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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
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08

People

Elizabeth II age 31
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 63
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 66
President - United States
Nikita Khrushchev age 63
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hirohito age 56
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 67
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek age 69
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 65
President - Yugoslavia
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 39
President - Egypt
Haile Selassie age 65
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 37
Shah - Iran
Fulgencio Batista age 56
President - Cuba
Walter Ulbricht age 64
First Secretary - East Germany
Theodor Heuss age 73
President - Germany
Juscelino Kubitschek age 54
President - Brazil
Baudouin of Belgium age 26
Monarch - Belgium
René Coty age 75
President - France
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 66
President - Mexico
Shukri al-Quwatli age 65
President - Syria
Luis Arturo González López age 56
President - Guatemala
Dag Hammarskjöld age 52
Secretary-General - United Nations
Jawaharlal Nehru age 67
Prime Minister - India
Konrad Adenauer age 81
Chancellor - Germany
David Ben-Gurion age 70
Prime Minister - Israel
Zhou Enlai age 59
Premier - People's Republic of China
Harold Macmillan age 63
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Éamon de Valera age 74
Taoiseach - Ireland
Paul-Henri Spaak age 58
Secretary General - NATO
Nikolai Bulganin age 62
Chairman - Soviet Union
Nobusuke Kishi age 60
Prime Minister - Japan
Avery Brundage age 69
President - International Olympic Committee
Souvanna Phouma age 55
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 51
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 46
Prime Minister - Poland
Adone Zoli age 69
Prime Minister - Italy
J. G. Strijdom age 64
Prime Minister - South Africa
Sabri al-Asali age 54
Prime Minister - Syria
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 46
Director-General - World Health Organization
Yu Hung-chun age 59
Premier - Republic of China
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 59
President - World Bank
Kim Il-sung age 45
Chairman Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Earl Warren age 66
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Richard Nixon age 44
Vice President - United States
Zhu De age 70
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Chen Cheng age 60
Vice President - Republic of China
Arthur W. Radford age 61
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
John Foster Dulles age 69
Secretary Of State - United States
Maxwell D. Taylor age 55
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Rab Butler age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Charles Erwin Wilson age 67
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 53
Attorney General - United States
George M. Humphrey age 67
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Peter Thorneycroft age 48
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk age 51
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 62
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Deng Xiaoping age 52
Secretariat - Communist Party of China
Hugh Gaitskell age 51
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
William J. Brennan Jr. age 51
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II age 58
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Tom C. Clark age 57
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Jo Grimond age 44
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Albert Luthuli age 59
President - African National Congress
Paddy McLogan age 58
President - Sinn Féin
Potter Stewart age 42
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
John F. Kennedy age 40
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 48
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 46
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 82
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gerald Ford age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Melvin Laird age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 29
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 64
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 56
President - Indonesia
Pius XII age 81
Pope - Vatican City
Syngman Rhee age 82
President - South Korea
Rajendra Prasad age 72
President - India
Hussein I of Jordan age 21
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 54
President - Tunisia
Celâl Bayar age 74
President - Turkey
Urho Kekkonen age 56
President - Finland
Haakon VII of Norway age 85
Monarch - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 44
President - Paraguay
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 55
King - Saudi Arabia
Juliana of the Netherlands age 48
King - Netherlands
Frederik IX of Denmark age 58
Monarch - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 74
Monarch - Sweden
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 34
Prince - Monaco
Mohammed V of Morocco age 47
Sultan - Morocco
Giovanni Gronchi age 69
President - Italy
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 57
President - Pakistan
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 28
King - Bhutan
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 72
President - Israel
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 61
Monarch - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 58
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 63
President - Iceland
José Figueres Ferrer age 50
President - Costa Rica
William Tubman age 61
President - Liberia
Carlos P. Garcia age 60
President - Philippines
Adolf Schärf age 67
President - Austria
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 46
Sultan - Oman
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 54
President - Argentina
Seán T. O'Kelly age 74
President - Ireland
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 43
President - Venezuela
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 79
President - Chile
Camille Chamoun age 57
President - Lebanon
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 68
President - Peru
Haxhi Lleshi age 43
President - Albania
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 57
Monarch - Tonga
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 43
President - Bolivia
Norodom Suramarit age 61
King - Cambodia
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 63
President - Portugal
Aleksander Zawadzki age 57
President - Poland
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 62
Emir - Kuwait
Luis Somoza Debayle age 34
President - Nicaragua
Camilo Ponce Enríquez age 45
President - Ecuador
Gabriel París Gordillo age 47
President - Colombia
Hans Streuli age 65
President - Switzerland
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 55
King - Lesotho
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 65
Emir - Qatar
Antonio Thrasybule Kébreau age 47
President - Haiti
Win Maung age 41
President - Myanmar
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 62
President - Mongolia
Arturo Lezama age 58
President - Uruguay
Primo Marani age 34
Captain Regent - San Marino
Kwame Nkrumah age 47
Prime Minister - Ghana
António de Oliveira Salazar age 68
Prime Minister - Portugal
János Kádár age 45
Prime Minister - Hungary
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 54
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Adnan Menderes age 58
Prime Minister - Turkey
Willem Drees age 71
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 50
Prime Minister - Greece
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 60
Prime Minister - Thailand
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 48
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
John Diefenbaker age 61
Prime Minister - Canada
Robert Menzies age 62
Prime Minister - Australia
Einar Gerhardsen age 60
Prime Minister - Norway
Tage Erlander age 56
Prime Minister - Sweden
Léon M'ba age 55
Prime Minister - Gabon
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 39
Prime Minister - Tonga
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike age 58
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 40
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Dom Mintoff age 41
Prime Minister - Malta
Mehmet Shehu age 44
Prime Minister - Albania
Johan Ferrier age 47
Prime Minister - Suriname
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy age 64
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Chivu Stoica age 49
Prime Minister - Romania
H. C. Hansen age 50
Prime Minister - Denmark
Julius Raab age 65
Chancellor - Austria
Achille Van Acker age 59
Prime Minister - Belgium
Joseph Bech age 70
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
V. J. Sukselainen age 50
Prime Minister - Finland
Hermann Jónasson age 60
Prime Minister - Iceland
Mamadou Dia age 47
Prime Minister - Senegal
Jigme Palden Dorji age 37
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Djuanda Kartawidjaja age 46
Prime Minister - Indonesia
Abdul Majid Kubar age 48
Prime Minister - Libya
Mbarek Bekkay age 50
Prime Minister - Morocco
Abdullahi Issa age 34
Prime Minister - Somalia
Sidney Holland age 63
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Sim Var age 51
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Abdallah El-Yafi age 55
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Grantley Herbert Adams age 59
Prime Minister - Barbados
Alexander Frick age 47
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Makonnen Endelkachew age 67
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Manuel Cisneros Sánchez age 52
Prime Minister - Peru
Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi age 71
Prime Minister - Iraq
Jacques Opangault age 49
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Filip Bajković age 47
Prime Minister - Montenegro
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 66
Governor-General - Australia
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 76
Governor-General - Madagascar
Martin Luther King Jr. age 28
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Donald Trump age 11
Vladimir Putin age 4
Ronald Reagan age 46
Nelson Mandela age 39
George W. Bush age 11
Joe Biden age 14
Pablo Picasso age 75
Charlie Chaplin age 68
Bill Gates age 1
Pope Francis age 20
Steve Jobs age 2
Che Guevara age 29
Bill Clinton age 10
Charles de Gaulle age 66
Angela Merkel age 3
Neil Armstrong age 26
François Hollande age 2
Walt Disney age 55
Elvis Presley age 22
John Paul II age 37
Margaret Thatcher age 31
Ernest Hemingway age 58
Gabriel García Márquez age 30
Fidel Castro age 30
Yuri Gagarin age 23
Mikhail Gorbachev age 26
Stephen Hawking age 15
Jean-Paul Sartre age 52
Jimmy Carter age 32