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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
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962

People

Miriam A. Ferguson age 82
Pete Wilson age 24
Mitja Ribičič age 38
Abeid Karume age 52
Lien Chan age 21
William H. Webster age 34
Rabah Bitat age 32
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 31
William Deane age 27
Clifford Husbands age 31
Reneta Indzhova age 4
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 9
Nikica Valentić age 7
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 47
Hipólito Mejía age 17
Atef Ebeid age 26
Jacob Nena age 16
Reino Kuuskoski age 51
Reino Ragnar Lehto age 59
Ralf Törngren age 59
Raymond Ndong Sima age 3
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 55
Ramiro de León Carpio age 16
Jorge Serrano Elías age 12
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 34
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 11
Gyula Kállai age 47
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 33
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 47
Alexander Bustamante age 74
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh age 8
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 8
Imanghali Tasmaghambetov age 1
Jan Eduard de Quay age 56
Djoomart Otorbaev age 2
Rashid Karami age 36
Sam Matekane age 1 month
Zigmantas Balčytis age 4
Richard Ratsimandrava age 27
Modibo Sidibé age 5
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall age 5
Abdellatif Filali age 30
René Harris age 10
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 18
Jerry Mateparae age 3
Jens Hundseid age 74
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 72
Mohammad Mustafa age 3
Clément Mouamba age 14
Ilie Verdeț age 32
David Vunagi age 7
Pote Sarasin age 53
Prawit Wongsuwon age 12
Lynden Pindling age 28
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 20
Feleti Sevele age 13
Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa age 6
Ali Laarayedh age 2
Mohamed Mzali age 32
Ruhakana Rugunda age 10
Yukhym Zvyahilskyi age 25
Eleazar López Contreras age 75
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 19
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda age 42
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 24
José Giral age 78
Seán Lemass age 58
Alan Johnson age 7
Robert Rubin age 19
Bayard Rustin age 46
Lucius D. Clay age 61
Vittorio Ambrosio age 78
Arthur Percival age 70
Mostafa Chamran age 25
Otto Ruge age 76
Eberhard von Mackensen age 68
Alphonse Juin age 69
Zhang Wentian age 57
Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse age 61
Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia age 48
Regina von Habsburg age 33
Infanta Beatriz of Spain age 48
Lady Mountbatten age 56
Princess Elena of Romania age 7
Hernando de Soto (economist) age 16
Petar Stambolić age 45
Francis Biddle age 71
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 31
Nadir al-Arbawi age 8
Edmond Leburton age 43
Jean Van Houtte age 51
Théo Lefèvre age 44
Philip Dimitrov age 3
Andrey Lukanov age 19
Son Sann age 46
Eduardo Santos age 69
Said Mohamed Djohar age 39
Otilio Ulate Blanco age 66
Luis Alberto Monge age 32
Vlatko Pavletić age 27
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 54
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 40
Francisco Pascual Obama Asue age 8
Tafari Benti age 36
Leo Falcam age 22
Laisenia Qarase age 17
Jean-Max Bellerive age 3 months
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 14
José Azcona del Hoyo age 31
György Lázár age 33
Ferenc Nagy age 54
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 45
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim age 5
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 10
Wim Schermerhorn age 63
Suleiman Frangieh age 47
Amos Sawyer age 12
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 19
Cheick Modibo Diarra age 5
Alfred Sant age 10
Paul Xuereb age 34
Monique Ohsan Bellepeau age 16
Pascoal Mocumbi age 17
Aires Ali age 2
Soe Win age 10
Keith Holyoake age 54
Pak Song-chol age 44
Nurul Amin age 64
Shujaat Hussain age 18
Kuniwo Nakamura age 14
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani age 38
Tapley Seaton age 7
John Compton age 32
Henck Arron age 21
Adolf Ogi age 15
Nazim al-Kudsi age 52
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 14
Frank Hsieh age 11
Cornelius A. Smith age 21
Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové age 18
Patrick Manning age 11
Habib Essid age 8
Bülent Ulusu age 34
Kausea Natano age 9 months
Enele Sopoaga age 2
Yusuf Lule age 46
Ham Lini age 6
Kazimierz Sabbat age 45
Michael Ogio age 15
Nicolás Lindley López age 49
Richard O'Connor age 68
Douglas Hurd age 28
John Shalikashvili age 21
Michael Mukasey age 16
William Calley age 14
Rasim Delić age 9
Otto Braun age 57
Georg-Hans Reinhardt age 71
Friedrich Hoßbach age 63
Valentin Varennikov age 34
Hisako, Princess Takamado age 4
Natalia Pavlovna Paley age 52
Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria age 79
Elias, Duke of Parma age 77
Princess Sophie of Hohenberg age 56
Kim Song-ae age 33
Sigvard Bernadotte age 50
Carl Johan Bernadotte age 41
Berthold, Margrave of Baden age 52
Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg age 23
George Deukmejian age 29
Christine Todd Whitman age 11
He Yingqin age 68
Abderrahmane Farès age 47
Marc Forné Molné age 11
Vazgen Manukyan age 12
John Kerr age 43
Otto Ender age 82
Isa Gambar age 1
Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad age 40
Manuel Esquivel age 17
Sangay Ngedup age 4
Wálter Guevara age 46
David Padilla age 30
Enrique Peñaranda age 64
Enrique Hertzog age 60
Guido Vildoso age 21
Luc-Adolphe Tiao age 3
Ephraïm Inoni age 10
Lol Mahamat Choua age 18
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 72
José Joaquín Trejos Fernández age 42
Josip Manolić age 38
Fabián Alarcón age 11
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 78
Aman Andom age 33
John Haglelgam age 8
Naiqama Lalabalavu age 4
Tengiz Sigua age 23
Adamantios Androutsopoulos age 38