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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

People

Hugh Shearer age 32
Adnan Badran age 19
Mudar Badran age 21
Akejan Kajegeldin age 3
Sergey Tereshchenko age 4
Phoumi Vongvichit age 46
Mamohato of Lesotho age 14
Albertas Šimėnas age 5
Omer Beriziky age 4
Paul Boffa age 65
Mustafa Ould Salek age 19
Mário da Graça Machungo age 14
Adriano Maleiane age 5
Norman Kirk age 32
Hong Song-nam age 25
Isidore Mvouba age 1
Alexandru Athanasiu age 5 months
Marcella Liburd age 1
Ján Čarnogurský age 11
Josip Vidmar age 59
Johan Kraag age 41
Marcel Pilet-Golaz age 65
Alphons Egli age 30
Leon Schlumpf age 30
Rashidi Kawawa age 29
Hédi Baccouche age 25
Sadi Irmak age 51
Filoimea Telito age 10
Andrés Martínez Trueba age 71
Luis Batlle Berres Pérez age 57
Utkir Tukhtamurodovich Sultonov age 15
Harmodio Arias Madrid age 69
Natalicio González age 57
Rafael Franco age 58
Abdirizak Haji Hussein age 30
Lee Beom-seok age 54
Babiker Awadalla age 38
César Villanueva age 8
Xu Xiangqian age 53
Seán Lester age 66
Donald Regan age 36
Lyman Lemnitzer age 55
Raymond T. Odierno age 9 months
Nicholas F. Brady age 25
Otozō Yamada age 73
Nebojša Pavković age 9
Thomas Cassin Kinkaid age 67
Saad el-Shazly age 33
Gholam Ali Rasheed age 1
Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu age 50
Takako Shimazu age 16
Dündar Ali Osman age 24
Luo Ronghuan age 52
Chiang Wei-kuo age 38
Franz Wilhelm Prinz von Preussen age 11
Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria age 37
Archduke Felix of Austria age 39
Song Hye-rim age 16
Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 58
Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse age 28
George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood age 32
Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein age 63
Marianne Bernadotte age 30
Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia age 55
Herbert H. Lehman age 77
Džemal Bijedić age 38
Branko Mikulić age 27
Zeng Qinghong age 15
Rong Yiren age 39
Nicholas Katzenbach age 33
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 47
Ibrahim Biçakçiu age 49
Redha Malek age 23
Abdelmalek Benhabyles age 34
Lúcio Lara age 26
Mohammad Mohammadullah age 33
Elliott Belgrave age 24
Mikhail Chyhir age 7
Syarhei Linh age 18
Celso Torrelio age 22
Alberto Natusch age 22
David Toro age 57
Lyuben Berov age 29
Prince Louis Rwagasore of Burundi age 23
Daniel Oduber Quirós age 33
Teodoro Picado Michalski age 55
Franjo Gregurić age 15
Hrvoje Šarinić age 20
Carlos Manuel Piedra age 60
Joseph Iléo age 33
Eliud Williams age 6
Antonio Imbert Barrera age 34
Atef Sedki age 24
Ali Lutfi Mahmud age 19
Álvaro Magaña age 29
Mahendra Chaudhry age 13
Nii Amaa Ollennu age 49
Dimitrios Maximos age 82
Konstantinos Kollias age 54
Panagiotis Pipinelis age 56
Eric Gairy age 33
Kabiné Komara age 5
Cellou Dalein Diallo age 3
Jean-Jacques Honorat age 24
Juan Manuel Gálvez age 68
Sa'dun Hammadi age 25
Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio age 4
Howard Cooke age 39
Zeid bin Shaker age 20
Ieremia Tabai age 5
Ishenbai Kadyrbekov age 5
Sisavath Keobounphanh age 27
Augusts Kirhenšteins age 82
Valdis Birkavs age 12
Abdul Ati al-Obeidi age 15
George Borg Olivier age 43
Ahmed Bahnini age 46
Mohammed Karim Lamrani age 36
Maati Bouabid age 27
Ahmed Osman age 25
Khin Nyunt age 15
San Yu age 37
Sao Shwe Thaik age 58
Geoffrey Palmer age 13
Emiliano Chamorro Vargas age 84
Ngiratkel Etpison age 30
Adelino da Palma Carlos age 50
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 100
Ion Gigurtu age 69
Edmund Lawrence age 23
Nikola Šainović age 6
Dragan Tomić age 19
Östen Undén age 68
Rudolf Gnägi age 37
Hans-Peter Tschudi age 41
Pierre Aubert age 28
Georges-André Chevallaz age 40
Pierre Graber age 46
Ahmad al-Khatib age 22
Jamil Mardam Bey age 62
Sean Chen age 5
Chang Chun-hsiung age 17
Cynthia A. Pratt age 9
Ellis Clarke age 37
Noor Hassanali age 36
Bahi Ladgham age 42
Hamed Karoui age 27
Ali Bozer age 29
Hasan Saka age 70
Toaripi Lauti age 26
Saufatu Sopoanga age 3
Abdulhashim Mutalov age 8
Pedro Carmona age 13
Ahmed Obaid Bin Dagher age 2
Tomás Romero Pereira age 68
Ricardo Pérez Godoy age 50
Mohamed Osman Jawari age 9
Lee Wan-koo age 5
Lee Hong-koo age 21
Fernando de Santiago y Díaz age 44
Aníbal Torres age 12
Rosalio Lara age 32
Fawzi al-Qawuqji age 65
C. Douglas Dillon age 45
Louis A. Johnson age 64
Asaka Yasuhiko age 67
Mustafa Tlass age 23
Sefer Halilović age 3
Gojko Šušak age 10
Mile Mrkšić age 7
Krim Belkacem age 32
Jacques Massu age 47
Shigeko Higashikuni age 29
Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu age 43
Princess Tomohito of Mikasa age 2 months
Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia age 65
Princess Nina Georgievna of Russia age 54
Şükriye Sultan age 49
Bayezid Osman age 30
Nilufer Hanımsultan age 39
Richmond K. Turner age 70
Chiang Fang-liang age 39
Prince Wolfgang of Hesse age 58
Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1919–2010) age 35
Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine age 46
Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 48
Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma age 31
Princess Margarita of Baden age 22
Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern age 22
Katherine Karađorđević age 11
Mark White age 15
John W. Bricker age 61
Zoran Lilić age 1
James G. Stavridis age 4 months
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 49
Byron White age 38
Pjetër Arbnori age 20
Rexhep Mitrovica age 67
Belaid Abdesselam age 26
Ismail Hamdani age 25