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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
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966

People

Alfonso López Pumarejo age 70
Josip Manolić age 35
Fabián Alarcón age 8
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 76
Aman Andom age 31
John Haglelgam age 6
Naiqama Lalabalavu age 2
Tengiz Sigua age 21
Adamantios Androutsopoulos age 36
Sofoklis Venizelos age 61
Konstantinos Tsaldaris age 71
Mohamed Said Fofana age 4
Ibrahima Kassory Fofana age 1
Aristides Gomes age 1
Ansumane Mané age 16
Moses Nagamootoo age 8
Martial Célestin age 42
Carlos Roberto Flor age 5
Ramón Villeda Morales age 46
Carlos Roberto Reina age 29
Móric Esterházy age 74
Mohammad Natsir age 47
Abdelsalam al-Majali age 31
Knud Kristensen age 75
Jo Cals age 41
Bujar Bukoshi age 8
Nexhat Daci age 11
Jakup Krasniqi age 5
Nikolai Tanayev age 10
Indulis Emsis age 4
Elias Sarkis age 31
Irena Degutienė age 6
Jacques Sylla age 9
Moctar Ouane age 4 months
Bernard Dowiyogo age 10
Tulsi Giri age 29
Silvia Cartwright age 12
Catherine Tizard age 24
Amadou Cheiffou age 13
Kim Il age 45
Alfredo Nobre da Costa age 32
Henk Chin A Sen age 22
Kaspar Villiger age 15
Luai al-Atassi age 30
Chawalit Yongchaiyut age 23
Basdeo Panday age 22
Maatia Toafa age 1
Bazilio Olara-Okello age 27
Paulo Muwanga age 31
Valerii Pustovoitenko age 9
Octavio Lepage age 32
Abdul Qadir Bajamal age 10
Ali Muhammad Mujawar age 2
Federico Chávez age 75
Ali Mohammed Ghedi age 3
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri age 18
Dudley Senanayake age 44
Sadiq al-Mahdi age 20
Brock Chisholm age 59
Robert Bork age 29
Pat Brown age 50
George W. Casey Jr. age 7
Dale Bumpers age 30
Otto Hofmann age 59
William J. Brennan Jr. age 49
Adil Çarçani age 33
Peter Hollingworth age 20
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir age 8
Joseph Pholien age 71
Elmira Minita Gordon age 25
Khandu Wangchuk age 5
Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas age 30
Ognyan Gerdzhikov age 9
Son Ngoc Thanh age 47
Pascal Yoadimnadji age 5
Ali Soilih age 19
Zlatko Mateša age 6
Cyrille Adoula age 34
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 26
Camilo Ponce Enríquez age 44
Ignacio Milam Tang age 15
Otto Tief age 66
Themba Dlamini age 5
Rainer von Fieandt age 65
Stefanos Stefanopoulos age 57
Stylianos Gonatas age 79
Spiridon Markezinis age 46
Carlos Correia age 22
Francisco Mendes age 17
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 28
Jóhann Hafstein age 40
Wasfi Tal age 37
Nader al-Dahabi age 9
Teburoro Tito age 2
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 42
Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah age 4 months
Boun Oum age 44
Charles Helou age 42
Abdullah al-Thani age 2
Shukri Ghanem age 13
Justas Paleckis age 57
Charles Rabemananjara age 8
Albert Camille Vital age 3
Imata Kabua age 12
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 16
Saw Maung age 27
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt age 55
Robert Muldoon age 34
Nikola Kljusev age 28
Christopher Hornsrud age 96
José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo age 38
Gavril Dejeu age 23
Anastase Murekezi age 3
Théodore Sindikubwabo age 28
Susan Dougan age 12 months
Otto Stich age 29
Arnold Koller age 22
Max Petitpierre age 57
Liu Chao-shiuan age 12
Lin Chuan age 4
Zhang Qun age 66
Hedi Amara Nouira age 44
Şemsettin Günaltay age 72
Ferit Melen age 49
Sir Iakoba Italeli age 6
Amama Mbabazi age 7
Óscar Diego Gestido age 54
Serge Vohor age 10 months
Pham Hung age 43
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski age 70
Paulias Matane age 24
José Patricio Guggiari age 71
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 15
Borislav Paravac age 13
Jorge del Castillo age 5
Yasuji Okamura age 71
John J. McCloy age 60
Leon Brittan age 16
Joseph Grew age 75
W. Michael Blumenthal age 30
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 76
Peter Pace age 10
Norman Lamont age 13
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 8
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 40
John N. Mitchell age 42
Òscar Ribas Reig age 19
Paulo Kassoma age 4
França Van-Dúnem age 21
James Carlisle age 18
Vere Bird age 45
Ninian Stephen age 32
Abdus Sattar age 50
Uladzimier Yarmoshyn age 13
Dimitar Iliev Popov age 28
Gérard Kango Ouédraogo age 30
Sisowath Sirik Matak age 42
Abel Goumba age 29
Emmanuel Nadingar age 5
Saleh Kebzabo age 8
Vladimir Bakarić age 44
Anselmo Alliegro y Milá age 56
Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy age 36
Isidro Ayora age 76
Otto Arosemena age 30
Arturo Armando Molina age 28
Themba Nhlanganiso Masuku age 5
Cleopas Dlamini age 4
Bailey Olter age 23
Jocelerme Privert age 3
Emil Jónsson age 53
Steingrímur Steinþórsson age 63
Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson age 61
Robert Beugré Mambé age 4
Seydou Diarra age 22
Hani al-Mulki age 4
Bajram Rexhepi age 1
Ahmed Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah age 1 month
Zhantoro Satybaldiyev age 1 month
Māris Gailis age 4
Ali Tarhouni age 5
Bronislovas Lubys age 17
Aleksandras Abišala age 2 months
Cécile Manorohanta age 6
Modibo Keita age 13
Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga age 1
Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici age 22
Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly age 13
Valeriu Muravschi age 6
Ion Ciubuc age 12
Azzeddine Laraki age 26
Ahmed Laraki age 24
Kirti Nidhi Bista age 29
Man Mohan Adhikari age 35
Adolfo Díaz age 80
Thomas Remengesau age 24
Carlos Mota Pinto age 19
Dominique Mbonyumutwa age 35
Habib Thiam age 23
Mamadou Dia age 45