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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
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
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01

People

Raúl Leoni age 53
Ramón José Velásquez age 42
Vo Van Kiet age 36
Mohammed Basindawa age 23
Arnulfo Arias age 57
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 65
Francisco Sagasti age 14
Momčilo Krajišnik age 14
Mladen Ivanić age 4 months
Andrés Rodríguez age 35
Liu Bocheng age 66
Glubb Pasha age 61
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ age 28
Albert Reynolds age 26
Lee Jong-wook age 13
Dušan Simović age 76
Kenneth Clarke age 18
John Smith age 20
Abdel Hakim Amer age 39
Fazlollah Zahedi age 66
Bai Chongxi age 65
Johannes Frießner age 66
Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon age 62
Veljko Kadijević age 33
Shunroku Hata age 79
Princess Helen of Serbia age 74
Dürrüşehvar Sultan age 45
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk) age 38
Sam Manekshaw age 44
Ko Yong-hui age 6
Prince Nicholas of Romania age 55
Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein age 73
Prince William of Gloucester age 17
Nathan Deal age 16
Sonny Perdue age 12
Mitch Daniels age 9
Gray Davis age 16
Otmar Hasler age 5
Milan Stojadinović age 70
Gaylord Nelson age 42
Ramsey Clark age 31
Courtney Hodges age 72
Albert Pintat age 15
Carlos Lacoste age 30
Josef Klaus age 48
Juan José Torres age 38
Ivan Kostov age 9
Saye Zerbo age 26
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 16
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 35
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 19
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 35
Josef Tošovský age 8
Adolphe Muzito age 1
Sufi Abu Taleb age 34
Tosiwo Nakayama age 27
Edwin Linkomies age 64
Xenophon Zolotas age 54
Tillman Thomas age 13
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 9
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 15
Gérard Latortue age 24
Jenő Fock age 42
Miklós Kállay age 72
Sutan Sjahrir age 49
P. J. Patterson age 23
Bruce Golding age 11
Abdullah Ensour age 20
Erik Eriksen age 56
Dirk Jan de Geer age 88
Victor Marijnen age 41
Phankham Viphavanh age 8
Charles D. B. King age 83
Abdurrahim El-Keib age 8
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé age 11
Kessai Note age 8
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 21
Anand Satyanand age 14
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou age 5
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 75
Victor Ciorbea age 4
Constantin Dăscălescu age 35
Mugur Isărescu age 9
Frederick Ballantyne age 22
Abdoul Mbaye age 5
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 22
Andrej Bajuk age 15
Adib Shishakli age 50
Qahhor Mahkamov age 26
Mizengo Pinda age 10
Cleopa Msuya age 28
Apisai Ielemia age 3
Anatolii Kinakh age 4
Yevhen Marchuk age 18
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 33
Chung Sye-kyun age 8
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 37
Dragiša Cvetković age 66
J. Lawton Collins age 62
John W. Snow age 19
Walid Jumblatt age 9
Li Yuanchao age 8
Josef Harpe age 71
Issa Pliyev age 55
Masahito, Prince Hitachi age 23
Markian Popov age 56
Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia age 51
Princess Ileana of Romania age 50
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
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 40
Elliot Richardson age 38
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 13
Lester Bird age 20
Ramón Puerta age 7
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 75
Bill Hayden age 26
Alfons Gorbach age 60
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 18
Georges Theunis age 85
Paul van Zeeland age 65
Colville Young age 26
Aleksandar Tsankov age 79
Goukouni Oueddei age 17
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 67
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 32
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 11
Osvaldo Hurtado age 19
Galo Plaza age 53
Joseph Urusemal age 6
Teuvo Aura age 46
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 28
Vinicio Cerezo age 16
Desmond Hoyte age 29
Henri Namphy age 26
Claudette Werleigh age 12
Tiburcio Carías age 82
Péter Boross age 30
Károly Grósz age 28
Geir Hallgrímsson age 33
Erik Scavenius age 81
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah age 5
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 44
Salim al-Huss age 29
Moses Blah age 11
Anton Buttigieg age 47
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 41
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 1
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 43
Vjekoslav Bevanda age 2
Diego Martínez Barrio age 75
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf age 3
Edem Kodjo age 20
Miles Dempsey age 62
Masayoshi Ito age 45
Jim Fouché age 60
Nicolaas Diederichs age 55
Dirk Stikker age 62
James Wolfensohn age 25