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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

Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García age 26
Dietrich von Saucken age 64
Charles Malik age 50
José Miaja age 78
Agustín Muñoz Grandes age 60
Prince Tomohito of Mikasa age 10
Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia age 59
Şehzade Mehmed Orhan age 47
Jacob L. Devers age 69
Christian de Castries age 54
Pujie age 49
Prince Oskar of Prussia age 68
Archduchess Maria Annunziata of Austria age 80
Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este age 41
Archduchess Adelheid of Austria age 42
Kim Yong-ju age 36
Kim Pyong Il age 2
Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia age 27
Pat Brown age 51
George W. Casey Jr. age 8
Dale Bumpers age 31
Harry Blackmun age 47
Otto Hofmann age 60
William J. Brennan Jr. age 50
Adil Çarçani age 34
Peter Hollingworth age 21
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir age 8
Joseph Pholien age 71
Elmira Minita Gordon age 25
Khandu Wangchuk age 5
Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas age 31
Ognyan Gerdzhikov age 10
Son Ngoc Thanh age 47
Pascal Yoadimnadji age 6
Ali Soilih age 19
Zlatko Mateša age 7
Cyrille Adoula age 34
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 26
Ignacio Milam Tang age 16
Otto Tief age 67
Themba Dlamini age 5
Rainer von Fieandt age 65
Stefanos Stefanopoulos age 58
Stylianos Gonatas age 80
Spiridon Markezinis age 47
Carlos Correia age 22
Francisco Mendes age 17
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 29
Jóhann Hafstein age 40
Wasfi Tal age 37
Nader al-Dahabi age 9
Teburoro Tito age 3
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 43
Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah age 10 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 9
Albert Camille Vital age 4
Imata Kabua age 13
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 16
Saw Maung age 27
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt age 56
Robert Muldoon age 34
Hama Amadou age 6
Nikola Kljusev age 28
Christopher Hornsrud age 96
José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo age 39
Gavril Dejeu age 23
Anastase Murekezi age 4
Théodore Sindikubwabo age 28
Susan Dougan age 1
Otto Stich age 29
Arnold Koller age 23
Max Petitpierre age 57
Liu Chao-shiuan age 13
Lin Chuan age 4
Zhang Qun age 67
Hedi Amara Nouira age 45
Şemsettin Günaltay age 73
Ferit Melen age 49
Sir Iakoba Italeli age 6
Amama Mbabazi age 7
Óscar Diego Gestido age 54
Serge Vohor age 1
Pham Hung age 44
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski age 71
Paulias Matane age 24
José Patricio Guggiari age 72
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 15
Borislav Paravac age 13
Jorge del Castillo age 6
Yasuji Okamura age 72
John J. McCloy age 61
Leon Brittan age 16
Joseph Grew age 76
W. Michael Blumenthal age 30
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 76
Peter Pace age 10
Norman Lamont age 14
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 9
Harry Crerar age 68
Fernando Romeo Lucas García age 32
Zhang Guotao age 58
Józef Haller age 83
Dragoljub Ojdanić age 15
Norihito, Prince Takamado age 1
Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven age 60
Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia age 59
Raoul Salan age 57
Prince George William of Hanover age 41
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
Maximilian, Margrave of Baden age 23
James L. Jones age 12
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 40
John N. Mitchell age 42
Òscar Ribas Reig age 19
Paulo Kassoma age 5
França Van-Dúnem age 22
James Carlisle age 19
Vere Bird age 45
Ninian Stephen age 33
Abdus Sattar age 50
Uladzimier Yarmoshyn age 13
Dimitar Iliev Popov age 29
Gérard Kango Ouédraogo age 30
Sisowath Sirik Matak age 42
Abel Goumba age 29
Emmanuel Nadingar age 5
Saleh Kebzabo age 9
Vladimir Bakarić age 44
Anselmo Alliegro y Milá age 57
Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy age 37
Isidro Ayora age 77
Otto Arosemena age 31
Arturo Armando Molina age 29
Themba Nhlanganiso Masuku age 6
Cleopas Dlamini age 4
Bailey Olter age 24
Jocelerme Privert age 3
Emil Jónsson age 53
Steingrímur Steinþórsson age 63
Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson age 62
Robert Beugré Mambé age 4
Seydou Diarra age 22
Hani al-Mulki age 4
Bajram Rexhepi age 2
Ahmed Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah age 7 months
Zhantoro Satybaldiyev age 7 months
Māris Gailis age 5
Ali Tarhouni age 5
Bronislovas Lubys age 17
Aleksandras Abišala age 8 months
Cécile Manorohanta age 6
Modibo Keita age 14
Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga age 2
Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici age 23
Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly age 13
Valeriu Muravschi age 7
Ion Ciubuc age 13
Azzeddine Laraki age 27
Ahmed Laraki age 24
Kirti Nidhi Bista age 29
Man Mohan Adhikari age 36
Adolfo Díaz age 81
Thomas Remengesau age 24
Carlos Mota Pinto age 20
Dominique Mbonyumutwa age 35
Habib Thiam age 23
Mamadou Dia age 46
Frank Kabui age 10
Ramsewak Shankar age 18
Fred Ramdat Misier age 29
Kurt Furgler age 32
René Felber age 23
Philipp Etter age 64
Adel Safar age 3
Hau Pei-tsun age 37
Salim Ahmed Salim age 14
Bonfoh Abass age 7
Rachid Sfar age 22
Valentyn Symonenko age 16
Alberto Demicheli age 60
Walter Lini age 14
Edward Babiuch age 28
Eric Arturo Delvalle age 19
Higinio Morínigo age 59
Jeremy Thorpe age 27
Sultan al-Atrash age 65
Walter Weiß age 66
John Peters Humphrey age 51
Vicente Rojo Lluch age 61
Walter Krueger age 75
Mahmoud Taleghani age 45
Théoneste Bagosora age 15