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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
Laotian Civil War
1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
People
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 41
President
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Egypt
Hirohito
age 58
Emperor
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Japan
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
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
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
Liu Shaoqi
age 60
Chairman
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People's Republic of China
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
Elizabeth II
age 33
Queen
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United Kingdom
Fidel Castro
age 33
Prime Minister
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Cuba
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 51
Senate
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United States
Hubert Humphrey
age 48
Senate
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United States
John F. Kennedy
age 42
Senate
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United States
Zhou Enlai
age 61
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Melvin Laird
age 37
House of Representatives
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United States
Gerald Ford
age 46
House of Representatives
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United States
Daniel Inouye
age 34
House of Representatives
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United States
Dong Biwu
age 73
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Earl Warren
age 68
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
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 55
Secretariat
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Communist Party of China
John Marshall Harlan II
age 60
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
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
Nelson Rockefeller
age 51
Governor of New York
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United States
Rong Yiren
age 43
Communist Party of China
Hu Yaobang
age 43
Communist Party of China
Byron White
age 42
Democratic Party (United States)
George Wallace
age 40
Democratic Party (United States)
Zhao Ziyang
age 39
Communist Party of China
John Paul Stevens
age 39
Republican Party (United States)
Hua Guofeng
age 38
Communist Party of China
Henry Kissinger
age 36
Republican Party (United States)
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 35
Kuomintang
William H. Webster
age 35
Republican Party (United States)
George H. W. Bush
age 35
Republican Party (United States)
Herbert Hoover
age 85
Republican Party (United States)
Douglas MacArthur
age 79
United States Army
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 71
Communist Party of Vietnam
Karl Dönitz
age 67
Nazi Party
Rudolf Hess
age 65
Nazi Party
J. Edgar Hoover
age 64
Republican Party (United States)
Clark Clifford
age 52
Democratic Party (United States)
Yang Shangkun
age 52
Communist Party of China
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 51
Democratic Party (United States)
Wang Zhen (general)
age 51
Communist Party of China
Thurgood Marshall
age 51
Democratic Party (United States)
Arthur Goldberg
age 51
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Xiannian
age 50
Communist Party of China
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 49
Kuomintang
Ronald Reagan
age 48
Republican Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
age 47
Democratic Party (United States)
Sun Yun-suan
age 45
Kuomintang
Jimmy Carter
age 34
Democratic Party (United States)
John Lewis
age 19
Democratic Party (United States)
Hu Jintao
age 16
Communist Party of China
James Baker
age 29
Democratic Party (United States)
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 29
Republican Party (United States)
John Kerry
age 15
Democratic Party (United States)
David Souter
age 19
Republican Party (United States)
Joe Biden
age 16
Democratic Party (United States)
James R. Schlesinger
age 30
Republican Party (United States)
Lien Chan
age 23
Kuomintang
Condoleezza Rice
age 4
Republican Party (United States)
Dick Cheney
age 18
Republican Party (United States)
Li Peng
age 30
Communist Party of China
Walter Mondale
age 31
Democratic Party (United States)
Bill Clinton
age 13
Democratic Party (United States)
Jiang Zemin
age 33
Communist Party of China
Li Keqiang
age 4
Communist Party of China
Colin Powell
age 22
United States Army
Mike Pence
age 2 months
Republican Party (United States)
Stephen Breyer
age 21
United States Army
Wen Jiabao
age 16
Communist Party of China
Hillary Clinton
age 11
Democratic Party (United States)
Martin Luther King Jr.
age 30
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Clarence Thomas
age 11
Charles III
age 10
Omar Bradley
age 66
Narendra Modi
age 8
Francisco Franco
age 66
Naoki Hoshino
age 67
Al Gore
age 11
Edward VIII
age 65
Semyon Timoshenko
age 64
Robert A. Lovett
age 63
Otto Hofmann
age 63
Anthony Eden
age 62
Dan Quayle
age 12
Peng Dehuai
age 60
Rodion Malinovsky
age 60
George W. Bush
age 13
Ellison Onizuka
age 13
Souvanna Phouma
age 57
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 56
Thomas Gage
age 241
John Nance Garner
age 90
Hubert Gough
age 89
Theresa May
age 2
Erich Raeder
age 83
Hjalmar Schacht
age 82
Franz von Papen
age 79
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 79
Tim Berners-Lee
age 4
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
Nicolas Sarkozy
age 4
Raymond A. Spruance
age 73
Zhu De
age 72
Courtney Hodges
age 72
John Roberts
age 4
Erich von Manstein
age 71
Henry A. Wallace
age 70
He Yingqin
age 69
François Hollande
age 5
Walther Funk
age 69
Xi Jinping
age 6
Tony Blair
age 6
Gordon Brown
age 8
Anthony Kennedy
age 23
Yuri Andropov
age 45
Antonin Scalia
age 23
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 26
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 43
Jacques Chirac
age 26
Robert McNamara
age 43
John Connally
age 42
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 28
Boris Yeltsin
age 28
Hafez al-Assad
age 28
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 41
Nelson Mandela
age 41
Spiro Agnew
age 40
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 29
George Shultz
age 38
Yasser Arafat
age 30
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 37
Lee Teng-hui
age 36
Zhu Rongji
age 30
Ramsey Clark
age 31
William Rehnquist
age 34
Pol Pot
age 34
Malcolm X
age 34
Margaret Thatcher
age 33
Warren Christopher
age 33
Ronald McNair
age 8
Donald Trump
age 13
Juan José Arévalo
age 54
Albert Speer
age 54
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 54
Puyi
age 53
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 53
Aung San Suu Kyi
age 14
Leonid Brezhnev
age 52
Lê Duẩn
age 52
Baldur von Schirach
age 52
John Major
age 16
Warren E. Burger
age 51
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 51
Muhammad Ali
age 17
Kim Jong-il
age 18
Souphanouvong
age 50
Abe Fortas
age 49
Zeng Qinghong
age 20
Konstantin Chernenko
age 47
Clarence M. Kelley
age 47
Gennady Yanayev
age 22
Jo Ann Robinson
age 47
Saddam Hussein
age 22
Rosa Parks
age 46
Jacobo Árbenz
age 45
Robert F. Kennedy
age 33