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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
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
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01

People

Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark age 45
Mark Phillips (born 1948) age 10
Wang Zhen (general) age 50
Frank Jack Fletcher age 73
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 72
Tajuddin Ahmad age 33
Luis García Meza Tejada age 29
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 10
Jamil Mahuad age 9
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 7
Hazem Al Beblawi age 22
José Napoleón Duarte age 33
Tiit Vähi age 12
Mart Siimann age 12
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 16
Negasso Gidada age 15
Peter M. Christian age 11
Rafael Paasio age 55
Johannes Virolainen age 45
Georgios Rallis age 40
Raimundo Pereira age 2
Forbes Burnham age 35
István Dobi age 60
Charles Konan Banny age 16
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 15
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 73
Ali Zeidan age 8
Joseph Bech age 72
Ċensu Tabone age 45
Nahas Angula age 15
Hammer DeRoburt age 36
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 30
Jim Bolger age 23
Daouda Malam Wanké age 12
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 9
Ernest Shonekan age 22
Muhammad Junejo age 26
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 17
Vasco Gonçalves age 37
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 38
Kenny Anthony age 8
Ong Teng Cheong age 23
Maria das Neves age 7 months
Thanin Kraiwichian age 31
Philip "Brave" Davis age 7
Luis Herrera Campins age 33
Manuel Odría age 61
Nur Hassan Hussein age 20
Goh Kun age 21
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 34
C. R. Swart age 64
Marais Viljoen age 43
Sicco Mansholt age 50
François-Xavier Ortoli age 33
Alistair Darling age 5
Jack Lew age 3
Mark Milley age 7 months
Hugh Thompson Jr. age 15
Essam Sirius age 33
Jamshid Amouzegar age 35
Kamal Jumblatt age 41
Husband E. Kimmel age 76
Borisav Jović age 30
Jalaluddin Haqqani age 20
Boris Gromov age 15
Robert Cailliau age 12
Félicien Kabuga age 25
Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland age 74
Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria age 75
Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester age 12
Mike Beebe age 12
Asa Hutchinson age 8
Bill Weld age 13
Jon Corzine age 12
Phil Murphy age 1
George Allen age 6
Charlie Baker age 2
Svetozar Marović age 3
Midge Ure age 5
Louise Lake-Tack age 14
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 42
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 39
José María Guido age 48
Pierre Harmel age 47
Said Musa age 14
Kimon Georgiev age 76
Norodom Ranariddh age 15
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 58
José María Figueres Olsen age 4
Jaime Roldos Aquilera age 18
Kamal Ganzouri age 26
Alfredo Cristiani age 11
Andres Tarand age 19
Edward Akufo-Addo age 52
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 45
Michael Stasinopoulos age 55
Alfonso Portillo age 7
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 23
András Hegedüs age 36
Géza Lakatos age 68
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 11
Ólafur Thors age 67
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 45
Ahmed Chalabi age 14
Patrick Allen age 8
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 38
Viggo Kampmann age 48
Jelle Zijlstra age 40
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 18
Gyude Bryant age 10
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 13
Arnoldo Alemán age 13
Wasim Sajjad age 17
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 64
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 20
Theodor Stolojan age 15
Manea Mănescu age 42
Nureddin al-Atassi age 30
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 46
Hussein Arnous age 6
Miguel Trovoada age 22
Yen Chia-kan age 53
Khuang Aphaiwong age 56
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 26
Edward Natapei age 4
Nguyen Huu Tho age 48
Mieczysław Rakowski age 32
Luis González Macchi age 11
Lee Nack-yon age 6
Nikola Špirić age 2
Ali Saibou age 18
John A. Costello age 67
Jack Lynch age 41
Willy Claes age 20
Rauf Orbay age 77
Martin Dempsey age 6
Nigel Lawson age 26
Harold Brown age 31
Alexander Vandegrift age 71
Archduke Joseph August of Austria age 86
Takahito, Prince Mikasa age 43
Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia age 41
Aspasia Manos age 62
Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz age 22
Andris Bērziņš (prime minister) age 7
George Voinovich age 22
Evan Bayh age 3
Mike DeWine age 12
Larry Hogan age 2
Ken Starr age 12
John Profumo age 44
Thomas Gage age 241
Juan José Arévalo age 54
Ali Kafi age 30
Eduardo Camaño age 12
Michael Jeffery age 21
Reinhold Mitterlehner age 3
Hubert Pierlot age 75
Jean Duvieusart age 58
Camille Huysmans age 87
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 39
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 40
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya age 2
Guillermo León Valencia age 49
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 50
Armando Calderón Sol age 10
Akwasi Afrifa age 22
Fred Akuffo age 21
Phaedon Gizikis age 41
Patrick Achi age 3
Edward Seaga age 28
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 17
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 4
René Moawad age 33
Hussein Onn age 37
Ibrahim Nasir age 32
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 26
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 65
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 34
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 69
Mike Moore age 10
Pak Pong-ju age 19
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 53
Haruo Remeliik age 25
Ivan Stambolić age 22
Hashim al-Atassi age 83
Wu Den-yih age 11
Edward Lowassa age 5
Seni Pramoj age 53
Kukrit Pramoj age 47
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 12
Anand Panyarachun age 26
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 22
Hubert Ingraham age 11
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 17
Mohamed Ennaceur age 24
Apolo Nsibambi age 18
Godfrey Binaisa age 38
Vitalii Masol age 30
Sato Kilman age 1