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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
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

Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 27
Tanzan Ishibashi age 77
Michel Debré age 50
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 47
Margaret Chan age 14
Christine Kangaloo age 6 months
Ahmad Uyahya age 9
Leo Tindemans age 40
Melchior Ndadaye age 9
Vladimír Špidla age 11
Antoine Gizenga age 36
Eugenia Charles age 43
Nicholas Liverpool age 27
Mario Scelba age 60
Anker Jørgensen age 39
Taneti Maamau age 1
William Richard Tolbert age 49
Didier Ratsiraka age 25
Abdelilah Benkirane age 8
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 20
Wellington Koo age 74
Kokhir Rasulzoda age 1
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 46
Janet Reno age 23
Fan S. Noli age 80
Mohamed Boudiaf age 42
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 37
Arthur Fadden age 68
Quentin Bryce age 19
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 12
Hugo Banzer age 36
Nuon Chea age 35
Ange-Félix Patassé age 25
Glafcos Clerides age 43
Joaquín Balaguer age 55
Josefa Iloilo age 41
Esko Aho age 8
Luís Cabral age 31
Sam Hinds age 18
Janet Jagan age 41
Abdul Latif Rashid age 17
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 20
Giuseppe Pella age 60
Fernando Tambroni age 60
Joop den Uyl age 42
Behgjet Pacolli age 10
Bakili Muluzi age 19
Ismail Sabri Yaakob age 2
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 19
António Ramalho Eanes age 27
António de Spínola age 52
Milan Milutinović age 19
France-Albert René age 26
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 30
Yusof bin Ishak age 51
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 8
Ruth Dreifuss age 22
Fradique de Menezes age 20
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 9
Maurice Couve de Murville age 55
Pierre Bérégovoy age 36
Mark W. Clark age 66
B. J. Vorster age 46
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 56
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 16
Kathy Hochul age 3
William Rehnquist age 37
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 8
Andranik Margaryan age 10
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 62
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 32
Jigme Thinley age 9
Pierre Buyoya age 12
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 7
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 35
Essam Sharaf age 10
Ahmed Nazif age 9
Väinö Tanner age 81
José Mário Vaz age 4
David A. Granger age 16
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 56
Patrick Hillery age 39
Serik Akhmetov age 3
Tammam Salam age 17
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 77
Kazimira Prunskienė age 19
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 9
Dom Mintoff age 45
Guido de Marco age 30
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 71
Myint Swe age 11
Muhammad Ali Bogra age 52
Pedro Santana Lopes age 5
Ralph Gonsalves age 15
Danny Faure age 0 months
Ola Ullsten age 30
Moritz Leuenberger age 15
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 10
Oqil Oqilov age 18
Somchai Wongsawat age 14
Borjana Krišto age 9 months
Café Filho age 63
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 74
Félix Gouin age 77
Ante Marković age 37
David Paterson age 8
John Connally age 45
Merrick Garland age 9
Nandó dos Santos age 12
Baldwin Spencer age 13
Peter Cosgrove age 14
Freundel Stuart age 11
Syarhiey Sidorski age 8
Nicéphore Soglo age 27
Eduardo Rodríguez age 6
Petar Mladenov age 25
Michel Micombero age 21
Belisario Betancur age 39
Sitiveni Rabuka age 13
Kalevi Sorsa age 31
Óscar Berger age 15
Kumba Ialá age 9
Kaysone Phomvihane age 41
Ivars Godmanis age 10
Amine Gemayel age 20
Joseph Boakai age 17
Christopher Loeak age 9
Mihai Ghimpu age 10
Carlos Agostinho do Rosário age 7
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 11
Salam Fayyad age 10
Marien Ngouabi age 23
Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa age 5
Wavel Ramkalawan age 1
Devan Nair age 38
Johan Ferrier age 52
Surayud Chulanont age 18
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 18
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 20
Guy Scott age 18
Valentín Paniagua age 25
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 55
Ye Jianying age 65
Artur da Costa e Silva age 62
J. Sigfrid Edström age 91
Robert Zoellick age 8
Jack Straw age 15
Deval Patrick age 5
Souvanna Phouma age 60
Ellison Onizuka age 15
Eric Holder age 11
Abd al-Malek Selal age 13
Liamine Zéroual age 20
Johnny Briceño age 1
René Emilio Barrientos Ortuño age 43
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 15
Khieu Samphan age 30
Abel Pacheco age 28
Giorgos Vasiliou age 31
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 9
Charles Savarin age 18
León Febres-Cordero age 31
Hilla Limann age 27
Vasiliki Thanou age 11
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 62
Carmen Pereira age 25
Roberto Micheletti age 18
József Antall age 30
Bjarni Benediktsson age 54
Ayad Allawi age 18
Marouf al-Bakhit age 15
Jens Otto Krag age 47
Isa Mustafa age 11
Khamtai Siphandone age 38
Omar Karami age 27
Mahmoud Jibril age 10
Artūras Paulauskas age 8
David Kabua age 11
Nangolo Mbumba age 20