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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
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966

People

Alberto Lleras Camargo age 49
Ahmed Abdallah age 36
Ivica Račan age 12
Manny Mori age 7
Ahti Karjalainen age 33
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 69
Martti Miettunen age 48
Maurice Bishop age 11
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 8
Ricardo Maduro age 9
Mátyás Szűrös age 22
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 27
Adone Zoli age 68
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 25
Thongsing Thammavong age 11
Ruth Perry age 16
Abelardo L. Rodríguez age 66
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 79
Driss Jettou age 10
Rosario Murillo age 4
Kim Yong-il age 11
Oscar Torp age 62
Per Borten age 43
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 18
Jules Wijdenbosch age 14
Rickard Sandler age 72
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 22
Anthony Carmona age 3
A. N. R. Robinson age 29
Nihat Erim age 44
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 35
Nikenike Vurobaravu age 4
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 6
Jaime Lusinchi age 31
Phan Văn Khải age 22
Rashad al-Alimi age 2
Józef Oleksy age 9
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 66
Lee Hae Chan age 3
Nebojša Radmanović age 6
Giuseppe Bertello age 13
Giovanni Lajolo age 21
Giovanni Messe age 72
Zhang Xueliang age 54
José Linhares age 70
Geoffrey Howe age 29
Carlos Luz age 61
William D. Leahy age 80
William Cohen age 15
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 85
Iain Duncan Smith age 1
Caspar Weinberger age 38
Lothar Rendulic age 68
Milan Martić age 1
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu age 22
Pavel Grachev age 8
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 70
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 1
Rodney Williams age 8
Jaime Paz Zamora age 16
Joseph Ngute age 2
Philémon Yang age 8
Julio César Turbay age 39
Laureano Gómez age 67
Spiros Cyprianou age 23
Sylvanie Burton age 2 months
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 20
Ibrahim Mahlab age 6
Kamisese Mara age 35
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 24
Henrique Rosa age 10
Donald Ramotar age 5
Oswaldo López Arellano age 34
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 51
Poul Hartling age 41
Barend Biesheuvel age 35
Felix Kulov age 7
Nawaf Salam age 2
Bechara El Khoury age 65
Tom Thabane age 16
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 17
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 49
Kailash Purryag age 8
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 55
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 5
Brigi Rafini age 2
Choe Yong-rim age 25
Grégoire Kayibanda age 31
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 4
Lojze Peterle age 7
Samuel Schmid age 9
Joseph Deiss age 10
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 23
T. V. Soong age 64
Phumtham Wechayachai age 2
Hamadi Jebali age 7
Tito Okello age 41
Vitold Fokin age 23
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 30
Tallis Obed Moses age 1
Do Muoi age 39
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke age 36
Chung Il-kwon age 38
Jung Hong-won age 11
Ismail al-Azhari age 55
Raif Dizdarević age 29
Sulejman Tihić age 4
Vo Chi Cong age 43
W. T. Cosgrave age 75
Jean Rey age 53
Lloyd Bentsen age 35
Choe Yong-gon age 55
Jisaburō Ozawa age 69
Ralph Abernathy age 30
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 69
Tajuddin Ahmad age 30
Luis García Meza Tejada age 26
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 42
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 7
Jamil Mahuad age 6
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 4
Hazem Al Beblawi age 19
José Napoleón Duarte age 30
Tiit Vähi age 9
Mart Siimann age 9
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 13
Negasso Gidada age 12
Peter M. Christian age 8
Rafael Paasio age 52
Johannes Virolainen age 42
Georgios Rallis age 37
Forbes Burnham age 33
István Dobi age 57
Ferenc Münnich age 69
Charles Konan Banny age 13
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 12
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 70
Ali Zeidan age 5
Ċensu Tabone age 43
Nahas Angula age 12
Hammer DeRoburt age 33
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 28
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 35
Kenny Anthony age 5
Ong Teng Cheong age 20
Thanin Kraiwichian age 28
Philip "Brave" Davis age 4
Luis Herrera Campins age 30
Nur Hassan Hussein age 18
Goh Kun age 18
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 31
C. R. Swart age 61
Marais Viljoen age 40
Sicco Mansholt age 47
François-Xavier Ortoli age 31
Alistair Darling age 2
Jack Lew age 6 months
Hugh Thompson Jr. age 12
Essam Sirius age 30
Jamshid Amouzegar age 32
Kamal Jumblatt age 38
Husband E. Kimmel age 74
Borisav Jović age 27
Jalaluddin Haqqani age 17
Boris Gromov age 12
Robert Cailliau age 9
Félicien Kabuga age 23
Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland age 71
Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria age 72
Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester age 9
Mike Beebe age 9
Asa Hutchinson age 5
Bill Weld age 10
Jon Corzine age 9
George Allen age 4
Svetozar Marović age 11 months
Midge Ure age 2