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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
First Taiwan Strait Crisis 1954-09-03 - 1955-05-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19

People

Arnoldo Alemán age 9
Wasim Sajjad age 13
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 16
Theodor Stolojan age 11
Manea Mănescu age 38
Nureddin al-Atassi age 26
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 42
Hussein Arnous age 2
Miguel Trovoada age 18
Yen Chia-kan age 49
Khuang Aphaiwong age 52
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 22
Edward Natapei age 7 months
Nguyen Huu Tho age 44
Mieczysław Rakowski age 28
Luis González Macchi age 7
Lee Nack-yon age 2
Ali Saibou age 14
Jack Lynch age 37
Willy Claes age 16
Rauf Orbay age 73
Martin Dempsey age 2
Nigel Lawson age 23
Harold Brown age 27
Alexander Vandegrift age 68
Archduke Joseph August of Austria age 82
Takahito, Prince Mikasa age 39
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 8
Ken Starr age 8
John Profumo age 40
Thomas Gage age 237
Juan José Arévalo age 50
Ali Kafi age 26
Eduardo Camaño age 8
Michael Jeffery age 17
Hubert Pierlot age 71
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 13
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 9 months
Fouad Chehab age 53
René Moawad age 29
Hussein Onn age 33
Ibrahim Nasir age 28
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 22
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 61
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 31
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 66
Mike Moore age 6
Pak Pong-ju age 15
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 49
Haruo Remeliik age 21
Ivan Stambolić age 18
Wu Den-yih age 7
Edward Lowassa age 1
Seni Pramoj age 49
Kukrit Pramoj age 43
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 8
Anand Panyarachun age 22
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 18
Hubert Ingraham age 7
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 13
Mohamed Ennaceur age 20
Apolo Nsibambi age 14
Godfrey Binaisa age 34
Vitalii Masol age 26
Raúl Leoni age 49
Ramón José Velásquez age 38
Vo Van Kiet age 32
Mohammed Basindawa age 19
Arnulfo Arias age 53
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 61
Francisco Sagasti age 10
Momčilo Krajišnik age 10
Andrés Rodríguez age 31
Liu Bocheng age 62
Glubb Pasha age 57
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ age 24
Claire Lee Chennault age 61
Albert Reynolds age 22
Lee Jong-wook age 9
Dušan Simović age 72
Kenneth Clarke age 14
John Smith age 16
Abdel Hakim Amer age 35
Fazlollah Zahedi age 62
Ahmad Qavam age 79
Bai Chongxi age 62
Johannes Frießner age 63
Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon age 58
Veljko Kadijević age 29
Shunroku Hata age 75
Princess Helen of Serbia age 70
Dürrüşehvar Sultan age 41
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk) age 34
Sam Manekshaw age 40
Ko Yong-hui age 2
Prince Nicholas of Romania age 51
Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein age 69
Prince William of Gloucester age 13
Nathan Deal age 12
Sonny Perdue age 8
Mitch Daniels age 5
Gray Davis age 12
Otmar Hasler age 1
Milan Stojadinović age 66
Gaylord Nelson age 38
Ramsey Clark age 27
Courtney Hodges age 68
Albert Pintat age 11
Carlos Lacoste age 26
Josef Klaus age 44
Juan José Torres age 35
Ivan Kostov age 5
Saye Zerbo age 22
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 12
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 31
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 15
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 31
Josef Tošovský age 4
Sufi Abu Taleb age 30
Tosiwo Nakayama age 23
Edwin Linkomies age 60
Xenophon Zolotas age 50
Tillman Thomas age 9
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 5
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 11
Gérard Latortue age 20
Jenő Fock age 38
Miklós Kállay age 68
Sutan Sjahrir age 46
P. J. Patterson age 19
Bruce Golding age 7
Abdullah Ensour age 16
Erik Eriksen age 52
Dirk Jan de Geer age 84
Victor Marijnen age 38
Phankham Viphavanh age 4
Charles D. B. King age 80
Abdurrahim El-Keib age 5
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé age 7
Kessai Note age 4
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 17
Anand Satyanand age 10
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou age 1
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 71
Gheorghe Tătărescu age 68
Victor Ciorbea age 4 months
Constantin Dăscălescu age 31
Mugur Isărescu age 5
Frederick Ballantyne age 18
Abdoul Mbaye age 1
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 18
Andrej Bajuk age 11
Adib Shishakli age 46
Qahhor Mahkamov age 22
Mizengo Pinda age 6
Cleopa Msuya age 24
Anatolii Kinakh age 7 months
Yevhen Marchuk age 14
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 42
Aparicio Méndez age 50
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 45
Guillermo Endara age 18
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 26
Kim Hwang-sik age 6
Chung Un-chan age 7
Kim Jong-pil age 29
Chung Sye-kyun age 4
William Gopallawa age 57
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 33
Dragiša Cvetković age 62
J. Lawton Collins age 58
John W. Snow age 15
Walid Jumblatt age 5
Li Yuanchao age 4
Josef Harpe age 67
Issa Pliyev age 51
Masahito, Prince Hitachi age 19
Markian Popov age 52