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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
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
Great Leap Forward 1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Great Chinese Famine 1959-01-01 - 1961-12-31

People

Elizabeth II age 32
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 65
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Charles de Gaulle age 68
President - France
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 68
President - United States
Nikita Khrushchev age 64
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hirohito age 57
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 68
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek age 71
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 66
President - Yugoslavia
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 41
President - Egypt
Haile Selassie age 66
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 39
Shah - Iran
Walter Ulbricht age 65
First Secretary - East Germany
Theodor Heuss age 75
President - Germany
Juscelino Kubitschek age 56
President - Brazil
Baudouin of Belgium age 28
Monarch - Belgium
Adolfo López Mateos age 48
President - Mexico
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 54
President - Iraq
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 57
President - Cuba
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 63
President - Guatemala
Dag Hammarskjöld age 53
Secretary-General - United Nations
Jawaharlal Nehru age 69
Prime Minister - India
Konrad Adenauer age 83
Chancellor - Germany
David Ben-Gurion age 72
Prime Minister - Israel
Zhou Enlai age 60
Premier - People's Republic of China
Harold Macmillan age 64
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Éamon de Valera age 76
Taoiseach - Ireland
Paul-Henri Spaak age 60
Secretary General - NATO
Amintore Fanfani age 50
Prime Minister - Italy
Nobusuke Kishi age 62
Prime Minister - Japan
Hendrik Verwoerd age 57
Prime Minister - South Africa
Michel Debré age 47
Prime Minister - France
Avery Brundage age 71
President - International Olympic Committee
Walter Hallstein age 57
President - European Commission
Phạm Văn Đồng age 52
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 47
Prime Minister - Poland
Chen Cheng age 62
Premier - Republic of China
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 47
Director-General - World Health Organization
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 60
President - World Bank
Nur al-Din Kahala age 49
Prime Minister - Syria
Kim Il-sung age 46
Chairman Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Earl Warren age 67
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Richard Nixon age 46
Vice President - United States
Zhu De age 72
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Nathan F. Twining age 61
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
John Foster Dulles age 70
Secretary Of State - United States
William P. Rogers age 45
Attorney General - United States
Maxwell D. Taylor age 57
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Rab Butler age 56
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Robert B. Anderson age 48
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Neil H. McElroy age 54
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Christopher Soames age 38
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 59
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk age 53
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 64
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Deng Xiaoping age 54
Secretariat - Communist Party of China
Hugh Gaitskell age 52
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
William J. Brennan Jr. age 52
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Potter Stewart age 44
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II age 59
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Tom C. Clark age 59
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Jo Grimond age 45
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Albert Luthuli age 61
President - African National Congress
Paddy McLogan age 60
President - Sinn Féin
John F. Kennedy age 41
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 50
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 47
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 84
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gerald Ford age 45
House of Representatives - United States
Melvin Laird age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Nelson Rockefeller age 50
Governor of New York - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 31
King - Thailand
John XXIII age 77
Pope - Vatican City
Francisco Franco age 66
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 57
President - Indonesia
Syngman Rhee age 83
President - South Korea
Rajendra Prasad age 74
President - India
Hussein I of Jordan age 23
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 55
President - Tunisia
Celâl Bayar age 75
President - Turkey
Urho Kekkonen age 58
President - Finland
Olav V of Norway age 55
Monarch - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 46
President - Paraguay
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 37
President - Guinea
Ayub Khan age 51
President - Pakistan
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 57
King - Saudi Arabia
Juliana of the Netherlands age 49
King - Netherlands
Frederik IX of Denmark age 59
Monarch - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 76
Monarch - Sweden
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 35
Prince - Monaco
François Duvalier age 51
President - Haiti
Mohammed V of Morocco age 49
King - Morocco
Giovanni Gronchi age 71
President - Italy
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 29
King - Bhutan
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 74
President - Israel
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 63
Monarch - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 59
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 64
President - Iceland
Arturo Frondizi age 50
President - Argentina
William Tubman age 63
President - Liberia
Carlos P. Garcia age 62
President - Philippines
Adolf Schärf age 68
President - Austria
Jorge Alessandri age 62
President - Chile
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 48
Sultan - Oman
Seán T. O'Kelly age 76
President - Ireland
Ibrahim Abboud age 58
President - Sudan
Américo Tomás age 64
President - Portugal
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 52
President - Colombia
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 69
President - Peru
Haxhi Lleshi age 45
President - Albania
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 58
Monarch - Tonga
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 44
President - Bolivia
Norodom Suramarit age 62
King - Cambodia
Fouad Chehab age 56
President - Lebanon
Aleksander Zawadzki age 59
President - Poland
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 43
President - Costa Rica
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 64
Emir - Kuwait
Luis Somoza Debayle age 36
President - Nicaragua
Ramón Villeda Morales age 49
President - Honduras
Camilo Ponce Enríquez age 46
President - Ecuador
Paul Chaudet age 54
President - Switzerland
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 57
King - Lesotho
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 67
Emir - Qatar
Win Maung age 42
President - Myanmar
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 63
President - Mongolia
Carlos Fischer age 56
President - Uruguay
Pietro Reffi age 31
Captain Regent - San Marino
Kwame Nkrumah age 49
Prime Minister - Ghana
António de Oliveira Salazar age 69
Prime Minister - Portugal
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 55
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Adnan Menderes age 60
Prime Minister - Turkey
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 51
Prime Minister - Greece
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 49
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
John Diefenbaker age 63
Prime Minister - Canada
Robert Menzies age 64
Prime Minister - Australia
Abd al-Karim Qasim age 44
Prime Minister - Iraq
Ne Win age 47
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Einar Gerhardsen age 61
Prime Minister - Norway
Tage Erlander age 57
Prime Minister - Sweden
Léon M'ba age 56
Prime Minister - Gabon
Barthélemy Boganda age 48
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 40
Prime Minister - Tonga
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike age 60
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 42
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Mehmet Shehu age 46
Prime Minister - Albania
Chivu Stoica age 50
Prime Minister - Romania
Fulbert Youlou age 41
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Gaston Eyskens age 53
Prime Minister - Belgium
H. C. Hansen age 52
Prime Minister - Denmark
Julius Raab age 67
Chancellor - Austria
Ferenc Münnich age 72
Prime Minister - Hungary
V. J. Sukselainen age 52
Prime Minister - Finland
Louis Beel age 56
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Rashid Karami age 37
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Emil Jónsson age 56
Prime Minister - Iceland
Mamadou Dia age 48
Prime Minister - Senegal
Jigme Palden Dorji age 39
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Djuanda Kartawidjaja age 48
Prime Minister - Indonesia
Abdallah Ibrahim age 40
Prime Minister - Morocco
Abdul Majid Kubar age 49
Prime Minister - Libya
Walter Nash age 76
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Abdullahi Issa age 36
Prime Minister - Somalia
Abebe Aregai age 55
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Alexander Frick age 48
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Severinus Desiré Emanuels age 48
Prime Minister - Suriname
Luis Gallo Porras age 64
Prime Minister - Peru
Filip Bajković age 48
Prime Minister - Montenegro
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 67
Governor-General - Australia
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 77
Governor-General - Madagascar
Martin Luther King Jr. age 30
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Donald Trump age 12
Michael Jackson age 4 months
Vladimir Putin age 6
Ronald Reagan age 47
Nelson Mandela age 40
George W. Bush age 12
Joe Biden age 16
Pablo Picasso age 77
Charlie Chaplin age 69
Bill Gates age 3
Pope Francis age 22
Steve Jobs age 3
Che Guevara age 30
Bill Clinton age 12
Angela Merkel age 4
Neil Armstrong age 28
François Hollande age 4
Walt Disney age 57
Elvis Presley age 24
John Paul II age 38
Margaret Thatcher age 33
Ernest Hemingway age 59
Gabriel García Márquez age 31
Fidel Castro age 32
Yuri Gagarin age 24
Mikhail Gorbachev age 27
Stephen Hawking age 17
Jean-Paul Sartre age 53
Jimmy Carter age 34
Benedict XVI age 31