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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
Great Leap Forward 1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Great Chinese Famine 1959-01-01 - 1961-12-31
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01

People

Habib Essid age 9
Bülent Ulusu age 36
Kausea Natano age 1
Enele Sopoaga age 3
Yusuf Lule age 47
Ham Lini age 7
Kazimierz Sabbat age 46
Michael Ogio age 16
Nicolás Lindley López age 50
Richard O'Connor age 69
Douglas Hurd age 29
John Shalikashvili age 22
Michael Mukasey age 17
He Yingqin age 69
Abderrahmane Farès age 48
Marc Forné Molné age 12
Vazgen Manukyan age 13
John Kerr age 44
Otto Ender age 83
Isa Gambar age 2
Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad age 41
Manuel Esquivel age 19
Sangay Ngedup age 5
Wálter Guevara age 47
David Padilla age 31
Enrique Peñaranda age 65
Enrique Hertzog age 61
Guido Vildoso age 22
Luc-Adolphe Tiao age 4
Apollinaire Joachim Kyélem de Tambèla age 11 months
Ephraïm Inoni age 11
Lol Mahamat Choua age 19
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 73
Josip Manolić age 39
Fabián Alarcón age 12
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 79
Aman Andom age 34
John Haglelgam age 9
Naiqama Lalabalavu age 5
Tengiz Sigua age 24
Adamantios Androutsopoulos age 39
Sofoklis Venizelos age 64
Konstantinos Tsaldaris age 75
Mohamed Said Fofana age 7
Ibrahima Kassory Fofana age 5
Aristides Gomes age 4
Ansumane Mané age 19
Moses Nagamootoo age 11
Martial Célestin age 45
Carlos Roberto Flor age 9
Carlos Roberto Reina age 33
Móric Esterházy age 78
Mohammad Natsir age 50
Abdelsalam al-Majali age 34
Knud Kristensen age 78
Jo Cals age 44
Bujar Bukoshi age 11
Nexhat Daci age 14
Jakup Krasniqi age 8
Nikolai Tanayev age 13
Indulis Emsis age 7
Elias Sarkis age 34
Irena Degutienė age 9
Jacques Sylla age 12
Moctar Ouane age 3
Norovyn Altankhuyag age 1
Bernard Dowiyogo age 13
Tulsi Giri age 32
Silvia Cartwright age 15
Catherine Tizard age 28
Amadou Cheiffou age 16
Kim Il age 49
Alfredo Nobre da Costa age 35
Henk Chin A Sen age 25
Kaspar Villiger age 18
Luai al-Atassi age 33
Chawalit Yongchaiyut age 26
Basdeo Panday age 25
Maatia Toafa age 5
Bazilio Olara-Okello age 30
Paulo Muwanga age 35
Valerii Pustovoitenko age 12
Octavio Lepage age 35
Abdul Qadir Bajamal age 13
Ali Muhammad Mujawar age 6
Federico Chávez age 78
Ali Mohammed Ghedi age 6
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri age 21
Dudley Senanayake age 47
Sadiq al-Mahdi age 23
Brock Chisholm age 63
Robert Bork age 32
Otto Hofmann age 63
Abdul Kabir age 1
Adil Çarçani age 37
Peter Hollingworth age 24
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir age 11
Joseph Pholien age 74
Elmira Minita Gordon age 28
Khandu Wangchuk age 8
Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas age 33
Ognyan Gerdzhikov age 13
Son Ngoc Thanh age 50
Nicolas Tiangaye age 2
Pascal Yoadimnadji age 9
Ali Soilih age 22
Zlatko Mateša age 9
Cyrille Adoula age 37
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 29
Ignacio Milam Tang age 18
Otto Tief age 69
Themba Dlamini age 8
Rainer von Fieandt age 68
Stefanos Stefanopoulos age 60
Stylianos Gonatas age 82
Spiridon Markezinis age 50
Carlos Correia age 25
Francisco Mendes age 20
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 32
Jóhann Hafstein age 43
Wasfi Tal age 40
Nader al-Dahabi age 12
Teburoro Tito age 5
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 46
Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah age 3
Boun Oum age 47
Charles Helou age 45
Abdullah al-Thani age 5
Shukri Ghanem age 16
Justas Paleckis age 60
Charles Rabemananjara age 11
Albert Camille Vital age 6
Imata Kabua age 15
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 19
Saw Maung age 30
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt age 58
Robert Muldoon age 37
Kim Jae-ryong age 4 months
Nikola Kljusev age 31
Christopher Hornsrud age 99
José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo age 41
Gavril Dejeu age 26
Anastase Murekezi age 6
Théodore Sindikubwabo age 31
Susan Dougan age 4
Otto Stich age 32
Arnold Koller age 25
Max Petitpierre age 60
Liu Chao-shiuan age 16
Lin Chuan age 7
Zhang Qun age 70
Hedi Amara Nouira age 48
Şemsettin Günaltay age 75
Ferit Melen age 52
Sir Iakoba Italeli age 9
Amama Mbabazi age 10
Óscar Diego Gestido age 57
Serge Vohor age 4
Pham Hung age 46
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski age 73
Paulias Matane age 27
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 18
Borislav Paravac age 16
Jorge del Castillo age 8
Yasuji Okamura age 75
John J. McCloy age 64
Leon Brittan age 19
Joseph Grew age 78
W. Michael Blumenthal age 33
Peter Pace age 13
Norman Lamont age 17
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 12
Herbert Morrison age 71
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 43
John N. Mitchell age 45
Òscar Ribas Reig age 22
Paulo Kassoma age 7
França Van-Dúnem age 24
James Carlisle age 21
Vere Bird age 48
Ninian Stephen age 35
Abdus Sattar age 53
Uladzimier Yarmoshyn age 16
Dimitar Iliev Popov age 31
Georgi Bliznashki age 2
Gérard Kango Ouédraogo age 33
Tertius Zongo age 1
Sisowath Sirik Matak age 45
Abel Goumba age 32
Félix Moloua age 1
Emmanuel Nadingar age 8
Saleh Kebzabo age 12
Vladimir Bakarić age 47
Anselmo Alliegro y Milá age 60
Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy age 39
Isidro Ayora age 79
Otto Arosemena age 33
Arturo Armando Molina age 31
Themba Nhlanganiso Masuku age 8
Cleopas Dlamini age 7