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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
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Albany Movement 1961-11 - 1962

People

Dragan Čović age 5
Giuseppe Bertello age 19
Giovanni Lajolo age 27
Giovanni Messe age 78
Zhang Xueliang age 60
Geoffrey Howe age 35
Maxwell D. Taylor age 60
William Cohen age 21
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 91
Loretta Lynch age 2
Iain Duncan Smith age 7
Caspar Weinberger age 44
Lothar Rendulic age 74
Milan Martić age 7
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu age 28
Pavel Grachev age 14
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 19
Mohsen Rezaee age 7
Yuriko, Princess Mikasa age 38
Şehzade Ertuğrul Osman age 49
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 54
Jaume Bartumeu Cassany age 7
Rodney Williams age 14
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 70
Julius Raab age 70
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 29
Sylvanie Burton age 6
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 26
Lucio Gutiérrez age 4
Ibrahim Mahlab age 12
Kamisese Mara age 41
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 30
Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo age 3
Henrique Rosa age 16
Donald Ramotar age 11
Oswaldo López Arellano age 40
Poul Hartling age 47
Barend Biesheuvel age 41
Felix Kulov age 13
Nawaf Salam age 8
Bechara El Khoury age 71
Tom Thabane age 22
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 23
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 55
Kailash Purryag age 14
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 61
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 11
Brigi Rafini age 8
Choe Yong-rim age 31
Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani age 2
Victor Khristenko age 4
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 10
Lojze Peterle age 13
Samuel Schmid age 15
Joseph Deiss age 16
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 29
T. V. Soong age 70
Kassim Majaliwa age 1
Phumtham Wechayachai age 8
Hamadi Jebali age 13
Tito Okello age 47
Vitold Fokin age 29
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 36
Tallis Obed Moses age 7
Do Muoi age 45
Chung Il-kwon age 44
Jung Hong-won age 17
Ismail al-Azhari age 61
Raif Dizdarević age 35
Sulejman Tihić age 10
Vo Chi Cong age 49
W. T. Cosgrave age 81
Jean Rey age 59
Ajay Banga age 2
Lloyd Bentsen age 40
Choe Yong-gon age 61
Jisaburō Ozawa age 75
Ralph Abernathy age 35
David Elazar age 36
Sylvia Rivera age 10
Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark age 48
Mark Phillips (born 1948) age 13
Liam Fox age 4 months
Ralph Northam age 2
Wang Zhen (general) age 53
Frank Jack Fletcher age 76
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 75
Tajuddin Ahmad age 36
Luis García Meza Tejada age 32
Jorge Quiroga age 1
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 47
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 13
Moussa Faki age 1
Jamil Mahuad age 12
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 9
Hazem Al Beblawi age 25
José Napoleón Duarte age 36
Tiit Vähi age 15
Mart Siimann age 15
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 19
Negasso Gidada age 18
Peter M. Christian age 14
Rafael Paasio age 58
Johannes Virolainen age 48
Georgios Rallis age 43
Raimundo Pereira age 5
Forbes Burnham age 38
István Dobi age 63
Ferenc Münnich age 75
Charles Konan Banny age 19
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 18
Agim Çeku age 1
Moeketsi Majoro age 2 months
Ali Zeidan age 11
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 18
Hammer DeRoburt age 39
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 29
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 20
Vasco Gonçalves age 40
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 40
Kenny Anthony age 11
Ong Teng Cheong age 26
Maria das Neves age 3
Thanin Kraiwichian age 34
Philip "Brave" Davis age 10
Luis Herrera Campins age 36
Manuel Merino age 5 months
Manuel Odría age 64
Nur Hassan Hussein age 23
Goh Kun age 24
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 37
Marais Viljoen age 46
Sicco Mansholt age 53
François-Xavier Ortoli age 36
Alistair Darling age 8
Jack Lew age 6
Mark Milley age 3
Hugh Thompson Jr. age 18
Essam Sirius age 36
Jamshid Amouzegar age 38
Kamal Jumblatt age 44
Husband E. Kimmel age 79
Borisav Jović age 33
Jalaluddin Haqqani age 23
Boris Gromov age 18
Robert Cailliau age 14
Félicien Kabuga age 28
Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland age 77
Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria age 78
Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester age 15
Mike Beebe age 15
Asa Hutchinson age 11
Bill Weld age 16
Jon Corzine age 15
Phil Murphy age 4
George Allen age 9
Charlie Baker age 5
Svetozar Marović age 6
Midge Ure age 8
Louise Lake-Tack age 17
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 45
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 42
José María Guido age 51
Pierre Harmel age 50
Said Musa age 17
Kimon Georgiev age 79
Norodom Ranariddh age 18
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 61
José María Figueres Olsen age 7
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 60
Jaime Roldos Aquilera age 21
Kamal Ganzouri age 29
Alfredo Cristiani age 14
Andres Tarand age 22
V. J. Sukselainen age 55
Edward Akufo-Addo age 55
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 48
Michael Stasinopoulos age 58
Alfonso Portillo age 10