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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
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966

People

Mostafa Chamran age 23
Otto Ruge age 74
Eberhard von Mackensen age 66
Alphonse Juin age 67
Zhang Wentian age 55
Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse age 59
Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia age 46
Regina von Habsburg age 31
Infanta Beatriz of Spain age 46
Lady Mountbatten age 54
Princess Elena of Romania age 5
Hernando de Soto (economist) age 14
James M. Cox age 86
Petar Stambolić age 43
Francis Biddle age 69
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 29
Nadir al-Arbawi age 6
Edmond Leburton age 40
Jean Van Houtte age 49
Théo Lefèvre age 42
Philip Dimitrov age 11 months
Andrey Lukanov age 17
Son Sann age 44
Eduardo Santos age 67
Said Mohamed Djohar age 37
Otilio Ulate Blanco age 64
Luis Alberto Monge age 30
Vlatko Pavletić age 25
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 52
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 38
Francisco Pascual Obama Asue age 6
Tafari Benti age 34
Leo Falcam age 20
Laisenia Qarase age 15
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 60
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 12
José Azcona del Hoyo age 29
György Lázár age 31
Ferenc Nagy age 52
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 43
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim age 3
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 8
Wim Schermerhorn age 61
Suleiman Frangieh age 45
Amos Sawyer age 10
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 17
Cheick Modibo Diarra age 3
Alfred Sant age 8
Paul Xuereb age 32
Monique Ohsan Bellepeau age 14
Pascoal Mocumbi age 14
Aires Ali age 3 months
Soe Win age 8
Keith Holyoake age 52
Pak Song-chol age 42
Nurul Amin age 62
Shujaat Hussain age 16
Kuniwo Nakamura age 12
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani age 36
Tapley Seaton age 5
John Compton age 30
Henck Arron age 19
Adolf Ogi age 13
Nazim al-Kudsi age 50
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 12
Frank Hsieh age 9
Cornelius A. Smith age 18
Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové age 16
Patrick Manning age 9
Habib Essid age 6
Bülent Ulusu age 32
Enele Sopoaga age 1 month
Yusuf Lule age 43
Ham Lini age 4
Kazimierz Sabbat age 43
Michael Ogio age 13
Nicolás Lindley López age 47
Richard O'Connor age 66
Douglas Hurd age 26
John Shalikashvili age 19
Michael Mukasey age 14
William Calley age 12
Rasim Delić age 7
Otto Braun age 55
Georg-Hans Reinhardt age 69
Friedrich Hoßbach age 61
Valentin Varennikov age 32
Hisako, Princess Takamado age 2
Natalia Pavlovna Paley age 50
Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria age 77
Elias, Duke of Parma age 75
Princess Sophie of Hohenberg age 54
Kim Song-ae age 31
Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein age 83
Sigvard Bernadotte age 48
Carl Johan Bernadotte age 39
Berthold, Margrave of Baden age 50
Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg age 21
George Deukmejian age 27
Christine Todd Whitman age 9
He Yingqin age 65
Abderrahmane Farès age 45
Marc Forné Molné age 9
Vazgen Manukyan age 10
John Kerr age 41
Otto Ender age 80
Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad age 38
Manuel Esquivel age 15
Sangay Ngedup age 2
Wálter Guevara age 44
David Padilla age 28
Enrique Peñaranda age 62
Enrique Hertzog age 58
Guido Vildoso age 18
Luc-Adolphe Tiao age 1
Ephraïm Inoni age 8
Lol Mahamat Choua age 16
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 70
José Joaquín Trejos Fernández age 39
Josip Manolić age 36
Fabián Alarcón age 8
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 76
Aman Andom age 31
John Haglelgam age 6
Naiqama Lalabalavu age 2
Tengiz Sigua age 21
Adamantios Androutsopoulos age 36
Sofoklis Venizelos age 61
Konstantinos Tsaldaris age 71
Mohamed Said Fofana age 4
Ibrahima Kassory Fofana age 1
Aristides Gomes age 1
Ansumane Mané age 16
Moses Nagamootoo age 8
Martial Célestin age 42
Carlos Roberto Flor age 6
Ramón Villeda Morales age 46
Carlos Roberto Reina age 30
Móric Esterházy age 74
Mohammad Natsir age 47
Abdelsalam al-Majali age 31
Knud Kristensen age 75
Jo Cals age 41
Bujar Bukoshi age 8
Nexhat Daci age 11
Jakup Krasniqi age 5
Nikolai Tanayev age 10
Indulis Emsis age 4
Elias Sarkis age 31
Irena Degutienė age 6
Jacques Sylla age 9
Moctar Ouane age 5 months
Bernard Dowiyogo age 10
Tulsi Giri age 29
Silvia Cartwright age 12
Catherine Tizard age 24
Amadou Cheiffou age 13
Kim Il age 46
Alfredo Nobre da Costa age 32
Henk Chin A Sen age 22
Kaspar Villiger age 15
Luai al-Atassi age 30
Chawalit Yongchaiyut age 23
Basdeo Panday age 22
Maatia Toafa age 1
Bazilio Olara-Okello age 27
Paulo Muwanga age 31
Valerii Pustovoitenko age 9
Octavio Lepage age 32
Abdul Qadir Bajamal age 10
Ali Muhammad Mujawar age 2
Federico Chávez age 75
Ali Mohammed Ghedi age 3
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri age 18
Dudley Senanayake age 44
Sadiq al-Mahdi age 20
Brock Chisholm age 59
Robert Bork age 29
Khalil al-Wazir age 20
A. Philip Randolph age 66
Janko Bobetko age 37
Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García age 26
Dietrich von Saucken age 63
Charles Malik age 50
José Miaja age 77
Agustín Muñoz Grandes age 60
Prince Tomohito of Mikasa age 10
Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia age 59
Şehzade Mehmed Orhan age 46
Jacob L. Devers age 68
Christian de Castries age 53
Pujie age 48
Prince Oskar of Prussia age 67
Archduchess Maria Annunziata of Austria age 79
Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este age 41
Archduchess Adelheid of Austria age 42
Kim Yong-ju age 36
Kim Pyong Il age 1
Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia age 26
Pat Brown age 50