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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

Apisai Ielemia age 6 months
Anatolii Kinakh age 1
Yevhen Marchuk age 15
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 43
Aparicio Méndez age 51
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 46
Guillermo Endara age 19
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 27
Kim Hwang-sik age 7
Chung Un-chan age 8
Kim Jong-pil age 30
Chung Sye-kyun age 5
William Gopallawa age 58
D. M. Jayaratne age 24
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 14
Matthew Ridgway age 61
Manlio Brosio age 58
Franco Maria Malfatti age 28
David Malpass age 0 months
David Blunkett age 8
Amin al-Hafiz age 34
Dragiša Cvetković age 63
J. Lawton Collins age 59
John W. Snow age 16
Walid Jumblatt age 6
Li Yuanchao age 5
Josef Harpe age 68
Issa Pliyev age 52
Masahito, Prince Hitachi age 20
Markian Popov age 53
Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia age 48
Princess Ileana of Romania age 47
Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland age 44
Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone age 81
Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria age 17
Jim Gilmore age 6
Bob McDonnell age 1
Mike Braun age 1
Slobodan Jovanović age 86
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 37
Elliot Richardson age 35
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 10
Lester Bird age 18
Ramón Puerta age 4
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 72
Eduardo Lonardi age 59
Bill Hayden age 23
Alfons Gorbach age 57
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 15
Georges Theunis age 83
Paul van Zeeland age 62
Colville Young age 23
Aleksandar Tsankov age 76
Goukouni Oueddei age 14
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 64
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 40
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 29
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 8
Osvaldo Hurtado age 16
Galo Plaza age 50
Joseph Urusemal age 3
Teuvo Aura age 43
Keijo Liinamaa age 26
Sakari Tuomioja age 44
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 61
Ioannis Grivas age 33
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 28
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 25
Vinicio Cerezo age 13
Desmond Hoyte age 27
Henri Namphy age 23
Claudette Werleigh age 9
Tiburcio Carías age 80
Péter Boross age 27
Károly Grósz age 25
Geir Hallgrímsson age 30
Erik Scavenius age 78
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah age 3
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 41
Salim al-Huss age 26
Moses Blah age 8
Anton Buttigieg age 44
Litokwa Tomeing age 16
Khil Raj Regmi age 6
Luis Somoza Debayle age 33
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 38
Chatchai Chunhawan age 35
Arthur Foulkes age 27
Marguerite Pindling age 23
Eric Williams age 44
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 33
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 48
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 54
Julius Chan age 16
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 40
Diego Martínez Barrio age 72
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf age 2 months
Edem Kodjo age 17
Miles Dempsey age 59
Masayoshi Ito age 42
Jim Fouché age 57
Nicolaas Diederichs age 52
Dirk Stikker age 59
James Wolfensohn age 22
Eric Shinseki age 13
Frank Carlucci age 25
Les Aspin age 17
Michael Mullen age 9
Jafar Sharif-Emami age 45
Takeo Kurita age 66
Halil Kut age 74
Hal Moore age 34
Mario Roatta age 69
Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia age 60
Princess Deokhye age 43
Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (born 1914) age 42
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 2
Timothy Laurence age 6
Zell Miller age 24
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 32
Rabah Bitat age 30
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 29
William Deane age 25
Clifford Husbands age 29
Reneta Indzhova age 2
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 7
Nikica Valentić age 5
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 45
Hipólito Mejía age 15
Atef Ebeid age 23
Jacob Nena age 14
Reino Kuuskoski age 49
Reino Ragnar Lehto age 57
Ralf Törngren age 57
Raymond Ndong Sima age 1
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 53
Ramiro de León Carpio age 14
Jorge Serrano Elías age 10
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 32
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 9
Gyula Kállai age 45
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 31
Hermann Jónasson age 59
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 45
Alexander Bustamante age 72
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh age 6
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 6
Jan Eduard de Quay age 54
Djoomart Otorbaev age 7 months
Zigmantas Balčytis age 2
Richard Ratsimandrava age 25
Modibo Sidibé age 3
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall age 3
Abdellatif Filali age 28
René Harris age 8
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 16
Jerry Mateparae age 1
Jens Hundseid age 72
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 70
Mohammad Mustafa age 1
Clément Mouamba age 12
Ilie Verdeț age 30
David Vunagi age 5
Pote Sarasin age 51
Prawit Wongsuwon age 10
Lynden Pindling age 26
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 18
Feleti Sevele age 11
Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa age 4
Ali Laarayedh age 7 months
Mohamed Mzali age 30
Ruhakana Rugunda age 8
Yukhym Zvyahilskyi age 23
Eleazar López Contreras age 72
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 17
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda age 40
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 22
José Giral age 76
Seán Lemass age 56
Alan Johnson age 5
Robert Rubin age 17
Bayard Rustin age 44
Lucius D. Clay age 58
Vittorio Ambrosio age 76
Arthur Percival age 68