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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
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966

People

Elizabeth II age 30
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 62
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 66
President - United States
Nikita Khrushchev age 62
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hirohito age 55
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 66
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek age 69
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 64
President - Yugoslavia
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 38
President - Egypt
Haile Selassie age 64
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 37
Shah - Iran
Fulgencio Batista age 55
President - Cuba
Walter Ulbricht age 63
First Secretary - East Germany
Theodor Heuss age 72
President - Germany
Juscelino Kubitschek age 54
President - Brazil
Baudouin of Belgium age 26
King - Belgium
René Coty age 74
President - France
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 65
President - Mexico
Carlos Castillo Armas age 41
President - Guatemala
Shukri al-Quwatli age 65
President - Syria
Dag Hammarskjöld age 51
Secretary-General - United Nations
Jawaharlal Nehru age 66
Prime Minister - India
Konrad Adenauer age 80
Chancellor - Germany
David Ben-Gurion age 70
Prime Minister - Israel
Zhou Enlai age 58
Premier - People's Republic of China
Anthony Eden age 59
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Antonio Segni age 65
Prime Minister - Italy
Nikolai Bulganin age 61
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Ichirō Hatoyama age 73
Prime Minister - Japan
Avery Brundage age 69
President - International Olympic Committee
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 69
Secretary General - NATO
Souvanna Phouma age 55
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 50
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Guy Mollet age 50
Prime Minister - France
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 45
Prime Minister - Poland
J. G. Strijdom age 63
Prime Minister - South Africa
John A. Costello age 65
Taoiseach - Ireland
Sabri al-Asali age 53
Prime Minister - Syria
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 45
Director-General - World Health Organization
Yu Hung-chun age 58
Premier - Republic of China
Jorge García Montes age 60
Prime Minister - Cuba
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 58
President - World Bank
Kim Il-sung age 44
Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Earl Warren age 65
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Richard Nixon age 43
Vice President - United States
Zhu De age 69
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Chen Cheng age 59
Vice President - Republic of China
Arthur W. Radford age 60
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Harold Macmillan age 62
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
John Foster Dulles age 68
Secretary of State - United States
Maxwell D. Taylor age 55
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Charles Erwin Wilson age 66
Secretary of Defense - United States
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 49
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 52
Attorney General - United States
George M. Humphrey age 66
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Gwilym Lloyd George age 61
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 61
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Deng Xiaoping age 52
Secretariat - Communist Party of China
Hugh Gaitskell age 50
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
William J. Brennan Jr. age 50
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II age 57
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Tom C. Clark age 57
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clement Davies age 72
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Albert Luthuli age 58
President - African National Congress
Paddy McLogan age 57
President - Sinn Féin
Potter Stewart age 41
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
John F. Kennedy age 39
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 48
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 45
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 81
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gerald Ford age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Melvin Laird age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Christian Herter age 61
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 28
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 63
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 55
President - Indonesia
Pius XII age 80
Pope - Vatican City
Syngman Rhee age 81
President - South Korea
Rajendra Prasad age 71
President - India
Hussein I of Jordan age 20
King - Jordan
Celâl Bayar age 73
President - Turkey
Urho Kekkonen age 56
President - Finland
Haakon VII of Norway age 84
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 43
President - Paraguay
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 54
King - Saudi Arabia
Juliana of the Netherlands age 47
Queen - Netherlands
Frederik IX of Denmark age 57
King - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 73
King - Sweden
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 33
Prince - Monaco
Mohammed V of Morocco age 47
Sultan - Morocco
Giovanni Gronchi age 69
President - Italy
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 56
President - Pakistan
Ramon Magsaysay age 49
President - Philippines
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 27
King - Bhutan
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 71
President - Israel
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 60
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 57
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 62
President - Iceland
José Figueres Ferrer age 50
President - Costa Rica
William Tubman age 60
President - Liberia
Theodor Körner age 83
President - Austria
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 46
Sultan - Oman
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 53
President - Argentina
Seán T. O'Kelly age 74
President - Ireland
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 42
President - Venezuela
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 79
President - Chile
Camille Chamoun age 56
President - Lebanon
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 67
President - Peru
Haxhi Lleshi age 43
President - Albania
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 56
Queen - Tonga
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 42
President - Bolivia
Norodom Suramarit age 60
King - Cambodia
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 56
President - Colombia
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 62
President - Portugal
Aleksander Zawadzki age 56
President - Poland
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 61
Emir - Kuwait
Luis Somoza Debayle age 33
President - Nicaragua
Camilo Ponce Enríquez age 44
President - Ecuador
Paul Magloire age 49
President - Haiti
Julio Lozano Díaz age 71
President - Honduras
Ba U age 69
President - Myanmar
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 54
Regent - Lesotho
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 64
Emir - Qatar
Markus Feldmann age 59
President - Switzerland
Alberto Fermín Zubiría age 55
President - Uruguay
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 61
President - Mongolia
António de Oliveira Salazar age 67
Prime Minister - Portugal
Habib Bourguiba age 53
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 53
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Adnan Menderes age 57
Prime Minister - Turkey
Willem Drees age 70
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 49
Prime Minister - Greece
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 59
Prime Minister - Thailand
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 47
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Robert Menzies age 61
Prime Minister - Australia
Einar Gerhardsen age 59
Prime Minister - Norway
Tage Erlander age 55
Prime Minister - Sweden
Louis St. Laurent age 74
Prime Minister - Canada
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 38
Prime Minister - Tonga
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike age 57
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 40
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Dom Mintoff age 40
Prime Minister - Malta
Mehmet Shehu age 43
Prime Minister - Albania
Johan Ferrier age 46
Prime Minister - Suriname
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy age 64
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Chivu Stoica age 48
Prime Minister - Romania
Karl-August Fagerholm age 54
Prime Minister - Finland
H. C. Hansen age 49
Prime Minister - Denmark
Julius Raab age 64
Chancellor - Austria
Achille Van Acker age 58
Prime Minister - Belgium
Nuri as-Said age 68
Prime Minister - Iraq
Joseph Bech age 69
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
András Hegedüs age 33
Prime Minister - Hungary
Hermann Jónasson age 59
Prime Minister - Iceland
Mustafa Ben Halim age 35
Prime Minister - Libya
Ali Sastroamidjojo age 53
Prime Minister - Indonesia
Jigme Palden Dorji age 36
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Mbarek Bekkay age 49
Prime Minister - Morocco
Abdullahi Issa age 33
Prime Minister - Somalia
Sidney Holland age 63
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Abdallah El-Yafi age 55
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Grantley Herbert Adams age 58
Prime Minister - Barbados
Alexander Frick age 46
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Makonnen Endelkachew age 66
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Manuel Cisneros Sánchez age 52
Prime Minister - Peru
Ba Swe age 41
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Filip Bajković age 46
Prime Minister - Montenegro
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 65
Governor-General - Australia
Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie age 63
Governor-General - New Zealand
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 75
Governor-General - Madagascar
Donald Trump age 10
Vladimir Putin age 4
Ronald Reagan age 45
Nelson Mandela age 38
George W. Bush age 10
Joe Biden age 13
Pablo Picasso age 75
Charlie Chaplin age 67
Martin Luther King Jr. age 27
Bill Gates age 11 months
Pope Francis age 19
Steve Jobs age 1
Che Guevara age 28
Bill Clinton age 10
Charles de Gaulle age 65
Angela Merkel age 2
Neil Armstrong age 26
François Hollande age 2
Walt Disney age 54
Elvis Presley age 21
John Paul II age 36
Margaret Thatcher age 31
Ernest Hemingway age 57
Gabriel García Márquez age 29
Fidel Castro age 30
Yuri Gagarin age 22
Mikhail Gorbachev age 25
Stephen Hawking age 14
Jean-Paul Sartre age 51
Jimmy Carter age 32