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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

Joseph Urusemal age 3
Teuvo Aura age 43
Keijo Liinamaa age 26
Sakari Tuomioja age 44
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 61
Ioannis Grivas age 33
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 28
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 25
Vinicio Cerezo age 13
Desmond Hoyte age 27
Henri Namphy age 23
Claudette Werleigh age 9
Tiburcio Carías age 80
Péter Boross age 27
Károly Grósz age 25
Geir Hallgrímsson age 30
Erik Scavenius age 78
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah age 3
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 41
Salim al-Huss age 26
Moses Blah age 8
Anton Buttigieg age 44
Litokwa Tomeing age 16
Khil Raj Regmi age 6
Luis Somoza Debayle age 33
Cuthbert Sebastian age 34
Flavio Cotti age 16
H. H. Kung age 74
Chen Chien-jen age 4
Yen Hsi-shan age 72
Sanya Dharmasakti age 48
Kriangsak Chamanan age 38
Chatchai Chunhawan age 35
Arthur Foulkes age 27
Marguerite Pindling age 23
Eric Williams age 44
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 33
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 48
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 54
Julius Chan age 16
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 40
Diego Martínez Barrio age 72
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf age 2 months
Edem Kodjo age 17
Miles Dempsey age 59
Masayoshi Ito age 42
Dirk Stikker age 59
James Wolfensohn age 22
Eric Shinseki age 13
Frank Carlucci age 25
Les Aspin age 17
Michael Mullen age 9
Zell Miller age 24
Miriam A. Ferguson age 80
Pete Wilson age 22
Lien Chan age 19
William H. Webster age 32
Rabah Bitat age 30
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 29
William Deane age 25
Clifford Husbands age 29
Reneta Indzhova age 2
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 7
Nikica Valentić age 5
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 45
Hipólito Mejía age 15
Atef Ebeid age 23
Jacob Nena age 14
Reino Kuuskoski age 49
Reino Ragnar Lehto age 57
Ralf Törngren age 57
Raymond Ndong Sima age 1
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 7 months
Zigmantas Balčytis age 2
Richard Ratsimandrava age 25
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 26
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 18
Feleti Sevele age 11
Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa age 4
Ali Laarayedh age 7 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
James M. Cox age 86
Francis Biddle age 69
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 29
Nadir al-Arbawi age 6
Edmond Leburton age 40
Jean Van Houtte age 49
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 3 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 1 month
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 26
John Shalikashvili age 19
Michael Mukasey age 14
George Deukmejian age 27
Christine Todd Whitman age 9
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 44
David Padilla age 28
Enrique Peñaranda age 62
Enrique Hertzog age 58