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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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08

People

François-Xavier Ortoli age 32
Alistair Darling age 3
Jack Lew age 1
Hugh Thompson Jr. age 13
Essam Sirius age 31
Jamshid Amouzegar age 33
Kamal Jumblatt age 39
Husband E. Kimmel age 75
Borisav Jović age 28
Jalaluddin Haqqani age 18
Boris Gromov age 13
Robert Cailliau age 10
Félicien Kabuga age 24
Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland age 72
Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria age 73
Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester age 10
Mike Beebe age 10
Asa Hutchinson age 6
Bill Weld age 11
Jon Corzine age 10
George Allen age 5
Charlie Baker age 4 months
Svetozar Marović age 2
Midge Ure age 3
Louise Lake-Tack age 12
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 40
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 37
José María Guido age 46
Pierre Harmel age 46
Said Musa age 13
Kimon Georgiev age 74
Norodom Ranariddh age 13
José María Figueres Olsen age 2
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 55
Jaime Roldos Aquilera age 16
Kamal Ganzouri age 24
Alfredo Cristiani age 9
Andres Tarand age 17
V. J. Sukselainen age 50
Edward Akufo-Addo age 50
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 43
Michael Stasinopoulos age 53
Alfonso Portillo age 5
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 21
András Hegedüs age 34
Géza Lakatos age 66
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 9
Ólafur Thors age 65
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 44
Ahmed Chalabi age 12
Patrick Allen age 6
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 37
Viggo Kampmann age 46
Louis Beel age 55
Jelle Zijlstra age 38
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 16
Gyude Bryant age 8
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 11
Arnoldo Alemán age 11
Wasim Sajjad age 16
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 18
Theodor Stolojan age 13
Manea Mănescu age 40
Nureddin al-Atassi age 28
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 44
Hussein Arnous age 4
Miguel Trovoada age 20
Yen Chia-kan age 51
Khuang Aphaiwong age 54
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 24
Edward Natapei age 2
Nguyen Huu Tho age 46
Mieczysław Rakowski age 30
Luis González Macchi age 9
Lee Nack-yon age 4
Nikola Špirić age 7 months
Ali Saibou age 16
John A. Costello age 65
Jack Lynch age 39
Willy Claes age 18
Rauf Orbay age 75
Martin Dempsey age 5
Nigel Lawson age 25
Harold Brown age 29
Alexander Vandegrift age 70
Archduke Joseph August of Austria age 84
Takahito, Prince Mikasa age 41
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890–1958) age 67
Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia age 39
Aspasia Manos age 60
Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz age 20
Andris Bērziņš (prime minister) age 5
George Voinovich age 20
Evan Bayh age 1
Mike DeWine age 10
Larry Hogan age 10 months
Ken Starr age 10
John Profumo age 42
Thomas Gage age 239
Juan José Arévalo age 52
Ali Kafi age 28
Eduardo Camaño age 10
Michael Jeffery age 19
Reinhold Mitterlehner age 1
Hubert Pierlot age 73
Jean Duvieusart age 57
Camille Huysmans age 85
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 37
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 39
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya age 11 months
Guillermo León Valencia age 47
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 49
Armando Calderón Sol age 8
Akwasi Afrifa age 20
Fred Akuffo age 20
Phaedon Gizikis age 39
Patrick Achi age 1
Edward Seaga age 26
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 15
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 2
Fouad Chehab age 55
René Moawad age 31
Hussein Onn age 35
Ibrahim Nasir age 30
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 24
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 63
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 33
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 68
Mike Moore age 8
Pak Pong-ju age 18
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 51
Haruo Remeliik age 23
Ivan Stambolić age 20
Hashim al-Atassi age 81
Wu Den-yih age 9
Edward Lowassa age 3
Seni Pramoj age 51
Kukrit Pramoj age 45
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 10
Anand Panyarachun age 24
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 20
Hubert Ingraham age 9
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 16
Mohamed Ennaceur age 23
Apolo Nsibambi age 16
Godfrey Binaisa age 36
Vitalii Masol age 28
Raúl Leoni age 51
Ramón José Velásquez age 40
Vo Van Kiet age 34
Mohammed Basindawa age 22
Arnulfo Arias age 55
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 63
Francisco Sagasti age 12
Momčilo Krajišnik age 12
Andrés Rodríguez age 33
Liu Bocheng age 64
Glubb Pasha age 60
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ age 26
Claire Lee Chennault age 63
Albert Reynolds age 24
Lee Jong-wook age 11
Dušan Simović age 74
Kenneth Clarke age 16
John Smith age 18
Abdel Hakim Amer age 37
Fazlollah Zahedi age 64
Bai Chongxi age 64
Johannes Frießner age 65
Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon age 60
Veljko Kadijević age 31
Shunroku Hata age 77
Princess Helen of Serbia age 72
Dürrüşehvar Sultan age 43
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk) age 36
Sam Manekshaw age 43
Ko Yong-hui age 4
Prince Nicholas of Romania age 53
Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein age 71
Prince William of Gloucester age 15
Nathan Deal age 14
Sonny Perdue age 10
Mitch Daniels age 8
Gray Davis age 14
Otmar Hasler age 3
Milan Stojadinović age 68
Gaylord Nelson age 40
Ramsey Clark age 29
Courtney Hodges age 70
Albert Pintat age 13
Carlos Lacoste age 28
Josef Klaus age 46
Juan José Torres age 37
Ivan Kostov age 7
Saye Zerbo age 24
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 14
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 33
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 17
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 33
Josef Tošovský age 6