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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 - 1962
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 - 1990-02-01
Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10

People

Caspar Weinberger age 43
Lothar Rendulic age 73
Milan Martić age 6
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu age 27
Pavel Grachev age 13
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 18
Mohsen Rezaee age 6
Yuriko, Princess Mikasa age 38
Şehzade Ertuğrul Osman age 48
Princess Patricia of Connaught age 75
Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1906–1969) age 55
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook age 82
George Pataki age 16
Leonard Kleinrock age 27
Warren E. Burger age 53
Jaume Bartumeu Cassany age 6
Rodney Williams age 13
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 69
Julius Raab age 69
Achille Van Acker age 63
Jaime Paz Zamora age 22
Joseph Ngute age 7
Philémon Yang age 14
Julio César Turbay age 45
Laureano Gómez age 72
Spiros Cyprianou age 28
Sylvanie Burton age 5
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 26
Lucio Gutiérrez age 4
Ibrahim Mahlab age 12
Kamisese Mara age 41
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 29
Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo age 3
Henrique Rosa age 15
Donald Ramotar age 10
Oswaldo López Arellano age 40
Poul Hartling age 46
Barend Biesheuvel age 41
Felix Kulov age 12
Nawaf Salam age 7
Bechara El Khoury age 70
Tom Thabane age 22
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 23
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 55
Kailash Purryag age 13
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 60
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 11
Brigi Rafini age 8
Choe Yong-rim age 30
Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani age 1
Victor Khristenko age 3
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 9
Lojze Peterle age 12
Samuel Schmid age 14
Joseph Deiss age 15
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 29
T. V. Soong age 69
Kassim Majaliwa age 6 months
Phumtham Wechayachai age 7
Hamadi Jebali age 12
Tito Okello age 46
Vitold Fokin age 28
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 35
Tallis Obed Moses age 6
Do Muoi age 44
Chung Il-kwon age 43
Jung Hong-won age 16
Ismail al-Azhari age 60
Raif Dizdarević age 34
Sulejman Tihić age 9
Vo Chi Cong age 48
W. T. Cosgrave age 81
Jean Rey age 58
Ajay Banga age 1
Lloyd Bentsen age 40
Choe Yong-gon age 61
Jisaburō Ozawa age 74
Ralph Abernathy age 35
David Elazar age 35
Sylvia Rivera age 9
Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark age 48
Mark Phillips (born 1948) age 12
Ralph Northam age 1
Wang Zhen (general) age 53
Frank Jack Fletcher age 76
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 74
Tajuddin Ahmad age 35
Luis García Meza Tejada age 31
Jorge Quiroga age 1
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 47
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 12
Moussa Faki age 1
Jamil Mahuad age 11
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 9
Hazem Al Beblawi age 24
José Napoleón Duarte age 35
Tiit Vähi age 14
Mart Siimann age 14
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 19
Negasso Gidada age 17
Peter M. Christian age 13
Rafael Paasio age 58
Johannes Virolainen age 47
Georgios Rallis age 42
Raimundo Pereira age 4
Forbes Burnham age 38
István Dobi age 62
Charles Konan Banny age 18
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 17
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 76
Agim Çeku age 7 months
Ali Zeidan age 10
Abd al-Hamid Dbeibeh age 2
Joseph Bech age 74
Ċensu Tabone age 48
Prithvirajsing Roopun age 2
Željko Šturanović age 1
Nahas Angula age 17
Hammer DeRoburt age 38
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 33
Jim Bolger age 26
Daouda Malam Wanké age 15
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 12
Ernest Shonekan age 25
Muhammad Junejo age 28
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 19
Vasco Gonçalves age 40
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 40
Kenny Anthony age 10
Ong Teng Cheong age 25
Maria das Neves age 2
Thanin Kraiwichian age 34
Philip "Brave" Davis age 10
Luis Herrera Campins age 36
Manuel Odría age 63
Nur Hassan Hussein age 23
Goh Kun age 23
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 37
Marais Viljoen age 45
Sicco Mansholt age 52
François-Xavier Ortoli age 36
Alistair Darling age 7
Jack Lew age 5
Mark Milley age 3
Hugh Thompson Jr. age 18
Essam Sirius age 35
Jamshid Amouzegar age 38
Kamal Jumblatt age 43
Husband E. Kimmel age 79
Borisav Jović age 32
Jalaluddin Haqqani age 22
Boris Gromov age 17
Robert Cailliau age 14
Félicien Kabuga age 28
Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland age 77
Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria age 77
Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester age 15
Mike Beebe age 14
Asa Hutchinson age 10
Bill Weld age 15
Jon Corzine age 14
Phil Murphy age 3
George Allen age 9
Charlie Baker age 4
Svetozar Marović age 6
Midge Ure age 7
Louise Lake-Tack age 16
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 44
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 41
José María Guido age 50
Pierre Harmel age 50
Said Musa age 17
Kimon Georgiev age 78
Norodom Ranariddh age 17
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 61
José María Figueres Olsen age 6
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 59
Jaime Roldos Aquilera age 20
Kamal Ganzouri age 28
Alfredo Cristiani age 13
Andres Tarand age 21
Edward Akufo-Addo age 55
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 47
Michael Stasinopoulos age 57
Alfonso Portillo age 9
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 25
András Hegedüs age 38
Géza Lakatos age 71
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 13
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 48
Ahmed Chalabi age 16
Amadou Gon Coulibaly age 2
Patrick Allen age 10
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 41
Louis Beel age 59
Jelle Zijlstra age 42
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 20
Gyude Bryant age 12
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 15
Arnoldo Alemán age 15