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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
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 1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Great Chinese Famine 1959-01-01 - 1961-12-31
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02

People

Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 17
Negasso Gidada age 16
Peter M. Christian age 12
Rafael Paasio age 56
Johannes Virolainen age 46
Georgios Rallis age 41
Raimundo Pereira age 3
Forbes Burnham age 36
István Dobi age 61
Charles Konan Banny age 17
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 16
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 74
Ali Zeidan age 9
Abd al-Hamid Dbeibeh age 11 months
Joseph Bech age 72
Ċensu Tabone age 46
Prithvirajsing Roopun age 8 months
Nahas Angula age 16
Hammer DeRoburt age 37
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 31
Jim Bolger age 24
Daouda Malam Wanké age 13
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 10
Ernest Shonekan age 23
Muhammad Junejo age 27
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 18
Vasco Gonçalves age 38
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 38
Kenny Anthony age 9
Ong Teng Cheong age 24
Maria das Neves age 1
Thanin Kraiwichian age 32
Luis Herrera Campins age 34
Manuel Odría age 62
Nur Hassan Hussein age 21
Goh Kun age 22
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 35
Marais Viljoen age 44
Sicco Mansholt age 51
François-Xavier Ortoli age 34
Alistair Darling age 6
Jack Lew age 4
Mark Milley age 1
Louise Lake-Tack age 15
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 43
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 40
José María Guido age 49
Pierre Harmel age 48
Said Musa age 15
Kimon Georgiev age 77
Norodom Ranariddh age 16
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 59
José María Figueres Olsen age 5
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 58
Jaime Roldos Aquilera age 19
Kamal Ganzouri age 27
Alfredo Cristiani age 12
Andres Tarand age 20
Edward Akufo-Addo age 53
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 46
Michael Stasinopoulos age 56
Alfonso Portillo age 8
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 24
András Hegedüs age 37
Géza Lakatos age 69
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 12
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 46
Ahmed Chalabi age 15
Amadou Gon Coulibaly age 11 months
Patrick Allen age 8
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 39
Viggo Kampmann age 49
Louis Beel age 57
Jelle Zijlstra age 41
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 19
Gyude Bryant age 11
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 14
Arnoldo Alemán age 14
Wasim Sajjad age 18
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 65
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 21
Theodor Stolojan age 16
Manea Mănescu age 43
Nureddin al-Atassi age 31
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 47
Hussein Arnous age 7
Miguel Trovoada age 23
Yen Chia-kan age 54
Khuang Aphaiwong age 57
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 27
Edward Natapei age 5
Nguyen Huu Tho age 49
Mieczysław Rakowski age 33
Luis González Macchi age 12
Lee Nack-yon age 7
Nikola Špirić age 3
Ali Saibou age 19
John A. Costello age 68
Jack Lynch age 42
Willy Claes age 21
Rauf Orbay age 78
Martin Dempsey age 7
Nigel Lawson age 27
Harold Brown age 32
Thomas Gage age 242
Juan José Arévalo age 55
Ali Kafi age 31
Eduardo Camaño age 13
Michael Jeffery age 22
Reinhold Mitterlehner age 4
Hubert Pierlot age 76
Jean Duvieusart age 59
Camille Huysmans age 88
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 40
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 41
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya age 3
Guillermo León Valencia age 50
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 51
Armando Calderón Sol age 11
Akwasi Afrifa age 23
Fred Akuffo age 22
Phaedon Gizikis age 42
Patrick Achi age 4
Edward Seaga age 29
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 18
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 5
René Moawad age 34
Hussein Onn age 37
Ibrahim Nasir age 33
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 27
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 65
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 35
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 70
Mike Moore age 10
Pak Pong-ju age 20
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 54
Haruo Remeliik age 26
Ivan Stambolić age 23
Hashim al-Atassi age 84
Wu Den-yih age 11
Edward Lowassa age 6
Seni Pramoj age 54
Kukrit Pramoj age 48
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 13
Anand Panyarachun age 27
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 23
Hubert Ingraham age 12
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 18
Mohamed Ennaceur age 25
Apolo Nsibambi age 19
Godfrey Binaisa age 39
Vitalii Masol age 31
Sato Kilman age 2
Raúl Leoni age 54
Ramón José Velásquez age 43
Vo Van Kiet age 37
Mohammed Basindawa age 24
Arnulfo Arias age 58
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 66
Francisco Sagasti age 15
Momčilo Krajišnik age 15
Mladen Ivanić age 1
Andrés Rodríguez age 36
Liu Bocheng age 67
Albert Reynolds age 27
Lee Jong-wook age 14
Dušan Simović age 77
Kenneth Clarke age 19
Ramsey Clark age 32
Courtney Hodges age 73
Albert Pintat age 16
Carlos Lacoste age 30
Josef Klaus age 49
Juan José Torres age 39
Ivan Kostov age 10
Saye Zerbo age 27
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 17
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 36
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 20
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 36
Josef Tošovský age 9
Adolphe Muzito age 2
Sufi Abu Taleb age 35
Francisco Flores age 3 months
Tosiwo Nakayama age 28
Edwin Linkomies age 65
Xenophon Zolotas age 55
Tillman Thomas age 14
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 10
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 16
Gérard Latortue age 25
Jenő Fock age 43
Miklós Kállay age 73
Sutan Sjahrir age 50
P. J. Patterson age 24
Bruce Golding age 12
Abdullah Ensour age 21
Erik Eriksen age 57
Dirk Jan de Geer age 89
Victor Marijnen age 42