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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
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Albany Movement 1961-11 - 1962

People

Jeff Sessions age 15
Gerry Adams age 13
Kirill Meretskov age 64
Oswald Mosley age 65
Tim Kaine age 3
Hu Yaobang age 46
Clarence Thomas age 13
Iajuddin Ahmed age 31
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 12
Luis Guillermo Solís age 3
Jan Fischer age 11
Danilo Medina age 10
Costas Simitis age 25
Abdul Salam Arif age 41
Ezer Weizman age 37
Isaac Navon age 40
Dries van Agt age 31
Thongloun Sisoulith age 16
Émile Lahoud age 26
Samuel Doe age 10
Jacques Santer age 24
Marc Ravalomanana age 12
Hery Rajaonarimampianina age 3
Lazarus Chakwera age 6
Luis Echeverría age 40
Miguel de la Madrid age 27
Ne Win age 50
Ram Chandra Poudel age 17
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 15
Ueli Maurer age 11
Benjamin Mkapa age 23
Ricardo Martinelli age 9
Haris Silajdžić age 16
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan age 1
C. Rajagopalachari age 83
Takeo Fukuda age 57
Morihiro Hosokawa age 24
João Figueiredo age 44
Allen Dulles age 68
Zita of Bourbon-Parma age 69
Jerry Brown age 23
Alice Paul age 77
Warren Christopher age 36
Rexhep Meidani age 17
Reynaldo Bignone age 34
Ayaz Mutallibov age 23
Quett Masire age 36
John Turner age 32
Catherine Samba-Panza age 7
Leonel Fernández age 8
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 17
H. D. Deve Gowda age 28
Abdul Rahman Arif age 45
Portia Simpson-Miller age 16
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 41
George William Vella age 19
Win Myint age 10
Baron Waqa age 2
Jenny Shipley age 10
Mamadou Tandja age 23
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 14
S. R. Nathan age 37
Didier Burkhalter age 1
Taur Matan Ruak age 5
Fouad Mebazaa age 28
Rupiah Banda age 24
Canaan Banana age 25
Han Duck-soo age 12
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio age 59
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 32
Raymond Barre age 37
Ernesto Geisel age 54
Jim Yong Kim age 2
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 27
Ingrid of Sweden age 51
John Lewis age 21
Tigran Sargsyan age 2
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 26
Lon Nol age 48
Azali Assoumani age 3
Alfredo Palacio age 23
Siim Kallas age 13
Frank Bainimarama age 7
Rose Francine Rogombe age 19
Otto Pérez Molina age 11
Álvaro Colom age 10
Joseph Michel Martelly age 11 months
Mohammad Hatta age 59
Mariano Rumor age 46
Ciriaco De Mita age 34
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 18
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 16
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 9
Zdravko Krivokapić age 3
Boris Trajkovski age 5
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 47
Marcelo Caetano age 55
Mikhail Kasianov age 4
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 9
Trần Đức Lương age 24
Choi Kyu-hah age 42
Zenkō Suzuki age 51
Paul Reynaud age 83
Leon Panetta age 23
Philip Hammond age 6
Princess Caroline of Monaco age 5
Mario Cuomo age 29
George Wallace age 42
Alexander Haig age 37
Fatos Nano age 9
Franz Jonas age 62
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 46
Carlos Mesa age 8
Petar Stoyanov age 9
Patricio Aylwin age 43
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 45
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 6
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 43
Konstantinos Tasoulas age 2
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 14
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 14
Davíð Oddsson age 14
Giovanni Spadolini age 36
Arnaldo Forlani age 36
Raila A Odinga age 17
Anote Tong age 9
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 21
Anerood Jugnauth age 31
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 50
Zinaida Greceanîi age 6
Aziz Akhannouch age 5 months
Armando Guebuza age 19
Farooq Leghari age 21
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 10
Emil Constantinescu age 22
Evaristo Carvalho age 20
Abdulla Aripov age 8 months
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 35
Luis Carrero Blanco age 57
Harold Alexander age 70
Masayoshi Ōhira age 51
Sōsuke Uno age 39
Pierre Mendès France age 55
Oliver Tambo age 44
Gennady Yanayev age 24
Chadli Bendjedid age 32
Franz Vranitzky age 24
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 21
Wilfried Martens age 25
Dean Barrow age 10
Louis St. Laurent age 80
Aristides Pereira age 38
Pedro Pires age 27
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 51
Sherif Ismail age 6
Geir Haarde age 10
Ephraim Katzir age 45
Giovanni Goria age 18
Rolandas Paksas age 5
Algirdas Butkevičius age 3
Gediminas Kirkilas age 10
Muhyiddin Yassin age 14
Moussa Traoré age 25
Eddie Fenech Adami age 28
U Nu age 54
Ibrahim Babangida age 20
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 32
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 32
Vladimír Mečiar age 19
Ronald Venetiaan age 25
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 5
Rafael Caldera age 46
Hanna Suchocka age 15
Fernando Belaúnde age 49
Abdalla Hamdok age 6
Takeo Miki age 54
William Westmoreland age 47
Venceslau Brás age 94
Georges Bidault age 62
William Hague age 10 months
Vasily Sokolovsky age 64
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 12
Marcel Lefebvre age 56
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 15
Craig Venter age 15
Francis Collins age 11
Yang Shangkun age 54
Stephen Breyer age 23
James F. Byrnes age 79
Christian Stocker age 1
Hubert Maga age 45
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 40
Sylvie Kinigi age 9
Jioji Konrote age 14
Paavo Lipponen age 20
Georgios Papandreou age 74
Alejandro Giammattei age 5
Bernardo Arévalo de León age 3
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 14
Zalman Shazar age 72