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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
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
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

People

Imata Kabua age 12
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 15
Saw Maung age 26
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt age 55
Robert Muldoon age 33
Nikola Kljusev age 27
Christopher Hornsrud age 95
José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo age 38
Gavril Dejeu age 22
Anastase Murekezi age 3
Théodore Sindikubwabo age 27
Susan Dougan age 5 months
Otto Stich age 28
Arnold Koller age 21
Liu Chao-shiuan age 12
Lin Chuan age 3
Zhang Qun age 66
Hedi Amara Nouira age 44
Şemsettin Günaltay age 72
Ferit Melen age 48
Sir Iakoba Italeli age 5
Amama Mbabazi age 6
Óscar Diego Gestido age 53
Serge Vohor age 3 months
Pham Hung age 43
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski age 70
Paulias Matane age 23
José Patricio Guggiari age 71
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 14
Borislav Paravac age 12
Jorge del Castillo age 5
Yasuji Okamura age 71
John J. McCloy age 60
Leon Brittan age 15
Joseph Grew age 75
W. Michael Blumenthal age 29
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 75
Peter Pace age 9
Norman Lamont age 13
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 8
Herbert Morrison age 67
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 39
John N. Mitchell age 41
Òscar Ribas Reig age 18
Paulo Kassoma age 4
França Van-Dúnem age 20
James Carlisle age 18
Vere Bird age 44
Ninian Stephen age 32
Abdus Sattar age 49
Uladzimier Yarmoshyn age 12
Dimitar Iliev Popov age 28
Gérard Kango Ouédraogo age 29
Sisowath Sirik Matak age 41
Abel Goumba age 28
Emmanuel Nadingar age 4
Saleh Kebzabo age 8
Vladimir Bakarić age 43
Anselmo Alliegro y Milá age 56
Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy age 35
Isidro Ayora age 75
Otto Arosemena age 30
Arturo Armando Molina age 28
Themba Nhlanganiso Masuku age 5
Cleopas Dlamini age 3
Bailey Olter age 23
Jocelerme Privert age 2
Emil Jónsson age 52
Steingrímur Steinþórsson age 62
Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson age 61
Robert Beugré Mambé age 3
Seydou Diarra age 21
Hani al-Mulki age 3
Bajram Rexhepi age 1
Māris Gailis age 4
Ali Tarhouni age 4
Bronislovas Lubys age 16
Cécile Manorohanta age 5
Modibo Keita age 13
Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga age 1
Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici age 22
Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly age 12
Valeriu Muravschi age 6
Ion Ciubuc age 12
Azzeddine Laraki age 26
Ahmed Laraki age 23
Kirti Nidhi Bista age 28
Man Mohan Adhikari age 35
Adolfo Díaz age 80
Thomas Remengesau age 23
Carlos Mota Pinto age 19
Dominique Mbonyumutwa age 34
Habib Thiam age 22
Mamadou Dia age 45
Frank Kabui age 9
Ramsewak Shankar age 17
Fred Ramdat Misier age 28
Kurt Furgler age 31
René Felber age 22
Philipp Etter age 63
Adel Safar age 2
Hau Pei-tsun age 36
Salim Ahmed Salim age 13
Bonfoh Abass age 6
Rachid Sfar age 21
Valentyn Symonenko age 15
Juan José de Amézaga age 74
Alberto Demicheli age 59
Walter Lini age 13
Edward Babiuch age 27
Eric Arturo Delvalle age 18
Higinio Morínigo age 58
Nie Rongzhen age 55
Arthur Goldberg age 47
Clark Clifford age 48
Robert A. Lovett age 59
Ylli Bufi age 7
Mehdi Frashëri age 83
Ali ibn Flais age 10
Youssef Yousfi age 13
Simon Vratsian age 73
A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury age 22
Abu Sayeed Chowdhury age 34
Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem age 39
Moudud Ahmed age 15
Errol Barrow age 35
Hyenadz Navitski age 6
Kinzang Dorji age 4
Juan Pereda age 24
Mamerto Urriolagoitía age 59
Stefan Sofiyanski age 3
Penn Nouth age 49
Delwa Kassiré Koumakoye age 5
Carlos Arroyo age 61
Tesfaye Genre Kidan age 18
Timoci Bavadra age 20
Penaia Ganilau age 37
Urho Castrén age 68
Casimir Oyé-Mba age 13
Otar Patsatsia age 26
Hudson Austin age 17
Jacques-Édouard Alexis age 7
Lajos Dinnyés age 54
Björn Þórðarson age 76
Hugh Shearer age 32
Adnan Badran age 19
Mudar Badran age 21
Akejan Kajegeldin age 3
Sergey Tereshchenko age 4
Phoumi Vongvichit age 46
Mamohato of Lesotho age 14
Albertas Šimėnas age 5
Omer Beriziky age 4
Paul Boffa age 65
Mustafa Ould Salek age 19
Mário da Graça Machungo age 14
Adriano Maleiane age 5
Norman Kirk age 32
Hong Song-nam age 25
Isidore Mvouba age 1
Alexandru Athanasiu age 7 months
Marcella Liburd age 2
Ján Čarnogurský age 11
Josip Vidmar age 59
Johan Kraag age 42
Marcel Pilet-Golaz age 65
Alphons Egli age 30
Leon Schlumpf age 30
Rashidi Kawawa age 29
Hédi Baccouche age 25
Sadi Irmak age 51
Filoimea Telito age 10
Andrés Martínez Trueba age 71
Luis Batlle Berres Pérez age 57
Utkir Tukhtamurodovich Sultonov age 16
Harmodio Arias Madrid age 69
Natalicio González age 57
Rafael Franco age 58
Abdirizak Haji Hussein age 30
Lee Beom-seok age 54
Babiker Awadalla age 38
César Villanueva age 9
Xu Xiangqian age 53
Seán Lester age 66
Donald Regan age 36
Lyman Lemnitzer age 55
Raymond T. Odierno age 11 months
Nicholas F. Brady age 25
Zeng Qinghong age 16
Rong Yiren age 39
Nicholas Katzenbach age 33
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 47
Ibrahim Biçakçiu age 49
Redha Malek age 23
Abdelmalek Benhabyles age 34
Lúcio Lara age 26
Mohammad Mohammadullah age 33
Elliott Belgrave age 24
Mikhail Chyhir age 7
Syarhei Linh age 18