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Events

Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
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
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01

People

Elizabeth II age 27
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 59
Chairman of the Communist Party of China - Communist Party of China
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 63
President - United States
Nikita Khrushchev age 59
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hirohito age 52
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 63
President - Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek age 66
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 61
President - Yugoslavia
Haile Selassie age 61
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 34
Shah - Iran
Fulgencio Batista age 52
President - Cuba
Getúlio Vargas age 71
President - Brazil
Walter Ulbricht age 60
First Secretary - East Germany
Theodor Heuss age 69
President - Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 23
King - Belgium
Vincent Auriol age 69
President - France
Mohamed Naguib age 52
President - Egypt
Jacobo Árbenz age 40
President - Guatemala
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 62
President - Mexico
Adib Shishakli age 44
President - Syria
Dag Hammarskjöld age 48
Secretary-General - United Nations
Winston Churchill age 78
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Jawaharlal Nehru age 64
Prime Minister - India
Konrad Adenauer age 77
Chancellor - Germany
David Ben-Gurion age 67
Prime Minister - Israel
Zhou Enlai age 55
Premier - People's Republic of China
Georgy Malenkov age 51
Chairman - Soviet Union
Éamon de Valera age 71
Taoiseach - Ireland
Bolesław Bierut age 61
Prime Minister - Poland
Shigeru Yoshida age 75
Prime Minister - Japan
Avery Brundage age 66
President - International Olympic Committee
Giuseppe Pella age 51
Prime Minister - Italy
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 66
Secretary General - NATO
Souvanna Phouma age 52
Prime Minister - Laos
Chen Cheng age 56
Premier - Republic of China
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 42
Director-General - World Health Organization
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 55
President - World Bank
Kim Il-sung age 41
Chairman Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
D. F. Malan age 79
Prime Minister - South Africa
Earl Warren age 62
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Richard Nixon age 40
Vice President - United States
Li Tsung-jen age 64
Vice President - Republic of China
Arthur W. Radford age 57
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
John Foster Dulles age 65
Secretary Of State - United States
Matthew Ridgway age 58
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Rab Butler age 50
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Charles Erwin Wilson age 63
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 49
Attorney General - United States
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
George M. Humphrey age 63
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 44
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 50
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 58
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clement Attlee age 70
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Robert H. Jackson age 61
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Tom C. Clark age 54
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clement Davies age 69
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Albert Luthuli age 55
President - African National Congress
Tomás Ó Dubhghaill age 36
President - Sinn Féin
John F. Kennedy age 36
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 45
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 42
Senate - United States
Gerald Ford age 40
House of Representatives - United States
Melvin Laird age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Christian Herter age 58
Governor Of Massachusetts - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 25
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 60
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 52
President - Indonesia
Pius XII age 77
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 77
King - Saudi Arabia
Juan Perón age 58
President - Argentina
Norodom Sihanouk age 31
King - Cambodia
Syngman Rhee age 78
President - South Korea
Rajendra Prasad age 68
President - India
Hussein I of Jordan age 17
King - Jordan
Celâl Bayar age 70
President - Turkey
Haakon VII of Norway age 81
King - Norway
Juliana of the Netherlands age 44
Queen - Netherlands
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 83
President - Finland
Frederik IX of Denmark age 54
King - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 71
King - Sweden
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 30
Prince - Monaco
Luigi Einaudi age 79
President - Italy
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 24
King - Bhutan
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 69
President - Israel
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 57
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 54
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 59
President - Iceland
Elpidio Quirino age 63
President - Philippines
José Figueres Ferrer age 47
President - Costa Rica
Anastasio Somoza García age 57
President - Nicaragua
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 46
President - Bolivia
William Tubman age 57
President - Liberia
Theodor Körner age 80
President - Austria
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 43
Sultan - Oman
Seán T. O'Kelly age 71
President - Ireland
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 39
President - Venezuela
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 76
President - Chile
Camille Chamoun age 53
President - Lebanon
Haxhi Lleshi age 40
President - Albania
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 53
Queen - Tonga
Manuel Odría age 55
President - Peru
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 53
President - Colombia
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 59
President - Portugal
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 59
President - Mongolia
Aleksander Zawadzki age 53
President - Poland
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 58
Emir - Kuwait
Federico Chávez age 72
President - Paraguay
Philipp Etter age 61
President - Switzerland
Paul Magloire age 46
President - Haiti
Mohammed Ben Aarafa age 67
Sultan - Morocco
Juan Manuel Gálvez age 66
President - Honduras
Jonas Žemaitis age 44
President - Lithuania
Ba U age 66
President - Myanmar
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 51
Regent - Lesotho
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 61
Emir - Qatar
Ibrahim Muhammad Didi age 52
President - Maldives
Enver Hoxha age 45
Prime Minister - Albania
António de Oliveira Salazar age 64
Prime Minister - Portugal
Urho Kekkonen age 53
Prime Minister - Finland
Imre Nagy age 57
Prime Minister - Hungary
Adnan Menderes age 54
Prime Minister - Turkey
Willem Drees age 67
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 56
Prime Minister - Thailand
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 44
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 52
Prime Minister - Romania
Robert Menzies age 58
Prime Minister - Australia
Tage Erlander age 52
Prime Minister - Sweden
Louis St. Laurent age 71
Prime Minister - Canada
U Nu age 46
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 35
Prime Minister - Tonga
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 37
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Muhammad Ali Bogra age 44
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Alexandros Papagos age 69
Prime Minister - Greece
Oscar Torp age 60
Prime Minister - Norway
Julius Raab age 61
Chancellor - Austria
Ólafur Thors age 61
Prime Minister - Iceland
Hans Hedtoft age 50
Prime Minister - Denmark
Alexander Bustamante age 69
Premier - Jamaica
Jean Van Houtte age 46
Prime Minister - Belgium
Vladimir Bakarić age 41
Prime Minister - Croatia
Pierre Dupong age 68
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Penn Nouth age 47
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Ali Sastroamidjojo age 50
Prime Minister - Indonesia
George Borg Olivier age 42
Prime Minister - Malta
Jigme Palden Dorji age 33
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Matrika Prasad Koirala age 41
Prime Minister - Nepal
John Kotelawala age 56
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Zenón Noriega Agüero age 53
Prime Minister - Peru
Sidney Holland age 60
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali age 50
Prime Minister - Iraq
Grantley Herbert Adams age 55
Prime Minister - Barbados
Alexander Frick age 43
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Makonnen Endelkachew age 63
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Blažo Jovanović age 46
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Archibald Currie age 65
Prime Minister - Suriname
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 62
Governor-General - Australia
Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie age 60
Governor-General - New Zealand
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 72
Governor-General - Madagascar
Donald Trump age 7
Albert Einstein age 74
Vladimir Putin age 1
Ronald Reagan age 42
Nelson Mandela age 35
George W. Bush age 7
Joe Biden age 10
Pablo Picasso age 72
Charlie Chaplin age 64
Martin Luther King Jr. age 24
Pope Francis age 16
Che Guevara age 25
Bill Clinton age 7
Charles de Gaulle age 63
Neil Armstrong age 23
Walt Disney age 51
Elvis Presley age 18
John Paul II age 33
Margaret Thatcher age 28
Ernest Hemingway age 54
Gabriel García Márquez age 26
Fidel Castro age 27
Yuri Gagarin age 19
Mikhail Gorbachev age 22
Stephen Hawking age 11
Jean-Paul Sartre age 48
Jimmy Carter age 29
Benedict XVI age 26
Mother Teresa age 43
Harry S. Truman age 69
Hillary Clinton age 6
George H. W. Bush age 29
Xi Jinping age 4 months
Alan Turing age 41
Simone de Beauvoir age 45
Niels Bohr age 68
Muammar Gaddafi age 11
John Lennon age 13
Muhammad Ali age 11
Kofi Annan age 15
Charles III age 4