristides Pereira age 36
Pedro Pires age 25
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 48
Sherif Ismail age 4
Geir Haarde age 8
Ephraim Katzir age 43
Giovanni Goria age 16
Rolandas Paksas age 3
Algirdas Butkevičius age 1
Gediminas Kirkilas age 8
Muhyiddin Yassin age 12
Moussa Traoré age 23
Eddie Fenech Adami age 25
U Nu age 52
Ibrahim Babangida age 18
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 30
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 29
Vladimír Mečiar age 17
Ronald Venetiaan age 23
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 3
Rafael Caldera age 43
Hanna Suchocka age 13
Fernando Belaúnde age 47
Abdalla Hamdok age 3
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 78
Takeo Miki age 52
William Westmoreland age 45
Venceslau Brás age 91
Georges Bidault age 60