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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
First Taiwan Strait Crisis 1954-09-03 - 1955-05-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19

People

Nikita Khrushchev age 60
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 64
Ho Chi Minh age 64
Hirohito age 53
Chiang Kai-shek age 67
Carlos Castillo Armas age 40
Winston Churchill age 80
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 37
Kim Il-sung age 42
Konrad Adenauer age 79
Elizabeth II age 28
Mao Zedong age 61
Richard Nixon age 42
Lyndon B. Johnson age 46
John F. Kennedy age 37
Hubert Humphrey age 43
Zhou Enlai age 56
Alben W. Barkley age 77
Melvin Laird age 32
Gerald Ford age 41
Earl Warren age 63
John Foster Dulles age 66
Zhu De age 68
Clement Attlee age 72
Jimmy Carter age 30
Daniel Inouye age 30
Sun Yun-suan age 41
Potter Stewart age 40
George H. W. Bush age 30
Hu Yaobang age 39
Rong Yiren age 38
Byron White age 37
George Wallace age 35
Zhao Ziyang age 35
John Paul Stevens age 34
William H. Webster age 30
Hua Guofeng age 33
Lee Yuan-tsu age 31
Henry Kissinger age 31
Herbert Hoover age 80
Douglas MacArthur age 75
Dong Biwu age 68
Tôn Đức Thắng age 66
Karl Dönitz age 63
Rudolf Hess age 60
J. Edgar Hoover age 60
Liu Shaoqi age 56
John Marshall Harlan II age 55
Deng Xiaoping age 50
William J. Brennan Jr. age 48
Clark Clifford age 48
Yang Shangkun age 47
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 47
Wang Zhen (general) age 46
Thurgood Marshall age 46
Arthur Goldberg age 46
Li Xiannian age 45
Chiang Ching-kuo age 44
Ronald Reagan age 43
Wen Jiabao age 12
Joe Biden age 12
Hu Jintao age 12
Dick Cheney age 13
John Lewis age 14
David Souter age 15
John Kerry age 11
Lien Chan age 18
Bill Clinton age 8
Jacques Chirac age 22
Hillary Clinton age 7
James Baker age 24
Sandra Day O'Connor age 24
James R. Schlesinger age 25
Li Peng age 26
Archibald Cox age 42
Walter Mondale age 27
Jiang Zemin age 28
Condoleezza Rice age 2 months
George W. Bush age 8
Erich Raeder age 78
Ellison Onizuka age 8
Naoki Hoshino age 62
Francisco Franco age 62
Soong Ching-ling age 62
Omar Bradley age 61
Donald Trump age 8
Aung San Suu Kyi age 9
Xi Jinping age 1
François Hollande age 5 months
Edward VIII age 60
John Major age 11
Semyon Timoshenko age 59
Hubert Gough age 84
Robert A. Lovett age 59
Otto Hofmann age 58
Anthony Eden age 57
John Nance Garner age 86
Peng Dehuai age 56
Rodion Malinovsky age 56
Thomas Gage age 237
Muhammad Ali age 13
Gordon Brown age 3
George C. Marshall age 74
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial age 75
Kliment Voroshilov age 73
Ronald McNair age 4
Harry S. Truman age 70
Chester W. Nimitz age 69
Frank Jack Fletcher age 69
Narendra Modi age 4
Franz von Papen age 75
Raymond A. Spruance age 68
Charles III age 6
Courtney Hodges age 68
Clarence Thomas age 6
Erich von Manstein age 67
Al Gore age 6
Albert Einstein age 75
Henry A. Wallace age 66
Tony Blair age 1
Kingorō Hashimoto age 64
He Yingqin age 64
Dan Quayle age 7
Walther Funk age 64
Hjalmar Schacht age 78
Jo Ann Robinson age 42
Mikhail Gorbachev age 23
Boris Yeltsin age 23
Rosa Parks age 41
Hafez al-Assad age 24
Jacobo Árbenz age 41
Lawrence Eagleburger age 24
Yuri Andropov age 40
Yasser Arafat age 25
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 39
Robert McNamara age 38
John Connally age 37
Martin Luther King Jr. age 26
Zhu Rongji age 26
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 36
Nelson Mandela age 36
Spiro Agnew age 36
Ramsey Clark age 27
George Shultz age 34
Fidel Castro age 28
Nicholas Katzenbach age 33
Robert F. Kennedy age 29
Lee Teng-hui age 32
Warren Christopher age 29
Margaret Thatcher age 29
Malcolm X age 29
Pol Pot age 29
Charles de Gaulle age 64
Souvanna Phouma age 53
Ruhollah Khomeini age 52
Kim Jong-il age 13
Juan José Arévalo age 50
Albert Speer age 49
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 49
Puyi age 48
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 48
Leonid Brezhnev age 48
Lê Duẩn age 47
Baldur von Schirach age 47
Warren E. Burger age 47
Zeng Qinghong age 15
Stephen Breyer age 16
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 46
Gennady Yanayev age 17
Nelson Rockefeller age 46
Saddam Hussein age 17
Colin Powell age 17
Souphanouvong age 45
Anthony Kennedy age 18
Abe Fortas age 44
Antonin Scalia age 18
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 21
Konstantin Chernenko age 43
Clarence M. Kelley age 43
William Rehnquist age 30