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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

People

Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 42
Boun Oum age 43
Charles Helou age 41
Abdullah al-Thani age 1
Shukri Ghanem age 12
Justas Paleckis age 56
Charles Rabemananjara age 8
Albert Camille Vital age 2
Imata Kabua age 12
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 15
Saw Maung age 26
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt age 54
Robert Muldoon age 33
Hama Amadou age 5
Nikola Kljusev age 27
Christopher Hornsrud age 95
José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo age 38
Gavril Dejeu age 22
Anastase Murekezi age 3
Théodore Sindikubwabo age 27
Susan Dougan age 3 months
Otto Stich age 28
Arnold Koller age 21
Liu Chao-shiuan age 12
Lin Chuan age 3
Zhang Qun age 66
Hedi Amara Nouira age 44
Şemsettin Günaltay age 71
Ferit Melen age 48
Sir Iakoba Italeli age 5
Amama Mbabazi age 6
Óscar Diego Gestido age 53
Serge Vohor age 1 month
Pham Hung age 43
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski age 70
Paulias Matane age 23
José Patricio Guggiari age 71
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 14
Borislav Paravac age 12
Jorge del Castillo age 4
Yasuji Okamura age 71
John J. McCloy age 60
Leon Brittan age 15
Joseph Grew age 75
W. Michael Blumenthal age 29
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 75
Peter Pace age 9
Norman Lamont age 13
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 8
Harry Crerar age 67
Fernando Romeo Lucas García age 30
Zhang Guotao age 57
Józef Haller age 81
Dragoljub Ojdanić age 14
Norihito, Prince Takamado age 5 months
Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven age 59
Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia age 58
Erhard Raus age 66
Raoul Salan age 56
Prince George William of Hanover age 40
Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg age 52
Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke age 68
Infanta María Cristina of Spain age 43
Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia age 27
Infante Alfonso of Spain age 13
Maximilian, Margrave of Baden age 21
James L. Jones age 11
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 39
John N. Mitchell age 41
Òscar Ribas Reig age 18
Paulo Kassoma age 4
França Van-Dúnem age 20
James Carlisle age 17
Vere Bird age 44
Ninian Stephen age 32
Abdus Sattar age 49
Uladzimier Yarmoshyn age 12
Dimitar Iliev Popov age 28
Gérard Kango Ouédraogo age 29
Sisowath Sirik Matak age 41
Abel Goumba age 28
Emmanuel Nadingar age 4
Saleh Kebzabo age 8
Vladimir Bakarić age 43
Anselmo Alliegro y Milá age 56
Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy age 35
Isidro Ayora age 75
Otto Arosemena age 29
Arturo Armando Molina age 27
Themba Nhlanganiso Masuku age 4
Cleopas Dlamini age 3
Bailey Olter age 23
Jocelerme Privert age 2
Emil Jónsson age 52
Steingrímur Steinþórsson age 62
Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson age 60
Robert Beugré Mambé age 3
Seydou Diarra age 21
Hani al-Mulki age 3
Bajram Rexhepi age 1
Māris Gailis age 3
Ali Tarhouni age 4
Bronislovas Lubys age 16
Cécile Manorohanta age 5
Modibo Keita age 12
Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga age 1
Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici age 21
Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly age 12
Valeriu Muravschi age 5
Ion Ciubuc age 12
Azzeddine Laraki age 26
Ahmed Laraki age 23
Kirti Nidhi Bista age 28
Man Mohan Adhikari age 35
Adolfo Díaz age 79
Thomas Remengesau age 23
Carlos Mota Pinto age 18
Dominique Mbonyumutwa age 34
Habib Thiam age 22
Mamadou Dia age 44
Frank Kabui age 9
Ramsewak Shankar age 17
Fred Ramdat Misier age 28
Kurt Furgler age 31
René Felber age 22
Philipp Etter age 63
Adel Safar age 2
Hau Pei-tsun age 35
Salim Ahmed Salim age 13
Bonfoh Abass age 6
Rachid Sfar age 21
Valentyn Symonenko age 14
Juan José de Amézaga age 74
Alberto Demicheli age 58
Walter Lini age 13
Edward Babiuch age 27
Eric Arturo Delvalle age 18
Higinio Morínigo age 58
Jeremy Thorpe age 26
Sultan al-Atrash age 64
Walter Weiß age 64
John Peters Humphrey age 50
Vicente Rojo Lluch age 60
Walter Krueger age 74
Nikolaos Trikoupis age 87
Mahmoud Taleghani age 44
Théoneste Bagosora age 13
Pauline Nyiramasuhuko age 9
Yoshihito, Prince Katsura age 7
Hanako, Princess Hitachi age 14
Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia age 63
Lennart Bernadotte age 46
Walther Nehring age 62
Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin age 63
Soong Ai-ling age 65
Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (born 1891) age 63
Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg age 68
Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt age 57
Philipp Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg age 61
Lady Pamela Hicks age 26
Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz age 19
Johan Ferner age 27
Princess Marie Louise of Bulgaria age 22
Richard Russell Jr. age 57
Ted Strickland age 13
Phil Bredesen age 11
Norman Tebbit age 24
Jim Guy Tucker age 12
Mika Špiljak age 38
Arthur Goldberg age 46
Clark Clifford age 48
Robert A. Lovett age 59
Ylli Bufi age 7
Mehdi Frashëri age 83
Ali ibn Flais age 10
Youssef Yousfi age 13
Simon Vratsian age 73
A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury age 22
Abu Sayeed Chowdhury age 34
Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem age 39
Moudud Ahmed age 15
Errol Barrow age 35
Hyenadz Navitski age 6
Kinzang Dorji age 4
Juan Pereda age 24
Mamerto Urriolagoitía age 59
Stefan Sofiyanski age 3
Penn Nouth age 49
Delwa Kassiré Koumakoye age 5
Carlos Arroyo age 61
Tesfaye Genre Kidan age 18
Timoci Bavadra age 20
Penaia Ganilau age 36
Urho Castrén age 68
Casimir Oyé-Mba age 13
Otar Patsatsia age 26
Hudson Austin age 17
Jacques-Édouard Alexis age 7
Lajos Dinnyés age 54
Björn Þórðarson age 76