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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
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01

People

Gheorghe Tătărescu age 67
Constantin Dăscălescu age 30
Mugur Isărescu age 4
Frederick Ballantyne age 17
Abdoul Mbaye age 6 months
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 16
Andrej Bajuk age 10
Qahhor Mahkamov age 21
Mizengo Pinda age 5
Cleopa Msuya age 22
Yevhen Marchuk age 12
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 41
Aparicio Méndez age 49
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 44
Guillermo Endara age 17
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 25
Kim Hwang-sik age 5
Chung Un-chan age 6
Kim Jong-pil age 27
Chung Sye-kyun age 2
William Gopallawa age 56
D. M. Jayaratne age 22
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 12
He Long age 57
Manlio Brosio age 56
Franco Maria Malfatti age 26
Denis Healey age 36
David Blunkett age 6
Amin al-Hafiz age 31
Dragiša Cvetković age 60
J. Lawton Collins age 57
John W. Snow age 14
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 35
Elliot Richardson age 33
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 7
Lester Bird age 15
Ramón Puerta age 2
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 69
Eduardo Lonardi age 57
Bill Hayden age 20
Alfons Gorbach age 55
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 13
Georges Theunis age 80
Paul van Zeeland age 59
Colville Young age 20
Aleksandar Tsankov age 74
Goukouni Oueddei age 11
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 61
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 38
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 26
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 6
Osvaldo Hurtado age 14
Galo Plaza age 47
Joseph Urusemal age 1
Teuvo Aura age 40
Keijo Liinamaa age 24
Sakari Tuomioja age 42
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 59
Ioannis Grivas age 30
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 26
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 22
Vinicio Cerezo age 10
Desmond Hoyte age 24
Henri Namphy age 20
Claudette Werleigh age 7
Tiburcio Carías age 77
Péter Boross age 25
Károly Grósz age 23
Geir Hallgrímsson age 27
Erik Scavenius age 76
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah age 7 months
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 39
Salim al-Huss age 23
Edwin Barclay age 71
Moses Blah age 6
Antanas Merkys age 66
Anton Buttigieg age 41
Litokwa Tomeing age 14
Khil Raj Regmi age 4
Luis Somoza Debayle age 30
Cuthbert Sebastian age 32
Flavio Cotti age 14
H. H. Kung age 72
Chen Chien-jen age 2
Yen Hsi-shan age 70
Sanya Dharmasakti age 46
Kriangsak Chamanan age 35
Chatchai Chunhawan age 33
Arthur Foulkes age 25
Marguerite Pindling age 21
Eric Williams age 42
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 30
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 46
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 52
Julius Chan age 14
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 37
Diego Martínez Barrio age 69
Edem Kodjo age 15
Miles Dempsey age 56
Masayoshi Ito age 39
Dirk Stikker age 56
James Wolfensohn age 19
Eric Shinseki age 10
Frank Carlucci age 23
Les Aspin age 15
Michael Mullen age 7
Lien Chan age 17
William H. Webster age 29
Omer Nishani age 66
Rabah Bitat age 27
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 26
William Deane age 22
Clifford Husbands age 27
Reneta Indzhova age 3 months
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 4
Nikica Valentić age 2
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 42
Hipólito Mejía age 12
Atef Ebeid age 21
Jacob Nena age 12
Reino Kuuskoski age 46
Reino Ragnar Lehto age 55
Ralf Törngren age 54
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 50
Ramiro de León Carpio age 11
Jorge Serrano Elías age 8
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 29
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 6
Gyula Kállai age 43
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 29
Hermann Jónasson age 56
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 42
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh age 3
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 4
Jan Eduard de Quay age 52
Rashid Karami age 31
Richard Ratsimandrava age 22
Modibo Sidibé age 11 months
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall age 9 months
Abdellatif Filali age 25
René Harris age 5
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 13
Jens Hundseid age 70
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 67
Clément Mouamba age 9
Ilie Verdeț age 28
David Vunagi age 3
Prawit Wongsuwon age 8
Lynden Pindling age 23
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 15
Feleti Sevele age 9
Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa age 2
Mohamed Mzali age 27
Ruhakana Rugunda age 5
Yukhym Zvyahilskyi age 20
Eleazar López Contreras age 70
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 14
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda age 37
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 19
José Giral age 74
Seán Lemass age 54
Alan Johnson age 3
Hugh Gaitskell age 47
Robert Rubin age 15
Francis Biddle age 67
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 27
Nadir al-Arbawi age 4
Edmond Leburton age 38
Théo Lefèvre age 39
Andrey Lukanov age 15
Son Sann age 42
Eduardo Santos age 65
Said Mohamed Djohar age 35
Otilio Ulate Blanco age 62
Luis Alberto Monge age 27
Vlatko Pavletić age 22
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 50
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 36
Francisco Pascual Obama Asue age 4
Tafari Benti age 32
Leo Falcam age 17
Laisenia Qarase age 12
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 58
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 9
José Azcona del Hoyo age 26
György Lázár age 29
Ferenc Nagy age 50
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 40
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim age 9 months
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 5
Wim Schermerhorn age 58
Suleiman Frangieh age 43
Amos Sawyer age 8
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 14
Cheick Modibo Diarra age 1
Alfred Sant age 5
Paul Xuereb age 30
Monique Ohsan Bellepeau age 11
Pascoal Mocumbi age 12
Soe Win age 6