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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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Great Leap Forward 1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Great Chinese Famine 1959-01-01 - 1961-12-31
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01

People

Elizabeth II age 33
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 65
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Charles de Gaulle age 68
President - France
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 68
President - United States
Nikita Khrushchev age 65
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hirohito age 58
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 69
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek age 71
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 67
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
King - Belgium
Liu Shaoqi age 60
Chairman - People's Republic of China
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
Fidel Castro age 32
Prime Minister - Cuba
Jawaharlal Nehru age 69
Prime Minister - India
Konrad Adenauer age 83
Chancellor - Germany
David Ben-Gurion age 72
Prime Minister - Israel
Zhou Enlai age 61
Premier - People's Republic of China
Harold Macmillan age 65
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Éamon de Valera age 76
Taoiseach - Ireland
Antonio Segni age 68
Prime Minister - Italy
Paul-Henri Spaak age 60
Secretary General - NATO
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 53
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 48
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 61
President - World Bank
Nur al-Din Kahala age 49
Prime Minister - Syria
Kim Il-sung age 47
Chairman Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Earl Warren age 68
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Richard Nixon age 46
Vice President - United States
Soong Ching-ling age 66
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 73
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Nathan F. Twining age 61
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Christian Herter age 64
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 53
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
William J. Brennan Jr. age 53
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 60
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 84
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 76
President - Turkey
Urho Kekkonen age 58
President - Finland
Olav V of Norway age 55
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 46
President - Paraguay
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 37
President - Guinea
Ayub Khan age 52
President - Pakistan
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 57
King - Saudi Arabia
Juliana of the Netherlands age 50
Queen - Netherlands
Frederik IX of Denmark age 60
King - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 76
King - Sweden
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 35
Prince - Monaco
François Duvalier age 52
President - Haiti
Mohammed V of Morocco age 49
King - Morocco
Giovanni Gronchi age 71
President - Italy
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 30
King - Bhutan
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 74
President - Israel
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 63
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 59
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 65
President - Iceland
Rómulo Betancourt age 51
President - Venezuela
Philibert Tsiranana age 46
President - Madagascar
Arturo Frondizi age 50
President - Argentina
William Tubman age 63
President - Liberia
Carlos P. Garcia age 62
President - Philippines
Adolf Schärf age 69
President - Austria
Jorge Alessandri age 63
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 70
President - Peru
Haxhi Lleshi age 45
President - Albania
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 59
Queen - Tonga
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 45
President - Bolivia
Norodom Suramarit age 63
King - Cambodia
Fouad Chehab age 57
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 47
President - Ecuador
Paul Chaudet age 54
President - Switzerland
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 57
Regent - Lesotho
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 67
Emir - Qatar
Win Maung age 43
President - Myanmar
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 63
President - Mongolia
Martín Echegoyen age 68
President - Uruguay
Kwame Nkrumah age 49
Prime Minister - Ghana
António de Oliveira Salazar age 70
Prime Minister - Portugal
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 56
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Adnan Menderes age 60
Prime Minister - Turkey
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 52
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
David Dacko age 29
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Einar Gerhardsen age 62
Prime Minister - Norway
Tage Erlander age 57
Prime Minister - Sweden
Léon M'ba age 57
Prime Minister - Gabon
François Tombalbaye age 40
Prime Minister - Chad
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
Sarit Thanarat age 50
Prime Minister - Thailand
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 54
Prime Minister - Belgium
Pierre Werner age 45
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
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 57
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 50
Prime Minister - Libya
Walter Nash age 77
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Abdullahi Issa age 36
Prime Minister - Somalia
Abebe Aregai age 55
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Hazza' al-Majali age 40
Prime Minister - Jordan
Alexander Frick age 49
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Severinus Desiré Emanuels age 49
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 78
Governor-General - Madagascar
Martin Luther King Jr. age 30
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Donald Trump age 12
Michael Jackson age 8 months
Vladimir Putin age 6
Ronald Reagan age 48
Nelson Mandela age 40
George W. Bush age 12
Joe Biden age 16
Pablo Picasso age 77
Charlie Chaplin age 70
Bill Gates age 3
Pope Francis age 22
Steve Jobs age 4
Che Guevara age 31
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