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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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08

People

Fayez al-Tarawneh age 8
Imanghali Tasmaghambetov age 5 months
Jan Eduard de Quay age 55
Djoomart Otorbaev age 1
Rashid Karami age 35
Zigmantas Balčytis age 3
Richard Ratsimandrava age 26
Modibo Sidibé age 4
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall age 4
Abdellatif Filali age 29
René Harris age 9
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 17
Jerry Mateparae age 2
Jens Hundseid age 74
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 71
Mohammad Mustafa age 2
Clément Mouamba age 13
Ilie Verdeț age 32
David Vunagi age 6
Pote Sarasin age 52
Prawit Wongsuwon age 11
Lynden Pindling age 27
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 19
Feleti Sevele age 12
Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa age 5
Ali Laarayedh age 1
Mohamed Mzali age 31
Ruhakana Rugunda age 9
Yukhym Zvyahilskyi age 24
Eleazar López Contreras age 74
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 18
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda age 41
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 23
José Giral age 77
Seán Lemass age 57
Alan Johnson age 7
Robert Rubin age 18
Bayard Rustin age 45
Lucius D. Clay age 60
Vittorio Ambrosio age 77
Arthur Percival age 69
Mostafa Chamran age 24
Otto Ruge age 75
Eberhard von Mackensen age 67
Alphonse Juin age 68
Zhang Wentian age 56
Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse age 60
Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia age 48
Regina von Habsburg age 32
Infanta Beatriz of Spain age 47
Lady Mountbatten age 55
Princess Elena of Romania age 6
Hernando de Soto (economist) age 15
James M. Cox age 87
Petar Stambolić age 44
Francis Biddle age 71
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 31
Nadir al-Arbawi age 7
Edmond Leburton age 42
Jean Van Houtte age 50
Théo Lefèvre age 43
Philip Dimitrov age 2
Andrey Lukanov age 18
Son Sann age 45
Eduardo Santos age 68
Said Mohamed Djohar age 38
Otilio Ulate Blanco age 65
Luis Alberto Monge age 31
Vlatko Pavletić age 26
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 53
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 39
Francisco Pascual Obama Asue age 8
Tafari Benti age 35
Leo Falcam age 21
Laisenia Qarase age 16
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 61
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 13
José Azcona del Hoyo age 30
György Lázár age 32
Ferenc Nagy age 53
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 44
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim age 4
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 9
Wim Schermerhorn age 62
Suleiman Frangieh age 46
Amos Sawyer age 11
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 18
Cheick Modibo Diarra age 5
Alfred Sant age 9
Paul Xuereb age 33
Monique Ohsan Bellepeau age 15
Pascoal Mocumbi age 16
Aires Ali age 1
Soe Win age 10
Keith Holyoake age 53
Pak Song-chol age 43
Nurul Amin age 63
Shujaat Hussain age 17
Kuniwo Nakamura age 13
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani age 37
Tapley Seaton age 6
John Compton age 32
Henck Arron age 21
Adolf Ogi age 14
Nazim al-Kudsi age 51
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 13
Frank Hsieh age 11
Cornelius A. Smith age 20
Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové age 18
Patrick Manning age 10
Habib Essid age 7
Bülent Ulusu age 34
Enele Sopoaga age 1
Yusuf Lule age 45
Ham Lini age 5
Kazimierz Sabbat age 44
Michael Ogio age 14
Nicolás Lindley López age 48
Richard O'Connor age 67
Douglas Hurd age 27
John Shalikashvili age 20
Michael Mukasey age 15
William Calley age 13
Rasim Delić age 8
Otto Braun age 56
Georg-Hans Reinhardt age 70
Friedrich Hoßbach age 62
Valentin Varennikov age 33
Hisako, Princess Takamado age 3
Natalia Pavlovna Paley age 51
Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria age 78
Elias, Duke of Parma age 76
Princess Sophie of Hohenberg age 55
Kim Song-ae age 32
Sigvard Bernadotte age 49
Carl Johan Bernadotte age 40
Berthold, Margrave of Baden age 51
Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg age 22
George Deukmejian age 28
Christine Todd Whitman age 10
He Yingqin age 67
Abderrahmane Farès age 46
Marc Forné Molné age 10
Vazgen Manukyan age 11
John Kerr age 42
Otto Ender age 81
Isa Gambar age 2 months
Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad age 39
Manuel Esquivel age 17
Sangay Ngedup age 3
Wálter Guevara age 45
David Padilla age 29
Enrique Peñaranda age 63
Enrique Hertzog age 59
Guido Vildoso age 20
Luc-Adolphe Tiao age 2
Ephraïm Inoni age 9
Lol Mahamat Choua age 17
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 71
José Joaquín Trejos Fernández age 41
Josip Manolić age 37
Fabián Alarcón age 10
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 77
Aman Andom age 32
John Haglelgam age 7
Naiqama Lalabalavu age 3
Tengiz Sigua age 22
Adamantios Androutsopoulos age 37
Sofoklis Venizelos age 62
Konstantinos Tsaldaris age 73
Mohamed Said Fofana age 5
Ibrahima Kassory Fofana age 3
Aristides Gomes age 2
Ansumane Mané age 17
Moses Nagamootoo age 9
Martial Célestin age 43
Carlos Roberto Flor age 7
Ramón Villeda Morales age 47
Carlos Roberto Reina age 31
Móric Esterházy age 76
Mohammad Natsir age 48
Abdelsalam al-Majali age 32
Knud Kristensen age 76
Jo Cals age 42
Bujar Bukoshi age 10
Nexhat Daci age 12
Jakup Krasniqi age 6
Nikolai Tanayev age 11
Indulis Emsis age 5
Elias Sarkis age 32
Irena Degutienė age 7
Jacques Sylla age 10
Moctar Ouane age 1
Bernard Dowiyogo age 11
Tulsi Giri age 30
Silvia Cartwright age 13
Catherine Tizard age 26
Amadou Cheiffou age 14
Kim Il age 47
Alfredo Nobre da Costa age 33