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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
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
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02

People

Rami Hamdallah age 1
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 45
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 25
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 57
Philip J. Pierre age 5
Su Tseng-chang age 12
Hubert Minnis age 5
Keith Rowley age 10
Muteesa II of Buganda age 35
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 45
Le Duc Anh age 39
José Raúl Mulino age 5 months
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim age 70
Manfred Wörner age 25
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 45
Alberto Gonzales age 4
Vladimir Ivashko age 27
Neil Kinnock age 17
Sisavang Vatthana age 52
Mark Felt age 46
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone age 76
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark age 45
Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen age 29
Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia age 5
Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler age 25
Margareta of Romania age 10
Princess Michael of Kent age 14
Ann Richards age 26
David Souter age 20
Vazgen Sargsyan age 8 months
Owen Arthur age 10
George Cadle Price age 40
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 43
André Kolingba age 23
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi age 1
Jiří Paroubek age 7
Dileita Mohamed Dileita age 1
Rosalía Arteaga Serrano age 2
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 77
Edgar Savisaar age 9
Taye Atske Selassie age 3
Epeli Nailatikau age 18
Karl-August Fagerholm age 57
Leslie Manigat age 29
Miklós Németh age 11
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 67
Robert Guéï age 18
Bah Ndaw age 9
Dioncounda Traoré age 17
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 17
Cindy Kiro age 1
Patsy Reddy age 5
Lars Korvald age 43
John Lyng age 54
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 55
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 15
Mohammad Shtayyeh age 1
Denzil Douglas age 6
James Mancham age 20
Siaka Stevens age 54
Benjamin Sheares age 52
Li Zongren age 69
Chuan Leekpai age 21
Perry Christie age 16
Mari Alkatiri age 10
Yıldırım Akbulut age 24
Pavlo Lazarenko age 6
Jan Olszewski age 29
José María Balcázar age 16
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 24
Ho Chong age 63
Hugh Dowding age 77
Creighton Abrams age 45
Charles Haughey age 34
Joseph Luns age 48
William J. Perry age 32
Michael Foot age 46
Matvei Zakharov age 61
Juan Almeida Bosque age 32
Han Zheng age 5
Shapour Bakhtiar age 45
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst age 74
Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta age 55
Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (1943–2021) age 16
Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark age 54
Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies age 48
Anne of Romania age 36
Lamar Alexander age 19
Ian Wilmut age 15
John McEwen age 59
Novruz Mammadov age 12
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 33
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 82
Alfonso López Michelsen age 46
Ahmed Abdallah age 40
Ivica Račan age 15
Manny Mori age 10
Ahti Karjalainen age 36
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 73
Martti Miettunen age 52
Maurice Bishop age 15
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 12
Ricardo Maduro age 13
Mátyás Szűrös age 26
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 31
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer age 1
Adone Zoli age 72
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 29
Thongsing Thammavong age 15
Camille Chamoun age 59
Ruth Perry age 20
Abelardo L. Rodríguez age 70
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 82
Driss Jettou age 14
Rosario Murillo age 8
Kim Yong-il age 15
Per Borten age 46
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 22
Crin Antonescu age 2 months
Jules Wijdenbosch age 18
Rickard Sandler age 75
Shukri al-Quwatli age 68
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 26
Anthony Carmona age 6
A. N. R. Robinson age 32
Nihat Erim age 47
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 39
Nikenike Vurobaravu age 7
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 10
Jaime Lusinchi age 35
Phan Văn Khải age 25
Rashad al-Alimi age 5
Józef Oleksy age 13
Waldemar Pawlak age 2 months
Lee Hae Chan age 7
Šefik Džaferović age 2
Nebojša Radmanović age 10
Dragan Čović age 3
Giuseppe Bertello age 17
Giovanni Lajolo age 24
Giovanni Messe age 76
Zhang Xueliang age 58
Geoffrey Howe age 32
Carlos Luz age 65
Maxwell D. Taylor age 58
William Cohen age 19
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 89
Loretta Lynch age 6 months
Iain Duncan Smith age 5
Caspar Weinberger age 42
Lothar Rendulic age 72
Milan Martić age 5
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu age 26
Pavel Grachev age 11
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 17
Mohsen Rezaee age 5
Yuriko, Princess Mikasa age 36
Şehzade Ertuğrul Osman age 47
Princess Patricia of Connaught age 73
Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1906–1969) age 53
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook age 80
George Pataki age 14
Leonard Kleinrock age 25
Warren E. Burger age 52
Jaume Bartumeu Cassany age 5
Rodney Williams age 12
Achille Van Acker age 61
Jaime Paz Zamora age 20
Joseph Ngute age 5
Philémon Yang age 12
Julio César Turbay age 43
Laureano Gómez age 70
Spiros Cyprianou age 27
Sylvanie Burton age 3
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 24
Lucio Gutiérrez age 2
Ibrahim Mahlab age 10
Kamisese Mara age 39
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 28
Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo age 1
Henrique Rosa age 13
Donald Ramotar age 9
Oswaldo López Arellano age 38
Poul Hartling age 45
Barend Biesheuvel age 39
Felix Kulov age 11
Nawaf Salam age 5
Bechara El Khoury age 69
Tom Thabane age 20
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 21
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 53
Kailash Purryag age 11
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 59
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 9
Brigi Rafini age 6
Choe Yong-rim age 29
Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani age 3 months
Victor Khristenko age 2
Grégoire Kayibanda age 35
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 8