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Cold War
1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Civil rights movement
1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
Algerian War of Independence
1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
People
Nikita Khrushchev
age 61
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Anthony Eden
age 57
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Ho Chi Minh
age 65
President
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Vietnam
Carlos Castillo Armas
age 40
President
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Guatemala
Hirohito
age 54
Emperor
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Japan
Chiang Kai-shek
age 67
President
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Republic of China
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 64
President
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United States
Mao Zedong
age 61
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Elizabeth II
age 29
Queen
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United Kingdom
Konrad Adenauer
age 79
Chancellor
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Germany
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 37
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Richard Nixon
age 42
Vice President
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United States
Kim Il-sung
age 43
Chairman Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Zhou Enlai
age 57
Premier
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People's Republic of China
John F. Kennedy
age 37
Senate
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United States
Hubert Humphrey
age 43
Senate
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United States
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 46
Senate
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United States
Alben W. Barkley
age 77
Senate
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United States
Gerald Ford
age 41
House of Representatives
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United States
Melvin Laird
age 32
House of Representatives
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United States
Earl Warren
age 64
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Zhu De
age 68
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
John Foster Dulles
age 67
Secretary Of State
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United States
Clement Attlee
age 72
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Winston Churchill
age 80
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
John Marshall Harlan II
age 56
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Zhao Ziyang
age 35
Communist Party of China
George Wallace
age 35
Democratic Party (United States)
John Paul Stevens
age 35
Republican Party (United States)
Hua Guofeng
age 34
Communist Party of China
J. Edgar Hoover
age 60
Republican Party (United States)
Henry Kissinger
age 31
Republican Party (United States)
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 31
Kuomintang
William H. Webster
age 31
Republican Party (United States)
George H. W. Bush
age 30
Republican Party (United States)
Daniel Inouye
age 30
Democratic Party (United States)
Jimmy Carter
age 30
Democratic Party (United States)
Clark Clifford
age 48
Democratic Party (United States)
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 49
Democratic Party (United States)
Yang Shangkun
age 47
Communist Party of China
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 47
Democratic Party (United States)
Wang Zhen (general)
age 47
Communist Party of China
Thurgood Marshall
age 46
Democratic Party (United States)
Arthur Goldberg
age 46
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Xiannian
age 45
Communist Party of China
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 45
Kuomintang
Ronald Reagan
age 44
Republican Party (United States)
Deng Xiaoping
age 50
Communist Party of China
Archibald Cox
age 43
Democratic Party (United States)
Sun Yun-suan
age 41
Kuomintang
Liu Shaoqi
age 56
Communist Party of China
Potter Stewart
age 40
Republican Party (United States)
Hu Yaobang
age 39
Communist Party of China
Rong Yiren
age 39
Communist Party of China
Byron White
age 37
Democratic Party (United States)
Rudolf Hess
age 61
Nazi Party
Douglas MacArthur
age 75
United States Army
David Souter
age 15
Republican Party (United States)
Hillary Clinton
age 7
Democratic Party (United States)
Bill Clinton
age 8
Democratic Party (United States)
Lien Chan
age 18
Kuomintang
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 66
Communist Party of Vietnam
John Lewis
age 15
Democratic Party (United States)
Dick Cheney
age 14
Republican Party (United States)
Dong Biwu
age 69
Communist Party of China
Jacques Chirac
age 22
French Army
Wen Jiabao
age 12
Communist Party of China
Joe Biden
age 12
Democratic Party (United States)
Herbert Hoover
age 80
Republican Party (United States)
James Baker
age 25
Democratic Party (United States)
Hu Jintao
age 12
Communist Party of China
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 25
Republican Party (United States)
James R. Schlesinger
age 26
Republican Party (United States)
Li Peng
age 26
Communist Party of China
Walter Mondale
age 27
Democratic Party (United States)
Karl Dönitz
age 63
Nazi Party
Jiang Zemin
age 28
Communist Party of China
Condoleezza Rice
age 5 months
Republican Party (United States)
John Kerry
age 11
Democratic Party (United States)
George C. Marshall
age 74
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 52
Kliment Voroshilov
age 74
Souvanna Phouma
age 53
Juan José Arévalo
age 50
Albert Speer
age 50
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 75
Franz von Papen
age 75
Hjalmar Schacht
age 78
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 49
Erich Raeder
age 79
Puyi
age 49
Hubert Gough
age 84
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 49
John Nance Garner
age 86
Leonid Brezhnev
age 48
Soong Ching-ling
age 62
Omar Bradley
age 62
Francisco Franco
age 62
Naoki Hoshino
age 63
Charles de Gaulle
age 64
Edward VIII
age 60
Walther Funk
age 64
He Yingqin
age 65
Semyon Timoshenko
age 60
Kingorō Hashimoto
age 65
Henry A. Wallace
age 66
Robert A. Lovett
age 59
Otto Hofmann
age 59
Erich von Manstein
age 67
Courtney Hodges
age 68
Raymond A. Spruance
age 68
Peng Dehuai
age 56
Rodion Malinovsky
age 56
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 70
Chester W. Nimitz
age 70
Harry S. Truman
age 71
Thomas Gage
age 237
Yasser Arafat
age 25
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 24
Hafez al-Assad
age 24
Boris Yeltsin
age 24
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 24
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 22
Antonin Scalia
age 19
Anthony Kennedy
age 18
Colin Powell
age 18
Saddam Hussein
age 18
Gennady Yanayev
age 17
Stephen Breyer
age 16
Zeng Qinghong
age 15
Kim Jong-il
age 14
Muhammad Ali
age 13
John Major
age 12
Aung San Suu Kyi
age 9
Donald Trump
age 8
Ellison Onizuka
age 8
George W. Bush
age 8
Dan Quayle
age 8
Al Gore
age 7
Clarence Thomas
age 6
Charles III
age 6
Narendra Modi
age 4
Ronald McNair
age 4
Gordon Brown
age 4
Tony Blair
age 2
Xi Jinping
age 1
François Hollande
age 9 months
John Roberts
age 3 months
Nicolas Sarkozy
age 3 months
Lê Duẩn
age 48
Baldur von Schirach
age 48
Warren E. Burger
age 47
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 46
Nelson Rockefeller
age 46
Souphanouvong
age 45
Abe Fortas
age 44
Konstantin Chernenko
age 43
Clarence M. Kelley
age 43
Jo Ann Robinson
age 43
Rosa Parks
age 42
Jacobo Árbenz
age 41
Yuri Andropov
age 40
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 39
Robert McNamara
age 38
John Connally
age 38
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 36
Nelson Mandela
age 36
Spiro Agnew
age 36
George Shultz
age 34
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 33
Lee Teng-hui
age 32
William Rehnquist
age 30
Pol Pot
age 30
Malcolm X
age 30
Margaret Thatcher
age 29
Warren Christopher
age 29
Robert F. Kennedy
age 29
Fidel Castro
age 28
Ramsey Clark
age 27
Zhu Rongji
age 26
Martin Luther King Jr.
age 26