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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

Tosiwo Nakayama age 24
Edwin Linkomies age 61
Xenophon Zolotas age 52
Tillman Thomas age 11
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 6
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 13
Gérard Latortue age 22
Jenő Fock age 40
Miklós Kállay age 69
Sutan Sjahrir age 47
P. J. Patterson age 21
Bruce Golding age 8
Abdullah Ensour age 17
Erik Eriksen age 53
Dirk Jan de Geer age 85
Victor Marijnen age 39
Phankham Viphavanh age 5
Charles D. B. King age 81
Abdurrahim El-Keib age 6
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé age 8
Kessai Note age 6
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 18
Anand Satyanand age 12
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou age 2
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 73
Gheorghe Tătărescu age 69
Victor Ciorbea age 1
Constantin Dăscălescu age 33
Mugur Isărescu age 7
Frederick Ballantyne age 20
Abdoul Mbaye age 3
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 19
Andrej Bajuk age 12
Adib Shishakli age 47
Qahhor Mahkamov age 24
Mizengo Pinda age 8
Cleopa Msuya age 25
Apisai Ielemia age 1
Anatolii Kinakh age 2
Yevhen Marchuk age 15
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 44
Aparicio Méndez age 52
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 46
Guillermo Endara age 20
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 28
Kim Hwang-sik age 8
Chung Un-chan age 9
Kim Jong-pil age 30
Chung Sye-kyun age 5
William Gopallawa age 59
D. M. Jayaratne age 25
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 15
Matthew Ridgway age 61
Manlio Brosio age 59
Franco Maria Malfatti age 29
David Malpass age 6 months
David Blunkett age 9
Amin al-Hafiz age 34
Dragiša Cvetković age 63
J. Lawton Collins age 60
John W. Snow age 17
Walid Jumblatt age 7
Li Yuanchao age 5
Josef Harpe age 69
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 82
Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria age 17
Jim Gilmore age 6
Bob McDonnell age 2
Mike Braun age 2
Slobodan Jovanović age 86
Nguyễn Khánh age 28
George W. Romney age 49
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 38
Elliot Richardson age 36
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 10
Lester Bird age 18
Ramón Puerta age 4
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 72
Bill Hayden age 23
Alfons Gorbach age 58
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 16
Georges Theunis age 83
Paul van Zeeland age 62
Colville Young age 23
Aleksandar Tsankov age 77
Goukouni Oueddei age 14
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 64
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 41
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 29
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 9
Osvaldo Hurtado age 17
Galo Plaza age 50
Joseph Urusemal age 4
Teuvo Aura age 43
Keijo Liinamaa age 27
Sakari Tuomioja age 45
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 61
Ioannis Grivas age 33
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 29
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 28
Károly Grósz age 26
Geir Hallgrímsson age 30
Erik Scavenius age 79
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah age 3
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 42
Salim al-Huss age 26
Moses Blah age 9
Anton Buttigieg age 44
Litokwa Tomeing age 16
Khil Raj Regmi age 7
Luis Somoza Debayle age 33
Cuthbert Sebastian age 34
Flavio Cotti age 16
H. H. Kung age 75
Chen Chien-jen age 5
Yen Hsi-shan age 73
Sanya Dharmasakti age 49
Kriangsak Chamanan age 38
Chatchai Chunhawan age 36
Arthur Foulkes age 28
Marguerite Pindling age 24
Eric Williams age 44
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 33
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 49
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 55
Julius Chan age 17
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 40
Vjekoslav Bevanda age 3 months
Diego Martínez Barrio age 72
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf age 8 months
Edem Kodjo age 18
Miles Dempsey age 59
Masayoshi Ito age 42
Jim Fouché age 58
Nicolaas Diederichs age 52
Dirk Stikker age 59
James Wolfensohn age 22
Eric Shinseki age 13
Frank Carlucci age 25
Les Aspin age 18
Michael Mullen age 9
Jafar Sharif-Emami age 46
Takeo Kurita age 67
Halil Kut age 74
Hal Moore age 34
Mario Roatta age 69
Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia age 61
Princess Deokhye age 44
Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (born 1914) age 42
Kim Kyong-hui age 10
Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 72
Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife age 65
Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia age 48
Ernst August von Hannover (born 1954) age 2
Timothy Laurence age 6
Zell Miller age 24
Miriam A. Ferguson age 81
Pete Wilson age 23
Mitja Ribičič age 37
Abeid Karume age 51
Jozef Lenárt age 33
Lien Chan age 20
William H. Webster age 32
Rabah Bitat age 30
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 29
William Deane age 25
Clifford Husbands age 30
Reneta Indzhova age 3
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 7
Nikica Valentić age 5
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 45
Hipólito Mejía age 15
Atef Ebeid age 24
Jacob Nena age 14
Reino Kuuskoski age 49
Reino Ragnar Lehto age 58
Ralf Törngren age 57
Raymond Ndong Sima age 1
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 53
Ramiro de León Carpio age 14
Jorge Serrano Elías age 11
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 32
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 9
Gyula Kállai age 46
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 32
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 45
Alexander Bustamante age 72
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh age 6