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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

J. Lawton Collins age 59
John W. Snow age 16
Walid Jumblatt age 6
Li Yuanchao age 4
Josef Harpe age 68
Issa Pliyev age 51
Masahito, Prince Hitachi age 19
Markian Popov age 52
Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia age 47
Princess Ileana of Romania age 46
Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland age 43
Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone age 81
Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria age 16
Jim Gilmore age 6
Bob McDonnell age 1
Mike Braun age 1
Slobodan Jovanović age 85
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 37
Elliot Richardson age 35
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 9
Lester Bird age 17
Ramón Puerta age 4
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 71
Bill Hayden age 22
Alfons Gorbach age 57
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 15
Georges Theunis age 82
Paul van Zeeland age 61
Colville Young age 22
Aleksandar Tsankov age 76
Goukouni Oueddei age 13
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 63
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 40
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 28
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 8
Osvaldo Hurtado age 16
Galo Plaza age 49
Joseph Urusemal age 3
Teuvo Aura age 42
Keijo Liinamaa age 26
Sakari Tuomioja age 44
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 61
Ioannis Grivas age 32
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 28
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 24
Vinicio Cerezo age 12
Desmond Hoyte age 26
Henri Namphy age 22
Claudette Werleigh age 9
Tiburcio Carías age 79
Péter Boross age 27
Károly Grósz age 25
Geir Hallgrímsson age 29
Erik Scavenius age 78
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah age 2
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 41
Salim al-Huss age 25
Edwin Barclay age 73
Moses Blah age 8
Anton Buttigieg age 43
Litokwa Tomeing age 16
Khil Raj Regmi age 6
Luis Somoza Debayle age 32
Cuthbert Sebastian age 34
Flavio Cotti age 16
H. H. Kung age 74
Chen Chien-jen age 4
Yen Hsi-shan age 72
Sanya Dharmasakti age 48
Kriangsak Chamanan age 37
Chatchai Chunhawan age 35
Arthur Foulkes age 27
Marguerite Pindling age 23
Eric Williams age 44
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 32
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 48
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 54
Julius Chan age 16
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 39
Diego Martínez Barrio age 71
Edem Kodjo age 17
Miles Dempsey age 58
Masayoshi Ito age 41
Jim Fouché age 57
Nicolaas Diederichs age 51
Dirk Stikker age 58
James Wolfensohn age 21
Eric Shinseki age 12
Frank Carlucci age 25
Les Aspin age 17
Michael Mullen age 9
Jafar Sharif-Emami age 45
Takeo Kurita age 66
Halil Kut age 73
Hal Moore age 33
Mario Roatta age 68
Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia age 60
Princess Deokhye age 43
Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (born 1914) age 41
Kim Kyong-hui age 9
Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 71
Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife age 64
Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia age 47
Ernst August von Hannover (born 1954) age 1
Timothy Laurence age 5
Zell Miller age 23
Miriam A. Ferguson age 80
Pete Wilson age 22
Mitja Ribičič age 36
Abeid Karume age 50
Lien Chan age 19
William H. Webster age 31
Rabah Bitat age 29
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 28
William Deane age 24
Clifford Husbands age 29
Reneta Indzhova age 2
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 6
Nikica Valentić age 4
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 44
Hipólito Mejía age 14
Atef Ebeid age 23
Jacob Nena age 14
Reino Kuuskoski age 48
Reino Ragnar Lehto age 57
Ralf Törngren age 56
Raymond Ndong Sima age 8 months
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 52
Ramiro de León Carpio age 13
Jorge Serrano Elías age 10
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 31
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 8
Gyula Kállai age 45
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 31
Hermann Jónasson age 58
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 44
Alexander Bustamante age 71
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh age 5
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 6
Jan Eduard de Quay age 54
Djoomart Otorbaev age 2 months
Zigmantas Balčytis age 1
Richard Ratsimandrava age 24
Modibo Sidibé age 2
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall age 2
Abdellatif Filali age 27
René Harris age 7
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 15
Jerry Mateparae age 11 months
Jens Hundseid age 72
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 69
Mohammad Mustafa age 1
Clément Mouamba age 11
Ilie Verdeț age 30
David Vunagi age 5
Pote Sarasin age 50
Prawit Wongsuwon age 10
Lynden Pindling age 25
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 17
Feleti Sevele age 11
Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa age 4
Ali Laarayedh age 2 months
Mohamed Mzali age 29
Ruhakana Rugunda age 7
Yukhym Zvyahilskyi age 22
Eleazar López Contreras age 72
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 16
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda age 39
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 21
José Giral age 76
Seán Lemass age 56
Alan Johnson age 5
Robert Rubin age 17
Bayard Rustin age 43
Lucius D. Clay age 58
Vittorio Ambrosio age 76
Arthur Percival age 67
Mostafa Chamran age 23
Otto Ruge age 73
Eberhard von Mackensen age 66
Alphonse Juin age 66
Zhang Wentian age 55
Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse age 58
Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia age 46
Regina von Habsburg age 30
Infanta Beatriz of Spain age 46
Lady Mountbatten age 53
Princess Elena of Romania age 4
Hernando de Soto (economist) age 14
James M. Cox age 85
Petar Stambolić age 43
Francis Biddle age 69
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 29
Nadir al-Arbawi age 6
Edmond Leburton age 40
Jean Van Houtte age 48
Théo Lefèvre age 41
Philip Dimitrov age 6 months
Andrey Lukanov age 17
Son Sann age 44