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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
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
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01

People

Rafael Addiego Bruno age 35
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 51
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 57
Julius Chan age 19
Kim Boo-kyum age 1
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 43
Vjekoslav Bevanda age 2
Diego Martínez Barrio age 75
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf age 3
Edem Kodjo age 20
Miles Dempsey age 62
Masayoshi Ito age 45
Jim Fouché age 60
Nicolaas Diederichs age 55
Dirk Stikker age 62
James Wolfensohn age 25
Eric Shinseki age 16
Frank Carlucci age 28
Les Aspin age 20
Michael Mullen age 12
Jafar Sharif-Emami age 48
Takeo Kurita age 69
Hal Moore age 37
Mario Roatta age 72
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
Jozef Lenárt age 35
Lien Chan age 22
William H. Webster age 34
Rabah Bitat age 33
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 32
William Deane age 28
Clifford Husbands age 32
Reneta Indzhova age 5
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 9
Nikica Valentić age 8
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 48
Hipólito Mejía age 17
Atef Ebeid age 26
Jacob Nena age 17
Reino Kuuskoski age 52
Reino Ragnar Lehto age 60
Ralf Törngren age 59
Raymond Ndong Sima age 4
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 56
Ramiro de León Carpio age 17
Jorge Serrano Elías age 13
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 35
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 11
Gyula Kállai age 48
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 34
Hermann Jónasson age 62
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 48
Alexander Bustamante age 75
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh age 8
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 9
Imanghali Tasmaghambetov age 2
Jan Eduard de Quay age 57
Djoomart Otorbaev age 3
Sam Matekane age 10 months
Zigmantas Balčytis age 5
Richard Ratsimandrava age 27
Modibo Sidibé age 6
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall age 6
Abdellatif Filali age 30
René Harris age 11
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 18
Jerry Mateparae age 4
Jens Hundseid age 75
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 73
Mohammad Mustafa age 4
Clément Mouamba age 15
Ilie Verdeț age 33
David Vunagi age 8
Cho Jung-tai age 0 months
Pote Sarasin age 53
Prawit Wongsuwon age 13
Lynden Pindling age 28
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 21
Feleti Sevele age 14
Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa age 7
Ali Laarayedh age 3
Mohamed Mzali age 33
Ruhakana Rugunda age 11
Yukhym Zvyahilskyi age 25
Eleazar López Contreras age 75
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 20
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda age 43
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 25
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
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi age 1 month
Arthur Percival age 71
Mostafa Chamran age 26
Otto Ruge age 77
Eberhard von Mackensen age 69
Alphonse Juin age 70
Zhang Wentian age 58
Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse age 62
Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia age 49
Regina von Habsburg age 34
Infanta Beatriz of Spain age 49
Lady Mountbatten age 57
Princess Elena of Romania age 8
Hernando de Soto (economist) age 17
Bill Haslam age 5 months
Petar Stambolić age 46
Jan Syrový age 71
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 45
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 33
Vlatko Pavletić age 28
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 55
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 41
Francisco Pascual Obama Asue age 9
Tafari Benti age 37
Leo Falcam age 23
Laisenia Qarase age 18
Jean-Max Bellerive age 1
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 15
José Azcona del Hoyo age 32
György Lázár age 34
Ferenc Nagy age 55
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 45
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim age 6
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 11
Wim Schermerhorn age 64
Suleiman Frangieh age 48
Amos Sawyer age 13
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 20
Cheick Modibo Diarra age 6
Alfred Sant age 10
Paul Xuereb age 35
Monique Ohsan Bellepeau age 17
Pascoal Mocumbi age 17
Aires Ali age 3
Soe Win age 11
Keith Holyoake age 55
Pak Song-chol age 45
Nurul Amin age 65
Shujaat Hussain age 19
Kuniwo Nakamura age 15
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani age 39
Tapley Seaton age 8
John Compton age 33
Henck Arron age 22
Adolf Ogi age 16
Nazim al-Kudsi age 53
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 15
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 7
Kazimierz Sabbat age 45
Michael Ogio age 16
Nicolás Lindley López age 50
Richard O'Connor age 69
Douglas Hurd age 28
John Shalikashvili age 22
Michael Mukasey age 17
William Calley age 15
Rasim Delić age 10
Otto Braun age 58
Georg-Hans Reinhardt age 71
Friedrich Hoßbach age 64
Valentin Varennikov age 35
Hisako, Princess Takamado age 5
Natalia Pavlovna Paley age 53