Explore 1959-05-20

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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
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

Ho Chi Minh age 69
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 68
Charles de Gaulle age 68
Hirohito age 58
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 41
Chiang Kai-shek age 71
Nikita Khrushchev age 65
Elizabeth II age 33
Fidel Castro age 32
Liu Shaoqi age 60
Richard Nixon age 46
Kim Il-sung age 47
Mao Zedong age 65
Konrad Adenauer age 83
Zhou Enlai age 61
Lyndon B. Johnson age 50
John F. Kennedy age 42
Hubert Humphrey age 48
Gerald Ford age 45
Melvin Laird age 36
Earl Warren age 68
Dong Biwu age 73
Soong Ching-ling age 66
Winston Churchill age 84
Deng Xiaoping age 54
William J. Brennan Jr. age 53
Potter Stewart age 44
John Marshall Harlan II age 60
Nelson Rockefeller age 50
Jiang Zemin age 32
Archibald Cox age 47
Walter Mondale age 31
Li Peng age 30
James R. Schlesinger age 30
Rudolf Hess age 65
Jimmy Carter age 34
Daniel Inouye age 34
George H. W. Bush age 34
William H. Webster age 35
Lee Yuan-tsu age 35
Henry Kissinger age 36
J. Edgar Hoover age 64
Hua Guofeng age 38
John Paul Stevens age 39
Zhao Ziyang age 39
George Wallace age 39
Sun Yun-suan age 45
Byron White age 41
Rong Yiren age 43
Chiang Ching-kuo age 49
Wen Jiabao age 16
Joe Biden age 16
Hu Jintao age 16
John Kerry age 15
Li Xiannian age 49
Arthur Goldberg age 50
Bill Clinton age 12
Hillary Clinton age 11
Thurgood Marshall age 50
Douglas MacArthur age 79
Wang Zhen (general) age 51
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 51
Yang Shangkun age 51
Condoleezza Rice age 4
Herbert Hoover age 84
Li Keqiang age 3
Hu Yaobang age 43
Karl Dönitz age 67
Sandra Day O'Connor age 29
James Baker age 29
Tôn Đức Thắng age 70
Lien Chan age 22
Colin Powell age 22
John Foster Dulles age 71
Ronald Reagan age 48
Stephen Breyer age 20
David Souter age 19
John Lewis age 19
Dick Cheney age 18
Clark Clifford age 52
Martin Luther King Jr. age 30
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Souvanna Phouma age 57
Puyi age 53
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 53
Juan José Arévalo age 54
Ruhollah Khomeini age 56
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 53
Albert Speer age 54
Leonid Brezhnev age 52
Thomas Gage age 241
John Nance Garner age 90
Hubert Gough age 88
Erich Raeder age 83
Hjalmar Schacht age 82
Franz von Papen age 79
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial age 79
George C. Marshall age 78
Kliment Voroshilov age 78
Clement Attlee age 76
Harry S. Truman age 75
Chester W. Nimitz age 74
Frank Jack Fletcher age 74
Raymond A. Spruance age 72
Zhu De age 72
Courtney Hodges age 72
Erich von Manstein age 71
Henry A. Wallace age 70
He Yingqin age 69
Walther Funk age 68
Naoki Hoshino age 67
Francisco Franco age 66
Omar Bradley age 66
Edward VIII age 64
Semyon Timoshenko age 64
Robert A. Lovett age 63
Otto Hofmann age 63
Anthony Eden age 61
Peng Dehuai age 60
Rodion Malinovsky age 60
Hafez al-Assad age 28
Boris Yeltsin age 28
Mikhail Gorbachev age 28
Jacques Chirac age 26
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 26
Antonin Scalia age 23
Anthony Kennedy age 22
Saddam Hussein age 22
Gennady Yanayev age 21
Zeng Qinghong age 19
Kim Jong-il age 18
Muhammad Ali age 17
John Major age 16
Aung San Suu Kyi age 13
Donald Trump age 12
Ellison Onizuka age 12
George W. Bush age 12
Dan Quayle age 12
Al Gore age 11
Clarence Thomas age 10
Charles III age 10
Narendra Modi age 8
Ronald McNair age 8
Gordon Brown age 8
Tony Blair age 6
Xi Jinping age 5
François Hollande age 4
John Roberts age 4
Nicolas Sarkozy age 4
Tim Berners-Lee age 3
Theresa May age 2
Lê Duẩn age 52
Baldur von Schirach age 52
Warren E. Burger age 51
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 50
Souphanouvong age 49
Abe Fortas age 48
Konstantin Chernenko age 47
Clarence M. Kelley age 47
Jo Ann Robinson age 47
Rosa Parks age 46
Jacobo Árbenz age 45
Yuri Andropov age 44
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 43
Robert McNamara age 42
John Connally age 42
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 40
Nelson Mandela age 40
Spiro Agnew age 40
George Shultz age 38
Nicholas Katzenbach age 37
Lee Teng-hui age 36
William Rehnquist age 34
Pol Pot age 34
Malcolm X age 34
Margaret Thatcher age 33
Warren Christopher age 33
Robert F. Kennedy age 33
Ramsey Clark age 31
Zhu Rongji age 30
Yasser Arafat age 29
Lawrence Eagleburger age 28