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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
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08

People

Nguyen Huu Tho age 47
Mieczysław Rakowski age 30
Luis González Macchi age 9
Lee Nack-yon age 4
Nikola Špirić age 10 months
Ali Saibou age 17
John A. Costello age 66
Jack Lynch age 39
Willy Claes age 18
Rauf Orbay age 76
Martin Dempsey age 5
Nigel Lawson age 25
Harold Brown age 29
Thomas Gage age 239
Juan José Arévalo age 52
Ali Kafi age 28
Eduardo Camaño age 11
Michael Jeffery age 19
Reinhold Mitterlehner age 1
Hubert Pierlot age 73
Jean Duvieusart age 57
Camille Huysmans age 86
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 38
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 39
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya age 1
Guillermo León Valencia age 48
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 49
Armando Calderón Sol age 9
Akwasi Afrifa age 21
Fred Akuffo age 20
Phaedon Gizikis age 40
Patrick Achi age 1
Edward Seaga age 27
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 15
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 3
Fouad Chehab age 55
René Moawad age 32
Hussein Onn age 35
Ibrahim Nasir age 30
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 24
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 63
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 33
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 68
Mike Moore age 8
Pak Pong-ju age 18
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 52
Haruo Remeliik age 24
Ivan Stambolić age 20
Hashim al-Atassi age 81
Wu Den-yih age 9
Edward Lowassa age 3
Seni Pramoj age 52
Kukrit Pramoj age 46
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 10
Anand Panyarachun age 24
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 21
Hubert Ingraham age 9
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 16
Mohamed Ennaceur age 23
Apolo Nsibambi age 16
Godfrey Binaisa age 37
Vitalii Masol age 28
Raúl Leoni age 52
Ramón José Velásquez age 40
Vo Van Kiet age 34
Mohammed Basindawa age 22
Arnulfo Arias age 55
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 63
Francisco Sagasti age 12
Momčilo Krajišnik age 12
Andrés Rodríguez age 34
Liu Bocheng age 64
Claire Lee Chennault age 63
Albert Reynolds age 24
Lee Jong-wook age 12
Dušan Simović age 74
Kenneth Clarke age 17
Ramsey Clark age 29
Courtney Hodges age 70
Albert Pintat age 14
Carlos Lacoste age 28
Josef Klaus age 46
Juan José Torres age 37
Ivan Kostov age 7
Saye Zerbo age 24
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 15
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 33
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 17
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 33
Josef Tošovský age 6
Adolphe Muzito age 5 months
Sufi Abu Taleb age 32
Tosiwo Nakayama age 25
Edwin Linkomies age 62
Xenophon Zolotas age 53
Tillman Thomas age 12
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 7
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 13
Gérard Latortue age 23
Jenő Fock age 41
Miklós Kállay age 70
Sutan Sjahrir age 48
P. J. Patterson age 22
Bruce Golding age 9
Abdullah Ensour age 18
Erik Eriksen age 54
Dirk Jan de Geer age 86
Victor Marijnen age 40
Charles D. B. King age 82
Abdurrahim El-Keib age 7
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé age 9
Kessai Note age 6
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 19
Anand Satyanand age 12
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou age 3
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 73
Victor Ciorbea age 2
Constantin Dăscălescu age 34
Mugur Isărescu age 7
Frederick Ballantyne age 21
Abdoul Mbaye age 4
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 20
Andrej Bajuk age 13
Adib Shishakli age 48
Qahhor Mahkamov age 25
Mizengo Pinda age 8
Cleopa Msuya age 26
Apisai Ielemia age 1
Anatolii Kinakh age 2
Yevhen Marchuk age 16
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 45
Aparicio Méndez age 52
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 47
Guillermo Endara age 21
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 28
Kim Hwang-sik age 8
Chung Un-chan age 10
Kim Jong-pil age 31
Chung Sye-kyun age 6
William Gopallawa age 59
D. M. Jayaratne age 26
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 15
Matthew Ridgway age 62
He Long age 61
Manlio Brosio age 60
Franco Maria Malfatti age 30
David Malpass age 1
Denis Healey age 39
David Blunkett age 10
Amin al-Hafiz age 35
Dragiša Cvetković age 64
J. Lawton Collins age 61
John W. Snow age 17
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 39
Elliot Richardson age 37
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 11
Lester Bird age 19
Ramón Puerta age 5
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 73
Bill Hayden age 24
Alfons Gorbach age 58
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 17
Georges Theunis age 84
Paul van Zeeland age 63
Colville Young age 24
Aleksandar Tsankov age 78
Goukouni Oueddei age 15
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 65
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 42
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 30
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 10
Osvaldo Hurtado age 18
Galo Plaza age 51
Joseph Urusemal age 5
Teuvo Aura age 44
Keijo Liinamaa age 28
Sakari Tuomioja age 45
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 62
Ioannis Grivas age 34
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 29
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 26
Vinicio Cerezo age 14
Desmond Hoyte age 28
Henri Namphy age 24
Claudette Werleigh age 10
Tiburcio Carías age 81
Péter Boross age 28
Károly Grósz age 26
Geir Hallgrímsson age 31
Erik Scavenius age 80
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah age 4
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 43
Salim al-Huss age 27
Moses Blah age 10
Anton Buttigieg age 45
Litokwa Tomeing age 17
Khil Raj Regmi age 8
Cuthbert Sebastian age 35
Flavio Cotti age 17
H. H. Kung age 75