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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
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01

People

Yen Chia-kan age 48
Khuang Aphaiwong age 52
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 22
Edward Natapei age 1 month
Nguyen Huu Tho age 44
Mieczysław Rakowski age 27
Luis González Macchi age 6
Lee Nack-yon age 1
Ali Saibou age 14
Jack Lynch age 37
Willy Claes age 15
Rauf Orbay age 73
Martin Dempsey age 2
Nigel Lawson age 22
Harold Brown age 26
Alexander Vandegrift age 67
Archduke Joseph August of Austria age 82
Takahito, Prince Mikasa age 38
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890–1958) age 64
Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia age 37
Aspasia Manos age 58
Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz age 18
Andris Bērziņš (prime minister) age 3
George Voinovich age 18
Mike DeWine age 7
Ken Starr age 8
John Profumo age 39
Thomas Gage age 236
Juan José Arévalo age 50
Ali Kafi age 25
Eduardo Camaño age 8
Michael Jeffery age 16
Hubert Pierlot age 70
Jean Duvieusart age 54
Camille Huysmans age 83
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 35
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 36
Guillermo León Valencia age 45
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 46
Armando Calderón Sol age 6
Akwasi Afrifa age 18
Fred Akuffo age 17
Phaedon Gizikis age 37
Edward Seaga age 24
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 12
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 2 months
Fouad Chehab age 52
René Moawad age 29
Hussein Onn age 32
Ibrahim Nasir age 28
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 21
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 60
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 30
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 65
Mike Moore age 5
Pak Pong-ju age 15
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 49
Haruo Remeliik age 21
Ivan Stambolić age 17
Wu Den-yih age 6
Edward Lowassa age 1
Seni Pramoj age 49
Kukrit Pramoj age 43
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 7
Anand Panyarachun age 22
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 18
Hubert Ingraham age 7
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 13
Mohamed Ennaceur age 20
Apolo Nsibambi age 13
Godfrey Binaisa age 34
Vitalii Masol age 25
Raúl Leoni age 49
Ramón José Velásquez age 37
Vo Van Kiet age 31
Mohammed Basindawa age 19
Arnulfo Arias age 53
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 60
Francisco Sagasti age 9
Momčilo Krajišnik age 9
Andrés Rodríguez age 31
Liu Bocheng age 61
Glubb Pasha age 57
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ age 23
Claire Lee Chennault age 61
Albert Reynolds age 21
Lee Jong-wook age 9
Dušan Simović age 71
Kenneth Clarke age 14
John Smith age 15
Abdel Hakim Amer age 34
Fazlollah Zahedi age 62
Ahmad Qavam age 78
Bai Chongxi age 61
Johannes Frießner age 62
Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon age 58
Veljko Kadijević age 28
Shunroku Hata age 75
Princess Helen of Serbia age 69
Dürrüşehvar Sultan age 40
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk) age 33
Sam Manekshaw age 40
Ko Yong-hui age 2
Prince Nicholas of Romania age 51
Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein age 68
Prince William of Gloucester age 12
Nathan Deal age 12
Sonny Perdue age 7
Mitch Daniels age 5
Gray Davis age 11
Otmar Hasler age 11 months
Milan Stojadinović age 66
Gaylord Nelson age 38
Jamshid bin Abdullah age 24
Ramsey Clark age 26
Courtney Hodges age 67
Albert Pintat age 11
Carlos Lacoste age 25
Josef Klaus age 44
Juan José Torres age 34
Ivan Kostov age 4
Saye Zerbo age 22
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 12
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 30
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 14
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 30
Josef Tošovský age 3
Sufi Abu Taleb age 29
Tosiwo Nakayama age 22
Edwin Linkomies age 59
Xenophon Zolotas age 50
Tillman Thomas age 9
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 4
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 11
Gérard Latortue age 20
Jenő Fock age 38
Miklós Kállay age 67
Sutan Sjahrir age 45
P. J. Patterson age 19
Bruce Golding age 6
Abdullah Ensour age 15
Erik Eriksen age 51
Dirk Jan de Geer age 83
Victor Marijnen age 37
Phankham Viphavanh age 3
Charles D. B. King age 79
Abdurrahim El-Keib age 4
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé age 6
Kessai Note age 4
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 16
Anand Satyanand age 10
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou age 8 months
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 71
Gheorghe Tătărescu age 67
Constantin Dăscălescu age 31
Mugur Isărescu age 5
Frederick Ballantyne age 18
Abdoul Mbaye age 1
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 17
Andrej Bajuk age 10
Adib Shishakli age 45
Qahhor Mahkamov age 22
Mizengo Pinda age 6
Cleopa Msuya age 23
Anatolii Kinakh age 0 months
Yevhen Marchuk age 13
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 42
Aparicio Méndez age 50
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 44
Guillermo Endara age 18
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 26
Kim Hwang-sik age 6
Chung Un-chan age 7
Kim Jong-pil age 28
Chung Sye-kyun age 3
William Gopallawa age 56
D. M. Jayaratne age 23
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 13
Manlio Brosio age 57
Franco Maria Malfatti age 27
David Blunkett age 7
Amin al-Hafiz age 32
Dragiša Cvetković age 61
J. Lawton Collins age 58
John W. Snow age 15
Walid Jumblatt age 5
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 45
Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland age 42
Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone age 80
Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria age 15
Jim Gilmore age 4
Bob McDonnell age 2 months
Mike Braun age 5 months
Slobodan Jovanović age 84