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Events

Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
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
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01

People

Khil Raj Regmi age 4
Luis Somoza Debayle age 30
Cuthbert Sebastian age 32
Flavio Cotti age 14
H. H. Kung age 72
Chen Chien-jen age 2
Yen Hsi-shan age 70
Sanya Dharmasakti age 46
Kriangsak Chamanan age 35
Chatchai Chunhawan age 33
Arthur Foulkes age 25
Marguerite Pindling age 21
Eric Williams age 42
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 30
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 46
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 52
Julius Chan age 14
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 37
Diego Martínez Barrio age 69
Edem Kodjo age 15
Miles Dempsey age 56
Masayoshi Ito age 39
Jim Fouché age 55
Nicolaas Diederichs age 49
Dirk Stikker age 56
James Wolfensohn age 19
Eric Shinseki age 10
Frank Carlucci age 23
Les Aspin age 15
Michael Mullen age 7
Jafar Sharif-Emami age 43
Takeo Kurita age 64
Archduke Eugen of Austria age 90
Halil Kut age 71
Hal Moore age 31
Mario Roatta age 66
Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia age 58
Princess Deokhye age 41
Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (born 1914) age 39
Princess Clémentine of Belgium age 81
Kim Kyong-hui age 7
Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 69
Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife age 62
Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia age 45
Timothy Laurence age 3
Zell Miller age 21
Miriam A. Ferguson age 78
Pete Wilson age 20
Mitja Ribičič age 34
Abeid Karume age 48
Lien Chan age 17
William H. Webster age 29
Omer Nishani age 66
Rabah Bitat age 27
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 26
William Deane age 22
Clifford Husbands age 27
Reneta Indzhova age 3 months
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 4
Nikica Valentić age 2
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 42
Hipólito Mejía age 12
Atef Ebeid age 21
Jacob Nena age 12
Reino Kuuskoski age 46
Reino Ragnar Lehto age 55
Ralf Törngren age 54
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 50
Ramiro de León Carpio age 11
Jorge Serrano Elías age 8
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 29
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 6
Gyula Kállai age 43
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 29
Hermann Jónasson age 56
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 42
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh age 3
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 4
Jan Eduard de Quay age 52
Rashid Karami age 31
Richard Ratsimandrava age 22
Modibo Sidibé age 11 months
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall age 9 months
Abdellatif Filali age 25
René Harris age 5
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 13
Jens Hundseid age 70
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 67
Clément Mouamba age 9
Ilie Verdeț age 28
David Vunagi age 3
Pote Sarasin age 48
Prawit Wongsuwon age 8
Lynden Pindling age 23
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 15
Feleti Sevele age 9
Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa age 2
Mohamed Mzali age 27
Ruhakana Rugunda age 5
Yukhym Zvyahilskyi age 20
Eleazar López Contreras age 70
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 14
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda age 37
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 19
José Giral age 74
Seán Lemass age 54
Alan Johnson age 3
Robert Rubin age 15
Bayard Rustin age 41
Lucius D. Clay age 56
Vittorio Ambrosio age 74
Arthur Percival age 65
Mostafa Chamran age 21
Şehzade Ahmed Nihad age 70
Otto Ruge age 71
Eberhard von Mackensen age 64
Alphonse Juin age 64
Zhang Wentian age 53
Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse age 56
Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia age 44
Regina von Habsburg age 28
Infanta Beatriz of Spain age 44
Lady Mountbatten age 51
Princess Elena of Romania age 2
Hernando de Soto (economist) age 12
James M. Cox age 83
Petar Stambolić age 41
Francis Biddle age 67
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 27
Nadir al-Arbawi age 4
Edmond Leburton age 38
Théo Lefèvre age 39
Andrey Lukanov age 15
Son Sann age 42
Eduardo Santos age 65
Said Mohamed Djohar age 35
Otilio Ulate Blanco age 62
Luis Alberto Monge age 27
Vlatko Pavletić age 22
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 50
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 36
Francisco Pascual Obama Asue age 4
Tafari Benti age 32
Leo Falcam age 17
Laisenia Qarase age 12
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 58
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 9
José Azcona del Hoyo age 26
György Lázár age 29
Ferenc Nagy age 50
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 40
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim age 9 months
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 5
Wim Schermerhorn age 58
Suleiman Frangieh age 43
Amos Sawyer age 8
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 14
Cheick Modibo Diarra age 1
Alfred Sant age 5
Paul Xuereb age 30
Monique Ohsan Bellepeau age 11
Pascoal Mocumbi age 12
Soe Win age 6
Keith Holyoake age 49
Pak Song-chol age 40
Nurul Amin age 60
Shujaat Hussain age 13
Kuniwo Nakamura age 9
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani age 33
Tapley Seaton age 3
John Compton age 28
Henck Arron age 17
Adolf Ogi age 11
Nazim al-Kudsi age 47
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 9
Frank Hsieh age 7
Cornelius A. Smith age 16
Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové age 14
Patrick Manning age 7
Habib Essid age 4
Bülent Ulusu age 30
Yusuf Lule age 41
Ham Lini age 1
Kazimierz Sabbat age 40
Michael Ogio age 11
Nicolás Lindley López age 44
Richard O'Connor age 64
Douglas Hurd age 23
John Shalikashvili age 17
Michael Mukasey age 12
William Calley age 10
Rasim Delić age 4
Otto Braun age 53
Georg-Hans Reinhardt age 66
Friedrich Hoßbach age 58
Valentin Varennikov age 29
Wilhelm Stuckart age 50
Hisako, Princess Takamado age 3 months
Natalia Pavlovna Paley age 47
Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria age 75