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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
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966

People

Davíð Oddsson age 8
Giovanni Spadolini age 31
Arnaldo Forlani age 30
Raila A Odinga age 11
Anote Tong age 4
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 15
Anerood Jugnauth age 26
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 45
Zinaida Greceanîi age 7 months
Armando Guebuza age 13
Farooq Leghari age 16
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 4
Emil Constantinescu age 16
Evaristo Carvalho age 14
Rómulo Betancourt age 48
José Paciano Laurel age 65
Sergio Osmeña age 78
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 30
Luis Carrero Blanco age 52
Harold Alexander age 64
Masayoshi Ōhira age 46
Sōsuke Uno age 34
Pierre Mendès France age 49
Oliver Tambo age 38
Gennady Yanayev age 19
Chadli Bendjedid age 27
Franz Vranitzky age 18
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 16
Wilfried Martens age 20
Dean Barrow age 5
Aristides Pereira age 32
Pedro Pires age 22
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 45
Sherif Ismail age 1
Geir Haarde age 5
Ephraim Katzir age 40
Giovanni Goria age 13
Rolandas Paksas age 2 months
Gediminas Kirkilas age 5
Muhyiddin Yassin age 9
Moussa Traoré age 19
Eddie Fenech Adami age 22
Adolfo López Mateos age 46
U Nu age 49
Ibrahim Babangida age 15
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 26
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 26
Vladimír Mečiar age 14
Ronald Venetiaan age 20
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 5 months
Rafael Caldera age 40
Hanna Suchocka age 10
Fernando Belaúnde age 43
Abdalla Hamdok age 8 months
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 75
Takeo Miki age 49
William Westmoreland age 42
Venceslau Brás age 88
Georges Bidault age 56
Vasily Sokolovsky age 59
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 7
Marcel Lefebvre age 50
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 10
Craig Venter age 9
Francis Collins age 6
Yang Shangkun age 49
Stephen Breyer age 18
Thurgood Marshall age 48
James F. Byrnes age 74
Hubert Maga age 40
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 35
Sylvie Kinigi age 3
Arthur Meighen age 82
Jioji Konrote age 8
Paavo Lipponen age 15
Léon M'ba age 54
Georgios Papandreou age 68
Alejandro Giammattei age 6 months
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 9
Zalman Shazar age 66
Piet de Jong age 41
Guntis Ulmanis age 16
Philibert Tsiranana age 43
Abdul Razak Hussein age 34
Lawrence Gonzi age 3
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 55
Mircea Snegur age 16
Shaukat Aziz age 7
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 6 months
Sergei Stepashin age 4
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 32
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 33
Maxime Weygand age 89
Nikolai Tikhonov age 51
Jânio Quadros age 39
Ash Carter age 1
Michel Aflaq age 46
Ferdinand Schörner age 64
Marsha P. Johnson age 11
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia age 74
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 43
Mohammad Mokhber age 1
Michael Dukakis age 22
Dobrica Ćosić age 34
Daniel Inouye age 32
Ronald McNair age 5
Lawrence Eagleburger age 26
Anthony Kennedy age 20
Dean Rusk age 47
Cyrus Vance age 39
Arturo Umberto Illia age 56
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 9
Arturo Frondizi age 47
William McMahon age 48
Earle Page age 76
Joe Clark age 17
François Tombalbaye age 38
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 14
Tshombé Moïse age 36
Harri Holkeri age 19
Efraín Ríos Montt age 30
Kristján Eldjárn age 39
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 44
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 50
Yigal Allon age 37
Henri Konan Bédié age 22
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 30
Gaston Thorn age 28
Saadeddine Othmani age 7 months
Htin Kyaw age 10
Yakubu Gowon age 21
Shehu Shagari age 31
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 11
Mirko Cvetković age 6
Rudolf Schuster age 22
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 13
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 31
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 36
Michael Somare age 20
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 73
Fuad II of Egypt age 4
Chuck Hagel age 9
Milka Planinc age 31
Günter Schabowski age 27
Wesley Clark age 11
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck age 86
Kurt Student age 66
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg age 68
John Kasich age 4
Peter Mandelson age 2
Souphanouvong age 47
John Ashcroft age 14
S. M. Bruce age 73
John Gorton age 45
César Gaviria age 9
Osvaldo Dorticós age 37
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 35
Péter Medgyessy age 13
Poul Schlüter age 27
Fouad Siniora age 13
Diori Hamani age 40
James Michel age 12
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 1
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 30
Mesut Yılmaz age 8
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 28
Julio María Sanguinetti age 20
Iolu Abil age 14
Marek Belka age 4
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 61
Mireya Moscoso age 10
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 21
Tanzan Ishibashi age 71
Michel Debré age 44
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 41
Washington Luís age 86
Margaret Chan age 9
Claude Auchinleck age 72
Wilhelm List age 76
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 14
Frederica of Hanover age 39
Louise Mountbatten age 67
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 20
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 19
Ahmad Uyahya age 4
Leo Tindemans age 34
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 48
Melchior Ndadaye age 3
Barthélemy Boganda age 46
Vladimír Špidla age 5
Antoine Gizenga age 30
Eugenia Charles age 37
Nicholas Liverpool age 22
Mario Scelba age 55
Anker Jørgensen age 34
William Richard Tolbert age 43
Didier Ratsiraka age 19
Abdelilah Benkirane age 2
Sushil Koirala age 17
Kåre Willoch age 27