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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

Henrique Rosa age 7
Donald Ramotar age 3
Oswaldo López Arellano age 32
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 49
Nuri as-Said age 65
Poul Hartling age 39
Barend Biesheuvel age 33
Felix Kulov age 5
Bechara El Khoury age 63
Tom Thabane age 14
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 15
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 47
Kailash Purryag age 5
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 53
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 3
Brigi Rafini age 8 months
Choe Yong-rim age 23
Grégoire Kayibanda age 29
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 2
Lojze Peterle age 5
Samuel Schmid age 6
Joseph Deiss age 7
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 21
T. V. Soong age 62
Hamadi Jebali age 4
Tito Okello age 39
Vitold Fokin age 21
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 28
Do Muoi age 36
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke age 34
Chung Il-kwon age 36
Jung Hong-won age 9
Ismail al-Azhari age 53
Raif Dizdarević age 27
Sulejman Tihić age 2
Vo Chi Cong age 41
J. G. Strijdom age 60
W. T. Cosgrave age 73
Jean Rey age 51
Choe Yong-gon age 53
Jisaburō Ozawa age 67
Ralph Abernathy age 27
David Elazar age 28
Sylvia Rivera age 2
Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 67
Mamoru Shigemitsu age 66
Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark age 40
Mark Phillips (born 1948) age 5
Wang Zhen (general) age 45
Frank Jack Fletcher age 68
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 66
Tajuddin Ahmad age 28
Luis García Meza Tejada age 24
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 39
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 5
Norodom Suramarit age 57
Jamil Mahuad age 4
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 1
Hazem Al Beblawi age 17
José Napoleón Duarte age 28
Tiit Vähi age 6
Mart Siimann age 7
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 11
Negasso Gidada age 10
Peter M. Christian age 6
Rafael Paasio age 50
Johannes Virolainen age 39
Georgios Rallis age 34
Forbes Burnham age 30
István Dobi age 54
Ferenc Münnich age 67
Charles Konan Banny age 11
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 10
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 68
Ali Zeidan age 2
Joseph Bech age 66
Ċensu Tabone age 40
Nahas Angula age 10
Hammer DeRoburt age 31
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 25
Jim Bolger age 18
Daouda Malam Wanké age 7
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 4
Ernest Shonekan age 17
Muhammad Junejo age 21
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 12
Vasco Gonçalves age 32
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 32
Kenny Anthony age 2
Ong Teng Cheong age 17
Thanin Kraiwichian age 26
Philip "Brave" Davis age 2
Luis Herrera Campins age 28
Nur Hassan Hussein age 15
Goh Kun age 15
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 29
C. R. Swart age 59
Marais Viljoen age 38
Sicco Mansholt age 45
François-Xavier Ortoli age 28
Alistair Darling age 0 months
Hugh Thompson Jr. age 10
Essam Sirius age 27
Jamshid Amouzegar age 30
Kamal Jumblatt age 36
Husband E. Kimmel age 71
Borisav Jović age 25
Jalaluddin Haqqani age 14
Boris Gromov age 10
Robert Cailliau age 6
Félicien Kabuga age 20
Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland age 69
Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria age 70
Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester age 7
Mike Beebe age 6
Asa Hutchinson age 3
Bill Weld age 8
Jon Corzine age 6
George Allen age 1
Midge Ure age 1 month
Louise Lake-Tack age 9
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 37
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 33
José María Guido age 43
Pierre Harmel age 42
Said Musa age 9
Kimon Georgiev age 71
Norodom Ranariddh age 9
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 52
Jaime Roldos Aquilera age 13
Kamal Ganzouri age 20
Alfredo Cristiani age 6
Andres Tarand age 13
V. J. Sukselainen age 47
Edward Akufo-Addo age 47
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 40
Michael Stasinopoulos age 50
Alfonso Portillo age 2
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 17
András Hegedüs age 31
Géza Lakatos age 63
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 6
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 40
Ahmed Chalabi age 9
Patrick Allen age 2
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 33
Viggo Kampmann age 43
Louis Beel age 51
Jelle Zijlstra age 35
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 12
Gyude Bryant age 4
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 8
Arnoldo Alemán age 7
Wasim Sajjad age 12
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 14
Theodor Stolojan age 10
Manea Mănescu age 37
Nureddin al-Atassi age 24
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 41
Hussein Arnous age 11 months
Miguel Trovoada age 16
Yen Chia-kan age 48
Khuang Aphaiwong age 51
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 21
Şükrü Saracoğlu age 66
Nguyen Huu Tho age 43
Mieczysław Rakowski age 27
Luis González Macchi age 5
Lee Nack-yon age 11 months
Ali Saibou age 13
John A. Costello age 62
Jack Lynch age 36
Willy Claes age 15
Rauf Orbay age 72
Martin Dempsey age 1
Nigel Lawson age 21
Harold Brown age 26
Alexander Vandegrift age 66
Archduke Joseph August of Austria age 81
Takahito, Prince Mikasa age 38
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890–1958) age 63
Princess Margaret of Prussia age 81
Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia age 36
Aspasia Manos age 57
Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz age 17
Andris Bērziņš (prime minister) age 2
George Voinovich age 17
Mike DeWine age 6
Ken Starr age 7
John Profumo age 38
Thomas Gage age 235
Juan José Arévalo age 49
Ali Kafi age 25
Eduardo Camaño age 7
Michael Jeffery age 15
Hubert Pierlot age 69
Jean Duvieusart age 53
Camille Huysmans age 82
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 34
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 35