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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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962

People

Mikhail Kasianov age 0 months
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 5
Trần Đức Lương age 20
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 49
Choi Kyu-hah age 38
Zenkō Suzuki age 47
Paul Reynaud age 79
Leon Panetta age 19
Philip Hammond age 2
Princess Caroline of Monaco age 11 months
Mario Cuomo age 25
Lê Duẩn age 50
George Wallace age 38
Alexander Haig age 33
Fatos Nano age 5
Franz Jonas age 58
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 42
Carlos Mesa age 4
Petar Stoyanov age 5
Patricio Aylwin age 39
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 41
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 2
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 39
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 10
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 10
Davíð Oddsson age 9
Giovanni Spadolini age 32
Arnaldo Forlani age 32
Raila A Odinga age 12
Anote Tong age 5
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 17
Anerood Jugnauth age 27
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 46
Zinaida Greceanîi age 1
Armando Guebuza age 14
Farooq Leghari age 17
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 5
Emil Constantinescu age 18
Evaristo Carvalho age 16
Rómulo Betancourt age 49
José Paciano Laurel age 66
Sergio Osmeña age 79
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 31
Luis Carrero Blanco age 53
Harold Alexander age 66
Masayoshi Ōhira age 47
Sōsuke Uno age 35
Pierre Mendès France age 51
Oliver Tambo age 40
Gennady Yanayev age 20
Chadli Bendjedid age 28
Franz Vranitzky age 20
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 17
Wilfried Martens age 21
Dean Barrow age 6
Louis St. Laurent age 75
Aristides Pereira age 34
Pedro Pires age 23
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 46
Sherif Ismail age 2
Geir Haarde age 6
Ephraim Katzir age 41
Giovanni Goria age 14
Rolandas Paksas age 1
Gediminas Kirkilas age 6
Muhyiddin Yassin age 10
Moussa Traoré age 21
Eddie Fenech Adami age 23
Adolfo López Mateos age 47
U Nu age 50
Ibrahim Babangida age 16
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 28
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 27
Vladimír Mečiar age 15
Ronald Venetiaan age 21
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 1
Rafael Caldera age 41
Hanna Suchocka age 11
Fernando Belaúnde age 45
Abdalla Hamdok age 2
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 76
Takeo Miki age 50
William Westmoreland age 43
Venceslau Brás age 89
Georges Bidault age 58
Vasily Sokolovsky age 60
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 8
Marcel Lefebvre age 52
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 11
Craig Venter age 11
Francis Collins age 7
Yang Shangkun age 50
Stephen Breyer age 19
Thurgood Marshall age 49
James F. Byrnes age 75
Hubert Maga age 41
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 36
Sylvie Kinigi age 5
Arthur Meighen age 83
Jioji Konrote age 10
Paavo Lipponen age 16
Georgios Papandreou age 69
Alejandro Giammattei age 1
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 10
Zalman Shazar age 68
Piet de Jong age 42
Guntis Ulmanis age 18
Philibert Tsiranana age 45
Abdul Razak Hussein age 35
Lawrence Gonzi age 4
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani age 1
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 57
Mircea Snegur age 17
Shaukat Aziz age 8
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 1
Sergei Stepashin age 5
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 33
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 35
Nicanor Duarte age 1
Maxime Weygand age 91
Nikolai Tikhonov age 52
Jânio Quadros age 40
Ash Carter age 3
Michel Aflaq age 48
Ferdinand Schörner age 65
Marsha P. Johnson age 12
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia age 75
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 44
Mohammad Mokhber age 2
Michael Dukakis age 24
Dobrica Ćosić age 36
Daniel Inouye age 33
Ronald McNair age 7
Lawrence Eagleburger age 27
Anthony Kennedy age 21
Dean Rusk age 48
Cyrus Vance age 40
Arturo Umberto Illia age 57
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 10
Arturo Frondizi age 49
William McMahon age 49
Earle Page age 77
Joe Clark age 18
François Tombalbaye age 39
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 15
Tshombé Moïse age 38
Harri Holkeri age 21
Efraín Ríos Montt age 31
Kristján Eldjárn age 41
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 45
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 52
Yigal Allon age 39
Henri Konan Bédié age 23
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 31
Gaston Thorn age 29
Saadeddine Othmani age 1
Htin Kyaw age 11
Yakubu Gowon age 23
Shehu Shagari age 32
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 12
Mirko Cvetković age 7
Rudolf Schuster age 24
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 15
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 32
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 38
Michael Somare age 21
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 74
Fuad II of Egypt age 5
Chuck Hagel age 11
Milka Planinc age 33
Günter Schabowski age 29
Wesley Clark age 13
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck age 87
Kurt Student age 67
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg age 70
John Kasich age 5
Peter Mandelson age 4
Souphanouvong age 48
John Ashcroft age 15
S. M. Bruce age 74
John Gorton age 46
César Gaviria age 10
Osvaldo Dorticós age 38
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 36
Péter Medgyessy age 15
Poul Schlüter age 28
Fouad Siniora age 14
Diori Hamani age 41
James Michel age 13
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 2
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 31
Mesut Yılmaz age 10
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 30
Julio María Sanguinetti age 22
Iolu Abil age 15
Marek Belka age 5
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 62
Mireya Moscoso age 11
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 23
Tanzan Ishibashi age 73