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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
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
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

People

Jean-Luc Dehaene age 15
Wilfried Martens age 19
Dean Barrow age 4
Aristides Pereira age 31
Pedro Pires age 21
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 44
Sherif Ismail age 2 months
Geir Haarde age 4
Ephraim Katzir age 39
Giovanni Goria age 12
Gediminas Kirkilas age 4
Muhyiddin Yassin age 8
Moussa Traoré age 19
Eddie Fenech Adami age 21
Adolfo López Mateos age 45
Ibrahim Babangida age 14
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 25
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 25
Vladimír Mečiar age 13
Ronald Venetiaan age 19
Rafael Caldera age 39
Hanna Suchocka age 9
Fernando Belaúnde age 42
Elpidio Quirino age 64
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 74
Takeo Miki age 48
William Westmoreland age 41
Venceslau Brás age 87
Georges Bidault age 56
Vasily Sokolovsky age 58
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 6
Marcel Lefebvre age 49
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 9
Craig Venter age 8
Francis Collins age 5
Yang Shangkun age 48
Stephen Breyer age 17
Thurgood Marshall age 47
James F. Byrnes age 73
Hubert Maga age 39
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 34
Sylvie Kinigi age 2
Arthur Meighen age 81
Jioji Konrote age 7
Paavo Lipponen age 14
Léon M'ba age 53
Georgios Papandreou age 67
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 8
Zalman Shazar age 65
Piet de Jong age 40
Guntis Ulmanis age 16
Philibert Tsiranana age 42
Abdul Razak Hussein age 33
Lawrence Gonzi age 2
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 55
Mircea Snegur age 15
Shaukat Aziz age 6
Sergei Stepashin age 3
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 31
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 32
Maxime Weygand age 88
Nikolai Tikhonov age 50
Jânio Quadros age 38
Ash Carter age 12 months
Michel Aflaq age 45
Ferdinand Schörner age 63
Marsha P. Johnson age 10
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia age 73
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 42
Mohammad Mokhber age 2 months
Michael Dukakis age 21
Dobrica Ćosić age 33
Daniel Inouye age 31
Ronald McNair age 4
Lawrence Eagleburger age 25
Anthony Kennedy age 19
Dean Rusk age 46
Cyrus Vance age 38
Arturo Umberto Illia age 55
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 8
Arturo Frondizi age 46
William McMahon age 47
Earle Page age 75
Joe Clark age 16
François Tombalbaye age 37
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 13
Tshombé Moïse age 35
Harri Holkeri age 18
Efraín Ríos Montt age 29
Kristján Eldjárn age 38
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 43
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 49
Yigal Allon age 36
Henri Konan Bédié age 21
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 29
Gaston Thorn age 27
Htin Kyaw age 9
Yakubu Gowon age 20
Shehu Shagari age 30
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 10
Mirko Cvetković age 5
Rudolf Schuster age 21
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 12
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 30
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 35
Michael Somare age 19
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 72
Fuad II of Egypt age 3
Chuck Hagel age 8
Milka Planinc age 30
Günter Schabowski age 26
Wesley Clark age 10
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck age 85
Kurt Student age 65
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg age 67
John Kasich age 3
Peter Mandelson age 1
Souphanouvong age 46
John Ashcroft age 13
S. M. Bruce age 72
John Gorton age 44
César Gaviria age 8
Osvaldo Dorticós age 36
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 34
Péter Medgyessy age 12
Poul Schlüter age 26
Fouad Siniora age 12
Diori Hamani age 39
James Michel age 11
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 7 months
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 29
Mesut Yılmaz age 7
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 27
Julio María Sanguinetti age 19
Iolu Abil age 13
Marek Belka age 3
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 60
Mireya Moscoso age 9
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 20
Tanzan Ishibashi age 71
Michel Debré age 43
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 40
Washington Luís age 85
Margaret Chan age 8
Claude Auchinleck age 71
Wilhelm List age 75
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 13
Frederica of Hanover age 38
Louise Mountbatten age 66
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 19
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 18
Ahmad Uyahya age 3
Leo Tindemans age 33
Melchior Ndadaye age 2
Barthélemy Boganda age 45
Vladimír Špidla age 4
Antoine Gizenga age 29
Eugenia Charles age 36
Nicholas Liverpool age 21
Mario Scelba age 54
Anker Jørgensen age 33
William Richard Tolbert age 42
Didier Ratsiraka age 18
Abdelilah Benkirane age 1
Sushil Koirala age 16
Kåre Willoch age 26
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 61
Pascal Lissouba age 23
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 11
Adrian Năstase age 5
Michal Kováč age 25
Pascal Couchepin age 13
Wellington Koo age 67
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 45
Carlos P. Garcia age 58
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike age 56
Gaafar Nimeiry age 24
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 102
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 67
Tetsu Katayama age 68
Hitoshi Ashida age 67
Pierre Messmer age 39
Sirhan Sirhan age 11
Biljana Plavšić age 25
Karl Rahner age 51
Paul Tibbets age 40
Felix Yusupov age 68
Maria of Yugoslavia age 55
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 34
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 40
Janet Reno age 17
Edmund Muskie age 41
Fan S. Noli age 73
Mohamed Boudiaf age 36
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 30
Arthur Fadden age 61
Quentin Bryce age 12
Adolf Schärf age 65
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 5
Hugo Banzer age 29