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Events

Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1922-12-29 - 1991-12-12
Lateran Treaty 1929-02-11 - 1985-06-03
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Malayan Emergency 1948-06-16 - 1960-07-12
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
First Sudanese Civil War 1955-08-18 - 1972-03-27
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Ifni War 1957-10-23 - 1958-06-30
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962

People

Edgar Savisaar age 7
Taye Atske Selassie age 1
Epeli Nailatikau age 16
Karl-August Fagerholm age 56
Leslie Manigat age 27
Miklós Németh age 9
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 66
Robert Guéï age 16
Bah Ndaw age 7
Dioncounda Traoré age 15
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 15
Patsy Reddy age 3
Lars Korvald age 41
John Lyng age 52
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 54
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 14
Américo Tomás age 63
Denzil Douglas age 4
James Mancham age 18
Siaka Stevens age 52
Benjamin Sheares age 50
Li Zongren age 67
Chuan Leekpai age 19
Perry Christie age 14
Mari Alkatiri age 8
Yıldırım Akbulut age 22
Pavlo Lazarenko age 4
Jan Olszewski age 27
José María Balcázar age 14
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 23
Ho Chong age 61
Hugh Dowding age 75
Creighton Abrams age 43
Charles Haughey age 32
Joseph Luns age 46
Nereu Ramos age 69
William J. Perry age 30
Michael Foot age 44
Matvei Zakharov age 59
Juan Almeida Bosque age 30
Han Zheng age 3
Shapour Bakhtiar age 44
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst age 73
Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta age 53
Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (1943–2021) age 14
Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark age 52
Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies age 47
Anne of Romania age 34
Lamar Alexander age 17
Ian Wilmut age 13
John McEwen age 57
Novruz Mammadov age 10
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 31
Alfonso López Michelsen age 44
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 51
Ahmed Abdallah age 38
Ivica Račan age 13
Manny Mori age 9
Ahti Karjalainen age 34
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 71
Martti Miettunen age 50
Maurice Bishop age 13
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 10
Ricardo Maduro age 11
Mátyás Szűrös age 24
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 29
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 27
Thongsing Thammavong age 13
Ruth Perry age 18
Abelardo L. Rodríguez age 68
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 80
Driss Jettou age 12
Rosario Murillo age 6
Kim Yong-il age 13
Oscar Torp age 64
Per Borten age 44
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 20
Jules Wijdenbosch age 16
Rickard Sandler age 73
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 24
Anthony Carmona age 4
A. N. R. Robinson age 31
Nihat Erim age 46
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 37
Nikenike Vurobaravu age 6
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 8
Jaime Lusinchi age 33
Phan Văn Khải age 24
Rashad al-Alimi age 3
Józef Oleksy age 11
Lee Hae Chan age 5
Šefik Džaferović age 3 months
Nebojša Radmanović age 8
Dragan Čović age 1
Giuseppe Bertello age 15
Giovanni Lajolo age 23
Giovanni Messe age 74
Zhang Xueliang age 56
Geoffrey Howe age 31
Carlos Luz age 63
William D. Leahy age 82
William Cohen age 17
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 87
Iain Duncan Smith age 3
Caspar Weinberger age 40
Lothar Rendulic age 70
Milan Martić age 3
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu age 24
Pavel Grachev age 10
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 15
Mohsen Rezaee age 3
Yuriko, Princess Mikasa age 34
Şehzade Ertuğrul Osman age 45
Princess Patricia of Connaught age 71
Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1906–1969) age 51
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook age 78
George Pataki age 12
Leonard Kleinrock age 23
Warren E. Burger age 50
Jaume Bartumeu Cassany age 3
Rodney Williams age 10
Jaime Paz Zamora age 18
Joseph Ngute age 3
Philémon Yang age 10
Julio César Turbay age 41
Laureano Gómez age 68
Spiros Cyprianou age 25
Sylvanie Burton age 2
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 22
Lucio Gutiérrez age 9 months
Ibrahim Mahlab age 8
Kamisese Mara age 37
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 26
Henrique Rosa age 11
Donald Ramotar age 7
Oswaldo López Arellano age 36
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 53
Nuri as-Said age 70
Poul Hartling age 43
Barend Biesheuvel age 37
Felix Kulov age 9
Nawaf Salam age 4
Bechara El Khoury age 67
Tom Thabane age 18
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 19
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 51
Kailash Purryag age 10
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 57
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 7
Brigi Rafini age 4
Choe Yong-rim age 27
Victor Khristenko age 4 months
Grégoire Kayibanda age 33
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 6
Lojze Peterle age 9
Samuel Schmid age 10
Joseph Deiss age 11
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 25
T. V. Soong age 66
Phumtham Wechayachai age 4
Hamadi Jebali age 8
Tito Okello age 43
Vitold Fokin age 25
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 32
Tallis Obed Moses age 3
Do Muoi age 40
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke age 38
Chung Il-kwon age 40
Jung Hong-won age 13
Ismail al-Azhari age 57
Raif Dizdarević age 31
Sulejman Tihić age 6
Vo Chi Cong age 45
W. T. Cosgrave age 77
Jean Rey age 55
Lloyd Bentsen age 36
Choe Yong-gon age 57
Jisaburō Ozawa age 71
Ralph Abernathy age 31
David Elazar age 32
Sylvia Rivera age 6
Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark age 44
Mark Phillips (born 1948) age 9
Wang Zhen (general) age 49
Frank Jack Fletcher age 72
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 70
Tajuddin Ahmad age 32
Luis García Meza Tejada age 28
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 9
Jamil Mahuad age 8
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 5
Hazem Al Beblawi age 21
José Napoleón Duarte age 32
Tiit Vähi age 10
Mart Siimann age 11
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 15
Negasso Gidada age 14
Peter M. Christian age 10
Rafael Paasio age 54
Johannes Virolainen age 43