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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
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
Anthony Eden
age 58
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Hirohito
age 54
Emperor
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Japan
Carlos Castillo Armas
age 41
President
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Guatemala
Chiang Kai-shek
age 68
President
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Republic of China
Nikita Khrushchev
age 61
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Ho Chi Minh
age 65
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 65
President
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United States
Richard Nixon
age 43
Vice President
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United States
Konrad Adenauer
age 80
Chancellor
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Germany
Kim Il-sung
age 43
Chairman Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Elizabeth II
age 29
Queen
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United Kingdom
Mao Zedong
age 62
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 38
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Zhou Enlai
age 57
Premier
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People's Republic of China
John F. Kennedy
age 38
Senate
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United States
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 47
Senate
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United States
Hubert Humphrey
age 44
Senate
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United States
Alben W. Barkley
age 78
Senate
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United States
Melvin Laird
age 33
House of Representatives
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United States
Gerald Ford
age 42
House of Representatives
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United States
Zhu De
age 69
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Earl Warren
age 64
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
John Foster Dulles
age 67
Secretary Of State
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United States
Winston Churchill
age 81
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
Jimmy Carter
age 31
Democratic Party (United States)
Sun Yun-suan
age 42
Kuomintang
Daniel Inouye
age 31
Democratic Party (United States)
George H. W. Bush
age 31
Republican Party (United States)
Potter Stewart
age 41
Republican Party (United States)
Hu Yaobang
age 40
Communist Party of China
Rong Yiren
age 39
Communist Party of China
Byron White
age 38
Democratic Party (United States)
William H. Webster
age 31
Republican Party (United States)
George Wallace
age 36
Democratic Party (United States)
Zhao Ziyang
age 36
Communist Party of China
John Paul Stevens
age 35
Republican Party (United States)
Hua Guofeng
age 34
Communist Party of China
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 32
Kuomintang
Henry Kissinger
age 32
Republican Party (United States)
Herbert Hoover
age 81
Republican Party (United States)
Douglas MacArthur
age 76
United States Army
Dong Biwu
age 69
Communist Party of China
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 67
Communist Party of Vietnam
Karl Dönitz
age 64
Nazi Party
Rudolf Hess
age 61
Nazi Party
J. Edgar Hoover
age 61
Republican Party (United States)
Liu Shaoqi
age 57
Communist Party of China
Deng Xiaoping
age 51
Communist Party of China
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 49
Democratic Party (United States)
Clark Clifford
age 49
Democratic Party (United States)
Yang Shangkun
age 48
Communist Party of China
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 48
Democratic Party (United States)
Wang Zhen (general)
age 47
Communist Party of China
Thurgood Marshall
age 47
Democratic Party (United States)
Arthur Goldberg
age 47
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Xiannian
age 46
Communist Party of China
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 45
Kuomintang
Ronald Reagan
age 45
Republican Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
age 43
Democratic Party (United States)
Hillary Clinton
age 8
Democratic Party (United States)
Jacques Chirac
age 23
French Army
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 25
Republican Party (United States)
James R. Schlesinger
age 26
Republican Party (United States)
Wen Jiabao
age 13
Communist Party of China
Condoleezza Rice
age 1
Republican Party (United States)
James Baker
age 25
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Peng
age 27
Communist Party of China
Joe Biden
age 13
Democratic Party (United States)
Walter Mondale
age 28
Democratic Party (United States)
David Souter
age 16
Republican Party (United States)
Dick Cheney
age 15
Republican Party (United States)
Jiang Zemin
age 29
Communist Party of China
Bill Clinton
age 9
Democratic Party (United States)
John Lewis
age 15
Democratic Party (United States)
John Kerry
age 12
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Keqiang
age 7 months
Communist Party of China
Hu Jintao
age 13
Communist Party of China
Lien Chan
age 19
Kuomintang
Dan Quayle
age 9
Omar Bradley
age 63
Soong Ching-ling
age 63
Francisco Franco
age 63
Naoki Hoshino
age 63
Al Gore
age 7
Clarence Thomas
age 7
Charles de Gaulle
age 65
Charles III
age 7
Edward VIII
age 61
George W. Bush
age 9
Semyon Timoshenko
age 60
Robert A. Lovett
age 60
Otto Hofmann
age 59
Ellison Onizuka
age 9
Donald Trump
age 9
Peng Dehuai
age 57
Rodion Malinovsky
age 57
Aung San Suu Kyi
age 10
John Major
age 12
Thomas Gage
age 238
John Nance Garner
age 87
Hubert Gough
age 85
Tim Berners-Lee
age 8 months
Nicolas Sarkozy
age 1
Erich Raeder
age 79
Hjalmar Schacht
age 79
John Roberts
age 1
Franz von Papen
age 76
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 76
George C. Marshall
age 75
Kliment Voroshilov
age 75
Clement Attlee
age 73
Harry S. Truman
age 71
Chester W. Nimitz
age 70
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 70
François Hollande
age 1
Raymond A. Spruance
age 69
Xi Jinping
age 2
Courtney Hodges
age 69
Tony Blair
age 2
Erich von Manstein
age 68
Gordon Brown
age 4
Ronald McNair
age 5
Henry A. Wallace
age 67
Kingorō Hashimoto
age 65
He Yingqin
age 65
Narendra Modi
age 5
Walther Funk
age 65
Rosa Parks
age 43
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 22
Jacobo Árbenz
age 42
Yuri Andropov
age 41
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 24
Boris Yeltsin
age 25
Hafez al-Assad
age 25
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 40
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 25
Robert McNamara
age 39
John Connally
age 38
Yasser Arafat
age 26
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 37
Nelson Mandela
age 37
Spiro Agnew
age 37
Martin Luther King Jr.
age 27
Zhu Rongji
age 27
George Shultz
age 35
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 34
Lee Teng-hui
age 33
Ramsey Clark
age 28
Fidel Castro
age 29
Robert F. Kennedy
age 30
Warren Christopher
age 30
Margaret Thatcher
age 30
William Rehnquist
age 31
Pol Pot
age 30
Souvanna Phouma
age 54
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 53
Juan José Arévalo
age 51
Albert Speer
age 50
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 50
Puyi
age 50
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 49
Leonid Brezhnev
age 49
Lê Duẩn
age 48
Baldur von Schirach
age 48
Muhammad Ali
age 14
Warren E. Burger
age 48
Kim Jong-il
age 14
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 47
Nelson Rockefeller
age 47
Zeng Qinghong
age 16
Stephen Breyer
age 17
Souphanouvong
age 46
Gennady Yanayev
age 18
Abe Fortas
age 45
Saddam Hussein
age 18
Colin Powell
age 18
Konstantin Chernenko
age 44
Clarence M. Kelley
age 44
Jo Ann Robinson
age 43
Anthony Kennedy
age 19
Antonin Scalia
age 19
Malcolm X
age 30