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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
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02

People

Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 70
Mike Moore age 10
Pak Pong-ju age 20
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 53
Haruo Remeliik age 26
Ivan Stambolić age 22
Hashim al-Atassi age 83
Wu Den-yih age 11
Edward Lowassa age 5
Seni Pramoj age 54
Kukrit Pramoj age 48
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 12
Anand Panyarachun age 26
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 23
Hubert Ingraham age 11
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 18
Mohamed Ennaceur age 25
Apolo Nsibambi age 18
Godfrey Binaisa age 39
Vitalii Masol age 30
Sato Kilman age 1
Raúl Leoni age 54
Ramón José Velásquez age 42
Vo Van Kiet age 36
Mohammed Basindawa age 24
Arnulfo Arias age 57
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 65
Francisco Sagasti age 14
Momčilo Krajišnik age 14
Mladen Ivanić age 9 months
Andrés Rodríguez age 36
Liu Bocheng age 66
Glubb Pasha age 62
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ age 28
Albert Reynolds age 26
Lee Jong-wook age 14
Dušan Simović age 76
Kenneth Clarke age 18
John Smith age 20
Abdel Hakim Amer age 39
Fazlollah Zahedi age 67
Bai Chongxi age 66
Johannes Frießner age 67
Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon age 63
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 45
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 10
Gray Davis age 16
Otmar Hasler age 5
Milan Stojadinović age 70
Gaylord Nelson age 43
Ramsey Clark age 31
Courtney Hodges age 72
Albert Pintat age 16
Carlos Lacoste age 30
Josef Klaus age 48
Juan José Torres age 39
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 2
Sufi Abu Taleb age 34
Tosiwo Nakayama age 27
Edwin Linkomies age 64
Xenophon Zolotas age 55
Tillman Thomas age 14
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 9
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 15
Gérard Latortue age 25
Jenő Fock age 43
Miklós Kállay age 72
Sutan Sjahrir age 50
P. J. Patterson age 24
Bruce Golding age 11
Abdullah Ensour age 20
Erik Eriksen age 56
Dirk Jan de Geer age 88
Victor Marijnen age 42
Phankham Viphavanh age 8
Charles D. B. King age 84
Abdurrahim El-Keib age 9
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 6
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 22
Andrej Bajuk age 15
Adib Shishakli age 50
Qahhor Mahkamov age 27
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 47
Aparicio Méndez age 54
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 49
Guillermo Endara age 23
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 30
Kim Hwang-sik age 10
Chung Un-chan age 12
Kim Jong-pil age 33
Chung Sye-kyun age 8
William Gopallawa age 61
D. M. Jayaratne age 28
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 17
Matthew Ridgway age 64
Manlio Brosio age 61
Franco Maria Malfatti age 32
David Malpass age 3
David Blunkett age 12
Amin al-Hafiz age 37
Dragiša Cvetković age 66
J. Lawton Collins age 63
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 47
Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria age 20
Jim Gilmore age 9
Bob McDonnell age 5
Terry McAuliffe age 2
Mike Braun age 5
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 40
Elliot Richardson age 38
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 13
Lester Bird age 21
Ramón Puerta age 7
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 75
Bill Hayden age 26
Alfons Gorbach age 60
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 19
Georges Theunis age 86
Paul van Zeeland age 65
Colville Young age 26
Aleksandar Tsankov age 80
Goukouni Oueddei age 17
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 67
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 32
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 12
Osvaldo Hurtado age 19
Galo Plaza age 53
Joseph Urusemal age 7
Teuvo Aura age 46
Keijo Liinamaa age 30
Sakari Tuomioja age 47
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 64
Ioannis Grivas age 36
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 31
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 28
Vinicio Cerezo age 16
Desmond Hoyte age 30
Henri Namphy age 26
Claudette Werleigh age 12
Tiburcio Carías age 83
Péter Boross age 30
Károly Grósz age 28
Geir Hallgrímsson age 33
Erik Scavenius age 81
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah age 6
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 45
Salim al-Huss age 29
Moses Blah age 12
Anton Buttigieg age 47
Litokwa Tomeing age 19
Khil Raj Regmi age 10
Cuthbert Sebastian age 37
Flavio Cotti age 19
H. H. Kung age 77
Chen Chien-jen age 8
Yen Hsi-shan age 75
Sanya Dharmasakti age 52
Kriangsak Chamanan age 41