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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
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966

People

Adil Çarçani age 33
Peter Hollingworth age 20
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir age 8
Joseph Pholien age 71
Elmira Minita Gordon age 25
Khandu Wangchuk age 5
Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas age 30
Ognyan Gerdzhikov age 9
Son Ngoc Thanh age 47
Pascal Yoadimnadji age 5
Ali Soilih age 19
Zlatko Mateša age 6
Cyrille Adoula age 34
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 26
Camilo Ponce Enríquez age 44
Ignacio Milam Tang age 15
Otto Tief age 66
Themba Dlamini age 5
Rainer von Fieandt age 65
Stefanos Stefanopoulos age 57
Stylianos Gonatas age 79
Spiridon Markezinis age 46
Carlos Correia age 22
Francisco Mendes age 17
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 28
Jóhann Hafstein age 40
Wasfi Tal age 37
Nader al-Dahabi age 9
Teburoro Tito age 2
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 42
Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah age 4 months
Boun Oum age 44
Charles Helou age 42
Abdullah al-Thani age 2
Shukri Ghanem age 13
Justas Paleckis age 57
Charles Rabemananjara age 8
Albert Camille Vital age 3
Imata Kabua age 12
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 16
Saw Maung age 27
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt age 55
Robert Muldoon age 34
Hama Amadou age 6
Nikola Kljusev age 28
Christopher Hornsrud age 96
José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo age 38
Gavril Dejeu age 23
Anastase Murekezi age 3
Théodore Sindikubwabo age 28
Susan Dougan age 12 months
Otto Stich age 29
Arnold Koller age 22
Max Petitpierre age 57
Liu Chao-shiuan age 12
Lin Chuan age 4
Zhang Qun age 66
Hedi Amara Nouira age 44
Şemsettin Günaltay age 72
Ferit Melen age 49
Sir Iakoba Italeli age 6
Amama Mbabazi age 7
Óscar Diego Gestido age 54
Serge Vohor age 10 months
Pham Hung age 43
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski age 70
Paulias Matane age 24
José Patricio Guggiari age 71
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 15
Borislav Paravac age 13
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 30
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 76
Peter Pace age 10
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 58
Józef Haller age 82
Dragoljub Ojdanić age 14
Norihito, Prince Takamado age 1
Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven age 59
Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia age 59
Erhard Raus age 67
Raoul Salan age 56
Prince George William of Hanover age 40
Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg age 53
Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke age 69
Infanta María Cristina of Spain age 44
Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia age 28
Infante Alfonso of Spain age 14
Maximilian, Margrave of Baden age 22
James L. Jones age 12
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 40
John N. Mitchell age 42
Òscar Ribas Reig age 19
Paulo Kassoma age 4
França Van-Dúnem age 21
James Carlisle age 18
Vere Bird age 45
Ninian Stephen age 32
Abdus Sattar age 50
Uladzimier Yarmoshyn age 13
Dimitar Iliev Popov age 28
Gérard Kango Ouédraogo age 30
Sisowath Sirik Matak age 42
Abel Goumba age 29
Emmanuel Nadingar age 5
Saleh Kebzabo age 8
Vladimir Bakarić age 44
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 4
Bailey Olter age 23
Jocelerme Privert age 3
Emil Jónsson age 53
Steingrímur Steinþórsson age 63
Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson age 61
Robert Beugré Mambé age 4
Seydou Diarra age 22
Hani al-Mulki age 4
Bajram Rexhepi age 1
Ahmed Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah age 1 month
Zhantoro Satybaldiyev age 1 month
Māris Gailis age 4
Ali Tarhouni age 5
Bronislovas Lubys age 17
Aleksandras Abišala age 2 months
Cécile Manorohanta age 6
Modibo Keita age 13
Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga age 1
Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici age 22
Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly age 13
Valeriu Muravschi age 6
Ion Ciubuc age 12
Azzeddine Laraki age 26
Ahmed Laraki age 24
Kirti Nidhi Bista age 29
Man Mohan Adhikari age 35
Adolfo Díaz age 80
Thomas Remengesau age 24
Carlos Mota Pinto age 19
Dominique Mbonyumutwa age 35
Habib Thiam age 23
Mamadou Dia age 45
Frank Kabui age 9
Ramsewak Shankar age 18
Fred Ramdat Misier age 29
Kurt Furgler age 31
René Felber age 22
Philipp Etter age 64
Adel Safar age 3
Hau Pei-tsun age 36
Salim Ahmed Salim age 14
Bonfoh Abass age 7
Rachid Sfar age 22
Valentyn Symonenko age 15
Juan José de Amézaga age 75
Alberto Demicheli age 59
Walter Lini age 14
Edward Babiuch age 28
Eric Arturo Delvalle age 19
Higinio Morínigo age 59
Jeremy Thorpe age 26
Sultan al-Atrash age 65
Walter Weiß age 65
John Peters Humphrey age 50
Vicente Rojo Lluch age 61
Walter Krueger age 75
Mahmoud Taleghani age 45
Théoneste Bagosora age 14
Pauline Nyiramasuhuko age 9
Yoshihito, Prince Katsura age 8
Hanako, Princess Hitachi age 15
Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia age 64
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 62
Lady Pamela Hicks age 26
Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz age 19
Johan Ferner age 28
Princess Marie Louise of Bulgaria age 23
Richard Russell Jr. age 58
Ted Strickland age 14
Phil Bredesen age 12
Norman Tebbit age 24