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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
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

People

Raymond Barre age 34
Ernesto Geisel age 51
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 24
Ingrid of Sweden age 48
John Lewis age 18
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 23
Lon Nol age 45
Azali Assoumani age 0 months
Alfredo Palacio age 20
Siim Kallas age 10
Frank Bainimarama age 4
Rose Francine Rogombe age 16
Otto Pérez Molina age 8
Álvaro Colom age 7
Mohammad Hatta age 56
Mariano Rumor age 43
Ciriaco De Mita age 30
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 15
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 12
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 6
Zdravko Krivokapić age 4 months
Boris Trajkovski age 2
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 44
Marcelo Caetano age 52
Mikhail Kasianov age 1
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 6
Trần Đức Lương age 21
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 50
Choi Kyu-hah age 39
Zenkō Suzuki age 48
Paul Reynaud age 80
Leon Panetta age 20
Philip Hammond age 3
Princess Caroline of Monaco age 1
Mario Cuomo age 26
Lê Duẩn age 51
George Wallace age 39
Alexander Haig age 34
Fatos Nano age 6
Franz Jonas age 59
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 43
Carlos Mesa age 5
Petar Stoyanov age 6
Patricio Aylwin age 40
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 42
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 3
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 40
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 11
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 11
Davíð Oddsson age 11
Giovanni Spadolini age 33
Arnaldo Forlani age 33
Raila A Odinga age 14
Anote Tong age 6
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 18
Anerood Jugnauth age 28
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 47
Zinaida Greceanîi age 2
Armando Guebuza age 16
Farooq Leghari age 18
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 7
Emil Constantinescu age 19
Evaristo Carvalho age 17
Rómulo Betancourt age 50
José Paciano Laurel age 67
Sergio Osmeña age 80
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 32
Luis Carrero Blanco age 54
Harold Alexander age 67
Masayoshi Ōhira age 48
Sōsuke Uno age 36
Pierre Mendès France age 52
Oliver Tambo age 41
Gennady Yanayev age 21
Chadli Bendjedid age 29
Franz Vranitzky age 21
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 18
Wilfried Martens age 22
Dean Barrow age 7
Louis St. Laurent age 77
Aristides Pereira age 35
Pedro Pires age 24
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 48
Sherif Ismail age 3
Geir Haarde age 7
Ephraim Katzir age 42
Giovanni Goria age 15
Rolandas Paksas age 2
Algirdas Butkevičius age 2 months
Gediminas Kirkilas age 7
Muhyiddin Yassin age 11
Moussa Traoré age 22
Eddie Fenech Adami age 24
U Nu age 51
Ibrahim Babangida age 17
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 29
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 29
Vladimír Mečiar age 16
Ronald Venetiaan age 22
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 2
Rafael Caldera age 43
Hanna Suchocka age 12
Fernando Belaúnde age 46
Abdalla Hamdok age 3
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 77
Takeo Miki age 51
William Westmoreland age 44
Venceslau Brás age 90
Georges Bidault age 59
Vasily Sokolovsky age 61
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 9
Marcel Lefebvre age 53
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 12
Craig Venter age 12
Francis Collins age 8
Yang Shangkun age 51
Stephen Breyer age 20
Thurgood Marshall age 50
James F. Byrnes age 76
Hubert Maga age 42
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 37
Sylvie Kinigi age 6
Arthur Meighen age 84
Jioji Konrote age 11
Paavo Lipponen age 17
Georgios Papandreou age 70
Alejandro Giammattei age 2
Bernardo Arévalo de León age 3 months
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 11
Zalman Shazar age 69
Piet de Jong age 43
Guntis Ulmanis age 19
Philibert Tsiranana age 46
Abdul Razak Hussein age 36
Lawrence Gonzi age 5
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani age 2
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 58
Mircea Snegur age 19
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 7 months
Shaukat Aziz age 9
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 2
Sergei Stepashin age 6
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 34
Paula-Mae Weekes age 0 months
Najla Bouden age 6 months
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 36
Nicanor Duarte age 2
Maxime Weygand age 92
Nikolai Tikhonov age 53
Jânio Quadros age 42
Ash Carter age 4
Michel Aflaq age 49
Ferdinand Schörner age 66
Marsha P. Johnson age 13
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia age 76
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 45
Mohammad Mokhber age 3
Michael Dukakis age 25
Dobrica Ćosić age 37
Daniel Inouye age 34
Ronald McNair age 8
Lawrence Eagleburger age 28
Anthony Kennedy age 22
Dean Rusk age 49
Cyrus Vance age 41
Arturo Umberto Illia age 58
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 11
William McMahon age 50
Earle Page age 78
Joe Clark age 19
François Tombalbaye age 40
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 16
Tshombé Moïse age 39
Harri Holkeri age 22
Efraín Ríos Montt age 32
Kristján Eldjárn age 42
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 46
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 53
Yigal Allon age 40
Henri Konan Bédié age 24
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 32
Gaston Thorn age 30
Duško Marković age 6 months
Saadeddine Othmani age 3
Htin Kyaw age 12
Yakubu Gowon age 24
Shehu Shagari age 33
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 13
Mirko Cvetković age 8
Rudolf Schuster age 25
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 16
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 33
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 39
Michael Somare age 22
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 75
Fuad II of Egypt age 7
Chuck Hagel age 12
Milka Planinc age 34
Günter Schabowski age 30
Wesley Clark age 14