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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
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20

People

Michael Jeffery age 21
Reinhold Mitterlehner age 3
Hubert Pierlot age 75
Jean Duvieusart age 59
Camille Huysmans age 88
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 40
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 41
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya age 3
Guillermo León Valencia age 50
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 51
Armando Calderón Sol age 11
Akwasi Afrifa age 23
Fred Akuffo age 22
Phaedon Gizikis age 42
Patrick Achi age 4
Edward Seaga age 29
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 17
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 5
René Moawad age 34
Hussein Onn age 37
Ibrahim Nasir age 33
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 27
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 65
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 35
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 70
Mike Moore age 10
Pak Pong-ju age 20
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 54
Haruo Remeliik age 26
Ivan Stambolić age 23
Hashim al-Atassi age 84
Wu Den-yih age 11
Edward Lowassa age 6
Seni Pramoj age 54
Kukrit Pramoj age 48
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 13
Anand Panyarachun age 27
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 23
Hubert Ingraham age 12
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 18
Mohamed Ennaceur age 25
Apolo Nsibambi age 19
Godfrey Binaisa age 39
Vitalii Masol age 31
Sato Kilman age 1
Raúl Leoni age 54
Ramón José Velásquez age 43
Vo Van Kiet age 37
Mohammed Basindawa age 24
Arnulfo Arias age 58
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 65
Francisco Sagasti age 15
Momčilo Krajišnik age 14
Mladen Ivanić age 1
Andrés Rodríguez age 36
Liu Bocheng age 67
Glubb Pasha age 62
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ age 29
Albert Reynolds age 27
Lee Jong-wook age 14
Dušan Simović age 77
Kenneth Clarke age 19
John Smith age 21
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 34
Shunroku Hata age 80
Princess Helen of Serbia age 75
Dürrüşehvar Sultan age 45
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk) age 38
Sam Manekshaw age 45
Ko Yong-hui age 7
Prince Nicholas of Romania age 56
Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein age 73
Prince William of Gloucester age 17
Nathan Deal age 17
Sonny Perdue age 12
Mitch Daniels age 10
Gray Davis age 16
Otmar Hasler age 6
Milan Stojadinović age 71
Gaylord Nelson age 43
Jamshid bin Abdullah age 30
Ramsey Clark age 31
Courtney Hodges age 72
Albert Pintat age 16
Carlos Lacoste age 30
Josef Klaus age 49
Juan José Torres age 39
Ivan Kostov age 9
Saye Zerbo age 27
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 17
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 36
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 19
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 36
Josef Tošovský age 9
Adolphe Muzito age 2
Sufi Abu Taleb age 34
Francisco Flores age 1 month
Tosiwo Nakayama age 28
Edwin Linkomies age 64
Xenophon Zolotas age 55
Tillman Thomas age 14
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 9
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 16
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 57
Dirk Jan de Geer age 89
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 9
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 21
Anand Satyanand age 15
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou age 5
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 76
Victor Ciorbea age 5
Constantin Dăscălescu age 36
Mugur Isărescu age 10
Frederick Ballantyne age 23
Abdoul Mbaye age 6
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 22
Andrej Bajuk age 16
Adib Shishakli age 50
Qahhor Mahkamov age 27
Mizengo Pinda age 11
Cleopa Msuya age 28
Apisai Ielemia age 4
Anatolii Kinakh age 5
Yevhen Marchuk age 18
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 47
Aparicio Méndez age 55
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 50
Guillermo Endara age 23
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 31
Kim Hwang-sik age 11
Chung Un-chan age 12
Kim Jong-pil age 33
Chung Sye-kyun age 9
William Gopallawa age 62
D. M. Jayaratne age 28
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 18
Matthew Ridgway age 64
Manlio Brosio age 62
Franco Maria Malfatti age 32
David Malpass age 3
David Blunkett age 12
Amin al-Hafiz age 38
Dragiša Cvetković age 66
J. Lawton Collins age 63
John W. Snow age 20
Walid Jumblatt age 10
Li Yuanchao age 9
Josef Harpe age 72
Issa Pliyev age 56
Masahito, Prince Hitachi age 24
Markian Popov age 57
Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia age 52
Princess Ileana of Romania age 50
Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland age 47
Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria age 20
Jim Gilmore age 10
Bob McDonnell age 5
Terry McAuliffe age 2
Mike Braun age 5
Bill Lee age 1 month
Nguyễn Khánh age 32
George W. Romney age 52
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 41
Elliot Richardson age 39
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 14
Lester Bird age 21
Ramón Puerta age 8
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 75
Bill Hayden age 26
Alfons Gorbach age 61
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 19
Georges Theunis age 86
Paul van Zeeland age 66
Colville Young age 27
Goukouni Oueddei age 17
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 68
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 32
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 12
Osvaldo Hurtado age 20
Galo Plaza age 53
Joseph Urusemal age 7
Teuvo Aura age 46
Keijo Liinamaa age 30