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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
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 68
President
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United States
Charles de Gaulle
age 68
President
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France
Hirohito
age 58
Emperor
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Japan
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 41
President
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Egypt
Chiang Kai-shek
age 71
President
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Republic of China
Nikita Khrushchev
age 65
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Elizabeth II
age 33
Queen
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United Kingdom
Fidel Castro
age 32
Prime Minister
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Cuba
Liu Shaoqi
age 60
Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Richard Nixon
age 46
Vice President
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United States
Kim Il-sung
age 47
Chairman Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Mao Zedong
age 65
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Konrad Adenauer
age 83
Chancellor
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Germany
Zhou Enlai
age 61
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 50
Senate
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United States
John F. Kennedy
age 42
Senate
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United States
Hubert Humphrey
age 48
Senate
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United States
Gerald Ford
age 45
House of Representatives
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United States
Melvin Laird
age 36
House of Representatives
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United States
Earl Warren
age 68
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Dong Biwu
age 73
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Soong Ching-ling
age 66
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Winston Churchill
age 84
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Deng Xiaoping
age 54
Secretariat
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Communist Party of China
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 53
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Potter Stewart
age 44
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II
age 60
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Nelson Rockefeller
age 50
Governor of New York
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United States
Jiang Zemin
age 32
Communist Party of China
Archibald Cox
age 47
Democratic Party (United States)
Walter Mondale
age 31
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Peng
age 30
Communist Party of China
James R. Schlesinger
age 30
Republican Party (United States)
Rudolf Hess
age 65
Nazi Party
Jimmy Carter
age 34
Democratic Party (United States)
Daniel Inouye
age 34
Democratic Party (United States)
George H. W. Bush
age 34
Republican Party (United States)
William H. Webster
age 35
Republican Party (United States)
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 35
Kuomintang
Henry Kissinger
age 36
Republican Party (United States)
J. Edgar Hoover
age 64
Republican Party (United States)
Hua Guofeng
age 38
Communist Party of China
John Paul Stevens
age 39
Republican Party (United States)
Zhao Ziyang
age 39
Communist Party of China
George Wallace
age 39
Democratic Party (United States)
Sun Yun-suan
age 45
Kuomintang
Byron White
age 41
Democratic Party (United States)
Rong Yiren
age 43
Communist Party of China
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 49
Kuomintang
Wen Jiabao
age 16
Communist Party of China
Joe Biden
age 16
Democratic Party (United States)
Hu Jintao
age 16
Communist Party of China
John Kerry
age 15
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Xiannian
age 49
Communist Party of China
Arthur Goldberg
age 50
Democratic Party (United States)
Bill Clinton
age 12
Democratic Party (United States)
Hillary Clinton
age 11
Democratic Party (United States)
Thurgood Marshall
age 50
Democratic Party (United States)
Douglas MacArthur
age 79
United States Army
Wang Zhen (general)
age 51
Communist Party of China
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 51
Democratic Party (United States)
Yang Shangkun
age 51
Communist Party of China
Condoleezza Rice
age 4
Republican Party (United States)
Herbert Hoover
age 84
Republican Party (United States)
Li Keqiang
age 3
Communist Party of China
Hu Yaobang
age 43
Communist Party of China
Karl Dönitz
age 67
Nazi Party
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 29
Republican Party (United States)
James Baker
age 29
Democratic Party (United States)
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 70
Communist Party of Vietnam
Lien Chan
age 22
Kuomintang
Colin Powell
age 22
United States Army
John Foster Dulles
age 71
Republican Party (United States)
Ronald Reagan
age 48
Republican Party (United States)
Stephen Breyer
age 20
United States Army
David Souter
age 19
Republican Party (United States)
John Lewis
age 19
Democratic Party (United States)
Dick Cheney
age 18
Republican Party (United States)
Clark Clifford
age 52
Democratic Party (United States)
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