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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
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01

People

José Linhares age 68
Geoffrey Howe age 27
Carlos Luz age 60
Maxwell D. Taylor age 53
William D. Leahy age 79
William Cohen age 14
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 83
Iain Duncan Smith age 4 months
Caspar Weinberger age 37
Lothar Rendulic age 66
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu age 20
Pavel Grachev age 6
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 12
Yuriko, Princess Mikasa age 31
Şehzade Ertuğrul Osman age 42
Princess Patricia of Connaught age 68
Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1906–1969) age 48
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook age 75
George Pataki age 9
Leonard Kleinrock age 20
Warren E. Burger age 46
Rodney Williams age 6
Jaime Paz Zamora age 15
Joseph Ngute age 5 months
Philémon Yang age 7
Julio César Turbay age 38
Laureano Gómez age 65
Spiros Cyprianou age 21
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 19
Ibrahim Mahlab age 5
Kamisese Mara age 34
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 22
Henrique Rosa age 8
Donald Ramotar age 3
Oswaldo López Arellano age 33
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 50
Poul Hartling age 40
Barend Biesheuvel age 34
Felix Kulov age 5
Nawaf Salam age 8 months
Bechara El Khoury age 64
Tom Thabane age 15
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 16
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 48
Kailash Purryag age 6
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 53
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 4
Brigi Rafini age 1
Choe Yong-rim age 23
Grégoire Kayibanda age 30
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 3
Lojze Peterle age 6
Samuel Schmid age 7
Joseph Deiss age 8
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 22
T. V. Soong age 62
Phumtham Wechayachai age 8 months
Hamadi Jebali age 5
Tito Okello age 39
Vitold Fokin age 21
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 28
Do Muoi age 37
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke age 35
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 42
J. G. Strijdom age 61
W. T. Cosgrave age 74
Jean Rey age 52
Choe Yong-gon age 54
Jisaburō Ozawa age 67
Ralph Abernathy age 28
David Elazar age 29
Sylvia Rivera age 3
Mamoru Shigemitsu age 67
Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark age 41
Mark Phillips (born 1948) age 5
Wang Zhen (general) age 46
Frank Jack Fletcher age 69
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 67
Tajuddin Ahmad age 29
Luis García Meza Tejada age 25
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 40
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 6
Norodom Suramarit age 58
Jamil Mahuad age 5
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 2
Hazem Al Beblawi age 17
José Napoleón Duarte age 28
Tiit Vähi age 7
Mart Siimann age 7
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 12
Negasso Gidada age 10
Peter M. Christian age 6
Rafael Paasio age 51
Johannes Virolainen age 40
Georgios Rallis age 35
Forbes Burnham age 31
István Dobi age 55
Ferenc Münnich age 67
Charles Konan Banny age 11
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 11
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 69
Ali Zeidan age 3
Ċensu Tabone age 41
Nahas Angula age 11
Hammer DeRoburt age 31
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 26
Jim Bolger age 19
Daouda Malam Wanké age 8
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 5
Ernest Shonekan age 18
Muhammad Junejo age 22
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 13
Vasco Gonçalves age 33
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 33
Kenny Anthony age 3
Ong Teng Cheong age 18
Thanin Kraiwichian age 27
Philip "Brave" Davis age 3
Luis Herrera Campins age 29
Nur Hassan Hussein age 16
Goh Kun age 16
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 30
C. R. Swart age 59
Marais Viljoen age 38
Sicco Mansholt age 45
François-Xavier Ortoli age 29
Alistair Darling age 9 months
Hugh Thompson Jr. age 11
Essam Sirius age 28
Jamshid Amouzegar age 31
Kamal Jumblatt age 36
Husband E. Kimmel age 72
Borisav Jović age 25
Jalaluddin Haqqani age 15
Boris Gromov age 10
Robert Cailliau age 7
Félicien Kabuga age 21
Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland age 70
Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria age 71
Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester age 8
Mike Beebe age 7
Asa Hutchinson age 3
Bill Weld age 9
Jon Corzine age 7
George Allen age 2
Midge Ure age 10 months
Louise Lake-Tack age 10
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 37
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 34
José María Guido age 44
Pierre Harmel age 43
Said Musa age 10
Kimon Georgiev age 72
Norodom Ranariddh age 10
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 52
Jaime Roldos Aquilera age 13
Kamal Ganzouri age 21
Alfredo Cristiani age 6
Andres Tarand age 14
V. J. Sukselainen age 47
Edward Akufo-Addo age 48
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 41
Michael Stasinopoulos age 51
Alfonso Portillo age 2
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 18
András Hegedüs age 31
Géza Lakatos age 64
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 6
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 41
Ahmed Chalabi age 9
Patrick Allen age 3
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 34
Viggo Kampmann age 44
Louis Beel age 52
Jelle Zijlstra age 36
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 13
Gyude Bryant age 5
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 9
Arnoldo Alemán age 8
Wasim Sajjad age 13
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 15
Theodor Stolojan age 10
Manea Mănescu age 38
Nureddin al-Atassi age 25
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 42
Hussein Arnous age 1
Miguel Trovoada age 17
Yen Chia-kan age 48
Khuang Aphaiwong age 52
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 22
Edward Natapei age 1 month
Nguyen Huu Tho age 44
Mieczysław Rakowski age 27
Luis González Macchi age 6
Lee Nack-yon age 1