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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

Alfredo Ovando Candía age 35
Guillermo León Valencia age 44
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 45
Armando Calderón Sol age 5
Akwasi Afrifa age 17
Fred Akuffo age 16
Phaedon Gizikis age 36
Edward Seaga age 23
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 11
Fouad Chehab age 51
René Moawad age 28
Hussein Onn age 31
Ibrahim Nasir age 27
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 21
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 17
Hashim al-Atassi age 78
Wu Den-yih age 5
Edward Lowassa age 3 months
Seni Pramoj age 48
Kukrit Pramoj age 42
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 7
Anand Panyarachun age 21
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 17
Hubert Ingraham age 6
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 12
Mohamed Ennaceur age 19
Apolo Nsibambi age 13
Godfrey Binaisa age 33
Vitalii Masol age 25
Raúl Leoni age 48
Ramón José Velásquez age 37
Vo Van Kiet age 31
Mohammed Basindawa age 18
Arnulfo Arias age 52
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 59
Francisco Sagasti age 9
Momčilo Krajišnik age 8
Andrés Rodríguez age 30
Liu Bocheng age 61
Glubb Pasha age 56
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ age 23
Claire Lee Chennault age 60
Albert Reynolds age 21
Lee Jong-wook age 8
Dušan Simović age 71
Kenneth Clarke age 13
John Smith age 15
Abdel Hakim Amer age 34
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 28
Shunroku Hata age 74
Princess Helen of Serbia age 69
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 11
Sonny Perdue age 6
Mitch Daniels age 4
Gray Davis age 10
Otmar Hasler age 2 months
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 43
Juan José Torres age 33
Ivan Kostov age 3
Saye Zerbo age 21
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 11
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 30
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 13
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 30
Josef Tošovský age 3
Sufi Abu Taleb age 28
Tosiwo Nakayama age 22
Edwin Linkomies age 58
Xenophon Zolotas age 49
Tillman Thomas age 8
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 3
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 10
Gérard Latortue age 19
Jenő Fock age 37
Miklós Kállay age 66
Sutan Sjahrir age 44
P. J. Patterson age 18
Bruce Golding age 6
Abdullah Ensour age 14
Erik Eriksen age 51
Dirk Jan de Geer age 83
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 3
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 15
Anand Satyanand age 9
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 70
Gheorghe Tătărescu age 67
Constantin Dăscălescu age 30
Mugur Isărescu age 4
Frederick Ballantyne age 17
Abdoul Mbaye age 7 months
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 16
Andrej Bajuk age 10
Qahhor Mahkamov age 21
Mizengo Pinda age 5
Cleopa Msuya age 22
Yevhen Marchuk age 12
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 41
Aparicio Méndez age 49
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 44
Guillermo Endara age 17
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 25
Kim Hwang-sik age 5
Chung Un-chan age 6
Kim Jong-pil age 27
Chung Sye-kyun age 3
William Gopallawa age 56
D. M. Jayaratne age 22
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 12
Manlio Brosio age 56
Franco Maria Malfatti age 26
David Blunkett age 6
Amin al-Hafiz age 32
Dragiša Cvetković age 60
J. Lawton Collins age 57
John W. Snow age 14
Walid Jumblatt age 4
Li Yuanchao age 3
Josef Harpe age 66
Issa Pliyev age 50
Masahito, Prince Hitachi age 18
Markian Popov age 51
Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia age 46
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 4
Slobodan Jovanović age 84
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 35
Elliot Richardson age 33
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 8
Lester Bird age 15
Ramón Puerta age 2
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 69
Eduardo Lonardi age 57
Bill Hayden age 20
Alfons Gorbach age 55
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 13
Georges Theunis age 80
Paul van Zeeland age 60
Colville Young age 21
Aleksandar Tsankov age 74
Goukouni Oueddei age 11
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 62
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 42
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 59
Ioannis Grivas age 30
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 26
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 23
Vinicio Cerezo age 10
Desmond Hoyte age 24
Henri Namphy age 21
Claudette Werleigh age 7
Tiburcio Carías age 77
Péter Boross age 25
Károly Grósz age 23
Geir Hallgrímsson age 27
Erik Scavenius age 76
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah age 8 months
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 39
Salim al-Huss age 23
Edwin Barclay age 71
Moses Blah age 6