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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
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20

People

Catherine Samba-Panza age 5
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 49
Leonel Fernández age 5
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 15
H. D. Deve Gowda age 26
Abdul Rahman Arif age 43
Portia Simpson-Miller age 13
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 38
George William Vella age 17
Win Myint age 8
Jenny Shipley age 7
Mamadou Tandja age 21
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 12
S. R. Nathan age 35
Taur Matan Ruak age 3
Fouad Mebazaa age 26
Rupiah Banda age 22
Canaan Banana age 23
Han Duck-soo age 10
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio age 57
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 30
Raymond Barre age 35
Ernesto Geisel age 52
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 25
Ingrid of Sweden age 49
John Lewis age 19
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 24
Lon Nol age 46
Azali Assoumani age 10 months
Alfredo Palacio age 20
Siim Kallas age 11
Frank Bainimarama age 5
Rose Francine Rogombe age 17
Otto Pérez Molina age 8
Álvaro Colom age 8
Mohammad Hatta age 57
Mariano Rumor age 44
Ciriaco De Mita age 31
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 16
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 13
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 7
Zdravko Krivokapić age 1
Boris Trajkovski age 3
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 44
Marcelo Caetano age 53
Mikhail Kasianov age 1
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 7
Trần Đức Lương age 22
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 50
Choi Kyu-hah age 40
Zenkō Suzuki age 48
Paul Reynaud age 81
Leon Panetta age 21
Philip Hammond age 3
Princess Caroline of Monaco age 2
Mario Cuomo age 27
Lê Duẩn age 52
George Wallace age 40
Alexander Haig age 35
Fatos Nano age 7
Franz Jonas age 60
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 44
Carlos Mesa age 6
Petar Stoyanov age 7
Patricio Aylwin age 41
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 43
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 4
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 41
Konstantinos Tasoulas age 4 months
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 11
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 12
Davíð Oddsson age 11
Giovanni Spadolini age 34
Arnaldo Forlani age 33
Raila A Odinga age 14
Anote Tong age 7
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 19
Anerood Jugnauth age 29
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 48
Zinaida Greceanîi age 3
Armando Guebuza age 16
Farooq Leghari age 19
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 7
Emil Constantinescu age 20
Evaristo Carvalho age 18
Sergio Osmeña age 81
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 33
Luis Carrero Blanco age 55
Harold Alexander age 68
Masayoshi Ōhira age 49
Sōsuke Uno age 37
Pierre Mendès France age 52
Oliver Tambo age 42
Gennady Yanayev age 22
Chadli Bendjedid age 30
Franz Vranitzky age 22
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 19
Wilfried Martens age 23
Dean Barrow age 8
Louis St. Laurent age 77
Aristides Pereira age 36
Pedro Pires age 25
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 48
Sherif Ismail age 4
Geir Haarde age 8
Ephraim Katzir age 43
Giovanni Goria age 16
Rolandas Paksas age 3
Algirdas Butkevičius age 1
Gediminas Kirkilas age 8
Muhyiddin Yassin age 12
Moussa Traoré age 23
Eddie Fenech Adami age 25
U Nu age 52
Ibrahim Babangida age 18
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 30
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 29
Vladimír Mečiar age 17
Ronald Venetiaan age 23
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 3
Rafael Caldera age 43
Hanna Suchocka age 13
Fernando Belaúnde age 47
Abdalla Hamdok age 3
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 78
Takeo Miki age 52
William Westmoreland age 45
Venceslau Brás age 91
Georges Bidault age 60
Vasily Sokolovsky age 62
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 10
Marcel Lefebvre age 54
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 13
Craig Venter age 13
Francis Collins age 9
Yang Shangkun age 52
Stephen Breyer age 21
Thurgood Marshall age 51
James F. Byrnes age 77
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 38
Sylvie Kinigi age 7
Arthur Meighen age 85
Jioji Konrote age 11
Paavo Lipponen age 18
Georgios Papandreou age 71
Alejandro Giammattei age 3
Bernardo Arévalo de León age 1
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 12
Zalman Shazar age 69
Piet de Jong age 44
Guntis Ulmanis age 20
Hassan Diab age 5 months
Abdul Razak Hussein age 37
Lawrence Gonzi age 6
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani age 2
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 59
Mircea Snegur age 19
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 1
Shaukat Aziz age 10
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 3
Andrei Belousov age 8 months
Sergei Stepashin age 7
Guy Parmelin age 0 months
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 35
Paula-Mae Weekes age 11 months
Najla Bouden age 1
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 37
Nicanor Duarte age 3
Maxime Weygand age 92
Nikolai Tikhonov age 54
Jânio Quadros age 42
Ash Carter age 5
Michel Aflaq age 49
Ferdinand Schörner age 67
Marsha P. Johnson age 14
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia age 77
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 46
Mohammad Mokhber age 4
Michael Dukakis age 26
Dobrica Ćosić age 37
Ronald McNair age 9
Lawrence Eagleburger age 29
Anthony Kennedy age 23
Dean Rusk age 50
Cyrus Vance age 42
Arturo Umberto Illia age 59
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 12
William McMahon age 51
Earle Page age 79
Joe Clark age 20
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 17
Tshombé Moïse age 40
Harri Holkeri age 22
Efraín Ríos Montt age 33
Kristján Eldjárn age 42
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 47
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 53
Yigal Allon age 41
Henri Konan Bédié age 25
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 33