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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
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02

People

Arthur Foulkes age 31
Marguerite Pindling age 27
Eric Williams age 47
Ahmed Hachani age 2
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 36
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 52
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 57
Julius Chan age 19
Kim Boo-kyum age 1
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 43
Vjekoslav Bevanda age 3
Diego Martínez Barrio age 75
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf age 3
Edem Kodjo age 21
Miles Dempsey age 62
Masayoshi Ito age 45
Jim Fouché age 61
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 70
Hal Moore age 37
Mario Roatta age 72
Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia age 63
Princess Deokhye age 47
Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (born 1914) age 45
Kim Kyong-hui age 13
Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 75
Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia age 51
Ernst August von Hannover (born 1954) age 5
Timothy Laurence age 9
Zell Miller age 27
Miriam A. Ferguson age 84
Pete Wilson age 25
Mitja Ribičič age 40
Abeid Karume age 53
Lien Chan age 22
William H. Webster age 35
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 10
Nikica Valentić age 8
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 48
Hipólito Mejía age 18
Atef Ebeid age 27
Jacob Nena age 17
Reino Kuuskoski age 52
Reino Ragnar Lehto age 61
Ralf Törngren age 60
Raymond Ndong Sima age 4
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 56
Ramiro de León Carpio age 17
Jorge Serrano Elías age 14
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 35
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 12
Gyula Kállai age 49
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 34
Hermann Jónasson age 62
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 48
Alexander Bustamante age 75
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh age 9
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 10
Imanghali Tasmaghambetov age 2
Djoomart Otorbaev age 3
Sam Matekane age 1
Zigmantas Balčytis age 5
Richard Ratsimandrava age 28
Modibo Sidibé age 6
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall age 6
Abdellatif Filali age 31
René Harris age 11
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 19
Jerry Mateparae age 4
Jens Hundseid age 76
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 73
Mohammad Mustafa age 4
Clément Mouamba age 15
Ilie Verdeț age 34
David Vunagi age 8
Cho Jung-tai age 4 months
Pote Sarasin age 54
Prawit Wongsuwon age 13
Lynden Pindling age 29
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 26
Eleazar López Contreras age 76
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 9
Robert Rubin age 20
Bayard Rustin age 47
Lucius D. Clay age 62
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi age 5 months
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 50
Regina von Habsburg age 34
Infanta Beatriz of Spain age 50
Lady Mountbatten age 57
Princess Elena of Romania age 8
Hernando de Soto (economist) age 18
Bill Haslam age 10 months
Petar Stambolić age 46
Francis Biddle age 73
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 33
Nadir al-Arbawi age 9
Edmond Leburton age 44
Jean Van Houtte age 52
Théo Lefèvre age 45
Philip Dimitrov age 4
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 10
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 46
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim age 6
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 11
Wim Schermerhorn age 64
Suleiman Frangieh age 49
Amos Sawyer age 14
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 20
Cheick Modibo Diarra age 7
Alfred Sant age 11
Paul Xuereb age 35
Monique Ohsan Bellepeau age 17
Pascoal Mocumbi age 18
Aires Ali age 3
Soe Win age 12
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 34
Henck Arron age 23
Adolf Ogi age 16
Nazim al-Kudsi age 53
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 15
Frank Hsieh age 13
Cornelius A. Smith age 22
Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové age 20
Patrick Manning age 12
Habib Essid age 10
Bülent Ulusu age 36
Kausea Natano age 1
Enele Sopoaga age 3
Yusuf Lule age 47
Ham Lini age 7
Kazimierz Sabbat age 46
Michael Ogio age 16
Nicolás Lindley López age 50
Richard O'Connor age 69
Douglas Hurd age 29
John Shalikashvili age 22
Michael Mukasey age 17
William Calley age 16
Rasim Delić age 10
Otto Braun age 58
Georg-Hans Reinhardt age 72
Friedrich Hoßbach age 64
Valentin Varennikov age 35
Hisako, Princess Takamado age 5
Natalia Pavlovna Paley age 53