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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

People

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
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 6 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
Mohammad Mokhber age 4
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 43
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
Gaston Thorn age 31
Duško Marković age 1
Saadeddine Othmani age 3
Htin Kyaw age 13
Yakubu Gowon age 25
Shehu Shagari age 34
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 14
Mirko Cvetković age 9
Rudolf Schuster age 25
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 17
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 34
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 40
Michael Somare age 23
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 76
Fuad II of Egypt age 7
Chuck Hagel age 13
Milka Planinc age 35
Souphanouvong age 50
John Ashcroft age 17
S. M. Bruce age 76
John Gorton age 48
César Gaviria age 12
José Figueres Ferrer age 53
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 38
Péter Medgyessy age 17
Poul Schlüter age 30
Fouad Siniora age 16
Diori Hamani age 43
James Michel age 15
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 4
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 33
Mesut Yılmaz age 12
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 32
Julio María Sanguinetti age 23
Iolu Abil age 17
Phạm Minh Chính age 11 months
Marek Belka age 7
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 64
Mireya Moscoso age 13
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 24
Tanzan Ishibashi age 75
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 44
Margaret Chan age 12
Ahmad Uyahya age 7
Leo Tindemans age 37
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 52
Melchior Ndadaye age 6
Vladimír Špidla age 8
Antoine Gizenga age 34
Eugenia Charles age 40
Nicholas Liverpool age 25
Mario Scelba age 58
Anker Jørgensen age 37
William Richard Tolbert age 46
Didier Ratsiraka age 23
Abdelilah Benkirane age 5
Sushil Koirala age 20
Kåre Willoch age 31
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 65
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi age 11 months
Pascal Lissouba age 28
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 15
Adrian Năstase age 9
Michal Kováč age 29
Pascal Couchepin age 17
Wellington Koo age 71
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 49
Gaafar Nimeiry age 28
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 107
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 72
Tetsu Katayama age 72
Pierre Messmer age 43
Janet Reno age 21
Fan S. Noli age 77
Mohamed Boudiaf age 40
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 35
Arthur Fadden age 65
Quentin Bryce age 16
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 9
Hugo Banzer age 33
Nuon Chea age 33
Ange-Félix Patassé age 22
Glafcos Clerides age 40
Joaquín Balaguer age 53
Josefa Iloilo age 38
Esko Aho age 5
Luís Cabral age 28
Sam Hinds age 15
Janet Jagan age 39
Abdul Latif Rashid age 15
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 17
Giuseppe Pella age 57
Fernando Tambroni age 58
Joop den Uyl age 40
Behgjet Pacolli age 8
Bakili Muluzi age 16
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 17
António Ramalho Eanes age 24
António de Spínola age 49
Milan Milutinović age 16
France-Albert René age 24
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 27
Yusof bin Ishak age 49
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 6
Ruth Dreifuss age 19
Fradique de Menezes age 17
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 22
Samak Sundaravej age 24
George Maxwell Richards age 28
Yurii Yekhanurov age 11
Juan María Bordaberry age 31
Baldwin Lonsdale age 11
Laurentino Cortizo age 6
Maurice Couve de Murville age 52
Pierre Bérégovoy age 33
Mark W. Clark age 63
B. J. Vorster age 43
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 54
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 13
William Rehnquist age 35