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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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08

People

Valerii Pustovoitenko age 9
Octavio Lepage age 33
Abdul Qadir Bajamal age 10
Ali Muhammad Mujawar age 3
Federico Chávez age 75
Ali Mohammed Ghedi age 4
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri age 19
Dudley Senanayake age 45
Sadiq al-Mahdi age 21
Brock Chisholm age 60
Robert Bork age 29
Khalil al-Wazir age 21
A. Philip Randolph age 67
Janko Bobetko age 38
Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García age 27
Dietrich von Saucken age 64
Charles Malik age 50
José Miaja age 78
Agustín Muñoz Grandes age 61
Prince Tomohito of Mikasa age 11
Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia age 60
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 43
Kim Yong-ju age 37
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 48
Otto Hofmann age 60
Adil Çarçani age 34
Peter Hollingworth age 21
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir age 9
Joseph Pholien age 72
Elmira Minita Gordon age 26
Khandu Wangchuk age 6
Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas age 31
Ognyan Gerdzhikov age 10
Son Ngoc Thanh age 48
Nicolas Tiangaye age 4 months
Pascal Yoadimnadji age 6
Ali Soilih age 20
Zlatko Mateša age 7
Cyrille Adoula age 35
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 27
Ignacio Milam Tang age 16
Otto Tief age 67
Themba Dlamini age 6
Rainer von Fieandt age 66
Stefanos Stefanopoulos age 58
Stylianos Gonatas age 80
Spiridon Markezinis age 47
Carlos Correia age 23
Francisco Mendes age 17
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 29
Jóhann Hafstein age 41
Wasfi Tal age 38
Nader al-Dahabi age 10
Teburoro Tito age 3
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 43
Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah age 1
Boun Oum age 45
Charles Helou age 43
Abdullah al-Thani age 3
Shukri Ghanem age 14
Justas Paleckis age 58
Charles Rabemananjara age 9
Albert Camille Vital age 4
Imata Kabua age 13
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 17
Saw Maung age 28
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt age 56
Robert Muldoon age 35
Hama Amadou age 7
Nikola Kljusev age 29
Christopher Hornsrud age 97
José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo age 39
Gavril Dejeu age 24
Anastase Murekezi age 4
Théodore Sindikubwabo age 29
Susan Dougan age 1
Otto Stich age 30
Arnold Koller age 23
Max Petitpierre age 57
Liu Chao-shiuan age 13
Lin Chuan age 5
Zhang Qun age 67
Hedi Amara Nouira age 45
Şemsettin Günaltay age 73
Ferit Melen age 50
Sir Iakoba Italeli age 7
Amama Mbabazi age 8
Óscar Diego Gestido age 55
Serge Vohor age 1
Pham Hung age 44
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski age 71
Paulias Matane age 25
José Patricio Guggiari age 72
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 16
Borislav Paravac age 13
Jorge del Castillo age 6
Yasuji Okamura age 72
John J. McCloy age 61
Leon Brittan age 17
Joseph Grew age 76
W. Michael Blumenthal age 31
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 76
Peter Pace age 11
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 59
Józef Haller age 83
Dragoljub Ojdanić age 15
Norihito, Prince Takamado age 2
Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven age 60
Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia age 60
Raoul Salan age 57
Prince George William of Hanover age 41
Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg age 54
Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke age 70
Infanta María Cristina of Spain age 45
Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia age 29
Maximilian, Margrave of Baden age 23
James L. Jones age 13
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 41
John N. Mitchell age 43
Òscar Ribas Reig age 20
Paulo Kassoma age 5
França Van-Dúnem age 22
James Carlisle age 19
Vere Bird age 46
Ninian Stephen age 33
Abdus Sattar age 50
Uladzimier Yarmoshyn age 14
Dimitar Iliev Popov age 29
Georgi Bliznashki age 3 months
Gérard Kango Ouédraogo age 31
Sisowath Sirik Matak age 43
Abel Goumba age 30
Emmanuel Nadingar age 6
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 5
Bailey Olter age 24
Jocelerme Privert age 3
Emil Jónsson age 54
Steingrímur Steinþórsson age 63
Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson age 62
Robert Beugré Mambé age 5
Seydou Diarra age 23
Hani al-Mulki age 5
Bajram Rexhepi age 2
Ahmed Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah age 1
Zhantoro Satybaldiyev age 1
Māris Gailis age 5
Ali Tarhouni age 6
Bronislovas Lubys age 18
Aleksandras Abišala age 1
Cécile Manorohanta age 7
Modibo Keita age 14
Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga age 2
Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici age 23
Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly age 14
Valeriu Muravschi age 7
Ion Ciubuc age 13
Azzeddine Laraki age 27
Ahmed Laraki age 25
Kirti Nidhi Bista age 30
Man Mohan Adhikari age 36
Adolfo Díaz age 81
Thomas Remengesau age 25
Carlos Mota Pinto age 20
Dominique Mbonyumutwa age 36
Habib Thiam age 24
Mamadou Dia age 46
Frank Kabui age 10
Ramsewak Shankar age 19
Fred Ramdat Misier age 30
Kurt Furgler age 32
René Felber age 23
Philipp Etter age 65
Adel Safar age 3
Hau Pei-tsun age 37
Salim Ahmed Salim age 15
Bonfoh Abass age 8