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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

People

Panagiotis Poulitsas age 74
Alexandros Othonaios age 76
Jean-Marie Doré age 17
Ahmed Tidiane Souaré age 4
Prosper Avril age 17
Marc Bazin age 23
Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés age 52
Djuanda Kartawidjaja age 44
Donald Sangster age 43
Kenneth O. Hall age 14
Norman Manley age 62
Teatao Teannaki age 19
Ahmad Al Abdullah Al Sabah age 3
Vilis Krištopans age 1
Ernestas Galvanauskas age 72
Laurynas Stankevičius age 20
Pierre Frieden age 62
Émile Reuter age 81
Gilles Andriamahazo age 36
Ousmane Issoufi Maïga age 9
Paul Bérenger age 10
Abdallah Ibrahim age 37
Matrika Prasad Koirala age 43
Bill Rowling age 27
Lazarus Salii age 18
Faustin Twagiramungu age 10
Sergej Kraigher age 41
Danny Philip age 2
Snyder Rini age 7
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz age 19
Ernst Nobs age 69
Ernst Wetter age 78
Hans Schaffner age 46
Hans Hürlimann age 37
Fritz Honegger age 38
Ludwig von Moos age 45
Leonel Mário d'Alva age 20
Sun Fo age 63
Thawan Thamrongnawasawat age 53
Ivy Dumont age 24
Suat Hayri Ürgüplü age 52
Faimalaga Luka age 15
Benedicto Kiwanuka age 33
Vasyl Durdynets age 17
Ati George Sokomanu age 19
John Bani age 14
Donald Kalpokas age 12
Phelekezela Mphoko age 15
Arístides Royo age 15
Juan Manuel Frutos age 76
Félix Paiva age 78
Ali Khalif Galaydh age 13
Chung Won-shik age 27
Osman Hussein age 4
Mohamed Tahir Ayala age 4
Fausta Morganti age 11
James Van Fleet age 63
Eugene Meyer age 79
Dick Thornburgh age 23
Richard Myers age 13
Robert B. Anderson age 45
John Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness age 4 months
Paul Cellucci age 7
Harry F. Byrd age 68
Nancy Hollister age 6
Bill Clements age 38
Winthrop Rockefeller age 43
Douglas Wilder age 24
Chuck Robb age 16
Abd al-Hamid Ibrahimi age 19
Muhammad ibn Ahmad Abd al-Ghani age 28
Marcolino Moco age 2
Hasan Hasanov age 14
Lloyd Erskine Sandiford age 18
Hugo Ballivián age 54
Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum age 50
Élie Doté age 7
Haroun Kabadi age 6
Youssouf Saleh Abbas age 2
Gabriel París Gordillo age 45
Justin Marie Bomboko age 26
Vernon Shaw age 25
Zakaria Mohieddin age 37
Mustafa Khalil age 34
Kamal Hassan Ali age 22
Konstantinos Logothetopoulos age 77
Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas age 62
Konstantinos Dovas age 56
Konstantinos Georgakopoulos age 64
Juan Federico Ponce Vaides age 66
Gustavo Adolfo Espina Salguero age 8
Lansana Kouyaté age 5
Hérard Abraham age 15
Élie Lescot age 71
Policarpo Paz García age 22
Mohammed Hamza Zubeidi age 17
Zaid al-Rifai age 18
Ahmad Obeidat age 16
Ali Abu al-Ragheb age 9
Abdul Majid Kubar age 46
Abdul Qadir al-Badri age 33
Muhammad Osman Said age 30
Adolfas Šleževičius age 7
Roger Kolo age 12
Jurelang Zedkaia age 5
Veerasamy Ringadoo age 34
Dharam Gokhool age 5
Mbarek Bekkay age 48
Mohamed Benhima age 31
Lagumot Harris age 16
Kinza Clodumar age 10
Derog Gioura age 23
Kennan Adeang age 12
Michael Hardie Boys age 23
Walter Nash age 73
Seyni Oumarou age 5
Alfonso Oiterong age 30
Alfred Raoul age 16
Jozef Moravčík age 10
Ezekiel Alebua age 8
Peter Kenilorea age 12
Willi Ritschard age 36
Karl Kobelt age 64
Willy Spühler age 53
Nello Celio age 41
Paul Chaudet age 50
Eduard von Steiger age 74
Friedrich Traugott Wahlen age 56
Hans Streuli age 63
Enrico Celio age 66
Khalid al-Azm age 60
Omar Ibrahim Ghalawanji age 1
Gabriel Costa age 9 months
Simon Chang age 1
Mao Chi-kuo age 6
Yu Shyi-kun age 7
Arthur Dion Hanna age 27
Estanislau da Silva age 3
Naim Talu age 36
Tomasi Puapua age 17
Willy Telavi age 1
Alberto Héber Usher age 37
Maxime Carlot Korman age 14
Joe Natuman age 2
Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro Jované age 73
Raimundo Rolón age 52
Zenón Noriega Agüero age 55
Abdullahi Issa age 32
Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein age 44
Hasan Muratović age 15
Beatriz Merino age 7
Sebastiano Baggio age 42
Harry Hines Woodring age 68
Hiroshi Nakajima age 27
Griffin Bell age 36
Edwin Meese age 23
Frederick C. Weyand age 39
Abdul Hamid al-Sarraj age 30
G. William Miller age 30
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 47
William B. Saxbe age 39
Francis Pym age 33
Hugh Dalton age 68
Kingorō Hashimoto age 65
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 50
Kastriot Islami age 3
Benyoucef Benkhedda age 35
Josep Pintat-Solans age 30
Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury age 26
Muhammad Mansur Ali age 36
Tom Adams age 23
Pascal Koupaki age 4
Konstantin Muraviev age 62
Youssouf Ouédraogo age 2
Pen Sovan age 19
Long Boret age 22
Simon Achidi Achu age 20
André Nzapayeké age 4
Carlos Dávila age 68
Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde age 21
Zlatko Tomčić age 10
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin age 29
Andrés Ignacio Menéndez age 76
Daniel Ona Ondo age 10
Paulin Obame-Nguema age 20
Léon Mébiame age 21
Bessarion Gugushvili age 10
Dimitrios Kiousopoulos age 63
Petros Voulgaris age 72
Ioannis Theotokis age 75
Ioannis Paraskevopoulos age 54
Nicholas Brathwaite age 30
Carlos Enrique Díaz de León age 40
Eugène Camara age 13
Mohamed Béavogui age 2
Victor Saúde Maria age 16
Mamadu Ture Kuruma age 8
Joseph Nemours Pierre-Louis age 54
Stenio Vincent age 81
Rosny Smarth age 14