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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
Great Leap Forward 1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Great Chinese Famine 1959-01-01 - 1961-12-31
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01

People

David Malpass age 3
Denis Healey age 41
David Blunkett age 11
Amin al-Hafiz age 37
Dragiša Cvetković age 66
J. Lawton Collins age 63
John W. Snow age 19
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 40
Elliot Richardson age 38
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 13
Lester Bird age 21
Ramón Puerta age 7
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 75
Bill Hayden age 26
Alfons Gorbach age 60
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 19
Georges Theunis age 86
Paul van Zeeland age 65
Colville Young age 26
Aleksandar Tsankov age 79
Goukouni Oueddei age 17
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 67
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 32
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 12
Osvaldo Hurtado age 19
Galo Plaza age 53
Joseph Urusemal age 7
Teuvo Aura age 46
Keijo Liinamaa age 30
Sakari Tuomioja age 47
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 64
Ioannis Grivas age 36
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 31
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 28
Vinicio Cerezo age 16
Desmond Hoyte age 30
Henri Namphy age 26
Claudette Werleigh age 12
Tiburcio Carías age 83
Péter Boross age 30
Károly Grósz age 28
Geir Hallgrímsson age 33
Erik Scavenius age 81
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah age 6
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 45
Salim al-Huss age 29
Moses Blah age 12
Anton Buttigieg age 47
Litokwa Tomeing age 19
Khil Raj Regmi age 9
Cuthbert Sebastian age 37
Flavio Cotti age 19
H. H. Kung age 77
Chen Chien-jen age 7
Yen Hsi-shan age 75
Sanya Dharmasakti age 52
Kriangsak Chamanan age 41
Chatchai Chunhawan age 39
Arthur Foulkes age 31
Marguerite Pindling age 26
Eric Williams age 47
Ahmed Hachani age 2
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 36
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 52
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 57
Julius Chan age 19
Kim Boo-kyum age 1
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 43
Vjekoslav Bevanda age 3
Diego Martínez Barrio age 75
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf age 3
Edem Kodjo age 21
Miles Dempsey age 62
Masayoshi Ito age 45
Dirk Stikker age 62
James Wolfensohn age 25
Eric Shinseki age 16
Frank Carlucci age 28
Les Aspin age 20
Michael Mullen age 12
Lien Chan age 22
William H. Webster age 35
Rabah Bitat age 33
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 32
William Deane age 28
Clifford Husbands age 32
Reneta Indzhova age 5
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 10
Nikica Valentić age 8
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 48
Hipólito Mejía age 18
Atef Ebeid age 27
Jacob Nena age 17
Reino Kuuskoski age 52
Reino Ragnar Lehto age 61
Ralf Törngren age 60
Raymond Ndong Sima age 4
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 56
Ramiro de León Carpio age 17
Jorge Serrano Elías age 14
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 35
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 12
Gyula Kállai age 49
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 34
Hermann Jónasson age 62
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 48
Alexander Bustamante age 75
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh age 9
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 10
Imanghali Tasmaghambetov age 2
Djoomart Otorbaev age 3
Sam Matekane age 1
Zigmantas Balčytis age 5
Richard Ratsimandrava age 28
Modibo Sidibé age 6
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall age 6
Abdellatif Filali age 31
René Harris age 11
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 19
Jerry Mateparae age 4
Jens Hundseid age 76
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 73
Mohammad Mustafa age 4
Clément Mouamba age 15
Ilie Verdeț age 34
David Vunagi age 8
Cho Jung-tai age 3 months
Prawit Wongsuwon age 13
Lynden Pindling age 29
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 21
Feleti Sevele age 14
Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa age 7
Ali Laarayedh age 3
Mohamed Mzali age 33
Ruhakana Rugunda age 11
Yukhym Zvyahilskyi age 26
Eleazar López Contreras age 76
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 20
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda age 43
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 25
José Giral age 79
Seán Lemass age 59
Alan Johnson age 9
Hugh Gaitskell age 53
Robert Rubin age 20
Francis Biddle age 73
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 33
Nadir al-Arbawi age 9
Edmond Leburton age 44
Jean Van Houtte age 52
Théo Lefèvre age 45
Philip Dimitrov age 4
Andrey Lukanov age 20
Son Sann age 47
Eduardo Santos age 70
Said Mohamed Djohar age 40
Otilio Ulate Blanco age 67
Luis Alberto Monge age 33
Vlatko Pavletić age 28
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 55
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 41
Francisco Pascual Obama Asue age 10
Tafari Benti age 37
Leo Falcam age 23
Laisenia Qarase age 18
Jean-Max Bellerive age 1
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 15
José Azcona del Hoyo age 32
György Lázár age 34
Ferenc Nagy age 55
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 46
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim age 6
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 11
Wim Schermerhorn age 64
Suleiman Frangieh age 48
Amos Sawyer age 13
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 20
Cheick Modibo Diarra age 7
Alfred Sant age 11
Paul Xuereb age 35
Monique Ohsan Bellepeau age 17
Pascoal Mocumbi age 18
Aires Ali age 3
Soe Win age 12
Keith Holyoake age 55
Pak Song-chol age 45
Nurul Amin age 65
Shujaat Hussain age 19
Kuniwo Nakamura age 15
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani age 39
Tapley Seaton age 8
John Compton age 34
Henck Arron age 23
Adolf Ogi age 16
Nazim al-Kudsi age 53
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 15
Frank Hsieh age 13
Cornelius A. Smith age 22
Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové age 20
Patrick Manning age 12