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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

Hassan Diab age 2
Abdul Razak Hussein age 39
Lawrence Gonzi age 8
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani age 5
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 61
Mircea Snegur age 22
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 3
Shaukat Aziz age 12
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 5
Andrei Belousov age 2
Sergei Stepashin age 9
Guy Parmelin age 2
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 37
Paula-Mae Weekes age 3
Najla Bouden age 3
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 39
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz age 2
Nicanor Duarte age 5
Maxime Weygand age 95
Nikolai Tikhonov age 56
Jânio Quadros age 45
Ash Carter age 7
Michel Aflaq age 52
Ferdinand Schörner age 69
Marsha P. Johnson age 16
Karl von Habsburg age 1
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 48
Mohammad Mokhber age 6
Michael Dukakis age 28
Dobrica Ćosić age 40
Ronald McNair age 11
Lawrence Eagleburger age 31
Anthony Kennedy age 25
Cyrus Vance age 44
Arturo Umberto Illia age 61
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 14
William McMahon age 53
Joe Clark age 22
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 19
Tshombé Moïse age 42
Harri Holkeri age 25
Efraín Ríos Montt age 35
László Kövér age 2
Kristján Eldjárn age 45
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 49
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 56
Yigal Allon age 43
Henri Konan Bédié age 27
Māris Kučinskis age 2 months
Gaston Thorn age 33
Duško Marković age 3
Saadeddine Othmani age 6
Htin Kyaw age 15
Yakubu Gowon age 27
Shehu Shagari age 36
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 16
Mirko Cvetković age 11
Rudolf Schuster age 28
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 19
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 36
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 42
Michael Somare age 25
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 78
Fuad II of Egypt age 10
Chuck Hagel age 15
Milka Planinc age 37
Günter Schabowski age 33
Wesley Clark age 17
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck age 91
Kurt Student age 71
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg age 74
John Kasich age 9
Peter Mandelson age 8
Elena Kagan age 1
Souphanouvong age 52
John Ashcroft age 19
S. M. Bruce age 78
John Gorton age 50
César Gaviria age 14
José Figueres Ferrer age 55
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 40
Mart Laar age 1
Péter Medgyessy age 19
Poul Schlüter age 32
Fouad Siniora age 18
James Michel age 17
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 6
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 35
Mesut Yılmaz age 14
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 34
Julio María Sanguinetti age 26
Iolu Abil age 19
Phạm Minh Chính age 3
Marek Belka age 10
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 66
Mireya Moscoso age 15
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 27
Tanzan Ishibashi age 77
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 46
Margaret Chan age 14
Claude Auchinleck age 77
Christine Kangaloo age 1 month
Wilhelm List age 81
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 20
Frederica of Hanover age 44
Louise Mountbatten age 72
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 26
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 25
Ahmad Uyahya age 9
Leo Tindemans age 39
Melchior Ndadaye age 9
Vladimír Špidla age 10
Antoine Gizenga age 36
Eugenia Charles age 42
Nicholas Liverpool age 27
Mario Scelba age 60
Anker Jørgensen age 39
Taneti Maamau age 1
William Richard Tolbert age 48
Didier Ratsiraka age 25
Abdelilah Benkirane age 7
Sushil Koirala age 22
Kåre Willoch age 33
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 67
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi age 3
Pascal Lissouba age 30
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 18
Adrian Năstase age 11
Michal Kováč age 31
Pascal Couchepin age 19
Wellington Koo age 74
Kokhir Rasulzoda age 10 months
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 51
Carlos P. Garcia age 65
Gaafar Nimeiry age 31
Victoire Dogbé Tomegah age 2
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 109
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 74
Tetsu Katayama age 74
Pierre Messmer age 45
Sirhan Sirhan age 17
Biljana Plavšić age 31
Karl Rahner age 57
Paul Tibbets age 46
Felix Yusupov age 74
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 40
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 46
Janet Reno age 23
Fan S. Noli age 80
Mohamed Boudiaf age 42
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 37
Arthur Fadden age 67
Quentin Bryce age 19
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 11
Hugo Banzer age 35
Nuon Chea age 35
Ange-Félix Patassé age 25
Glafcos Clerides age 42
Joaquín Balaguer age 55
Josefa Iloilo age 41
Esko Aho age 7
Luís Cabral age 30
Sam Hinds age 18
Janet Jagan age 41
Abdul Latif Rashid age 17
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 20
Giuseppe Pella age 59
Fernando Tambroni age 60
Joop den Uyl age 42
Behgjet Pacolli age 10
Bakili Muluzi age 18
Ismail Sabri Yaakob age 2
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 19
António Ramalho Eanes age 27
António de Spínola age 51
Milan Milutinović age 19
France-Albert René age 26
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 29
Yusof bin Ishak age 51
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 8
Ruth Dreifuss age 22
Fradique de Menezes age 19
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 24
Samak Sundaravej age 26
George Maxwell Richards age 30
Yurii Yekhanurov age 13
Juan María Bordaberry age 33
Baldwin Lonsdale age 13
Laurentino Cortizo age 8
Maurice Couve de Murville age 55
Pierre Bérégovoy age 36
Mark W. Clark age 65
B. J. Vorster age 46
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 56
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 15
Margaret Beckett age 19
Paul Hausser age 81
Helen of Greece and Denmark age 65
Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein age 55
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood age 64