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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
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
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25

People

Ueli Maurer age 9
Benjamin Mkapa age 21
Ricardo Martinelli age 8
Haris Silajdžić age 14
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan age 1 month
C. Rajagopalachari age 81
Takeo Fukuda age 55
Morihiro Hosokawa age 22
João Figueiredo age 42
Allen Dulles age 67
Zita of Bourbon-Parma age 68
Jerry Brown age 22
Alice Paul age 75
Warren Christopher age 34
Rexhep Meidani age 16
Reynaldo Bignone age 32
Ayaz Mutallibov age 22
Quett Masire age 35
John Turner age 31
Catherine Samba-Panza age 6
Leonel Fernández age 6
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 16
H. D. Deve Gowda age 27
Abdul Rahman Arif age 44
Portia Simpson-Miller age 14
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 39
George William Vella age 18
Win Myint age 8
Baron Waqa age 7 months
Jenny Shipley age 8
Mamadou Tandja age 22
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 12
S. R. Nathan age 36
Didier Burkhalter age 4 months
Taur Matan Ruak age 3
Fouad Mebazaa age 27
Rupiah Banda age 23
Canaan Banana age 24
Han Duck-soo age 11
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 30
Raymond Barre age 36
Ernesto Geisel age 53
Jim Yong Kim age 8 months
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 26
Ingrid of Sweden age 50
John Lewis age 20
Tigran Sargsyan age 6 months
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 24
Lon Nol age 46
Azali Assoumani age 1
Alfredo Palacio age 21
Siim Kallas age 11
Frank Bainimarama age 6
Rose Francine Rogombe age 17
Otto Pérez Molina age 9
Álvaro Colom age 9
Mohammad Hatta age 58
Mariano Rumor age 45
Ciriaco De Mita age 32
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 17
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 14
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 7
Zdravko Krivokapić age 1
Boris Trajkovski age 4
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 45
Marcelo Caetano age 54
Mikhail Kasianov age 2
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 8
Trần Đức Lương age 23
Choi Kyu-hah age 41
Zenkō Suzuki age 49
Paul Reynaud age 81
Leon Panetta age 22
Philip Hammond age 4
Princess Caroline of Monaco age 3
Mario Cuomo age 28
Lê Duẩn age 53
George Wallace age 41
Alexander Haig age 35
Fatos Nano age 7
Franz Jonas age 60
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 45
Carlos Mesa age 7
Petar Stoyanov age 8
Patricio Aylwin age 41
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 43
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 5
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 41
Konstantinos Tasoulas age 1
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 12
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 12
Davíð Oddsson age 12
Giovanni Spadolini age 35
Arnaldo Forlani age 34
Raila A Odinga age 15
Anote Tong age 8
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 19
Anerood Jugnauth age 30
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 49
Zinaida Greceanîi age 4
Armando Guebuza age 17
Farooq Leghari age 20
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 8
Emil Constantinescu age 20
Evaristo Carvalho age 18
Sergio Osmeña age 82
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 34
Luis Carrero Blanco age 56
Harold Alexander age 68
Masayoshi Ōhira age 50
Sōsuke Uno age 38
Pierre Mendès France age 53
Oliver Tambo age 42
Gennady Yanayev age 23
Chadli Bendjedid age 31
Franz Vranitzky age 22
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 20
Wilfried Martens age 24
Dean Barrow age 9
Louis St. Laurent age 78
Aristides Pereira age 36
Pedro Pires age 26
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 49
Sherif Ismail age 5
Geir Haarde age 9
Ephraim Katzir age 44
Giovanni Goria age 17
Rolandas Paksas age 4
Algirdas Butkevičius age 1
Gediminas Kirkilas age 8
Muhyiddin Yassin age 13
Moussa Traoré age 23
Eddie Fenech Adami age 26
U Nu age 53
Ibrahim Babangida age 19
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 30
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 30
Vladimír Mečiar age 18
Ronald Venetiaan age 24
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 4
Rafael Caldera age 44
Hanna Suchocka age 14
Fernando Belaúnde age 47
Abdalla Hamdok age 4
Takeo Miki age 53
William Westmoreland age 46
Venceslau Brás age 92
Georges Bidault age 60
Vasily Sokolovsky age 63
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 11
Marcel Lefebvre age 54
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 13
Craig Venter age 13
Francis Collins age 10
Yang Shangkun age 53
Stephen Breyer age 22
Thurgood Marshall age 52
James F. Byrnes age 78
Christian Stocker age 5 months
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 39
Sylvie Kinigi age 7
Jioji Konrote age 12
Paavo Lipponen age 19
Georgios Papandreou age 72
Alejandro Giammattei age 4
Bernardo Arévalo de León age 1
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 13
Zalman Shazar age 70
Piet de Jong age 45
Guntis Ulmanis age 20
Hassan Diab age 1
Abdul Razak Hussein age 38
Lawrence Gonzi age 7
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani age 3
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 59
Mircea Snegur age 20
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 2
Shaukat Aziz age 11
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 4
Andrei Belousov age 1
Sergei Stepashin age 8
Guy Parmelin age 9 months
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 36
Paula-Mae Weekes age 1
Najla Bouden age 2
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 37
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz age 8 months
Nicanor Duarte age 3
Maxime Weygand age 93
Nikolai Tikhonov age 55
Jânio Quadros age 43
Ash Carter age 5
Michel Aflaq age 50
Ferdinand Schörner age 68
Marsha P. Johnson age 15
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia age 78
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 47
Mohammad Mokhber age 5
Michael Dukakis age 26
Dobrica Ćosić age 38