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Events

Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
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

People

Xu Xiangqian age 52
Seán Lester age 65
Donald Regan age 35
Lyman Lemnitzer age 54
Nicholas F. Brady age 24
Otozō Yamada age 72
Nebojša Pavković age 8
Thomas Cassin Kinkaid age 66
Saad el-Shazly age 32
Gholam Ali Rasheed age 7 months
Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu age 49
Takako Shimazu age 15
Dündar Ali Osman age 23
Luo Ronghuan age 51
Chiang Wei-kuo age 37
Franz Wilhelm Prinz von Preussen age 10
Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria age 36
Archduke Felix of Austria age 37
Song Hye-rim age 15
Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 57
Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse age 27
George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood age 31
Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein age 62
Marianne Bernadotte age 29
Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia age 54
Herbert H. Lehman age 76
Džemal Bijedić age 37
Branko Mikulić age 25
Zeng Qinghong age 14
Rong Yiren age 38
Nicholas Katzenbach age 32
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 45
Ibrahim Biçakçiu age 48
Redha Malek age 22
Abdelmalek Benhabyles age 33
Lúcio Lara age 25
Mohammad Mohammadullah age 32
Elliott Belgrave age 23
Mikhail Chyhir age 5
Syarhei Linh age 17
Celso Torrelio age 20
Alberto Natusch age 21
David Toro age 55
Lyuben Berov age 28
Prince Louis Rwagasore of Burundi age 22
Daniel Oduber Quirós age 32
Teodoro Picado Michalski age 54
Franjo Gregurić age 14
Hrvoje Šarinić age 19
Carlos Manuel Piedra age 59
Joseph Iléo age 32
Eliud Williams age 5
Antonio Imbert Barrera age 33
Atef Sedki age 23
Ali Lutfi Mahmud age 18
Álvaro Magaña age 28
Mahendra Chaudhry age 12
Nii Amaa Ollennu age 48
Dimitrios Maximos age 80
Konstantinos Kollias age 53
Panagiotis Pipinelis age 55
Eric Gairy age 32
Kabiné Komara age 4
Cellou Dalein Diallo age 2
Jean-Jacques Honorat age 23
Sa'dun Hammadi age 23
Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio age 3
Howard Cooke age 38
Zeid bin Shaker age 19
Ieremia Tabai age 4
Ishenbai Kadyrbekov age 4
Sisavath Keobounphanh age 26
Augusts Kirhenšteins age 81
Valdis Birkavs age 11
Abdul Ati al-Obeidi age 14
Ahmed Bahnini age 45
Mohammed Karim Lamrani age 35
Maati Bouabid age 26
Ahmed Osman age 24
Khin Nyunt age 14
San Yu age 36
Sao Shwe Thaik age 57
Geoffrey Palmer age 12
Emiliano Chamorro Vargas age 83
Ngiratkel Etpison age 29
Adelino da Palma Carlos age 49
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 99
Ion Gigurtu age 67
Edmund Lawrence age 22
Nikola Šainović age 5
Dragan Tomić age 18
Östen Undén age 67
Rudolf Gnägi age 36
Hans-Peter Tschudi age 40
Pierre Aubert age 27
Georges-André Chevallaz age 39
Pierre Graber age 45
Ahmad al-Khatib age 21
Jamil Mardam Bey age 61
Sean Chen age 4
Chang Chun-hsiung age 16
Cynthia A. Pratt age 8
Ellis Clarke age 36
Noor Hassanali age 35
Bahi Ladgham age 41
Hamed Karoui age 26
Ali Bozer age 28
Hasan Saka age 69
Toaripi Lauti age 25
Saufatu Sopoanga age 2
Abdulhashim Mutalov age 7
Pedro Carmona age 12
Ahmed Obaid Bin Dagher age 1
Ricardo Pérez Godoy age 48
Mohamed Osman Jawari age 8
Lee Wan-koo age 3
Lee Hong-koo age 20
Fernando de Santiago y Díaz age 43
Aníbal Torres age 11
Rosalio Lara age 31
Fawzi al-Qawuqji age 64
C. Douglas Dillon age 44
Louis A. Johnson age 63
Asaka Yasuhiko age 66
Mustafa Tlass age 22
Sefer Halilović age 2
Gojko Šušak age 9
Mile Mrkšić age 6
Krim Belkacem age 31
Jacques Massu age 46
Shigeko Higashikuni age 28
Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu age 42
Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia age 64
Princess Nina Georgievna of Russia age 52
Şükriye Sultan age 48
Bayezid Osman age 29
Nilufer Hanımsultan age 38
Richmond K. Turner age 69
Chiang Fang-liang age 38
Prince Wolfgang of Hesse age 57
Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1919–2010) age 34
Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine age 45
Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 47
Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma age 30
Princess Margarita of Baden age 21
Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern age 21
Katherine Karađorđević age 10
Mark White age 14
John W. Bricker age 60
Zoran Lilić age 8 months
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 48
Byron White age 36
Pjetër Arbnori age 19
Rexhep Mitrovica age 66
Belaid Abdesselam age 25
Ismail Hamdani age 24
Lopo do Nascimento age 13
Yaqub Mammadov age 13
A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury age 38
Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar age 22
Aloys Van de Vyvere age 83
Adrien Houngbédji age 12
Yeshey Zimba age 3
Néstor Guillén age 64
Tomás Monje age 69
Carlos Quintanilla age 66
Georgi Kʹoseivanov age 70
François Ngeze age 1
Djimrangar Dadnadji age 4 months
Said Mohamed Jaffar age 36
Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim age 18
Julio Acosta García age 82
Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich age 47
Ali Sabri age 33
Ilias Tsirimokos age 47
Panagiotis Poulitsas age 72
Alexandros Othonaios age 75
Jean-Marie Doré age 15
Ahmed Tidiane Souaré age 3
Prosper Avril age 16
Marc Bazin age 22
Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés age 51
Djuanda Kartawidjaja age 43
Donald Sangster age 42
Kenneth O. Hall age 13
Norman Manley age 60
Teatao Teannaki age 18
Ahmad Al Abdullah Al Sabah age 1
Ernestas Galvanauskas age 71
Laurynas Stankevičius age 18
Pierre Frieden age 61
Émile Reuter age 79
Gilles Andriamahazo age 35
Ousmane Issoufi Maïga age 8
Paul Bérenger age 9
Abdallah Ibrahim age 35
Bill Rowling age 26
Lazarus Salii age 17
Constantin Argetoianu age 83
Faustin Twagiramungu age 8