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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

Nereu Ramos age 68
William J. Perry age 28
Michael Foot age 43
Matvei Zakharov age 58
Juan Almeida Bosque age 29
Han Zheng age 2
Shapour Bakhtiar age 42
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst age 71
Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta age 52
Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (1943–2021) age 12
Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark age 51
Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies age 45
Anne of Romania age 32
Lamar Alexander age 16
Ian Wilmut age 12
John McEwen age 56
Novruz Mammadov age 9
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 30
Alfonso López Michelsen age 43
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 50
Ahmed Abdallah age 37
Ivica Račan age 12
Manny Mori age 7
Ahti Karjalainen age 33
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 70
Martti Miettunen age 49
Maurice Bishop age 12
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 8
Ricardo Maduro age 10
Mátyás Szűrös age 23
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 28
Adone Zoli age 68
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 26
Thongsing Thammavong age 12
Ruth Perry age 17
Abelardo L. Rodríguez age 67
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 79
Driss Jettou age 11
Rosario Murillo age 5
Kim Yong-il age 12
Oscar Torp age 63
Per Borten age 43
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 19
Jules Wijdenbosch age 15
Rickard Sandler age 72
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 23
Anthony Carmona age 3
A. N. R. Robinson age 29
Nihat Erim age 44
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 36
Nikenike Vurobaravu age 4
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 7
Jaime Lusinchi age 32
Phan Văn Khải age 22
Rashad al-Alimi age 2
Józef Oleksy age 10
Lee Hae Chan age 4
Nebojša Radmanović age 6
Dragan Čović age 0 months
Giuseppe Bertello age 13
Giovanni Lajolo age 21
Giovanni Messe age 72
Zhang Xueliang age 55
José Linhares age 70
Geoffrey Howe age 29
Carlos Luz age 62
William D. Leahy age 81
William Cohen age 16
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 85
Iain Duncan Smith age 2
Caspar Weinberger age 39
Lothar Rendulic age 68
Milan Martić age 1
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu age 22
Pavel Grachev age 8
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 14
Mohsen Rezaee age 2
Yuriko, Princess Mikasa age 33
Şehzade Ertuğrul Osman age 44
Princess Patricia of Connaught age 70
Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1906–1969) age 50
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook age 77
George Pataki age 11
Leonard Kleinrock age 22
Warren E. Burger age 49
Jaume Bartumeu Cassany age 1
Rodney Williams age 8
Jaime Paz Zamora age 17
Joseph Ngute age 2
Philémon Yang age 9
Julio César Turbay age 40
Laureano Gómez age 67
Spiros Cyprianou age 23
Sylvanie Burton age 8 months
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 21
Ibrahim Mahlab age 7
Kamisese Mara age 36
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 24
Henrique Rosa age 10
Donald Ramotar age 5
Oswaldo López Arellano age 35
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 52
Poul Hartling age 42
Barend Biesheuvel age 36
Felix Kulov age 7
Nawaf Salam age 2
Bechara El Khoury age 66
Tom Thabane age 17
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 18
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 50
Kailash Purryag age 8
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 56
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 6
Brigi Rafini age 3
Choe Yong-rim age 25
Grégoire Kayibanda age 32
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 5
Lojze Peterle age 8
Samuel Schmid age 9
Joseph Deiss age 10
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 24
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 37
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 44
W. T. Cosgrave age 76
Jean Rey age 54
Lloyd Bentsen age 35
Choe Yong-gon age 56
Jisaburō Ozawa age 69
Ralph Abernathy age 30
David Elazar age 31
Sylvia Rivera age 5
Mamoru Shigemitsu age 69
Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark age 43
Mark Phillips (born 1948) age 7
Wang Zhen (general) age 48
Frank Jack Fletcher age 71
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 69
Tajuddin Ahmad age 31
Luis García Meza Tejada age 27
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 8
Jamil Mahuad age 7
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 14
Negasso Gidada age 13
Peter M. Christian age 8
Rafael Paasio age 53
Johannes Virolainen age 42
Georgios Rallis age 37
Raimundo Pereira age 0 months
Forbes Burnham age 33
István Dobi age 57
Ferenc Münnich age 69
Charles Konan Banny age 13
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 13
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 71
Ali Zeidan age 5
Ċensu Tabone age 43
Nahas Angula age 13
Hammer DeRoburt age 33
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 28
Jim Bolger age 21
Daouda Malam Wanké age 10
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 7
Ernest Shonekan age 20
Muhammad Junejo age 24
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 15
Vasco Gonçalves age 35
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 35
Kenny Anthony age 5
Ong Teng Cheong age 20
Thanin Kraiwichian age 29
Philip "Brave" Davis age 5
Luis Herrera Campins age 31
Manuel Odría age 58
Nur Hassan Hussein age 18
Goh Kun age 18
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 32
C. R. Swart age 61
Marais Viljoen age 40
Sicco Mansholt age 48
François-Xavier Ortoli age 31
Alistair Darling age 2
Jack Lew age 1