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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
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis 1958-08-23 - 1958-12-02
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06

People

Momčilo Krajišnik age 13
Mladen Ivanić age 1 month
Andrés Rodríguez age 35
Liu Bocheng age 65
Glubb Pasha age 61
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ age 28
Albert Reynolds age 25
Lee Jong-wook age 13
Dušan Simović age 76
Kenneth Clarke age 18
John Smith age 20
Abdel Hakim Amer age 38
Fazlollah Zahedi age 66
Bai Chongxi age 65
Johannes Frießner age 66
Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon age 62
Veljko Kadijević age 32
Shunroku Hata age 79
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 6
Prince Nicholas of Romania age 55
Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein age 72
Prince William of Gloucester age 16
Nathan Deal age 16
Sonny Perdue age 11
Mitch Daniels age 9
Gray Davis age 15
Otmar Hasler age 5
Milan Stojadinović age 70
Gaylord Nelson age 42
Ramsey Clark age 30
Courtney Hodges age 71
Albert Pintat age 15
Carlos Lacoste age 29
Josef Klaus age 48
Juan José Torres age 38
Ivan Kostov age 8
Saye Zerbo age 26
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 16
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 34
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 18
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 34
Josef Tošovský age 8
Adolphe Muzito age 1
Sufi Abu Taleb age 33
Tosiwo Nakayama age 26
Edwin Linkomies age 63
Xenophon Zolotas age 54
Tillman Thomas age 13
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 8
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 15
Gérard Latortue age 24
Jenő Fock age 42
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 8
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 20
Anand Satyanand age 14
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou age 4
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 75
Victor Ciorbea age 3
Constantin Dăscălescu age 35
Mugur Isărescu age 9
Frederick Ballantyne age 22
Abdoul Mbaye age 5
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 21
Andrej Bajuk age 15
Adib Shishakli age 49
Qahhor Mahkamov age 26
Mizengo Pinda age 10
Cleopa Msuya age 27
Apisai Ielemia age 3
Anatolii Kinakh age 4
Yevhen Marchuk age 17
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 46
Aparicio Méndez age 54
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 49
Guillermo Endara age 22
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 30
Kim Hwang-sik age 10
Chung Un-chan age 11
Kim Jong-pil age 32
Chung Sye-kyun age 7
William Gopallawa age 61
D. M. Jayaratne age 27
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 17
Matthew Ridgway age 63
Manlio Brosio age 61
Franco Maria Malfatti age 31
David Malpass age 2
David Blunkett age 11
Amin al-Hafiz age 36
Dragiša Cvetković age 65
J. Lawton Collins age 62
John W. Snow age 19
Walid Jumblatt age 9
Li Yuanchao age 7
Josef Harpe age 71
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 9
Bob McDonnell age 4
Terry McAuliffe age 1
Mike Braun age 4
Slobodan Jovanović age 88
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 40
Elliot Richardson age 38
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 12
Lester Bird age 20
Ramón Puerta age 7
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 74
Bill Hayden age 25
Alfons Gorbach age 60
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 18
Georges Theunis age 85
Paul van Zeeland age 64
Colville Young age 25
Aleksandar Tsankov age 79
Goukouni Oueddei age 16
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 66
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 31
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 11
Osvaldo Hurtado age 19
Galo Plaza age 52
Joseph Urusemal age 6
Teuvo Aura age 45
Keijo Liinamaa age 29
Sakari Tuomioja age 47
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 64
Ioannis Grivas age 35
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 31
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 27
Vinicio Cerezo age 15
Desmond Hoyte age 29
Henri Namphy age 25
Claudette Werleigh age 12
Tiburcio Carías age 82
Péter Boross age 30
Károly Grósz age 28
Geir Hallgrímsson age 32
Erik Scavenius age 81
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 19
Khil Raj Regmi age 9
Cuthbert Sebastian age 37
Flavio Cotti age 19
H. H. Kung age 77
Chen Chien-jen age 7
Yen Hsi-shan age 75
Sanya Dharmasakti age 51
Kriangsak Chamanan age 40
Chatchai Chunhawan age 38
Arthur Foulkes age 30
Marguerite Pindling age 26
Eric Williams age 47
Ahmed Hachani age 2
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 35
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 51
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 57
Julius Chan age 19
Kim Boo-kyum age 8 months
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 42
Vjekoslav Bevanda age 2
Diego Martínez Barrio age 74
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf age 2
Edem Kodjo age 20
Miles Dempsey age 61
Masayoshi Ito age 44
Jim Fouché age 60
Nicolaas Diederichs age 54
Dirk Stikker age 61
James Wolfensohn age 24
Eric Shinseki age 15
Frank Carlucci age 28
Les Aspin age 20
Michael Mullen age 12
Jafar Sharif-Emami age 48
Takeo Kurita age 69