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Events

Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Korean War 1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11

People

Chung Il-kwon age 34
Jung Hong-won age 7
Ismail al-Azhari age 51
Raif Dizdarević age 25
Sulejman Tihić age 8 months
Vo Chi Cong age 40
J. G. Strijdom age 59
W. T. Cosgrave age 72
Jean Rey age 50
Choe Yong-gon age 52
Jisaburō Ozawa age 65
Ralph Abernathy age 26
David Elazar age 26
Sylvia Rivera age 1
Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 65
Mamoru Shigemitsu age 65
Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark age 39
Mark Phillips (born 1948) age 3
Wang Zhen (general) age 44
Frank Jack Fletcher age 67
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 65
Tajuddin Ahmad age 27
Luis García Meza Tejada age 23
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 38
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 3
Norodom Suramarit age 56
Jamil Mahuad age 3
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 6 months
Hazem Al Beblawi age 15
José Napoleón Duarte age 26
Tiit Vähi age 5
Mart Siimann age 5
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 10
Negasso Gidada age 8
Peter M. Christian age 4
Rafael Paasio age 49
Johannes Virolainen age 38
Noe Zhordania age 84
Georgios Rallis age 33
Forbes Burnham age 29
Ferenc Münnich age 65
Charles Konan Banny age 9
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 9
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 67
Ali Zeidan age 1
Joseph Bech age 65
Ċensu Tabone age 39
Nahas Angula age 8
Hammer DeRoburt age 29
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 24
Jim Bolger age 17
Daouda Malam Wanké age 6
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 3
Ernest Shonekan age 16
Muhammad Junejo age 19
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 11
Vasco Gonçalves age 31
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 31
Kenny Anthony age 1
Ong Teng Cheong age 16
Thanin Kraiwichian age 25
Philip "Brave" Davis age 1
Luis Herrera Campins age 27
Nur Hassan Hussein age 14
Goh Kun age 14
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 28
C. R. Swart age 57
Marais Viljoen age 36
Sicco Mansholt age 43
François-Xavier Ortoli age 27
Hugh Thompson Jr. age 9
Essam Sirius age 26
Jamshid Amouzegar age 29
Kamal Jumblatt age 34
Husband E. Kimmel age 70
Borisav Jović age 23
Jalaluddin Haqqani age 13
Boris Gromov age 8
Carlo Sforza age 80
Robert Cailliau age 5
Félicien Kabuga age 19
Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland age 68
Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine age 86
Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria age 68
Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester age 6
Mike Beebe age 5
Asa Hutchinson age 1
Bill Weld age 7
Jon Corzine age 5
George Allen age 5 months
Louise Lake-Tack age 8
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 35
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 32
José María Guido age 41
Pierre Harmel age 41
Said Musa age 8
Kimon Georgiev age 70
Norodom Ranariddh age 8
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 52
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 50
Jaime Roldos Aquilera age 11
Kamal Ganzouri age 19
Alfredo Cristiani age 4
Andres Tarand age 12
V. J. Sukselainen age 45
Edward Akufo-Addo age 46
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 39
Michael Stasinopoulos age 49
Alfonso Portillo age 10 months
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 16
András Hegedüs age 29
Géza Lakatos age 62
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 4
Ólafur Thors age 60
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 39
Ahmed Chalabi age 7
Patrick Allen age 1
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 32
Viggo Kampmann age 42
Louis Beel age 50
Jelle Zijlstra age 33
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 11
Gyude Bryant age 3
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 7
Arnoldo Alemán age 6
Wasim Sajjad age 11
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 13
Theodor Stolojan age 8
Manea Mănescu age 36
Nureddin al-Atassi age 23
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 40
Miguel Trovoada age 15
Yen Chia-kan age 46
Khuang Aphaiwong age 50
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 19
Şükrü Saracoğlu age 65
Nguyen Huu Tho age 42
Mieczysław Rakowski age 25
Luis González Macchi age 4
Ali Saibou age 12
John A. Costello age 61
Jack Lynch age 35
Willy Claes age 13
Rauf Orbay age 71
Martin Dempsey age 4 months
Nigel Lawson age 20
Harold Brown age 24
Alexander Vandegrift age 65
Archduke Joseph August of Austria age 80
Takahito, Prince Mikasa age 36
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890–1958) age 62
Princess Margaret of Prussia age 80
Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia age 34
Aspasia Manos age 55
Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz age 16
Andris Bērziņš (prime minister) age 1
George Voinovich age 16
Mike DeWine age 5
Ken Starr age 6
John Profumo age 37
Melvin Laird age 29
Thomas Gage age 234
Juan José Arévalo age 47
Ali Kafi age 23
Eduardo Camaño age 6
Michael Jeffery age 14
Hubert Pierlot age 68
Jean Duvieusart age 52
Camille Huysmans age 81
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 33
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 34
Guillermo León Valencia age 43
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 44
Armando Calderón Sol age 4
Akwasi Afrifa age 16
Fred Akuffo age 15
Phaedon Gizikis age 35
Edward Seaga age 22
Hans Hedtoft age 49
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 10
Fouad Chehab age 50
René Moawad age 27
Hussein Onn age 30
Ibrahim Nasir age 25
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 19
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 58
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 28
Mike Moore age 3
Pak Pong-ju age 13
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 47
Haruo Remeliik age 19
Ivan Stambolić age 15
Hashim al-Atassi age 76
Wu Den-yih age 4
Seni Pramoj age 47
Kukrit Pramoj age 41
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 5
Anand Panyarachun age 20
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 16
Hubert Ingraham age 5