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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
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis 1958-08-23 - 1958-12-02
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06

People

Mario Roatta age 71
Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia age 63
Princess Deokhye age 46
Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (born 1914) age 44
Kim Kyong-hui age 12
Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 74
Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife age 67
Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia age 50
Ernst August von Hannover (born 1954) age 4
Timothy Laurence age 8
Zell Miller age 26
Miriam A. Ferguson age 83
Pete Wilson age 25
Mitja Ribičič age 39
Abeid Karume age 53
Lien Chan age 22
William H. Webster age 34
Rabah Bitat age 32
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 31
William Deane age 27
Clifford Husbands age 32
Reneta Indzhova age 5
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 17
Reino Kuuskoski age 51
Reino Ragnar Lehto age 60
Ralf Törngren age 59
Raymond Ndong Sima age 3
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 55
Ramiro de León Carpio age 16
Jorge Serrano Elías age 13
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 34
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 11
Gyula Kállai age 48
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 34
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 47
Alexander Bustamante age 74
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh age 8
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 9
Imanghali Tasmaghambetov age 1
Jan Eduard de Quay age 57
Djoomart Otorbaev age 3
Sam Matekane age 7 months
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 75
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 72
Mohammad Mustafa age 4
Clément Mouamba age 14
Ilie Verdeț age 33
David Vunagi age 8
Pote Sarasin age 53
Prawit Wongsuwon age 13
Lynden Pindling age 28
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 20
Feleti Sevele age 14
Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa age 7
Ali Laarayedh age 3
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 79
Seán Lemass age 59
Alan Johnson age 8
Robert Rubin age 20
Bayard Rustin age 46
Lucius D. Clay age 61
Vittorio Ambrosio age 79
Arthur Percival age 70
Mostafa Chamran age 26
Otto Ruge age 76
Eberhard von Mackensen age 69
Alphonse Juin age 69
Zhang Wentian age 58
Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse age 61
Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia age 49
Regina von Habsburg age 33
Infanta Beatriz of Spain age 49
Lady Mountbatten age 56
Princess Elena of Romania age 7
Hernando de Soto (economist) age 17
Bill Haslam age 1 month
Petar Stambolić age 46
Francis Biddle age 72
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 32
Nadir al-Arbawi age 9
Edmond Leburton age 43
Jean Van Houtte age 51
Théo Lefèvre age 44
Philip Dimitrov age 3
Andrey Lukanov age 20
Son Sann age 47
Eduardo Santos age 70
Said Mohamed Djohar age 40
Otilio Ulate Blanco age 67
Luis Alberto Monge age 32
Vlatko Pavletić age 27
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 55
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 41
Francisco Pascual Obama Asue age 9
Tafari Benti age 37
Leo Falcam age 22
Laisenia Qarase age 17
Jean-Max Bellerive age 9 months
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 14
José Azcona del Hoyo age 31
György Lázár age 34
Ferenc Nagy age 55
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 45
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim age 5
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 10
Wim Schermerhorn age 63
Suleiman Frangieh age 48
Amos Sawyer age 13
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 19
Cheick Modibo Diarra age 6
Alfred Sant age 10
Paul Xuereb age 35
Monique Ohsan Bellepeau age 16
Pascoal Mocumbi age 17
Aires Ali age 2
Soe Win age 11
Keith Holyoake age 54
Pak Song-chol age 45
Nurul Amin age 65
Shujaat Hussain age 18
Kuniwo Nakamura age 14
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani age 38
Tapley Seaton age 8
John Compton age 33
Henck Arron age 22
Adolf Ogi age 16
Nazim al-Kudsi age 52
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 14
Frank Hsieh age 12
Cornelius A. Smith age 21
Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové age 19
Patrick Manning age 12
Habib Essid age 9
Bülent Ulusu age 35
Kausea Natano age 1
Enele Sopoaga age 2
Yusuf Lule age 46
Ham Lini age 6
Kazimierz Sabbat age 45
Michael Ogio age 16
Nicolás Lindley López age 49
Richard O'Connor age 69
Douglas Hurd age 28
John Shalikashvili age 22
Michael Mukasey age 17
William Calley age 15
Rasim Delić age 9
Otto Braun age 58
Georg-Hans Reinhardt age 71
Friedrich Hoßbach age 63
Valentin Varennikov age 34
Hisako, Princess Takamado age 5
Natalia Pavlovna Paley age 52
Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria age 80
Elias, Duke of Parma age 78
Princess Sophie of Hohenberg age 57
Kim Song-ae age 33
Sigvard Bernadotte age 51
Carl Johan Bernadotte age 41
Berthold, Margrave of Baden age 52
Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg age 23
George Deukmejian age 30
Christine Todd Whitman age 12
He Yingqin age 68
Abderrahmane Farès age 47
Marc Forné Molné age 11
Vazgen Manukyan age 12
John Kerr age 44
Otto Ender age 82
Isa Gambar age 1
Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad age 40
Manuel Esquivel age 18
Sangay Ngedup age 5
Wálter Guevara age 46
David Padilla age 31
Enrique Peñaranda age 64
Enrique Hertzog age 60
Guido Vildoso age 21
Luc-Adolphe Tiao age 4
Apollinaire Joachim Kyélem de Tambèla age 4 months