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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
Souvanna Phouma
age 55
Prime Minister
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Laos
Carlos Castillo Armas
age 42
President
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Guatemala
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 38
President
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Egypt
Ho Chi Minh
age 66
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Anthony Eden
age 59
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Hirohito
age 55
Emperor
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Japan
Nikita Khrushchev
age 62
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 66
President
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United States
Chiang Kai-shek
age 69
President
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Republic of China
Mao Zedong
age 62
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Elizabeth II
age 30
Queen
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United Kingdom
Kim Il-sung
age 44
Chairman Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Konrad Adenauer
age 80
Chancellor
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Germany
Richard Nixon
age 43
Vice President
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United States
Zhou Enlai
age 58
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Hubert Humphrey
age 45
Senate
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United States
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 48
Senate
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United States
John F. Kennedy
age 39
Senate
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United States
Gerald Ford
age 43
House of Representatives
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United States
Melvin Laird
age 34
House of Representatives
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United States
Earl Warren
age 65
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
John Foster Dulles
age 68
Secretary Of State
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United States
Zhu De
age 69
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Winston Churchill
age 81
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Deng Xiaoping
age 52
Secretariat
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Communist Party of China
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 50
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II
age 57
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Rudolf Hess
age 62
Nazi Party
Jiang Zemin
age 30
Communist Party of China
Walter Mondale
age 28
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Peng
age 28
Communist Party of China
Rong Yiren
age 40
Communist Party of China
Liu Shaoqi
age 57
Communist Party of China
Byron White
age 39
Democratic Party (United States)
Hu Yaobang
age 40
Communist Party of China
George Wallace
age 37
Democratic Party (United States)
Zhao Ziyang
age 37
Communist Party of China
John Paul Stevens
age 36
Republican Party (United States)
Hua Guofeng
age 35
Communist Party of China
Potter Stewart
age 41
Republican Party (United States)
Henry Kissinger
age 33
Republican Party (United States)
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 33
Kuomintang
William H. Webster
age 32
Republican Party (United States)
George H. W. Bush
age 32
Republican Party (United States)
Daniel Inouye
age 32
Democratic Party (United States)
Jimmy Carter
age 32
Democratic Party (United States)
J. Edgar Hoover
age 61
Republican Party (United States)
Sun Yun-suan
age 43
Kuomintang
James R. Schlesinger
age 27
Republican Party (United States)
Wang Zhen (general)
age 48
Communist Party of China
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 49
Democratic Party (United States)
Thurgood Marshall
age 48
Democratic Party (United States)
Douglas MacArthur
age 76
United States Army
Arthur Goldberg
age 48
Democratic Party (United States)
Hillary Clinton
age 9
Democratic Party (United States)
Bill Clinton
age 10
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Xiannian
age 47
Communist Party of China
Condoleezza Rice
age 1
Republican Party (United States)
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 46
Kuomintang
Dong Biwu
age 70
Communist Party of China
John Kerry
age 12
Democratic Party (United States)
Herbert Hoover
age 82
Republican Party (United States)
Hu Jintao
age 13
Communist Party of China
Joe Biden
age 13
Democratic Party (United States)
Wen Jiabao
age 14
Communist Party of China
Ronald Reagan
age 45
Republican Party (United States)
Dick Cheney
age 15
Republican Party (United States)
John Lewis
age 16
Democratic Party (United States)
David Souter
age 17
Republican Party (United States)
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 68
Communist Party of Vietnam
Clark Clifford
age 49
Democratic Party (United States)
Lien Chan
age 20
Kuomintang
Yang Shangkun
age 49
Communist Party of China
Li Keqiang
age 1
Communist Party of China
Jacques Chirac
age 23
French Army
Archibald Cox
age 44
Democratic Party (United States)
James Baker
age 26
Democratic Party (United States)
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 26
Republican Party (United States)
Karl Dönitz
age 65
Nazi Party
Lê Duẩn
age 49
Leonid Brezhnev
age 49
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 50
Puyi
age 50
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 51
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 54
Albert Speer
age 51
Juan José Arévalo
age 52
Thomas Gage
age 238
John Nance Garner
age 88
Hubert Gough
age 86
Erich Raeder
age 80
Hjalmar Schacht
age 79
Franz von Papen
age 77
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 76
George C. Marshall
age 75
Kliment Voroshilov
age 75
Clement Attlee
age 73
Harry S. Truman
age 72
Chester W. Nimitz
age 71
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 71
Raymond A. Spruance
age 70
Courtney Hodges
age 69
Erich von Manstein
age 69
Henry A. Wallace
age 68
Kingorō Hashimoto
age 66
He Yingqin
age 66
Walther Funk
age 66
Charles de Gaulle
age 66
Naoki Hoshino
age 64
Francisco Franco
age 63
Soong Ching-ling
age 63
Omar Bradley
age 63
Edward VIII
age 62
Semyon Timoshenko
age 61
Robert A. Lovett
age 61
Otto Hofmann
age 60
Peng Dehuai
age 58
Rodion Malinovsky
age 57
Donald Trump
age 10
Aung San Suu Kyi
age 11
John Major
age 13
Muhammad Ali
age 14
Kim Jong-il
age 15
Zeng Qinghong
age 17
Stephen Breyer
age 18
Gennady Yanayev
age 19
Saddam Hussein
age 19
Colin Powell
age 19
Anthony Kennedy
age 20
Antonin Scalia
age 20
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 23
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 25
Boris Yeltsin
age 25
Hafez al-Assad
age 26
Theresa May
age 1 month
Tim Berners-Lee
age 1
Nicolas Sarkozy
age 1
John Roberts
age 1
François Hollande
age 2
Xi Jinping
age 3
Tony Blair
age 3
Gordon Brown
age 5
Ronald McNair
age 6
Narendra Modi
age 6
Charles III
age 7
Clarence Thomas
age 8
Al Gore
age 8
Dan Quayle
age 9
George W. Bush
age 10
Ellison Onizuka
age 10
Nelson Mandela
age 38
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 38
John Connally
age 39
Robert McNamara
age 40
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 40
Yuri Andropov
age 42
Jacobo Árbenz
age 43
Rosa Parks
age 43
Jo Ann Robinson
age 44
Clarence M. Kelley
age 45
Konstantin Chernenko
age 45
Abe Fortas
age 46
Souphanouvong
age 47
Nelson Rockefeller
age 48
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 48
Warren E. Burger
age 49
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 26
Yasser Arafat
age 27
Martin Luther King Jr.
age 27
Zhu Rongji
age 28
Ramsey Clark
age 28
Fidel Castro
age 30
Robert F. Kennedy
age 30
Warren Christopher
age 31
Margaret Thatcher
age 31
Malcolm X
age 31
Pol Pot
age 31
William Rehnquist
age 32
Lee Teng-hui
age 33
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 34
George Shultz
age 35
Spiro Agnew
age 38
Baldur von Schirach
age 49