Explore 1959-07-17

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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
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02

People

Gamal Abdel Nasser age 41
Chiang Kai-shek age 71
Nikita Khrushchev age 65
Ho Chi Minh age 69
Liu Shaoqi age 60
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 68
Charles de Gaulle age 68
Elizabeth II age 33
Hirohito age 58
David Ben-Gurion age 72
Jawaharlal Nehru age 69
Fidel Castro age 32
Mao Zedong age 65
Konrad Adenauer age 83
Harold Macmillan age 65
Zhou Enlai age 61
Kim Il-sung age 47
Earl Warren age 68
Soong Ching-ling age 66
Richard Nixon age 46
Dong Biwu age 73
Christian Herter age 64
John Marshall Harlan II age 60
Deng Xiaoping age 54
William J. Brennan Jr. age 53
Potter Stewart age 44
Lyndon B. Johnson age 50
Hubert Humphrey age 48
John F. Kennedy age 42
Gerald Ford age 46
Winston Churchill age 84
Melvin Laird age 36
Nelson Rockefeller age 51
Hu Yaobang age 43
Jiang Zemin age 32
Walter Mondale age 31
Li Peng age 30
James R. Schlesinger age 30
Li Xiannian age 50
Sun Yun-suan age 45
Sandra Day O'Connor age 29
Chiang Ching-kuo age 49
James Baker age 29
Ronald Reagan age 48
Archibald Cox age 47
J. Edgar Hoover age 64
Clark Clifford age 52
Yang Shangkun age 51
George Wallace age 39
Zhao Ziyang age 39
John Paul Stevens age 39
Byron White age 42
Hua Guofeng age 38
Henry Kissinger age 36
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 51
Lee Yuan-tsu age 35
Wang Zhen (general) age 51
William H. Webster age 35
George H. W. Bush age 35
Thurgood Marshall age 51
Daniel Inouye age 34
Jimmy Carter age 34
Rong Yiren age 43
Mike Pence age 1 month
Herbert Hoover age 84
Li Keqiang age 4
Condoleezza Rice age 4
Hillary Clinton age 11
Bill Clinton age 12
Tôn Đức Thắng age 70
John Kerry age 15
Hu Jintao age 16
Joe Biden age 16
Wen Jiabao age 16
Karl Dönitz age 67
Dick Cheney age 18
John Lewis age 19
David Souter age 19
Rudolf Hess age 65
Arthur Goldberg age 50
Lien Chan age 22
Stephen Breyer age 20
Douglas MacArthur age 79
Colin Powell age 22
Martin Luther King Jr. age 30
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial age 79
George C. Marshall age 78
Kliment Voroshilov age 78
René Coty age 77
James F. Byrnes age 77
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 51
Clement Attlee age 76
Harry S. Truman age 75
Vincent Auriol age 74
Chester W. Nimitz age 74
Frank Jack Fletcher age 74
Warren E. Burger age 51
Francis Biddle age 73
Baldur von Schirach age 52
Franz von Papen age 79
Dean Rusk age 50
Lázaro Cárdenas age 64
Souphanouvong age 50
Hjalmar Schacht age 82
Erich Raeder age 83
Abe Fortas age 49
Edward VIII age 65
Semyon Timoshenko age 64
Hubert Gough age 88
John Nance Garner age 90
Thomas Gage age 241
Georges Pompidou age 48
Konstantin Chernenko age 47
Tom C. Clark age 59
Francisco Franco age 66
Naoki Hoshino age 67
Omar Bradley age 66
Souvanna Phouma age 57
Dean Acheson age 66
Ruhollah Khomeini age 56
Alec Douglas-Home age 56
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 55
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 55
Rodion Malinovsky age 60
Juan José Arévalo age 54
Albert Speer age 54
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 54
Peng Dehuai age 60
Walther Funk age 68
Anthony Eden age 62
He Yingqin age 69
Henry A. Wallace age 70
Puyi age 53
Ludwig Erhard age 62
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 53
Erich von Manstein age 71
Otto Hofmann age 63
Leonid Brezhnev age 52
Robert A. Lovett age 63
Courtney Hodges age 72
Zhu De age 72
Raymond A. Spruance age 73
Lê Duẩn age 52
Clarence Thomas age 11
Al Gore age 11
Dan Quayle age 12
George W. Bush age 13
Ellison Onizuka age 13
Donald Trump age 13
Aung San Suu Kyi age 14
Robert Mueller age 14
Gerhard Schröder age 15
Mohammad Khatami age 15
John Major age 16
John Ashcroft age 17
Muhammad Ali age 17
Kim Jong-il age 18
Zeng Qinghong age 19
Ali Khamenei age 20
Janet Reno age 21
Gennady Yanayev age 21
Madeleine Albright age 22
Saddam Hussein age 22
Anthony Kennedy age 22
Antonin Scalia age 23
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 24
Yuri Gagarin age 25
Olaf Scholz age 1
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 2
Theresa May age 2
Friedrich Merz age 3
Tim Berners-Lee age 4
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 5
Xi Jinping age 6
Tony Blair age 6
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 26
Nicholas Katzenbach age 37
George Shultz age 38
Elliot Richardson age 39
Anwar Sadat age 40
Helmut Schmidt age 40
Spiro Agnew age 40
Nelson Mandela age 41
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 41
Cyrus Vance age 42
John Connally age 42
François Mitterrand age 42
Edward Heath age 43
Robert McNamara age 43
Harold Wilson age 43
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 43
Yuri Andropov age 45
Edmund Muskie age 45
Willy Brandt age 45
John N. Mitchell age 45
Jacobo Árbenz age 45
William P. Rogers age 46
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 28
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 29
Helmut Kohl age 29
Yasser Arafat age 29
Zhu Rongji age 30
Hosni Mubarak age 31
Ramsey Clark age 31
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 33
Robert F. Kennedy age 33
Warren Christopher age 33
Margaret Thatcher age 33
Malcolm X age 34
Pol Pot age 34
Alexander Haig age 34
William Rehnquist age 34
Lee Teng-hui age 36
Clarence M. Kelley age 47