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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
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30

People

Elizabeth II age 29
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 61
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 65
President - United States
Nikita Khrushchev age 61
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hirohito age 54
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 65
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek age 68
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 63
President - Yugoslavia
Haile Selassie age 63
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 36
Shah - Iran
Fulgencio Batista age 54
President - Cuba
Walter Ulbricht age 62
First Secretary - East Germany
Theodor Heuss age 71
President - Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 25
King - Belgium
René Coty age 73
President - France
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 64
President - Mexico
Carlos Castillo Armas age 41
President - Guatemala
Nereu Ramos age 67
President - Brazil
Shukri al-Quwatli age 64
President - Syria
Dag Hammarskjöld age 50
Secretary-General - United Nations
Jawaharlal Nehru age 66
Prime Minister - India
Konrad Adenauer age 79
Chancellor - Germany
David Ben-Gurion age 69
Prime Minister - Israel
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 37
Prime Minister - Egypt
Zhou Enlai age 57
Premier - People's Republic of China
Anthony Eden age 58
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Antonio Segni age 64
Prime Minister - Italy
Nikolai Bulganin age 60
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Ichirō Hatoyama age 72
Prime Minister - Japan
Avery Brundage age 68
President - International Olympic Committee
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 68
Secretary General - NATO
Phạm Văn Đồng age 49
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 44
Prime Minister - Poland
J. G. Strijdom age 62
Prime Minister - South Africa
John A. Costello age 64
Taoiseach - Ireland
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 44
Director-General - World Health Organization
Yu Hung-chun age 57
Premier - Republic of China
Jorge García Montes age 59
Prime Minister - Cuba
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 57
President - World Bank
Kim Il-sung age 43
Chairman Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Earl Warren age 64
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Richard Nixon age 42
Vice President - United States
Zhu De age 69
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Chen Cheng age 58
Vice President - Republic of China
Arthur W. Radford age 59
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
John Foster Dulles age 67
Secretary Of State - United States
Maxwell D. Taylor age 54
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Rab Butler age 53
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Charles Erwin Wilson age 65
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 51
Attorney General - United States
George M. Humphrey age 65
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 46
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 61
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 52
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 60
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clement Attlee age 72
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
John Marshall Harlan II age 56
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Tom C. Clark age 56
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clement Davies age 71
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Albert Luthuli age 57
President - African National Congress
Paddy McLogan age 56
President - Sinn Féin
Potter Stewart age 40
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
John F. Kennedy age 38
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 47
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 44
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 78
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 81
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gerald Ford age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Melvin Laird age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Christian Herter age 60
Governor Of Massachusetts - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 28
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 63
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 54
President - Indonesia
Pius XII age 79
Pope - Vatican City
Syngman Rhee age 80
President - South Korea
Rajendra Prasad age 71
President - India
Hussein I of Jordan age 20
King - Jordan
Celâl Bayar age 72
President - Turkey
Haakon VII of Norway age 83
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 43
President - Paraguay
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 53
King - Saudi Arabia
Juliana of the Netherlands age 46
Queen - Netherlands
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 85
President - Finland
Frederik IX of Denmark age 56
King - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 73
King - Sweden
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 32
Prince - Monaco
Mohammed V of Morocco age 46
Sultan - Morocco
Giovanni Gronchi age 68
President - Italy
Ramon Magsaysay age 48
President - Philippines
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 26
King - Bhutan
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 71
President - Israel
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 59
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 56
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 61
President - Iceland
José Figueres Ferrer age 49
President - Costa Rica
Anastasio Somoza García age 59
President - Nicaragua
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 48
President - Bolivia
William Tubman age 60
President - Liberia
Theodor Körner age 82
President - Austria
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 45
Sultan - Oman
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 52
President - Argentina
Seán T. O'Kelly age 73
President - Ireland
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 41
President - Venezuela
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 78
President - Chile
Camille Chamoun age 55
President - Lebanon
Haxhi Lleshi age 42
President - Albania
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 55
Queen - Tonga
Norodom Suramarit age 59
King - Cambodia
Manuel Odría age 58
President - Peru
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 55
President - Colombia
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 61
President - Portugal
Aleksander Zawadzki age 56
President - Poland
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 60
Emir - Kuwait
Max Petitpierre age 56
President - Switzerland
Paul Magloire age 48
President - Haiti
Julio Lozano Díaz age 70
President - Honduras
Ba U age 68
President - Myanmar
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 53
Regent - Lesotho
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 63
Emir - Qatar
Ricardo Arias Espinosa age 43
President - Panama
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 60
President - Mongolia
Giuseppe Maiani age 31
Captain Regent - San Marino
António de Oliveira Salazar age 66
Prime Minister - Portugal
Norodom Sihanouk age 33
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Urho Kekkonen age 55
Prime Minister - Finland
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 52
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Adnan Menderes age 56
Prime Minister - Turkey
Willem Drees age 69
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 48
Prime Minister - Greece
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 58
Prime Minister - Thailand
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 46
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Robert Menzies age 60
Prime Minister - Australia
Einar Gerhardsen age 58
Prime Minister - Norway
Tage Erlander age 54
Prime Minister - Sweden
Louis St. Laurent age 73
Prime Minister - Canada
U Nu age 48
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 37
Prime Minister - Tonga
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 39
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Dom Mintoff age 39
Prime Minister - Malta
Mehmet Shehu age 42
Prime Minister - Albania
Johan Ferrier age 45
Prime Minister - Suriname
Chivu Stoica age 47
Prime Minister - Romania
H. C. Hansen age 49
Prime Minister - Denmark
Julius Raab age 64
Chancellor - Austria
Achille Van Acker age 57
Prime Minister - Belgium
Nuri as-Said age 67
Prime Minister - Iraq
Joseph Bech age 68
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
András Hegedüs age 33
Prime Minister - Hungary
Ólafur Thors age 63
Prime Minister - Iceland
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 50
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Rashid Karami age 33
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Mustafa Ben Halim age 34
Prime Minister - Libya
Jigme Palden Dorji age 35
Prime Minister - Bhutan
John Kotelawala age 58
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Sidney Holland age 62
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Burhanuddin Harahap age 38
Prime Minister - Indonesia
Grantley Herbert Adams age 57
Prime Minister - Barbados
Alexander Frick age 45
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Makonnen Endelkachew age 65
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Filip Bajković age 45
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Roque A. Saldías age 63
Prime Minister - Peru
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 64
Governor-General - Australia
Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie age 62
Governor-General - New Zealand
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 74
Governor-General - Madagascar
Donald Trump age 9
Vladimir Putin age 3
Ronald Reagan age 44
Nelson Mandela age 37
George W. Bush age 9
Joe Biden age 13
Pablo Picasso age 74
Charlie Chaplin age 66
Martin Luther King Jr. age 26
Bill Gates age 1 month
Pope Francis age 18
Steve Jobs age 9 months
Che Guevara age 27
Bill Clinton age 9
Charles de Gaulle age 65
Angela Merkel age 1
Neil Armstrong age 25
François Hollande age 1
Walt Disney age 54
Elvis Presley age 20
John Paul II age 35
Margaret Thatcher age 30
Ernest Hemingway age 56
Gabriel García Márquez age 28
Fidel Castro age 29
Yuri Gagarin age 21
Mikhail Gorbachev age 24
Stephen Hawking age 13
Jean-Paul Sartre age 50
Jimmy Carter age 31
Benedict XVI age 28
Mother Teresa age 45
Harry S. Truman age 71
Hillary Clinton age 8
George H. W. Bush age 31
Nicolas Sarkozy age 10 months