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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
Sit-in movement
1960-02-01 - 1964-01-01
Guatemalan Civil War
1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Albany Movement
1961-01-01 - 1962-12-01
People
Lê Duẩn
age 53
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Hirohito
age 59
Emperor
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Japan
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 42
President
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Egypt
Nikita Khrushchev
age 66
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Charles de Gaulle
age 70
President
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France
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 70
President
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United States
Ho Chi Minh
age 70
President
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Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek
age 73
President
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Republic of China
Konrad Adenauer
age 85
Chancellor
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Germany
Elizabeth II
age 34
Queen
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United Kingdom
Fidel Castro
age 34
Prime Minister
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Cuba
Liu Shaoqi
age 62
Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Mao Zedong
age 67
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Richard Nixon
age 48
Vice President
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United States
Kim Il-sung
age 48
Chairman Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Zhou Enlai
age 62
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Hubert Humphrey
age 49
Senate
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United States
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 52
Senate
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United States
Daniel Inouye
age 36
House of Representatives
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United States
Melvin Laird
age 38
House of Representatives
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United States
Gerald Ford
age 47
House of Representatives
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United States
Dong Biwu
age 74
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 54
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Earl Warren
age 69
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Soong Ching-ling
age 67
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Margaret Thatcher
age 35
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Winston Churchill
age 86
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Deng Xiaoping
age 56
Secretariat
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Communist Party of China
John Marshall Harlan II
age 61
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Potter Stewart
age 45
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 54
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Nelson Rockefeller
age 52
Governor of New York
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United States
Hua Guofeng
age 39
Communist Party of China
John Paul Stevens
age 40
Republican Party (United States)
Rudolf Hess
age 66
Nazi Party
Zhao Ziyang
age 41
Communist Party of China
Henry Kissinger
age 37
Republican Party (United States)
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 37
Kuomintang
J. Edgar Hoover
age 66
Republican Party (United States)
William H. Webster
age 36
Republican Party (United States)
George H. W. Bush
age 36
Republican Party (United States)
Jimmy Carter
age 36
Democratic Party (United States)
Mike Pence
age 1
Republican Party (United States)
Clark Clifford
age 54
Democratic Party (United States)
Yang Shangkun
age 53
Communist Party of China
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 53
Democratic Party (United States)
Wang Zhen (general)
age 52
Communist Party of China
Thurgood Marshall
age 52
Democratic Party (United States)
Arthur Goldberg
age 52
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Xiannian
age 51
Communist Party of China
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 50
Kuomintang
Ronald Reagan
age 49
Republican Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
age 48
Democratic Party (United States)
Sun Yun-suan
age 47
Kuomintang
Hu Yaobang
age 45
Communist Party of China
Rong Yiren
age 44
Communist Party of China
John F. Kennedy
age 43
Democratic Party (United States)
Byron White
age 43
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Keqiang
age 5
Communist Party of China
George Wallace
age 41
Democratic Party (United States)
Hu Jintao
age 18
Communist Party of China
Joe Biden
age 18
Democratic Party (United States)
Wen Jiabao
age 18
Communist Party of China
Dick Cheney
age 19
Republican Party (United States)
John Lewis
age 20
Democratic Party (United States)
John Kerry
age 17
Democratic Party (United States)
David Souter
age 21
Republican Party (United States)
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 72
Communist Party of Vietnam
Stephen Breyer
age 22
United States Army
Colin Powell
age 23
United States Army
Lien Chan
age 24
Kuomintang
Anthony Kennedy
age 24
United States Army
Bill Clinton
age 14
Democratic Party (United States)
Condoleezza Rice
age 6
Republican Party (United States)
Herbert Hoover
age 86
Republican Party (United States)
Karl Dönitz
age 69
Nazi Party
Jiang Zemin
age 34
Communist Party of China
Walter Mondale
age 33
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Peng
age 32
Communist Party of China
James R. Schlesinger
age 31
Republican Party (United States)
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 30
Republican Party (United States)
James Baker
age 30
Democratic Party (United States)
Douglas MacArthur
age 80
United States Army
Hillary Clinton
age 13
Democratic Party (United States)
Martin Luther King Jr.
age 31
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Hjalmar Schacht
age 83
Albert Speer
age 55
Franz von Papen
age 81
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 55
Chester W. Nimitz
age 75
Courtney Hodges
age 74
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 81
Harry S. Truman
age 76
Leonid Brezhnev
age 54
Puyi
age 54
Clement Attlee
age 78
Zhu De
age 74
Raymond A. Spruance
age 74
Kliment Voroshilov
age 79
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 75
John Nance Garner
age 92
Edward VIII
age 66
Semyon Timoshenko
age 65
Omar Bradley
age 67
Robert A. Lovett
age 65
Francisco Franco
age 68
Otto Hofmann
age 64
Naoki Hoshino
age 68
Anthony Eden
age 63
Hubert Gough
age 90
Peng Dehuai
age 62
Rodion Malinovsky
age 62
He Yingqin
age 70
Henry A. Wallace
age 72
Thomas Gage
age 242
Souvanna Phouma
age 59
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 58
Erich von Manstein
age 73
Juan José Arévalo
age 56
Hafez al-Assad
age 30
Boris Yeltsin
age 29
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 29
Jacques Chirac
age 28
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 27
Antonin Scalia
age 24
Saddam Hussein
age 23
Gennady Yanayev
age 23
Zeng Qinghong
age 21
Kim Jong-il
age 19
Muhammad Ali
age 18
John Major
age 17
Aung San Suu Kyi
age 15
Donald Trump
age 14
Ellison Onizuka
age 14
George W. Bush
age 14
Dan Quayle
age 13
Al Gore
age 12
Clarence Thomas
age 12
Charles III
age 12
Narendra Modi
age 10
Ronald McNair
age 10
Gordon Brown
age 9
Tony Blair
age 7
Xi Jinping
age 7
François Hollande
age 6
John Roberts
age 5
Nicolas Sarkozy
age 5
Tim Berners-Lee
age 5
Baldur von Schirach
age 53
Warren E. Burger
age 53
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 52
Souphanouvong
age 51
Abe Fortas
age 50
Konstantin Chernenko
age 49
Clarence M. Kelley
age 49
Jo Ann Robinson
age 48
Rosa Parks
age 47
Jacobo Árbenz
age 47
Yuri Andropov
age 46
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 45
Robert McNamara
age 44
John Connally
age 43
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 42
Nelson Mandela
age 42
Spiro Agnew
age 42
George Shultz
age 40
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 38
Lee Teng-hui
age 37
William Rehnquist
age 36
Pol Pot
age 35
Malcolm X
age 35
Warren Christopher
age 35
Robert F. Kennedy
age 35
Ramsey Clark
age 33
Zhu Rongji
age 32
Yasser Arafat
age 31
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 30
Theresa May
age 4