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Events

Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
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

People

Akwasi Afrifa age 17
Fred Akuffo age 16
Phaedon Gizikis age 36
Edward Seaga age 23
Hans Hedtoft age 50
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 11
Fouad Chehab age 51
René Moawad age 28
Hussein Onn age 31
Ibrahim Nasir age 26
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 20
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 59
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 29
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 64
Mike Moore age 4
Pak Pong-ju age 14
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 48
Haruo Remeliik age 20
Ivan Stambolić age 16
Hashim al-Atassi age 77
Wu Den-yih age 5
Seni Pramoj age 48
Kukrit Pramoj age 42
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 6
Anand Panyarachun age 20
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 17
Hubert Ingraham age 5
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 12
Mohamed Ennaceur age 19
Apolo Nsibambi age 12
Godfrey Binaisa age 33
Vitalii Masol age 24
Raúl Leoni age 48
Ramón José Velásquez age 36
Vo Van Kiet age 30
Mohammed Basindawa age 18
Arnulfo Arias age 51
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 59
Francisco Sagasti age 8
Momčilo Krajišnik age 8
Andrés Rodríguez age 30
Liu Bocheng age 60
Glubb Pasha age 56
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ age 22
Claire Lee Chennault age 59
Albert Reynolds age 20
Lee Jong-wook age 8
Dušan Simović age 70
Kenneth Clarke age 13
John Smith age 14
Abdel Hakim Amer age 33
Fazlollah Zahedi age 61
Ahmad Qavam age 77
Bai Chongxi age 60
Johannes Frießner age 61
Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon age 57
Veljko Kadijević age 27
Shunroku Hata age 74
Princess Helen of Serbia age 68
Dürrüşehvar Sultan age 39
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk) age 32
Sam Manekshaw age 39
Ko Yong-hui age 1
Prince Nicholas of Romania age 50
Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein age 67
Prince William of Gloucester age 11
Nathan Deal age 10
Sonny Perdue age 6
Mitch Daniels age 4
Gray Davis age 10
Milan Stojadinović age 65
Gaylord Nelson age 37
Ramsey Clark age 25
Courtney Hodges age 66
Albert Pintat age 10
Carlos Lacoste age 24
Josef Klaus age 42
Juan José Torres age 33
Ivan Kostov age 3
Saye Zerbo age 20
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 11
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 29
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 13
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 29
Josef Tošovský age 2
Sufi Abu Taleb age 28
Tosiwo Nakayama age 21
Edwin Linkomies age 58
Xenophon Zolotas age 49
Tillman Thomas age 8
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 3
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 9
Gérard Latortue age 19
Jenő Fock age 37
Miklós Kállay age 66
Sutan Sjahrir age 44
P. J. Patterson age 18
Bruce Golding age 5
Abdullah Ensour age 14
Dirk Jan de Geer age 82
Victor Marijnen age 36
Phankham Viphavanh age 2
Charles D. B. King age 78
Abdurrahim El-Keib age 3
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé age 5
Kessai Note age 2
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 15
Anand Satyanand age 9
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 69
Gheorghe Tătărescu age 66
Constantin Dăscălescu age 30
Mugur Isărescu age 4
Frederick Ballantyne age 17
Abdoul Mbaye age 3 months
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 16
Andrej Bajuk age 9
Qahhor Mahkamov age 21
Mizengo Pinda age 4
Cleopa Msuya age 22
Yevhen Marchuk age 12
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 41
Aparicio Méndez age 48
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 43
Guillermo Endara age 17
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 24
Kim Hwang-sik age 4
Chung Un-chan age 6
Kim Jong-pil age 27
Chung Sye-kyun age 2
William Gopallawa age 55
D. M. Jayaratne age 22
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 11
Matthew Ridgway age 58
Manlio Brosio age 56
Franco Maria Malfatti age 26
David Blunkett age 6
Amin al-Hafiz age 31
Dragiša Cvetković age 60
John W. Snow age 14
Walid Jumblatt age 3
Li Yuanchao age 2
Josef Harpe age 65
Issa Pliyev age 49
Masahito, Prince Hitachi age 17
Markian Popov age 50
Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia age 45
Princess Ileana of Romania age 44
Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland age 41
Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone age 79
Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria age 14
Jim Gilmore age 3
Slobodan Jovanović age 83
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 35
Elliot Richardson age 33
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 7
Lester Bird age 15
Ramón Puerta age 1
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 69
Eduardo Lonardi age 56
Bill Hayden age 20
Alfons Gorbach age 54
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 13
Georges Theunis age 80
Paul van Zeeland age 59
Colville Young age 20
Aleksandar Tsankov age 74
Goukouni Oueddei age 11
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 61
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 38
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 26
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 6
Osvaldo Hurtado age 14
Galo Plaza age 47
Joseph Urusemal age 1
Teuvo Aura age 40
Keijo Liinamaa age 24
Sakari Tuomioja age 41
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 58
Ioannis Grivas age 30
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 25
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 22
Vinicio Cerezo age 10
Desmond Hoyte age 24
Henri Namphy age 20
Claudette Werleigh age 6
Tiburcio Carías age 77
Péter Boross age 24
Károly Grósz age 23
Geir Hallgrímsson age 27
Erik Scavenius age 76
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah age 4 months
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 39
Salim al-Huss age 23
Edwin Barclay age 71
Moses Blah age 6
Antanas Merkys age 66
Anton Buttigieg age 41
Litokwa Tomeing age 13
Khil Raj Regmi age 4
Luis Somoza Debayle age 30