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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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962

People

Edgar Savisaar age 8
Taye Atske Selassie age 2
Epeli Nailatikau age 17
Karl-August Fagerholm age 56
Leslie Manigat age 27
Miklós Németh age 10
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 66
Robert Guéï age 17
Bah Ndaw age 7
Dioncounda Traoré age 16
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 16
Cindy Kiro age 1 month
Patsy Reddy age 4
Lars Korvald age 42
John Lyng age 52
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 54
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 14
Mohammad Shtayyeh age 6 months
Américo Tomás age 63
Denzil Douglas age 5
James Mancham age 18
Siaka Stevens age 52
Benjamin Sheares age 51
Li Zongren age 68
Chuan Leekpai age 20
Perry Christie age 14
Mari Alkatiri age 8
Yıldırım Akbulut age 22
Pavlo Lazarenko age 5
Jan Olszewski age 27
José María Balcázar age 15
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 23
Ho Chong age 62
Hugh Dowding age 76
Creighton Abrams age 43
Charles Haughey age 32
Joseph Luns age 46
William J. Perry age 30
Michael Foot age 45
Matvei Zakharov age 60
Juan Almeida Bosque age 31
Han Zheng age 4
Shapour Bakhtiar age 44
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst age 73
Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta age 54
Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (1943–2021) age 14
Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark age 53
Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies age 47
Anne of Romania age 34
Lamar Alexander age 18
Ian Wilmut age 14
John McEwen age 58
Novruz Mammadov age 11
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 31
Alfonso López Michelsen age 45
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 52
Ahmed Abdallah age 39
Ivica Račan age 14
Manny Mori age 9
Ahti Karjalainen age 35
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 72
Martti Miettunen age 51
Maurice Bishop age 14
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 10
Ricardo Maduro age 12
Mátyás Szűrös age 24
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 30
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer age 4 months
Adone Zoli age 70
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 28
Thongsing Thammavong age 14
Ruth Perry age 19
Abelardo L. Rodríguez age 69
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 81
Driss Jettou age 13
Rosario Murillo age 7
Kim Yong-il age 14
Per Borten age 45
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 20
Jules Wijdenbosch age 17
Rickard Sandler age 74
Shukri al-Quwatli age 66
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 25
Anthony Carmona age 5
A. N. R. Robinson age 31
Nihat Erim age 46
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 38
Nikenike Vurobaravu age 6
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 9
Jaime Lusinchi age 34
Phan Văn Khải age 24
Rashad al-Alimi age 4
Józef Oleksy age 12
Lee Hae Chan age 6
Šefik Džaferović age 10 months
Nebojša Radmanović age 8
Dragan Čović age 1
Giuseppe Bertello age 15
Giovanni Lajolo age 23
Giovanni Messe age 74
Zhang Xueliang age 57
Geoffrey Howe age 31
Carlos Luz age 64
William D. Leahy age 83
William Cohen age 17
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 87
Iain Duncan Smith age 4
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 16
Mohsen Rezaee age 3
Yuriko, Princess Mikasa age 35
Şehzade Ertuğrul Osman age 45
Princess Patricia of Connaught age 72
Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1906–1969) age 52
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook age 79
George Pataki age 13
Leonard Kleinrock age 24
Warren E. Burger age 50
Jaume Bartumeu Cassany age 3
Rodney Williams age 10
Achille Van Acker age 60
Jaime Paz Zamora age 19
Joseph Ngute age 4
Philémon Yang age 11
Julio César Turbay age 42
Laureano Gómez age 69
Spiros Cyprianou age 25
Sylvanie Burton age 2
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 23
Lucio Gutiérrez age 1
Ibrahim Mahlab age 9
Kamisese Mara age 38
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 26
Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo age 4 months
Henrique Rosa age 12
Donald Ramotar age 7
Oswaldo López Arellano age 37
Poul Hartling age 43
Barend Biesheuvel age 38
Felix Kulov age 9
Nawaf Salam age 4
Bechara El Khoury age 68
Tom Thabane age 19
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 20
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 52
Kailash Purryag age 10
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 57
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 8
Brigi Rafini age 5
Choe Yong-rim age 27
Victor Khristenko age 11 months
Grégoire Kayibanda age 34
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 7
Lojze Peterle age 10
Samuel Schmid age 11
Joseph Deiss age 12
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 26
T. V. Soong age 66
Phumtham Wechayachai age 4
Hamadi Jebali age 9
Tito Okello age 43
Vitold Fokin age 25
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 32
Tallis Obed Moses age 3
Do Muoi age 41
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke age 39
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 46
W. T. Cosgrave age 78
Jean Rey age 56
Lloyd Bentsen age 37
Choe Yong-gon age 58
Jisaburō Ozawa age 71
Ralph Abernathy age 32
David Elazar age 32
Sylvia Rivera age 7
Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark age 45
Mark Phillips (born 1948) age 9
Wang Zhen (general) age 50
Frank Jack Fletcher age 73
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 71
Tajuddin Ahmad age 33
Luis García Meza Tejada age 29
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 9
Jamil Mahuad age 9
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 6
Hazem Al Beblawi age 21
José Napoleón Duarte age 32
Tiit Vähi age 11
Mart Siimann age 11
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 16
Negasso Gidada age 14