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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
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
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966

People

Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 53
Ramiro de León Carpio age 14
Jorge Serrano Elías age 10
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 32
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 9
Gyula Kállai age 45
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 31
Hermann Jónasson age 59
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 45
Alexander Bustamante age 72
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh age 6
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 6
Jan Eduard de Quay age 54
Djoomart Otorbaev age 6 months
Zigmantas Balčytis age 2
Richard Ratsimandrava age 24
Modibo Sidibé age 3
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall age 3
Abdellatif Filali age 28
René Harris age 8
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 16
Jerry Mateparae age 1
Jens Hundseid age 72
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 70
Mohammad Mustafa age 1
Clément Mouamba age 12
Ilie Verdeț age 30
David Vunagi age 5
Prawit Wongsuwon age 10
Lynden Pindling age 25
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 18
Feleti Sevele age 11
Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa age 4
Ali Laarayedh age 6 months
Mohamed Mzali age 30
Ruhakana Rugunda age 8
Yukhym Zvyahilskyi age 23
Eleazar López Contreras age 72
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 17
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda age 40
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 22
José Giral age 76
Seán Lemass age 56
Alan Johnson age 5
Robert Rubin age 17
Francis Biddle age 69
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 29
Nadir al-Arbawi age 6
Edmond Leburton age 40
Jean Van Houtte age 48
Théo Lefèvre age 42
Philip Dimitrov age 11 months
Andrey Lukanov age 17
Son Sann age 44
Eduardo Santos age 67
Said Mohamed Djohar age 37
Otilio Ulate Blanco age 64
Luis Alberto Monge age 30
Vlatko Pavletić age 25
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 52
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 38
Francisco Pascual Obama Asue age 6
Tafari Benti age 34
Leo Falcam age 20
Laisenia Qarase age 15
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 60
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 12
José Azcona del Hoyo age 29
György Lázár age 31
Ferenc Nagy age 52
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 43
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim age 3
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 8
Wim Schermerhorn age 61
Suleiman Frangieh age 45
Amos Sawyer age 10
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 17
Cheick Modibo Diarra age 3
Alfred Sant age 8
Paul Xuereb age 32
Monique Ohsan Bellepeau age 14
Pascoal Mocumbi age 14
Aires Ali age 2 months
Soe Win age 8
Keith Holyoake age 52
Pak Song-chol age 42
Nurul Amin age 62
Shujaat Hussain age 16
Kuniwo Nakamura age 12
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani age 36
Tapley Seaton age 5
John Compton age 30
Henck Arron age 19
Adolf Ogi age 13
Nazim al-Kudsi age 50
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 12
Frank Hsieh age 9
Cornelius A. Smith age 18
Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové age 16
Patrick Manning age 9
Habib Essid age 6
Bülent Ulusu age 32
Enele Sopoaga age 0 months
Yusuf Lule age 43
Ham Lini age 4
Kazimierz Sabbat age 43
Michael Ogio age 13
Nicolás Lindley López age 47
Richard O'Connor age 66
Douglas Hurd age 25
John Shalikashvili age 19
Michael Mukasey age 14
He Yingqin age 65
Abderrahmane Farès age 45
Marc Forné Molné age 9
Vazgen Manukyan age 10
John Kerr age 41
Otto Ender age 80
Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad age 38
Manuel Esquivel age 15
Sangay Ngedup age 2
Wálter Guevara age 43
David Padilla age 28
Enrique Peñaranda age 62
Enrique Hertzog age 58
Guido Vildoso age 18
Luc-Adolphe Tiao age 1
Ephraïm Inoni age 8
Lol Mahamat Choua age 16
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 70
Josip Manolić age 35
Fabián Alarcón age 8
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 76
Aman Andom age 31
John Haglelgam age 6
Naiqama Lalabalavu age 2
Tengiz Sigua age 21
Adamantios Androutsopoulos age 36
Sofoklis Venizelos age 61
Konstantinos Tsaldaris age 71
Mohamed Said Fofana age 4
Ibrahima Kassory Fofana age 1
Aristides Gomes age 1
Ansumane Mané age 16
Moses Nagamootoo age 8
Martial Célestin age 42
Carlos Roberto Flor age 5
Ramón Villeda Morales age 46
Carlos Roberto Reina age 29
Móric Esterházy age 74
Mohammad Natsir age 47
Abdelsalam al-Majali age 31
Knud Kristensen age 75
Jo Cals age 41
Bujar Bukoshi age 8
Nexhat Daci age 11
Jakup Krasniqi age 5
Nikolai Tanayev age 10
Indulis Emsis age 4
Elias Sarkis age 31
Irena Degutienė age 6
Jacques Sylla age 9
Moctar Ouane age 4 months
Bernard Dowiyogo age 10
Tulsi Giri age 29
Silvia Cartwright age 12
Catherine Tizard age 24
Amadou Cheiffou age 13
Kim Il age 45
Alfredo Nobre da Costa age 32
Henk Chin A Sen age 22
Kaspar Villiger age 15
Luai al-Atassi age 30
Chawalit Yongchaiyut age 23
Basdeo Panday age 22
Maatia Toafa age 1
Bazilio Olara-Okello age 27
Paulo Muwanga age 31
Valerii Pustovoitenko age 9
Octavio Lepage age 32
Abdul Qadir Bajamal age 10
Ali Muhammad Mujawar age 2
Federico Chávez age 75
Ali Mohammed Ghedi age 3
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri age 18
Dudley Senanayake age 44
Sadiq al-Mahdi age 20
Brock Chisholm age 59
Robert Bork age 29
Otto Hofmann age 59
William J. Brennan Jr. age 49
Adil Çarçani age 33
Peter Hollingworth age 20
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir age 8
Joseph Pholien age 71
Elmira Minita Gordon age 25
Khandu Wangchuk age 5
Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas age 30
Ognyan Gerdzhikov age 9
Son Ngoc Thanh age 47