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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
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16

People

Jules Wijdenbosch age 14
Rickard Sandler age 71
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 22
Anthony Carmona age 2
A. N. R. Robinson age 28
Nihat Erim age 43
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 35
Nikenike Vurobaravu age 3
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 6
Jaime Lusinchi age 31
Phan Văn Khải age 21
Rashad al-Alimi age 1
Józef Oleksy age 9
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 66
Lee Hae Chan age 3
Nebojša Radmanović age 5
Giuseppe Bertello age 12
Giovanni Lajolo age 20
Giovanni Messe age 71
Zhang Xueliang age 54
José Linhares age 69
Geoffrey Howe age 28
Carlos Luz age 61
William D. Leahy age 80
William Cohen age 15
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 84
Iain Duncan Smith age 1
Caspar Weinberger age 38
Lothar Rendulic age 67
Milan Martić age 10 months
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu age 21
Pavel Grachev age 7
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 13
Mohsen Rezaee age 1
Yuriko, Princess Mikasa age 32
Şehzade Ertuğrul Osman age 43
Princess Patricia of Connaught age 69
Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1906–1969) age 49
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook age 76
George Pataki age 10
Leonard Kleinrock age 21
Warren E. Burger age 48
Jaume Bartumeu Cassany age 10 months
Rodney Williams age 7
Jaime Paz Zamora age 16
Joseph Ngute age 1
Philémon Yang age 8
Julio César Turbay age 39
Laureano Gómez age 66
Spiros Cyprianou age 22
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 20
Ibrahim Mahlab age 6
Kamisese Mara age 35
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 24
Henrique Rosa age 9
Donald Ramotar age 4
Oswaldo López Arellano age 34
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 51
Poul Hartling age 41
Barend Biesheuvel age 35
Felix Kulov age 6
Nawaf Salam age 1
Bechara El Khoury age 65
Tom Thabane age 16
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 17
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 49
Kailash Purryag age 7
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 55
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 5
Brigi Rafini age 2
Choe Yong-rim age 24
Grégoire Kayibanda age 31
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 4
Lojze Peterle age 7
Samuel Schmid age 8
Joseph Deiss age 9
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 23
T. V. Soong age 63
Phumtham Wechayachai age 1
Hamadi Jebali age 6
Tito Okello age 40
Vitold Fokin age 22
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 29
Tallis Obed Moses age 11 months
Do Muoi age 38
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke age 36
Chung Il-kwon age 37
Jung Hong-won age 10
Ismail al-Azhari age 54
Raif Dizdarević age 28
Sulejman Tihić age 3
Vo Chi Cong age 43
W. T. Cosgrave age 75
Jean Rey age 53
Lloyd Bentsen age 34
Choe Yong-gon age 55
Jisaburō Ozawa age 69
Ralph Abernathy age 29
David Elazar age 30
Sylvia Rivera age 4
Mamoru Shigemitsu age 68
Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark age 42
Mark Phillips (born 1948) age 7
Wang Zhen (general) age 47
Frank Jack Fletcher age 70
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 68
Tajuddin Ahmad age 30
Luis García Meza Tejada age 26
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 41
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 7
Jamil Mahuad age 6
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 3
Hazem Al Beblawi age 18
José Napoleón Duarte age 29
Tiit Vähi age 8
Mart Siimann age 9
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 13
Negasso Gidada age 12
Peter M. Christian age 7
Rafael Paasio age 52
Johannes Virolainen age 41
Georgios Rallis age 36
Forbes Burnham age 32
István Dobi age 56
Ferenc Münnich age 68
Charles Konan Banny age 12
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 12
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 70
Ali Zeidan age 4
Ċensu Tabone age 42
Nahas Angula age 12
Hammer DeRoburt age 33
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 27
Jim Bolger age 20
Daouda Malam Wanké age 9
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 6
Ernest Shonekan age 19
Muhammad Junejo age 23
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 14
Vasco Gonçalves age 34
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 34
Kenny Anthony age 4
Ong Teng Cheong age 19
Thanin Kraiwichian age 28
Philip "Brave" Davis age 4
Luis Herrera Campins age 30
Nur Hassan Hussein age 17
Goh Kun age 17
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 31
C. R. Swart age 60
Marais Viljoen age 39
Sicco Mansholt age 47
François-Xavier Ortoli age 30
Alistair Darling age 1
Jack Lew age 0 months
Hugh Thompson Jr. age 12
Essam Sirius age 29
Jamshid Amouzegar age 32
Kamal Jumblatt age 37
Husband E. Kimmel age 73
Borisav Jović age 26
Jalaluddin Haqqani age 16
Boris Gromov age 11
Robert Cailliau age 8
Félicien Kabuga age 22
Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland age 71
Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria age 72
Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester age 9
Mike Beebe age 8
Asa Hutchinson age 4
Bill Weld age 10
Jon Corzine age 8
George Allen age 3
Svetozar Marović age 5 months
Midge Ure age 1
Louise Lake-Tack age 11
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 39
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 35
José María Guido age 45
Pierre Harmel age 44
Said Musa age 11
Kimon Georgiev age 73
Norodom Ranariddh age 11
José María Figueres Olsen age 9 months
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 53
Jaime Roldos Aquilera age 14
Kamal Ganzouri age 22
Alfredo Cristiani age 7
Andres Tarand age 15
V. J. Sukselainen age 48
Edward Akufo-Addo age 49
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 42
Michael Stasinopoulos age 52
Alfonso Portillo age 4
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 19
Géza Lakatos age 65
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 7
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 42
Ahmed Chalabi age 10
Patrick Allen age 4