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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
Great Leap Forward 1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis 1958-08-23 - 1958-12-02

People

Andres Tarand age 18
V. J. Sukselainen age 52
Edward Akufo-Addo age 52
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 45
Michael Stasinopoulos age 55
Alfonso Portillo age 7
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 22
András Hegedüs age 35
Géza Lakatos age 68
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 10
Ólafur Thors age 66
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 45
Ahmed Chalabi age 13
Patrick Allen age 7
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 38
Viggo Kampmann age 48
Louis Beel age 56
Jelle Zijlstra age 40
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 17
Gyude Bryant age 9
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 13
Arnoldo Alemán age 12
Wasim Sajjad age 17
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 64
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 19
Theodor Stolojan age 14
Manea Mănescu age 42
Nureddin al-Atassi age 29
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 46
Hussein Arnous age 5
Miguel Trovoada age 21
Yen Chia-kan age 53
Khuang Aphaiwong age 56
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 26
Edward Natapei age 4
Nguyen Huu Tho age 48
Mieczysław Rakowski age 31
Luis González Macchi age 10
Lee Nack-yon age 5
Nikola Špirić age 2
Ali Saibou age 18
John A. Costello age 67
Jack Lynch age 41
Willy Claes age 19
Rauf Orbay age 77
Martin Dempsey age 6
Nigel Lawson age 26
Harold Brown age 31
Thomas Gage age 240
Juan José Arévalo age 54
Ali Kafi age 30
Eduardo Camaño age 12
Michael Jeffery age 20
Reinhold Mitterlehner age 2
Hubert Pierlot age 74
Jean Duvieusart age 58
Camille Huysmans age 87
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 39
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 40
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya age 2
Guillermo León Valencia age 49
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 50
Armando Calderón Sol age 10
Akwasi Afrifa age 22
Fred Akuffo age 21
Phaedon Gizikis age 41
Patrick Achi age 2
Edward Seaga age 28
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 16
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 4
René Moawad age 33
Hussein Onn age 36
Ibrahim Nasir age 32
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 25
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 64
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 34
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 69
Mike Moore age 9
Pak Pong-ju age 19
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 53
Haruo Remeliik age 25
Ivan Stambolić age 21
Hashim al-Atassi age 82
Wu Den-yih age 10
Edward Lowassa age 5
Seni Pramoj age 53
Kukrit Pramoj age 47
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 12
Anand Panyarachun age 26
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 22
Hubert Ingraham age 11
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 17
Mohamed Ennaceur age 24
Apolo Nsibambi age 17
Godfrey Binaisa age 38
Vitalii Masol age 29
Sato Kilman age 9 months
Raúl Leoni age 53
Ramón José Velásquez age 41
Vo Van Kiet age 35
Mohammed Basindawa age 23
Arnulfo Arias age 57
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 64
Francisco Sagasti age 14
Momčilo Krajišnik age 13
Mladen Ivanić age 1 month
Andrés Rodríguez age 35
Liu Bocheng age 65
Albert Reynolds age 25
Lee Jong-wook age 13
Dušan Simović age 76
Kenneth Clarke age 18
Ramsey Clark age 30
Courtney Hodges age 71
Albert Pintat age 15
Carlos Lacoste age 29
Josef Klaus age 48
Juan José Torres age 38
Ivan Kostov age 8
Saye Zerbo age 26
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 16
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 34
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 18
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 34
Josef Tošovský age 8
Adolphe Muzito age 1
Sufi Abu Taleb age 33
Tosiwo Nakayama age 26
Edwin Linkomies age 63
Xenophon Zolotas age 54
Tillman Thomas age 13
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 8
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 15
Gérard Latortue age 24
Jenő Fock age 42
Miklós Kállay age 71
Sutan Sjahrir age 49
P. J. Patterson age 23
Bruce Golding age 10
Abdullah Ensour age 19
Erik Eriksen age 55
Dirk Jan de Geer age 87
Victor Marijnen age 41
Charles D. B. King age 83
Abdurrahim El-Keib age 8
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé age 10
Kessai Note age 8
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 20
Anand Satyanand age 14
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou age 4
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 75
Victor Ciorbea age 3
Constantin Dăscălescu age 35
Mugur Isărescu age 9
Frederick Ballantyne age 22
Abdoul Mbaye age 5
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 21
Andrej Bajuk age 15
Adib Shishakli age 49
Qahhor Mahkamov age 26
Mizengo Pinda age 10
Cleopa Msuya age 27
Apisai Ielemia age 3
Anatolii Kinakh age 4
Yevhen Marchuk age 17
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 46
Aparicio Méndez age 54
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 49
Guillermo Endara age 22
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 30
Kim Hwang-sik age 10
Chung Un-chan age 11
Kim Jong-pil age 32
Chung Sye-kyun age 7
William Gopallawa age 61
D. M. Jayaratne age 27
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 17
Matthew Ridgway age 63
He Long age 62
Manlio Brosio age 61
Franco Maria Malfatti age 31
David Malpass age 2
Denis Healey age 41
David Blunkett age 11
Amin al-Hafiz age 36
Dragiša Cvetković age 65
J. Lawton Collins age 62
John W. Snow age 19
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 40
Elliot Richardson age 38
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 12
Lester Bird age 20
Ramón Puerta age 7
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 74
Bill Hayden age 25
Alfons Gorbach age 60
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 18
Georges Theunis age 85
Paul van Zeeland age 64
Colville Young age 25