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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

People

Tafari Benti age 33
Leo Falcam age 19
Laisenia Qarase age 14
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 59
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 11
José Azcona del Hoyo age 28
György Lázár age 30
Ferenc Nagy age 51
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 42
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim age 2
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 7
Wim Schermerhorn age 60
Suleiman Frangieh age 45
Amos Sawyer age 10
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 16
Cheick Modibo Diarra age 3
Alfred Sant age 7
Paul Xuereb age 31
Monique Ohsan Bellepeau age 13
Pascoal Mocumbi age 14
Soe Win age 8
Keith Holyoake age 51
Pak Song-chol age 41
Nurul Amin age 61
Shujaat Hussain age 15
Kuniwo Nakamura age 11
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani age 35
Tapley Seaton age 4
John Compton age 30
Henck Arron age 19
Adolf Ogi age 12
Nazim al-Kudsi age 49
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 11
Frank Hsieh age 9
Cornelius A. Smith age 18
Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové age 16
Patrick Manning age 8
Habib Essid age 6
Bülent Ulusu age 32
Yusuf Lule age 43
Ham Lini age 3
Kazimierz Sabbat age 42
Michael Ogio age 12
Nicolás Lindley López age 46
Richard O'Connor age 65
Douglas Hurd age 25
John Shalikashvili age 18
Michael Mukasey age 13
William Calley age 12
Rasim Delić age 6
Otto Braun age 54
Georg-Hans Reinhardt age 68
Friedrich Hoßbach age 60
Valentin Varennikov age 31
Hisako, Princess Takamado age 1
Natalia Pavlovna Paley age 49
Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria age 76
Elias, Duke of Parma age 74
Princess Sophie of Hohenberg age 53
Kim Song-ae age 30
Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein age 82
Sigvard Bernadotte age 48
Carl Johan Bernadotte age 38
Berthold, Margrave of Baden age 49
Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg age 20
George Deukmejian age 27
Christine Todd Whitman age 8
He Yingqin age 65
Abderrahmane Farès age 44
Marc Forné Molné age 8
Vazgen Manukyan age 9
John Kerr age 40
Otto Ender age 79
Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad age 37
Manuel Esquivel age 15
Sangay Ngedup age 1
Wálter Guevara age 43
David Padilla age 27
Enrique Peñaranda age 61
Enrique Hertzog age 57
Guido Vildoso age 18
Luc-Adolphe Tiao age 1
Ephraïm Inoni age 7
Lol Mahamat Choua age 16
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 69
José Joaquín Trejos Fernández age 39
Josip Manolić age 35
Fabián Alarcón age 8
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 76
Aman Andom age 31
John Haglelgam age 5
Naiqama Lalabalavu age 1
Tengiz Sigua age 20
Adamantios Androutsopoulos age 35
Sofoklis Venizelos age 60
Konstantinos Tsaldaris age 71
Mohamed Said Fofana age 3
Ibrahima Kassory Fofana age 1
Aristides Gomes age 7 months
Ansumane Mané age 15
Moses Nagamootoo age 7
Martial Célestin age 41
Carlos Roberto Flor age 5
Ramón Villeda Morales age 45
Carlos Roberto Reina age 29
Móric Esterházy age 74
Mohammad Natsir age 46
Abdelsalam al-Majali age 30
Knud Kristensen age 74
Jo Cals age 40
Bujar Bukoshi age 8
Nexhat Daci age 10
Jakup Krasniqi age 4
Nikolai Tanayev age 9
Indulis Emsis age 3
Elias Sarkis age 30
Irena Degutienė age 6
Jacques Sylla age 8
Bernard Dowiyogo age 9
Tulsi Giri age 28
Silvia Cartwright age 11
Catherine Tizard age 24
Amadou Cheiffou age 12
Kim Il age 45
Alfredo Nobre da Costa age 31
Henk Chin A Sen age 21
Kaspar Villiger age 14
Luai al-Atassi age 29
Chawalit Yongchaiyut age 23
Basdeo Panday age 22
Maatia Toafa age 1
Bazilio Olara-Okello age 26
Paulo Muwanga age 31
Valerii Pustovoitenko age 8
Octavio Lepage age 31
Abdul Qadir Bajamal age 9
Ali Muhammad Mujawar age 2
Federico Chávez age 74
Ali Mohammed Ghedi age 2
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri age 17
Dudley Senanayake age 44
Sadiq al-Mahdi age 19
Brock Chisholm age 59
Robert Bork age 28
Leo Amery age 81
Khalil al-Wazir age 19
A. Philip Randolph age 66
Janko Bobetko age 36
Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García age 25
Dietrich von Saucken age 63
Charles Malik age 49
José Miaja age 77
Agustín Muñoz Grandes age 59
Prince Tomohito of Mikasa age 9
Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia age 58
Şehzade Mehmed Orhan age 45
Jacob L. Devers age 67
Christian de Castries age 52
Pujie age 48
Prince Oskar of Prussia age 66
Archduchess Maria Annunziata of Austria age 78
Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este age 40
Archduchess Adelheid of Austria age 41
Kim Yong-ju age 35
Kim Pyong Il age 10 months
Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia age 25
Pat Brown age 50
George W. Casey Jr. age 6
Dale Bumpers age 29
Harry Blackmun age 46
Otto Hofmann age 59
William J. Brennan Jr. age 49
Adil Çarçani age 33
Peter Hollingworth age 20
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir age 7
Joseph Pholien age 70
Elmira Minita Gordon age 24
Khandu Wangchuk age 4
Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas age 30
Ognyan Gerdzhikov age 9
Son Ngoc Thanh age 46
Pascal Yoadimnadji age 5
Ali Soilih age 18
Zlatko Mateša age 6
Cyrille Adoula age 33
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 25
Camilo Ponce Enríquez age 43
Ignacio Milam Tang age 15
Otto Tief age 65
Themba Dlamini age 4
Rainer von Fieandt age 64
Stefanos Stefanopoulos age 56
Stylianos Gonatas age 78
Spiridon Markezinis age 46
Carlos Correia age 21
Francisco Mendes age 16
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 28
Jóhann Hafstein age 39
Wasfi Tal age 36
Nader al-Dahabi age 8