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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
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01

People

Elizabeth II age 28
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 60
Chairman of the Communist Party of China - Communist Party of China
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 63
President - United States
Nikita Khrushchev age 60
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hirohito age 53
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 64
President - Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek age 66
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 62
President - Yugoslavia
Haile Selassie age 62
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 34
Shah - Iran
Fulgencio Batista age 53
President - Cuba
Walter Ulbricht age 61
First Secretary - East Germany
Theodor Heuss age 70
President - Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 23
King - Belgium
Mohamed Naguib age 53
President - Egypt
René Coty age 72
President - France
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 63
President - Mexico
Café Filho age 55
President - Brazil
Hashim al-Atassi age 78
President - Syria
Dag Hammarskjöld age 49
Secretary-General - United Nations
Winston Churchill age 79
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Jawaharlal Nehru age 64
Prime Minister - India
Konrad Adenauer age 78
Chancellor - Germany
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 36
Prime Minister - Egypt
Zhou Enlai age 56
Premier - People's Republic of China
Georgy Malenkov age 52
Chairman - Soviet Union
Moshe Sharett age 59
Prime Minister - Israel
Shigeru Yoshida age 75
Prime Minister - Japan
Pierre Mendès France age 47
Prime Minister - France
Mario Scelba age 53
Prime Minister - Italy
Avery Brundage age 66
President - International Olympic Committee
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 67
Secretary General - NATO
Souvanna Phouma age 52
Prime Minister - Laos
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 43
Prime Minister - Poland
John A. Costello age 63
Taoiseach - Ireland
Stanisław Mackiewicz age 57
Prime Minister - Poland
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 43
Director-General - World Health Organization
Yu Hung-chun age 56
Premier - Republic of China
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 56
President - World Bank
Kim Il-sung age 42
Chairman Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
D. F. Malan age 80
Prime Minister - South Africa
Earl Warren age 63
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Richard Nixon age 41
Vice President - United States
Chen Cheng age 57
Vice President - Republic of China
Arthur W. Radford age 58
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
John Foster Dulles age 66
Secretary Of State - United States
Matthew Ridgway age 59
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Rab Butler age 51
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Charles Erwin Wilson age 64
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 50
Attorney General - United States
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
George M. Humphrey age 64
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 45
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 59
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clement Attlee age 71
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Robert H. Jackson age 62
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Tom C. Clark age 54
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clement Davies age 70
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Albert Luthuli age 56
President - African National Congress
Paddy McLogan age 55
President - Sinn Féin
Potter Stewart age 39
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II age 55
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
John F. Kennedy age 37
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 46
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 43
Senate - United States
Gerald Ford age 41
House of Representatives - United States
Melvin Laird age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Christian Herter age 59
Governor Of Massachusetts - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 26
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 61
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 53
President - Indonesia
Pius XII age 78
Pope - Vatican City
Juan Perón age 58
President - Argentina
Norodom Sihanouk age 31
King - Cambodia
Syngman Rhee age 79
President - South Korea
Rajendra Prasad age 69
President - India
Hussein I of Jordan age 18
King - Jordan
Celâl Bayar age 71
President - Turkey
Haakon VII of Norway age 82
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 41
President - Paraguay
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 52
King - Saudi Arabia
Juliana of the Netherlands age 45
Queen - Netherlands
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 83
President - Finland
Frederik IX of Denmark age 55
King - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 71
King - Sweden
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 31
Prince - Monaco
Luigi Einaudi age 80
President - Italy
Ramon Magsaysay age 47
President - Philippines
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 25
King - Bhutan
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 69
President - Israel
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 58
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 55
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 60
President - Iceland
José Figueres Ferrer age 47
President - Costa Rica
Anastasio Somoza García age 58
President - Nicaragua
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 46
President - Bolivia
William Tubman age 58
President - Liberia
Theodor Körner age 81
President - Austria
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 44
Sultan - Oman
Seán T. O'Kelly age 72
President - Ireland
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 40
President - Venezuela
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 76
President - Chile
Camille Chamoun age 54
President - Lebanon
Haxhi Lleshi age 40
President - Albania
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 54
Queen - Tonga
Manuel Odría age 56
President - Peru
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 54
President - Colombia
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 60
President - Portugal
Aleksander Zawadzki age 54
President - Poland
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 59
Emir - Kuwait
Paul Magloire age 47
President - Haiti
Mohammed Ben Aarafa age 68
Sultan - Morocco
Juan Manuel Gálvez age 67
President - Honduras
Jonas Žemaitis age 45
President - Lithuania
Ba U age 67
President - Myanmar
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 52
Regent - Lesotho
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 62
Emir - Qatar
Rodolphe Rubattel age 58
President - Switzerland
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 59
President - Mongolia
Giuseppe Forcellini age 53
Captain Regent - San Marino
António de Oliveira Salazar age 65
Prime Minister - Portugal
Imre Nagy age 58
Prime Minister - Hungary
Adnan Menderes age 55
Prime Minister - Turkey
Willem Drees age 68
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 57
Prime Minister - Thailand
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 45
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 52
Prime Minister - Romania
Robert Menzies age 59
Prime Minister - Australia
Tage Erlander age 53
Prime Minister - Sweden
Louis St. Laurent age 72
Prime Minister - Canada
U Nu age 47
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 36
Prime Minister - Tonga
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 37
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Muhammad Ali Bogra age 44
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Mehmet Shehu age 41
Prime Minister - Albania
Alexandros Papagos age 70
Prime Minister - Greece
Oscar Torp age 61
Prime Minister - Norway
Julius Raab age 62
Chancellor - Austria
Achille Van Acker age 56
Prime Minister - Belgium
Nuri as-Said age 66
Prime Minister - Iraq
Joseph Bech age 67
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Ólafur Thors age 62
Prime Minister - Iceland
Hans Hedtoft age 51
Prime Minister - Denmark
Ralf Törngren age 55
Prime Minister - Finland
Alexander Bustamante age 70
Premier - Jamaica
Mustafa Ben Halim age 33
Prime Minister - Libya
Penn Nouth age 48
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Ali Sastroamidjojo age 51
Prime Minister - Indonesia
George Borg Olivier age 43
Prime Minister - Malta
Jigme Palden Dorji age 34
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Matrika Prasad Koirala age 42
Prime Minister - Nepal
John Kotelawala age 57
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 62
Prime Minister - Jordan
Sidney Holland age 60
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Grantley Herbert Adams age 56
Prime Minister - Barbados
Alexander Frick age 44
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Makonnen Endelkachew age 64
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Archibald Currie age 66
Prime Minister - Suriname
Filip Bajković age 44
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Roque A. Saldías age 62
Prime Minister - Peru
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 63
Governor-General - Australia
Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie age 60
Governor-General - New Zealand
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 73
Governor-General - Madagascar
Donald Trump age 8
Albert Einstein age 75
Vladimir Putin age 1
Ronald Reagan age 43
Nelson Mandela age 36
George W. Bush age 8
Joe Biden age 11
Pablo Picasso age 72
Charlie Chaplin age 65
Martin Luther King Jr. age 25
Pope Francis age 17
Che Guevara age 26
Bill Clinton age 8
Charles de Gaulle age 63
Angela Merkel age 1 month
Neil Armstrong age 24
François Hollande age 0 months
Walt Disney age 52
Elvis Presley age 19
John Paul II age 34
Margaret Thatcher age 28
Ernest Hemingway age 55
Gabriel García Márquez age 27
Fidel Castro age 28
Yuri Gagarin age 20
Mikhail Gorbachev age 23
Stephen Hawking age 12
Jean-Paul Sartre age 49
Jimmy Carter age 29
Benedict XVI age 27
Mother Teresa age 44
Harry S. Truman age 70
Hillary Clinton age 6
George H. W. Bush age 30
Xi Jinping age 1
Hugo Chávez age 0 months