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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
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16

People

Lúcio Lara age 26
Mohammad Mohammadullah age 33
Elliott Belgrave age 24
Mikhail Chyhir age 7
Syarhei Linh age 18
Celso Torrelio age 22
Alberto Natusch age 22
David Toro age 57
Lyuben Berov age 29
Prince Louis Rwagasore of Burundi age 23
Daniel Oduber Quirós age 34
Teodoro Picado Michalski age 55
Franjo Gregurić age 15
Hrvoje Šarinić age 20
Carlos Manuel Piedra age 60
Joseph Iléo age 34
Eliud Williams age 7
Antonio Imbert Barrera age 34
Atef Sedki age 25
Ali Lutfi Mahmud age 19
Álvaro Magaña age 29
Mahendra Chaudhry age 13
Nii Amaa Ollennu age 49
Dimitrios Maximos age 82
Konstantinos Kollias age 54
Panagiotis Pipinelis age 56
Eric Gairy age 33
Kabiné Komara age 5
Cellou Dalein Diallo age 3
Jean-Jacques Honorat age 24
Juan Manuel Gálvez age 68
Ali Sastroamidjojo age 52
Sa'dun Hammadi age 25
Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio age 4
Howard Cooke age 39
Zeid bin Shaker age 21
Ieremia Tabai age 5
Ishenbai Kadyrbekov age 6
Sisavath Keobounphanh age 27
Augusts Kirhenšteins age 83
Valdis Birkavs age 13
Abdul Ati al-Obeidi age 15
George Borg Olivier age 44
Ahmed Bahnini age 46
Mohammed Karim Lamrani age 36
Maati Bouabid age 27
Ahmed Osman age 25
Khin Nyunt age 15
San Yu age 37
Sao Shwe Thaik age 58
Geoffrey Palmer age 13
Emiliano Chamorro Vargas age 84
Ngiratkel Etpison age 30
Adelino da Palma Carlos age 50
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 100
Ion Gigurtu age 69
Edmund Lawrence age 23
Nikola Šainović age 6
Dragan Tomić age 19
Östen Undén age 69
Rudolf Gnägi age 38
Hans-Peter Tschudi age 41
Pierre Aubert age 28
Georges-André Chevallaz age 40
Pierre Graber age 46
Ahmad al-Khatib age 22
Jamil Mardam Bey age 62
Sean Chen age 5
Chang Chun-hsiung age 17
Cynthia A. Pratt age 9
Ellis Clarke age 37
Noor Hassanali age 37
Bahi Ladgham age 42
Hamed Karoui age 27
Ali Bozer age 30
Hasan Saka age 70
Toaripi Lauti age 26
Saufatu Sopoanga age 3
Abdulhashim Mutalov age 8
Pedro Carmona age 14
Ahmed Obaid Bin Dagher age 2
Tomás Romero Pereira age 68
Ricardo Pérez Godoy age 50
Mohamed Osman Jawari age 9
Lee Wan-koo age 5
Lee Hong-koo age 21
Fernando de Santiago y Díaz age 45
Aníbal Torres age 12
Rosalio Lara age 33
Fawzi al-Qawuqji age 65
C. Douglas Dillon age 46
Louis A. Johnson age 64
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 49
Byron White age 38
Pjetër Arbnori age 20
Rexhep Mitrovica age 67
Belaid Abdesselam age 27
Ismail Hamdani age 25
Lopo do Nascimento age 15
Yaqub Mammadov age 14
A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury age 40
Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar age 23
Aloys Van de Vyvere age 84
Adrien Houngbédji age 13
Lionel Zinsou age 10 months
Yeshey Zimba age 4
Néstor Guillén age 65
Carlos Quintanilla age 67
Georgi Kʹoseivanov age 71
François Ngeze age 2
Simplice Sarandji age 5 months
Djimrangar Dadnadji age 1
Said Mohamed Jaffar age 37
Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim age 19
Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich age 48
Ali Sabri age 35
Ilias Tsirimokos age 48
Panagiotis Poulitsas age 74
Alexandros Othonaios age 76
Jean-Marie Doré age 17
Ahmed Tidiane Souaré age 4
Prosper Avril age 17
Marc Bazin age 23
Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés age 52
Djuanda Kartawidjaja age 44
Donald Sangster age 43
Kenneth O. Hall age 14
Norman Manley age 62
Teatao Teannaki age 19
Ahmad Al Abdullah Al Sabah age 3
Vilis Krištopans age 1
Ernestas Galvanauskas age 72
Laurynas Stankevičius age 20
Pierre Frieden age 62
Émile Reuter age 81
Gilles Andriamahazo age 36
Ousmane Issoufi Maïga age 9
Paul Bérenger age 10
Abdallah Ibrahim age 37
Matrika Prasad Koirala age 43
Bill Rowling age 27
Lazarus Salii age 18
Faustin Twagiramungu age 10
Sergej Kraigher age 41
Danny Philip age 2
Snyder Rini age 7
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz age 19
Ernst Nobs age 69
Ernst Wetter age 78
Hans Schaffner age 46
Hans Hürlimann age 37
Fritz Honegger age 38
Ludwig von Moos age 45
Leonel Mário d'Alva age 20
Sun Fo age 63
Thawan Thamrongnawasawat age 53
Ivy Dumont age 24
Suat Hayri Ürgüplü age 52
Faimalaga Luka age 15
Benedicto Kiwanuka age 33
Vasyl Durdynets age 17
Ati George Sokomanu age 19
John Bani age 14
Donald Kalpokas age 12
Phelekezela Mphoko age 15
Arístides Royo age 15
Juan Manuel Frutos age 76
Félix Paiva age 78
Ali Khalif Galaydh age 13
Chung Won-shik age 27
Osman Hussein age 4
Mohamed Tahir Ayala age 4
Fausta Morganti age 11
James Van Fleet age 63
Eugene Meyer age 79
Dick Thornburgh age 23
Iain Macleod age 41
Richard Myers age 13
Robert B. Anderson age 45
Abd al-Hamid Ibrahimi age 19
Muhammad ibn Ahmad Abd al-Ghani age 28
Marcolino Moco age 2
Hasan Hasanov age 14
Lloyd Erskine Sandiford age 18
Hugo Ballivián age 54
Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum age 50
Élie Doté age 7
Haroun Kabadi age 6
Youssouf Saleh Abbas age 2
Gabriel París Gordillo age 45
Justin Marie Bomboko age 26
Vernon Shaw age 25
Zakaria Mohieddin age 37
Mustafa Khalil age 34
Kamal Hassan Ali age 22
Konstantinos Logothetopoulos age 77
Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas age 62
Konstantinos Dovas age 56
Konstantinos Georgakopoulos age 64
Juan Federico Ponce Vaides age 66