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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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962

People

Elizabeth II age 31
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 64
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 67
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 70
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 38
Shah - Iran
Fulgencio Batista age 57
President - Cuba
Walter Ulbricht age 64
First Secretary - East Germany
Theodor Heuss age 73
President - Germany
Juscelino Kubitschek age 55
President - Brazil
Baudouin of Belgium age 27
King - Belgium
René Coty age 75
President - France
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 67
President - Mexico
Shukri al-Quwatli age 66
President - Syria
Guillermo Flores Avendaño age 63
President - Guatemala
Dag Hammarskjöld age 52
Secretary-General - United Nations
Jawaharlal Nehru age 68
Prime Minister - India
Konrad Adenauer age 82
Chancellor - Germany
David Ben-Gurion age 71
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 75
Taoiseach - Ireland
Paul-Henri Spaak age 58
Secretary General - NATO
Nikolai Bulganin age 62
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Nobusuke Kishi age 61
Prime Minister - Japan
Avery Brundage age 70
President - International Olympic Committee
Souvanna Phouma age 56
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 51
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 46
Prime Minister - Poland
Adone Zoli age 70
Prime Minister - Italy
J. G. Strijdom age 64
Prime Minister - South Africa
Sabri al-Asali age 55
Prime Minister - Syria
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 46
Director-General - World Health Organization
Yu Hung-chun age 60
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 45
Vice President - United States
Zhu De age 71
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Chen Cheng age 61
Vice President - Republic of China
Nathan F. Twining age 60
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
John Foster Dulles age 69
Secretary of State - United States
William P. Rogers age 44
Attorney General - United States
Maxwell D. Taylor age 56
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Rab Butler age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Robert B. Anderson age 47
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Neil H. McElroy age 53
Secretary of Defense - United States
Peter Thorneycroft age 48
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk age 52
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 63
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Deng Xiaoping age 53
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 58
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Jo Grimond age 44
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Albert Luthuli age 60
President - African National Congress
Paddy McLogan age 59
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 49
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 46
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 83
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gerald Ford age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Melvin Laird age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 30
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 65
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 56
President - Indonesia
Pius XII age 81
Pope - Vatican City
Syngman Rhee age 82
President - South Korea
Rajendra Prasad age 73
President - India
Hussein I of Jordan age 22
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 54
President - Tunisia
Celâl Bayar age 74
President - Turkey
Urho Kekkonen age 57
President - Finland
Olav V of Norway age 54
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 45
President - Paraguay
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 36
President - Guinea
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 56
King - Saudi Arabia
Juliana of the Netherlands age 48
Queen - Netherlands
Frederik IX of Denmark age 58
King - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 75
King - Sweden
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 34
Prince - Monaco
François Duvalier age 50
President - Haiti
Mohammed V of Morocco age 48
King - Morocco
Giovanni Gronchi age 70
President - Italy
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 58
President - Pakistan
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 28
King - Bhutan
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 73
President - Israel
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 61
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 58
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 63
President - Iceland
José Figueres Ferrer age 51
President - Costa Rica
William Tubman age 62
President - Liberia
Carlos P. Garcia age 61
President - Philippines
Adolf Schärf age 67
President - Austria
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 47
Sultan - Oman
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 54
President - Argentina
Seán T. O'Kelly age 75
President - Ireland
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 43
President - Venezuela
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 80
President - Chile
Camille Chamoun age 57
President - Lebanon
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 68
President - Peru
Haxhi Lleshi age 44
President - Albania
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 57
Queen - Tonga
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 43
President - Bolivia
Norodom Suramarit age 61
King - Cambodia
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 63
President - Portugal
Aleksander Zawadzki age 58
President - Poland
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 63
Emir - Kuwait
Luis Somoza Debayle age 35
President - Nicaragua
Ramón Villeda Morales age 48
President - Honduras
Camilo Ponce Enríquez age 45
President - Ecuador
Gabriel París Gordillo age 47
President - Colombia
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 56
Regent - Lesotho
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 66
Emir - Qatar
Win Maung age 41
President - Myanmar
Thomas Holenstein age 61
President - Switzerland
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 62
President - Mongolia
Arturo Lezama age 59
President - Uruguay
Kwame Nkrumah age 48
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 59
Prime Minister - Turkey
Willem Drees age 71
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 50
Prime Minister - Greece
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 48
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
John Diefenbaker age 62
Prime Minister - Canada
Robert Menzies age 63
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 59
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 41
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Dom Mintoff age 41
Prime Minister - Malta
Mehmet Shehu age 45
Prime Minister - Albania
Johan Ferrier age 47
Prime Minister - Suriname
Chivu Stoica age 49
Prime Minister - Romania
Thanom Kittikachorn age 46
Prime Minister - Thailand
H. C. Hansen age 51
Prime Minister - Denmark
Julius Raab age 66
Chancellor - Austria
Achille Van Acker age 59
Prime Minister - Belgium
Joseph Bech age 70
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Hermann Jónasson age 61
Prime Minister - Iceland
Rainer von Fieandt age 67
Prime Minister - Finland
Mamadou Dia age 47
Prime Minister - Senegal
Jigme Palden Dorji age 38
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Djuanda Kartawidjaja age 47
Prime Minister - Indonesia
Abdul Majid Kubar age 48
Prime Minister - Libya
Mbarek Bekkay age 50
Prime Minister - Morocco
Walter Nash age 75
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Abdullahi Issa age 35
Prime Minister - Somalia
Sim Var age 51
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Abdallah El-Yafi age 56
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Grantley Herbert Adams age 59
Prime Minister - Barbados
Abebe Aregai age 54
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Alexander Frick age 47
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Manuel Cisneros Sánchez age 53
Prime Minister - Peru
Abdul-Wahab Mirjan age 49
Prime Minister - Iraq
Jacques Opangault age 50
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 5
Ronald Reagan age 46
Nelson Mandela age 39
George W. Bush age 11
Joe Biden age 15
Pablo Picasso age 76
Charlie Chaplin age 68
Bill Gates age 2
Pope Francis age 21
Steve Jobs age 2
Che Guevara age 29
Bill Clinton age 11
Charles de Gaulle age 67
Angela Merkel age 3
Neil Armstrong age 27
François Hollande age 3
Walt Disney age 56
Elvis Presley age 23
John Paul II age 37
Margaret Thatcher age 32
Ernest Hemingway age 58
Gabriel García Márquez age 30
Fidel Castro age 31
Yuri Gagarin age 23
Mikhail Gorbachev age 26
Stephen Hawking age 15
Jean-Paul Sartre age 52
Jimmy Carter age 33