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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
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
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25

People

Alfons Gorbach age 62
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 20
Georges Theunis age 87
Paul van Zeeland age 66
Colville Young age 27
Stefan Janev age 6 months
Goukouni Oueddei age 18
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 68
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 33
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 13
Osvaldo Hurtado age 21
Galo Plaza age 54
Joseph Urusemal age 8
Teuvo Aura age 47
Keijo Liinamaa age 31
Sakari Tuomioja age 49
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 65
Ioannis Grivas age 37
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 33
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 29
Vinicio Cerezo age 17
Desmond Hoyte age 31
Henri Namphy age 27
Claudette Werleigh age 13
Tiburcio Carías age 84
Péter Boross age 32
Károly Grósz age 30
Geir Hallgrímsson age 34
Erik Scavenius age 83
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah age 7
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 46
Salim al-Huss age 30
Moses Blah age 13
Anton Buttigieg age 48
Litokwa Tomeing age 20
Khil Raj Regmi age 11
Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani age 8 months
Cuthbert Sebastian age 38
Mahammed Dionne age 11 months
Flavio Cotti age 20
H. H. Kung age 79
Chen Chien-jen age 9
Sanya Dharmasakti age 53
Kriangsak Chamanan age 42
Chatchai Chunhawan age 40
Arthur Foulkes age 32
Marguerite Pindling age 28
Eric Williams age 48
Ahmed Hachani age 3
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 37
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 53
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 59
Julius Chan age 21
Kim Boo-kyum age 2
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 44
Vjekoslav Bevanda age 4
Diego Martínez Barrio age 76
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf age 4
Edem Kodjo age 22
Miles Dempsey age 63
Masayoshi Ito age 46
Jim Fouché age 62
Nicolaas Diederichs age 56
Dirk Stikker age 63
James Wolfensohn age 26
Eric Shinseki age 17
Frank Carlucci age 29
Les Aspin age 22
Michael Mullen age 13
Jafar Sharif-Emami age 50
Takeo Kurita age 71
Hal Moore age 38
Mario Roatta age 73
Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia age 65
Princess Deokhye age 48
Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (born 1914) age 46
Kim Kyong-hui age 14
Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 76
Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia age 52
Ernst August von Hannover (born 1954) age 6
Timothy Laurence age 10
Zell Miller age 28
Miriam A. Ferguson age 85
Pete Wilson age 27
Mitja Ribičič age 41
Abeid Karume age 55
Lien Chan age 24
Rabah Bitat age 34
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 33
William Deane age 29
Clifford Husbands age 34
Reneta Indzhova age 7
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 11
Nikica Valentić age 9
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 49
Hipólito Mejía age 19
Atef Ebeid age 28
Jacob Nena age 18
Reino Kuuskoski age 53
Reino Ragnar Lehto age 62
Ralf Törngren age 61
Raymond Ndong Sima age 5
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 57
Ramiro de León Carpio age 18
Jorge Serrano Elías age 15
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 36
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 13
Gyula Kállai age 50
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 36
Hermann Jónasson age 63
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 49
Alexander Bustamante age 76
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh age 10
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 11
Imanghali Tasmaghambetov age 3
Djoomart Otorbaev age 5
Rashid Karami age 38
Sam Matekane age 2
Zigmantas Balčytis age 6
Richard Ratsimandrava age 29
Modibo Sidibé age 7
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall age 7
Abdellatif Filali age 32
René Harris age 12
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 20
Jerry Mateparae age 5
Jens Hundseid age 77
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 74
Mohammad Mustafa age 6
Clément Mouamba age 16
Ilie Verdeț age 35
David Vunagi age 10
Cho Jung-tai age 1
Pote Sarasin age 55
Prawit Wongsuwon age 15
Lynden Pindling age 30
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 22
Feleti Sevele age 16
Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa age 9
Ali Laarayedh age 5
Mohamed Mzali age 34
Ruhakana Rugunda age 12
Yukhym Zvyahilskyi age 27
Eleazar López Contreras age 77
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 21
Choi Sang-mok age 5 months
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda age 44
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 26
José Giral age 80
Alan Johnson age 10
John J. Sullivan age 9 months
Robert Rubin age 22
Bayard Rustin age 48
Lucius D. Clay age 63
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi age 1
Arthur Percival age 72
Mostafa Chamran age 27
Otto Ruge age 78
Eberhard von Mackensen age 71
Alphonse Juin age 71
Zhang Wentian age 60
Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse age 63
Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia age 51
Regina von Habsburg age 35
Infanta Beatriz of Spain age 51
Princess Elena of Romania age 9
Hernando de Soto (economist) age 19
Bill Haslam age 2
Petar Stambolić age 48
Francis Biddle age 74
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 34
Nadir al-Arbawi age 10
Edmond Leburton age 45
Jean Van Houtte age 53
Théo Lefèvre age 46
Philip Dimitrov age 5
Andrey Lukanov age 21
Paul Kaba Thieba age 1 month
Son Sann age 48
Eduardo Santos age 72
Said Mohamed Djohar age 42
Otilio Ulate Blanco age 69
Luis Alberto Monge age 34
Vlatko Pavletić age 29
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 57
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 43
Francisco Pascual Obama Asue age 11
Tafari Benti age 38
Leo Falcam age 24
Laisenia Qarase age 19
Jean-Max Bellerive age 2
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 16
José Azcona del Hoyo age 33
György Lázár age 36
Ferenc Nagy age 56
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 47
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim age 7
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 12
Wim Schermerhorn age 65
Suleiman Frangieh age 50