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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
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964-01-01
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Albany Movement 1961-01-01 - 1962-12-01

People

Hamadi Jebali age 12
Tito Okello age 46
Vitold Fokin age 28
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 35
Tallis Obed Moses age 6
Do Muoi age 44
Chung Il-kwon age 43
Jung Hong-won age 16
Ismail al-Azhari age 60
Raif Dizdarević age 34
Sulejman Tihić age 9
Vo Chi Cong age 48
W. T. Cosgrave age 80
Jean Rey age 58
Ajay Banga age 1
Lloyd Bentsen age 40
Wang Zhen (general) age 52
Frank Jack Fletcher age 75
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 74
Tajuddin Ahmad age 35
Luis García Meza Tejada age 31
Jorge Quiroga age 10 months
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 47
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 12
Moussa Faki age 9 months
Jamil Mahuad age 11
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 9
Hazem Al Beblawi age 24
José Napoleón Duarte age 35
Tiit Vähi age 14
Mart Siimann age 14
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 18
Negasso Gidada age 17
Peter M. Christian age 13
Rafael Paasio age 57
Johannes Virolainen age 47
Georgios Rallis age 42
Raimundo Pereira age 4
Forbes Burnham age 38
István Dobi age 62
Charles Konan Banny age 18
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 17
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 75
Agim Çeku age 4 months
Ali Zeidan age 10
Abd al-Hamid Dbeibeh age 2
Joseph Bech age 74
Ċensu Tabone age 48
Prithvirajsing Roopun age 1
Željko Šturanović age 1
Nahas Angula age 17
Hammer DeRoburt age 38
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 33
Jim Bolger age 25
Daouda Malam Wanké age 14
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 11
Ernest Shonekan age 24
Muhammad Junejo age 28
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 19
Vasco Gonçalves age 39
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 40
Kenny Anthony age 10
Ong Teng Cheong age 25
Maria das Neves age 2
Thanin Kraiwichian age 33
Luis Herrera Campins age 35
Manuel Odría age 63
Nur Hassan Hussein age 23
Goh Kun age 23
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 36
Marais Viljoen age 45
Sicco Mansholt age 52
François-Xavier Ortoli age 36
Alistair Darling age 7
Jack Lew age 5
Mark Milley age 2
Louise Lake-Tack age 16
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 44
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 41
José María Guido age 50
Pierre Harmel age 50
Said Musa age 17
Kimon Georgiev age 78
Norodom Ranariddh age 17
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 61
José María Figueres Olsen age 6
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 59
Jaime Roldos Aquilera age 20
Kamal Ganzouri age 28
Alfredo Cristiani age 13
Andres Tarand age 21
Edward Akufo-Addo age 54
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 47
Michael Stasinopoulos age 57
Alfonso Portillo age 9
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 25
András Hegedüs age 38
Géza Lakatos age 70
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 13
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 48
Ahmed Chalabi age 16
Amadou Gon Coulibaly age 2
Patrick Allen age 10
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 41
Louis Beel age 58
Jelle Zijlstra age 42
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 20
Gyude Bryant age 12
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 15
Arnoldo Alemán age 15
Wasim Sajjad age 19
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 66
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 22
Theodor Stolojan age 17
Manea Mănescu age 44
Nureddin al-Atassi age 32
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 48
Hussein Arnous age 8
Miguel Trovoada age 24
Yen Chia-kan age 55
Khuang Aphaiwong age 58
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 28
Edward Natapei age 6
Nguyen Huu Tho age 50
Mieczysław Rakowski age 34
Luis González Macchi age 13
Lee Nack-yon age 8
Nikola Špirić age 4
Ali Saibou age 20
John A. Costello age 69
Jack Lynch age 43
Willy Claes age 22
Rauf Orbay age 79
Martin Dempsey age 9
Nigel Lawson age 29
Harold Brown age 33
Thomas Gage age 243
Juan José Arévalo age 56
Ali Kafi age 32
Eduardo Camaño age 14
Michael Jeffery age 23
Reinhold Mitterlehner age 5
Hubert Pierlot age 77
Jean Duvieusart age 60
Camille Huysmans age 89
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 41
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 42
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya age 4
Guillermo León Valencia age 51
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 52
Armando Calderón Sol age 12
Akwasi Afrifa age 24
Fred Akuffo age 24
Phaedon Gizikis age 43
Patrick Achi age 5
Edward Seaga age 30
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 19
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 6
René Moawad age 35
Hussein Onn age 39
Ibrahim Nasir age 34
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 28
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 67
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 37
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 72
Mike Moore age 12
Pak Pong-ju age 21
Kim Tok-hun age 2 months
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 55
Haruo Remeliik age 27
Allen Chastanet age 4 months
Ivan Stambolić age 24
Maria do Carmo Silveira age 1 month
Wu Den-yih age 13
Edward Lowassa age 7
Seni Pramoj age 55
Kukrit Pramoj age 49
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 14
Anand Panyarachun age 28
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 24
Hubert Ingraham age 13
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 19
Mohamed Ennaceur age 27
Apolo Nsibambi age 20
Godfrey Binaisa age 40
Vitalii Masol age 32
Sato Kilman age 3
Raúl Leoni age 55
Ramón José Velásquez age 44
Vo Van Kiet age 38
Mohammed Basindawa age 25
Arnulfo Arias age 59
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 67
Francisco Sagasti age 16
Momčilo Krajišnik age 16
Mladen Ivanić age 2
Andrés Rodríguez age 37
Liu Bocheng age 68
Albert Reynolds age 28
Lee Jong-wook age 15