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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
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
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20

People

Chiang Kai-shek age 68
Carlos Castillo Armas age 41
Nikita Khrushchev age 61
Elizabeth II age 29
Hirohito age 54
René Coty age 73
Ho Chi Minh age 65
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 65
Kim Il-sung age 43
Konrad Adenauer age 80
Zhou Enlai age 57
Mao Zedong age 62
David Ben-Gurion age 69
Jawaharlal Nehru age 66
Anthony Eden age 58
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 38
Earl Warren age 64
Richard Nixon age 43
Zhu De age 69
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 51
John Foster Dulles age 67
John Marshall Harlan II age 56
Hubert Humphrey age 44
Lyndon B. Johnson age 47
John F. Kennedy age 38
Alben W. Barkley age 78
Gerald Ford age 42
Winston Churchill age 81
Melvin Laird age 33
George Wallace age 36
William J. Brennan Jr. age 49
James Baker age 25
Clark Clifford age 49
J. Edgar Hoover age 61
Rudolf Hess age 61
Byron White age 38
Lien Chan age 19
Henry Kissinger age 32
Lee Yuan-tsu age 32
William H. Webster age 31
George H. W. Bush age 31
Daniel Inouye age 31
Deng Xiaoping age 51
Jimmy Carter age 31
Hua Guofeng age 34
Jiang Zemin age 29
Liu Shaoqi age 57
Walter Mondale age 28
Li Peng age 27
John Paul Stevens age 35
James R. Schlesinger age 26
Sandra Day O'Connor age 25
Zhao Ziyang age 36
Hu Jintao age 13
Thurgood Marshall age 47
Tôn Đức Thắng age 67
John Kerry age 12
Hu Yaobang age 40
Potter Stewart age 41
Bill Clinton age 9
Hillary Clinton age 8
Dong Biwu age 69
Arthur Goldberg age 47
Sun Yun-suan age 42
Li Xiannian age 46
Chiang Ching-kuo age 45
Archibald Cox age 43
Condoleezza Rice age 1
Herbert Hoover age 81
Ronald Reagan age 44
Wang Zhen (general) age 47
David Souter age 16
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 48
John Lewis age 15
Dick Cheney age 14
Karl Dönitz age 64
Rong Yiren age 39
Yang Shangkun age 48
Wen Jiabao age 13
Joe Biden age 13
Li Keqiang age 6 months
Jacques Chirac age 23
Douglas MacArthur age 76
Baldur von Schirach age 48
Warren E. Burger age 48
Abe Fortas age 45
Georges Pompidou age 44
Juan José Arévalo age 51
Albert Speer age 50
Souphanouvong age 46
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 50
Dean Rusk age 46
Nelson Rockefeller age 47
Puyi age 49
Lê Duẩn age 48
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 47
Leonid Brezhnev age 49
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 49
He Yingqin age 65
Kingorō Hashimoto age 65
Henry A. Wallace age 67
Erich von Manstein age 68
Courtney Hodges age 69
Raymond A. Spruance age 69
Francis Biddle age 69
Frank Jack Fletcher age 70
Chester W. Nimitz age 70
Vincent Auriol age 71
Harry S. Truman age 71
Clement Attlee age 73
James F. Byrnes age 73
Kliment Voroshilov age 75
George C. Marshall age 75
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial age 76
Franz von Papen age 76
Hjalmar Schacht age 79
Erich Raeder age 79
Hubert Gough age 85
John Nance Garner age 87
Thomas Gage age 238
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 51
Alec Douglas-Home age 52
Ruhollah Khomeini age 53
Souvanna Phouma age 54
Tom C. Clark age 56
Rodion Malinovsky age 57
Peng Dehuai age 57
Ludwig Erhard age 58
Otto Hofmann age 59
Robert A. Lovett age 60
Lázaro Cárdenas age 60
Christian Herter age 60
Semyon Timoshenko age 60
Edward VIII age 61
Harold Macmillan age 61
Dean Acheson age 62
Omar Bradley age 62
Soong Ching-ling age 63
Francisco Franco age 63
Naoki Hoshino age 63
Charles de Gaulle age 65
Walther Funk age 65
Ellison Onizuka age 9
Donald Trump age 9
Aung San Suu Kyi age 10
Robert Mueller age 11
Gerhard Schröder age 11
Mohammad Khatami age 12
John Major age 12
John Ashcroft age 13
Muhammad Ali age 14
Kim Jong-il age 14
Zeng Qinghong age 16
Ali Khamenei age 16
Stephen Breyer age 17
Janet Reno age 17
Gennady Yanayev age 18
Madeleine Albright age 18
Saddam Hussein age 18
Colin Powell age 18
Anthony Kennedy age 19
Antonin Scalia age 19
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 21
Yuri Gagarin age 21
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 22
Abolhassan Banisadr age 22
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 22
Friedrich Merz age 2 months
Tim Berners-Lee age 7 months
Nicolas Sarkozy age 11 months
John Roberts age 11 months
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 1
Masoud Pezeshkian age 1
François Hollande age 1
Angela Merkel age 1
Xi Jinping age 2
Tony Blair age 2
Merrick Garland age 3
Vladimir Putin age 3
Rex Tillerson age 3
Mohamed Morsi age 4
Gordon Brown age 4
Eric Holder age 5
Ronald McNair age 5
Narendra Modi age 5
Louis Freeh age 6
Charles III age 7
Hassan Rouhani age 7
Clarence Thomas age 7
Al Gore age 7
Dan Quayle age 8
George Shultz age 35
Elliot Richardson age 35
Anwar Sadat age 37
Helmut Schmidt age 37
Spiro Agnew age 37
Nelson Mandela age 37
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 37
Cyrus Vance age 38
John Connally age 38
François Mitterrand age 39
Edward Heath age 39
Robert McNamara age 39
Harold Wilson age 39
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 40
Yuri Andropov age 41
Edmund Muskie age 41
Willy Brandt age 42
John N. Mitchell age 42
Jacobo Árbenz age 42
William P. Rogers age 42
Rosa Parks age 42
Jo Ann Robinson age 43
James Callaghan age 43
Clarence M. Kelley age 44
Konstantin Chernenko age 44
George W. Bush age 9
Raúl Castro age 24
Mikhail Gorbachev age 24
Boris Yeltsin age 24
Hafez al-Assad age 25
Neil Armstrong age 25
Lawrence Eagleburger age 25
William S. Sessions age 25
Helmut Kohl age 25
Yasser Arafat age 26
Martin Luther King Jr. age 27
Zhu Rongji age 27
Hosni Mubarak age 27
Ramsey Clark age 28
Fidel Castro age 29
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 29
Robert F. Kennedy age 30
Warren Christopher age 30
Margaret Thatcher age 30
Pol Pot age 30
Malcolm X age 30
Alexander Haig age 31
William Rehnquist age 31
Lee Teng-hui age 33
Nicholas Katzenbach age 34