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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

Raúl Leoni age 50
Ramón José Velásquez age 38
Vo Van Kiet age 32
Mohammed Basindawa age 20
Arnulfo Arias age 54
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 61
Francisco Sagasti age 11
Momčilo Krajišnik age 10
Andrés Rodríguez age 32
Liu Bocheng age 62
Claire Lee Chennault age 62
Albert Reynolds age 22
Lee Jong-wook age 10
Dušan Simović age 73
Kenneth Clarke age 15
Ramsey Clark age 27
Courtney Hodges age 68
Albert Pintat age 12
Carlos Lacoste age 26
Josef Klaus age 45
Juan José Torres age 35
Ivan Kostov age 5
Saye Zerbo age 23
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 13
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 31
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 15
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 31
Josef Tošovský age 5
Sufi Abu Taleb age 30
Tosiwo Nakayama age 23
Edwin Linkomies age 60
Xenophon Zolotas age 51
Tillman Thomas age 10
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 5
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 12
Gérard Latortue age 21
Jenő Fock age 39
Miklós Kállay age 68
Sutan Sjahrir age 46
P. J. Patterson age 20
Bruce Golding age 7
Abdullah Ensour age 16
Erik Eriksen age 52
Dirk Jan de Geer age 84
Victor Marijnen age 38
Charles D. B. King age 80
Abdurrahim El-Keib age 5
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé age 7
Kessai Note age 5
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 17
Anand Satyanand age 11
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou age 1
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 72
Gheorghe Tătărescu age 69
Victor Ciorbea age 11 months
Constantin Dăscălescu age 32
Mugur Isărescu age 6
Frederick Ballantyne age 19
Abdoul Mbaye age 2
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 18
Andrej Bajuk age 12
Adib Shishakli age 46
Qahhor Mahkamov age 23
Mizengo Pinda age 7
Cleopa Msuya age 24
Apisai Ielemia age 1 month
Anatolii Kinakh age 1
Yevhen Marchuk age 14
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 43
Aparicio Méndez age 51
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 46
Guillermo Endara age 19
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 27
Kim Hwang-sik age 7
Chung Un-chan age 8
Kim Jong-pil age 29
Chung Sye-kyun age 4
William Gopallawa age 58
D. M. Jayaratne age 24
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 14
Matthew Ridgway age 60
He Long age 59
Manlio Brosio age 58
Franco Maria Malfatti age 28
Denis Healey age 38
David Blunkett age 8
Amin al-Hafiz age 33
Dragiša Cvetković age 62
J. Lawton Collins age 59
John W. Snow age 16
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 37
Elliot Richardson age 35
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 9
Lester Bird age 17
Ramón Puerta age 4
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 71
Bill Hayden age 22
Alfons Gorbach age 57
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 15
Georges Theunis age 82
Paul van Zeeland age 61
Colville Young age 22
Aleksandar Tsankov age 76
Goukouni Oueddei age 13
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 63
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 40
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 28
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 8
Osvaldo Hurtado age 16
Galo Plaza age 49
Joseph Urusemal age 3
Teuvo Aura age 42
Keijo Liinamaa age 26
Sakari Tuomioja age 44
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 61
Ioannis Grivas age 32
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 28
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 24
Vinicio Cerezo age 12
Desmond Hoyte age 26
Henri Namphy age 22
Claudette Werleigh age 9
Tiburcio Carías age 79
Péter Boross age 27
Károly Grósz age 25
Geir Hallgrímsson age 29
Erik Scavenius age 78
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah age 2
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 41
Salim al-Huss age 25
Edwin Barclay age 73
Moses Blah age 8
Anton Buttigieg age 43
Litokwa Tomeing age 16
Khil Raj Regmi age 6
Luis Somoza Debayle age 32
Cuthbert Sebastian age 34
Flavio Cotti age 16
H. H. Kung age 74
Chen Chien-jen age 4
Yen Hsi-shan age 72
Sanya Dharmasakti age 48
Kriangsak Chamanan age 37
Chatchai Chunhawan age 35
Arthur Foulkes age 27
Marguerite Pindling age 23
Eric Williams age 44
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 32
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 48
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 54
Julius Chan age 16
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 39
Diego Martínez Barrio age 71
Edem Kodjo age 17
Miles Dempsey age 58
Masayoshi Ito age 41
Dirk Stikker age 58
James Wolfensohn age 21
Eric Shinseki age 12
Frank Carlucci age 25
Les Aspin age 17
Michael Mullen age 9
Lien Chan age 19
William H. Webster age 31
Rabah Bitat age 29
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 28
William Deane age 24
Clifford Husbands age 29
Reneta Indzhova age 2
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 6
Nikica Valentić age 4
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 44
Hipólito Mejía age 14
Atef Ebeid age 23
Jacob Nena age 14
Reino Kuuskoski age 48
Reino Ragnar Lehto age 57
Ralf Törngren age 56
Raymond Ndong Sima age 8 months
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 52
Ramiro de León Carpio age 13
Jorge Serrano Elías age 10
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 31
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 8
Gyula Kállai age 45
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 31
Hermann Jónasson age 58
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 44
Alexander Bustamante age 71
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh age 5
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 6
Jan Eduard de Quay age 54
Djoomart Otorbaev age 2 months
Zigmantas Balčytis age 1
Richard Ratsimandrava age 24
Modibo Sidibé age 2
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall age 2
Abdellatif Filali age 27
René Harris age 7
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 15