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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
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 1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Great Chinese Famine 1959-01-01 - 1961-12-31
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02

People

Charles D. B. King age 84
Abdurrahim El-Keib age 9
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé age 12
Kessai Note age 9
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 22
Anand Satyanand age 15
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou age 6
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 76
Victor Ciorbea age 5
Constantin Dăscălescu age 36
Mugur Isărescu age 10
Frederick Ballantyne age 23
Abdoul Mbaye age 6
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 23
Andrej Bajuk age 16
Adib Shishakli age 51
Qahhor Mahkamov age 27
Mizengo Pinda age 11
Cleopa Msuya age 29
Apisai Ielemia age 4
Anatolii Kinakh age 5
Yevhen Marchuk age 19
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 47
Aparicio Méndez age 55
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 50
Guillermo Endara age 23
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 31
Kim Hwang-sik age 11
Chung Un-chan age 12
Kim Jong-pil age 34
Chung Sye-kyun age 9
William Gopallawa age 62
D. M. Jayaratne age 28
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 18
Matthew Ridgway age 64
He Long age 63
Manlio Brosio age 62
Franco Maria Malfatti age 32
David Malpass age 3
Denis Healey age 42
David Blunkett age 12
Amin al-Hafiz age 38
Dragiša Cvetković age 67
J. Lawton Collins age 63
John W. Snow age 20
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 41
Elliot Richardson age 39
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 14
Lester Bird age 21
Ramón Puerta age 8
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 76
Bill Hayden age 27
Alfons Gorbach age 61
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 19
Georges Theunis age 86
Paul van Zeeland age 66
Colville Young age 27
Goukouni Oueddei age 18
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 68
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 33
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 12
Osvaldo Hurtado age 20
Galo Plaza age 53
Joseph Urusemal age 7
Teuvo Aura age 47
Keijo Liinamaa age 30
Sakari Tuomioja age 48
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 65
Ioannis Grivas age 36
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 32
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 29
Vinicio Cerezo age 17
Desmond Hoyte age 30
Henri Namphy age 27
Claudette Werleigh age 13
Tiburcio Carías age 83
Péter Boross age 31
Károly Grósz age 29
Geir Hallgrímsson age 34
Erik Scavenius age 82
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah age 6
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 45
Salim al-Huss age 30
Moses Blah age 12
Anton Buttigieg age 47
Litokwa Tomeing age 20
Khil Raj Regmi age 10
Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani age 0 months
Cuthbert Sebastian age 38
Mahammed Dionne age 4 months
Flavio Cotti age 20
H. H. Kung age 78
Chen Chien-jen age 8
Yen Hsi-shan age 76
Sanya Dharmasakti age 52
Kriangsak Chamanan age 42
Chatchai Chunhawan age 39
Arthur Foulkes age 31
Marguerite Pindling age 27
Eric Williams age 48
Ahmed Hachani age 3
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 36
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 52
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 58
Julius Chan age 20
Kim Boo-kyum age 2
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 43
Vjekoslav Bevanda age 3
Diego Martínez Barrio age 76
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf age 4
Edem Kodjo age 21
Miles Dempsey age 63
Masayoshi Ito age 46
Dirk Stikker age 63
James Wolfensohn age 26
Eric Shinseki age 17
Frank Carlucci age 29
Les Aspin age 21
Michael Mullen age 13
Lien Chan age 23
Rabah Bitat age 34
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 33
William Deane age 29
Clifford Husbands age 33
Reneta Indzhova age 6
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 10
Nikica Valentić age 9
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 48
Hipólito Mejía age 18
Atef Ebeid age 27
Jacob Nena age 18
Reino Kuuskoski age 53
Reino Ragnar Lehto age 61
Ralf Törngren age 60
Raymond Ndong Sima age 5
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 57
Ramiro de León Carpio age 18
Jorge Serrano Elías age 14
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 36
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 12
Gyula Kállai age 49
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 35
Hermann Jónasson age 63
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 49
Alexander Bustamante age 75
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh age 9
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 10
Imanghali Tasmaghambetov age 3
Djoomart Otorbaev age 4
Sam Matekane age 1
Zigmantas Balčytis age 6
Richard Ratsimandrava age 28
Modibo Sidibé age 7
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall age 7
Abdellatif Filali age 31
René Harris age 12
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 19
Jerry Mateparae age 5
Jens Hundseid age 76
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 74
Mohammad Mustafa age 5
Clément Mouamba age 16
Ilie Verdeț age 34
David Vunagi age 9
Cho Jung-tai age 1
Prawit Wongsuwon age 14
Lynden Pindling age 29
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 22
Feleti Sevele age 15
Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa age 8
Ali Laarayedh age 4
Mohamed Mzali age 34
Ruhakana Rugunda age 12
Yukhym Zvyahilskyi age 26
Eleazar López Contreras age 76
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 21
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda age 44
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 26
José Giral age 80
Alan Johnson age 9
John J. Sullivan age 2 months
Robert Rubin age 21
Francis Biddle age 73
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 33
Nadir al-Arbawi age 10
Edmond Leburton age 44
Jean Van Houtte age 52
Théo Lefèvre age 46
Philip Dimitrov age 4
Andrey Lukanov age 21
Son Sann age 48
Eduardo Santos age 71
Said Mohamed Djohar age 41
Otilio Ulate Blanco age 68
Luis Alberto Monge age 34
Vlatko Pavletić age 29
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 56
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 42
Francisco Pascual Obama Asue age 10
Tafari Benti age 38