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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

Chen Chien-jen age 6
Yen Hsi-shan age 73
Sanya Dharmasakti age 50
Kriangsak Chamanan age 39
Chatchai Chunhawan age 37
Arthur Foulkes age 29
Marguerite Pindling age 25
Eric Williams age 45
Ahmed Hachani age 9 months
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 34
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 50
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 56
Julius Chan age 17
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 41
Vjekoslav Bevanda age 1
Diego Martínez Barrio age 73
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf age 1
Edem Kodjo age 19
Miles Dempsey age 60
Masayoshi Ito age 43
Dirk Stikker age 60
James Wolfensohn age 23
Eric Shinseki age 14
Frank Carlucci age 26
Les Aspin age 18
Michael Mullen age 10
Lien Chan age 20
William H. Webster age 33
Rabah Bitat age 31
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 30
William Deane age 26
Clifford Husbands age 30
Reneta Indzhova age 4
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 8
Nikica Valentić age 6
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 46
Hipólito Mejía age 16
Atef Ebeid age 25
Jacob Nena age 15
Reino Kuuskoski age 50
Reino Ragnar Lehto age 59
Ralf Törngren age 58
Raymond Ndong Sima age 2
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 54
Ramiro de León Carpio age 15
Jorge Serrano Elías age 12
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 33
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 10
Gyula Kállai age 47
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 33
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 46
Alexander Bustamante age 73
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh age 7
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 8
Imanghali Tasmaghambetov age 7 months
Jan Eduard de Quay age 55
Djoomart Otorbaev age 1
Rashid Karami age 35
Zigmantas Balčytis age 3
Richard Ratsimandrava age 26
Modibo Sidibé age 4
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall age 4
Abdellatif Filali age 29
René Harris age 9
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 17
Jerry Mateparae age 2
Jens Hundseid age 74
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 71
Mohammad Mustafa age 2
Clément Mouamba age 13
Ilie Verdeț age 32
David Vunagi age 6
Prawit Wongsuwon age 11
Lynden Pindling age 27
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 19
Feleti Sevele age 13
Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa age 6
Ali Laarayedh age 1
Mohamed Mzali age 31
Ruhakana Rugunda age 9
Yukhym Zvyahilskyi age 24
Eleazar López Contreras age 74
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 18
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda age 41
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 23
José Giral age 77
Seán Lemass age 58
Alan Johnson age 7
Robert Rubin age 18
Francis Biddle age 71
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 31
Nadir al-Arbawi age 7
Edmond Leburton age 42
Jean Van Houtte age 50
Théo Lefèvre age 43
Philip Dimitrov age 2
Andrey Lukanov age 18
Son Sann age 45
Eduardo Santos age 68
Said Mohamed Djohar age 38
Otilio Ulate Blanco age 65
Luis Alberto Monge age 31
Vlatko Pavletić age 26
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 54
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 40
Francisco Pascual Obama Asue age 8
Tafari Benti age 35
Leo Falcam age 21
Laisenia Qarase age 16
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 61
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 13
José Azcona del Hoyo age 30
György Lázár age 32
Ferenc Nagy age 53
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 44
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim age 4
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 9
Wim Schermerhorn age 62
Suleiman Frangieh age 47
Amos Sawyer age 12
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 18
Cheick Modibo Diarra age 5
Alfred Sant age 9
Paul Xuereb age 34
Monique Ohsan Bellepeau age 15
Pascoal Mocumbi age 16
Aires Ali age 1
Soe Win age 10
Keith Holyoake age 53
Pak Song-chol age 43
Nurul Amin age 64
Shujaat Hussain age 17
Kuniwo Nakamura age 13
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani age 37
Tapley Seaton age 6
John Compton age 32
Henck Arron age 21
Adolf Ogi age 14
Nazim al-Kudsi age 51
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 13
Frank Hsieh age 11
Cornelius A. Smith age 20
Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové age 18
Patrick Manning age 10
Habib Essid age 8
Bülent Ulusu age 34
Kausea Natano age 0 months
Enele Sopoaga age 1
Yusuf Lule age 45
Ham Lini age 5
Kazimierz Sabbat age 44
Michael Ogio age 15
Nicolás Lindley López age 48
Richard O'Connor age 67
Douglas Hurd age 27
John Shalikashvili age 21
Michael Mukasey age 15
He Yingqin age 67
Abderrahmane Farès age 46
Marc Forné Molné age 10
Vazgen Manukyan age 11
John Kerr age 42
Otto Ender age 81
Isa Gambar age 4 months
Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad age 39
Manuel Esquivel age 17
Sangay Ngedup age 4
Wálter Guevara age 45
David Padilla age 29
Enrique Peñaranda age 63
Enrique Hertzog age 59
Guido Vildoso age 20
Luc-Adolphe Tiao age 3
Ephraïm Inoni age 9
Lol Mahamat Choua age 18
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 71
Josip Manolić age 37
Fabián Alarcón age 10
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 78
Aman Andom age 33
John Haglelgam age 7
Naiqama Lalabalavu age 3
Tengiz Sigua age 22
Adamantios Androutsopoulos age 37
Sofoklis Venizelos age 62
Konstantinos Tsaldaris age 73
Mohamed Said Fofana age 5
Ibrahima Kassory Fofana age 3
Aristides Gomes age 2
Ansumane Mané age 17
Moses Nagamootoo age 9
Martial Célestin age 43
Carlos Roberto Flor age 7
Ramón Villeda Morales age 47
Carlos Roberto Reina age 31
Móric Esterházy age 76
Mohammad Natsir age 49
Abdelsalam al-Majali age 32
Knud Kristensen age 76
Jo Cals age 43