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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 - 1962
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 - 1990-02-01
Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10

People

Harriet Harman age 10
Mehdi Bazargan age 53
Wang Qishan age 12
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam age 20
Yves Congar age 57
Empress Nagako age 58
Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope age 78
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester age 59
Princess Benedikte of Denmark age 17
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon age 31
Raymond A. Spruance age 75
Tôn Đức Thắng age 72
James R. Schlesinger age 32
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 42
Héctor José Cámpora age 52
Juan Carlos Onganía age 47
Hovik Abrahamyan age 3
Frank Forde age 70
David Hurley age 7
Leopold Figl age 58
Viktor Klima age 14
Andrei Kobyakow age 7 months
Gaston Eyskens age 56
Michel Kafando age 18
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 6
Domitien Ndayizeye age 8
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 17
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 62
Ernesto Samper age 10
Juan Bosch age 52
Gustavo Noboa age 23
Keith Mitchell age 14
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 15
Arthur Chung age 43
Ariel Henry age 11
Zoltán Tildy age 71
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 14
Michael Manley age 36
Albert Zafy age 34
Christian Ntsay age 2 months
Anthony Mamo age 52
Amata Kabua age 32
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 19
Navin Ramgoolam age 13
Petru Lucinschi age 21
Momir Bulatović age 4
Abbas El Fassi age 20
Baburam Bhattarai age 7
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 36
David Lange age 18
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 10
Johnson Toribiong age 14
Rami Hamdallah age 2
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 47
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 26
Philip J. Pierre age 6
Su Tseng-chang age 13
Hubert Minnis age 7
Keith Rowley age 11
Muteesa II of Buganda age 36
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 47
Le Duc Anh age 40
José Raúl Mulino age 2
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim age 72
Manfred Wörner age 26
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 46
Alberto Gonzales age 5
Vladimir Ivashko age 28
Neil Kinnock age 19
Sisavang Vatthana age 53
Mark Felt age 47
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone age 78
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark age 47
Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen age 31
Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia age 7
Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler age 26
Margareta of Romania age 12
Princess Michael of Kent age 16
Ann Richards age 27
David Souter age 21
Christian Herter age 66
William P. Rogers age 48
Vazgen Sargsyan age 2
Owen Arthur age 11
George Cadle Price age 42
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 45
André Kolingba age 24
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi age 3
Rodrigo Chaves age 0 months
Jiří Paroubek age 8
Dileita Mohamed Dileita age 3
Rosalía Arteaga Serrano age 4
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 78
Edgar Savisaar age 11
Taye Atske Selassie age 5
Epeli Nailatikau age 19
Karl-August Fagerholm age 59
Leslie Manigat age 30
Miklós Németh age 13
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 69
Robert Guéï age 20
Bah Ndaw age 10
Dioncounda Traoré age 19
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 19
Cindy Kiro age 2
Patsy Reddy age 7
Lars Korvald age 45
John Lyng age 55
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 57
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 17
Mohammad Shtayyeh age 3
Denzil Douglas age 8
James Mancham age 21
Siaka Stevens age 55
Benjamin Sheares age 53
Li Zongren age 70
Chuan Leekpai age 22
Perry Christie age 17
Mari Alkatiri age 11
Yıldırım Akbulut age 25
Pavlo Lazarenko age 8
Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh age 1
Jan Olszewski age 30
José María Balcázar age 18
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 26
Ho Chong age 65
Hugh Dowding age 79
Creighton Abrams age 46
Charles Haughey age 35
Joseph Luns age 49
William J. Perry age 33
Matvei Zakharov age 62
Juan Almeida Bosque age 34
Han Zheng age 7
Shapour Bakhtiar age 47
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst age 76
Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta age 57
Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (1943–2021) age 17
Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark age 56
Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies age 50
Anne of Romania age 37
Lamar Alexander age 20
Ian Wilmut age 16
John McEwen age 61
Novruz Mammadov age 14
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 34
Alfonso López Michelsen age 48
Ahmed Abdallah age 42
Ivica Račan age 17
Manny Mori age 12
Ahti Karjalainen age 38
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 75
Martti Miettunen age 54
Maurice Bishop age 17
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 13
Ricardo Maduro age 15
Mátyás Szűrös age 27
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 33
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer age 3
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 31
Thongsing Thammavong age 17
Camille Chamoun age 61
Ruth Perry age 21
Abelardo L. Rodríguez age 72
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 84
Driss Jettou age 16
Rosario Murillo age 10
Kim Yong-il age 17
Per Borten age 48
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 23
Crin Antonescu age 1
Jules Wijdenbosch age 20
Rickard Sandler age 77
Shukri al-Quwatli age 69
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 27
Anthony Carmona age 8
A. N. R. Robinson age 34
Nihat Erim age 49
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 41
Nikenike Vurobaravu age 9
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 12
Jaime Lusinchi age 37
Phan Văn Khải age 27
Rashad al-Alimi age 7
Józef Oleksy age 15
Waldemar Pawlak age 1
Lee Hae Chan age 8
Šefik Džaferović age 3
Nebojša Radmanović age 11
Dragan Čović age 4
Giuseppe Bertello age 18
Giovanni Lajolo age 26
Giovanni Messe age 77
Zhang Xueliang age 60
Geoffrey Howe age 34
Maxwell D. Taylor age 59
William Cohen age 20
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 90
Loretta Lynch age 2
Iain Duncan Smith age 7