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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

Stylianos Gonatas age 79
Spiridon Markezinis age 46
Carlos Correia age 21
Francisco Mendes age 16
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 28
Jóhann Hafstein age 40
Wasfi Tal age 36
Nader al-Dahabi age 9
Teburoro Tito age 2
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 42
Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah age 0 months
Boun Oum age 43
Charles Helou age 42
Abdullah al-Thani age 1
Shukri Ghanem age 13
Justas Paleckis age 56
Charles Rabemananjara age 8
Albert Camille Vital age 3
Imata Kabua age 12
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 15
Saw Maung age 26
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt age 55
Robert Muldoon age 34
Hama Amadou age 5
Nikola Kljusev age 28
Christopher Hornsrud age 95
José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo age 38
Gavril Dejeu age 23
Anastase Murekezi age 3
Théodore Sindikubwabo age 27
Susan Dougan age 7 months
Otto Stich age 28
Arnold Koller age 22
Liu Chao-shiuan age 12
Lin Chuan age 3
Zhang Qun age 66
Hedi Amara Nouira age 44
Şemsettin Günaltay age 72
Ferit Melen age 48
Sir Iakoba Italeli age 5
Amama Mbabazi age 6
Óscar Diego Gestido age 53
Serge Vohor age 5 months
Pham Hung age 43
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski age 70
Paulias Matane age 24
José Patricio Guggiari age 71
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 14
Borislav Paravac age 12
Jorge del Castillo age 5
Yasuji Okamura age 71
John J. McCloy age 60
Leon Brittan age 16
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 31
Zhang Guotao age 57
Józef Haller age 82
Dragoljub Ojdanić age 14
Norihito, Prince Takamado age 9 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 53
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 14
Maximilian, Margrave of Baden age 22
James L. Jones age 11
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 39
John N. Mitchell age 42
Òscar Ribas Reig age 18
Paulo Kassoma age 4
França Van-Dúnem age 21
James Carlisle age 18
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 30
Sisowath Sirik Matak age 41
Abel Goumba age 29
Emmanuel Nadingar age 4
Saleh Kebzabo age 8
Vladimir Bakarić age 43
Anselmo Alliegro y Milá age 56
Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy age 36
Isidro Ayora age 76
Otto Arosemena age 30
Arturo Armando Molina age 28
Themba Nhlanganiso Masuku age 5
Cleopas Dlamini age 3
Bailey Olter age 23
Jocelerme Privert age 2
Emil Jónsson age 53
Steingrímur Steinþórsson age 62
Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson age 61
Robert Beugré Mambé age 3
Seydou Diarra age 21
Hani al-Mulki age 4
Bajram Rexhepi age 1
Māris Gailis age 4
Ali Tarhouni age 4
Bronislovas Lubys age 17
Cécile Manorohanta age 5
Modibo Keita age 13
Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga age 1
Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici age 22
Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly age 12
Valeriu Muravschi age 6
Ion Ciubuc age 12
Azzeddine Laraki age 26
Ahmed Laraki age 24
Kirti Nidhi Bista age 28
Man Mohan Adhikari age 35
Adolfo Díaz age 80
Thomas Remengesau age 23
Carlos Mota Pinto age 19
Dominique Mbonyumutwa age 34
Habib Thiam age 22
Mamadou Dia age 45
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 36
Salim Ahmed Salim age 13
Bonfoh Abass age 6
Rachid Sfar age 22
Valentyn Symonenko age 15
Juan José de Amézaga age 74
Alberto Demicheli age 59
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 65
John Peters Humphrey age 50
Vicente Rojo Lluch age 61
Walter Krueger age 74
Nikolaos Trikoupis age 87
Mahmoud Taleghani age 44
Théoneste Bagosora age 14
Pauline Nyiramasuhuko age 9
Yoshihito, Prince Katsura age 7
Hanako, Princess Hitachi age 15
Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia age 63
Lennart Bernadotte age 46
Walther Nehring age 63
Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin age 64
Soong Ai-ling age 66
Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (born 1891) age 64
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 28
Princess Marie Louise of Bulgaria age 22
Richard Russell Jr. age 57
Ted Strickland age 14
Phil Bredesen age 11
Norman Tebbit age 24
Jim Guy Tucker age 12
Mika Špiljak age 38
Arthur Goldberg age 47
Clark Clifford age 48
Robert A. Lovett age 60
Mohammad Rabbani age 1 month
Ylli Bufi age 7
Mehdi Frashëri age 83
Ali ibn Flais age 11
Youssef Yousfi age 14
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