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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
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29

People

Jacobo Árbenz age 47
Robert Mueller age 16
Ramiz Alia age 35
Leopoldo Galtieri age 34
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 15
Bruno Kreisky age 49
Festus Mogae age 21
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 7
Seretse Khama age 39
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 10
Lennart Meri age 31
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 47
Barham Salih age 2 months
Wim Kok age 22
Charles Taylor age 12
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 22
Agatha Barbara age 37
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 56
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 61
Simonetta Sommaruga age 6 months
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 10
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 5
Jean Casimir-Perier age 113
Alain Juppé age 15
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 37
Robert Gates age 17
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 1
Chandra Shekhar age 33
Fuad Masum age 22
Andrius Kubilius age 4
Hage Geingob age 19
Mikhhail Fradkov age 10
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 20
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 15
Jerzy Buzek age 20
Shigeru Yoshida age 82
Kakuei Tanaka age 42
Bertie Ahern age 9
René Cassin age 73
Tariq Aziz age 24
Andrew Cuomo age 3
Bob Geldof age 9
James Baker age 30
Chiang Ching-kuo age 50
Antonin Scalia age 24
Babrak Karmal age 31
Hafizullah Amin age 31
Alfred Moisiu age 31
Kurt Schuschnigg age 63
Zillur Rahman age 31
François Bozizé age 14
Mirek Topolánek age 4
Tamás Sulyok age 4
Inder Kumar Gujral age 41
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 8
Bakir Izetbegović age 4
Hans Luther age 81
Javier Solana age 18
Jim Mattis age 10
Fernando de la Rúa age 23
Alfred Gusenbauer age 10 months
Ali Asadov age 4
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 35
Lansana Conté age 26
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 16
Hilda Heine age 9
Vladimir Voronin age 19
Kiro Gligorov age 43
Thorbjørn Jagland age 10
Jorge Sampaio age 21
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 63
George Tupou V of Tonga age 12
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 18
Franz Halder age 76
Nobusuke Kishi age 64
Toshiki Kaifu age 29
Kiichi Miyazawa age 41
Tsutomu Hata age 25
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 12
Édouard Balladur age 31
David Petraeus age 8
Daniel Cohn-Bendit age 15
Mike Huckabee age 5
Rick Perry age 10
Greg Abbott age 3
Eduardo Duhalde age 19
Malcolm Fraser age 30
Wolfgang Schüssel age 15
Artur Rasizade age 25
José Maria Neves age 8 months
Ricardo Lagos age 22
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 34
Gyula Horn age 28
Fatmir Sejdiu age 9
Fayez al-Sarraj age 9 months
Ernesto Zedillo age 8
Luísa Diogo age 2
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 35
Mohamed Bazoum age 11 months
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 7
Goh Chok Tong age 19
Chan Santokhi age 1
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 11
Tô Lâm age 3
Michael Sata age 23
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 22
Diosdado Macapagal age 50
Heinrich Brüning age 75
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 73
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 23
José Sarney age 30
Brian Cowen age 11 months
Stanislav Shushkevich age 26
Princess Alice of Battenberg age 75
George Shultz age 40
Harold Holt age 52
Ziaur Rahman age 24
Kostas Karamanlis age 4
Haider Al-Abadi age 8
Catherine Connolly age 5
Emilio Colombo age 40
Choummaly Sayasone age 24
Michel Suleiman age 12
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 25
Ernest Bai Koroma age 7
Milan Kučan age 19
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 19
Levy Mwanawasa age 12
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 11
Michel Rocard age 30
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 63
Paul Wolfowitz age 16
Alain Poher age 51
Empress Michiko age 26
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 59
Tharman Shanmugaratnam age 3
Ingvar Carlsson age 26
Francisco Guterres age 6
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 12
Kirill Meretskov age 63
Oswald Mosley age 64
Tim Kaine age 2
Hu Yaobang age 45
Clarence Thomas age 12
Iajuddin Ahmed age 29
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 11
Luis Guillermo Solís age 2
Jan Fischer age 9
Danilo Medina age 9
Costas Simitis age 24
Abdul Salam Arif age 39
Ezer Weizman age 36
Isaac Navon age 39