Explore 1959-04-07

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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
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

Gamal Abdel Nasser age 41
Chiang Kai-shek age 71
Hirohito age 57
Nikita Khrushchev age 65
Elizabeth II age 32
Charles de Gaulle age 68
Ho Chi Minh age 68
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 68
David Ben-Gurion age 72
Zhou Enlai age 61
Fidel Castro age 32
Jawaharlal Nehru age 69
Konrad Adenauer age 83
Harold Macmillan age 65
Mao Zedong age 65
Kim Il-sung age 47
Earl Warren age 68
Richard Nixon age 46
Zhu De age 72
John Foster Dulles age 71
Deng Xiaoping age 54
William J. Brennan Jr. age 52
Potter Stewart age 44
John Marshall Harlan II age 59
John F. Kennedy age 41
Lyndon B. Johnson age 50
Hubert Humphrey age 47
Melvin Laird age 36
Winston Churchill age 84
Gerald Ford age 45
Nelson Rockefeller age 50
J. Edgar Hoover age 64
Yang Shangkun age 51
Henry Kissinger age 35
Lee Yuan-tsu age 35
Rudolf Hess age 64
William H. Webster age 35
George H. W. Bush age 34
Lien Chan age 22
Jimmy Carter age 34
Byron White age 41
Daniel Inouye age 34
Clark Clifford age 52
George Wallace age 39
Zhao Ziyang age 39
John Paul Stevens age 38
Jiang Zemin age 32
Walter Mondale age 31
Hua Guofeng age 38
James Baker age 28
Sandra Day O'Connor age 29
Liu Shaoqi age 60
Li Peng age 30
James R. Schlesinger age 30
Chiang Ching-kuo age 48
Sun Yun-suan age 45
Li Xiannian age 49
Ronald Reagan age 48
Dong Biwu age 73
Hu Yaobang age 43
Arthur Goldberg age 50
Hillary Clinton age 11
Bill Clinton age 12
Condoleezza Rice age 4
Rong Yiren age 42
Tôn Đức Thắng age 70
Thurgood Marshall age 50
Archibald Cox age 46
John Kerry age 15
Wang Zhen (general) age 51
Li Keqiang age 3
Hu Jintao age 16
Herbert Hoover age 84
Joe Biden age 16
Wen Jiabao age 16
Dick Cheney age 18
John Lewis age 19
David Souter age 19
Karl Dönitz age 67
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 51
Douglas MacArthur age 79
Colin Powell age 22
Stephen Breyer age 20
Martin Luther King Jr. age 30
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Puyi age 53
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 53
Georges Pompidou age 47
Konstantin Chernenko age 47
Abe Fortas age 48
Souphanouvong age 49
Dean Rusk age 50
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 53
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 50
Leonid Brezhnev age 52
Lê Duẩn age 52
Baldur von Schirach age 51
Warren E. Burger age 51
Walther Funk age 68
He Yingqin age 69
Henry A. Wallace age 70
Erich von Manstein age 71
Courtney Hodges age 72
Raymond A. Spruance age 72
Francis Biddle age 72
Frank Jack Fletcher age 73
Chester W. Nimitz age 74
Vincent Auriol age 74
Harry S. Truman age 74
Clement Attlee age 76
James F. Byrnes age 76
René Coty age 77
Kliment Voroshilov age 78
George C. Marshall age 78
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial age 79
Franz von Papen age 79
Hjalmar Schacht age 82
Erich Raeder age 83
Hubert Gough age 88
John Nance Garner age 90
Thomas Gage age 241
Albert Speer age 54
Juan José Arévalo age 54
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 55
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 55
Alec Douglas-Home age 55
Ruhollah Khomeini age 56
Souvanna Phouma age 57
Tom C. Clark age 59
Rodion Malinovsky age 60
Peng Dehuai age 60
Anthony Eden age 61
Ludwig Erhard age 62
Otto Hofmann age 63
Robert A. Lovett age 63
Lázaro Cárdenas age 63
Christian Herter age 64
Semyon Timoshenko age 64
Edward VIII age 64
Dean Acheson age 66
Omar Bradley age 66
Soong Ching-ling age 66
Francisco Franco age 66
Naoki Hoshino age 67
Clarence Thomas age 10
Al Gore age 11
Dan Quayle age 12
George W. Bush age 12
Ellison Onizuka age 12
Donald Trump age 12
Aung San Suu Kyi age 13
Robert Mueller age 14
Gerhard Schröder age 15
Mohammad Khatami age 15
John Major age 16
John Ashcroft age 16
Muhammad Ali age 17
Kim Jong-il age 18
Zeng Qinghong age 19
Ali Khamenei age 19
Janet Reno age 20
Gennady Yanayev age 21
Madeleine Albright age 21
Saddam Hussein age 21
Anthony Kennedy age 22
Antonin Scalia age 23
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 24
Yuri Gagarin age 25
Olaf Scholz age 9 months
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 2
Theresa May age 2
Friedrich Merz age 3
Tim Berners-Lee age 3
Nicolas Sarkozy age 4
John Roberts age 4
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 4
Masoud Pezeshkian age 4
François Hollande age 4
Angela Merkel age 4
Xi Jinping age 5
Tony Blair age 5
Merrick Garland age 6
Vladimir Putin age 6
Rex Tillerson age 7
Mohamed Morsi age 7
Gordon Brown age 8
Eric Holder age 8
Ronald McNair age 8
Narendra Modi age 8
Louis Freeh age 9
Charles III age 10
Hassan Rouhani age 10
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 25
Nicholas Katzenbach age 37
George Shultz age 38
Elliot Richardson age 38
Anwar Sadat age 40
Helmut Schmidt age 40
Spiro Agnew age 40
Nelson Mandela age 40
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 40
Cyrus Vance age 42
John Connally age 42
François Mitterrand age 42
Edward Heath age 42
Robert McNamara age 42
Harold Wilson age 43
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 43
Yuri Andropov age 44
Edmund Muskie age 45
Willy Brandt age 45
John N. Mitchell age 45
Jacobo Árbenz age 45
William P. Rogers age 45
Rosa Parks age 46
Jo Ann Robinson age 47
James Callaghan age 47
Abolhassan Banisadr age 26
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 26
Jacques Chirac age 26
Raúl Castro age 27
Mikhail Gorbachev age 28
Boris Yeltsin age 28
Hafez al-Assad age 28
Neil Armstrong age 28
Lawrence Eagleburger age 28
William S. Sessions age 28
Helmut Kohl age 29
Yasser Arafat age 29
Zhu Rongji age 30
Hosni Mubarak age 30
Ramsey Clark age 31
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 33
Robert F. Kennedy age 33
Warren Christopher age 33
Margaret Thatcher age 33
Pol Pot age 33
Malcolm X age 33
Alexander Haig age 34
William Rehnquist age 34
Lee Teng-hui age 36
Clarence M. Kelley age 47