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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
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
Apollo Program
1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
People
Lê Duẩn
age 54
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Hirohito
age 60
Emperor
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Japan
John F. Kennedy
age 44
President
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United States
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 44
President
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Egypt
Nikita Khrushchev
age 67
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Charles de Gaulle
age 71
President
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France
Ho Chi Minh
age 71
President
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Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek
age 74
President
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Republic of China
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 53
Vice President
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United States
Kim Il-sung
age 49
Chairman Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Liu Shaoqi
age 63
Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Elizabeth II
age 35
Queen
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United Kingdom
Fidel Castro
age 35
Prime Minister
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Cuba
Mao Zedong
age 68
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Konrad Adenauer
age 86
Chancellor
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Germany
Zhou Enlai
age 63
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Hubert Humphrey
age 50
Senate
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United States
Melvin Laird
age 39
House of Representatives
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United States
Gerald Ford
age 48
House of Representatives
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United States
Daniel Inouye
age 37
House of Representatives
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United States
Earl Warren
age 70
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Robert McNamara
age 45
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Soong Ching-ling
age 69
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Robert F. Kennedy
age 36
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
Dong Biwu
age 75
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Winston Churchill
age 87
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Margaret Thatcher
age 36
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Deng Xiaoping
age 57
Secretariat
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Communist Party of China
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 55
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Potter Stewart
age 47
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II
age 62
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Nelson Rockefeller
age 53
Governor of New York
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United States
George Wallace
age 42
Democratic Party (United States)
Rudolf Hess
age 67
Nazi Party
Zhao Ziyang
age 42
Communist Party of China
John Paul Stevens
age 41
Republican Party (United States)
Hua Guofeng
age 40
Communist Party of China
J. Edgar Hoover
age 67
Republican Party (United States)
Henry Kissinger
age 38
Republican Party (United States)
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 38
Kuomintang
William H. Webster
age 37
Republican Party (United States)
George H. W. Bush
age 37
Republican Party (United States)
Barack Obama
age 5 months
Democratic Party (United States)
Clark Clifford
age 55
Democratic Party (United States)
Yang Shangkun
age 54
Communist Party of China
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 54
Democratic Party (United States)
Wang Zhen (general)
age 53
Communist Party of China
Thurgood Marshall
age 53
Democratic Party (United States)
Arthur Goldberg
age 53
Democratic Party (United States)
Mike Pence
age 2
Republican Party (United States)
Li Xiannian
age 52
Communist Party of China
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 51
Kuomintang
Ronald Reagan
age 50
Republican Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
age 49
Democratic Party (United States)
Sun Yun-suan
age 48
Kuomintang
Li Keqiang
age 6
Communist Party of China
Hu Yaobang
age 46
Communist Party of China
Rong Yiren
age 45
Communist Party of China
Byron White
age 44
Democratic Party (United States)
Herbert Hoover
age 87
Republican Party (United States)
Jimmy Carter
age 37
Democratic Party (United States)
Hillary Clinton
age 14
Democratic Party (United States)
Bill Clinton
age 15
Democratic Party (United States)
John Kerry
age 18
Democratic Party (United States)
Hu Jintao
age 19
Communist Party of China
Joe Biden
age 19
Democratic Party (United States)
Wen Jiabao
age 19
Communist Party of China
Douglas MacArthur
age 82
United States Army
Dick Cheney
age 20
Republican Party (United States)
John Lewis
age 21
Democratic Party (United States)
David Souter
age 22
Republican Party (United States)
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 73
Communist Party of Vietnam
Stephen Breyer
age 23
United States Army
Colin Powell
age 24
United States Army
Lien Chan
age 25
Kuomintang
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 71
Republican Party (United States)
Karl Dönitz
age 70
Nazi Party
Li Peng
age 33
Communist Party of China
Condoleezza Rice
age 7
Republican Party (United States)
Jiang Zemin
age 35
Communist Party of China
James R. Schlesinger
age 32
Republican Party (United States)
James Baker
age 31
Democratic Party (United States)
Walter Mondale
age 34
Democratic Party (United States)
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 31
Republican Party (United States)
Martin Luther King Jr.
age 33
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Thomas Gage
age 244
Albert Speer
age 56
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 56
Semyon Timoshenko
age 66
Puyi
age 55
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 55
Courtney Hodges
age 75
Edward VIII
age 67
Zhu De
age 75
Raymond A. Spruance
age 75
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 76
Chester W. Nimitz
age 76
Leonid Brezhnev
age 55
Harry S. Truman
age 77
Clement Attlee
age 79
Naoki Hoshino
age 69
Anthony Eden
age 64
Franz von Papen
age 82
Francisco Franco
age 69
Peng Dehuai
age 63
Rodion Malinovsky
age 63
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 82
Otto Hofmann
age 65
Hubert Gough
age 91
John Nance Garner
age 93
He Yingqin
age 71
Henry A. Wallace
age 73
Robert A. Lovett
age 66
Omar Bradley
age 68
Souvanna Phouma
age 60
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 59
Erich von Manstein
age 74
Hjalmar Schacht
age 85
Juan José Arévalo
age 57
Kliment Voroshilov
age 80
Boris Yeltsin
age 30
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 30
Jacques Chirac
age 29
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 28
Antonin Scalia
age 25
Anthony Kennedy
age 25
Saddam Hussein
age 24
Gennady Yanayev
age 24
Zeng Qinghong
age 22
Kim Jong-il
age 20
Muhammad Ali
age 20
John Major
age 18
Aung San Suu Kyi
age 16
Donald Trump
age 15
Ellison Onizuka
age 15
George W. Bush
age 15
Dan Quayle
age 14
Al Gore
age 13
Clarence Thomas
age 13
Charles III
age 13
Narendra Modi
age 11
Ronald McNair
age 11
Gordon Brown
age 10
Tony Blair
age 8
Xi Jinping
age 8
François Hollande
age 7
John Roberts
age 6
Nicolas Sarkozy
age 6
Tim Berners-Lee
age 6
Baldur von Schirach
age 54
Warren E. Burger
age 54
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 53
Souphanouvong
age 52
Abe Fortas
age 51
Konstantin Chernenko
age 50
Clarence M. Kelley
age 50
Jo Ann Robinson
age 49
Richard Nixon
age 49
Rosa Parks
age 48
Jacobo Árbenz
age 48
Yuri Andropov
age 47
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 46
John Connally
age 44
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 43
Nelson Mandela
age 43
Spiro Agnew
age 43
George Shultz
age 41
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 40
Lee Teng-hui
age 39
William Rehnquist
age 37
Pol Pot
age 36
Malcolm X
age 36
Warren Christopher
age 36
Ramsey Clark
age 34
Zhu Rongji
age 33
Yasser Arafat
age 32
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 31
Hafez al-Assad
age 31
Theresa May
age 5