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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
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
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
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

Elizabeth II age 36
Queen - United Kingdom
John F. Kennedy age 45
President - United States
Mao Zedong age 68
Chairman of the Communist Party of China - Communist Party of China
Charles de Gaulle age 71
President - France
Nikita Khrushchev age 68
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hirohito age 61
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 72
President - Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek age 74
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 70
President - Yugoslavia
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 44
President - Egypt
Haile Selassie age 70
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 42
Shah - Iran
Walter Ulbricht age 69
First Secretary - East Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 31
Monarch - Belgium
Heinrich Lübke age 67
President - Germany
Liu Shaoqi age 63
Chairman - People's Republic of China
João Goulart age 43
President - Brazil
Lê Duẩn age 55
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Adolfo López Mateos age 52
President - Mexico
Osvaldo Dorticós age 43
President - Cuba
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 58
President - Iraq
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 66
President - Guatemala
Nazim al-Kudsi age 56
President - Syria
U Thant age 53
Secretary-General - United Nations
Fidel Castro age 36
Prime Minister - Cuba
Jawaharlal Nehru age 72
Prime Minister - India
Konrad Adenauer age 86
Chancellor - Germany
Georges Pompidou age 51
Prime Minister - France
David Ben-Gurion age 75
Prime Minister - Israel
Zhou Enlai age 64
Premier - People's Republic of China
Harold Macmillan age 68
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Amintore Fanfani age 54
Prime Minister - Italy
Hayato Ikeda age 62
Prime Minister - Japan
Hendrik Verwoerd age 60
Prime Minister - South Africa
Avery Brundage age 74
President - International Olympic Committee
Walter Hallstein age 60
President - European Commission
Souvanna Phouma age 60
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 56
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 51
Prime Minister - Poland
Chen Cheng age 65
Premier - Republic of China
Dirk Stikker age 65
Secretary General - NATO
Seán Lemass age 63
Taoiseach - Ireland
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 51
Director-General - World Health Organization
Bashir al-Azma age 51
Prime Minister - Syria
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 64
President - World Bank
Kim Il-sung age 50
Chairman Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Earl Warren age 71
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Lyndon B. Johnson age 53
Vice President - United States
Soong Ching-ling age 69
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 76
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Lyman Lemnitzer age 62
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Robert F. Kennedy age 36
Attorney General - United States
Robert McNamara age 46
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Dean Rusk age 53
Secretary Of State - United States
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 43
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
C. Douglas Dillon age 53
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Reginald Maudling age 45
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 54
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
George Decker age 60
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 59
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 67
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Deng Xiaoping age 58
Secretariat - Communist Party of China
Hugh Gaitskell age 56
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
William J. Brennan Jr. age 56
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Potter Stewart age 47
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Nicholas Katzenbach age 40
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Byron White age 45
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II age 63
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Tom C. Clark age 62
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Jo Grimond age 49
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Albert Luthuli age 64
President - African National Congress
Tomás Mac Giolla age 38
President - Sinn Féin
Archibald Cox age 50
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Thurgood Marshall age 54
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Hubert Humphrey age 51
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 87
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Thatcher age 36
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gerald Ford age 49
House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Inouye age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Melvin Laird age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Nelson Rockefeller age 54
Governor of New York - United States
Kwame Nkrumah age 52
President - Ghana
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 34
King - Thailand
John XXIII age 80
Pope - Vatican City
Francisco Franco age 69
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 61
President - Indonesia
Park Chung-hee age 44
President - South Korea
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 55
President - Senegal
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 73
President - India
Hussein I of Jordan age 26
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 59
President - Tunisia
Urho Kekkonen age 61
President - Finland
Éamon de Valera age 79
President - Ireland
Hassan II age 33
King - Morocco
Cemal Gürsel age 66
President - Turkey
Olav V of Norway age 59
Monarch - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 49
President - Paraguay
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 40
President - Guinea
Ayub Khan age 55
President - Pakistan
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 60
King - Saudi Arabia
Juliana of the Netherlands age 53
King - Netherlands
Frederik IX of Denmark age 63
Monarch - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 79
Monarch - Sweden
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 56
President - Ivory Coast
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 39
Prince - Monaco
François Duvalier age 55
President - Haiti
Antonio Segni age 71
President - Italy
Makarios III age 49
President - Cyprus
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 37
President - Cameroon
Modibo Keïta age 47
President - Mali
Diosdado Macapagal age 51
President - Philippines
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 33
King - Bhutan
David Dacko age 32
President - Central African Republic
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 52
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 77
President - Israel
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 66
Monarch - Luxembourg
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 53
President - Somalia
Sobhuza II age 63
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 68
President - Iceland
Rómulo Betancourt age 54
President - Venezuela
Léon M'ba age 60
President - Gabon
Philibert Tsiranana age 49
President - Madagascar
François Tombalbaye age 44
President - Chad
Diori Hamani age 46
President - Niger
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 54
President - Bolivia
William Tubman age 66
President - Liberia
Adolf Schärf age 72
President - Austria
Jorge Alessandri age 66
President - Chile
Moktar Ould Daddah age 37
President - Mauritania
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 52
Sultan - Oman
Isa II of Bahrain age 29
Monarch - Bahrain
Fulbert Youlou age 45
President - Republic of the Congo
Ibrahim Abboud age 61
President - Sudan
Américo Tomás age 67
President - Portugal
Haxhi Lleshi age 48
President - Albania
Grégoire Kayibanda age 38
President - Rwanda
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 62
Monarch - Tonga
José María Guido age 51
President - Argentina
Guillermo León Valencia age 53
President - Colombia
Fouad Chehab age 60
President - Lebanon
Aleksander Zawadzki age 62
President - Poland
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 67
Emir - Kuwait
Luis Somoza Debayle age 39
President - Nicaragua
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani age 42
Emir - Qatar
Abderrahmane Farès age 51
President - Algeria
Ramón Villeda Morales age 52
President - Honduras
Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy age 42
President - Ecuador
Ricardo Pérez Godoy age 57
President - Peru
Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich age 55
President - Costa Rica
Paul Chaudet age 57
President - Switzerland
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 67
President - Mongolia
Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan age 73
President - Pakistan
Faustino Harrison age 62
President - Uruguay
C. R. Swart age 67
State President - South Africa
Kuan Yew Lee age 38
Prime Minister - Singapore
António de Oliveira Salazar age 73
Prime Minister - Portugal
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 46
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
İsmet İnönü age 77
Prime Minister - Turkey
Milton Obote age 36
Prime Minister - Uganda
János Kádár age 50
Prime Minister - Hungary
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 59
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 55
Prime Minister - Greece
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 53
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
John Diefenbaker age 66
Prime Minister - Canada
Robert Menzies age 67
Prime Minister - Australia
Abd al-Karim Qasim age 47
Prime Minister - Iraq
Einar Gerhardsen age 65
Prime Minister - Norway
Tage Erlander age 61
Prime Minister - Sweden
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 38
Prime Minister - The Gambia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 36
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 44
Prime Minister - Tonga
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 45
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Sarit Thanarat age 54
Prime Minister - Thailand
Mehmet Shehu age 49
Prime Minister - Albania
Pierre Werner age 48
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 59
Prime Minister - Romania
Ahti Karjalainen age 39
Prime Minister - Finland
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke age 43
Prime Minister - Somalia
Ólafur Thors age 70
Prime Minister - Iceland
Viggo Kampmann age 52
Prime Minister - Denmark
Alfons Gorbach age 63
Chancellor - Austria
Alexander Bustamante age 78
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Jan Eduard de Quay age 60
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Rashid Karami age 40
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Théo Lefèvre age 48
Prime Minister - Belgium
Keith Holyoake age 58
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Nicolás Lindley López age 53
Prime Minister - Peru
Cyrille Adoula age 40
Prime Minister - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Wasfi Tal age 43
Prime Minister - Jordan
Mamadou Dia age 52
Prime Minister - Senegal
George Borg Olivier age 51
Prime Minister - Malta
Jigme Palden Dorji age 42
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum age 56
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Muhammad Osman Said age 37
Prime Minister - Libya
Gerard Batliner age 33
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 50
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 41
Prime Minister - Samoa
André Muhirwa age 42
Prime Minister - Burundi
Charles Assalé age 50
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Paul Southwell age 49
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis