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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

Dwight D. Eisenhower age 69
Mao Zedong age 65
Chiang Kai-shek age 71
Nikita Khrushchev age 65
Hirohito age 58
Ho Chi Minh age 69
Elizabeth II age 33
Liu Shaoqi age 60
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 41
Charles de Gaulle age 68
Osvaldo Dorticós age 40
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 64
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 55
Adolfo López Mateos age 49
Kim Il-sung age 47
Zhou Enlai age 61
Fidel Castro age 33
Harold Macmillan age 65
Jawaharlal Nehru age 69
David Ben-Gurion age 73
Antonio Segni age 68
Nur al-Din Kahala age 49
Chen Cheng age 62
Phạm Văn Đồng age 53
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 48
Earl Warren age 68
Richard Nixon age 46
Dong Biwu age 73
Soong Ching-ling age 66
Christian Herter age 64
J. Edgar Hoover age 64
Deng Xiaoping age 55
Potter Stewart age 44
William J. Brennan Jr. age 53
John Marshall Harlan II age 60
John F. Kennedy age 42
Lyndon B. Johnson age 51
Hubert Humphrey age 48
Winston Churchill age 84
Gerald Ford age 46
Daniel Inouye age 35
Melvin Laird age 37
Nelson Rockefeller age 51
Jimmy Carter age 35
Ronald Reagan age 48
George H. W. Bush age 35
Bill Clinton age 13
Joe Biden age 16
Rudolf Hess age 65
Karl Dönitz age 68
Jiang Zemin age 33
Henry Kissinger age 36
Herbert Hoover age 85
Dick Cheney age 18
Hu Jintao age 16
Li Xiannian age 50
Yang Shangkun age 52
Zhao Ziyang age 39
Hu Yaobang age 43
Hua Guofeng age 38
Walter Mondale age 31
Li Peng age 30
Rong Yiren age 43
Wang Zhen (general) age 51
Wen Jiabao age 17
Li Keqiang age 4
James Baker age 29
Byron White age 42
Chiang Ching-kuo age 49
Mike Pence age 3 months
Sun Yun-suan age 45
Lee Yuan-tsu age 36
Lien Chan age 23
John Paul Stevens age 39
David Souter age 20
Sandra Day O'Connor age 29
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 52
Thurgood Marshall age 51
Archibald Cox age 47
William H. Webster age 35
Arthur Goldberg age 51
John Kerry age 15
Hillary Clinton age 11
Tôn Đức Thắng age 71
Clark Clifford age 52
James R. Schlesinger age 30
Condoleezza Rice age 4
John Lewis age 19
George Wallace age 40
Douglas MacArthur age 79
Stephen Breyer age 21
Colin Powell age 22
Haxhi Lleshi age 45
Arturo Frondizi age 50
Adolf Schärf age 69
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 45
Jorge Alessandri age 63
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 53
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 44
Camilo Ponce Enríquez age 47
Urho Kekkonen age 59
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 37
François Duvalier age 52
Ramón Villeda Morales age 49
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 65
Rajendra Prasad age 74
Sukarno age 58
Éamon de Valera age 77
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 74
Giovanni Gronchi age 72
Fouad Chehab age 57
William Tubman age 63
Philibert Tsiranana age 46
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 64
Win Maung age 43
Luis Somoza Debayle age 36
Ayub Khan age 52
Américo Tomás age 64
Paul Chaudet age 54
Habib Bourguiba age 56
Celâl Bayar age 76
Martín Echegoyen age 68
Aleksander Zawadzki age 59
Alfredo Stroessner age 46
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 70
Carlos P. Garcia age 62
Syngman Rhee age 84
Ibrahim Abboud age 58
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 50
Mehmet Shehu age 46
Robert Menzies age 64
Gaston Eyskens age 54
Hubert Maga age 43
Jigme Palden Dorji age 39
Norodom Sihanouk age 36
John Diefenbaker age 64
David Dacko age 29
François Tombalbaye age 41
Abebe Aregai age 56
V. J. Sukselainen age 53
Léon M'ba age 57
Kwame Nkrumah age 50
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 52
Ferenc Münnich age 72
Emil Jónsson age 56
Abd al-Karim Qasim age 44
Norman Manley age 66
Hazza' al-Majali age 40
H. C. Hansen age 52
Jan Eduard de Quay age 58
Rashid Karami age 37
Abdul Majid Kubar age 50
Alexander Frick age 49
Pierre Werner age 45
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 56
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 43
Filip Bajković age 49
Abdallah Ibrahim age 41
Ne Win age 48
Walter Nash age 77
Einar Gerhardsen age 62
António de Oliveira Salazar age 70
Fulbert Youlou age 42
Chivu Stoica age 51
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 38
Mamadou Dia age 49
Kuan Yew Lee age 36
Severinus Desiré Emanuels age 49
Tage Erlander age 58
Sarit Thanarat age 51
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 41
Adnan Menderes age 60
Abdullahi Issa age 36
Wijeyananda Dahanayake age 56
Pedro Beltrán age 62
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 68
Julius Raab age 67
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 30
Norodom Suramarit age 63
Sobhuza II age 60
Hussein I of Jordan age 23
Frederik IX of Denmark age 60
Juliana of the Netherlands age 50
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 64
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 57
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 63
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 78
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 36
Mohammed V of Morocco age 50
Olav V of Norway age 56
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 49
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 67
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 76
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 31
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 59
Giuseppe Forcellini age 58
Ferruccio Piva age 35
John XXIII age 77
Martin Luther King Jr. age 30
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Mikhail Gorbachev age 28