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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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962

People

Bai Chongxi age 65
Johannes Frießner age 66
Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon age 61
Veljko Kadijević age 32
Shunroku Hata age 78
Princess Helen of Serbia age 73
Dürrüşehvar Sultan age 44
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk) age 37
Sam Manekshaw age 44
Ko Yong-hui age 5
Prince Nicholas of Romania age 54
Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein age 72
Prince William of Gloucester age 16
Nathan Deal age 15
Sonny Perdue age 11
Mitch Daniels age 9
Gray Davis age 15
Otmar Hasler age 4
Milan Stojadinović age 69
Gaylord Nelson age 41
Ramsey Clark age 30
Courtney Hodges age 71
Albert Pintat age 14
Carlos Lacoste age 29
Josef Klaus age 47
Juan José Torres age 38
Ivan Kostov age 8
Saye Zerbo age 25
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 15
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 34
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 18
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 34
Josef Tošovský age 7
Adolphe Muzito age 1
Sufi Abu Taleb age 33
Tosiwo Nakayama age 26
Edwin Linkomies age 63
Xenophon Zolotas age 54
Tillman Thomas age 12
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 8
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 14
Gérard Latortue age 23
Jenő Fock age 41
Miklós Kállay age 71
Sutan Sjahrir age 49
P. J. Patterson age 23
Bruce Golding age 10
Abdullah Ensour age 19
Erik Eriksen age 55
Dirk Jan de Geer age 87
Victor Marijnen age 41
Phankham Viphavanh age 7
Charles D. B. King age 83
Abdurrahim El-Keib age 8
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé age 10
Kessai Note age 7
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 20
Anand Satyanand age 13
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou age 4
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 74
Victor Ciorbea age 3
Constantin Dăscălescu age 34
Mugur Isărescu age 8
Frederick Ballantyne age 21
Abdoul Mbaye age 5
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 21
Andrej Bajuk age 14
Adib Shishakli age 49
Qahhor Mahkamov age 26
Mizengo Pinda age 9
Cleopa Msuya age 27
Apisai Ielemia age 2
Anatolii Kinakh age 3
Yevhen Marchuk age 17
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 45
Aparicio Méndez age 53
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 48
Guillermo Endara age 21
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 29
Kim Hwang-sik age 9
Chung Un-chan age 11
Kim Jong-pil age 32
Chung Sye-kyun age 7
William Gopallawa age 60
D. M. Jayaratne age 26
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 16
Matthew Ridgway age 63
Manlio Brosio age 60
Franco Maria Malfatti age 30
David Malpass age 2
David Blunkett age 10
Amin al-Hafiz age 36
Dragiša Cvetković age 65
J. Lawton Collins age 62
John W. Snow age 18
Walid Jumblatt age 8
Li Yuanchao age 7
Josef Harpe age 70
Issa Pliyev age 54
Masahito, Prince Hitachi age 22
Markian Popov age 55
Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia age 50
Princess Ileana of Romania age 49
Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland age 46
Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria age 19
Jim Gilmore age 8
Bob McDonnell age 3
Terry McAuliffe age 1
Mike Braun age 4
Slobodan Jovanović age 88
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 39
Elliot Richardson age 37
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 12
Lester Bird age 20
Ramón Puerta age 6
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 74
Bill Hayden age 25
Alfons Gorbach age 59
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 17
Georges Theunis age 85
Paul van Zeeland age 64
Colville Young age 25
Aleksandar Tsankov age 78
Goukouni Oueddei age 16
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 66
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 42
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 31
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 11
Osvaldo Hurtado age 18
Galo Plaza age 52
Joseph Urusemal age 6
Teuvo Aura age 45
Keijo Liinamaa age 29
Sakari Tuomioja age 46
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 63
Ioannis Grivas age 35
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 30
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 27
Vinicio Cerezo age 15
Desmond Hoyte age 29
Henri Namphy age 25
Claudette Werleigh age 11
Tiburcio Carías age 82
Péter Boross age 29
Károly Grósz age 27
Geir Hallgrímsson age 32
Erik Scavenius age 80
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah age 5
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 44
Salim al-Huss age 28
Moses Blah age 11
Anton Buttigieg age 46
Litokwa Tomeing age 18
Khil Raj Regmi age 8
Cuthbert Sebastian age 36
Flavio Cotti age 18
H. H. Kung age 76
Chen Chien-jen age 6
Yen Hsi-shan age 74
Sanya Dharmasakti age 51
Kriangsak Chamanan age 40
Chatchai Chunhawan age 38
Arthur Foulkes age 29
Marguerite Pindling age 25
Eric Williams age 46
Ahmed Hachani age 1
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 35
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 51
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 56
Julius Chan age 18
Kim Boo-kyum age 2 months
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 42
Vjekoslav Bevanda age 1
Diego Martínez Barrio age 74
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf age 2
Edem Kodjo age 19
Miles Dempsey age 61
Masayoshi Ito age 44
Jim Fouché age 59
Nicolaas Diederichs age 54
Dirk Stikker age 61
James Wolfensohn age 24
Eric Shinseki age 15
Frank Carlucci age 27
Les Aspin age 19
Michael Mullen age 11
Jafar Sharif-Emami age 47
Takeo Kurita age 69
Hal Moore age 36
Mario Roatta age 71
Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia age 62
Princess Deokhye age 45
Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (born 1914) age 44
Kim Kyong-hui age 11
Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 74
Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife age 66
Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia age 49
Ernst August von Hannover (born 1954) age 4
Timothy Laurence age 8
Zell Miller age 26