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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
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
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25

People

Charles Taylor age 12
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 22
Agatha Barbara age 37
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 55
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 60
Simonetta Sommaruga age 3 months
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 9
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 24
Moncef Marzouki age 15
Kais Saied age 2
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 6
Joseph Estrada age 23
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 4
Jean Casimir-Perier age 112
Alain Juppé age 15
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 36
Robert Gates age 16
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini age 65
Baldur von Schirach age 53
Sandra Day O'Connor age 30
Dean Acheson age 67
Mulatu Teshome age 3
Andreas Papandreou age 41
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 9
Xiomara Castro age 10 months
Chandra Shekhar age 33
Fuad Masum age 22
Andrius Kubilius age 3
Hage Geingob age 19
Mikhhail Fradkov age 9
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 20
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 15
Jerzy Buzek age 20
Shigeru Yoshida age 81
Kakuei Tanaka age 42
Bertie Ahern age 8
René Cassin age 73
Tariq Aziz age 24
Andrew Cuomo age 2
Bob Geldof age 8
James Baker age 30
Chiang Ching-kuo age 50
Antonin Scalia age 24
Babrak Karmal age 31
Hafizullah Amin age 31
Alfred Moisiu age 30
Kurt Schuschnigg age 62
Zillur Rahman age 31
François Bozizé age 13
Mirek Topolánek age 4
Tamás Sulyok age 4
Inder Kumar Gujral age 40
V. P. Singh age 29
Masoud Barzani age 14
Abdulla Yameen age 1
Thein Sein age 15
Than Shwe age 27
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 7
Bakir Izetbegović age 4
Hans Luther age 81
Javier Solana age 18
Jim Mattis age 9
Fernando de la Rúa age 22
Alfred Gusenbauer age 6 months
Ali Asadov age 3
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 35
Lansana Conté age 25
René Préval age 17
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 46
Talal I of Jordan age 51
Ruud Lubbers age 21
Bounnhang Vorachit age 23
Andris Bērziņš age 15
Hilda Heine age 9
Vladimir Voronin age 19
Kiro Gligorov age 43
Thorbjørn Jagland age 9
Jorge Sampaio age 20
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 63
George Tupou V of Tonga age 12
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 17
Franz Halder age 76
Nobusuke Kishi age 63
Toshiki Kaifu age 29
Kiichi Miyazawa age 40
Tsutomu Hata age 25
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 12
Édouard Balladur age 31
David Petraeus age 7
Daniel Cohn-Bendit age 15
Mike Huckabee age 4
Rick Perry age 10
Greg Abbott age 2
Eduardo Duhalde age 18
Malcolm Fraser age 30
Wolfgang Schüssel age 15
Artur Rasizade age 25
José Maria Neves age 4 months
Ricardo Lagos age 22
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 34
Gyula Horn age 28
Fatmir Sejdiu age 8
Fayez al-Sarraj age 6 months
Modibo Keïta age 45
Ernesto Zedillo age 8
Luísa Diogo age 2
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 34
Mohamed Bazoum age 7 months
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 7
Goh Chok Tong age 19
Chan Santokhi age 1
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 10
Tô Lâm age 3
Michael Sata age 23
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 21
Diosdado Macapagal age 49
Heinrich Brüning age 74
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 73
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 23
José Sarney age 30
Brian Cowen age 7 months
Stanislav Shushkevich age 25
Princess Alice of Battenberg age 75
George Shultz age 39
Harold Holt age 52
Ziaur Rahman age 24
Kostas Karamanlis age 3
Haider Al-Abadi age 8
Catherine Connolly age 4
Emilio Colombo age 40
Choummaly Sayasone age 24
Michel Suleiman age 11
George Abela age 12
José López Portillo age 40
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 12
Milovan Đilas age 49
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 25
Girija Prasad Koirala age 36
Abdou Diouf age 24
Ernest Bai Koroma age 6
Milan Kučan age 19
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 19
Levy Mwanawasa age 11
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 11
Michel Rocard age 30
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 62
Paul Wolfowitz age 16
Alain Poher age 51
Empress Michiko age 25
Prince Henrik of Denmark age 26
Abulfaz Elchibey age 22
Zhelyu Zhelev age 25
Hissène Habré age 18
Adly Mansour age 14
Georgios Papadopoulos age 41
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 7
Ferenc Mádl age 29
Árpád Göncz age 38
Laimdota Straujuma age 9
Min Aung Hlaing age 4
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 58
Tharman Shanmugaratnam age 3
Ingvar Carlsson age 25
Francisco Guterres age 5
Rómulo Gallegos age 76
Frederick Chiluba age 17
Alejandro Toledo age 15
Hwang Kyo-ahn age 3
Noboru Takeshita age 36
Keizō Obuchi age 23
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 12
Jeff Sessions age 13
Gerry Adams age 11
Kirill Meretskov age 63
Oswald Mosley age 63
Tim Kaine age 2
Hu Yaobang age 44
Clarence Thomas age 12
Iajuddin Ahmed age 29
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 10
Luis Guillermo Solís age 2
Jan Fischer age 9
Danilo Medina age 8
Costas Simitis age 24
Abdul Salam Arif age 39
Ezer Weizman age 36
Isaac Navon age 39
Dries van Agt age 29
Thongloun Sisoulith age 14
Émile Lahoud age 24
Samuel Doe age 9
Jacques Santer age 23
Marc Ravalomanana age 10
Hery Rajaonarimampianina age 1
Lazarus Chakwera age 5
Luis Echeverría age 38
Miguel de la Madrid age 25
Ne Win age 49
Ram Chandra Poudel age 15
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 14